How Could You? (Souyo)

We're Friends, Aren't We?

Would he really leave?

Leave Inaba, leave Nanako, leave me? Would he?

I feel tears prick my eyes, but I quickly blink them away.

He wanted to leave. ...If he has, that's on him.

I just... didn't expect it. I didn't expect to be abandoned like that.

I sigh.

It's not gonna be the same without him. Everything with him was... freaking awesome.

I don't care about anything that's happened lately. I just want him to stay.

~~~

Yu's POV:

I clutch the train ticket in my hand, reading it over and over again.

I sigh, looking around.

It's quite busy, but that's what I'd been expecting. I didn't know it would feel so... overwhelming, though.

I toss the ticket between my fingers, biting my lip.

He wants me to go.

If he doesn't want me to stay, I have no reason to.

...This is my fault.

I drove him away. This is my punishment.

My heart races as my cell vibrates in my hand.

It could be Yosuke. He could be asking to patch things up between us...

But, no.

"Hello?" I ask.

"You at home yet?" Adachi says.

"...Huh?" I frown.

"You were staying at Hanamura's, weren't you?"

"...I told you that?" I raise an eyebrow. Did I?

"Uh, yeah?" He scoffs. "Anyway, I just wanted to know how you were doing. Dojima-san isn't giving you a hard time, right?"

"I... I can't talk right now," I mumble, eyeing my ticket.

"Hm? What's the matter?"

"I just—"

I wince as the train whistles past me, coming to a screeching halt.

There's a pause in conversation.

"...Are you at the train station?"

I swallow hard. "I have to go."

"Narukami, don't move," he grunts.

"What?"

"I'm on my way."

~~~

I watch as Adachi-san rushes out of his car, heading up the steps towards me.

"Glad you waited," he chuckles.

"What do you want?" I sigh.

"Come on." He jerks his head back to his car.

"I'm not staying here," I frown.

"I know, kid," he grumbles. "I know it's lame and it's boring, yada, yada, yada. But you can't go."

"Why not?" I shrug.

Adachi blinks, looking away. "You just can't."

"I don't need permission."

"You have friends here," he scoffs. "Are you really gonna abandon them?"

"They were better off without me."