I asked the teacher to change seats, and she told me that she will consider it. It seems nothing has changed.

I even wrote a small note for Kokonoi, "If there's nothing important then don't talk to me, if you wanna ask questions then write it down to me. Thank you."

His tender-eyed looked at me with confusion, but didn't question anything.

**

This time I don't even know if God is playing with me.

During sports day, I was assigned to play the three-legged team with Kokonoi.

When I received the notice from the class teacher, it was totally a bolt from the blue. I immediately went and find the teacher, crying while telling her all the reasons I could think of just so I could avoid it.

"y/n, I've thought of pairing up both of you because I'm sure you guys are able to work together without any problem. Also, you are a sensible child, don't cause any trouble alright?"

I'm just a sensible and timid child, I couldn't refuse the encouragement from my teacher. I have no choice but to go and tell Raina.

She was adjusting the hair clip, which was given by her brother.

"I'm fine with it." She said with a gentle smile on her face.

I felt relieved after getting her approval.

***

The three-legged competition didn't go well. We had a tacit understanding of each other at the beginning, and we went very fast. I just want it to end as soon as possible.

I walked too fast when we were almost reaching the finish line, Koko tripped suddenly and made me tripped too.

When we were falling, I wrapped around his neck with my arm. I fell on top of him.

He was hugging me.

At that moment, my heartbeat started pounding rapidly. Not because of Koko.

"Fuck.. I'm done, I'm really done." The cold sweats were dripping down my body uncontrollably.

I looked in the direction of Raina, she tore off the candy paper in her hand with a sweet smile.

***

The slapping noises echoing in the quiet dormitory. The tears dropping down from my cheek.

A bunch of guys were taking turns slapping me. As far as I know those guys were gangsters from Roppongi.

***

I walked back to my room.

"How do you feel?" Raina gave me a look while putting on nail polish.

I didn't dare to say anything and stood there shivering.

She continued, "I called my brother to help me up I didn't know there were a bunch of guys, he is a gang leader that ruled Roppongi with my other brother"

She pointed towards my bed. There's a transparent box on my bed. Inside it was a living small yellow snake.

I wasn't allowed to remove it. I can almost imagine the sliminess and coldness crawling on my body.

This made me often wake up at midnight.

***

Rindou's skin was cold, whenever he touches me I would flinch from sleeping, and kick the quilts down from bed and start crying.

How would he have thought that, my cryophobia was given from his precious sister.

***Back to the car scene***

Rindou was still holding my wrist tight and won't let me go back home. I looked at him with hateful eyes.

His eyes started to become red and held me even tighter, "Why do you want to break up, c/n, give me a reason please"

I squeezed a word from my mouth, "Go find the answer yourself Rindou, I hate you and your family."

I kicked Rindou hard without hesitation. When Rindou was in pain, I broke free of his control and walked into my apartment.

After a while, he knocked on my door constantly. I didn't even hesitate to open that door.

I look through the cat eye on the door, he has been wiping his tears with his sleeves and kept sending messages.

"Can we talk about it please"

"You know how much I love you right, don't leave me please"