"Hey Hey, Kusaka, I heard Takasugi likes you!" the classroom roared out loudly, before laughters could be heard. "And then? Did you say yes?"
"Are you serious!? There's no way I'll say yes right?" he replied.
Riko walked out of the apartment. After all, she felt better and she decided to take a walk. Walking down, she passed by the garden that she and Kento had their last talk over, and the memories came back to her. Settling down on one of the park bench, she gazed up to the sky.
"Ri.. Riko?" a voice was heard, and she turned. "Ken.. Kento?" she replied, turning back. "Wh..What are you doing here?" he asked, as he walked towards where she was sitting and settled down beside her.
Riko looked at Kento, before she looked back towards her thigh. She didn't know what to react as well, so all she did was to hide her face from Kento. Kento looked towards her, and looked away. It have been awhile since they sat together like this- ever since she stuck towards Hayato after she've learned about Aiko getting blind.
Awkward silence surfaced between Kento and Riko as they just turned away from each other vision.
"R..Riko?" Kento voiced out, breaking the silence between them. "I'm.. sorry," Kento apologized, as he looked at Riko. Riko turned to him. "Why?"
"Sorry for helping Saito the other time, sorry for not understanding you, sorry for everything," Kento mumbled.
Riko looked at him before she murmured. "I didn't blame you,"
"It's good right, now that you're back with Kusaka-san, I'm glad for you," Kento said. He looked at Riko, before he smiled. Riko forced her lips up, but it dropped down soon after. "Kento... tell me, did... did you ever like me before?"
"I did, but it doesn't matter already right?"
"It does, it does, Kento," she whispered, a drip of tear dropped down her eyes.
***
He walked aimlessly on the street as he hold onto a glass bottle on his hand. He looked around, before he used the corner of the building to hold himself up. "Ai....ko," he whispered. "Hey there, want to have some fun?" a woman apprached him but he immediately shoved the woman off by rising his hand. "GET OFF!" he shouted.
He struggled to walk, but his vision was blur. Then, a figure had spotted that familiar figure staggering it's way down. "Akio-san?"
***
"LETS DRINK!" he shouted as the person beside him struggled to push him into the taxi. Looking in, he know that Akio will not be conscious enough to tell him where he stays. Sighing, he turned and informed the taxi driver to drive to his place instead.
***
"Yu-kun? Wha..What's this?!" the person opened the door, and what greeted him was Yuto holding a man by his hand. "It's Akio-san. I spotted him at the bar,"
"Yama-chan, help me out here," Yuto exclaimed, before Yamada have went over and helped to carry Akio by the other arm. "In the first place, why is he alone at the bar? Didn't he thought that he'll get drunk?"
"I think he didn't thought so far," Yuto said, before he and Yamada pushed him down onto the bed in the guest's room.
"This settles him for now," Yuto said, puffing heavy breadths. "I'll bring in the hot water, Yu-kun, take a bath first, I have prepared it already," Yamada said before he walks out of the room.
Yuto stare at the back of Yamada before an image appeared in front of him. "Why does Yama-chan reminds me of a housewife? D..Does that mean... I'm the husband?!"
***
Coming out of the bath, Yuto headed towards the guest's room and saw Yamada helping Akio to placed the hot towel onto his forehead. "He vomited just now, but he's alright now,"
Yuto used the towel around his neck to dry his hair, before he pounced onto the back of Yamada. "I wondered what made him drink so much,"
"Who knows," Yamada sighed. Just then, while both of them were getting ready to leave the room, they have accidentally, or rather, heard Akio whispering something under his breadth.
"A..Aiko,"
Yuto and Yamada both widened their jaws and stared at each other for a long time.