Nino`s POV
KAZUNARI you`re such a crazy idiot!! I screamed in my head. What the hell was I thinking?? I kissed him, apologized, and ran?? I RAN? Oh My God…I couldn’t even believe it. I knew he loved Sho, I knew he was sad because he saw that stupid couple making out in the library and, for heaven`s sake, they never told us that they were dating! But dating? Aiba Masaki? It didn’t mean for sure they were dating, but Sho wouldn`t kiss anyone if they didn’t date. But I just kissed someone as well, my best friend, we were not dating and he loved another guy!!
How am I going to face him if I meet him tomorrow? What should I do? Apologize again? Explain? But what? The reason why I kissed him? Because he looked sad? Or the fact that I loved him? But wouldn’t it ruin our friendship? But I kissed him, I ruined it already. I ruined my friendship with him. What if he won`t forgive me and won`t talk to me anymore? I couldn’t think of a way to solve this.
“Arrrghhh!!” I messed my hair in frustration.
“Nino?” someone patted my shoulder from behind, “Are you okay?”
I turned back to face him…
or…
them…Sho and Aiba looked at me with their worried expressions.
“I`m…okay…” I answered. “What are you doing here?” I asked them.
“Oh, we are back from library,” Aiba answered me.
“Ahh…” I nodded and of course they were back from library, how could I forget that I just saw them make out.
“Sho-chan, why don’t you return to class first?” Aiba asked Sho out of blue, the latter looked back at him, his expression confused. But he understood quickly, and nodded.
“Sure,” he smiled and he made a hasty move, as if he wanted to give Aiba a fast peck but in the end he resisted, and walked away.
“What happened?” Aiba asked me. So he asked Sho to return to the class first purposely so he could talk to me freely.
I shrugged and answered, “Nothing happened.”
“You know, I always talk to you about everything…why don’t you do the same?” he asked again and leaned against the wall.
I took a deep breath, “Are you…” but nothing came out from my mouth, “Sho and you…” I paused again, “Never mind…forget about it…”
“What is it?” he almost whined, probably because I said his name and Sho’s together. I actually wanted to ask about his relationship with Sho, but in the end I couldn’t…pfff~~ why is love always this complicated, to love someone why do we always need to hurt another…
“How is your live there?” in the end I couldn’t ask about his relationship with Sho because I didn’t want to ruin everything when they’d just started to be happy together. I was happy for them. But I was afraid that I probably just didn’t want Ohno to come any closer to their relationship, to have him for myself. I felt so bad…and I felt torn in two…
“Happy,” he answered straight and smiled brightly. “I’ve never been this happy before…” he nodded slightly and smiled to himself. What if he knew his happiness had been hurting somebody? Would he give it up? Probably. But he’s never been happy before in his messed-up life…he deserved Sho more than anyone else and Sho deserved him as well.
“Nino?” he swayed his hand in front of my face.
I tried to control myself and answered, “I see…”
He smiled again, “He made me feel happy Nino, he made me feel protected, being needed by someone…I`m glad I met him, and I`m the luckiest person in the world…” and although he didn’t say it out loud I knew he was falling in love with Sho. “Is it bad to feel this way?” he asked me and I was late to notice that he observed my expression and definitely found something in it.
“No, it`s great, although you sound like a 15 years old girl who’s falling in love with the prince of the school,” I answered.
He hit my back playfully, “Why a girl??” so he was really falling in love, he didn’t comment on the falling in love part because he didn’t want to admit it. He stared at me again, “Are you falling for someone, Nino?”
I burst out in laughter, even if only to hide my feelings, “Why so?”
“Because you smell like you are,” he laughed.
“Smell?” I smelt my arms.
He laughed again and the bell was ringing, “Well…good luck Nino, I believe you`ll get the one you love…” he patted my shoulder and walked to his class, and there was where I saw Jun walking from the opposite direction to Aiba. Aiba turned and smiled at him, Jun smiled back and stopped, although Aiba had walked away already. He stood there, and followed Aiba with his gaze…and I felt something punching hard on my heart. He kept standing there until Aiba disappeared from our sight. He turned his body slowly and looked startled when he saw me standing behind him.
But he regained control of his expression immediately, “Yo!”
I smiled in reply, “Yo!”
“You didn’t go to class?” Jun asked me, probably wanting to hide the fact that he couldn’t stop himself from looking at Aiba.
“No,” I shook my head, “I don’t feel like it…I`ll go to the rest room…” I answered.
“Okay, see you later, then,” he smiled and walked away.
But suddenly a thing popped up in my head, “Do you have any plans this evening?”
He stopped and turned back at me, “Well…not after going to Sho`s” he answered.
“Sho`s house?” I asked in confusion.
“I meet Aiba there,” he answered again. You`re done Kazu…you`re so done!
“Why so?” I asked him again.
He frowned, “Why can`t I?” he questioned me back. “Ah! I can`t talk now! I`m late!” he waved and ran before I could answer.
Okay, let’s list my problems at the moment:
1. I’ve kissed my best friend (we can call him O-san), although I knew he’s in the process of falling in love with my other best friend (S-san).
2. I knew that my other best friend, S-san in love with another guy (A-san), because I`m the one who made them work.
3. I suspect that they are dating…and A-san is terribly in love with S-san as well.
4. I made my other best friend (J-san) join in on a game and he’s been trapped in it…and is probably falling in love with A-san as well.
5. Somehow…I…Ninomiya Kazunari…got tangled up in my own game and have no idea how to end it. Most probably; game over for me…
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AN : haha~~ it`s been so long since the first chapter ne ^.^ but yay beyond the bet is here!! XD
I posted it early actually~~ ^.^
I tried to not add too many sakuraiba there, forgive my bias >____<
but I promise that oh-chan and Nino moments will appear more and more on next chapters XD
enjoy the story and I`ll wait for any feedback XD