Walking towards the place where me and Yuto usually met, I was excited as one could possibly be, this is the first time seeing Yuto in a few weeks. The place we usually met was a small field with a big tree in the middle, a little outside of town where nobody is usually around as when people are around, they think I'm insane and talking to myself.
When I arrived Yuto still wasn't there, so I laid down beside the big tree to wait until he had arrived.
"What're you doing taking a nap outside?"
A voice called out to me, but it was not the voice of a man nor was it the one I was expecting. The sweet fragile voice of a girl, one I know very well.
As I opened my eyes there, she was, standing there in front of me looking down at me with a curious expression on her face.
"So...?" She mumbled again.
"…Oh! I was just waiting for my friend." At a time like this I really hope Yuto doesn't show up or she's going to be like everyone else and look down on me because I have an "imaginary friend."
"Oh, then can I wait with you?"
She was so adorable, in this lighting outside of school, I hadn't expected her to ever want to hangout outside of school but here we are, she even asked if I wanted to walk home together and I had turned her down so why is she so adamant on hanging out with me.
That doesn't matter now I have to tell her about Yuto and just hope she will understand.
"Yuuki actually there's something I need to tell you-"
"Sorry I'm late Yuzuki." A voice suddenly interrupted.
This was the voice I was waiting for but… Why now?! She can't see him, what do I do? If I reply to him, she's going to think I'm insane, talking to myself.
"Who's the girl?"
"I'm Yuuki Nagano nice to meet you." Yuuki replied with a silence following for a few seconds.
"What was it you had to tell me?" She turned back and looked down at me.
How is this possible? Nobody's ever been able to see Yuto, I never even thought of what I would do if someone was able to see him.
"Most people can't see me." A saddening voice came from behind Yuuki.
"Now that I think about it, I did hear something about that at school actually. I had overheard some kids from another class talking about how you have imaginary friends."
"But that isn't true as I can see, your friend is right in front of us is he not?"
I didn't know how to react, I had never ever thought this would happen not in a million years. Someone will finally be able to understand me and what I'm going through, I thought to myself.
My eyes started to swell up and I felt like I was going to break out into tears.
"You still never finished telling me what you were going to tell me earlier did you?" She persistently asked again.
Is she really still worried about that? She was just told that someone she's seeing in front of her right now others can't see him. Does she just not care or is she messing with us?
"I was just going to tell you about Yuto and the situation it's nothing too important, plus I'm assuming you have the gist of it already after what he told you."
"Okay if that was all then I'm going to head home now, since you two were supposed to hangout, sorry for making things awkward-"
"Why don't you join us today actually?" Yuto bursts out as she's about to finish her sentence.
There is a festival going on today, I don't think I nor Yuto planned on going but in the end, we didn't want to just walk around and bore Yuuki.
"I'm so glad I got a chance to go home and change."
Yuuki seemed very excited about going to a boring festival like the ones in our hometown. Well, whatever, as long as she's having fun.
I couldn't tell if she was nervous or not, maybe because of Yuto and just meeting him but she clung to me the entire time we were walking around. We ended up walking around for about an hour, half silence, half short chit chat. Something felt off but I didn't know exactly what, so I just ignored it.
"The fireworks will be starting soon!" Yuto had mentioned overly excited about it apparently.
"I've never been to a festival to see fireworks, I'm pretty nervous." Yuuki laid down a bombshell.
"How are you Japanese and not have visited a festival before?"
"I don't know my family had never been a traditional sort of family, so we never went to these kinds of things."
"Another thing I've never done was go to visit a shrine to welcome the new year."
Yet another bombshell, this girl and her family seem to be very secluded people, I don't really get it, nor can I wrap my head around it because she's such an outgoing person it seems. Maybe I read her wrong all this time.
The fireworks were about to start so we all headed over to the viewing field where everyone was gathered to watch them while on the way grabbing Takoyaki and candy.
"We forgot drinks, so I'll go grab us some." Yuto had stated when we got to the viewing spot.
"Why don't I come and join you?"
"No no we don't want to leave poor Yuuki all alone." Teasing her while giggling to himself.
He was right though, we couldn't just leave her here by herself since she's a girl plus she's never been to these kinds of events before so she's probably still pretty nervous.
Yuto ended up heading over to grab the drinks while me and Yuuki waited to sit in silence.
"The fireworks will now begin!" A overhead announcer had stated pretty loud but then again it has to be loud for all of the people around.
Yuto still wasn't back; I wonder what's taking him so long also I'm kind of thirsty.
"They're so pretty!" Yuuki had announced to me.
"They do this every year you know."
"So next year, can we come here again?"
She caught me off guard and flustered me, I don't know what kind of face I was making at the time but I'm sure it was pretty embarrassing.
As we were watching I started to feel a warm soft sensation on my hand, although I didn't have to guess what it was because it was pretty obvious. She's probably still nervous, this is her first time seeing fireworks and they are pretty loud so maybe she might be a little frightened. Thinking to myself as I gripped her hand a little tighter.
In the end Yuto never ended up coming back and I didn't realize at the time, but he had messaged me and told me he wasn't feeling well so he went back home.
After the fireworks me and Yuuki started on our way home and talked a little bit about school with me mostly asking how she's liking it. She seems to be enjoying it so far so I'm pretty happy for her, can't say I'm not envious though. I always wanted to enjoy school but I'm glad someone I know is enjoying it for both of us.
"I'm good from here, my homes the other way."
We ended up splitting up and heading home, I don't know why but it felt lonely after we had all split up. I'd never had this feeling of loneliness just splitting apart from people.
The rest of the night was as lonely as could be. I can't wait for school tomorrow. I don't know why but I felt excited to go to school for once in my life.