Author's Note: I noticed the corrupted file a little earlier today. It should be fine now, so please, feel free to let me know if there's anything else I should fix.

Three Years Ago

She hadn't expected it to turn out this way.

Holding the paper tightly in her hands, she watched as the decorated piece of parchment crumpled, causing malformations in the words that were written there. The hearts, which had been meticulously drawn and placed in the border of the letter, crushed under her fingers as she balled the paper in her hands.

It had worked out so well in her head.

"Kasamatsu-senpai, can I talk to you for a moment?" She had looked pointedly at the friends surrounding him, hiding the neatly folded letter behind her back. "Alone?"

The young male flushed an embarrassing shade of red as his friends wolf whistled and cat called, telling him not to wait up as they quickly fled the scene. The only male left, Kasamatsu Yukio, faced the girl who had called out to him on his own, eyes looking everywhere but hers as she spoke to him.

"I'm [Name], a first year. I know this is sort of sudden, especially since we don't really know each other too well…" Now it was her turn to flush red as she worked up the courage to speak to him clearly. Taking a deep breath through her nose, she held the folded paper out to him. "Please accept this!"

The both of them flinched at how loud she had been when presenting the letter. A few moments after her outburst, Kasamatsu lifted a shaking hand to accept it, quickly opening it and scanning the words. As he read the neat script portrayed on the paper, she found herself growing more confident by the second. The hard part of giving him the letter was over. Now all she had to do was wait for a reply.

One by one, her tears had started to fall onto the destroyed letter, smudging the ink. Her perfectly planned out scenario had gone in a completely different direction than she had anticipated. She had been wrong.

Upon realizing that the paper presented to him was a love letter, Kasamatsu quickly flushed a darker shade of red than he had before, stuttering as he quickly shoved the letter back into the girl's hands. She looked at him with confusion when the paper returned to her hands, questioning him with her gaze.

Taking a nervous step back, Kasamatsu opened his mouth a few times in an attempt to say something, but when only senseless babble came from his lips, he closed his mouth, leaving the pair in an awkward silence. He refused to meet her eyes as he fought a losing battle with his blush. Finally, after a complete minute of silence, he was able to take a shaky breath through his mouth before stuttering out an answer.

"I-I-I… W-we… No."

Her world had come crashing down in that moment. She barely heard a mumbled apology as he turned tail and ran as far away from her as possible.