Monday:

“Good morning, Kira!” A sudden greeting from Kagome as I board in from the train. On her side is Kei, waves at me with a sweet smile on her lips. I greet back with a bow from the two.

Since that night, I feel like our distance became closer. There isn’t much boarding passenger inside the train, so the two girls beckons me to sit beside them, or that’s how it should be?

“Uhm, why am I sitting in between you two?” I asked, my voice whispers as the two looks at me.

“Why?” Kei mumbled.

“I want to secure that you won’t hurt the person I love, Kira. That’s why.”

The two of us looked at Kagome, as she sneers at me. “Kei likes you, and you’re a guy. There are other girls that might see you as a guy, so I’m just making sure you’re not looking at the other girls than her.”

“Uhm… I don’t know what’re you talking about.” I meekly replied. Her eyes sneers at me further.

“I want to entrust Kei to you, if I can see you’re not betraying her feelings.”

“Kagome, you don’t need to do that.” Kei interjects.

“No, I should—no, I must do it since I don’t want to see you cry.”

Kagome’s determination to cheer her love’s blooming romance baffled me. “Besides, if you’re a true friend of mine, you won’t betray me, right?”

Adding those lines, her eyes locked on me. I also looked at her, and she seemed serious about it. “Since that night, the words you said to me gives an impact through my feelings. I want to believe that you’re a sincere person, and will never betray my expectations to you.”

The words I said made a change of her heart. It’s not that I’m trying to get her attention. I also want to be her friend, and that’s the only motive I have.

“I do get you, and rest assured that I won’t betray you or Kei’s feelings. It’s not a promise, but I’m assuring also to myself that I won’t do anything to make her cry.”

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Looking straight in her eyes, I replied and affirmed those words. “Even if I’m still sorting my feelings, I won’t do anything to make Senior Kei cry.”

The two girls became quiet. “Lily Flower Academy Station. We are at the Lily Flower Academy Station.” the announcement of P.A. made us twitch and exits the train right away.

The three of us walked side by side, with Kei on my left and Kagome on my right. I don’t exactly know why they need to walk with me like this. I sense Kei took glances at me.

“Ah, I must go on first. I’ll see you two later!” Kagome suddenly speaks and dashes away from us right away. Now we’re just two, with the other students following.

We didn’t say anything; I couldn’t even think of anything to say to her. “Say, Kira…” in the silence we’re having, Kei suddenly speaks to me.

“Huh?” I glance at her, as our eyes met. “Did something happened between you and Kagome last time?”

She stopped from walking and faces me. I also halted and looks directly to her. It’s as if I sense there’s something odd on those words she said. I feel there is a meaning to it.

But I know that there’s nothing for me to be worried about. “No, there’s nothing happened between me and Senior Kagome.”

Kei didn’t blink for a second, as if she’s trying to nurture the words I said.

“Okay, I believe in you.”

A simple reply, and her fresh smile under the sunbeam lured to my view. It made my heart skip a beat and made my face felt hot for a bit. She’s getting prettier than before.

And I can’t hide, it might be… I’m really falling in love with her. “Let’s go, Kira.”

“Yes, Senior Kei.”

****

Kagome dashes away from the two the moment she notices Kei’s peek on Kira. Passing through the other students walking, she arrived at the school gate. Holding on the wall near the gate, she gasped for air.

“What am I doing, being a third wheel to them?” she grunted while gasping. Since that night, her heart keeps throbbing fast whenever recalling Kira’s face. The words he said that night made her feelings clear out.

She enters the campus and goes to the faucet near the gym to wash her face. From the time they had a conversation in the train, she couldn’t hide the frantic feeling. Since that night, she felt something odd.

“Since those words Kira said to me, I couldn’t forget him. Why? What’s wrong with me?”

Kagome twist the spigot to lure the water out. Soaking her head down the running water, her eyes closed. She tries to think of something.

““I want you and Senior Kei to retain your relationship. No matter how much you want to go away from us, I won’t allow it. Because I don’t want to see Kei sad.””

That line taunt her. Kagome lifts off her head and closes the spigot. Just as much as she wants to forget about Kei, and there’s Kira telling bizarre. But it’s not those lines that capture her, it’s his presence.

His eyes directly looking at her. Kagome never thought of Kira being look as a good looking guy. She always condemns him whenever she sees him.

“Right, it’s as usual as it seems. I’m just overthinking. “ she mumbled. There isn’t something deep that will connect them together.

“I’m just doing my part to see him worth for Kei, and nothing more. I want Kei to be happy with the person she choose. All I want is to see her smile.”

Kagome picks her bag and rummages to get the towel to dry her hair. “This is just me, not meddling between them. And I’m just getting overwhelmed from what Kira said to me.”

Leaving the faucet area, she goes to the classroom as the ring of the bell indicating the first subject resonates the whole school.