CHAPTER 12

Hiragawa Makino's POV :

"My mother's a e and I'm the Vice Principal's illegitimate daughter..." I almost choked on my words. Bitter, that's what it tasted like. When words you despised hearing or speaking of comes out of your own lips, it would always taste bitter.

My stomach was churning with the truth. It was sickening. If only I could wipe it off of my system how filthy my blood seems to be. A daughter of a e and an unfaithful old man. I even hate myself, and I can't blame the people around for feeling the same way.

“I...” I stared at the guy in front of me who was staring on the floor, trying to hide his face. And I can't help but smile... Another addition to my bullies then.

I closed my eyes when his hands moved and I was waiting for another punishment for a deed I haven't done.

But instead of feeling a painful blow, what I felt were warm arms closing in on me. And then I just felt a strong yet gentle embrace, and a sweet scent surrounding me.

“Lee-kun...?”

“You can cry if you want... Being here for you to listen to your cries is the only thing I can do to help. So, just cry as hard as you want...”

I didn't know what was happening, I didn't know why he was doing this, but my chest almost burst out with the hurt I was trying to keep and hide to myself. Tears began falling down my cheeks like a waterfall, and I heard loud sobs that later on I realized was my own.

No one, nobody ever tried to understand what I really felt. They judged me without even knowing who I really am. It was so painful that I became numb to everything. I can't even remember when was the last time I cried like this because whenever something hurts, I'd brush it off making myself believe that it wasn't painful.

But this guy, he knew I was hurting. This guy knew it was painful. And he understands...

“My Mom would say... Don't judge someone's chosen path if you haven't walked their journey. We have never been in your situation nor your mother's or your father's... So, who are we to judge something we do not understand, right?”

 I felt his embrace tighten and now I can smell the vanilla scent of him.

“It wasn't your fault...”

I couldn't speak because it was the first time someone said those words to me. It was the first time someone accepted the fact that I didn't do anything wrong. It was like the first time that I was accepted wholeheartedly. A smile then formed on my lips as tears continued to fall down my face,

“Thank you...” and thus I let myself cry like I've never cried in my entire life.

Midorikawa Yuuki's POV :

Now, I can panic.

I was staring back at those round caramel-colored eyes of hers, and I realized that I have gone crazy.

I don't know why I did that! I don't know why we're here! And I don't know why I pulled her with me! I just... Ugh! I don't know!

"What now?" she said, standing there with a look of annoyance and boredom in her face.

"What you saw... It wasn't like--"

"Do you think I care about that? Sheesh. You're crazy." she was about to walk away when again, my insanity struck me and I prevented her from taking another step.

"WHAT?! Geez! If you think I'll ask for forgiveness because of your freaking face then think again! That's your fault so just take your damn hand off of me!" she yelled at me, and I knew that if she wasn't holding that pile of papers, she might have punched me again.

Midorikawa Yuuki, what is wrong with you?! My brain almost jumped out of my own head just trying to understand what was really happening.

I don't really know, all I know is I want this girl right here to be with me right now. And I don't want her to misunderstand what she saw earlier. It’s insane but...

"Listen, if you stop me from leaving again I swear I am gonna kill you." she threatened me, and all the gods might have to commit suicide because all I did was smile back at her.

"You..." her eyes narrowed at me and I can literally see her veins popping in sheer madness.

My body is possessed. That's the closest thing I could come up with when my body moved on its own and got the pile of papers from her. She also looked at me in confusion when I did that.

I placed the papers down on the clean part of the floor, and then put on a weight on top of it to prevent it from flying all over the place, and after that I walked back towards her. Her hands immediately shot up in a karate pose, ready to beat me up.

And again, with my possessed mind and body, I just smiled. My brain has malfunctioned, for I think THAT--referring to Yumi's karate pose--is cute.

"I am going to erase that crazy smile off of your face if you don't stop smiling!" she yelled again.

"And I am going to kiss you senseless if you don't stop yelling!" I yelled back at her, this made her back away and cover