Kagome and Kei sits on the bench beside the school building, while looking afar. Both of them are quiet. Kagome’s eyes is swollen and red after she cried. The distance became closer.

Yet, she knows Kei has really liked someone else. “Kagome,” Kei tilts her head to look. Kagome catches her eyes, “What is it?” she asked.

As gentle wind blows through their place, so as Kei’s lips form a gentle smile. “Just because I can’t reciprocate to your feelings, doesn’t mean our friendship will end, right?”

“Huh?” she utters. Gentle, but hurtful words stabbed through her. Kagome realized everything that happened today. Kei explained awhile ago, about the strange way how she sees the girl acting.

And the reason she found Kira talking to her.

This reality where she is right now… all make sense. “Yeah, I understand.” Kagome sniffs as she smiles. “I won’t end our friendship. I love you, after all.”

“I love you, too… Kagome.” Kei smiles as she grabbed the girl’s hand. Their fingers linked together, as Kagome kept her eyes gazing at Kei.

“This is over, huh? These feelings I hold for you… It reached, but I won’t get what I truly want.”

As Kagome let those inner thoughts out, she looked at the sky. The clear, blue sky, broad horizon and her whispered words taken by the gust of wind. “Thank you, for your understanding… Kei.”

Kei then nods at her. “I guess this is all good now. I’m rejected by the person I loved…”

“But I’m still here for you. You have a special place in my heart, and you’re a special person to me, Kagome.”

Yeah, the fact that their friendship don’t end, even if Kei won’t be by her side like she wants… “Yeah.”

“Don;’t you worry. I may not be the person for you, but I’m sure the one missing piece of your life will come.”

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Kei just want to comfort her friend’s feelings. She knows Kagome got hurt, for she can’t reciprocate her feelings. That time, if only she knows Kagome has these feelings a little earlier, maybe…

No, it’s not like that.

Kei is a girl with needs. She affirms to herself that Kira is the one for her. She knows that more than anything, and anyone else.

Yet, there’s a little thought that there might be a chance, if they end up together… she might find something genuine. If only that day Kagome appeared instead of Kira, will their relationship turn for the best?

Will her lingering feelings towards that person should divert to her?

“So, what will you do now? Has Kira knew your feelings?”

“Huh?”

A sudden question popped on Kagome. “You said you liked someone else, right? Is it Kira?”

Hearing his name made Kei’s face blush. Her heart also skipped a beat. She gave an answer by nodding.

“I see. So that guy, huh?” Kagome sighs. She pretends she doesn’t know anything. The person she likes is kind of dork, and an awkward person in nature. But Kei loves him.

“Well, he said he needs time to sort out his feelings so…”

“Really? Or does he not want to say he doesn’t like you.”

Kagome snickers. She tries to tease Kei, but deep inside is the little hope this girl would think it that way. Might be a little chance for her to divert that feelings.

“I don’t know.” Kei replied. Her eyes show sadness as those words left out. “I don’t know if he likes me, but… deep inside me, I am hoping he has same thing for me.”

Right, Kagome can’t deny now how Kei got struck by that guy. “I am also thinking, this might be just an admiration? Or maybe an infatuation….?”

“You think?”

“Yeah,” Kei smiles. “…Yet, whenever I am thinking we’re together, I feel like he’s the one I want to be with.”

Like those words conveyed are Kagome’s thoughts for her. Kei’s the person she wants to be with. The person she sees, to embrace and to tell how much she cared.

“From the way you say it, means that he’s mean a lot to you.” Kagome replied.

“I guess, too. I just really can’t get enough whenever I’m with him.” Kei recalled that day, when Kira gave him a kiss. That was her first. And she still faintly feel his lips attached to hers.

Kagome didn’t say anything and watches Kei’s dreamy looks. “You lucky guy. I want this pretty girl for myself, if only I was born a man. But yet, there’s no guarantee for me to be with her even if I became a man.”

“Don’t you worry,” Kagome then stands up and let off Kei’s hand. “Kira will come along… you just not need to lose hope. I’m sure he will realize it.”

As the sunbeam filled Kagome’s silhouette, so as her bright smile caught Kei’s eyes. That smile, filled with hope and determination giving to a friend, made her heart feel the warmth.

“Thank you, Kagome.” with the toll of the bell resounded, so as the gratitude of a maiden looking forward to the unknown, but bright future ahead with the person she likes.