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“Are you ever going to let people actually in again?” asked Kei leaning onto the bar near Shouyou
“Why? Do you want to break my heart again?” came the answer. Shouyou finally looked away from the crowd milling around the dancefloor and looked Tsukishima in the eye. From his position perched on the barstool, it would have been easy to line up and kiss the now broader and more muscular beanpole, but he didn’t. The memory of the said blonde telling him he wanted to break up and that he never loved Shou is still fresh in his mind even though it happened more than 3 years ago. As the current song says, “Nothing breaks like a heart.”
“I never meant to…” tried Kei, but a hand on his mouth stopped him
“I don’t want to hear it. The first month in Brazile I realized that you broke up with me because you were afraid, I would break yours first, thanks to the distance and the time away. You doubted the sincerity of my feelings and you thought I would throw you aside or cheat on you with the first available person. For a whole month, I blamed myself and cried myself to sleep. I thought I wasn’t enough, that I didn’t give you my all during the 3 years we dated. But I woke up one morning and I realized, I didn’t need you or anyone else. I picked myself up, repaired my heart, and protected it ever since. I might not have been happy, but I was content and now I have my dream career and I find happiness within my friends. So really, I don’t need to hear this from you.” With that, Shouyou slid off the barstool and joined Hitoka and Tadashi on the dancefloor.