"Nene-chan! Aoi-san!" Y/n came through the door like a normal person would. Aoi came to Y/n while shivering and clenching the sides of her skirt.

      "Y/n-chan." she said with an uneasy expression with tears on her eyes.

      "What happened?" Y/n asked while tilting her head. Yashiro pointed on where their classmates are gathered.

      Y/n walked over to the crowd to see Akane carrying Yamabuki in a bridal style. She stiffled a laughter and couldn't believe her own eyes on what she saw.

      'I'm watching a boy's love drama but it's real and live' Y/n covered her mouth to held back her giggles.

      "Yamabuki." Akane dramatically called his lemon haired friend still holding him in his arms.

      "Stop it, Aoi. Everyone is watching us." Yamabuki tells him.

      Yashiro gave a weirded out expression and Aoi was about to cry. Y/n however is taking pictures for blackmail purposes.

      "Ever since you helped me rehearse my confession of love yesterday," Akane looked at Yamabuki with love and affection. "I've begun to have feelings for you, Yamabuki."

      "Me too, Aoi." Yamabuki answered him.

      "So we've decided to become a couple now!" The two of them said in unison.

      "Perks of getting confessed at that tree." Y/n says as she puts her hand on her waist. She went over to Yashiro who is currently comforting Aoi.

      "Did you even like Akane-kun, Aoi?" Yashiro asked.

      "No, we were childhood friends, but that's all." Aoi answered. Y/n sighed, that purple haired friend of hers is kinda confusing though.

      "Plus if we got married, my first name and last name would be the same." Aoi added. "It would never work."

      "You got a point though." Y/n agreed at her statement.

      "And you will be Aoi Aoi." Yashiro says.

      "But he choosed Yamabuki-kun instead." Aoi looked like she was in a state of existential crisis.

      "Sis, he literally confessed to you and only gave him three points or lower." Y/n says as if she was spilling some tea. "And you're crying because he chose Yamabuki-kun instead."

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      After school, Y/n trudged all the way to the Confession Tree, clutching on to her book bag. She never got to ask any advice, not even to her fellow members in the Astronomy club.

      'Well I never been confessed face to face though.' Y/n bit her lip as she arrived at the Confession Tree.

      There, Hanako stood waiting for her arrival. Y/n gulped as she felt heat rising to her face, she wanted to take a swan dive off the roof instead of this.

      'You only live once they say.'

      "Yo!" Y/n waved at him. "I'm here, what's up?"

      Hanako turned around and gave the girl a smile. "There you are." he said. Y/n swore her heart just skipped a beat.

      Y/n held her bag to her chest for some reason. Hanako grasped at her shoulders and stared at her e/c orbs. "I know this is a bit sudden, but..."

      "H-Hanako-kun, rushing things might be kind of boring." said Y/n while averting her gaze at him. Her heart is beating so fast as if she had ran to a marathon.

      "Y/n..."

      The wind made the Confession Tree's leaves rustle. Hanako looked at her in a serious manner, and then he said. "Y/n, I love you!"

      "Go out with me!"

      Y/n just stood there not budging a bit. An evident blush spreads across her mochi-like cheeks. But then realization hits her.

      'Hanako is a ghost, Y/n' her subconscious say.

      "Y/n, what are you doing?!" Hanako whispered at her. "Hurry up and say 'sorry'."

      'Bitch what the actual crumbs?'

      Y/n gave him a confused expression. "Just say you're sorry!" he hissed.

      "S-Sorry?" Y/n said more like a question rather than an answer.

      "Well now, we can't have that!" An echoing voice can be heared. Y/n looked over to the tree. "If someone confesses their love to you, the proper thing to do is accept!"

      The tree became larger and larger until a face can be seen on the trunk. Hanako blocked Y/n from the tree just incase.

      Y/n squinted her eyes at the sight. "The fuck is this thing? It's creepy." she stated.

      "How rude!" The tree reached over to Y/n to grab her but there's a barrier around her to prevent it from attacking her.

      A bright '七' appeared on Y/n's right cheek until it turned red. "What?!" the tree exclaimed in disbelief. "A protective charm!"

      'A what now?'

      Hanako held Y/n protectively from the tree as he aimed his knife at it. "Thank goodness I have an assistant, since you're the only apparition who only appears to couples."

      Y/n looked at Hanako with a weird look on her face. "Wait were a couple——?"

      Hanako swiftly sliced the tree on the middle as it screamed in agony. Y/n has mixed emotions in this situation, relieved because she didn't have to go through confessions and mad because the confession isn't real anyway.

      Y/n and Hanako looked over to the shrunken Confession Tree. "He must be the reason why Yamabuki-kun and Aoi-kun are a couple." she stated. "Recently couples are increasing in the school area that it pained my single ass."
   
      "I mean isn't that why you agreed to help me out?" Hanako asked her. Y/n's eye twitched in annoyance.

      "Yeah." Y/n replied coldly. She picked up her book bag as she went towards the gate.

      'Hanako is a ghost anyways, besides he's just a friend.' Y/n tells herself as tears were pricking out from her eyes. 'But why the hell is this affecting me so much'

      Hanako stood up. "Y/n?"

      He crept up behind her as he put his hand on her shoulder. "Oh I know, you're probably disappointed that it wasn't a real confession." he teased.

      Y/n faced him with tears streaming down on her face. "Hanako, what the hell?"

      "You stupid ghost!" Y/n shouted as she held on to her bag. "I was so embarrassed, you could have told me about this so I wouldn't feel hurt!"

      "Hanako-kun, I have been ghosted and this is what you give me?!" Y/n cried. "Why the hell did you kiss me on the cheek that night?!"

      "W-Well you were tired, so I put a charm on you so that appiritions wouldn't attack you for a while." Hanako tells her. "I mean you kissed me on the cheek too!"

      "You could've just told me you know." Y/n sniffed while wiping her tears. "Instead of giving me false hope."

      "I'm sorry."

      "I'm leaving." Y/n walked to the gate with disappointment written on her face. "Goodbye, Hanako."

      Y/n was about to open the gate until Hanako grabbed her free hand, she turned around to face Hanako....without his hat.

      "I'm sorry." he told her then looked away from Y/n. "I didn't mean to make you cry."

      Y/n wiped her tears and looked at Hanako in disbelief. 'With his hat off, he looked like more of a normal boy than a bathroom ghost.'

      'I called him my friend, yet I never tried to get to know him' Y/n tells herself. 'Why he died, or who he killed?'

      'And his real name.'

     "Stay here until you stopped crying." he told her.

      Hanako wrapped his left arm on her back and his right hand on the back of her head as if he was hugging her. Y/n eventually hugged him back and smiled at the feeling.

      The two of them pulled away for a moment. Y/n grabbed his hand as she placed it on her cheek, she didn't care if it's cold since he's a ghost, although his warmth was all true.

      "Hanako-kun." Y/n called him. "Thanks for coming in to my life."

      The appirition boy caressed her cheek using his thumb and smiled at her with sincerity. "I'm glad you came in to my life too, Y/n."

      The two of them chuckled at their cheesiness. The ghost and the ghosted were bound to be soulmates after all.

      "Bye, Y/n!" Hanako waved goodbye to Y/n before leaving the school. The girl looked over to him and smiled.

      "Bye, soulmate."

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loraine's note:
*insert iu's blueming as 'to be continued' song because this could definetly be a kdrama* hope u guys enjoy this book! vote, comment, and add this to your reading list!