I Broke Up With My Girlfriend Who Was Cheating On Me, But She Was So Deeply Sorry That I Couldn't Help But Forgive Her. - Chapter 13: Hydrangea’s Language Of Flowers With The Person I Admire. Amamiya Hibari’s POV.
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- Chapter 13: Hydrangea’s Language Of Flowers With The Person I Admire. Amamiya Hibari’s POV.
Hydrangea’s Language Of Flowers With The Person I Admire.
Amamiya Hibari’s POV.
It was the summer of my first year in junior high school.
I was invited by a friend to cheer for the basketball team at a regional qualifying tournament.
There, I was attracted to a boy.
He dodged and moved as if his opponent never existed, and then he would fly and shoot as if he had wings.
Even though I didn’t know anything about basketball, I could tell that this guy was on a different level.
But more than anything else, I was impressed by the fact that he seemed to be enjoying playing basketball more than anyone else in the room.
Our junior high school lost, and his junior high school went on to the next round of the prefectural qualifiers.
Preliminary Rounds.
I really wanted to see that person playing basketball again, so I came to the venue.
I knew that person was playing basketball more happily than anyone else there.
His name was Kurose Umi, a second-year student…
Umi-senpai.
I decided to call him that in my head.
He won the prefectural qualifiers and was selected to participate in the national tournament.
I even went to the national convention.
It was in two neighboring prefectures, so I spent some of the New Year’s money I’d saved up.
He didn’t even know me, but in the finals, I couldn’t help but shout.
“ALL THE BESTTT Umi-senpai!!”
I’ll never forget the smile on his face when he won.
I really want to preserve that smile of his…
I started to take an interest in photography.
The more I learned about photography, the more profound and interesting it became.
I found something I could get absorbed in and enjoy, like how basketball was for Umi-senpai.
It made me happy and embarrassed that we seemed to be in the same boat.
Summer came for the second-year students. The basketball team’s tournament began.
I finally had a chance to take a picture of Umi-senpai, who had somehow risen to the status of a star in my mind.
As I headed to the site of the regional qualifier, I was astonished to see the list of contestants.
That person’s name was not on the list.
It was like a big hole had been left in my heart.
I immersed myself in photography to fill it.
I became a high school student and joined the photography club.
A friend from the newspaper club invited me to go and cover the 2nd-grade students.
Umikita Umi-senpai.
Ayaka Hanashima-senpai.
Umi… the same name as that person.
No way… their last names are different…
I thought so, but there was a part of me that was hoping for it.
And then I met him…
His face was hidden by his long hair, but he looked like that person.
“Your bangs are hiding your face… Please excuse me…”
When I reached for his bangs, he avoided me with a flick.
But then I saw his face…
I knew it… I knew it…
The battle between Umi-senpai and I continues.
“Hey, Umi-senpai! Please comply!!”
“Hahh! Okay… do whatever you want.”
It’s him!
I was so excited, but then I realized he was already dating…
The smile on Umi’s face when he was with Hanashima-senpai was different from the smile he had when he won the tournament, but he looked happy.
Why didn’t he participate in the tournament?
Why didn’t he join the basketball team?
I had my doubts, but at that moment, I genuinely wished him the best of luck.
That is how I felt at that moment.
One day, I went to take a picture of the sunset over the sea and met Umi-senpai.
He looked sad, as if he was shedding tears of blood.
At that moment, I thought, If I don’t do something, Umi-senpai will disappear.
I thought so and hurriedly called out to Umi-senpai.
Umi-senpai put on a smile as if he was trying to make up for his loss.
It was a mask of a tattered smile, a shadow of the smile from Umi-senpai’s days.
Such a mask… it doesn’t suit Umi-senpai.
I quietly sat down next to Umi-senpai.
The emotion that arose in me when I heard the story was anger.
I just couldn’t forgive Hanashima-senpai for taking away Umi-senpai’s smile and making him look like this.
Umi-senpai… What should I do to make you smile?
I don’t want to see him wearing this mask of a broken smile.
Even if I… I… can’t make him smile, can’t I at least take off that mask?
I didn’t want him to be alone like today, so I decided to take Umi out on his day off.
Saturday.
I dressed up out of character.
Looking back on it the next day, it was the first time for me to be alone with a guy on a holiday, so it was inevitable.
I was surprised to see Umi-senpai at the meeting place.
He had cut his hair, and even though he had grown taller, he still looked just like the man I had longed for back then.
I had a strange feeling that I could reach what I was chasing.
Changing my mind, putting my affairs aside for once, let’s let Umi-senpai have fun today!
After finishing lunch, we took a break at a coffee shop.
I asked Umi-senpai to tell me the reason why he didn’t make it to the tournament.
He made it sound like it was nothing, but I’m sure he was sad because I know how much fun he was having when playing basketball.
I want Umi-senpai to smile.
I want to see his smiling face…
When I asked to see Umi-senpai playing basketball again, he laughed and agreed to play basketball at the ball game.
Ahhh… now I see… I…
I’m not sure if this feeling is…
I don’t know if it’s development, degeneration, or change.
But…
“Umi-senpai…”
As the language of the hydrangea flower, ‘transition,’ expresses.
The person I have admired for a long time is right in front of me, and
The person I admired has turned into the person I want to be my lover.