❝ dimmed sun. ❞ | nishimura riki ✓

二十

riki stared at the girl's lifeless body. 

the hospital nurses frenzied around him, he took no notice. everything besides arai chitose was a blur.

the boy stood there motionlessly, his breathing stopped. 

arai chitose's accident spread like wildfire throughout campus. before he knew what he was doing, his heart created its own game plan as he bolted out from his classroom, reaching the hospital in a quarter of the time it should've took him.

it's only an infatuated fantasy, right? so why..?

nishimura riki shakily walked in and saw the gloomy faces. he already knew what happened.

but what little did he know; his heart sullenly tore off piece by piece as the imaginary knives wrenched their way in, it sinking to his stomach at arai chitose. 

"she's gone."

he choked up his cries, screaming.

he cried raw, throat burning at the sight of his lover which he thought nothing of, dead. it hurt. it hurt, like hell. 

it was love. it was love all along. why was he so afraid of it? 

"i-i loved her."