Rin Itoshi - 💌❗

Breaking up with Sae Itoshi left you sadder than you were willing to admit. You'd tried to convince yourself it was the right decision, but that didn't make it hurt any less. The days dragged by, and even though you tried to stick to your routine, there were times when the emptiness became impossible to ignore.

What you didn't know was that someone had been thinking about you long before the breakup.

Rin Itoshi had fallen in love with you in the worst possible way: silently. At first, you were just his brother's girlfriend. The girl who appeared by his side, the person who could bring out expressions from Sae that Rin thought impossible. But the more he saw you, the harder it became to ignore the way you smiled, the way you spoke, or how easy it was to feel at peace when you were around.

He hated having fallen in love with someone who could never look at him that way. He hated feeling jealous of his own brother. He hated the guilt that surfaced whenever he thought about you for too long.

He was content to love you from afar.

However, when he learned that you and Sae had broken up, he didn't feel happy either. His first feeling was concern. Because if he was suffering over something he never had, he couldn't imagine how much you must be suffering.

She spent entire nights looking at your contact. Writing messages. Deleting them. Writing them again. No word seemed enough. None sounded right.

Until one early morning he ended up sending one anyway.

"Hello."

It was a simple message. Ridiculously simple for someone who had kept so much to himself for so long.

Then another one arrived.

"You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

And a few minutes later, one last one.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay."

While waiting for an answer, Rin leaned her head against the wall and closed her eyes. Because the truth was, she had thought about you for so long that she no longer knew how to stop loving you.