Love♥SongSeries#2 | "Fixing A Broken Heart"
Title: Love♥SongSeries#2 | "Fixing A Broken Heart"
Author: columbin3
Pairing: Yabu / OC
Characters: Yabu Kota, Mariko (OC)
Rating: GP
Genre: Fluff, Failed Crack, A bit Angst...
Summary: Yabu Kota, the leader of Hey! Say! JUMP, got his heart badly wounded when the girl he was dating for a long time broke up with him. But luck is still on his side when he meets a good friend from the past who helped him fixing his broken heart...
Word Count: 3420 words.. (YEAH! Took some time typing it..)
A/N: Love♥Song Series is a series of fics tackling JUMP members' fictional stories that revolve around a song... I wanted to make one Love Song - FIC for each member but it didn't go on so well that is why this is just my 2nd work under this kind of category.... Coz I find it very hard to write if I limit myself into the contents/story of a song... *sigh* Poor writing ability ne!~
Anyway, if you want to read my my first fic for this series, click HERE! it's Takaki/OC by the way. :D
So then, standard disclaimers apply here!
I hope you'll enjoy reading it.. though I doubt it... it's because the plot is a cliche.. and then I am not really good in writing using the FIRST point of view! GOMEN NASAI!! I hope Yabu-nii won't kill me with how I murdered his character in here....
DOUZO!!
"Love♥Song"
Series
"Fixing A Broken Heart"
-x-x-x-x-
There was nothing to say the day she left
Three years... We've been together for three whole years and she easily threw it away just because she thought I don't have time for us anymore? Just because she was tired? Just because she found another man whom she thought would give her all the attention she needs?
She was so unfair... She always knew my passion for performing in front of the people... She always knew singing and dancing enrich my being... But this proved she never understood me all this time.
Just filled a suitcase full of regrets
I hailed a taxi in the rain
Looking for someplace to ease the pain
"Driver-san, just drop me off in front of the park..." I trailed off as I saw my reflection on the glass window of the taxi when I turned to my left to look outside. I looked terribly messed up and the frown on my face had seemed became a permanent part of it. I sighed.
"Ahh, but it is raining!" The driver protested. Concern was on his voice.
"I do not care..." I replied coldly. I just want to be alone.
He didn't have any choice but to drop me off. I shivered lightly as the cold drops of rain touched my back but it didn't matter. I am feeling numb already with all the pain I have to endure in these 21 years of my life.
'Rain won't defeat me...'
Wandering my sight around me, I decided to walk along the park... Not minding the stares I received from the people passing by me holding their umbrellas. I was drenching already but continued walking...
I remember our past happy memories in here. If I have a free time, we tend to meet in here with me in disguise so people won't notice... Maybe she had gone tired of that too.., of pretending to other people and protecting me and my image from the public.
Then like an answered prayer
I turned around and found you there
"Kota???"
Someone called out but I ignored it. I thought I was imagining things already so I continued walking...
"KOTA! Oi! Yabu Kota!!!"
My eyes widened in surprise. Someone was calling my full name... Someone learned who I was so I turned in haste and saw a lady holding an umbrella.
"I am right!! It's you Kota!" The lady smiled. A familiar one...
My brain numbed for a while until a realization hit it, "Mariko-san..." My voice trailed as I remembered her. She was a classmate from junior high school and lives nearby our home.
"Wow! It's been a while since we've talked!" She exclaimed. "Ahh, wait..."
Suddenly, I saw her advancing to my direction. I was puzzled until she lifted her umbrella higher to accommodate my height. "Ehh?"
"You're soaking wet!" She remarked with a smile.
The frown on my face vanished with her heart-warming act. "Arigatou..."
You really know where to start
Fixing a broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Fixing a broken heart
"Ahh, so she found another man....?" I heard her ask in a skeptic tone.
I nodded. We were on a small ramen shop sitting side by side with bowls of ramen in front of us. The rain had subsided a bit already but I didn't want to go home yet so she offered me a company whom I can talk to...
"Hmm... Daijobo ne! It's not your loss! You are Yabu Kota of Hey!Say!JUMP! Many girls will offer their lives for you so stop sulking ne!!~" She cheered up but it didn't really hit me...
I continued looking gloomy.
"Ahh, gomen ne... I blabbered too much..." She hurriedly apologized.
"There's nothing to apologize. It's just... I thought she was the one I have been looking for but it turned out that I was wrong. She had given me up..." I said sadly.
She put her right arm around my shoulder and patted me on the side, "Maybe there's another person who deserves you more Kota... Just think of it in a positive way. It's much better that she had shown she couldn't handle your field of work now than later when you've spend much time with each other already and more love would be wasted..."
I gawked at her. She had a point... She withdrew her arm from my shoulder and continued eating her ramen.
"M-mariko-san..."
"Mariko-san??? Why too formal?! You were even calling me PIG in the past and now you are so formal to me!!!" She exclaimed while grimacing.
I chuckled at that, "Why, you want me to call you PIG again? I earned a hard punch on the face during our junior high school graduation because of that, didn't I?"
She frowned, "My point is call me Mari like junior high school days.... Stop with the Mariko-san... It's not really good to hear it from you... You sound mocking me!" She muttered.
I couldn't stop laughing at how childish she looked like, "Haha!!"
"What's so funny Kota?" She was already pissed, I could sense it.
"Fine, Mari, I'll call you Mari once again!"
She then smiled, "Much better...~"
Now I don't understand what I'm going through
There must be a plan that led me to you
Because the hurt just disappears
In every moment that you are near
"Mari! I am free later! Wanna watch the movie you've talked yesterday?" I talked to the phone a little loud since it was really noisy inside the JUMP dressing room.
"Ah, sure!! What time?"
"I'll go off from work at 4:30... Let's meet on the movie house at 5!"
"Okay! See ya!~" Then the line cut off.
Two months had passed since my breakup with my girlfriend for three years and I couldn't believe I could be as carefree like this that fast. I thought I would be sulking for months, even a year, but it didn't happen. It's because of Mariko and her happy, cheerful presence. Since that rainy day, we've somehow build up our close relationship again that started on junior high. I am happy we've seen each other again in the park... She is a great help. Like what they said, friends are really an important part of our existence.
Just like an answered prayer
You made the loneliness easy to bear
"Wahaha! Told ya, that movie is great!!!" Mariko exclaimed like a child as we went out of the movie house.
I just laughed with her, "By the way, let's eat dinner first!"
"Your treat?" She asked with puppy eyes.
I frowned. "No."
"How stingy!!! Come one Kota! Just now, treat me!!!" She pleaded while grabbing a hold of my arm like a child.
"You're the stingy one in here! Don't you have a decent job as a company clerk? I bet you have higher salary than mine..." I retorted, not giving in with her antics.
She then let go of my hand, "Hmmff! I don't have a high salary as you, okay! Fine.. I'll pay for what I'll eat. It's not that we're dating anyway... It's just, it happens that you have free time and I also have free time so we both went to watch a movie and you--"
But before she continued blabbering, I covered her mouth with my palm. "Okay, okay! My treat! Just stop talking like I've done something immoral to you!!!"
"Maji de??" She perked up while throwing my hand away from her mouth.
"No..."
"YEY!!!"
And I just sighed. For some reason, I don't like seeing her down and gloomy. She's been the one acting as the person who cheers me up so I can't let my sunshine turn dark...
'Wait, I said sunshine?? Haha!!'
You really know where to start
Fixing my broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Fixing a broken heart
"Kota?"
We were already eating the dinner, which was my treat, on a yakiniku shop when someone familiar called my name out of the blue. I turned around and got very surprised...
"Yoko..." I called out her name... The name that used to be the only thing that ran around my mind for three years. The girl who dumped me because who said she was tired of me was again standing in front of me.
"It's been a while... How have you been?" She asked like an ordinary acquaintance.
"Me? Ahh, I-I'm fine..." I stuttered. I was caught off guard.
Suddenly, a man went near to her. He looked like an office executive with his suit and appearance. Yoko talked to him affectionately.
"A-anou..." Mariko muttered in confusion.
"She is her... three years..." I whispered to the bewildered Mariko while Yoko was busy with the unknown man. 'Is that him?'
"Oh, sou...~" She exclaimed in disbelief. "She is sophisticated Kota..."
My brow twitched with the remark. 'She is actually a childish brat who wants always to be spoiled... It's just a fake facade! I can't believe I lasted long to be a boyfriend of this woman...'
"Ahh, Kota, this is Sato Jirou..." She introduced me to the man with her. "Honey, this is Kota... a friend."
'A friend? You mean ex-boyfriend for three long years!!!! I can't believe her!' "Ahh, nice to meet you." I replied for formality purposes.
"We will gonna be engaged next month..." Yoko happily revealed.
I was surprised... She could forget me that fast but what surprised me more was Mariko, beside me, who gasped like she was the ex-boyfriend.
"Whaaat the --"
But before she could say anything bad, I held her arm to stop her. She was startled and frowned at me to let her continue but I kept my grip on her arm.
"Ahh, omedetou!" I said while smiling happily.
Yoko and the man smiled at me as well while bowing to say thanks.
Surely the wind will stop falling baby
And I'll forget the past
'cause here we are at last
"KOTAAAA!" I heard Mariko screamed while raising her hand up high.
After dinner, we both decided to go somewhere quiet and wide. We ended up on a riverbank overlooking the citylights. Both of us sat on the grassy ground as smooth wind caressed our faces...
"Nani??"
"Why are you so martyr?! WAAAAAAAH! I hate you!!!" She whined.
"Martyr? I am not being a martyr..."
"If you have just let me talk with her just a while ago so that Yoko-san could realize the pain she gave to you! I bet you're the one who loved her more than she did to you during those 3 years... GAH! I really wanna hit her on the face!! I can't believe her. She even let you meet her future fiancé!" She muttered in rage.
"It's fine..."
"No, it's not fine! I saw you in there! You were acting happy for them but I know you are not!"
I noticed the change of her voice on her last statements. Her voice sounded breaking so I looked at her closely and found out that tears were forming on the corners of her eyes.
"Are you crying?" I asked with a chuckle on the end.
"Of course not! Something just entered my eyes..." She reasoned out while rubbing the tears away.
"Yeah you are crying!" I said, sounded accusing. "Why? You are sad for me? I am not even sad so don't be sad for me, okay!" I assured her.
"But I know you are... Seeing the person you love being happy on the arms of another is like being killed with a machine gun! And to think you just broke up recently..."
"You are watching too much animes Mari..."
She then hit me on the arm, "No I'm not! I'm being serious in here!!!"
"You know, I am not sad learning that she will be engage with that man. Rather, I am happy that she had found someone who can give her what I wasn't able to give." I admitted. "Honestly, I thought I would be depressed too if I learn that she would be happy with another man than with me but things can't be help ne... We can't please everybody..."
With that, I smiled at her. I felt relief saying those things out... It seems like I've gone mature with how I deal with my feelings.
Suddenly, she hugged me. "I understand you... Do not be sad okay! I know you'll meet someone better than her in your life! You are famous! I'm sure there are more sophisticated, more beautiful and have better attitude girls who will love you the way you deserve Kota!!" She had this encouraging tone saying wonderful words again to make me happy. I think this is why I recovered fast... Her words never failed on cheering me up, even I am not down.
"I told you, I am not sad!!!" I insisted as I let her hug me.
I felt her palm patting my back, "I know you are sad... If you want to cry, then go ahead! I won't laugh at you!"
"I won't cry!!!~" I said while chuckling.
She was really funny. She acted like Yoko's ex-boyfriend. She was more hurt than I was... Maybe I was sad but just a bit. I was sad that I wasn't able to give Yoko the things that would make her happy in the course of our three-year relationship but happier seeing her finally moving on and having a good life.
Yabu Kota, it's time to move on as well and live a better life... also I need to make Mariko stop crying about my own woes. She's just getting fussy about it... Girls, they get emotional too easily...
You really know where to start
Fixing a broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Come to think of it, a year has already passed since my sad break-up with Yoko but it felt just like a nightmare from the past... I heard she would be getting married by next year and she even invited me to their wedding but I declined. What will the people think if I show my ass on their wedding ceremony?! I am happy for her but I am not a very good person to tolerate odd stares from strangers. Tsk!~ Breaking up with her was never my loss, like what Mariko usually says.
Speaking of Mariko, she's now beside me. We're looking at the sunset together on the same riverbank we tend to hang out. She just arrived and was still catching her breath.
"Gomen Kota, something went up in the office. I needed to take care of it..."
I just smiled, "I understand. No worries!!!"
I heard her sighed, "So, what do you want to talk about then? I wonder what it is because you sounded so excited while telling me to meet up here!!!" She asked cheerfully.
"Ahh, sou..." I exclaimed as I looked ahead, to the burning sun on the distance. "You remember when you said that I should tell you if I finally found the right person who I think is the one for me?"
She nodded. "You found her already?"
I smiled once again before nodding.
"Sou..." I saw her looking away. Her eyes hinted something that looked like disappointment. "Let me meet her some time then..."
"Sure! You want to talk to her now? I can call her!!" I suggested happily.
She tensed up, "Ahh, you don't need to do it this urgent!"
But her protest came up too late. I was dialing a combination of numbers on my phone already.
I noticed her looking away with a gloomy face as I put my phone on my ear waiting for the other line to ring.
She suddenly flinched. "Ahh!" She fished something from her pocket... A phone vibrating. "Oh, chotto mate, someone's calling..." She excused.
I just smiled.
She looked at the screen of her phone to know who was calling her. That's when I saw her brows furrowing.
"Kota? You are calling me??"
I acted surprised, "Ahh, really!" I withdrew my phone from my ears then ended the call and pressed redial.
Her phone vibrated again. "Kota... are you sure you know the number of the person you are trying to call?" She asked… sounding pissed off.
"Yeah... I wonder why she's not answering though."
Her right brow twitched before she finally answered the call, "You know, this is not funny... Stop making fun of me."
"But I am not making fun Mari!" I talked through the phone though she could clearly hear me basically because I was just few inches away from her.
She glared at me. "Yeah right... So calling me when I am just beside you is not making fun? So, we are serious here..." She said sarcastically. "Very serious..."
I tried hard to stop myself from laughing because I'm pretty sure I would surely earn a kick if I would. "I am just plainly calling the person I like... Can't I do that?"
Her glare got much scarier, "So you are now confessing to me?"
"Yeah..."
She then ended the call and turned around; her back was on my face. "Seriously... I want to kill you now Yabu Kota..."
"Nande Mariko?! I am serious!"
"BAAAAKKKAAA!" I heard her scream. Suddenly, sobs followed that.
"Haaa... wait! Why are you crying?" I asked as I managed to walk infront of her. 'Have I gone overboard? Stupid Dai-chan and the rest of JUMP! They are the ones who suggested this kind of romantic confession or so... Now I just made her cry!'
She was really crying. Her cheeks were red, as well as her nose. "Mariko... I'm sorry okay! I was really serious back then! I am confessing my feelings to you!" I attempted to prove my intentions again.
"You're the worst in confessing yo!~" She commented while chuckling but tears were still rolling on her cheeks. "I am crying in happiness, 'kay!! I never knew you feel the same way..."
"Eehh? What do you mean?" What she said really surprised me. 'So she liked me all this time?'
She started wiping her tears, "Well, to make the long story short, I like you since junior high... but our paths separated after graduation until I saw you once again on the park, heartbroken, helpless, weak... and wet! So I thought destiny is making a way for me. Unfortunately, I heard your undying love for Yoko-san so I believed I would never stand a chance against her. She looked beautiful when I see her by the way... But my feelings to you actually didn't waver at all. So... lucky you!~" She smiled.
'I wonder how long the LONG CUT would take if this is the short version of the story she meant.'
"For real?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah..."
"So you are accepting my confession? We will be dating officially? You are now my girlfriend???" I asked continuously. My excitement was making the most out of the situation.
"No." She stated briefly.
But her facial expression showed entirely the opposite.
"YATTA!!!" I exclaimed as I enclosed her with my arms. I never thought this kind of happiness would actually happen to me. She's just the best!
"Hey, didn't I say no? You didn't hear me properly Kota!" She protested.
"Yeah! I heard your heart clearer than what you said!"
I saw her blushing...
"Daisuke Mariko..." Finally, I've said it -- the words that have been hanging on my tongue for a long while.
She blushed harder.
"D..d..daisu..ke Kota..." She whispered.
I felt my heart fluttering as butterflies ravaged my stomach wildly. I never felt this way to anyone before... Maybe this means true love... Nahh! I really can't say... Let's see after three years if she would leave me, if ever we would reach that long anyway. But for now, Yabu Kota -- the so-called leader of Hey! Say! JUMP is happy being with a girl who had fixed his broken heart and proved to him that life is much wonderful and love is sweeter the second time around...
So then, ja minna!!~
Wish us luck ne...
Fixing a broken heart...
Fixing a broken heart
-O W A R I-
終 わ り
Thank you very much for reading!
Comments are very loved!!
WAAAH! I am really hoping readers will like this...
From columbin3 fanfic productions,
see you on my next story~ (^_^)/
Author: columbin3
Pairing: Yabu / OC
Characters: Yabu Kota, Mariko (OC)
Rating: GP
Genre: Fluff, Failed Crack, A bit Angst...
Summary: Yabu Kota, the leader of Hey! Say! JUMP, got his heart badly wounded when the girl he was dating for a long time broke up with him. But luck is still on his side when he meets a good friend from the past who helped him fixing his broken heart...
Word Count: 3420 words.. (YEAH! Took some time typing it..)
A/N: Love♥Song Series is a series of fics tackling JUMP members' fictional stories that revolve around a song... I wanted to make one Love Song - FIC for each member but it didn't go on so well that is why this is just my 2nd work under this kind of category.... Coz I find it very hard to write if I limit myself into the contents/story of a song... *sigh* Poor writing ability ne!~
Anyway, if you want to read my my first fic for this series, click HERE! it's Takaki/OC by the way. :D
So then, standard disclaimers apply here!
I hope you'll enjoy reading it.. though I doubt it... it's because the plot is a cliche.. and then I am not really good in writing using the FIRST point of view! GOMEN NASAI!! I hope Yabu-nii won't kill me with how I murdered his character in here....
DOUZO!!
"Love♥Song"
Series
"Fixing A Broken Heart"
-x-x-x-x-
There was nothing to say the day she left
Three years... We've been together for three whole years and she easily threw it away just because she thought I don't have time for us anymore? Just because she was tired? Just because she found another man whom she thought would give her all the attention she needs?
She was so unfair... She always knew my passion for performing in front of the people... She always knew singing and dancing enrich my being... But this proved she never understood me all this time.
Just filled a suitcase full of regrets
I hailed a taxi in the rain
Looking for someplace to ease the pain
"Driver-san, just drop me off in front of the park..." I trailed off as I saw my reflection on the glass window of the taxi when I turned to my left to look outside. I looked terribly messed up and the frown on my face had seemed became a permanent part of it. I sighed.
"Ahh, but it is raining!" The driver protested. Concern was on his voice.
"I do not care..." I replied coldly. I just want to be alone.
He didn't have any choice but to drop me off. I shivered lightly as the cold drops of rain touched my back but it didn't matter. I am feeling numb already with all the pain I have to endure in these 21 years of my life.
'Rain won't defeat me...'
Wandering my sight around me, I decided to walk along the park... Not minding the stares I received from the people passing by me holding their umbrellas. I was drenching already but continued walking...
I remember our past happy memories in here. If I have a free time, we tend to meet in here with me in disguise so people won't notice... Maybe she had gone tired of that too.., of pretending to other people and protecting me and my image from the public.
Then like an answered prayer
I turned around and found you there
"Kota???"
Someone called out but I ignored it. I thought I was imagining things already so I continued walking...
"KOTA! Oi! Yabu Kota!!!"
My eyes widened in surprise. Someone was calling my full name... Someone learned who I was so I turned in haste and saw a lady holding an umbrella.
"I am right!! It's you Kota!" The lady smiled. A familiar one...
My brain numbed for a while until a realization hit it, "Mariko-san..." My voice trailed as I remembered her. She was a classmate from junior high school and lives nearby our home.
"Wow! It's been a while since we've talked!" She exclaimed. "Ahh, wait..."
Suddenly, I saw her advancing to my direction. I was puzzled until she lifted her umbrella higher to accommodate my height. "Ehh?"
"You're soaking wet!" She remarked with a smile.
The frown on my face vanished with her heart-warming act. "Arigatou..."
You really know where to start
Fixing a broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Fixing a broken heart
"Ahh, so she found another man....?" I heard her ask in a skeptic tone.
I nodded. We were on a small ramen shop sitting side by side with bowls of ramen in front of us. The rain had subsided a bit already but I didn't want to go home yet so she offered me a company whom I can talk to...
"Hmm... Daijobo ne! It's not your loss! You are Yabu Kota of Hey!Say!JUMP! Many girls will offer their lives for you so stop sulking ne!!~" She cheered up but it didn't really hit me...
I continued looking gloomy.
"Ahh, gomen ne... I blabbered too much..." She hurriedly apologized.
"There's nothing to apologize. It's just... I thought she was the one I have been looking for but it turned out that I was wrong. She had given me up..." I said sadly.
She put her right arm around my shoulder and patted me on the side, "Maybe there's another person who deserves you more Kota... Just think of it in a positive way. It's much better that she had shown she couldn't handle your field of work now than later when you've spend much time with each other already and more love would be wasted..."
I gawked at her. She had a point... She withdrew her arm from my shoulder and continued eating her ramen.
"M-mariko-san..."
"Mariko-san??? Why too formal?! You were even calling me PIG in the past and now you are so formal to me!!!" She exclaimed while grimacing.
I chuckled at that, "Why, you want me to call you PIG again? I earned a hard punch on the face during our junior high school graduation because of that, didn't I?"
She frowned, "My point is call me Mari like junior high school days.... Stop with the Mariko-san... It's not really good to hear it from you... You sound mocking me!" She muttered.
I couldn't stop laughing at how childish she looked like, "Haha!!"
"What's so funny Kota?" She was already pissed, I could sense it.
"Fine, Mari, I'll call you Mari once again!"
She then smiled, "Much better...~"
Now I don't understand what I'm going through
There must be a plan that led me to you
Because the hurt just disappears
In every moment that you are near
"Mari! I am free later! Wanna watch the movie you've talked yesterday?" I talked to the phone a little loud since it was really noisy inside the JUMP dressing room.
"Ah, sure!! What time?"
"I'll go off from work at 4:30... Let's meet on the movie house at 5!"
"Okay! See ya!~" Then the line cut off.
Two months had passed since my breakup with my girlfriend for three years and I couldn't believe I could be as carefree like this that fast. I thought I would be sulking for months, even a year, but it didn't happen. It's because of Mariko and her happy, cheerful presence. Since that rainy day, we've somehow build up our close relationship again that started on junior high. I am happy we've seen each other again in the park... She is a great help. Like what they said, friends are really an important part of our existence.
Just like an answered prayer
You made the loneliness easy to bear
"Wahaha! Told ya, that movie is great!!!" Mariko exclaimed like a child as we went out of the movie house.
I just laughed with her, "By the way, let's eat dinner first!"
"Your treat?" She asked with puppy eyes.
I frowned. "No."
"How stingy!!! Come one Kota! Just now, treat me!!!" She pleaded while grabbing a hold of my arm like a child.
"You're the stingy one in here! Don't you have a decent job as a company clerk? I bet you have higher salary than mine..." I retorted, not giving in with her antics.
She then let go of my hand, "Hmmff! I don't have a high salary as you, okay! Fine.. I'll pay for what I'll eat. It's not that we're dating anyway... It's just, it happens that you have free time and I also have free time so we both went to watch a movie and you--"
But before she continued blabbering, I covered her mouth with my palm. "Okay, okay! My treat! Just stop talking like I've done something immoral to you!!!"
"Maji de??" She perked up while throwing my hand away from her mouth.
"No..."
"YEY!!!"
And I just sighed. For some reason, I don't like seeing her down and gloomy. She's been the one acting as the person who cheers me up so I can't let my sunshine turn dark...
'Wait, I said sunshine?? Haha!!'
You really know where to start
Fixing my broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Fixing a broken heart
"Kota?"
We were already eating the dinner, which was my treat, on a yakiniku shop when someone familiar called my name out of the blue. I turned around and got very surprised...
"Yoko..." I called out her name... The name that used to be the only thing that ran around my mind for three years. The girl who dumped me because who said she was tired of me was again standing in front of me.
"It's been a while... How have you been?" She asked like an ordinary acquaintance.
"Me? Ahh, I-I'm fine..." I stuttered. I was caught off guard.
Suddenly, a man went near to her. He looked like an office executive with his suit and appearance. Yoko talked to him affectionately.
"A-anou..." Mariko muttered in confusion.
"She is her... three years..." I whispered to the bewildered Mariko while Yoko was busy with the unknown man. 'Is that him?'
"Oh, sou...~" She exclaimed in disbelief. "She is sophisticated Kota..."
My brow twitched with the remark. 'She is actually a childish brat who wants always to be spoiled... It's just a fake facade! I can't believe I lasted long to be a boyfriend of this woman...'
"Ahh, Kota, this is Sato Jirou..." She introduced me to the man with her. "Honey, this is Kota... a friend."
'A friend? You mean ex-boyfriend for three long years!!!! I can't believe her!' "Ahh, nice to meet you." I replied for formality purposes.
"We will gonna be engaged next month..." Yoko happily revealed.
I was surprised... She could forget me that fast but what surprised me more was Mariko, beside me, who gasped like she was the ex-boyfriend.
"Whaaat the --"
But before she could say anything bad, I held her arm to stop her. She was startled and frowned at me to let her continue but I kept my grip on her arm.
"Ahh, omedetou!" I said while smiling happily.
Yoko and the man smiled at me as well while bowing to say thanks.
Surely the wind will stop falling baby
And I'll forget the past
'cause here we are at last
"KOTAAAA!" I heard Mariko screamed while raising her hand up high.
After dinner, we both decided to go somewhere quiet and wide. We ended up on a riverbank overlooking the citylights. Both of us sat on the grassy ground as smooth wind caressed our faces...
"Nani??"
"Why are you so martyr?! WAAAAAAAH! I hate you!!!" She whined.
"Martyr? I am not being a martyr..."
"If you have just let me talk with her just a while ago so that Yoko-san could realize the pain she gave to you! I bet you're the one who loved her more than she did to you during those 3 years... GAH! I really wanna hit her on the face!! I can't believe her. She even let you meet her future fiancé!" She muttered in rage.
"It's fine..."
"No, it's not fine! I saw you in there! You were acting happy for them but I know you are not!"
I noticed the change of her voice on her last statements. Her voice sounded breaking so I looked at her closely and found out that tears were forming on the corners of her eyes.
"Are you crying?" I asked with a chuckle on the end.
"Of course not! Something just entered my eyes..." She reasoned out while rubbing the tears away.
"Yeah you are crying!" I said, sounded accusing. "Why? You are sad for me? I am not even sad so don't be sad for me, okay!" I assured her.
"But I know you are... Seeing the person you love being happy on the arms of another is like being killed with a machine gun! And to think you just broke up recently..."
"You are watching too much animes Mari..."
She then hit me on the arm, "No I'm not! I'm being serious in here!!!"
"You know, I am not sad learning that she will be engage with that man. Rather, I am happy that she had found someone who can give her what I wasn't able to give." I admitted. "Honestly, I thought I would be depressed too if I learn that she would be happy with another man than with me but things can't be help ne... We can't please everybody..."
With that, I smiled at her. I felt relief saying those things out... It seems like I've gone mature with how I deal with my feelings.
Suddenly, she hugged me. "I understand you... Do not be sad okay! I know you'll meet someone better than her in your life! You are famous! I'm sure there are more sophisticated, more beautiful and have better attitude girls who will love you the way you deserve Kota!!" She had this encouraging tone saying wonderful words again to make me happy. I think this is why I recovered fast... Her words never failed on cheering me up, even I am not down.
"I told you, I am not sad!!!" I insisted as I let her hug me.
I felt her palm patting my back, "I know you are sad... If you want to cry, then go ahead! I won't laugh at you!"
"I won't cry!!!~" I said while chuckling.
She was really funny. She acted like Yoko's ex-boyfriend. She was more hurt than I was... Maybe I was sad but just a bit. I was sad that I wasn't able to give Yoko the things that would make her happy in the course of our three-year relationship but happier seeing her finally moving on and having a good life.
Yabu Kota, it's time to move on as well and live a better life... also I need to make Mariko stop crying about my own woes. She's just getting fussy about it... Girls, they get emotional too easily...
You really know where to start
Fixing a broken heart
You really know what to do
Your emotional tools can cure any fool
Whose dreams have fallen apart
Come to think of it, a year has already passed since my sad break-up with Yoko but it felt just like a nightmare from the past... I heard she would be getting married by next year and she even invited me to their wedding but I declined. What will the people think if I show my ass on their wedding ceremony?! I am happy for her but I am not a very good person to tolerate odd stares from strangers. Tsk!~ Breaking up with her was never my loss, like what Mariko usually says.
Speaking of Mariko, she's now beside me. We're looking at the sunset together on the same riverbank we tend to hang out. She just arrived and was still catching her breath.
"Gomen Kota, something went up in the office. I needed to take care of it..."
I just smiled, "I understand. No worries!!!"
I heard her sighed, "So, what do you want to talk about then? I wonder what it is because you sounded so excited while telling me to meet up here!!!" She asked cheerfully.
"Ahh, sou..." I exclaimed as I looked ahead, to the burning sun on the distance. "You remember when you said that I should tell you if I finally found the right person who I think is the one for me?"
She nodded. "You found her already?"
I smiled once again before nodding.
"Sou..." I saw her looking away. Her eyes hinted something that looked like disappointment. "Let me meet her some time then..."
"Sure! You want to talk to her now? I can call her!!" I suggested happily.
She tensed up, "Ahh, you don't need to do it this urgent!"
But her protest came up too late. I was dialing a combination of numbers on my phone already.
I noticed her looking away with a gloomy face as I put my phone on my ear waiting for the other line to ring.
She suddenly flinched. "Ahh!" She fished something from her pocket... A phone vibrating. "Oh, chotto mate, someone's calling..." She excused.
I just smiled.
She looked at the screen of her phone to know who was calling her. That's when I saw her brows furrowing.
"Kota? You are calling me??"
I acted surprised, "Ahh, really!" I withdrew my phone from my ears then ended the call and pressed redial.
Her phone vibrated again. "Kota... are you sure you know the number of the person you are trying to call?" She asked… sounding pissed off.
"Yeah... I wonder why she's not answering though."
Her right brow twitched before she finally answered the call, "You know, this is not funny... Stop making fun of me."
"But I am not making fun Mari!" I talked through the phone though she could clearly hear me basically because I was just few inches away from her.
She glared at me. "Yeah right... So calling me when I am just beside you is not making fun? So, we are serious here..." She said sarcastically. "Very serious..."
I tried hard to stop myself from laughing because I'm pretty sure I would surely earn a kick if I would. "I am just plainly calling the person I like... Can't I do that?"
Her glare got much scarier, "So you are now confessing to me?"
"Yeah..."
She then ended the call and turned around; her back was on my face. "Seriously... I want to kill you now Yabu Kota..."
"Nande Mariko?! I am serious!"
"BAAAAKKKAAA!" I heard her scream. Suddenly, sobs followed that.
"Haaa... wait! Why are you crying?" I asked as I managed to walk infront of her. 'Have I gone overboard? Stupid Dai-chan and the rest of JUMP! They are the ones who suggested this kind of romantic confession or so... Now I just made her cry!'
She was really crying. Her cheeks were red, as well as her nose. "Mariko... I'm sorry okay! I was really serious back then! I am confessing my feelings to you!" I attempted to prove my intentions again.
"You're the worst in confessing yo!~" She commented while chuckling but tears were still rolling on her cheeks. "I am crying in happiness, 'kay!! I never knew you feel the same way..."
"Eehh? What do you mean?" What she said really surprised me. 'So she liked me all this time?'
She started wiping her tears, "Well, to make the long story short, I like you since junior high... but our paths separated after graduation until I saw you once again on the park, heartbroken, helpless, weak... and wet! So I thought destiny is making a way for me. Unfortunately, I heard your undying love for Yoko-san so I believed I would never stand a chance against her. She looked beautiful when I see her by the way... But my feelings to you actually didn't waver at all. So... lucky you!~" She smiled.
'I wonder how long the LONG CUT would take if this is the short version of the story she meant.'
"For real?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah..."
"So you are accepting my confession? We will be dating officially? You are now my girlfriend???" I asked continuously. My excitement was making the most out of the situation.
"No." She stated briefly.
But her facial expression showed entirely the opposite.
"YATTA!!!" I exclaimed as I enclosed her with my arms. I never thought this kind of happiness would actually happen to me. She's just the best!
"Hey, didn't I say no? You didn't hear me properly Kota!" She protested.
"Yeah! I heard your heart clearer than what you said!"
I saw her blushing...
"Daisuke Mariko..." Finally, I've said it -- the words that have been hanging on my tongue for a long while.
She blushed harder.
"D..d..daisu..ke Kota..." She whispered.
I felt my heart fluttering as butterflies ravaged my stomach wildly. I never felt this way to anyone before... Maybe this means true love... Nahh! I really can't say... Let's see after three years if she would leave me, if ever we would reach that long anyway. But for now, Yabu Kota -- the so-called leader of Hey! Say! JUMP is happy being with a girl who had fixed his broken heart and proved to him that life is much wonderful and love is sweeter the second time around...
So then, ja minna!!~
Wish us luck ne...
Fixing a broken heart...
Fixing a broken heart
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