||Y/n's p.o.v||

I hate winter break for a multitude of reasons. Aside from the holiday's there's nothing else good about winter break. For one, S/n's school was closed, so I was tasked with watching him all the damn time, and 2; It was too cold to play any sports!! The one day that I did get a babysitter, I stayed home in my room on my bed all day!! As the days progressed, I got fewer and fewer notifications from Nagisa, which allowed me to just clear my head and decide what I wanted to do when school started back up again. I knew I should probably be plotting assassinations, but honestly, that was one of the last things on my mind.

    One of the first things on my mind was going to see Kayano in the hospital. I mulled the idea over in my head for a couple days before I decided to finally do it. On an off day when I didn't have to watch my brother, I went to the hospital and stopped by the shop that they had in there. I picked out a small, but still overpriced basket with a teddy bear and get well card in it. I then made my way to Kayano's room...Okay, well, first I want to the cafeteria, then Kayano's room. While I was in there I was even able to score some pudding, I wasn't sure if she actually liked pudding, but it was the only thing I really knew about her!! Hopefully after talking to her for a bit, I'd maybe be able to set the record straight and actually get to know her.

    While I was walking down the hall, I saw some of my classmates exit Kayano's room which made me relieved. I really didn't want to have to talk to her with all my other classmates there. I wanted to be able to talk to her one on one. When I reached her door, I knocked it lightly and said before I began opening the door,

    "uh...Kayano...are you in there?" I asked.

A dumb question, I know, but it was the first thing that came to mind.

    When I opened the door I saw that she was under the covers. 'Is she asleep?' I wondered as I carefully got closer to her. "Uh...Kayano...?" I asked. Kayano then suddenly flinched under the covers and let out a shriek and I did too because she startled me. Kayano quickly uncovered her face from blankets.

    "Y-Y/n?? What are you doing here??" She asked.

Her face was red, which made my face heat up too. "I came to visit you of course!!" I said just as loudly as she did. We were then shushed by a nurse passing,

    "Ladies, I know you're happy to see each other, but this is a hospital...please be more quiet..." The nurse told us.

    "Oh, uh...sorry..." I told the lady.

    "Yea...sorry..." Kayano also told her.

The nursed huffed and rolled her eyes before she continued walking down the hall. I felt my eye twitch in annoyance at her attitude.

    "So, uh, you really came to see me?" She asked timidly.

I looked back at Kayano and blushed a bit as I nodded. "Y-yea!!" I told her. "I brought you a gift basket too!" I held up the basket to show her.

"I also put pudding cups in it too,but I don't know if you actually still like those, but it's the only thing I remember about you—"

"Y/n, why are you really here?" She asked, "I'm sorry, but I don't really believe that you came all this way just to check on on how I'm doing..." She admitted.

I set the basket on the table and let out a sigh, "You caught me..." I began. I then looked at Kayano and gave her a kind smile,

    "There is a reason I'm here...I wanted to let you know that if you want to pursue Nagisa, you can...It's obvious..." I swallowed my pride before I finished my sentence, "... you guys have great chemistry..."

    "Why?...I thought you..."

    "I do—Did, but that's all in the past. Nagisa kissed you, not me, so...in case you had any doubts, I'm giving you my blessing and letting you know that there's no hard feelings or whatever. That we're cool."

    "But—"

    "There's no buts about it!! I didn't just come here for him anyways, I also came here for you!! I really did want to see how you were doing!!"

    "I'm doing fine...I should be out of here by the time school starts again..." She told me timidly.

I gave her a smile,

"That's good..." I trailed off.

"N/n-chan...why are you being so nice to me?" Kayano cut me off, "Even after what happened...between me and Nagisa..."

I let out another sigh. I knew she would ask something like that, but it was something I was also ready to talk about. I felt myself blush just thinking about the mini speech I had prepared for just this occasion.

    "Kayano...I'm gonna be honest, for the longest time...I didn't like you, I was jealous of close you were to Nagisa, and anytime I tried to talk to him, you were always there to ruin it... but after the whole, well, everything...I realized that I was being really childish and immature. Even after all that happened between me, and Nagisa...I still want to be your friend...I want to get to know you and stuff...if that's cool or whatever..."

I held out my hand to her, not really expected her to shake it after I just dumped my conscious on her. However, Kayano surprised me by giving me a kind smile and she shook my hand as well.

    "I'd like that!! Now that I think about it, the only thing I really knew about you was that you like Nagisa!!" She admitted.

I gave her a smile.

"Well, you can cross that off the list too, because, I like someone else now..." I told her.

"Huh? Who?" She asked curiously.

I felt myself blush more, "I think, I like Karma..." I admitted.

That was the first time that I had actually said it out loud. I don't even know why I said it because it wasn't really true... However, after days of replaying that kiss and everything leading up to it, I decided to just go with it. I wanted to say whatever it took to let Kayano know that if she wanted to pursue the love of my life---I mean, ex love, then she could.

After that, Kayano and I talked for hours. When I finally left, Karma was waiting for me outside the hospital,

"God, took you long enough..." He greeted me, "When you said you were gonna be done at 5:30, I was actually expecting that, N/n-chan..."

I let out a chuck as I made my way over to him. "Sorry about that!! Kayano and I really got carried away!!" I admitted.

I saw Karma blush a bit, "Whatever..." He sighed out. I giggled as he pulled me in by my waist. "You should give me a kiss for missing our date..." He pouted. I let out a sigh, but grabbed him by his face.

"Fine..." I told him.

Quickly, I pulled his face closer to mine until our lips finally touched. Karma then proceeded to pull my closer to his body and push his tongue inside my mouth. Once I felt his hand move down lower to my asset, I pulled away. I could feel how hot my face was compared to the cold air around us. I huffed, while Karma smirked at me mischeviously,

"Really? In front of a hospital?" I asked him.

He snickered, "What? I can't have a little fun with my girlfriend~" He asked. I felt my face heat up and I quickly punched him in the arm,

"What did I tell you about that!! Just because we go on dates and kiss and stuff doesn't mean I'm your girlfriend!!" I hissed.

"What? I'm not calling you my girlfriend, I'm calling you my 'girl-friend'. My friend, who's a girl. My girl-friend, see?" He explained in a joking tone.

I narrowed my eyes at him and made Karma let go of my waist. Instead I held his gloved hand. "Whatever!!" I barked, "Let's just get out of the cold and find somewhere to eat!! And if you're going to be my boy-friend, you're going to have to pay!!"

"Oh, so I'm your boyfriend now?~" He asked.

"No!! I'm just using your faulty logic!! Don't get used to me calling you that!!" I quickly told him.

"Whatever you say, 'princess...'" He teased me while we walked.

Now he'd done it. I had never been called such a cute nickname before, so obviously my face started to to hot again. "Will you quit it!!" I told him. All Karma did was laugh. This only made my face and neck glow hotter. Karma always knows how to get under my skin.

What? I know what you're thinking and I mean, if Nagisa can go on dates and do couple stuff with me even though he didn't like me, why can't I do the same? After all, I really don't hate kissing Karma . Sure, this was all happening very sudden and fast, but I deserved to be happy too, and if Nagisa doesn't like me I should maybe focus on someone who actually does...right?

God, I feel like such an idiot...

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Bye, this is messy asf and No, I will not further elaborate my thought process😮‍💨also, the whole 'lower asset' thing, I wass gonna put ass, but as I was reading it to edit, I thought it would be funnier to leave it that way.