"Yukhira-kun. I want to spend this night with you."

The words broke through the silence of the room, Erina's intense gaze was glued to the man before her. She said it. She didn't really know what made her confess it (well, Alice did duh...) but in fact she was really determined to admit it to him herself. Why? Maybe it was the late night hour that make her think unreasonable, maybe it was Sōma that was making her mind go crazy, maybe she was under the influence of a certain feeling she couldn't put name on. But she did it and there was no turning back.

She glanced at Sōma looking for his reaction. After all her confession was a big, serious thing that demanded a lot of courage and honesty from her. He must react in some way. A nervous heartbeat started pounding in her chest. What is he going to say? Will he reject her, laugh at her or take it seriously and agree. Has he ever done it before?

The silence filled the room again but only for a second as it was broken by the man's long and loud yawn, "Huh? Sorry babe, I spaced out. Can you repeat that?"

Erina's mouth turned agape, the red color creeping to her cheeks from embarrassment. There's NO WAY he just did that! Why was she even wasting her time on this idiot, honestly. She just said she wants to have se– she wants him to take her vir–..ugh she confessed THIS and yet he was bold enough to not listen to her at this big moment, how he dared! 'Yukihira, that guy...'

"U-uh... I said I want to... spend this night w-with you... in your bed. But not in a way you think! Like, y-you know..." she stuttered messily with a red like tomato face looking everywhere but her boyfriend.

"You want to sleep with me?"

"YES! I mean, yes I do. But just sleep okay?! Don't take the wrong idea, you pervert!" well, turns out she chickened out, "You know what forget it, I'm going back home."

"No, stay." she heard his protest as she began to stand up from the chair. Amethyst eyes looked in Sōma's direction and saw him unfolding the blanket he was covered revealing the empty space for her, "C'mere."

Erina bit her lip watching the mattress of the boy's bed intensely. Even if she felt a little hesitation at first she moved closer, soon lying next to Sōma and covering her entire body with the blanket until it reached her chin. They still kept the 20cm distance between their bodies while Erina made sure to not make any physical contact with the red head. She was insanely nervous and was doing bad job at hiding it. A small smirk appeared on boy's face.

Thinking that Yukihira wasn't looking, Erina discretely sniffed the blanket as it was already hitting her nostrils with familiar scent. It smelled just like Sōma, and the realization made her thighs squeeze together. It was the scent she has felt around her for a very long time, years even. It was his own, natural scent–very musky with a mixture of strong aroma of spices he worked with on daily basis. She was starting to realize how much time they actually spent together–she could feel this scent in the air ever since she remembered. If she's honest it was her favorite, but you didn't hear that from me.

"Soo... is there any reason why you can't sleep at your house tonight?" he suddenly asked making her mind go back on track.

"Not really..."

"Huh, I see." he didn't really wait for any further explanation. He turned to her and noticed that her body was trembling. Her little fists were tightly gripping the edge of the blanket right next to her chin, her eyes were glued to the ceiling and her cheeks were tinted in a beautiful shade of pink. Cute.

But as cute as she was to him in that moment, the fact that she was shaking concerned him more so he had to take care of it.

He assumed she might be cold (or just really nervous) so he smoothly grabbed her waist in a quick move and brought her small figure to his body. Her eyes widened so much they almost fell out of its sockets not expecting any of this happening. Sure he hugged her before but now they were in bed... at night, her body pressed to his. He was warm... more–he was burning hot. She could feel the sweat appearing on her neck as the close proximity continued. How could she stay composed when all she could feel and smell was him! He was so big as well, why the thought that she's ready to take such a big step in their relationship even crossed her mind when cuddling already affected her this much?

'You're crazy Erina...' she scolded herself for being so weak for him. Why was he making her feel this way? She needed to collect herself, she came here with a plan and goal she wanted to accomplish. Yes, that's right.

Being cuddled to him tightly Erina gathered up her courage and looked up, only to see he was looking at her as well, their gazes meeting. The blonde quickly broke the eye contact hiding face in his chest again missing the small smile that appeared on boy's lips (he was way too amused seeing her embarrassed state). 'Well that wasn't a good start...' she thought.

"Sooo I created a new dish today. I feel this can be my speciality." she heard him saying (glad he started any sort of conversation), "well I mean, it's pretty much the same dish as the one from two days ago but it's better, I changed a lot of things with a little help from Hayama. I think you'll like it, wanna try it?"

"Y-yeah, sure."

"Great!" Erina felt the warmth of his hand leaving her waist as the boy began to get out from the bed.

"What? Not now!" she shouted annoyed, catching him by his shirt as he barely moved from his place, "Are you crazy? You will do it tomorrow! Now we were supposed to...sleep."

"Ugh, fine..." he complied and rested his back on the bed again. He was low-key relieved to see Erina acting like herself again.

Now it was her that cuddled up to him, basically bringing their previous position back. With a little smile on his lips Sōma closed his eyes, his hand pressing more intensely on her waist than it was before. He rested his cheek on the top of her head, his nose filled with the sweet like honey scent of her hair.

It was nice. Being like this.

After a second he felt how her arm slowly embraced him and rested on his back, her little fist between his shoulder blades. It made them lie even closer to each other, their warmth and scents mixing together, heating up the air around them.

Erina breathed nervously, trying to relieve the tension from her body and loosen up her muscles. It was just Sōma, no one other than him – just two of them alone, she can relax, right? 'No need to be so nervous about it, Erina.'

She looked up to him again to see that his eyes are closed. Did he fell asleep? So quickly? No way! He can't fall asleep just yet, her whole effort of coming here will be wasted and the next opportunity may not come so fast.

Her doubts faded away when she felt his grip on her waist move onto the lower of her back and his one eye opened revealing a golden orb.

"Hm?" he asked clearly aware of the fact that she's been staring at him for a good minute. Erina bit her lip and scanned his face carefully. She took her time to think of what she should say and how to act.

"Yukihira-kun," she said softly, her tone almost reminding a whisper, "can you kiss me?"

Sōma's brow raised up and a teasing smirk appeared on his face, of course.

"Huh, you want me to kiss you?" he grinned, "Why so suddenly?"

Annoyed grimace started appearing on Erina's flustered face, "Just because! We are dating right, what's so weird about it!"

"Ehh, maybe I don't wanna..." he said with a fake pout teasing the blonde further, enjoying every second of her fury.

Nakiri's mouth opened in shock, "What?! You are lying Yukihira Sōma."

"Hm, maybe I am, maybe I'm not. If you want a kiss then go ahead and take it."

Erina's face flushed pink, she wanted to hid her face in his chest again and just end the conversation. Why was he making everything so difficult?!

"I wanted you to kiss me!" she said with her teeth clenched, "But you know what, forget it! We can never kiss if you want it that much! I don't care!"

Sōma chuckled and just pulled her closer to his body, "Calm down, will ya? I was joking around."

Erina humphed and rolled her eyes, she should have got used to his stupid jokes already but he still somehow managed to make her lose her cool over the most little things.

Her pink, heart-shaped lips formed a cute pout–that's when Sōma took the opportunity to place a chaste peck on them catching the girl out of guard. The kiss lasted around a second then the red head purposely moved away leaving Erina unconsciously shifting her head forward, yearning for more.

Nakiri quickly realized what he made her do, her cheeks burning with crimson shade of red from embarrassment.

"We're needy, huh?" he remarked with a smirk, giving her mischievous look.

"Will you ever shut up?" she replied in an annoyed manner.

Erina decided to take things in her hands because it seemed that he actually was as stupid as she always thought he was.

The blonde didn't know where the sudden courage she was feeling came from, maybe she just had enough of Sōma's teasing antics, but she grabbed the boy by the back of his neck and passionately pressed her soft lips against his. They stayed like this for a few seconds when she felt Sōma smiling through the kiss; he was actually the one that opened his lips first so their tongues connected. Erina let out a shaky moan–the sensation of pink muscles crushing together and Sōma's grip on her body was too much for her to handle.

Their lips parted, the kiss was interrupted by Sōma once again, "That was nice." he said against her lips.

Erina blushed even more, if that was even possible, as her swollen and wet lips formed into a pout, "Don't you dare teasing me more."

He smiled cheekily, "Yes Ma'am."

And he reconnected their lips again, in a deeper kiss than before. He pressed her body to hers even closer, his fingertips embedding into her sides. She felt his tongue making its way into her mouth again, touching and melding with her divine one. Their lips danced on their own accord. The kiss was wet, dirty. Erina felt hot and she couldn't get enough of the man she was with, she wanted this moment to last forever; her fingers in his red hair, his hands on her body.

With her lips still occupied by Yukihira's ones she felt his hard breathing on her cheek. Oh, how good of a kisser he was he had no idea.

In that moment Erina clearly remembered Alice's words in her head,

"When you start making out try to take his shirt off."

"Huh? Just like that? What if he wouldn't want to?"

"He will. By this you can show him you want something more than just kissing~"

The idea was ridiculous to the Nakiri princess but she just assumed Alice knows what she's talking about. She was nervous as hell, taking off boy's shirt is not something Nakiri Erina would do. So shameless!

Her thoughts got interrupted when she felt Sōma's hand on her stomach; his rough touch on her bare skin smoothly making its way under her blouse. When has he started hovering over her? She didn't even notice she was now under the wide posture of her boyfriend that was kissing her so relentlessly her lips felt numb.

Erina didn't think twice before gripping Sōma's shirt in her fist and messily pulling it up his back. She moaned, oh so sweetly, when he bit and sucked on her lower lip. Yukihira clearly noticed how she was struggling to get rid of his shirt so he helped her a little by taking off one of the sleeves, the material still clinging onto his body with his bare shoulder out. Their lips parted for a mere second just to be connected again; they craved for each other so much.

"Yukihira-kun..." She moaned into the lips of red-haired boy.

That's when the door of the room opened, at the sound of it both their heads turned in horror to the direction of the wooden exit.

There she appeared, the petite girl with blue hair, Tadokoro Megumi.

"Sōma-kun, Nakiri-san aren't you coming for dinne-" was all she managed to say while entering the room, not aware of what she's about to witness in a few seconds.

It was then when her gaze moved towards the bed she saw the mess of a couple that was lying there; their faces red, blankets off, half-undressed Sōma, whose shirt was clinging on his neck and shoulder, hair twisted messily in every direction, hovering over flustered Erina whose face was now redder than Sōma's hair. Both their expression said one–shock.

"O-OH NO! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! I'M SO SORRY!" Megumi shouted with a trembling voice full of panic; her now red from embarrassment face twisted in horror as if she saw a demon. Nakiri heiress in a rush covered herself with the nearest blanket she caught in hand, Sōma straightened his back and opened his mouth to say anything but the blue-haired girl didn't notice it as she run out of the room at the speed of light, still apologizing on her way. It all happened in the span of like 10 seconds, but it sure made their hearts nervously beat for hours after.

As the girl left Sōma's bedroom he just sit there in disbelief trying to process what has just happened. He was making out with Nakiri and then Tadokoro caught them... I mean she knew about him and Erina already, so besides momentary awkwardness that might appear between them and Megumi there's nothing to really worry about?

That's at least where Sōma was coming from...

He looked down at the girl below him. She still lied there with the blanket all the way up to the top of her head.

"Hey, Nakiri." he called her while fixing his shirt, "It's okay, she's gone now."

Erina didn't budge.

"Nakiri..." he insisted, taking her hand, that tightly gripped the blanket, trying to move it out of her face but she used all her strength to not allow him to move it, "C'mon babe."

"Don't call me that." she said sternly, still hidden under the blanket.

"Erina." he used her first name and she finally moved her hands uncovering her face; the little pieces of hair electrified from the fluffy material were flying everywhere, her cheeks were flushed red, brows twisted in anger and lips all red and swollen from their earlier make out session.

"I am humiliated." she cried out, "my life's ruined."

"Don't overreact. Tadokoro is our friend, she won't tell anyone."

"What do you mean don't overreact?! First of all, shut up. Because you are the one who didn't lock the door! Second of all, she just caught us doing... this inappropriate act! How can you be sure she won't say a word!" After pushing him off of her Nakiri princess sat on the edge of Sōma's bed straightening up her clothes and fixing her hair.

"I mean even if she did... we were just kissing so? That's not a big deal?"

Erina turned around and gave him murderous glare, "You're such an idiot, I hate you!" she shouted throwing a pillow at him in a fury.

"Aight, calm down princess! I'll talk with Tadokoro." he ensured her catching the pillow in time. Erina's face features relaxed slightly; a little grimace and pout still noticeable, "Now, you wanna go downstairs for dinner?"

"You are absolutely crazy. No way."

-0-

2 days later

It were late evening hours when Sōma could be seen wandering around the corridors of Polar Star dormitory with his phone in his pocket. He was waiting for a call from his dad but it looked like the old man forgot about him as the supposed 'I will ring you back in 10 minutes' turned into twenty more…was he even planning on calling him back or he just lied to get rid of him? The latter option seemed more likely to Sōma.

The red-haired chef let out an annoyed sigh, 'to hell with this guy I'm going to bed', he thought and started making his way towards his room.

What didn't escape his attention was a petite figure standing at the top of dormitory's big balcony that he just walked by; the girl was wearing a white dress that beautifully moved with the breeze of a night wind, her blue hair tied up in two braids.

The full moon shined brightly on the night starry firmament, making its rays of blue light go through the balcony's marble facade.

Sōma after recognizing that the girl was no one other than Megumi decided to approach her.

"Tadokoro! What ya doing here? It's getting pretty chilly, better if we went in."

At the sound of his voice Megumi's body trembled. Hearing his voice, so smooth and cheerful, felt like a pin in her heart. She has never actually realized how much it hurt to not be his. She thought she's over him, that she accepted the fact that he was in a relationship. But she didn't and seeing him only deepened the wound in her little heart.

It was hard to confront him, especially after that one incident. But yet, she turned to him and smiled–as she always does.

"It's okay, I like to come here when I want to think things through."

"Hm, I see." he mumbled under his breath and hid his hands into his pockets looking around.

He suddenly remembered something, "Ah Tadokoro, I have a little…request? You see, remember when you walked on me and Nakiri like two days ago ya know when we were doing-…" his words cut off for a second after seeing his friend's uncomfortable expression, "…you know what. A-Anyway yeah, it'd be great if you didn't tell anyone about it! Erina really took it all personally so I'm asking you on her behalf as well."

Megumi's face noticeably saddened, the picture of a couple appearing in her head again, "Sōma-kun, don't worry. I won't tell it to anyone. I wasn't even planning to."

"That's great knew I could trust ya!"

He sent her this terribly terribly attractive wink and her heart skipped a beat. Why was he making everything more difficult! 'Stop making me fall in love with you even more!'

Tadokoro sighed and turned her back to him again, resting her arms on balcony's fence. Sōma noticed the sudden change in Megumi's aura so he walked to stand next to her and looked at her face.

"Something's wrong?"

"No."

"Come on I see something is bothering you."

Megumi let out a small nervous chuckle, "I told you I'm okay…"

"Hey, ya know you can tell me anything, right? We're friends!"

"I guess that is the problem."

Sōma's brows raised in confusion, "Huh? What do you mean?"

Megumi sighed again looking up to the sky scolding herself for saying nonsense, "Sōma-kun. Are you happy?"

"Me? Well… I'm definitely not unhappy. I guess you can say I'm happy now but I feel like until I don't reach all of my goals I won't achieve the peak of my happiness. There's just a lot of things I need to accomplish until I can say that I'm really happy. If that makes sense."

"What are these goals?"

"Well, definitely the first seat–I'm close to getting there. I still need to beat my old man and make Nakiri admit my cooking is delicious. Later of course I will take over Yukihira's and have a kid. But the first three are like the most important ones as of now." Sōma said with a smile looking at his friend again.

Megumi admired his face for a good second. He really was a stunning man. His golden eyes shined so brightly leaving the moon embarrassed. He looked like he absorbed all the light from the starts that hang on the sky, radiating this warm and blinding energy by himself. She moved her eyes to his lips that formed an adoring smile. If only these lips could be hers.

"You see Sōma-kun, I'm not really happy."

"Why?"

"The person I love loves someone else."

"I see… hmm, I think you should tell them about it anyway. It's not good to keep your emotions inside all the time." he replied after a minute of intense thinking–he wasn't the best at love advices in all honesty.

After noticing that did not help and Megumi still looked sad he decided to touch the subject from more facetious side, "I also think this guy is totally missing out, what I mean is that you're a great girl Tadokoro! And he's an idiot! Who the hell is this guy anyway?"

Megumi stayed silent, her sparkling yellow eyes seemed to focus on that one particular star visible on the dark sky that shined the most out of them all.

"It's you Sōma."

...Huh?

Now it was his turn to turn completely silent as if he forgot how to speak. His eyes just widened and he looked at his friend with a total and upper shock. That's definitely not something he expected to hear.

"How long it's been, like 3 years already?" Megumi continued, "Yeah, it's always been you Sōma-kun. But you know what? I'm tired. I'm tired of these feelings killing me inside day by day. I know you are dating Nakiri-san so it's probably not the best moment for my confession, but I know If I don't tell you about my feelings now I will regret it. I-I want to be honest with you."

The shock from Sōma's face turned into sad grimace, 'so she's been hiding that all this time.'

"I love you Sōma-kun. I always have." the corners of girl's eyes started to fill with tears, "I'm sorry I've been hiding it from you all these years. Maybe if I told you sooner I could be in Nakiri-san's place right now."

"Tadokoro." he looked at her with sad eyes, "I love Erina."

Her flushed face smiled even more, paradoxically. The little drops of tears were now flowing down her red cheeks, "But do you really?"

The red head's scarred brow raised at her question. Before he got any opportunity to reply, he felt the warm of girl's body pressed to his. Her chest touching his, head hidden in his shoulder and tiny fists tightly gripping on his shirt.

"Please, just for this one minute." he heard her sobbing, "Let me feel like I'm yours."

Red-haired boy bit his lip in hesitation. Soon his hands moved to rest on the lower of her back, embracing her petite body. She was really small–something he never really noticed before.

"Thank you," she mumbled into his shirt, "Sōma-kun please answer me. If I told you about everything sooner would I be by your side now?"

Looking down he saw her staring at him, with her eyes wet and cheeks painted pink, "Would you… love me?"

Her lips started drawing closer to his. Standing on her toes and moving her head forward, her eyes slowly fluttered shut.

Sōma was just staring down at her lips, so eager to touch his ones. He felt like he want to move away but yet he stayed still frozen.

He could only watch as Tadokoro Megumi drawed closer, the little gap between them becoming smaller.

-0-

(…)

Nakiri [1:10am]

Meet me near the big oak at the road crossing. I'll be waiting.

Sōma read the message over and over while making his way towards the appointed place. What could Nakiri princess want from him at one in the morning he had absolutely no idea. Why did she choose the forest entrance as the place of their meeting was more concerning to him though.

After a short 3 minute walk the blonde girl finally appeared in his sigh–standing with her phone in her hands and constantly looking around. When she noticed Yukihira her face features visibly relaxed.

"Anything wrong?" he asked seeing her fidgeting in place.

"Why are you always so carefree? It's annoying. " she remarked with grimace deepening boy's confusion even further. 'What is it about this time…' he sighed rubbing his neck.

"What do you want?" he mumbled tiredly.

"Did you talk with Tadokoro-san?"

Sōma's hazed eyes suddenly turned wide. He felt his muscles tensing and heart dropping, the cold sweat appearing on his neck, "How do you know?"

The blonde princess sent him a baffled look. She didn't know what he was talking about so she sighed with frustration, "I'm asking if you talked with Tadokoro Megumi about that incident from 2 days ago!"

Yukihira's expression abruptly came back to normal and he let out the breath he didn't know he was holding, "Ah yeah, that thing. Everything's fine, I took care of it."

A gentle smile appeared on her white from the moonlight face, her eyes fluttering shut with relief, "Thank you."

Red-haired boy kept his eyes locked on the girl before him. She really was goddamn pretty, especially when she was smiling.

Looking at her made the corners of his lips uncontrollably turn upwards as well, and adoring look in his eyes. Suddenly the situation with Tadokoro from 10 minutes ago came to his mind and he felt terrible.

"Yukihira-kun?" Nakiri broke the silence after seeing her boyfriend spacing off, "You seem off, everything's alright?"

"Tadokoro confessed to me." he answered glancing at the gritty ground below him.

Erina was taken aback by his words, in fact she didn't know how to react at all. This was random, to say the least. It's not like she didn't know that Tadokoro Megumi had a thing for Sōma, only an idiot wouldn't notice this girl's feelings towards red-haired chef. It was just that the blonde didn't expect that Megumi would ever confess to Yukihira, especially now.

"O-Oh. And what did you say her?"

Sōma's eyes looked up to the sky, "Nothing."

"W-What? What do you mean 'nothing'? Don't tell me you consider h-"

"I don't know. I just don't know the answer yet."

Erina felt like something just crashed her head into the ground. Never in her life she thought she would hear that a boy she gave herself fully to would put her next to another girl so easily. Wasn't she special to him? How can he not know the answer to Megumi's confession? Was he… considering this girl?

Amethyst eyes turned downwards; her heart felt like hundreds of pins were tearing right through it. She bit her lip and glued her eyes to her feet, to prevent herself from crying. She won't cry because of that.

She won't cry because of him.

"Nakiri, you see I'm-"

"Don't. I'm… I'm going back home, it's late. Good night."

She turned her back and walked away the fastest she could. She didn't want to spend any second longer with the red head. She felt sick and she just wanted to go home.

The blonde got into the black car that was waiting for her this entire time not sparing Yukihira a last glance.

Her fists tightly gripped her skirt; little wet dots, one by one, started appearing on its material quietly.

-0-

After seeing the black car driving away and soon disappearing from his sight Sōma started making his way towards the dorm.

He was left with his thoughts alone. Never in the world he expected that coming to Tōtsuki would create so much love-related drama in his life. He came here to cook goddamit. How did he even get himself into this weird love triangle?

He felt stupid for not realizing Megumi's feelings before, but yet again–he wasn't the best at all the romance-related stuff. Nor that he had much experience in it either.

But her question got stuck in his head. What did she mean by that? Could it be possible that he didn't love Erina? Until now he knew Erina was the girl he liked but that Megumi's confession kinda sowed the little seeds of doubt within him.

Like, he always felt this weird attraction towards Nakiri heiress. He was interested in her and liked spending time with her, he thought she's super cute and easy to tease. He respected her as a chef and companion but most importantly she was his goal and motivation to cook. But was it love? Or just physical attraction towards the blonde goddess? She was the one that confessed to him and he accepted her feelings because he himself felt something towards her. What it was he couldn't really tell.

He just assumed if they're dating he loves her. That what's couples do, right? Love each other.

But now, as Megumi's words repeated themselves in his head he didn't really know. How does one know if they love someone? How can he be so sure he loves Nakiri?

How can he be sure if he didn't love Tadokoro?

…

"Would you love me?"…

Just as Megumi's lips were about to touch Sōma's she felt his hands gripping on her arms, moving her body away, "Stop it."

Yellow eyes widened and she noticed the grimace twisting on red head's face, "You know it's wrong."

"I-...I'm sorry! I'm really sorry Sōma-kun! I-I don't know what got into me, please forget about it-"

"You should go to bed, it's late and you'll get a migraine from all this crying." He resorted and completely withdraw from blue-haired embrace.

She just looked down, embarrassed and most importantly heart-broken. It's not like she expected him to do anything other than that but it still hurt. She was angry at herself for giving herself illusive hope and coming for her friend's boyfriend. 'When did you become so selfish Megumi?'

"Tadokoro, listen…"

That's when the sound of a new message ringed and the conversation got interrupted. Sōma took out his phone and after reading its content he started making his way towards the balcony's exit.

"We'll talk later. Go to bed."

He exited the room not sparing Tadokoro a last glance. Instead his thoughts were already settled on a blonde girl he was about to see.

…

He didn't love Tadokoro.

Or at least he thought he didn't… seems like he's back at the starting point huh…

But deep down Sōma knew Erina was something else, she wasn't like all the girls he knew. His feelings towards the blonde were different and he was sure of that. Then why these mixed emotions arise within him when he remembers tonight's talk with Tadokoro?

He guessed he just got to work everything out himself. But besides everything he was sure of one thing–Nakiri was his girlfriend and she was important to him. He never felt this way towards a girl the way he did towards Erina.

As of now it's the best to end the thing with Megumi and move on with life.

He went to her room and saw her sleeping on the bed, her hair messy and eyes red. He sighed and covered her petite body with a blanket. Before exiting he left a little note on her desk;

'Hey Tadokoro!

When you wake up take the medicine and eat some of my yesterday's leftovers, you'll feel better. Don't want ya to get sick! Otherwise who will help me with my paperwork? Jk jk.

If you feel bad for yesterday–don't. We're still friends right? Let's just forget about it and move on with life.

I'm with Nakiri and let it stay that way. I'm sorry.

-Sōma.'

...

Finally he could sit down on the bed in his room and take a breath. Well, it was one hell of a night. He really hoped his relationship with Megumi will go back to how it's used to be–the last thing he wanted is for things to become awkward between them.

He rubbed the back of his neck and groaned with pain, "Love is complicated." he mumbled under his breath and closed his eyes. He noted to himself has to apologize to Erina as well, she seemed very upset for some reason.

Just as he was about to stand up from his mattress to take a shower he got a message. Seeing the name of a sender put an uncontrolled smile on his face. He clicked on the notification and waited until the message opens itself up.

What it contained sent a cold shiver down his spine.

Nakiri [1:57am]

Let's break up.

-0-

A/N: Chapter 3 is coming soon!

Well, "soon" lmao. But seriously tho, I will try to be quicker with updates (especially that I left y'all with such cliffhanger), bear with me!

Hope you didn't mind a little bit of angst in this chapter, it has to be like that sometimes! Please don't kill me for the ending, I swear it's just a part of the plot! In Part 3 a lot of things will get better.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please don't forget to leave a review! And thank you for your feedback so far!