If Forgetting was Easy

Chapter 3

Everyone was still frozen about the sudden appearance of Rin's ex-girlfriend. The small group of people had their eyes locked on ____ and Rin, who is starting to tear up.

Sensing her older brother's distress, Gou rushed to her brother and slapped his shoulder.

"Onii-chan! How could you not tell your own family that you had a girlfriend?! Seriously, we were doubting your sexual preferences!" Gou shouted loudly for everyone to hear and pouted in the end.

Hearing this, Rin immediately looked at his younger sister in utter disbelief and shocked.

"Wait. We?" He asked as he quickly turned his gaze towards his former teammates and best friends from Iwatobe who suddenly found random things interested except for Haru who simply nodded.

Rin was about to argue with them but decided not to as he pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to calm himself.

"I'm straight and it's a memory I had help to forget. Seeing her right now, I feel nothing." He spatted, obviously finding it difficult to say the last part.

"Well, can't say I don't understand why." ____ said in a cheery voice.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Rin asked as he eyed her seriously. A look that made the surrounding people feel uneasy and intruding.

"I came to see you." ____ replied in the same amount of seriousness while smiling warmly at him.

"I have nothing to discuss with you." Rin refused bluntly while turning his back and started walking to the direction of their bus.

"Since you knew Rin during his stay in Australia, you probably travelled from another country, right?" Haru asked ____ with his usual straight emotionless face.

____, a little confused about the sudden question, nodded.

"So you flew to Japan just to see Rin?" Nagisa asked shocked as ____ nodded happily.

"Rin, maybe you should talk to her." Makoto tried to persuade Rin with his calming voice.

"It's not my problem. Who told her to come here anyway?" Rin replied still walking towards the bus.

"____, I don't understand why would you waste your effort to come here just to meet Rin. Someone with your looks shouldn't be chasing after someone like Rin." Haru brutally said rendering everyone speechless.

"I'm not really--"

"Ne~ You're captain's ex? Wow. You're pretty. Since captain won't talk to you, wanna grab something to eat and maybe catch a movie or you know." Momo cut ____ mid-sentence started flirting.

"I would love to--" Once again, cut mid-sentence when Rin forcefully dragged her away from Momo and everyone else and enters the competition venue again.

The grand olympic size pool shone beautifully while they stood there a few distance away from the pool entrance.

"What do you want to talk about?" Rin said without looking at ____.

She smiled at his childishness and giggled softly.

"I saw your match." She replied. Rin looked at her who was looking at the pool as if remembering the event earlier.

"It's the first time I saw you swim free and relay." She continued as she started walking towards the pool.

"I heard you dropped out and returned to Japan. They said... you stopped swimming." She crouched down and let her hand feel the water in the pool while smiling sadly.

"You know~ when I saw you out here earlier, I remembered that time at the beach." She stood up in haste with her hands intertwined behind her back.

"The day we confessed to each other. You were as happy as you were back then."

"What do you want?" Rin replied coldly at her trip to memory lane.

"Say Rin, do... you hate me?" She asked seriously with a small smile still on her lips as she looked at her former lover shocked by her sudden question.

"Wha-- I-I- W-" Rin started stuttering, unable to give a proper response, while ____ understood that he was finding it difficult to answer.

"Rin." The change in her voice caused the maroon haired male to look at her.

She smiled. A deep rush of nostalgia passed through Rin.

"I'm getting married."

With those three words, Rin looked at the woman, whom he loved so much, in shock as she looked down on her feet, smiling sadly.