It's like she turned a complete 180 degrees from the Ichinose before.

'I think I must have heard it wrong.'

And as if she read my mind…

"Perhaps you didn't hear what I just said. I said 'I highly suggest you drop what you are about to do or it may turn pretty ugly for you.'"

I'm still having a hard time processing all of what just happened in these last couple of seconds.

First of all, WHAT HAPPENED.

And second, HOW DID SHE KNOW?

'This went south faster than I thought. Am I that easy to read?'

Now that I think about it, the only explanation I can get is that is that she must be a legend among pros at doing this.

Judging by her social class to her cheerful character, its no wonder why she knows about what I was about to do.

She must have rejected more guys than I could count.

I now feel kinda stupid about doing this but I still have to it.

It's not like I have any other way out of this.

" W-W-W-Whoever said I was gonna confess to you. D-D-D-Don't be too quick to jump to c-c-c-conclusions!" I protested whilst trying to hide my panic.

'Shit! Not again! That pain in my chest is starting to well up once again. And it hurts more every time this happens.'

What am I doing?

Dude. Get a grip myself!

I don't act like this.

"Let's hear what you have to say then…"

How did things even escalate to this point already? If I don't do something soon, I will be another utter rejection.

How many times have I been rejected by girls before? It must be two times, isn't it.

This time I have to make things count.

Hold on, is it because of my reputation?

Nah! My reputation has nothing to do with this ..., right?

Should I come up with with an interesting story. No, a story might give me away. And I don't like being seen as a male gossiper.

I'm a man after all.

Should I ask to be her friend and hope to start the path being lovers, then. No, she has a lot of friends, more so like too many friends I can't even count, males included, so it will be a bust.

Plus judging from her sudden change of character earlier that must be how she truly feels about me since she is now being serious, so there's no way she would want to be a friend with someone as bland as me.

My brain was already in turmoil trying to think of the next action to take. And without giving me any time to process…

"Now, if you'll excuse me."

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What to do? What to do?

Ah! Geez, what am I even doing?

I'm trying so hard to calm down my aching heart at the same time I don't want to see her go.

In fact, I'm afraid of seeing her go.

There's no point in trying to think too hard about this. She already said no already, didn't she?

So the only thing I can do at this moment is…

"I-I love you!" I confessed as I awkwardly looked away again.

Why can't I face her?

I'm trying to but…

I can't.

I just can't.

Its too much for me.

I know how pathetic I sound right now.

Truly pathetic, like a champ. I am pathetic, aren't I?

She scoffed whilst looking away with disgust.

"That's it. I'm leaving. I guess this was such a waste of time after all. I can't believe this guy " She muttered to herself whilst preparing to leave.

"W-wait!!!!! Just hear me out!"

"Hear you out? Haven't I already have done that? I told you that if this was a confession I'm leaving or didn't you hear me with those deaf ears of yours? Argh, I can't believe you. I now feel exactly what those girls felt when confessed to by you. Look, I'm a very friendly person but there are just some boundaries I just can't cross with the likes of you, okay. I tried being a little friendly with you and look where this is getting us. And why me of all people in this school full of girls?! If you want to have a girlfriend, I suggest you just go to some random girl who suits your own league!"

'Ouch! You are hurting me Ichinose, please stop this I get it okay. You wouldn't want to be with a loser like me for the rest of your life I know that.'

This is how it's supposed to happen.

It must happen like this.

This is the future I predicted would occur.

So why?

The ache in my chest.

Its unbearable.

I can't hold on to myself anymore.

"Look, I really do love you okay!!!! I mean it, with all my heart, I REALLY DO LOVE YOU!"

WHAT AM I DOING?!!!

Please don't look at me any more than this.

I have never felt this pathetic in my whole life.

Getting desperate like this!

Am I that much of a simp?

"I've never seen a guy as pathetic as this in my whole life. You can for once try to man up and see reality for what it is. You and I just don't mix okay. And next time you confess to your 'so called girl of your dreams' learn how to do it properly and look them right in the eye, got it. Just make sure you don't involve me in any of your nonsense after this."

After finishing these words she turned around and started to walk away.

For an unknown reason, I started to feel dizzy.

I can't control my body.

In fact, I lost control of it two months prior to this incident.

It's like my world had ended.

Even if I knew I would be rejected, this isn't how it was supposed to turn out.

I feel like tearing my chest apart!

A third no again huh.

So why does it hurt even more significant than the previous two times?

I can't breathe.

Its like I'm suffocating!

What's happening to me?!

What can I do?

She's right isn't she.

We are different people clearly born at distinct separate levels. My view became blurry with tears as I watched her back gradually getting smaller and smaller in size.

I reached out my hand to her although that momentary action didn't mean anything, I was hoping to call for a miracle, but I knew it would fall on deaf ears so my hand immediately retracted back to where it originally was as I clenched it in frustration.

At least its all over.

It hurts but she has to go away.

I have to let her go.

I am tired of all this.

I just want to escape from all these things, all these feelings.

My emotions can't take any more of this brutality, its too much!

I looked at her receding figure again, purely lost and devoid of all the energy and enthusiasm I had before.

She doesn't even a shred of any kind of emotion towards me.

For some reason my legs started moving all on their own and I couldn't stop them even if I wanted to as I started running towards her.

I couldn't even think straight at all.

I guess her words must have had too much of an effect on me because that hurt.

I didn't even know what was going on anymore, only I could see everything in a third person perspective as if I'm watching a movie.

Watching my stupidity unfold as it took place.

It all felt like a dream.

And I cannot stop it.

I cannot intervene.

All I could do was just watch.

As she was about to open the door to the steps, I took hold of her wrist firmly which forced her to turn around in shock.

"Wha-. What the-!" She said as shock was written all over her face.

Still baffled about what was going on, she sent a straight intense glare at me as is demanding an explanation to all of this.

I looked at her straight back in the eyes with something like determination filled with them as we made eye contact.

Why am I holding her wrist?

I tried to control my body so as to let her go.

But my body wouldn't listen to me.

"I am… still… not yet done…..!!!!!" I said that still pathetically gasping for air.

Little did I know, I was going to suffer from my own stupidity that was going to take place.

This was a necessary event in my life.

And what's worse, it was bound to be inevitable as I can no longer control my whole body.