"Well it's not gonna take much time for fest to begin, now is it" Sekke said to all of us meaning Ichinose, Sakura, Nakazaki and Me, "Well the day finally came when our efforts will put to work for real" Sakura said, then I thought something and said "you didn't mean that literally now do you" I asked her, "Off course I mean it" Sakura said then I think that she might not get what I am trying to say. "so your mom's coming with Tomoya's parents and how about your father" Sekke said, "Well he will be here at any moment now" Nakazaki said, "I can't believe they are not here up until now, it's just a little more than a hour" Sekke said, "I knew what you are trying to say but our father is not just as social as he once was" Nakazaki said, "Hmm guys I guess I need to go now, I'll catch up with you once I get free" Ichinose said and left, "I guess you guys should go ahead as well" Nakazaki said to Sakura and me, "I guess you're right" Sakura said and we left. After that we went to rehearsal room to get prepared after sometime Nakazaki along with her partner for the competition joined us and he told us that he has properly introduced Sekke to his dad and now he is taking care of him. I was getting bored so after sometime I just bailed on them and get out of there so that I can have a view of fest myself although I have very less time on my way wondering I found Mrs. Izuya and Shota with my parents though they didn't notice me I didn't tried to interact with them either, after that I thought I should go back as there is not much time, on my way back I found Sekke though he was all alone and his face was looking kinda pale as well, "Sekke what happened" I asked him, "I kinda messed up" He said, "what you mean ?" I asked him, "well you see their father, he saw you parents along with Mrs. Izuya" He said, "but how ?" I asked him, "I am sorry man but you know that I didn't do that on purpose" Sekke said, "I know but where is Mr. Izuya now, can you tell me" I asked Sekke, "He has gone now" Sekke said after that I just ran away from there to the direction of Nakazaki's home thinking that he might went towards home, 'its good that my father showed me photos of their idol time where I first see father face after running sometime I found a men with a middle school age girl and I knew that he was no doubt Sakura's father, "sir wait.." I shout a bit, hearing my voice Mr. Izuya stopped I was panting when I said "sir where are you going the competition its going to start soon" I said, "so you're Nakazaki's friend as well or not, I guess you're Sakura's friend" He said, "I am but that doesn't matter right now" I said, "so tell me what matters now" he asked me, "your presence at the competition" I said, "listen kid I knew who you're I can see the similarities just know I can bear seeing her but she can't" he said, "who says that" I am still panting when I said that and continued "you had some misunderstandings and instead of resolving them you created distance what the hell does that mean" I said, "it wasn't me who want that distance, I am just simply respecting the one's decision who is dearest to me in this whole world" he said, "Even when you know the decision is wrong, even when you know that this decision has hurt her most, even when you know that this decision can cause a really hard time on your kids, I have seen how much Shota is sad without his father and mother at the same time and I am sure that goes same for her as well" I said pointing out the little girl/Nakazaki's sister, "you're a kid you wouldn't understand this properly now but maybe you'll understand this when you get old enough" He said, "why don't you tried to understand it for once, for how much efforts your children are ready to put to see their parents together, Mr. Izuya you and I know very well that Sakura's mother Mrs. Izuya is just not able to face the reality or you all by herself so we have to force her, we have to push her towards his fear so that she can get out of her condition, we are doing as much as we can the point is will you put your part of efforts in the deed, will you help your children to make their dream a reality of seeing their parents together, tell me will you ?" I shout at him, "I...I...can't" He said as he don't has any words left to say, "Mr. Izuya, we all be there waiting for you to show up, please I beg you come there" I said and left though I am still not sure whether he will show up or not. When I reached the entrance of the high school I found Ichinose and Sekke waiting for me, "Izumi, Sekke has explained me everything, did you find Mr. Izuya ?" Ichinose asked me, "I did but I am not sure if he will show up" I said, "The competition has started a while ago and we didn't yet tell either Sakura or Nakazaki about this" Ryou said, "I'll talk to them" I said, after that we all head towards the backstage of the competition side where I found Sakura and Nakazaki both as it looks Nakazaki has already done his performance, "there you are how long will it took you to come here.." Sakura said, "Sekke, Izumi where is Dad ?" Nakazaki asked me and Ryou and I was just looking down, "what do you mean ?" Sakura asked Nakazaki, "During my performance I looked at everywhere but I just wasn't able to see Dad, tell me where he is" Nakazaki asked me again, having no choice I explained them our situation after that Ryou was just apologizing saying that he had to go for an errand of Ms. Fujitoshi and I was just saying him that its not his fault. After that Sakura just sit there and looking down in the ground guess she might have thinking what's now we have to do, after some moment of silence I went ahead and changed my clothes for the performance, "Sakura next is our turn be ready okay" I said to Sakura, "what's the point ?" she said, "you can't back down now come on" I said, "But what's the point, mom doesn't know Nakazaki so it practically meaningless for me go out and perform if only my mother gonna see this" Sakura shout a bit, "listen after the contest we will talk to her and she will understand, will do something but now" I was talking to Sakura when I heard from someone that it's our time to go, "remember you and my parents were once talking about your appearance on the stage where you came from front when I put some performance, I'll be waiting for you Sakura, just remember your mother came here because she knew that you're going to do what she did once" I said and left to stage when I get there my heartbeat just got to high I never did anything before these many people and now I am going to dance and it will be all alone but right now we are in a situation more typical than this well to be honest I thinks why the adults make things complicated. The music started and I started to show the audience my dance though surprisingly I was doing a good job some people were gossiping that I am alone while it suppose to be a duo I did everything I can then I point my hand towards the front like I am calling for someone, "sooner or later you had to show up Sakura, please don't let me down now" that's what I was thinking then suddenly all the lights got off then one spotlight gets on spotting Sakura who are coming towards me dancing from the front what's more to my surprise is that his father was just behind her enough that the spotlight won't catch him everyone was surprised and excited too, we continued our performance and I saw that on the backstage everyone's now have a better face than the pale one we all had before our performance, our performance ended and I saw that on backstage everyone was there smiling along with Nakazaki's sister then Ryou explained me that Mr. Izuya has told them about his and my conversation and had decided to talk to Mrs. Izuya I felt pretty relieved. I watched from the backstage that everyone looks happy and even so Mrs. Izuya has definitely noticed Mr Izuya she didn't looked surprised at all. Well it didn't took too long to competition and the prize ceremony started, Sakura and I end up being the runner up not like I dreamed of winning this all thing but I lost to Nakazaki, man that pissed me off, from the stage we were smiling and we saw everyone smiling too including my parents and her parents after finishing all that it was evening when we left and we all were together, we stop at the park on our way home, thought her Mom and Dad need sometime to talk alone so we left them alone and when towards the local river there Sakura didn't waste a second to waste my image in front of others and I was just saying her to stop making false statements though at the end I was happy that everything turned out well for all of us later what I heard from Sakura's mouth was that when her parents talk to each other her mother only said one thing to her father that's why it took him so long that her father don't really had any answer and they just laughed, well that's the end of the hard work that God has written in life's story and from tomorrow onwards I am going to live like normal as I was at least that's what I was thinking but now I have a lot more friends and after that fest and our performance more students at school has started to talk with me well I am glad to get this better only regret that its my last semester in high school though I am happy I guess as a fellow flower I had done a great deed making another fellow flower the ideal one and for real this time around, "Tomoya hurry up or we will be late" Sakura said to me as we were on the front of the gate and along with Sakura there was Nakazaki, Ichinose and Ryou waiting for me, "come on sleepyhead stop daydreaming or you'll make all of us a victim of Ms. Fujitoshi" Ryou said, "except the fact that I am not even in your class.." Nakazaki said I smiled and said "coming..." well this is the end of the story I guess.