"Please eat..." Keigo had made a hot meal for me and placed it in front of me when we arrived at his apartment. It was cold now though, because I had been in lost in my thoughts for a while and I didn't have an appetite.

"Not hungry." I mumbled loud enough for him to hear me. He sighed deeply and stood up from his chair, clearly irritated, but I paid no attention to him.

"You can't do this, not again, you can't just shut down and then burst. Not like you did with May." He snapped.

"Yeah, well... healing takes time."

"That's bullshit." He mumbled, but I could hear him.

"What?" I quickly looked at him. Did he really just say that?

He gave me one last glance with watery eyes, "I said that's bullshit."

I blinked rapidly, trying so desperately to hold back more tears. "You don't know anything about me." I snapped back without thinking.

He stood in his place, as if he was frozen, contemplating what to say.

"Yeah..." He began with a scoff and a small tear trickling down his cheek.

"It's not like I know exactly what you order at every restaurant you like.... It's not like I know you like your coffee with cream and two sugars. It's not like I know your favorite color is gray even though you wear black most of the time. It's not like I know your favorite flavors of candy or ice cream. It's not like I know you always sleep with your window open. It's not like I know you're constantly hurting and trying to put up a facade every time someone's around. And it's definitely not like I know you still haven't overcome the fear of your ex...."

"...what?" I mumbled. When did he have the time to learn all of that? Was he always paying attention?

"Yeah... yeah, Emiri, I know nothing about you."

He now had a hand on his hip while he was running his free one through his hair. I gave him a confused look. He glanced at me again, "What? Did you really think I knew nothing about you? God, Emiri, how blind can you possibly be?"

"Excuse me?" I was now up from my chair directly opposite from him. "What the hell are you trying to get at? You want me to leave?" My voice cracked in between the last question.

Did he not want to be friends anymore?

Tears were slowly but surely streaming down my cheeks as I looked down at me feet. He let out another deep sigh and his feathers ruffled with his actions.

"You could've died."

What? Does he mean at my apartment? Why is he bringing that up?

"I could've lost you." His voice was shaky when he spoke and when I looked up, he had tears streaming down his face, too.

I felt my eyebrows furrow and nose scrunch, why was he crying? I'm that important to him? "Why are you crying...?" I swayed back and forth slightly before wobbling towards him little by little.

"Dammit ,Emiri, can't I be anymore obvious..?"

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"I love you, Angel."

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A/N: ahaha cliffhanger bitches. im sorry please don't hate me. AND YES IM SORRY THIS WAS SO DAMN SHORT I'M JUST EXTREMELY BUSY BUT FELT LIKE I HAD TO GIVE YOU GUYS SOMETHING. im working on the last part/parts. idk if i wanna make the next one the last one or the 25th chapter. i know my writing is shitty, but i've been progressing. slowly, but sill progressing. if you look back at my first chapter and this one, there are MANY differences. i've been trying to find my writing style for a while now, and i think i'm kinda close. a huge thank you to everyone who is reading this. i can't believe this little dumb idea i had turned into a story that currently has 3.18k reads wtf 😭 thank you to everyone who has voted, especially those who voted for every single chapter, i see you! and it means the world to me. again, i know you're probably tired of hearing me say this, but thank you so much for supporting this story. much love!

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