A week after their simple date in the café, today was eventually Mizuki Jean's birthday. Since morning, she'd already been excited, jumpy and nervous. Since morning in school, Mizuki Jean had already received quite a lot of presents from her classmates, her peers, and even from some of her teachers.
Young Mimasaka had also bought two couple necklaces. One would be for himself. The other was definitely for his beloved Mizuki Jean. He was walking out of the classroom when suddenly some words behind his ears postponed his steps.
"You've also bought a pair of necklaces for Mizuki Jean, Young?" asked Rivaldo Athaya Lee.
Young Mimasaka turned round his head. He stared at Rivaldo Athaya Lee with his piercing and stabbing eyesight. Among all Young Mimasaka's rivals in chasing after Mizuki Jean's love as well as attention, Rivaldo Athaya Lee was his bravest and his most audacious rival. Although he wasn't as rich and wealthy a young boy as Young Mimasaka, Rivaldo Athaya Lee was one of the most-wanted handsome young boys in their secondary school. Many girls had been trying to search for his attention and had been trying to get together with him, and had even been struggling to be his girlfriend. However, Rivaldo Athaya Lee merely wanted Mizuki Jean. Therefore, he'd been competing with Young Mimasaka within these several years in order to be accepted by Mizuki Jean Takigawa.
"Of course I have… But, I think that it has nothing to do with you, Rivaldo…" hissed Young Mimasaka, still with his piercing as well as stabbing eyesight.
"Everything which is related with Mizuki is my business. I hope you don't forget that. Do you think Mizuki Jean would want to accept those lousy as well as ugly necklaces from you? Do you think she wants to receive those ugly and lousy necklaces, which are as lousy and ugly as the boy who gives them?" murmured Rivaldo Athaya Lee with all his cynicism and sarcasm.
"What did you say?" muttered Young Mimasaka with his rattling teeth.
"I just want to remind you once again… I don't want you to be heart-broken when finally Mizuki accepts this teddy bear of mine, and lastly she also accepts my feeling expression. When finally she becomes my girlfriend, don't say that I haven't warned you before, Young," blabbered Rivaldo Athaya Lee with his relaxed manner.
Hearing that, definitely Young Mimasaka was intensely furious.
"Please be honest to yourself… Please be frank to yourself, Young… I know you're one of the richest boys here in this secondary school. However, in order to attract a girl like Mizuki, who's also rich and beautiful, I don't think it'll be adequate by merely being rich and wealthy. Am I right? Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror? Have you ever admitted to yourself that you're… you're… you're a fat boy, who isn't… isn't… isn't handsome and attractive at all? Have you?"
Rivaldo Athaya Lee really felled down Young Mimasaka's pride and dignity to the deepest part of the blackest hell. He wanted Young Mimasaka to fall down utterly and couldn't get up again, so that one of his rivals in chasing after Mizuki Jean's love as well as attention had been decreased.
Young Mimasaka was seen clenching his fists. Were they not at school, he'd already have punched Rivaldo Athaya Lee's face. However, he still tried to control his anger and furiousness in the middle of the school environment.
"I don't have much time to chit-chat with you… It's already the third recess… I want to give my teddy bear to my Mizuki Jean right now… See you around later on, Mr. Young…"
Cackling cynically and sarcastically, Rivaldo Athaya Lee was seen walking away from Young Mimasaka.
Within the next fifteen minutes, Rivaldo Athaya Lee had seen his Mizuki Jean Takigawa eating with some of her classmates at the café next to their school. Rivaldo Athaya didn't want to waste his opportunity anymore. He gave his teddy bear to Mizuki Jean Takigawa directly.
"Happy birthday, Mizuki… Wish you have a big blast this year… Wish you can achieve your life ideal in the future… Wish you always stay healthy and… and… and beautiful…" murmured Rivaldo Athaya Lee feeling fractionally nervous and jumpy.
Mizuki's classmates around them had been yelling and cheering up exultantly and exuberantly.
"Just receive it, Mizuki…"
"Just accept it, Mizuki…"
"You're so lucky… Many girls had been struggling to be together with Rivaldo, to be Rivaldo's girlfriends, but none of them is successful until right now…"
"Yes, just accept his teddy bear, Mizuki…"
Being blushed in her red blossom, being immensely shy and bashful, Mizuki Jean accepted Rivaldo Athaya Lee's teddy bear. Young Mimasaka, who had been watching what was happening inside the café, now felt dreadfully sad, miserable, sorrowful, angry and disappointed.
"Finally you accept him, Mizuki… Eventually you accept Rivaldo's love and feeling expression, Mizuki… Is this why you said to me you wanted to consider about my feeling expression on that day?" muttered Young Mimasaka disappointedly to himself, standing outside by the window of the café.
"Do you really have your feeling towards Rivaldo Athaya Lee? You really don't have the same feeling towards me, do you? If that's the case, why didn't you tell me honestly and frankly on that day? Why did you let me live in my empty wish and hope within these several days? Why? Why, Mizuki? Why do you treat me so badly and cruelly like this?" mumbled Young Mimasaka to himself again.
Sadly, miserably and slightly furiously, Young Mimasaka was seen walking away from the window of the café.
"Thanks for your birthday present, Brother Rivaldo…" said Mizuki Jean smiling somewhat guiltily at the moment.
Mizuki Jean pulled Rivaldo Athaya Lee's hand until they reached the outer part of the café.
"Does this mean you also accept my love and feeling expression on that day?" asked Rivaldo Athaya Lee with his beaming eyes.
"Sorry… Really sorry and really sorry, Brother Rivaldo… After considering it, after thinking about it over and over, I think I don't have the same feeling towards you. Sorry… Sorry, Brother Rivaldo…" This had been enough to quell Rivaldo Athaya Lee's beaming eyes, his enthusiasm, as well as his excitement.
"Why... Why… Why…?" asked Rivaldo Athaya Lee with his somewhat gawking eyes and mouth.
"I accept this teddy bear because you give this as my birthday present and today is indeed my birthday. However, talking about feeling, I can say I really don't have any similar feeling towards you. Sorry for disappointing you, Brother Vir… Once again, really and really sorry…" muttered Mizuki Jean guiltily.
"Have you got your crush on another boy?" asked Rivaldo Athaya Lee having collected all his guts.
Sighing in her long breath, Mizuki Jean could simply nod her head.
"Who is that boy? Who is that boy that you like?" asked Rivaldo Athaya Lee nervously and slightly angrily at the same time.
"I can't tell you, Brother Rivaldo… That becomes a part of my little secret now… Sorry, Brother Rivaldo… I must go back in again… My friends are waiting for me…" said Mizuki Jean guiltily. She went back inside the café.
"Shit! I won't give up as easily as this, Mizuki! I'll keep chasing after you! Someday later, you'll really be mine, Mizuki! I promise this to you and to myself!" mumbled Rivaldo Athaya Lee seriously and angrily. He subsequently walked away from the café.
***
The final bell had rung. All the students had left school and walked out of the school gates one by one. However, Mizuki Jean Takigawa hadn't left school yet. For the whole day today, she hadn't seen her beloved Young Mimasaka. She'd been searching for her beloved Young Mimasaka when she finally found her beloved Young Mimasaka sitting alone in the library. Even though the librarian had left, Young Mimasaka secretly opened the door of the library and sat inside the library, alone with his gazing stare out of one of the library windows.
"Brother Young… Brother Young… You haven't gone home yet, have you? What are you doing here?" asked Mizuki Jean with her beaming eyes because she'd finally found her beloved Young Mimasaka.
"I think it has nothing to do with you, Mizuki… Go away… Just leave me alone…" hissed Young coldly and with his flat facial expression. He didn't even want to look at his Mizuki Jean.
Those words as well as sentences were immensely hurtful deep down the quagmire of Mizuki Jean's feeling, thought and perception.
"Brother Young… Brother Young… I thought we'd go home together… and we could… we could…"
"We could what…? What could we do together…?"
"We could go to the mall together… I thought I'd celebrate and spend today merely with you, Brother Young…"
"You don't need me anymore… You've accepted many birthday presents, especially from that Rivaldo Athaya Lee…"
"Hah? What… What actually are you trying to say, Brother Young?"
"You've received his teddy bear, haven't you? You've also accepted his love as well as feeling expression, haven't you?" hissed Young Mimasaka sharply, with his piercing and stabbing eyesight towards Mizuki Jean.
Mizuki Jean was astonished and startled. She thought that perhaps her beloved Young Mimasaka had already seen what had previously happened in the café next to their school.
"That wasn't like what you saw, Brother Young… Let me explain…"