Rain & Ren's POV
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Rain
Sky is ignoring me and Ren
My sky the one who talks too much
Our sky who loves us too much
She is ignoring us like we never existed
She looked like she hadn't slept in days.
She stood under the dull, grey sky like a painting someone left unfinished—eyes swollen, lips trembling, and shoulders straight only out of habit.
We cornered her after her last class. We had to.
"Sky," I said first. "Please… stop ignoring us."
She stared at me. Then at Ren.
And then—she broke.
"You think I'm ignoring you?" she repeated, like the words themselves disgusted her. "You think that's the problem?"
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Ren
Her voice cracked, but it wasn't soft.
It was loud.
It was angry.
And underneath it—it was shattered.
"You want to talk about ignoring?" she snapped. "You ignored me, Ren."
Her words punched harder than anything I'd ever taken in a fight.
"The guy I used to call my brother. The one I told everything to. The one who'd shove people away if they looked at me wrong, but couldn't trust me enough to tell me who he really was."
I swallowed hard. "Sky, I never meant—"
"Shut up," she cried. "You don't get to talk. Not yet."
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Rain
She turned to me next, her voice shaking but sharper than any blade.
"And you," she spat. "The guy I made coffee for. The one I waited for every morning just to say good luck before your matches. The guy I thought—God, I thought—I knew better than anyone."
She shook her head.
"You think I would've hated you if I knew who you were?"
We didn't answer.
We couldn't.
"Then you're both idiots," she screamed. "Because I'm not crying because you're mafia. I'm crying because I wasn't worth the truth."
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Ren
"And you, Ren…" she turned back to me, chest heaving, tears streaming but her words still cutting. "You weren't just anyone. You were my person."
She wiped her face furiously.
"You knew every version of me. You knew how I think, how I cry, how I panic. You knew I hate being lied to. And you still chose to lie."
I opened my mouth, but she stepped closer—eyes burning.
"I told you about my fears. My past. My dad. How I don't trust people easily. You knew that. And you still looked me in the eye every day and pretended like there was nothing I didn't know about you."
Tears streamed down her cheeks in hot, angry waves now.
"I would've taken a bullet for you. Both of you. But now I don't even know if either of you were ever real."
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Rain
She turned away. Breathing like it hurt.
And then, in the quietest, most broken voice:
"I thought you were my home."
Silence.
Then a breathless laugh.
"But I was just some girl you had to protect like a pet. Like a clueless little sister who couldn't handle the truth."
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Ren
I moved toward her, slowly, like one sudden motion would scare her away.
"Sky," I whispered. "I was scared of losing you."
"You did," she said without hesitation.
And it hit me harder than any punch I'd ever taken.
"You didn't lose me when you told me you were dangerous. You lost me when you decided I didn't get to know."
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Rain
"I wake up every morning and wonder if the version of you I loved was just… fiction."
That broke something in me.
Because maybe it was true.
Maybe I never gave her the real me.
And now she hated the version she did have.
She looked up one last time—eyes dull and rimmed red.
"You don't get to call yourselves my brothers or the guy who loves me or anything if you can't even be honest with me."
She turned.
And this time, she left for real.