Kano eventually found himself back in his room after paying his condolences to your family. Your family invited him to attend your funeral since you talked a lot about him and were good friends, and he merely nodded. Words refused to leave his lips when his family talked about how close the two of you seemed from her conversations alone. Apparently you had died from a car accident. You were walking back home when a drunk driver slid off the road and collided with your unsuspecting body.
"I didn't even get a chance to tell her..." Kano lamented over the fact he was unable to tell you his true feelings.
Having grown tired of feeling pity for himself, the young man forced his legs to swing over the side of his bed and stand up. His legs mechanically moved themselves to the washroom where Kano washed his face to refresh himself. The moment Kano looked up to the mirror, he froze.
In front of him, instead of his own reflection being shown, it was your face peering back at him. The young man must've accidentally triggered his eye power as you were the only one that currently occupied his thoughts.
Kano smiled as your face reflected the same smile back at him. The young man bit his lip as he finally decided to speak the words he had kept hidden in his heart.
"...I lied, y'know," Kano started. "When you asked me if there was somebody I liked more than a friend. It was you. I wanted to say that you were the one I liked more than a friend."
When Kano looked up at the mirror again, he realized that tears were streaming down your face. He gave a small smile as he reached out his hand to touch your cheek, but he was only met with a cold surface; it didn't seem like Kano could tell the difference though.
"You're so cold..." Kano let out a small chuckle. "You shouldn't cry. You're way too beautiful to be crying like this. It's cute, I'll admit, but I think you're smiling face is much cuter."
Kano pressed his lips together in a firm line as he waited for you to answer, but you didn't. You couldn't. After all, you no longer existed in that world.
"I love you," Kano choked out as his legs gave up underneath him, causing him to topple down to the ground with a loud thud. Kano remained unmoving for a long time as he muffled his sobs.
If only he were more honest, then maybe things wouldn't have turned out this way. Maybe it wouldn't have been that sad, fake smile that Kano would've last seen you with, but rather a genuine happy one.
"I love you..." Kano repeated to no one in particular. He repeated it over and over again, hoping that it would heal the pain in his heart.
They say that the more you lie, the more likely that lie will eventually become the truth. But this wasn't a lie. Kano's feelings towards you were never a lie, and the fact that you were now gone from this world was not a lie either. This was the truth that Kano had hidden from himself and from you, and now he had no choice but to repeat it over and over again, because lying about this would be too painful for him.
Just this once, the lies hurt Kano more than the truth.