[Name] lets out a bored sigh, resting her cheek against the heel of her palm as she stared at the Math teacher writing formulas on the board. Their current lesson is about how to get the Parabola of the graph, basic Math things. 'We have calculators, we don't have to learn Math.' [Name] faceplants herself on the top of her open notebook. She lifted her head to see the notes that she wrote. 'Man, I'll just daydream...'

In her daydream, she was in a different perspective and she's seeing herself lying on a field of marigolds. [Name] loved flowers, they're really pretty in her opinion—she would often pluck some flowers and wilt them to use it as a bookmark. Hanako appeared in her daydream, crouching down next to her sleeping body as he leaned down to aim for her lips—

'Wait what the hell?' [Name] blinked from her thoughts, she looked down to see that she was drawing doodles of Hanako on her notebook. Her face went red that she closed the notebook with her eyes widened in disbelief. Did she just think about Hanako kissing her? Seems like it, but out of all things to think about it has to be that.

After classes, [Name] takes her pencil case where it contains her pens and her chapstick to moisture her lips. She went to the bathroom to fix herself, then she walked in to see a girl with long dark hair, well, about to be short because she was cutting her hair in front of the bathroom sink and [Name] can tell she was doing it messily.

"Uh—why are you cutting your hair?" [Name] asked, pointing down the dark strands of hair falling down to the wooden floor. Great, Hanako is going to pester his assistant to clean them up. Judging by the girl's shoes, she's also a First Year in Highschool but in a different class.

She smiled softly, [Name] blushed a little before the girl spoke. "Burn out." She replied while completely cutting off the long part of her hair to balance the short side. Her hair was now ruined, it's like a kid giving a haircut to her friend and it ends up getting weird. "Also, I just got out of a toxic relationship...and I wanted to cut it off."

"Oh...well, I'm glad that you got out." [Name] stood next to the girl who is currently fluffing up the ends of her ragged hair. 'She should really get that hair done by an expert...' [Name] washes her hands by the sink in front of her. "I broke up with someone three weeks ago because I got ghosted." She said while shaking off the droplets of water from her hands.

"You must be [Surname] then?"

"How the fuck do you know my name?" [Name] took a step back while hugging her body to shield herself for no reason. Maybe this girl saw her in one of the magazines that she modeled or is she one of her classmates from Middle School that she didn't remember.

"You're Shirasagi's ex." She replies. [Name] mentally facepalmed as her smile widened forcefully. Is this what [Name]'s going to be remembered when someone asks them about her? That she's Souho's ex? Really? Before [Name] could speak, the girl interjects her before she could let out a breath. "Yeah, I'm sorry—because a certain jerk did you dirty like that."

"I saw you sometimes with Shirasagi but one day he seems to be avoiding you, then I see him hanging out with Haname, which they say they're besties but their actions say otherwise. When I asked their friends about it, they said that the two of them will reveal it eventually."

"It looks like he was waiting for an opportunity." The girl takes another strand of hair and cuts it with her scissors. Once she was satisfied with the look, she placed the scissors inside her skirt pocket. [Name] grabs the edge of the sink and then laughed, a pissed and annoyed laugh. "And yeah, I heard he was ghosting you."

[Name] wished she was recognized in a different way, she can take the "Hey, you're that girl from the magazines I read!" instead of this "You're Shirasagi's ex." Like hell she wanted to have that label trailing behind her like a loose thread on a skirt. It feels like if [Name] and Souho continued this relationship, specifically taking it to the next level like being boyfriend and girlfriend, he would probably cheat on her behind her back. "I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Uchiyome Yuju."

"And you're from Class B?"

Yuju nods.

No wonder Yuju knows [Name] because she's classmates with Souho and she probably overheard him talking about [Name] and that's how she managed to know little of her. "I think Souho and I were better off as friends to be honest." [Name] slicks her hair back while wetting her lips. "When he asked me out through text, I thought that this is going somewhere—I wish I would've rejected him when he proposed a no-label relationship."

"But, my dumbass is desperate since maybe having a boyfriend is nice, I wanted to know how it feels like I see in movies. Then again, the relationships you see in fiction will always stay in fiction. Our relationship is nothing like that because in the end—he ghosted me." [Name] chuckles bitterly while looking down on the sink. Yuju suddenly feels sorry for her, Haname was talking shit about [Name] for being desperate by chatting Souho.

Yuju literally witnessed Souho hanging out with Haname more than [Name], even if the moss haired boy insisted that they are friends, the look on the bitch's face said otherwise—it's almost as if Haname wanted to telepathically tell her that they are together. "I decided, I will just focus on myself first. Wait for the right time with the right person, don't do it right away, ending things too quickly is boring."

Looks like Hanako's advice back in the Misaki Stairs was enlightening after all. "I'm going to love myself first." [Name] tilted her head with a smile in epiphany. Yuju was stunned, the [Name] Haname described from her conversations with her friends is nothing like the [Name] she's talking right now, because the former was constantly talking shit about her.

"That's nice." Yuju smiled with all of her teeth. "Oh wait, I have to go now!" The short haired girl quickly rushed out of the bathroom.

[Name] waved back as Yuju left the bathroom, her footsteps fading as she went further. Her expression changed into a disgusted one when she realized the hair all over the floor. Hanako is going to punish her for this now that his bathroom had turned into a hair salon. "Uchiyome-san, I appreciate if you clean this up before leaving..." She sweat-dropped.

"[Name]!"

"Kyaa—!" [Name] felt Hanako against her back, his hands slithered on her shoulders as he tilted his head to her direction and gave her a cheerful smile. "Hanako-kun, hi." [Name] placed a hand on her heart while letting out a sigh of relief. The apparition boy seemed to be in a good mood when she visited the bathroom even though cleaning time is later.

"It's rare for you to come early in this occasion~" Hanako whirled around [Name]. "Could it be that you wanted to see me?~" He excitedly asks. [Name] explained that she was supposed to fix herself up in the bathroom then Yuju was cutting her hair and they had a little talk and after that she left without cleaning up the hair.

After [Name] had cleaned up Yuju's hair, she proceeded by wiping up the mirrors and the sink. Hanako sat by the windowsill, dangling his legs as he watched [Name]. Somehow, he managed to overhear their conversation that is mostly about Souho. Hanako knew the guy as [Name]'s ex that ghosted her, nothing more and nothing less.

Like they said, you can't go back the past to tell you everything unless they want to tell you. Hanako hopped down from the windowsill and walked towards [Name], the floorboards creaking at every step he takes. "So [Name] about that guy who ghosted you..."

"Hm?"

Hanako asked. "What is your relationship with him like?"

[Name] stopped wiping the mirror to look at Hanako in dismay. She gently slides down the cloth to the sink. "You want to know about my lovelife?" She asked with a grin. "I mean sure, I don't mind." [Name] used to listen to other people ranting about their breakups and their relationships and now that she's about to tell Hanako about her own, it feels like she's now in their own shoes.

"I thought he was a creep at the first time we met, we were stuck in school because we needed to finish up our work and he was staring at me." [Name] and Souho met at a circle of students who were locked in the school with Aoi, Akane and Tsurumaki. Apparently Souho negotiated with Aoi to give him her number which the indigo haired girl did because she thought that this guy had taken an interest of [Name] and wanted to get to know her.

So Aoi played as the matchmaker, in the end she gave Souho [Name]'s number. Aoi informed her friend that she gave her number to Souho which [Name] shrugged that maybe this 'creep' wants to be friends with her. It started from small chats, then meetups after school to walk home together and developing feelings.

They would often go to the swings and talk about various stuffs. Souho confessed to her through text, like any other epistolary love stories out there where it was only happy in the beginning. [Name] was patient, like really really patient because even if Souho was willing to walk her home from school and hold her hand she was content with it.

And things never went further from that because Souho one day stopped replying to her chats, which [Name] assumed he was busy with schoolwork and for her to believe that is making her feel stupid. "He was actually hoe-ing around behind my back," [Name] pretends to be a drunkard in a bar and Hanako is the bartender. "After he ghosted me, I literally cringe whenever I pass by the swings when I walk home from school. If I stroll around enough, I might find another pathway to avoid seeing the swings."

"Are you perhaps the type of person to accept someone's confession out of desperation?"

[Name] scoots away in offense. She turned to look at another direction to avoid Hanako's face since what he said is quite true. Hanako snickered. "No wonder," He said in a teasing tone, implying that's the reason why her relationship with Souho didn't last. "You're still a highschool student, you have plenty of time other than seeking love—that can come in last, and that's why you're hurt because you're rushing things."

Hanako smirked, he moved closer and closer as [Name] backed away to the sink behind her. He placed his palms on the side of her hands that was gripping on the sink, completely trapping her. "And I think I know why people would ask you out because you're easy to get, you're easily swayed by their sweet words only for you to trip and fall once they got tired of you—look at you, you're already blushing and I haven't done anything yet."

"Excuse me? Why are you assuming that I'm easy to get?"

"Didn't you accept Souho's confession through text without any second thought? You're literally opening doors for him to waltz right in so easily instead of just him trying to open your doors." [Name] gulped on how dangerously close Hanako is to her, but the part that annoys her that everything he said was right. "Because of how easily desperate you are, ghosting you is, well, an easy task for him to do so. If you don't have feelings for him before he confessed to you, then there goes your problem. The moment you fell for him is when he falls out—it doesn't align."

'Bruh, I did not come in this bathroom to get called out.'

It applies in Astronomy too, a slow collision of two stars can create a new blue star, then a fast collision can result a disastrous black hole. Hanako is indeed right, rushing things can often result into a catastrophe. "[Name], you're really sweet, pretty and kind. Anyone would want you~" Hanako stares at her with half lidded eyes, moving in even closer till their noses touch.

"Even I want you."

[Name] felt like she was about to faint from all the heat that her face is radiating right now. Hanako gives her a smug as this is a perfect opportunity to point out that she's easy to get. "Let's say, I asked you to go out with me, at this moment. What do you say [Name]? Are you willing to go out with me?"

"I, uhh..."

[Name] raised her palms to prevent Hanako from pressing his body against hers since he is now really close to the point that the gap between them is barely noticeable. Her cheeks and ears were burning red. A grin broke from Hanako's face as he releases his hands from holding the sink. "I'm kidding [Name]~" He cheerfully says. "You should see the look on your face of how flustered you are right now—OW!"

[Name] smacked his shoulder before Hanako could even finish his sentence. "I am this close of shoving your ass to that goddamn toilet if you keep teasing me like this—!" She threatened while raising her palm once again to smack him.

"WAHH! I'M SORRY!"

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anyways this is the bday update, so im now 18 :] i hope ya all enjoy this chapter