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"Wait, Nozomi! I can explain, please listen to me!"

Without saying anything Nozomi walked throughout the door and slammed it closed. She let out a sigh and looked up at the gray-colored sky above her.

Ah, it's going to rain…

Nozomi walked down the stairs when some droplet of water from the sky started falling to the ground. She unzipped her bag and started to look for an umbrella. Luckily she listened to the weather forecast today and prepared an umbrella before she left for work. Since she graduated high school she started to listen to the weather forecast more often because she realized that after she graduated, no one will share an umbrella with her anymore. Suddenly the imaged of a certain person popped in her mind. She shook her head to clear her thought and let out a sigh. After finding the thing she need, she pulled it out and then zipped her bag back. She opened the transparent folding umbrella and holding it with her right arm while the other arm reached for her phone in her coat's pocket. She looked at her phone screen.

Why did he even bother to call me anymore?

She ignored it, put her phone back to her pocket, and started walking under the rain. Autumn nearing its end and because of that it started to rain a lot these past few days. Wearing a light-colored plaid scarf and brown long coat combined with copper mid-calf boots with tights and a dark blue skirt fortunately prevent Nozomi from the cold perfectly. She remembered that she often got yelled by a certain someone because she never wore appropriate clothes for autumn and winter when she was in high school resulting her sometimes getting a cold. Again, she shook her head to clear it from unnecessary thoughts. After graduating from high school, Nozomi continued her study in collage majoring in Film Studies. At first she wasn't sure what major she should take, but then she realized that she really loved watching people and recorded it in her camcorder.

A dear friend of her once said "You should be a director and I'll be the actress. Together we'll make the best film in the universe!"

Remembering that, Nozomi smiled to herself. It's already the seventh autumn since she graduated from high school. For some people seven years passes in the blink of an eye but it didn't for Nozomi. Many things have changed. She was now twenty-four. Although from high school Nozomi already have a beautiful body somehow it's different now. When you compare a teenage body with a young adult one of course there will be some differences. Her body line was more obvious now, giving off a mature aura around her. With her shining turquoise eyes and luminous purple hair, no wonder four years in collage she got a ton of fans.

And because of that for the first time in her life, Nozomi was in a relationship with someone.

He was an art student in the same collage. The first time she saw him was in her third years and in a rainy day like today. She was on her way home from classes when she saw a man kneeled on the side of the street while putting his umbrella aside and got himself drenched. Curious, Nozomi walked a little closer. It turned out that he was protecting a stray cat from the rain. Touched by his kindness Nozomi walked to his direction and covered him with her own umbrella. Since then they started to seeing each other a lot and at some point, Nozomi finally fall for his kindness. In her twenty-one they decided to go out.

It's already three years since then. Never once Nozomi regretted her choice for going out with her boyfriend―ex boyfriend for now until one day, she found out that she was being cheated behind her back. If she wasn't mistaken it started after she finished her studies and working in the filming industries. Since she was a hard worker, soon she got the position of a second assistant director and because of that she hardly got enough time to spend with her boyfriend. Unlike Nozomi, his occupation as an artist sometimes left him with a lot of free time. One day when Nozomi got a day off, she went to his apartment only to found out that he brought another women and doing indecent thing. At first she was able to forgive him because she thought that it was partially her fault too for not giving enough time to her boyfriend. But today was different. After being hurt over and over again Nozomi finally got sick of it.

Wasn't love supposed to be a wonderful thing? She thought to herself.

She stopped and lifted her head upward to prevent her tears from falling down. Under her transparent umbrella, she looked at the raindrops that fell from the sky.

Even the sky is crying for me. She bit her bottom lip and shook her head. Since when did I become a weak person like this? Nozomi took a breath and let out a deep sigh.

The old Nozomi maybe could easily predict this outcome with her tarot reading but now she couldn't do it anymore. She has quitted the tarot reading world. No more spiritual girl since she graduated high school. And it happened only because of one thing. But that one thing brought a lot of changes to her world. Yes, she quitted reading card exactly at the same time when she parted with her beloved best friend Ayase Eli. She felt that the card has betrayed her. Over and over she read about their future together and it always said that the two of them will live happily forever, unseparated no matter what happened.

But reality said different.

Soon after graduated, Eli decided to continue her study abroad without a specific reason and left Nozomi alone. A year after that, luckily Nozomi was still in contact with her, because Arisa―Eli's little sister still studied in Otonokizaka High School so Nozomi could easily asked about her sister to her, beside they kept in touch by sending mails to each other once in a while. She found out that Eli was actually in Germany, studying about Business Management Economics.

The second year after Eli left, she rarely heard anything anymore from Eli, though she still could ask Arisa about her sister but since she was busy herself she rarely got anytime to give Arisa a visit.

The third year, she never heard anything from the blonde anymore and Arisa was the only person she could rely to give her any information about her best friend. But since Arisa was busy with entrance exams for collage, she couldn't give Nozomi that much information only that her sister is doing well and she really missed Japan―or something like that.

The fourth year, Nozomi was completely lost contact with the blonde and Arisa already moved to their homeland Rusia, along with all her family. She asked her fellow µ's member but no one seems to know or heard anything from Eli.

She didn't really want to give up to searched for the blonde but she didn't know what to do anymore. Her mail never once replied by the younger girl. All of Eli's contact Nozomi has was unable to connect. And without she realized she already passed seven years without Eli. Even though she found someone else to fill her days, in these past seven years never once she passed the day without thinking of Eli.

(Nozomi)

Elicchi, where are you right now?

(Nozomi!)

Don't you know that I missed you so much?

(Nozomi…)

Nozomi was about to cry but she bit her lower lip harder and shook her head again to prevent it. She started to walk again. Although she walks among the crowds now, she still feels alone. When Eli left it's like she lost a part of her too.

Nozomi was held by the red lights. Still holding the umbrella in her hand, she raised her head to look ahead and what she saw made her heart suddenly stopped. She held her breath and rubbed her eyes several times to make sure what she saw. Across the street, in front of a mini market stood the person she always saw in her dream.

Eli...cchi…?

The girl that wearing a beige jeans with blazer was really familiar for her. Even though she seems a little bit different but with blonde hair that straggling beautifully and shining blue eyes that looking at the sky, there was no mistake in it. She was Ayase Eli. When Nozomi was about to called for her, someone come out from the mini market. A red-haired girl with amethyst eyes walking to Eli's direction. She talked to her, opened an umbrella, shared it together and then without Nozomi could do anything they both walked away.

Elicchi and…Maki-chan…?

A/N : Hello it's me, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! Sorry for my bad grammar and any mistakes I'm still not that good with English :|

This time I decided to do a NozoEli in a young adult version (?) didn't really sure about the calculation of their ages but for now let's say that Nozomi graduated in her seventeen and started collage in her eighteen hehe

Well then see you next chapter~