A week later:

The homeroom teacher comes and announces a message to the class at the starting of the first period.

"Before I started today's class I have a message , I feel very sorrowful to tell all of you that one of your classmate and my student is no more with us. Hina Tachibana died yesterday because of a brain tumor. I wish that wherever she is now, she lived a great life, she will always be remembered in our hearts. May her soul rest in peace"

After hearing to that Haruto gets a tremendous headache and faints.

An hour later he wakes up in the infirmary finding himself lying on the bed and the nurse beside him.

"Glad you woke up , you were passed out for an hour now. You should take some rest."

"Why am I here and where is Fujiwara Sensei? I need to talk to her ASAP."

The nurse tries to stop him but he goes straight to Fujiwara Sensei.

"Oh Haruto-kun you are finally awake, that's nice.

So, do you want to ask me something."

"Mam, ha ha, today morning you were kidding right, Hina is alive right."

"Oh I am so sorry my child but it's the truth and we all are facing it."

While returning home that day, he continuously had visions of his memories with her of the time when they were kids.

"Hey Haruto-san do you know you look so adorable when you are angry.”

“Hey Haruto-san I’m telling you a secret *shhh* don't tell this to anyone okay, he he. You know Haruto-san you are the best friend I ever had promise me you will never leave me."

Then he comes conscious and finds himself at the middle of a road ,he barely escapes a car speeding but that time he was tensed about something else.

Reaching her home he finds the door was open. He went inside in a rush and finds there was no one inside. His mental strength was not supporting him and so he didn't know what to do when he heard a voice.

"Yes you heard it right Haruto-kun she is dead, *cough* , my brave girl finally fought through her sickness and won."( in a sad, sobbing voice)

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"No, no no no no, this can't be happening, I promised her that I will never leave her."

"Haruto-kun I am sorry, I should have told u about her condition much earlier. It's just…….hah here take this, This was the birthday present she prepared for you but couldn't gather the guts to give it to you."

She hands a letter to Haruto.

He goes back to his home and locks himself inside his room. He reads the letter.

To Haruto

Umm , Hi Haruto-san. I guess you don't remember anything about that day when you saved me from falling down the cliff. I wanted to thank you about that but that time I couldn’t gather words to tell you. The only thing that I felt was that my heartbeat increasing and I felt safe beside you. But it was not the last time I felt like that. Whenever I came close to you, I felt the same. Later I understood that I had fallen in love with you. But I guess Okuninushi-no-Mikoto didn't want me to live a beautiful life.

When I acquired the guts to tell you my feelings, a small devil had started growing inside my head. After learning about that I decided to keep my distance from you so that I don't devastate your life. But suppressing my feelings was much more harder than how I thought it would be. The more I maintained my distance from you the more I felt emptiness in my heart without you. Do you remember when we were playing truth and dare and you dared me to pretend to be your girlfriend and I bluffed it by taking it as a joke. It was not so easy for me as it seemed. I really wanted to be your girlfriend not for just one day but for all eternity. I really wanted to be with you, to talk to you and share every moment with you, Share a kiss with you , hold your hands and comfort you in your times of sorrow like every other girl. You know, I got envious when I saw other girls talking about their boyfriends and I, having the chance to get the best boyfriend a girl can ever have, had to cut my wings with the blade of my fate. But I just want to tell you that please don't be sad after reading this letter, okay. You are brave. Promise me you will find a beautiful girl and marry her and give all the love and affection you could give to her. I know it's a little bit weird to hear all this from me as she is going to be my rival who is going to get all the love I should get but I just want to see you happy. But don't worry we are going to meet again in afterlife and then I will never let you go. Before ending the letter I just want to tell you what I should have told you years before. And that is,

I LOVE YOU

Yes. I love you Haruto. And I will love you forever and ever.

by Hina

He screams with a mixture of emotion. Then suddenly he heard the voice of a girl .

" Haruto Shirogane "

THE END