Chapter 6

"You won't believe what Rei has been doing!" Makoto excitedly yelled at me as I joined him and Haru on our way to school.

"What?"

"He's been practicing how to swim other strokes with Rin!"

"That's great."

"You don't sound very surprised…"His sentence trailed off as his gaze focused on me. I tried to ignore him by looking at Haru, but I could feel Makoto's gaze on the back of my head. With a sigh I turned to look at him and smiled.

"I'm not surprised because I already knew."

"What?"

"I saw him practicing with Rin the other night and I promised him that I wouldn't tell you guys about it, but how did you guys find out?"

"We..um…well we followed him."

"You followed him?" I practically shrieked as I looked at him. I glared at Haru, but he looked away from me and towards the sea instead. "You guys shouldn't of followed him. You should've trusted him." I scolded the two boys.

"We're sorry." Makoto apologized on both his and Haru's behalf. "But what about you? How did you find out?"

"I went out for dinner with Sosuke that night." I explained. I stopped walking when I noticed that Haru was no longer beside me. I turned around to look at him, but he had turned his whole body towards the ocean and stared at the vast body of water. "Haru?"

"Come on, Haru. You can swim at the pool." Makoto suggested the idea to Haru, but he didn't move a muscle.

"Makoto."

"Yes?"

"Can you go ahead of us?"

"Huh?"

"We'll be right there, I promise." With my trademark smile flashed towards him he sighed and reluctantly began to walk away. I went over to Haru and examined his face for a few seconds. He was so good at hiding his emotions that it was a challenge to figure out what he was thinking or how he was feeling. "Haru." I lightly said his name as I reached for his hand, but he moved his hand out of my grasp slightly without even looking at me. "What's wrong?"

He continued to ignore me and not answer any of my questions. I huffed and stood in front of him, but he avoided my gaze as he looked over my head to look at his closest friend.

"Look at me, Haru." I sternly said to him. When his eyes finally met mine I mentally clapped at the accomplishment. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." He answered.

"Well it's obviously not nothing." We stared at each other for a few seconds before I spoke again, "If you don't tell me what's wrong then I won't be able to fix it." After a few seconds Haru finally threw me a line,

"How long have you known Yamazaki?"

"How long?" He nodded his head slightly as I recalled as to when I first met Sosuke. "I think the first time we met we were five."

"So, you two are close?" He probed deeper into mine and Sosuke's friendship.

"I would hope so." I answered.

"Why didn't you tell me about the dinner?"

"I didn't know that I had to. Is that what's bothering you? That I didn't tell you about the dinner?" As we continued to stare at each other I took his silence as his answer. "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, Haru. I'll tell you next time, okay?"

"Okay." My hand reached forward and grabbed onto his as I turned around and began to drag him away from the ocean.

"Now come on, we better get going. We're already going to be late for class." However, that day I noticed that Haru held onto my hand just a little bit tighter than usual.

As I sat in class I began to stare out of the window. Everything looked so simple and peaceful, but I felt so confused. My mind kept racing back to my conversation with Makoto and I didn't know what I was thinking.

"Gou thinks that he's in a secret relationship and that he's the type to be weakened by it instead of being strengthen by it like Haru."

"Haru is strengthened by love? But we haven't even said-"

"Of course he's strengthened by it. I don't think he realizes it, but he swims for you too, Kei."

I looked forward for a second to look at the back of Haru's head. As I looked back out the window I realized the scariest thing about relationships – you will either marry the person you're dating or you'll break-up. But now was the big question that I needed to answer, how will Haru stay in my life, as my other half or as a friend? Or will the unspeakable happen; will he not be in my life at all?

Looks like someone is doing a little thinking! What do you guys think? Do you guys want the to stay together? Do you ship them?

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