Return of the unspoken past

Chapter 1

"I- I have been wanting to say this for a very long time! I wanted to tell you how I f-”

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My name's Iharu Kanamura, a third-year student at Sunshine Tokyo High School. I have friends in all classes. Well, I have at least exchanged names with many so I guess you can call it a friendship. I’m pretty good at studies. Like everyone else, I also have a social group. The only problem is… that I’m the only guy in the group. 
Like every day, I enter my classroom. It was a normal day like every day. Sun outside, the hustle and bustle of students in the hall, and as usual, I came to class before the bell rang.
Huhuu, I'm proud of myself. As I started to slide-open the door,  someone taps my shoulder:

“Yo, Iharu-chan! How are you doing?” Someone muffles from behind. Not knowing who it is, I turn around to discover my classmate with a mouth full of bread standing behind me. Not chewing it while also yelling at me for blocking her way. Tiring.

This is Ayame Hana, The most energetic in the group. Some people call her the bravest, but in reality, she is a crybaby. She may seem wise from the outside but she's an airhead who only knows about food. Anything edible, she has tried it. It's a very questionable statement but I'm as awed as you are. As she shifts her gaze off of me, She starts looking in the classroom.

“There they are!” Said her with bread still in her mouth.

She reaches the two girls sitting on top of a desk in the front row of the classroom. They both look at us:

“You’re here.”

With a manga in her hands. Beautiful black locks hanging in front of her eyes, with a slim body figure and sugary-sweet eyes, Aoi Mei. She’s the one that everyone calls cold-hearted, while in reality, she is the kindest person in the group and the biggest otaku I’ve ever seen. She doesn’t know anything other than games, animes, and novels.

“You have some nerve to show up so late!”

Chako Isa, the leader of our social group. She’s what others use the word “loli” for. She's always angry for some reason. However, I believe she also has a kind heart. 
Maybe... I haven’t experienced her kindness personally. 

I have joined the fitness club, I can go to the gym for free and nobody has any business with me. It’s a personal paradise. After school, I go home and since I am alone, I can do whatever I want. No, not that way. I read some novels, do my studies, and surf the internet during my free time. No, I do not surf what you think I surf. I am an innocent boy. 
Well, that's how things usually go. However, my mother called me today and told me that my childhood friend would come to my house soon and I had to take care of her. The problem is, I don’t have a very good memory of her, the last thing I remember about her is the pain I received four years ago.

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“You’re here, Iharu! You said you wanted to talk about something?”

The wind was blowing, the sun was out like every day but... it was different. Somehow... it was lovely. I stood there with a gulp of confidence. After taking a long breath, I started talking, “Yes, I had something to say.”

She looked over at me with her phone in her hand, surfing through the stories posted by her favorite celebrities. “Why couldn't you say it over the phone?”

With my feelings jumping up and down. I looked at her eyes and continued, “It’s not something that can be said over the phone.”

“So? What did you want to talk about?” She asked, gazing back at her phone's screen.

"I- I have been wanting to say this for a very long time. I wanted to tell you how I f—”

Notification arrives

Her face suddenly got bright. pointing her phone at me, she stated, “Oh look! My boyfriend just sent me this cute photo of us together. Tell me, do we look cute?”

Huh?  Wait what? When did this happen? She had a boyfriend? Then I was fighting a battle I had already lost, Why? Why did it have to happen to me? Why?
I murmured to myself as I started breaking down and tears began to fall off my face.

My world had torn apart. The girl I liked from my childhood. The girl I tried to do everything for, She's now with someone else?

My eyes filled with tears, no idea what to say or do. I just wanted to escape from there.

“I didn’t know you had a boyfriend,” I questioned in a frenzy.

“He proposed to me yesterday! He’s our upperclassman. He’s very handsome and athletic! Just my type! So when he asked me out I accepted him there and then! Now he’s my boyfriend!” She said very enthusiastically. I could tell that she liked him a lot.
I lost the will, the will to do anything. I couldn't face her anymore or even talk to her.

“I see… I remember something came up at home. I gotta go. Bye.” I hurried out of there without listening to her rambling. But what she said next,

“I knew you were going to propose to me.
You are like my brother. Please don’t do anything stupid.”

Haha... I got rejected. It's the first time, these emotions, the pain, I've never felt something like this before. I couldn’t walk yet I had to keep moving forward. I had to breathe when I didn't want to. I wanted to give up yet... something kept me alive.

I ran away from there. the beautiful sunlight, now somehow just an annoying light.
I got home and locked myself up in my room. I couldn’t eat or sleep. Every day felt like hell to me. After three days, my door opened, I didn’t know my parents had a key to my room. They didn’t open it at all while I was locked up in it, but I had a little hope that my mother was finally here to take care of me.

It wasn’t her.

It was Saika.

She came in and looked at the pathetic me. I could feel the disgust she felt while looking at me.

“Here, take this. It’s the food I cooked as a farewell gift. I’m moving to America with my parents. I broke up with that douche. He has been cheating on me with many other girls. Eat this and go back to school, didn’t you want to have the best grades in the entire school? You shouldn’t mess that up. I like smart guys.” She dared to say it like I'm the problem, or maybe... I am. I looked at her with begging eyes.

But right after saying that, she left my room. I got somehow relieved. I ate the food she brought me and locked the door. That day, I cried until my eyes hurt. Again. After some time, things changed and I moved on. Went back to school. This time, I wanted to study hard. I did my best and got into the best high school in Tokyo. The Sunshine Tokyo High School. With that, my life started.

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I thought it was over but... she's coming back.

Knock knock

Chapter 1 end