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Chapter 45: Pretend (and introducing: Yachi!!)

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After the events that happened that night, Ayame slightly distanced herself from the freckled teen. Of course, except when they're doing some group study, she acted like nothing has changed. Yamaguchi noticed that and he thinks that she now hates him after he swatted her hand. It pained him that she's avoiding him but he could only blame his self for being rash. And Ayame's blaming herself for being thoughtless in touching his hair.

So naturally, both sides are blaming themselves.

It was raining hard that morning and Ayame rushed to her school without using her umbrella. She arrived in the building soaking wet so she had to squeeze the edge of her skirt to remove the water.

"I hope my notes are not soaked that bad..." she muttered. A towel was draped over her head and she looked up to see the freckled teen looking at her worriedly.

"You're wet" Yamaguchi told her and he started rubbing the towel on her hair "You'll get sick"

Her face heated up as she recalled that she touched his hair. She backed away from him and tightly clutched her bag.

"It's okay" she managed a smile while secretly resisting the urge to sneeze "I'll be fine. See you later in class"

"No...you're not okay...you're lying..." he thought. She was about to walk away when he grabbed her arm and looked at her in the eye.

"I hate it...I hate it when she does that. Pretending that you're okay...I hate it..."

"Stop pretending that you're okay!" he accidentally raised his voice slightly, causing a few students to look at them. Ayame was shocked at his words. Realizing what he did, he let her arm go and looked down.

"Sorry..." he apologized "Great...just great... I'm so stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"

She ran from him and he turned around to return to his class when he bumped to Tsukishima.

"Oh, Tsukki, sorry" he said. For some reason, he felt hollow after earlier. Was it because that he felt the he hurt her? Or he felt hurt after seeing her hurt?

"Hey, what exactly happened between the two of you?" Tsukishima's monotonous voice startled him

"W-what do you mean?" he asked, looking away.

"I saw what happened earlier. What do you mean by that? That Ayame should stop pretending that she's okay?" he asked.

"W-well...she was soaking wet when she arrived so I gave her my towel but she said that she's okay. I kinda snapped at her about it" he explained

"But, that's not it...She's always pretending that she's okay in everything...even if she's already hurt..." he silently thought "Her eyes...they're lying...even when she's not wearing that pained smile...her eyes still give away..."

"Lover's quarrel, huh?" the megane smirked.

"Tsukki, that's not it!"

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Ayame ran as fast as she can. Yamaguchi's words made her think. Why is she even pretending that she's okay? To hide the truth? So that everyone won't worry about her?