Chapter 2.5: A Long Phone Call Between Runa and Nicole
“’Sup, Runa.”
“Hey, Nicole!”
“Airsoft was hella fun!”
“I know, right? You were awesome today!”
“Tell everyone I wanna do it again.”
“Oh, I told Ryuto already! But man, we just played and you’re already looking to play again?”
“Hell yeah I am! It was super refreshing. All my stress is just gone.”
“Also... Nicole, was it really okay?”
“Hm? What was?”
“Telling everyone about him.”
“Yeah, it’s whatever. Not like I’m hiding it. Unlike you and Akari, I rarely have guys confess to me even when they know I don’t have anyone.”
“You do look the type to shoot them down without mercy.”
“Even though that’s not the case at all, yeah. Guys really don’t get it. Girls like Akari? They’re the ones with no mercy.”
“Aha ha.”
“Me? I’m just a pure, heartbroken girl.”
“Gotta say, though, you’re really something. It’s been what, three years? Two and a half? And you’re still in love with your ex.”
“It’s a love I can’t leave behind. It’s just, I really liked him, so...”
“Nicole...”
“Wait, isn’t that poetic? ‘A love I can’t leave’? Works pretty well, right?”
“Oh, come on, Nicole-sensei! Stop making me laugh when the mood’s all serious!”
Still laughing, Runa got up from her bed and reached toward her desk. She picked up a pencil cup with numerous photo booth stickers on it.
One of the photos included Nicole and her then-boyfriend. The date written on it was from sometime in Runa’s second year of middle school. Runa narrowed her eyes and smiled wistfully as she looked at the photo.
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