What? Like it's Hard?
Chapter 7 (teaser) - Gravity | Series mlist
Top student. Perfect grades. Rich, sporty, artistic — you never came across something you couldn’t solve. And hell, life itself respected you for that. No, you weren’t cocky — far from it. Timid, even. You earned people’s respect through quiet effort, not loud confidence. But the moment you graduated and stepped foot into university, life decided to play a different game. It gave you what you’d secretly longed for all this time. A challenge. And did you pass it? Well… how about no?
“I miss her…”
A loud groan. “Yes, yes, I know… you’ve said that about 10 times over the last minute,” Suguru grumbled, obviously annoyed by Satoru. “Repeating that again and again won’t make her fall in love with you y’know?”
“Then what would?”
“What did she ask for?”
“Space?”
Suguru sighs, “Yes, idiot, I know she asked for space, but what did she really mean when she,” he hesitates to find the right words. “If I can say… left you hanging?”
Satoru huffed, slouching deeper into his chair. “Well, all about risks and not wanting to herself…”
“Well, that means she just needs to learn to trust you, isn’t it?”
Satoru slightly sat up in his chair. “Trust?” he repeated the words that somehow felt too foreign on his tongue.
The same story repeats. Satoru didn’t do trust. And yet here he is, waiting to try to give someone trust they needed for the first time. Not just someone, you. To Satoru, falling for you might be the worst, but also the best thing he ever did. You were beautiful, kind, smart, funny. And he himself didn’t seem to believe it when he suddenly realised his heart started beating faster every time you were around. He used to be the boy who swore women were just something extra, a trade-off from boredom to pleasure. Yet here he is, listening to his best friend giving him lessons on love. Because if the universe were to create someone to destroy him and rewrite him from the inside out, that person would be you.
“Yeah. Trust,” Suguru said, leaning back. “You’re Satoru Gojo. You skip through life, and everything comes easy to you, especially people. She’s smart, Satoru. She knows your reputation. She’s protecting herself because she thinks you’re a storm that’ll just blow through her life and leave a mess.”
Satoru stared at the ceiling, the blues of his eyes clouded, the weight of how others saw him now stung even harder. He didn't want to be a storm to you. He wanted to be the Gravity that kept you grounded. The person to anchor you when you needed. The man you’d trust without a second thought. And in this moment, he knew he’s failing terribly.
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