Akane POV:

I burst through the door, stepping into cool atmosphere instead of the warm, tense one of the Hoshino home. 

I slammed the door behind me and sprinted off the side road, unsure of where my destination was except for one thing- away from Aqua. 

The cold, chilly air bit my flushed cheeks as I ran, as far away as I could get. The gusts of wind had seemed so warm and comforting just minutes ago at the park, but now they were ice-cold forces working against me. 

I didn't know how many side-streets I had crossed, how many corners I had turned, but I eventually came across a highway. 

The highway. 

Cars beeped at each other and flashing lights illuminated the slowly darkening evening. The high road for pedestrians that went across th busy roads looked so familair in it's intensity, the concrete path completely isolated from the rest of the world, high above the ground. 

Just high enough. 

Slowly, my feet unconsiously took steps towards the tempting road. I couldn't even process what was happening before I found myself atop the highway path, staring down at the traffic beneath me. 

The sunset was gorgeous today. Bright pink-and-orange, casting a beautiful glow onto the metal sea of cars. Streaks of cumulus clouds were painted across the sky, clouds I had onced deemed my favourite but now never wanted to see again. 

It occured to me that I didn't want to see another sunset, another car or another person, or my trembling pasty-white hands clutching the metal fence. 

This time, nobody could stop me. Nobody would stop me. 

I pulled my phone out from my pocket and dropped it into the abyss beneath. 

With a crack, it hit the ground just inches away from a car and with another crack, someone's tires ran over it. 

Then my bag dropped. Hitting the roof of a car. The driver stepped out of the car, yelling murder. 

I untied my warm gray scarf from my neck and let it fly into the sky. 

And then I jumped. 

I had always wondered what it would be like to jump off a building. Now I knew what it felt like. 

It was my feet kicking off from the fence, my hands outstretched, my hair flying everywhere but where I needed it to be, the air rushing into my ears and casting a chilly cool about my body,  my jacket flapping everywhere, the impending ground coming closer and closer. 

Books and stories described it as slow- the last few moments of your life that would come in slow-motion. But for me, it was so fast. Just how I liked it. 

With a whir of colour and motion, everything went black. 

That was my favourite colour. 

Kana POV:

I stared after Akane, who had left in a flurry. All that was left of her was the trace of her tears on the freshly-vacumned floor. 

I shot a furious glance at Aqua, opening my mouth to scream at him. But I faltered when I saw him going back to chopping carrots and sliding them into a sizzling pan of fried rice. 

How could a man go back to making rice after literally breaking a girl's heart?

I didn't even know what to say to him anymore. I didn't want to say anything. 

Instead, I punched him. Hard on the arm. His left hand faltered and lost control of the pan in mid-air, sending the cooking utensil into the air. It collided with a loud metal bang onto the floor and specks of rice and vegetables flew everywhere. 

Aqua didn't turn around. 

He just stared blankly at the empty stovetop, his eyes a dark, navy canyon instead of the sparkling ocean it once was. 

It felt like I was truly seeing who he really was for the first time. Like a curtain revealing all. Like makeup being wiped off someone's face. Like a clown pulling off his mask. 

Like reality. 

Aqua POV:

The rice flew everywhere onto the ground, just beneath Kana's feet. 

My brain felt empty. I had no other plans. I had lost Akane, Frill and Kana. 

Not that I had any use of Kana. So why did I miss her so much?

She was standing just there behind me, radiating furious energy, but she didn't see me as the person she used to know anymore. I could feel her stare, a stranger's stare. She saw me as a stranger. She didn't know who I was anymore. 

I didn't know who I was anymore.

"I wish I could explain it," I said out loud, lifting my head up to stare at the ceiling. Except I didn't see ceiling. I saw stars, Kana's star, and how far away I was from it. "But even if I could put it into words, you wouldn't understand."

"Try me."

I immediantly spun around to stare at her in suprise. Nobody had ever said that to me before. Not even Ai. 

Her scarlett eyes were filled with pools of determination, anguish and something else I couldn't potray. Her slender fingers were curled into fists and her eyes were moist, but she didn't cry. 

"That's so damn selfish, Aqua," she said loudly, fury swimming in her pretty eyes. "You can't just go around thinking nobody understands when you don't even let them try to. Why won't you just try? Why are you so set on this one goal that somehow includes you tricking and manipulating Akane? And me?"

"You?" I echoed. "I didn't manipulate you. I didn't use you. I have no use of you."

I wish what I said wasn't just another lie. 

A single tear slipped down Kana's porcelian cheek. But when I looked at her, I didn't see Kana anymore. I saw Ai. With the exact same expression on her face. The precise crystal-clear teardrop making it's way to the ground. "You really don't get it, Aqua. But you never will."

Suddenly, just before I lost myself in Kana's resembelance of Ai, a familair voice sounded from the stairs. 

"Ai would be so disappointed in you, Aqua." 

My head jolted up. 

Ruby. 

A/N: Someone told me they wanted two chapters today. I'll write another in the evening! My goal is to write another three books by the end of the year. Think I can do it? ^^