Date: May 5

Time until death: 26 days

Asahi had questioned Yuu vigorously after the incident.

"Suga!" Noya shouted. "Come here now!"

He had done his best to keep quiet.

Sugawara turned around. "What's the matter?"

Had he done enough?

"I think..." He said, "Asahi may be onto us."

Yuu thought he had done enough to not raise suspicions.

"Listen," Suga began.

But Asahi was smarter than that, he knew. He knew deep down, Asahi would find out.

"Just tell him that you and Tanaka were planning a third year send off party."

Right. A diversion. Another lie.

"Okay, got it," Nishinoya said.

How many lies have I told to him now?

I said he wasn't going to die.

I said he would live.

I promised him that he would stay.

"Noya...?" Suga noticed tears begin to make a trail down his kouhai's face.

"LIAR!"
Yuu slammed his head into the bathroom stall door one more time before completely breaking down into tears.

Noya collapsed into Sugawara's arms.

His hands were shaking.

What was he doing?

He could barely breathe, barely feel anything.

He held Suga as if he were the only piece of debris in the middle of the ocean during a violent storm.

How lovely it would be

And he cried.

To not have to feel anything.

He cried so hard and so loud that a few others began to stare. A quick glare from Sugawara made them all look back down, however.

No pain, no sadness, no...

What was he doing, trying to change fate? He couldn't be the first, because there would never be a first!

...

He was done with trying.

...No heartbreak.

He was done with pretending to be okay.

Each day with his beloved soulmate seemed shorter than the last.

He cherished his soulmate. He couldn't live without him.

And he was going to die.

And he didn't know.

And he should have known.

But he didn't.

Noya was too weak to tell him. He didn't have the strength.

Why don't you tell him, Yuu?

He didn't have the strength to see his love die.

Why don't you tell him about his inevitable fate?

He didn't have the strength to make his Asahi cry.

His inevitable death.

He couldn't die.

He's too strong to die.

It won't happen.

It can't happen.

There were 25 days left in May.

And his Asahi would die along with the spring flowers.