Beyond The Bad End - Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Maki’s POV

When I went to school at the first day of the second semester, Sudo-kun was in a really good mood.

Then, when he noticed me coming to school, he hugged me by my shoulders in front of everyone and said,

‘We are dating now!’

The only person I loved was only Haru-kun.

No matter how much Sudo-kun threatened me, that was the one thing I absolutely wanted to protect.

‘No, we are not dating!’

When I shouted so, Sudo-kun grabbed my arm and dragged me to the hallway.

He took me to a place a little further away from the classroom and said,

‘Do you think you really can get away after humiliating me like that?’

He threatened me.

Immediately, three girls who were in the same friend group as us came running after me and Sudo-kun.

‘Hey wait, Maki-chan doesn’t want this! What do you thinking you’re doing!?’

They got mad at Sudo-kun.

‘I don’t care about any of that! She is being so selfish, I need to teach her a lesson.’

‘Hah? What are you talking about?’

‘Shut up, if you have any questions, go ask Maki about it.’

Sudo-kun said so and went back to the classroom alone.

The three of them were really worried of me, but I couldn’t tell them anything about what Sudo-kun had done to me during the summer vacation.

When I was at school, the three of them were always by my side, protecting me so that Sudo-kun couldn’t come near me.

But after school, I received a message on my phone.

‘I’ll wait for you at the convenience store.’

It was from Sudo-kun.

My hell didn’t end even after the summer break ended.

Every day after school, Sudo-kun forced me to go to his house and forced me to do it with him, even when his mother was home.

Sudo-kun also demanded kisses and oral acts as if they were a matter of course.

He even stopped using condoms and refused to use any contraception.

‘I’ll pull it out.’

Sudo-kun said. As if that would be enough to prevent me getting pregnant.

Even though I continued to go to school with Haru-kun the next morning, I couldn’t bring myself to see his face because I felt too guilty. Perhaps sensing my discomfort, Haru-kun also didn’t talk much to me. The only conversation we had that morning was ‘Good morning’. We ended up going to school in silence that morning.

Then, on Haru-kun’s first day off of the second semester. Haru-kun came to my house in the morning.

‘What are you planning to do today?’

Haru-kun asked me.

‘Sorry, I can’t go out with you today. I have something to do today.’

All I could do was reject him.

Without even looking at me Haru-kun simply said, ‘okay’ and went back home.

After that day on, Haru-kun no longer asked me to go out with him on his day off.

Also, from that day on, Haru-kun’s behaviour changed drastically.

He would often skip school and send me messages saying,

‘I’m not feeling well, so I won’t be able to go to school tomorrow. You should go to school by yourself tomorrow.’

Even when we met at our usual meeting spot, he stopped greeting me ‘Good morning’.

Around the beginning of October, Haru-kun looked so pale and unwell, it was so painful for me to look at him like that.

At that time, I felt like I was being crushed by my own fear, I was so afraid that Haru-kun would find out about my situation with Sudo-kun.

Even though we the two of us were so tired of the situation, we continued to go to school together in the morning, without saying anything to each other.

Both me and Haru-kun were at our limit, so that morning, I asked Haru-kun to meet me at the park after school. I told him I had something to talk to him.

Haru-kun just simply replied me with an ‘okay’.

That day, after school, I ignored all Sudo-kun’s calls and waited for Haru at the nearby park.

While I was waiting for Haru-kun, I remembered the times when we played there together when we were little, the time we had our first kiss together after our middle school graduation ceremony. Tears are about to spill from my eyes, but I held it back because I thought that if I cry, wouldn’t be able to talk to Haru-kun properly.

When Haru-kun came to the park, he looked so pale and unwell. He seemed to be in a lot of pain.

When I told him that I want to break up with him, he didn’t get upset at all, instead, he calmly asked me the reason I wanted to break up with him.

However, I couldn’t bring myself to tell Haru-kun the truth, so I lied to him.

I was so ashamed and frustrated at myself because I couldn’t even tell him the truth until the very end. Even though I desperately tried not to cry, tears ran down my cheeks.

I apologized to Haru-kun over and over again.

Suddenly, Haru-kun threw up on the spot. Perhaps, he had reached his stress limit.

I reflexively ran up to him and pat him on the back, but he brushed me off.

I was stunned, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t believe Haru-kun was acting so coldly to me. Even though I was the one who asked Haru-kun to break up with me…

I could only watch Haru-kun’s back as he left the park without saying a single word.