Kazuichis pov

I jumped in surprise at the voices. I turned around to see ibuki, chiaki, sonia and mahiru jumping about excitedly. How do they have so much energy at this time at night.

"what are you guys doing here at this time of night?" I raised an eyebrow.

"we couldn't sleep so we decided to go on a walk together" chiaki replied "we didn't expect to hear something so interesting"

"eh?"

"oh kazuichi you're in love" Sonia clasped my hands "I'm so happy for you!"

"you've got it all wrong miss Sonia!" I pulled away "I'm not in love with hajime. He's just... special to me" I looked away.

"kazzy is definitely in love with hajime" ibuki said firmly "ibuki thinks you should confess"

"I can't!" I yelled.

"so you are in love" mahiru folded her arms.

"Well I-I" I felt myself break into a cold sweat. These girls are so easily breaking down my facade. What do I do?

"I can't be in love!" I yelled as I turned my back to them "I've been hurt by a guy before. I'm not letting it happen again"

"kazuichi" chiaki placed her hand on me shoulder with a gentle smile "just because you've be hurt by love before doesn't mean it will happen again. You can't close your heart off forever. You'll never find happiness that way"

"she's right" mahiru stepped towards me "hajimes pretty decent for a guy. I'm sure he'll treat you well and if he doesn't then he'll have to answer to me!"

"please souda you must fight for the one you love" sonia insisted "if you do that then I'm confident that you'll succeed!"

"if you don't I'll bite ya!" ibuki threatened.

I looked over at them. They were all so encouraging. I couldn't help but say...

"ok I'll do it!"