"I hope no one will notice these." Y/n says while checking at the lovebites on the mirror for the 15th time, she's making sure that her neck and shoulder is not exposed or else everyone will look at her in suspicion.

      After Y/n was done checking herself in the mirror she went downstairs. "I'll just hold my neck, nothing suspicious." she assured herself as she got out of the house to go to school.

      When she arrived at Kamome Academy, there are a lot of students everywhere preparing their booths and clubs. Y/n thought to herself. 'I can go inside the building without getting noticed, everyone's busy.'

      "Y/n-senpai!"

      Y/n hoped it was Mitsuba or Kou who called her out so she slowly turned around, still holding her neck, and saw Yeonji, her clubmate, was waving at her. Yeonji ran towards her. "Ah, Yeonji-san." Y/n greeted sheepishly. "Good morning."

      "Where's your brother?" Y/n asked.

      Yeonji sighed. "Yejun is sick and he can't go to school." she answered. "So I came here all by myself."

      Y/n nodded. "I see."

      Just then, Y/n releases her hand on her neck by mistake, then Yeonji notices her lovebites. "Y/n-senpai...?" Yeonji shakily pointed a finger at her neck. "What's that...?"

      "Eh?" Y/n asked her as she looked where Yeonji was pointing, and then realization hits her. "Ehhh?!"

      'Shit, I almost forgot!' Y/n mentally scolded herself. 'I thought Yeonji left already!'

      Y/n immediately covered her neck. "It's nothing!" she lied.

      "Senpai, I think I kinda saw those...marks." Yeonji whispered the last part. Y/n wanted to take a swan dive off the roof, if only she just went inside the building already instead of looking around. "What happened to you yesterday?"

      "It doesn't matter." Y/n looked away as the memory of what happened yesterday made her stomach feel butterflies.

      "Anyways," Y/n began. "Tsurumaki and Hazawa are at the Astronomy club preparing for the telescopes to put at the rooftop later at night. So maybe you should go and see what you can do."

      Yeonji nodded, completely forgetting about what she saw on Y/n's neck. "Okay! But what will you do?"

      "I'll stop by at the Photography club to get something." Y/n answered her junior's question.

      Yeonji went inside after she was told what to do. Y/n sighed in relief as she knew that Yeonji didn't asked further questions regarding to her hickeys.

      Y/n immediately dashed to the Photography club as she saw Kou and Mitsuba talking to each other. "Kou-kun! Mitsuba-kun!" she called the two juniors.

      Kou turned his head towards Y/n's direction and smiled brightly. "Y/n-senpai!" he cheered.

      Y/n walked over to Mitsuba. "Yo, did you get the scarf?" she asked.

      Mitsuba nodded as he looked over his bag and pulled out a red scarf. "Told you, I wouldn't forget!" he proudly said.

      "Whoah, what's going on?" Kou looked over to Mitsuba as Y/n took the chance to put on the scarf around her neck.

      "Nothing, Kou-kun." Y/n assured him. From the corner of her eye, Mitsuba was snickering behind him.

      Kou raised an eyebrow in suspicion in Y/n. "Something wrong Senpai?" he asked.

      "Nothing!" Y/n swatted her hands, then cleared her throat. "Have you guys seen Amane-kun? Yugi-kun?"

      "We haven't seen him." Mitsuba and Kou said in unison.

      "Why'd you ask, Ghosted-senpai?" the pink haired boy asked with a teasing tone.

      Y/n thrusted her eyeballs at Mitsuba as if to scold him mentally. Kou blinked, unsure of what to say. "Is there's something wrong?" He asked.

      "Oh," Mitsuba wiggled his eyebrows at Y/n as if to taunt her. "I'm gonna tell him."

      "Don't you dare." Y/n warned.

      Kou pointed at the scarf that Y/n was wearing. "Why are you wearing a scarf, Y/n-senpai?" He asked with curiosity. "It's not that cold anyways."

      Mitsuba tried his hardest not to cackle loudly at the two of them. Y/n glared at the pink haired boy for not helping her escape the situation, though she can't lie to Kou though, after all he was her favorite kouhai.

      "Agh!" Y/n covered her face. "I can't ruin his innocence!"

      "Come on, just tell him that Yugi-senpai gave you a hickey, it's not that hard." Mitsuba casually tells Y/n.

      Y/n's jaw dropped as Mitsuba just rolled out the words out of his tongue as if it wasn't a big deal. Kou's lips formed into a thin line. "What's a hickey again?" He asked.

      And so Mitsuba ended up telling Kou literally everything as Y/n stood there wanting to curl up into a ball and hide forever. "And that's what happened."

      "Mitsuba I swear to god." Y/n groaned in embarrassment. "You legit told him everything! Now his mind is corrupt!"

      "That's too much information..." Kou tells the two of them, then he looked at Y/n. "Why would that slimy bastard would do that to you?"

      "I don't know." 

      "Did you try to stop him...?"

      "I didn't stop him." Y/n admits. "I didn't plan to."

      Mitsuba smirked proudly at himself now that he had ruined, not really, Kou's innocence. Y/n sighed. "Have you guys seen Nene-chan?" She asked.

      "She's helping Akane-senpai for the Gardening Club." Kou replied. 

      "Okay."

      Y/n almost forgot that she has to go to the Astronomy Club to help them. "I gotta go guys!" Y/n waved at them as she ran off towards the clubroom. 

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      "That's the last of them alright." Y/n reminded as they set up the last telescope while they were at the rooftop.

      Tsurumaki cheered since finally they were done organizing. "This is literally the best idea we ever had!" she said.

      "How about we all go back inside the building and get some food from the Cooking Club." Y/n suggested. "To see if we can get something."

      "Yay food!" Hazawa and Yeonji cheered.

      The four girls exited the rooftop and headed towards to one of the food stalls that some of the students have set up. Along the way, Y/n saw Amane along with Yamabuki in the hallways.

      The two of them had an eye contact for a few seconds until they looked away and blushed. 'Well that was hella awkward.'

      And so Y/n was left alone again in the hallways, she sighed, it's always like this anyways.

      "Y/n-senpai!" Y/n turned around to see Kou smiling brightly at the senior while holding a plate of mochi.

      "Hi, Kou-kun." she greeted.

      "Want some?" Kou asked while offering a mochi from his plate. Y/n took the mochi from his hands and took a bite.

      "By the way, Spider-sensei is looking for you." Kou suddenly mentions while eating another mochi. Y/n's eyebrow rose slightly at the statement.

      Y/n slowly chewed her food, then swallowed. "That's weird," she commented. The last time the two of them had a student to teacher conversation was the day he announced Hanako's sacrifice for her to live longer.

      The girl nodded as she went to the library since she knew that Tsuchigomori will be there. "Eyy Tsuchigomori-sensei!" she greeted while giving him finger guns. "Is your spidey senses tingling and you needed my presence?"

      Tsuchigomori sat there unamused at her joke. Y/n coughed. "Sorry..." she said.

      "Why are you wearing a scarf?" he asked pointing at the clothed material wrapped around her neck. Y/n laughs nervously. "It's not even that cold."

      "Well it's cold in my scenario, so yeah." Y/n lied as she smiled with all of her teeth.

      "Yeah sure." Tsuchigomori commented as he took the teacup next to him and slowly started to sip his tea while looking at her.

      Y/n blinked, trying to process on what Tsuchigomori is trying to imply with that yeah sure statement. Sometimes Tsuchigomori could be someone who doesn't believe in some other things.

      Then Y/n groaned and presses the heel of her palm to her forehead. "Oh right of course you would know!" she said, clearly she was embarrassed, especially when your teacher is a wonder who knows about the future. "Why would you ask something that you already know?!"

      "I'm asking you to see if you're going to lie about it." He said as he places the teacup to the table and crossed his arms then adjusted his glasses. "You're probably confused that it wasn't done in the bathroom."

      Y/n felt a wave of realization. "Oh yeah...!" she said. "It was said that it will be done inside the bathroom in my book when I checked on it last year. But Sensei, you said that it's impossible to change the future..."

      "I did." Tsuchigomori says. "So that's why I called you here to talk about it."

      Tsuchigomori bent down to the drawers and pulled out Y/n's book. He flipped through the pages. "I thought that former No. 7 was the only one who changed his future, but he was also changing someone's future."

      "When you first met Hanako, I saw your book rewriting your future events. I thought it was just an error but I was wrong."

      Y/n sat there in silence as Tsuchigomori spoke again. "That being said, everytime No. 7 was around you, your future changes."

      "So what was supposed to happen to me if I haven't met Hanako-kun that day?" she asked.

      "Nothing interesting to be exact."

      Y/n snorted. "Well that's sad." she said.

      "I was the last person he talked to before he made that sacrifice." Tsuchigomori explained. "He told me he was worried about your future."

      "No. 7 isn't the type to worry such things, but when it comes to you, you're the first priority."

      "He told me that you were going to die on the day of your graduation." Tsuchigomori took another sip of his tea. "So I told him that he was changing your future."

      "His last words before he left made me stunned." Tsuchigomori says. "Even I can't get it out of my head."

      "What was his last words?"

      Tsuchigomori took a deep breath, then looked at Y/n. "He said. "If Y/n doesn't have a future, then I'll be her future instead."

      Y/n felt her heart skip a beat, how could someone be so dedicated on something related to her. "No. 7 was currently Yugi Amane because of the deal he made with the Life Maker."

      "Who's the Life Maker?" Y/n asked.

      "The Life Maker is one of the superior wonders of the universe, she grants any wish in exchange of memories."

      "I've also connected the dots too." Tsuchigomori added. "Hanako would've vanished from existence after that. The reason why he still remained here as a human is because of the bond between the two of you."

      After her talk with Tsuchigomori she immediately went out of the library to find Amane. It was already 5:00 pm and she needed to talk to him.

      'I need to find Amane-kun!' she said to herself while running, searching every classroom to see if she can find him.
     
      Amane was currently on the rooftop, looking up to the sky with his arms folded on the railings.

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loraine's note:
it's currently 2:00 am xD. anyways, this book is almost finished, only two more chapters and an epilogue! don't forget to vote and comment!

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