﹅ You thought this would make all your problems go away.
﹅ You thought this would fix things.
﹅ But it only got worse.
﹅ Your mental health had decreased, and you didn’t know who to talk to about it.
﹅ The only person who listened was Hajime.
﹅ He would listen to you, and no matter how small and insignificant the problem was, he’d listen and offer genuine advice.
﹅ Why had you broken up with him?
﹅ Because he didn’t spend much time with you.
﹅ But now you realise, he spent the most time on you than anyone else.
﹅ Why did you think this would make things better?
﹅ The only thing making things better was him.
﹅ Him, who begged for you to stay.
﹅ Him, who looked just as tired and heartbroken as you.
﹅ You knew what you had to do.
﹅ You walk up to his house.
﹅ Hesitantly, you knock on the door.
﹅ He opens up, and for a second, you can see a glimmer of hope in his eyes, before he pushes it down.
﹅ “S/O, are you here for the stuff you forgot?”
﹅ He looked so tired, so broken, so hopeless.
﹅ It was your fault.
﹅ But you had to fix it.
﹅ You wrap your hands around his shaking form, and pull him towards you.
﹅ “I-I’m so sorry… Hajime…”
﹅ “S/O…?”
﹅ You pull him closer to you.
﹅ “It’s all my fault… I’m sorry.”
﹅ Hajime is speechless. He wraps his arms around you.
﹅ “S/O, dos this mean… we’re back together?”
﹅ “If you’ll take me back… I’m not expecting anything.”
﹅ He pulls you in the house and kisses you.
﹅ “Of course I’ll take you back… I…”
“I love you, always have, and always will.”
﹅ You can’t take it anymore.
﹅ The tears flow down your face, out of control.
﹅ He stays with you the whole time.
﹅ Just like before.
𝐌𝐢𝐮
﹅ After seeing her breakdown, you decided that you needed to find her.
﹅ You were doing alright without her, but seeing your girlfriend like that made you regret everything.
﹅ She was working on this for you…?
﹅ You rush to her house, and then banged on the door.
﹅ “Miu! Open up! Please!”
﹅ Your voice was so shaky, so broken.
﹅ Were you really fine?
﹅ The answer was no.
﹅ Miu opens the door, her face tear streaked. But then you hear a voice.
﹅ “Miu, who is it?”
﹅ Someone else was there? Who?
﹅ A robot makes its way over to the door.
﹅ “Ah, is this S/O?” He asks, looking over to you and giving you a smile.
﹅ Miu nods, and the robot takes your hand and leads you into the bedroom.
﹅ “It seems the two of you have something to talk about.” The robot says, his once happy face turning more serious.
﹅ You look over to him.
﹅ “I’m sorry, but I don’t really know y-“
﹅ The robot gasps, shocked. “I haven’t told you yet! How impolite! My name is K1-B0, but you can call me Keebo!”
﹅ He puts a hand up to his head, looking abashed.
﹅ “Miu made me come over here to try make her happier and understand what she could have done better in your relationship. I have come to a conclusion that the two of you needed to communicate more, but before I could formulate a plan, you arrived.”
﹅ You stare, shocked at Miu. She looks away, her baby blue eyes full of tears, and you noticed she had bags under her eyes.
﹅ “You two should really talk it out, so I’m gonna leave…” Keebo mutters, closing the door.
﹅ Miu sniffs, and turns her body away from you with a pout that resembled a little kid refusing to apologise.
﹅ You choose to start off. If not now, then when?
﹅ “Miu… I’m really sorry. I saw your show and I needed to come back because I realised that-“
﹅ Miu cuts you off with a whimper.
﹅ “N-no… It’s probably my fault. I shoulda been more open to y-ya.”
﹅ You stare at your girlfriend, shocked. “Miu, it’s alright. It’s not your fault. I-“
﹅ She starts hiccuping. Then a wail, full of sadness. She collapses on the bed, curled up into a little ball.
﹅ “I’m sorry S/O! I won’t ever ignore you ever again… a-and I’ll spend more time with you I p-promise…! So please d-don’t leave me…!”
﹅ You begin saying you won’t leave her, but she cuts you off again.
﹅ “N-no…! You hafta promise me…!”
﹅ You pull her closer to you. She was finally showing you how much you meant to her.
﹅ “I promise.”
𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨
﹅ You sit alone at your house. Alone.
﹅ A peculiar emptiness sat inside of you, and no matter what, it wouldn’t go away.
﹅ When you told people you broke up with him, they weren’t surprised, even happy for you.
﹅ But happy was the opposite of what you were feeling.
﹅ Maybe you could have talked with him, and fixed it.
﹅ But now it was too late.
﹅ You did nothing for a whole month.
﹅ You just sat in your room, thinking about him.
﹅ About everything you had done together.
﹅ About how wrong you were.
﹅ He was trying to find his sisters, and you were begging for attention like a lost puppy, and when he didn’t give it to you, you ended it all.
﹅ You were in the wrong.
﹅ But that’s what he thought too.
﹅ You see, as soon as you broke up with him, he made a promise to himself.
﹅ The same promise he made about his sisters.
﹅ He would find you, and he would never loose you again.
﹅ But it was easier this time, because he knew where you were.
﹅ He booked a plane trip to where you lived, and rushed over to your house.
﹅ You carefully opened the door, shocked to find him there.
﹅ But he was there, hugging you, promising he wouldn’t leave, apologising, and then repeating.
﹅ You stand there in shock before you burst into tears.
﹅ He comforts you with a hug of his own, and you see him shed a few tears himself.
﹅ You will never leave him, and he’ll never leave you. Not after today.
﹅ You and Hajime hadn’t interacted for a while due to your studies. You hadn’t been keeping up with your schoolwork, so you had a lot to do.
﹅ Hajime wasn’t making any efforts to talk to you about it, instead replacing you with your classmates.
﹅ The little interaction the two of you had wasn’t even face to face, the only time the two of you talked was to text each other polite messages when you woke up.
﹅ Your relationship had started to wither, and you had noticed it.
﹅ In one of your rare blocks of free time, the two of you scheduled a meeting.
﹅ This was when you were going to tell him.
﹅ You had chosen to simply eat lunch at his house.
﹅ He had ordered a takeaway meal for the both of you, and you began eating it, hesitant to break up with your boyfriend.
﹅ “S/O, is something bothering you?” Hajime asks.
﹅ Your head lowers, but you were going to tell him. You couldn’t keep stretching the relationship far beyond what it was capable of.
﹅ “Hajime... I think we should break up.”
﹅ Your words were slow, hesitant. As the gravity of the situation began to sink in, Hajime’s face contorted into one of sadness.
﹅ “Is this because we haven’t been spending time together...? I’m so sorry S/O, I really am, but please, just let me fix this-
﹅ He was begging for you to stay. You had thought that he had felt the same way, that this would go on without any problems.
﹅ “H-hajime... I’m sorry, but I don’t think we can fix this.”
﹅ Your head hung low, a dark shadow covering your eyes. He was making this so hard for you, but it was for his own good.
﹅ “Babe, please... I need you, c’mon, we can fix this, I know we can-”
﹅ He was on the floor now, pleading for you to stay. You stood up.
﹅ “Hajime, we don’t spend time together anymore. This relationship was... perfect... while it lasted.”
﹅ You had begun to shake. But you wouldn’t stop now. It was far too late. But there was this lingering feeling...
﹅ Before he could say anything, you left his house and went back home.
﹅ As you collapsed onto your bed, you realised what the feeling was.
﹅ Regret.
𝐌𝐢𝐮 𝐈𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐚
﹅ Your girlfriend had recently been invited to a technology show to promote her inventions.
﹅ She wouldn’t say it, but she really wanted to impress the public by making her best invention yet.
﹅ However, this desire to impress people quickly turned into panic.
﹅ She decided she needed way more time to work on her invention, and she altered her schedule accordingly, which, sadly, didn’t include you.
﹅ The project was due in about 10 months, which flew by fairly quickly.
﹅ A few months before the show, you decided enough was enough.
﹅ She didn’t spend any time with you, and she didn’t even look fazed about it. She didn’t even care.
﹅ So, with 2 months until the show, you decided to break up with her.
﹅ When she was tinkering with her inventions, you came up to her and asked if you could talk.
﹅ “Babe, whatever shit you wanna say, you can say it here!” She yells, pointing pointing a screwdriver at you.
﹅ You were already in a bad mood, but your girlfriend had made it worse.
﹅ “Well hurry up already! I’m busy!” She shouts, turning her back to tinker with a screw.
﹅ You take a deep breath.
﹅ “Miu, you haven’t spent time with me in months. Hell, this is the first time you’ve talked to me ever since you got invited to that show.”
﹅ Miu turns around, her angry face contorting into one of worry and fear. You ignored it, and continued your speech.
﹅ “You clearly prioritise your inventions over me, so we’re done.”
﹅ Miu is stunned for a second, before tears begin forming in her baby blue eyes.
﹅ “Heeee! Y-you’re breaking up w-with me...?”
﹅ You nod, and start walking away. After all, what could she possibly say to make up for months of not talking to you?
﹅ Months later, you’re sitting on the couch watching television.
﹅ You flick through the channels, trying to find something worth watching.
﹅ Then you spot her.
﹅ On the stage, your ex, Miu Iruma. She looks tired and dishevelled, like she hasn’t slept in weeks.
﹅ “U-uhh... this invention is dedicated to... my S/O.”
﹅ As soon as you heard your name, you froze.
﹅ “It scans y-your brain and finds out your... possible soulmate.”
﹅ She walked over towards the invention and sits in it.
﹅ Then she presses a button, and a panel at the top starts whirring, showing an image of... you.
﹅ Upon seeing your face, she bursts into tears on stage.
﹅ This wasn’t what you wanted.
﹅ But this was what you chose.
𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐦𝐢
﹅ He had been recently exploring, looking for his sisters.
﹅ The two of you would interact using messages, but you were getting slightly sad at the lack of interaction.
﹅ Throughout the next few weeks, you had attempted to make contact with him, but to no avail. He wasn’t ignoring you, he just didn’t respond for about a week and then apologise for it.
﹅ It was making you even more down, so to cheer yourself up, you tried to interact with other people.
﹅ All was going smooth, you still had your weekly facetime with Amami.
﹅ That was, until, someone told you to break up with him.
﹅ “Seriously S/O? He hasn’t talked to you face-to-face in a year! How do you know he isn’t cheating on you?”
﹅ You were shocked to your core by their words, but you did have a nagging feeling that they were right.
﹅ Jeez, S/O, he clearly values his own life over yours.”
﹅ Every time someone brought him up in a conversation, there was always the person who would bring up how you should break up with him, and it was getting to your head.
﹅ You were actually considering it.
﹅ However, a little slimmer of hope sat inside you, telling you to keep trying.
﹅ But, that seemed to produce the same results from the last time you tried that.
﹅ With a heavy heart, you decided it was time for the relationship to end. Afterall, partners are meant to be with each other 24/7.
﹅ However, you didn’t want to hurt his feelings. So, on one of your weekly facetimes, you decided to bring it up.
﹅ “Amami... I think we should break up...” You quickly mutter.
﹅ Before he even has time to process it, you left the meeting.
﹅ He sat there stunned for a second. What had just happened?
﹅ He closed his computer as the situation began to sink in and he realised why you did this.
﹅ He lets out a slow, sad chuckle. It was his fault, and his only.
﹅ Tears streamed down his cheek. After all, he didn’t know how precious you were to him until you were gone. Just like his sisters.
