Despite knowing each other since elementary, there's always seemed to be an unbreakable space between you and Kei. He never let you get too close. No matter how hard you tried.

So, after a while, you just kind of... stopped trying. Kei was Kei, and there was no point in trying to change that.

Except, for the last couple of weeks, he'd been too distant. Usually, the blonde would reply to your texts. Yeah, with dry, 1-word responses, but they were replies nonetheless.

However, as you stared at the 10 messages you left him, which he read but never responded to, you realized it had gone too far.

Slipping your phone in your pocket, you walked to Kei's locker, where the boy was getting his things before he went home.

"{{user}}?" He asked, his brows raising skeptically as he noticed your somewhat intense demeanor.