I was supposed to have a pretty I.Q., but there was nothing more confusing to me then girls and love. Girls in love scared me. Girls in love with me usually have me turning around and going the other way at a hastened pace.

I didn't know what they wanted from me. What did they see in me? I was good looking, but I was a jackass. I knew it and if I didn't know it then I had more than enough friends that would remind me on a daily basis.

Emotions were useless to me. There nothing that anyone could say that would make me think otherwise. Emotions confused an easy problem and made it a whole lot harder. The one think that I would admit to myself and only myself was that I had emotions. And most of my emotions were for a red haired, innocent looking girl who lived with me. She wasn't the brightest bulb in the room, she acted like a child, and she never did anything right but there was something about her that made me…

Love her.

She could understand things that I never would. She didn't have a mean bone in her body. And she had more determination that he had ever seen in a person before. She could do anything if she really wanted to.

Not that I was really sure I wanted to see her try to do anything. Seeing Kotoko attempt to become a rocket scientist might put the world in danger, but if that's what she wanted to do. She would try really hard to get there. Even if she didn't get there she would get a hell of a lot closer than anyone would ever imagine.

Kotoko had done the impossible and made me love her, and that damndest thing was that she didn't even know.

I let the rain fall around me and waited for Kotoko to come out of the train station so I could stop her from marrying someone else.

Kotoko could do anything.

But the so could I.

And I was going to make sure that I was the only one that Kotoko married.

Not only did Kotoko know how to love with her whole heart. She knew how to love me with her whole heart. Kotoko would be with me through the good and the bad and she would never walk away from me just like I would never walk away from her.

I knew that she deserved better. It was what had kept me away from her for so long, but I had come to realize that without her I wasn't anyone special. I was just a jackass with a high I.Q. With her I was so much more.

I was turning into a sap.

I was going to tell her that I loved her.

But I was never going to tell her how much.

End