Its been about a week since I last talked or even saw Reki. Hes been avoiding me at school. And apparently been avoiding Langa too.

This is all my fault if I would've just said no, everything would be fine.

I miss him and his laughs, jokes, skills, I miss everything about him! I start to hyperventilate a little thinking if something happened to him.

But I quickly slow down my breathing before something happens and no ones here to help me. After my breathing, I remembered the competition thats happening.

The competition is tonight and ive been practicing alot and I might not be as good as the other people there but ill still try to win.

I woke up at maybe 5 in the morning to practice. The competition starts at midnight so I have plenty of time to practice before today.

I practice the entire day and take an hour off so I have some energy for the race.

Its 11:50 but now I gotta get there quick before wherever this place is, closes before I get there.

I get there 2 minutes before midnight and its a pretty long pathway. But then I see about 50 people here. Thats a whole lot.

Half if them are gonna be racing tonight so I never know who im going up against.

The races start and the first 2 peoppe to go is someone named Shadow. When his name get announced, the crowd goes wild.

He literally looks like a clown but like if they drank alcohol.

Next was a little boy who looked like he was 10 with black hair and a green and purple cat sweater on. His name was Miya.

Those 2 are the first to race. Would that even be fair?

A grown old man with clown makeup against a 10 year old looking kid?

Well, I cant really doubt the kid. He might actually beat this Shadow guy. I get a good spot to watch the race from.

I look around and see a familiar blue haired boy. I realized it was Langa. Langa's here?! He likes this kind of stuff?! Honestly, surprising but also not surprising.

I look around him and I see him with a pink haired man with a pomytail and mask and a dark green haired muscular guy with a massive tattoo on his arm.

I wonder if Langa's here.. does that mean-

Right as I was gonna finish my sentence, The countdown starts for the racers and i immediately focus on them.

I wanna see if I can learn anything from those 2. Maybe not the 50 year old man with clown makeup but the 10 year old looking kid.

The race starts and they both zoom off. So far the clown dude is in the lead. They both are chilling in the beginning of the race but the more farther they get, the more intense Shadow got.

He says some words and threw some firecracker things to hopefully slow Miya down but he didnt let that happen.

He dodged it like it was nothing. Shadow got kinda mad there but he will still confident he was gonna win.

I doubted that he would win tho. But I never know.

Basically, I was right. Miya had won. Shadow got way to cocky.

I look around and I see someone with a green hood on and a hat. They looked weird in a good way, of course.

Ss I was staring at them, they looked at me. I quickly looked away, after a few seconds, I look back to where the person was and they were gone.

Suddenly, I get pulled behind me and its the same person I just looked at. "Hey! Let me go weirdo!" I say. They chuckled. "So im a weirdo now..?" They said.

I recognized that voice. It sounded like a male voice but I couldnt think of where I heard it from.

"Do you really not re?member me..?" They said, in a sad tone of voice.

I realized that.. this person is..

"Reki.." I say. His head was down facing the ground, his face had dry tears on them. I see him smile a bit after I say his name but it dropped slowly after a few seconds.

"I thought I told you not to come here." He said. "Well, I thought I told you that you weren't my dad!" I say, throwing my arms in the air.

We sat in silence for a few seconds. "I just didn't want you to get hurt here." He says. "Reki, im not gonna get hurt, I promise" I say. He made eye contact with me and it was kinda scary, not gonna lie. "Remember when I said one day your gonna break a promise we made?" He said.

"Y-yea what about it?" I say, partially scared. "That promise you just made will prove what I literally just said." He says, looking at me like I'm dumb or something.

I stare at him and I start to get mad. "Well I have some questions for you too mister!" I say, stepping closer to him. "Why have you been avoiding me for the past 2 weeks?! Your even avoiding Langa and he had nothing to do with our shitty problem!" I say.

"Do you remember what happened 2 weeks ago? When I followed you?" He said. "I do but I want a different answer besides that! Reki, I get that your hurting but shit, you gotta talk to someone! You can't ignore everyone!"

"Me and Langa are here for you, and so is every other one of your friends and family!" I say.

"You cant just keep ignoring us, you gotta talk to us some fucking day..!" You can hear the voice crack when im saying that.

He knows im sad right now but hes just doing what I did to him 2 weeks ago. Not talking and waiting for me to leave hurt. And I completely deserve every bit of it.

"Reki.. talk to me.." I say, tears going down my face, dropping to the ground.

We both sit there in silence. I'm waiting for his answer but he doesn't say a single word.

"I know what I did wrong and I wanna make up for that" I say.

"Which is why im doing this fucking race.." He quietly gasps and looks up at me. "Im doing it for you Reki." I say. "Maybe if you were here for me.. just maybe, I wouldn't have gone here tonight.. Id be a home, with you, sitting in the couch, watching a movie, or even playing a game, or something else!" I say, with more tears streaming down my face.

"Im doing all if this for you, even if it takes my own god damn life!" My face looks like a water right now and I cant stop it. My vision is blurry from the tears but I can see Reki's face looking at me with a concerned expression.

"Look, I get it, your hurting too, but your not doing the damn race!" He says. "Yes I am! Im doing it for you! I don't give 2 fucks if I die!"

"Well ill give 2 fucks if you die!" He says, grabbing my wrist. He starts dragging me away. "Reki let.. go of me!" I forcefully pull away. "Just let me take you away from here y/n, its for your own good."

"No im not leaving, I get your tryna look out for me but no" I say. I see Reki ball his fists. He about to scream something but I hope he doesnt because of my ears.

"LOOK I JUST DONT WANT YOU TO DIE BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT YOU MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE..!" He said. My ears started hurting but I didnt care. I was focused on what Reki said.

"IS IT BAD THAT I CARE ABOUT YOU?! AND YOUR SAFETY?! AM I A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OF THAT?!" He says.

"I DONT.. I dont want you to leave me alone.." He says dropping to his knees.

Im sitting here, shocked at what Reki just said. "B-but you wont be alone y-you have Langa and your other friends and fami-" "I KNOW THAT.. but they dont make me feel as happy as you do when your around me.."

"I care about you more than I do for them I swear.." He says, crying. "And if you leave me this early.." He says. "I won't be the same person I was when we met.. or ever was before we met.."

"Which is why I wanna get you away from this shitty place..!" He says, holding his hand out.

I stare at him crying. I dont wanna hold his hand but I do after everything he just said..

"Reki.." I say. "I fucking love you but I just cant." He didnt look phased. He chuckled slighty putting his hand down. "I should've expected after everything I just said about you, you'd still do the race.." He smiled.

"I-im sorry Reki i-" He cuts me off. "Its fine, i knew I wouldnt convince you cuz your y/n.." He says. "and you don't give up and thats what I love about you.." He says. I blush a little from that.

"Look Reki.. I wanna go but I just cant.. Im already in the race I cant back down or everyone will think I wussed out but thats not the point" I say.

"So a race that you'll die from is more important than me is what your saying?" He says. I look at him shocked. "What?! Reki no, don't make dumbass assumptions" I say, mad.

"Well if you think about it, its true" He says.

I think about it and hes right.. im saying the race that could potentially kill me, is more important than my boyfriend..

I dont know if the competition is only tonight or if you can do it other days. Then a question popped in my mind.

"Hey speaking of the competition.." I say.

"Why are you here?" I raise my eyebrow.

"I drove Langa here cuz he said he wanted to come and I knew you'd come down here. But I've been going here longer than the both of you which us why I said you could die" He says.

"I've see people die here and its not pretty" He says. "Y/n if you wanna do this.. you can but know that if you do die.." He says almost crying. "remember that I warned you.." He says, starting to walk off.

This feels like the situation 2 weeks ago. I have to stop him this time. "W-wait Reki" I say. He stops walking but doesn't turn around.

I go up to him and hug him from behind. He throws out a breath out his mouth. "How about we go watch that movie I was talking about earlier somewhere..in that argument?" I say, with a sweat drop.

"Ok sure" He says, smiling

We walk all the way to my house holding hands and watch the movie until we fell asleep.

(this chapter was fricking bizarre dude-) this is my favorite chapter so far)

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