Past Tense

"True love".
Ishigami Kurogane has questioned if that's actually real, or if it's just in the movies.
Why's that? Well, something that happened two years ago made him think this way.

***

(Two years ago)

Ishigami was waiting at the park bench the two of them had decided to meet at.
'He's not here yet,' Ishigami thought.

He looked around, but didn't see who he was looking for. Until suddenlyー
"Guess who!" a voice said.
"EEP!" Ishigami jumped a bit, then recognized the voice.
"Misao!" he said happily.

***

(Present day)

"Misao," Ishigami muttered under his breath. He was looking at an old picture of him and Misao.
"Tch, I should shred this," he said. "It's not like I need it anymore—"

*Ding dong*

'Oh, that must be that package I ordered,' Ishigami thought to himself before quickly stuffing the picture in his pant pocket.

***

"Anyone up for karaoke tonight?" Yukito asked, grinning.
"Since it's the Friday, and Quinn took us to that cafe two days ago, I thought I could treat you all to something as well!"
"Sorry, Yukito," Quinn said. "I do appreciate it, but I have plans already."
"No worries!" Yukito said.
Almost everyone had some other plans already, so Yukito was thinking of just inviting Jun and Maria, who had said previously that they were free that night.
Until Ishigami, who had been sitting quietly, spoke up.

"... I'll go."

Yukito turned kinda quickly to face Ishigami and stumbled a bit. "Really, Ishi- I mean, Kurogane?"
Ishigami nodded. "I have nothing else I'm doing tonight, besides sleeping. In my bed," he said with the straightest face possible, but the others still kinda laughed a bit.
"What?" he said, standing up. "I just said I sleep."

He obviously didn't think what he had said was funny, but the others did.

"Well," Yukito said after calming down, "if you want to, we can go when you're ready!"
Ishigami nodded and went to go get his jacket – a fancy-looking black leather jacket.

"Just remember, Akiyama," Ishigami said as they left the building to go to the bus stop. "We're still just co-workers."
Yukito nodded in his usual, bubbly way. "Yep, no worries!"

***

(At the karaoke bar)

"Come on, one song?" Yukito asked Ishigami, clapping him on the back.
"No, I'm not singing," was his reply.
"Alright, alright," Yukito chuckled. "I'll sing some more, then."

As Yukito sang his song, Ishigami remembered going to a karaoke bar with Misao.
It was just before their break-up.

'No,' Ishigami thought, grabbing the photo that was still in his pocket and ripping it up.

'I'm over it by now.'