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Chapter 6 - Interests

Yui woke up, opening his eyes groggily, remembering the events that happened last night. Oh that girl. Yui thought mindlessly before standing up from his bed and going towards his bathroom.

After a few minutes he left the bathroom and immediately went downstairs. It was still Christmas break so there won't be school today. He opened the door and was greeted by the sun rising up, the sky was clear blue and chilling winds was swept, making the trees dance.

Birds soared up in the sky while he looked to his left only to see a familiar figure taking a walk. Oh, Hotsuya.

"Good morning."

"Good morning too! You wake up pretty early?" Hotsuya asked while approaching him.

"I think so, I guess waking up pretty early affected me. Our schedule is a bit tight you see." Yui said before opening the can of coffee he has on his hands.

"You drink coffee? That's... so adult of you!" Hotsuya said with stars in her eyes.

"What does that even mean?"

"From the way you talk and how you act like, I think you're pretty mature." Those words resonated with her, the woman who had left me. She said the exact same thing. Mature? Even peer pressure can break him.

He's not strong... "That's not true..."

"But I think so." She replied fast. She had a very blooming smile with flowers around her figure, "I know this sounds quite of insensitive, but you seem so... sad." Hotsuya said while looking at the sky this time.

Yui scoffed. "It's more like I'm not as energetic as you are."

"For your information, I know unenergetic people when I see them!" Hotsuya said while crossing her arms.

"I guess I could say I'm not sad... more like bored." Yes, bored, his tired of living this life that's broken to pieces. He wasn't optimistic, nor did he have any good qualities on his brain to keep him going, all he knows is to keep on playing this boring and stupid simulation called "Life."

"I see. Then how about taking a walk with me?'

"?" Yui turned around his head to look at Hotsuya who grabbed his hand started to walk into the other side of the street. "Huh? Walk with you?" Hotsuya let go of his hand shortly watching him trail behind her slowly.

Hotsuya then looked around with a smirk. "It's going to be fun, I know a place."

...

"This is a pretty high up place."

"I know, it's my favorite one. You could see the view vividly up here. Look." Hotsuya looked around, while pointing at the horizon, the city and thousands of people, but the most beautiful thing about this scene was the smile that she had.

Yui looked at her smile before leaning towards the metal fence that the building had. "Yeah, it's beautiful." Yui said while the wind made his hair fly and Hotsuya smiled.

Suddenly Yui heard a click. A camera click, he turned his face around to see Hotsuya raising up her phone while pointing the camera at him. "?"

"You looked so cute that I couldn't help it!" Hotsuya said with a small smile gracing her lips while she turned around and looked at the scene once more. "You're really interesting. Makes me want to know more about you!"

"What exactly do you want to know more about me?" Yui asked while turning his face to look at her.

"How about interests!"

"There's nothing interesting with the interests of a loner, you know that?"

"I'm a loner too."

"Really?"

"What?"

"That's hard to believe." Hotsuya made a giggle hearing those words. Yui suddenly then looked up to the sky watching the clouds move and the bird soaring up the sky. "Interests, huh? I guess I could say one of my interests would be... ice skating."

After all, Yui used to be an aspiring figure skater. If it wasn't for that injury... he would still be continuing it.