[Name] applied some mascara on her eyelashes while standing in front of her mirror. She was getting ready for school and decided to add some light makeup to make sure she doesn't look dead. She stayed up all night reading fanfictions on her laptop and every chapter just have to end with a cliffhanger.

[Name] arrived at her school doing her daily routines like changing her shoes and placing the unecessary stuffs in her locker. "Good morning [Name]!" Yashiro happily greeted while making her way towards her bestfriend. "I didn't have the chance to ask as to what happened between you and Souho-kun yesterday."

"Oh it's just him with his bullshit excuses and reasons, nothing really believable." [Name] chuckled in a deep tone which means that she's mocking him a bit. "Bro deadass pulled on my hair but I'm a bad bitch and pulled his hair back with much force because he looks ugly with and without the hair. I can't pick a side." She shrugged after closing the locker. The two girls walked towards the classroom, talking to each other about yesterday's events.

Class hours flew like a shooting star yet [Name] couldn't get anything inside her head because she spent drawing on her notebook during lectures. After that talk with Souho she realized that everything they had from the start, wasn't real, because he never valued it and just threw it away like it was nothing.

Her current concern is Hanako. Ever since she saw a glimpse of his past in Tsuchigomori's epic flashback brought to you by a legit moon rock, [Name] can't unsee the fact that Hanako truly had a sad background, he decided to just give up on his dreams so easily. "He just wanted to go to the moon." [Name] softly whispered.

And that's why people would settle for less rather than reaching up high. If [Name] lived on the same time as Amane Yugi did she would've supported him to the fullest to reach for his dreams and can still go anywhere he wanted. Now, he's a ghost bound to a toilet—probably forever it seems.

[Name] realized that she made a lot of doodles of Hanako during her train of thought. "Oop..." She muttered while jotting down notes on the side of the drawing. The bell rang in a few minutes which made [Name] quickly cleaned up her things and made her way to Yashiro and Aoi. She grinned while moving her body up and down in excitement.

"You seem to be in a good mood [Name]-chan." Aoi smiled at [Name]'s sudden upbeat personality as she grabbed her boxed lunch. "Did something happen yesterday?" She asked.

"Well..." [Name] wanted to tell Aoi that she and Souho met up yesterday to talk things out and it's just the moss haired boy uttering bullshit to her—but something else happened after that. She and Hanako stayed at the rooftop for the remaining time talking about stars until—"It's a secret~" [Name] grinned, placing a finger on her lips with her cheeks flushing red.

Yashiro and Aoi looked at each other in confusion, then shrugged as the three girls made their way to the cafeteria to eat some lunch. [Name] decided to get something to eat as a side dish like some pudding until she saw Souho and his girlfriend in the line. 'Wow I can't believe this guy is in front of me, day ruined.' [Name] scowled.

[Name] got her pudding for waiting in line, she trudged back to her table and had a sour look on her face. "Just as I don't want him to see him again he shows up at the most random time." She said while opening the pudding cup and eating her dessert. "Look at him, he could blend in to some moss on the ground and I can step on him."

"I didn't know you were that angry to Shirasagi-kun..." Aoi placed a hand on [Name]'s shoulder it was understandable as to why she acted like that since heartbreak often comes from resentment and anger because they are hurt. "It's okay [Name]-chan...let it all out..."

"I would've talked to him for [Name] but she didn't listen and just walked out." Yashiro couldn't help but to be concerned about yesterday's events. "He could've hurt you." Yashiro said with a worried tone.

"But I can hurt him back."

"That's not the point [Name], he might do something bad to you."

"Yashiro, you know he's only brains and not actions, dude can't even swing a punch and only knows how to pull hair which it didn't hurt, a baby's grip is more painful." [Name] raised her eyebrow at Yashiro to prove her point, her beef with Souho is larger than any medium-rare steak. "You're being sweet Nene but I don't want you to waste your words of wisdom to that guy, he never listens."

"How about I talk to him for you, [Name]-chan?" Aoi suggested with a kind smile on her face with imaginary flowers appearing around her.

"Not going to happen Aoi, although great idea because Tomato-head can beat the shit out of him just by you talking to him. Though he's a type of guy who would replace someone to a pretty girl, but I don't want you to become a replacement since you deserve to be chosen first." [Name] gave her a thumbs up.

"It seems you know him that much."

[Name] finished up her pudding and sighed. "Well despite not having a label, we had something, he's an ex for a reason." She explained. "Though it is my fault too for being expectant and thinking that our relationship would be just like what I read in fanfictions."

"And ladies, I have a new phone." [Name] pulled out her new phone and showed it to Yashiro and Aoi. Her phone case matches her aesthetic along with a cute phone charm which is a cat attached to it.

Last night, [Name] spent transferring photos and files along with important contacts to her new phone, then she stopped to seeher blocked conversation with Souho which still can be viewed from her old phone—maybe backreading won't be bad because she'll never have to see it again once she started using her new phone.

[Name] decided to read from the top where it all started, she couldn't help but to chuckle at the dirty jokes and the corny flirts they shared, the meeting link they used to watch anime together in a call, along with some screenshots of teas. Then her chuckle died down and turned to a more bitter smile because how did that change in a span of two months?

[Name] isn't just mad at Souho, she was also betrayed. It wasn't the relationship that she missed—she really missed their friendship and she'd rather salvage that than to ignite another spark. All the times that he comforted her, pretending to care for her and spend time with her,

None of it was real.

It was all an illusion.

[Name] finally deleted his contact.

She took a good look at her old phone wondering what to do about it, until an idea appeared inside her mind. [Name] can give her old phone to Hanako although she was worried about what he is going to do with it, knowing the guy he'll most likely get a virus on the phone because of searching—you know what I mean.

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"[Name], is this your old phone?"

Hanako asked as [Name] showed him her old phone during bathroom cleaning hours. [Name] nodded. "I have a new phone and since we only see each other in school, you can contact me even if I'm far away." Hanako took the phone from her hands as he started tapping on it like he was using it for the first time.

"I don't know, but I prefer it when I'm talking to you like this." Hanako pouted as he glanced at [Name] with a soft gaze which made the female blush a little. His expression changed into a smirk as if duality just hit him. "And the fact that you wanted me to send you messages, isn't that a little—"

[Name] immediately kicked the side of his leg before Hanako continued his sentence. Her cheeks grew red at the assumption, of course it's not like she likes him for her to give him a phone to contact him right? "You said that you feel lonely when I'm away after cleaning hours so I'm doing you a favor where you can still talk to me when I'm not around." [Name] harrumphed while crossing her arms.

Hanako also blushed at her words. "Oh my god Hanako-kun—stop blushing..." [Name] looked away from the ghost boy, covering her face with her arm to hide herself. She composed herself in a few minutes later before twirling around to face him once again. "So you know how to use a phone maybe your previous human companions have showed you but this is the message icon where you send me different messages and this is the call button if you want to call me—don't call me during classes if I don't pick up it means I'm busy."

"And this is its charger so it won't die due to low battery, Tsuchigomori-sensei can further elaborate it." [Name] gave Hanako the old phone's charger, it's like teaching a grandpa how to use a mobile phone. "You can't drop this in the toilet or get it wet, you won't get to use it afterwards." She added as Hanako nodded at her instructions. [Name] set up his contact by changing it to 'Hanako'.

"Wait, what about those cute pictures that you can use in SNS?" Hanako questioned as he looked over to her shoulder to watch her set up his new phone. "I saw you have one, I think it was a picture of a cat drinking sprite." [Name] let out a sound of realization, he must be talking about display icons when messaging.

"Ohh, you want one of those." [Name] browsed through her gallery to see if she could find a display icon for Hanako. Most of them are pictures of foods, cute animals, sceneries like the moon and stars, cursed images and memes.

Hanako stopped her hand when she tried to scroll down the pictures of herself. "You still have pictures of yourself on your phone." He said to [Name] while tilting his head to the side as he looked at them even more. [Name] hid the phone away with a small blush on her face, she had forgotten to transfer her pictures to her new phone.

"No, no—you're not allowed to see that!"

"Ehh, but I can at least have a picture of you in my phone."

"That's not—right, that's your phone," [Name] sighed instead of insisting to delete her photos on her old phone. As embarrassing as it seems, [Name] couldn't help but to let Hanako keep her pictures in her old phone and pray to every god that he doesn't do anything about it. She was a little flustered about the idea of someone having photos of her in someone's phone.

"Don't do anything silly in that phone, and by that I meant watching porn." [Name] deadpanned at Hanako, he only pouted because he intended to use that for perverted things but his assistant won't let him do something. Later that day, [Name] walked home on her own after organizing some things in the Astronomy Club and that Yashiro and Aoi went ahead.

Then her phone buzzed through her pocket. [Name] pulled out her phone and saw that Hanako messaged her, she was surprised that the ghost immediately learned how to use a phone within a day. Well at least a ghost is chatting her unlike someone who is alive had the guts to ghost her.

hanako:
hi [name]!
tsuchigomori taught me how to type words
bye bye, see you tomorrow!

[Name] smiled to herself, it may have been preferrable that the two of them talk to each other after school during bathroom cleaning sessions, but receiving a text from Hanako made her feel at ease. She typed back a reply and placed her phone back inside her pocket. Maybe starting now, things would get even better than last time. She kept pondering about her and Souho, about how she lashed out on him and practically telling him to get out of her life.

It was for the best.

In that case, they weren't meant to be.

If they were, then none of this would've happened, her life will still be as boring and mundane. Yet a part of [Name] was glad that Souho ghosted her, which could mean meeting the supernaturals, having a life changing adventure, gaining new friends like Kou, and then having someone like Hanako. She sighed in relief that everything turned this way instead, then continued to walk back to her home.

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loraine's note:

so uh, its me after seven months i'm finally back from the dead, a lot of things had happened to me ever since holy week ended. i completely forgot to give you guys an update and i tried going back to wattpad to update huhu. but yeah, here's a chapter i hope it's worth the wait and yeah, see you on the next chapter~