Chapter 6: Restart

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"I think it all started when I began dating Sai."

I shift my position and sat Indian style at the couch, resting my back at the armrest while my arm is leaning at the top of the couch. Sakura did the same, so we're now facing each other. I nod my head to tell her I'm listening and for her to continue.

"I wasn't serious at first, because you know…I was still in love with you at that time."

Then she laughed. Not because of embarrassment, most likely she thought it was a shared joke between the two of us. So I just smirked even though it hurts like shit.

"I thought he wasn't serious too since we were just forced to go out by Naruto."

So it's that idiot Naruto's fault that I'm miserable like this?! Wait till I knock the wait out of you dobe.

"But then Sai insisted to introduce me to his parents. He said they will love me and it turns out they did."

"Hold on. I can't follow. His parents love you? I thought—"

"I'm not yet finished! Don't interrupt me prick-head!"

"Same goes for you pinky-head." I smirked.

"Urgh." She rolled her eyes. "You're such a jerk."

"Yeah, yeah. And then?"

"Well…they did love me at first. That's probably because my life seems perfect that time."

"Define 'perfect'".

"Hmm…for one, I was the student rep during our Opening Ceremony. I was also at the top of our advanced class. I have lots of friends and everyone adores me. Since his mother is one of the board of directors in our school, she knew all things about me. Even the fact that my father's an archeologist and my mother's a well-known doctor."

"I didn't even know that." And I claimed I love her? When I didn't even know her parents' occupation.

"Because you never visit my house, and we're always hanging out at Naruto's."

"I guess." Because I always played hooky…

"So the news about my parents' divorce instantly reach their ears. That's wehre everything changes."

"Why…"

"Why did my parents' divorced?"

"…" She read my mind again…

"Mainly because of their differences. My father was never home and my mother rarely go home, almost living at the hospital. Then one day, my father came home and suggested a divorce to my mother—saying he have a new family at Iwagakure waiting for him. My mother agreed and then married the director of the hospital she's working at, a week after their divorce."

I don't know what to say in this kinds of situations so I just asked her, "What happened to you?"

"Use your imaginations." She chuckled.

"I only go for facts." I can't help but to grin. Sakura laughed after that and I followed. I'm actually not quite sure what we are laughing about. But perhaps it's because we just made our whole life as a joke. She instantly understood that I can relate to her, since we moth met the same fate.

That the both of us were left alone by our own parents.

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