"As my life has any value all I can give you are vague things like my time, feelings, future or life" with that he left himself vulnerable to me.

At first I didn't understood his motive for the second prom. But at that time a mix of emotions formed within me. I was happy he spoke those words to me. But what I did was despicable.

I ran away. After all the courage he took to approach me, I myself was afraid to take a step forward. I was afraid, afraid of depending upon him again, Afraid of him finding me repulsive after discovering my true self, Afraid of facing Yuigahama-san if I took that step and most importantly afraid of becoming useless and relishing the comfort of reliability he brought.

After the incident he delivered the basic outline of the plan through sensei and left everything to my judgment. The prom was success and I was acknowledged by my mother. The prom also served as the departure of sensei.

In our third year, I decided to join student council in hope of some growth. On various occasions, Isshiki-san took help from Hikigaya-kun. Being the president she had right to do so if person in question agreed. Therefore I never judged her. For me I was some sort of helper for anyone in council. My work wasn't something specific.

And soon graduation came. This year we were given much more freedom due to our earlier success last year. The venue was same as the last year. For me this time, I was relieved from duties because from second year's perspective prom was something of a gift to us third years.

I was seating near stage on the seat provided when my eyes fell on a familiar looking cowlick. There he was standing with a bunch of other people. If I saw this scene last year I wouldn't had believed my eyes. After service club's closure, he was the one who changed the most out of us three. He became more approachable. People who talked to him realized he wasn't as bad as rumors made him. I wished if sensei saw this, it was fruit of her hard work after all.

As for me whenever I saw him a feeling of guilt developed within me. I basically rejected him by running away. But whenever our eyes met instead of disappointment or awkwardness he emitted a positive aura. It was like he was happy with how things unfolded. But for me it was hard I for one year couldn't shake of the uneasiness even now I couldn't. When Komachi-san brought up the idea of reformation service club I thought I could get a closure to this but he declined. Knowing him, he declined to respect my wish not because of reason like he hated the idea.

To shake of my thoughts, I decided to look away or I will sour my mood and destroy the effort our juniors putted for us.

After some time, Hayama-kun and Miura-san were called up for stage as prom king and queen. As for me I was asked for becoming queen before the ceremony but I had declined. After giving a speech our president decided to call third years for dance. As more people gathered up on stage the atmospheres near it become nauseating. To get rid of increasing suffocation I decided to spend some time at rooftop.

As the sky was sparkling like sea full of pearls, the door to a certain rooftop opened revealing a girl, skin white as porcelain, with black hair complementing with the sky above, she was beautiful and with the surroundings it made a illusion that it was unreal.

As she moved towards the railing she took a notice of a figure. Due to her footsteps the figure turned to reveal itself. It was boy with hair as dark as girl, had a pair of sharp eyes. The girl recognized him. A familiar feeling developed in her chest. She felt awkward when their eyes met.

Sensing some discomfort the boy decided to break silence. He congratulated her on their graduation.

Hearing his voice after a long time she was happy. She returned the gesture. They both stood their silently waiting for other to make next move.

The boy felt warmth in his chest he was happy to talk to her again but his talking skills were not good enough to accomplish a longer talk. He criticized himself in his head. He lowered his head to hide the grin that formed on his face. He was amused upon his disability to talk to her. He could talk to any other student in this school easily now but her.

After composing himself he said

"Hi"

The girl was startled at his voice after this endless silence.

"H..hi"

Her voice trembled. She again felt the guilt but with other more emotions. She was happy, sad, jealous and nervous.

She was happy she got to talk with him. She was sad it took her so long. She was jealous how he had seemingly moved on leaving her behind.

Soon her vision became blurry. She felt something warm on her cheeks.

Seeing the girl tear up the boy became worried. He didn't know what to do. How could he know he hadn't talked her for a long time? Still seeing her like this he felt wrong he approached her took her hand, the same hand he had caught on bridge that night. He mustering his courage he asked the girl why she was crying is it was because of him?

The girl startled by his sudden touch teared up even more. She knew she was pathetic and now he again had to comfort her. But despite her depreciation she couldn't found in her to push him away.

After sometime after her sudden outburst she decided to talk. But everything she wanted to say came in between her sobs.

She asked him why he didn't approach after she ran, why he didn't demand the answer from her, why he left her with these feelings.

She knew she was unreasonable asking these questions but her mind wasn't thinking rationally. The feelings that she had buried year ago while asking him to grant her best friend's wish resurfaced. Leaving herself bare open to him she hugged him and sobbed on his shoulder.

The boy had a hard time understanding her speak between sobs. But when he understood fully what she said. He wasn't annoyed by her. A familiar feeling he had a year ago when he approached her on bridge resurfaced. He thought he had made peace with them but actually he had not.

He realized how pathetic he was to lie to himself like this. How pathetic he was to waste his teacher's effort. How pathetic that he faked it when he himself requested of something genuine. But most of all how pathetic he was to made the girl, who was in his arms, cry because of him.

After composing his feelings, he decides to speak to her. He left himself vulnerable again, again for her. After speaking his heart out to her. He tightened his grip on her and asked her.

"Yukinoshita can I ask you again to let me be part of your life"

Hearing his words she again cried but this time because of diff reason.

The sky was still beautiful but in that moment when the 2 pair of lips met under it, it made the scene more mesmerizing.