Snow In December
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Ren asks Tsubaki for help to sit down, but she still does not believe what she sees. Tsubaki faithfully still accompanies Ren and gives him what Ren needs.

"Do you want to tell me?" Tsubaki asked, in fact she was also curious. But Tsubaki doesn't want to force Ren, because it might only add to Ren's injuries.

"Do you remember when Aoyama said she loved her boyfriend so much? She was Izumi, my friend in quarantine. Izumi chan died of a heart attack like me." Ren begins to tell Izumi about Tsubaki. Of course Tsubaki understands what her best friend is worried about.

"Aoyama can't forget?"

"Right, and do you remember when I was late coming home with Aoyama. He took me to the gift shop and bought a ring for his girlfriend. If I die how... "

Ren's tears fell down and could not continue his words. At the same time Hinana comes and hugs Ren.

"I'm fine." Said Hinana who immediately hugged Ren.

Either Hinana feels that Ren is worried about her. Tsubaki can only see her two best friends who harbored each other's grief.

"I'll be fine, we'll always be together." Hinana said once again to make her lover calm.

In the afternoon, Ren was in his mansion with Tsubaki and Aoyama. He was in his room and was reluctant to meet Arumi and Emi who had just finished dropping off Arimura. Hinana gets a call from the agency and says she passed the audition.

"Do you think Ren's okay?" Emi asks Tsubaki who worries Ren after hearing a short story from Tsubaki.

"I think Ren wants to calm down." Tsubaki replied as if in doubt about the condition of her best friend.

"I think you should be inside with him, too. Go, haven't you two been friends long enough."

Emi gives advice for Tsubaki to stay with Ren, and Aoyama also approves even with just a look in the eye.

"Maybe you need a talkative?" Said Arumi who came and approached Aoyama.

"I'm fine." Aoyama replied, she also carved a thin smile on her lips.

"My life is hard, so just tell me. Take it easy I won't hit you like Hinana. I brought you some wine, Arimura bought it." Arumi took out a bottle of wine from her bag and showed it to Aoyama.

"Well, I'll accompany you for a drink." Reply Aoyama.

"Emi Chan, let's have a drink together." Take Arumi to Emi.

"All you two, I want to call my mom. Jaa. " It was with a heavy heart that Emi refused Arumi's invitation because she had promised her mother pepper. And almost a week they were in Tokyo.

"All right let's have a toast."

Emi poured wine into Aoyama's and hers's glasses.

"Sensei, do you really still like your dead boyfriend. Sorry if I asked you so badly." Ask Arumi after drinking her wine.

"Then what about you, do you have people you like?"

Aoyama did not immediately answer questions from Arumi, he returned to ask questions.

But unfortunately my love clapped one hand." Arumi said with a faded smile on her face.

"Have you expressed your feelings?"

"No, until now I didn't dare to say it. I just want to be with her even if there is no relationship. I'm happy." Arumi replied and linked the smile forcefully.

"Then how do you know the guy doesn't like you if you don't say it. If I've been rejected once, I haven't been able to express my feelings." Reply to Aoyama and chuckle at the thought of her past.

Arumi starts pouring her wine back in her glass, she has an adventure again with Aoyama. But Aoyama only drank the remaining wine in his glass without adding any more.

"With the look in his eyes I can see if the person I like likes likes likes other people. Even though we're with me I try to hide my feelings even though it's hard."

"Sensei, I don't think love has ever been on my side. Since the death of my parents, I have been cared for by my uncles and aunts. But they didn't treat me well, until Ren saved me. Even Ren also said that I should look for someone else."

Arumi began to shed her tears as she told Aoyama. Somehow he can tell his experience to Aoyama, even though Arumi is not the type of person who is easy to open.

"You like Tsubaki?"

Aoyama guessed someone Arumi liked. Whether true or not Arumi just turned her eyes to the glass that was filling with wine and drank it. It looks like Arumi is starting to explain her feelings to Aoyama. He took a bottle of wine and poured it back in his glass.

"You want to know how love is really impartial? All you've been through is a quarter of this glass of wine and still nothing."

Aoyama prevents Arumi from drinking wine again. Indeed, the drink can make the brain a little more refreshed, but if excess is also not good. And Arumi had almost finished one bottle.

"A birth that is not wanted by a father, I think that love is also impartial. My mother killed herself leaving me when I only had her. One more thing, I love a girl who is clear she has a disease and is about to die. As I slowly got over it and was about to choose a new love, but it turned out that girl was a brother to me. Slowly one by one the people I like will leave me."

Arumi could only cry hearing the story from Aoyama. His life was really bitter, so Aoyama often looked very cold and heartless. Arumi cried so much, he was still lucky to meet Ren and still be with people he liked.

Ren overhears Aoyama telling Arumi her story. Details of tears accidentally dripped down her cheeks. Yang Ren was worried about still Hinana, if he died would Hinana be like Aoyama. And Ren doesn't want that to happen.

"Why are you crying, that's my life. And I think your life is still better than mine." Said Aoyama who tried to smile and hold the hand of Arumi who was still crying.

"You're so pathetic.

Sensei, don't you still have Hinana and her family? You still have friends like Ren and I."

Arumi actually wants to comfort Aoyama, but instead she looks to be comforted by crying continuously.

"Wouldn't Ren be dead any minute? And Hinana left me once, when Hinana High School went to New York. At that time, I started to feel like I had a friend who I would love with all my heart. So I decided not to like Hinana at all. Arumi chan, that love is not on my side. One by one the people I like will slowly leave and I will be alone."

Aoyama said by biting her lower lip, she tried to hold back her tears from falling.

"Sensei, you still have me. Tsubaki, Emi chan, and Hinana chan. We'll be friends." This time Arumi tightly grasped Aoyama's hand. Even though the festival was over, it did not mean that their friendship would be over.

"I dare not hope, even my hopes will be wrapped up from reality." Reply Aoyama without seeing Arumi's face, he could only hide his face behind her slightly long front hair.