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"Don't worry. I'll be alright!"


Hearing those meaningful words from Hiro, I smile while looking at Hiro and Nozomu.


The reason behind those meaningful words are,
because the other will soon know about it...




Since then several days have passed,
I am going to school as usual


Like usual, Tatsuya is not seen in the classroom.


Is he still going back the hospital??


Since morning, the teacher are so fussy about the toilet's window glass incident.


Today the white papers
are also distributed.


I think I found the culprit.


The culprits are Hiro and friends...

But I could not write it on that paper.



I could not betray Hiro whom I really love.


The white papers are also distributed today. I think it would continue forever...



At night,
I am watching TV at home when the phone rings.


♪Purururururururu♪


"Hell... Ah, Teacher!!"


It is the homeroom teacher.


"Ah, this is Mika?"


"What do you need, Teacher~??"


"There is something that I want to ask Mika, will you answer me honestly?"


"... Huh...?"


"About the incident in the boys' toilet, today they distributed papers right? Did you write something on it?"


"I don't write anything..."


"In one of the paper, it is not Mika who wrote [I know the culprit but I don't want to tell] right?"

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Our teacher distributed a piece of paper to each of us in the class room,
and started talking with a serious face.



"In here, maybe there is a person who broke the window but don't want to admit it, or a person who know who did it but don't want to say it. So I want you to write in this paper the information that you know. If the culprit is here, it is okay to admit it anonymously, but I want you to come forward."


Is there any person that willing to admit??
If Mika was the culprit, I would absolutely pretend that I don't know anything.


Because I don't know anything, I leave my paper blank.




When I go home,
after quite a while we, together with Aya and Nozomu, hang out at Hiro's house.




"Today's school meeting was boring~!"


"Ah~ I don't understand what's it about~! The teachers were so desperate"

Nozomu and Aya look sluggish.


"Who is the culprit~!!"

Looking at Mika who is interested in it,
Nozomu gives an intrepid smile.


"We know about it, right Hiro?"


"Yeah~ we know"



"Who~?!"


Aya leans her body.



"The culprits are me~ and Hiro and Taka and Shou!"


"Nozomu you bastard. You blabber too much"

"You are the one who did it?"


Hiro quickly answer
to Mika who is asking with her eyes wide opened.


"Yeah"



"Really? If they find out, we will get suspended!"


Aya has
a worried look in her face.

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During the suspension of those two,
Tatsuya kept in touch with me because he was worried about the relationship between Hiro and me.


Even though I knew that Hiro was burnt with jealousy,
I still depend with Tatsuya's kindness...


My worries were listened by Tatsuya,
I was so happy talking with him during the break time.


Because of that Tatsuya and Hiro were fighting and suspended...


I apologized many times to Tatsuya
But he forgave me and said to not bother about that.




Hiro also contacted me,
and he honestly talked about the harassment his ex did,


[Sorry for hurting you]


He apologized many times like that.

Mika who didn't say anything
was also at fault...




A week had passed after the fighting
Hiro came back to school but Tatsuya didn't.


According to the rumour, Tatsuya's nose was broken,
so he hadn't come back to school.

He didn't say anything at all from his messages...




At that time
A rarely held school assembly was conducted.


The content was
"About a week ago there was someone who broke the window glass in men toilet.
We would not be angry, so honestly announce yourself"


It's about that.


The teachers felt anger.
There was no one honestly announce himself,
and all the students finally went back to the class room in groups.

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"Don't play with me!"


*hitting sound*


Raising a thick voice, Hiro hit Tatsuya on his face with his fist.


Tatsuya was a bit unsteady but he quickly went back to his position
While trying to hit Hiro's cheek back, he shouted



"Mika is hurt because your ex-girlfriend is harassing her. She is worried so much she wanted to die. You do not break up with her properly, don't you!"



Ting tong ting tong


Perfect timing
The bell rings.


Hiro spitted on the floor,
while glaring at Tatsuya, he went out of classroom


After assuring that Hiro had gone
I rushed over to Tatsuya's side.



"Are you okay? Sorry..."


Tatsuya laughed while pressing his cheek with his hand.



"It's enough!"




After that during class,
there's a message from Hiro

[About that thing, is it true?]



The answer was only one word.


[Yeah]


The messages kept coming.


[Were you being harassed?]


I didn't answer.
It's a bother to explain it...



When the class was over, I looked at the PHS
there was a message from Hiro though he knew that there would be no reply.



[Let's talk when we back home]



However,
I couldn't talk to Hiro on the way back home that day.


I didn't know why but the teacher knew about the fight,
and those two got suspended for two weeks...

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One day at break time
I was happily talking with Tatsuya at the class.


I could see from my side that Kazuya was running somewhere.


At that time I got bad feelings but still continued talking...


Hiro came to my class with a very intense look on his face


Kazuya should have told Hiro that I was talking with Tatsuya.


Hiro came closer and opened the class' door violently.


Tatsuya was waiting but saying nothing though he wanted to
and he faced Hiro while protecting Mika.


Those two were glaring at each other.



The tall Hiro should be quite appealing.


But Tatsuya that wouldn't want to lose glared back at him.


The class became still as death
and the atmosphere got intense.


"Hey, do not talk to my girlfriend"


The one that first talked
was Hiro.


"Is talking wrong?"


"Do not talk to my girlfriend"


"You do not have the right to say that"


Hiro was astonished,
by strong Tatsuya.

"Ha?"


"You are harassing Mika right?"


"Haa? I don't understand"


Mika could not stand that situation and tried to interrupt between those two.


"Tatsuya is not at fault!! The one to be blamed is Mika..."


Hiro's expression was changed
when Mika stood up for Tatsuya.

But the truth is Tatsuya was not the one to be blamed.



And then...

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"... I don't!!"


The truth is
I was pushing myself.
But I did not want him to know.


Tatsuya was raising another question
to Mika who was trembling while answered.



"Was it really a cold?"


"Yes! It's a cold!!"


"Then what happened with your wrist?"



I lost in words.
I thought that no one would realize since I put a wristband...


"I realize about it. Your left wrist... Did something happen? I would not tell anyone else, so will you tell me?"



I wanted to rely on someone,
I wanted someone to listen.


It was a rape.

A harassment from the ex-girlfriend.

Because of that my stomach was in pain.


I told Tatsuya everything.


"Your left wrist... did you try to kill yourself?"


"...Yeah"


"It must be painful..."


While saying that Tatsuya walked to the window,
he looked like wiping tears with his hand.


Did he cry for me?
I wondered if I was wrong.






By Tatsuya's suggestion
I changed my PHS to the new one.



Thanks to the new number, the pestering was stopped,

Tatsuya was encouraging the dispirited Mika along the break time.





The one who observed at the two of us being like this
was Kazuya from the same class.



Kazuya was in the same group as Hiro, he was Hiro's best friend.



Somehow
I felt a bad premonition...

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I was so glad
that Manami was there.


If Manami was not there,
maybe Mika would not still alive at this time.


I was in pain that much. Thank you...




Several days later I was discharged from the hospital safely.



As usual, the pestering mails and calls didn't stop,
but strangely I had been accustomed to that.


I would not worry about that.


The white wristband still had not been unfastened..





Back to school after a while.


I had made my friends and Hiro
awfully worried about me.


At the break time, when I looked outside the window...



"Are you free now?"


The one who spoke was Tatsuya.

We had been exchanging contact a long ago and sending mails also, but it's been a while since the last time we talked to each other.



If I was seen talking to another man
Hiro would get angry...


Mika looked at the surroundings restlessly.


Tatsuya realized what Mika had done and he murmured to me.


"If you don't want to be seen, let's talk at the music room?"


After confirming that Tatsuya had gone out from the classroom,
I went to the music room while worrying about not being seen by Hiro.





"What happened??"


"Mika has gotten thinner"


"Really? Thank you♪"


Looking at Mika who deliberately answered cheerfully,
Tatsuya made a worrying face.



"I feel~ do you overdo yourself?"

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Towards Hiro and my school mates, I was lying by telling that I caught a cold and had to rest a while

Even when I was hospitalized,
Mails and calls from Hiro's ex were not stopping.


Even when I turned off the power,
I still felt that the phone kept ringing.

The reminiscent talk that I heard about Hiro and her
had put images inside my head.


In that kind of situation, there's no way my stomach pain would be healed,
thus I had to prolong the hospitalization.


It's painful...
It couldn't be helped.
I wanted to be at ease.


After confirming that my parents had gone from the hospital
I grabbed the paring knife that was there near me.


I wanted to be at ease.
I wanted to be at ease.



I put the knife on my wrist,
when I started to cut...




"...What are you doing!"



Suddenly Manami who went to visit rushed over to the bed,
then she threw away the knife to the floor.



"If Mika died there are many people that would be sad. I would also be sad if Mika died and I couldn't live also"

Manami hugged Mika
and cried together.




The wound on my wrist was shallow
Manami treated it with the antiseptic solution and bandages she bought from the convenience store.



"The wound, hide it with this. Never do this again!"


While saying that,
she gave me a white wristband.

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The contents of the pestering mail from Hiro's ex are...


"Break up"

"Ugly"

"Die"

"Disgusting"

"Get lost"


...those are repeating every day.


On the phone,
she made me listen to the remembrance of Hiro and her.


Like,

"when I first time make love with Hiro~"


or,

"when we went there for a date~"


Every time I hang up the phone,
the calls keep coming.


If I don't answer,
or turn off the power
there are still days when the calls from dating site or prank calls keep coming and never stop.


It keeps continuing everyday without Hiro even knowing about this.


Though I am confused whether I should discuss with Hiro or not, I don't want to make Hiro being worried...
and I don't want to be involved with Hiro's ex girlfriends anymore.


If Mika is being patient,
I thought she will calm down someday.


But the pestering has no indication to stop,

Talks about remembrance with Hiro that I don't want to hear,
defamation of being ugly and asked to die etc...


Loss of confidence and emotionally stress,
Mika is being hospitalized



My stomach feels funny,
and I repeatedly vomit.



Because of stress, my stomach began to hurt.



I just told one of my middle high school friend named Manami,
about me being hospitalized.

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Is it a prank??


Maybe today is my unlucky day.


It becomes a disturbance that I would like to turn off the phone, but at that time...


pirorinpirorin


This time is a mail.
I get a bad premonition...

I open the inbox.



[diediediedie]


...it's from unknown address.

Who? What is this??


I make a reply to that unknown mail address


[Who is this?]


But there is no further reply.


I am wondering who was sending the mail that day,
it makes me absent-minded at class.



Maybe it is just a mistake...
I just think about it like that till the next day,
another mail from an unknown number comes once again.



[Break up quickly]



Break up...
This kind of words
is likely to be said by Hiro's ex right??
But there's no way Hiro's ex could know Mika's number...



[That's why, who are you?]


I shortly replied,
then held the PHS tight.


The answer came quickly.


[I'm Hiro's ex]



...as I thought.


[How do you know my number?]


[I checked when I met Hiro]


...she checked when she met Hiro??
Hiro surely is loose.


From that day, hate calls and mails are coming from Saki, Hiro's ex-girlfriend

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A letter?
Whom is it from.

In order to not let the teacher know
I secretly opened the letter under the desk.




[Dear Mika. It's Tatsuya! If it's okay please give your mail address and phone number.
Mine is 070517153**!]


In the letter,
the PHS number was written.

I lifted my head
and suddenly met Tatsuya's eyes while he laughed with his tongue out.


If Hiro found out,
he would be angry.
But we were just friends,
it's okay, right?



If it's true
I should reject it...


I heard that Hiro met his ex yesterday,
if it's only communicating...
I felt like I was having a revenge
But I decided to keep in touch with Tatsuya.





But since then it never changed
It all went well with Hiro.


We were no longer meeting each other at the break time,
but when we had free time we still hang out and he still picked me up.



On one morning, when I had put a great effort to forget that incident by playing a lot with my friends...



♪Purururu♪

I was woken up
by an incoming call.


Ng? An unknown number.
...Who is it?
Let's answer.



"Hel~lo?"


"Ugly"


Gacha
Tut..tut..tut..


Disconnected.


A girl's voice.
Who is it??



♪Purururu♪


Another unknown number was coming.


"Hel~lo?"


"Tiny"


Gacha
Tut..tut..tut..


It was disconnected once again.

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Chapter 4 Jealousy

While still depressed by yesterday's incident
I still had to go to school.



"Mika, good morning~!"


Aya dan Yuka were clinging on me from left and right


"Aah... Good morning♪♪"


I smiled when answering
and when I went back to my seat,




"Are you okay?"


I turned around hearing that someone's voice from my back.

It's Tatsuya from the same class.



Tatsuya was different from Hiro,
he was neither boy-gal nor yankee
he's more of refreshing sportsman type.


It's about time that I had to react to his greetings.


"Well...I'm okay!!"



There's no one in school that didn't know that Hiro and Mika were in a relationship.


Hiro was standing out among the students,
he was frequently flirting here and there.


Hiro was scary in his appearance and famous of being so jealous.


Mika only talked to a few boys
because Hiro was always kept his eyes on them.


I had so many girl friends,
but boy friends were extremely few.


So I was quite astonished by Tatsuya who started to talk to me.



"Health is number one right♪"


Tatsuya was smiling while moving back to his seat.



In the middle of the lesson,
Aya who sat in front of me turned around and held out a piece of paper.


"What??"


"I think~ this letter comes from the front♪ I don't know the sender but it is addressed to Mika!"

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"Saki huh? You should separate from her"


Eri-san said that in irritated state,
made Hiro once again bowed down.


"I'm really sorry. It's my fault..."


"No... It's alright"



That day I also rode on Hiro's bicycle,
and was sent home.



After reaching home, Hiro's mails
were coming continuously.



[Mika, I'm sorry]




I never imagined that the ones that raped Mika were Hiro's acquaintances.

Moreover
they were asked by his ex girlfriend...



I had known the culprit and they also had apologized to me.



But,
I didn't know why I couldn't feel relieve.



The photos?
Was the film really not inserted?
And that flash light...??



Why did Hiro keep it as secret that he met his ex girlfriend??


Though when Mika spoke with a classmate that is a boy
Hiro was angry with me.



Why Mika was hated
by Hiro's ex girlfriend??



Hey
I wondered if this thing had really settled down.

Had this really finish this way...


Hiro's ex girlfriend asked her boy friends to rape Mika

What's that...
Why they could easily hurt someone??


The pain that started to heal
once again became painful.



This pain
must be...
leaving marks for the rest of my life.

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"Hiroki, explain this"


Eri-san came back to the room
and glared at Hiro.


"But... Hiro, you broke up with her right??"


Mika smiled bitterly while looked at Hiro's face

Hiro didn't say anything.



"Do you lie?"

Eri-san's face
became gloomy again.



"I said to her let's break up... but she said that she didn't want it."


Looking at the ashamed Hiro
one question popped up in my head.




"Mika you never met Hiro's ex right? Then why she knew Mika's face??"


Hiro lifted his face, looked at Mika's eyes, and answered.


"Actually when we began our relationship we once met Saki. She was in front of the house. At that time, she said that she would give up if I gave her Mika's photo box, and then I gave her one...Sorry"


"You, this is not something that easily forgiven by just saying sorry"


Eri-san kicked the wall.
Hiro bowed down to Mika.


"I'm so sorry"



That time Mika remembered something important,
and then grabbed Hiro's sleeves.



"Photos...You didn't snatch the photos taken by them..."


Seeing Mika like that, Eri-san calmly answered.


"It's all right. I heard from them, that they didn't insert the film, so you may feel relieved!"

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E.....
Hiro, what are you saying??


"Hah? Hiro's acquaintances? I don't understand. Could you explain more?"


Eri-san was
approaching with wrinkled brows.



"He's my acquaintances"


Hiro answered that while glaring to the man he's gripping hardly.


"Why did Hiro's acquaintances rape Mika?"


"I also don't know. Hey, you, explain this"

The man whose collar was grabbed spoke in fear


"I was asked by Saki-san..."



.........Saki-san
asked them??



"Saki is Hiro's ex-girlfriend right?"


Eri-san frowningly asked.


"How does this concerns Saki? You bastards explain more clearly"




Because of Hiro's yelling,
that man spoke once again.


"Saki-san said 'there's a certain girl that I hate, so if you rape her and take photos of her I'll pay you'..."



At this time, I couldn't understand those words.

Hiro hit that man's face
with his fist hardly,
and that man fell and his mouth's bleeding.


Those three men were lining up begging for forgiveness


"Please forgive..."


"I don't want to hear that"


Hiro pressed each of them to the wall and then hit them one by one, and forcibly trampled down their head until they fell down to the floor.


After all those four men apologized,
Eri-san took them out of the house.

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Meeting the culprit,
was actually a bit scary.


But I wanted to introspect it.

I did not want things like this to be happened again.


Holding hands with Hiro
and waiting patiently in the room.



"It's alright because I am here"



Hiro tried to calm me down
so he said those over and over again with gentle voice.



At that time...
The front door was opened accompanied by an intense sound,
the calling voice of Eri-san and her friends was heard.


"You bastards don't slow down. Quick, apologize to her"


The footsteps that came to the room
steadily getting closer.



...the culprit was coming.



I held Hiro's hand like I would like to break it.



Ciit


The room's door was opened,
a group of people were coming in.



My body became rigid in an instant...
there's gooseflesh.



There's no doubt.
...it was certainly these four men.



The members,
the intense mixed smell of the car and the tobacco...



The memory from that day was reviving.


The reminiscing was over,
by the hard grip on hand by Hiro.


"Was it them?"


I gave nods
to Eri-san's questions.



At that moment Hiro stood up with a great threatening pose,

grasped the collar of one man's shirt and glared.


"You bastards are the one who did this! Don't you all know that she's my woman?"

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"Yes, it's true. Sis and her follower collaborated to find them. They did it through the car's plate number that Mika saw!"


"Serious...ly"


Found the culprit.
Is it okay to feel relieved?


At that time
I remembered one fact.


...photos.



"Hiro...They took photos!! They said they will distribute it if I ever report..."


Towards confused Mika's words,
the agitated Hiro became quiet,
and replied with a voice lower than usual.



"Hah? Seriously? If it is, I'll kill them. I'll snatch away those photos. Could you meet me tomorrow?"


"Yes..."


"I'll leave in the morning tomorrow"



After that, the call was cut off.



The culprit
had been found...


While still grasping the phone, the trembling couldn't stop.




Without even closing the eyes,
the morning had come.

I skipped out the school,
and rode on Hiro's bicycle who fetched me and went to Hiro's house.




"Sorry for bothering..."


"Welcome Mika-chan!"



...It's Eri-san.



"We found the culprits. We'll call them here now... Is it alright? Still you are hurt from that worst thing, and I want to make a distinction"


Without saying anything
Mika nodded deeply.



From now on
...I'll meet the culprit.

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Our lips got closer,
but my body got fright.


"It's okay... it's only me"


Hiro held me for a long period.



It's longer than the first time...



"I will protect you Mika for all my life"


Those words
were healer for Mika right now.



The wound of that day
was also something wanted to be erased
by Hiro...







It began dark
and Hiro sent me home.


"See you!!"


I put my hand
in the front door.


"Mika!"


I turned around
by the voice calling my name.


Hiro gave Mika a kiss in the lips


"Bye!"


he said that again and rode on his bicycle and went home.




Arriving at home
I seized the stuffed animals on the bed.



Thank you Hiro.
Mika...
thought I could forget that incident.




When I about to fall asleep...


♪Purururururu♪


Sender : Hiro


I woke up
seeing that the call was from Hiro.


From this call
a shocking truth was proved.


"Yes..."


I answered the phone
while still half asleep.



"...found the culprit"


"Hoahm... culprit...?"


"I found the culprit that raped you!"



I quickly awoke, by that agitated voice of Hiro.


"Eh... seriously?"

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Ever since that incident
Hiro, didn't know if he's being considerate or what, would not kiss me.
Besides
on cheek and forehead...



Surely
I still felt scared.



I was really happy
with Hiro's affection.



However...
I felt a bit lonely.



Because I had met many men said
"Mika has a dirty body"
If I was thinking like that I became anxious.


I gathered my courage,
I decided to ask when I played at Hiro's house.




"Ne~ Hiro, don't you want to do it??"


A sudden
yet bold question.


"What is it?"


"......sex!!"



Hiro burst
the tea he was drinking.



"Hah? What' this suddenly!"


"...I'm serious about this"


"...I want to do it but I'm thinking to wait for the day Mika is ready to do it"


"I have the mood to do it. I'm scare but...thinking that Hiro felt that Mika's body is dirty now so you won't do it makes me uneasy"


Hiro pulled Mika's head
towards his own body


"Fool you! Do you really think I'm that kind of a man?"



Hiro carried Mika to the bed, and gently put me down.



"If you feel scared, tell me. Don't overdo this. I will make Mika forgets that thing that you hate. I'll erase your wounds so don't worry"

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Without saying "I'm home", I went straight to my room,
crawled into the futon.


I couldn't sleep.
Because when I closed my eyes, those scenes are reviving.





In the end, I didn't sleep at all
and the morning had come.



"... I'm going"


Covered the fell over with lie,
I put band-aid on the side of my eye and mouth, and went out from the entrance.



In front of the entrance,
Hiro was standing there.



"E... What's happened? Such early in the morning..."


"I came to pick you!"


"E... Why??"


"It's alright, come quick"



Hiro made a fast kiss on my forehead,

I lifted my body
and got on the back.



"Hold onto me!"


The distance from Hiro's house to Mika's could take about more than one hour by bicycle.

Even just going to school he had to wake up early...
What time did Hiro wake up??


He's worrying me.
Hiro's so kind...



When we reached school
and Aya and Yuka saw my wounds
their eyes were wide open.


"What happened to you?!"


They were in unison.


"I fell over!!"


"Mika is so clumsy, so you better be careful!"


"Ye~s"


I didn't want to make Aya worried
so I tried to be cheerful.




From that on, Hiro escorted me fro and to school and home everyday.


Little by little
my heart's wounds were vanishing...