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HAVE SOME TAKAGAKI ANGST!
This is written from Risa's pov.
Unspoken: That Which Drives Us ApartLook at me, not past me.
Hold my heart, not just my hand.
Speak to the person inside of me, not just who you see before your eyes.
If you can't do these things, then you're not with me... not completely.
Was there ever a time when you were here with your entire being?
Maybe for a little while in the beginning...
Maybe for a moment...
Maybe not at all...
Because maybe it was my imagination...
I wish over and over that I could just hack into your brain and find out what really goes on up there.
Then maybe, finally, I could find out what I'm doing wrong.
I could discover what it is about me that you don't like.
Because that's the reason, right?
There's something about me that makes you unable to open up to me, right?
If I could just change that part about me... If I could somehow make myself more likeable... more trustworthy...
Then the distance between us would disappear.
Distance...
It's something that's always been between us.
Even when we claimed that we could talk about anything and everything... And we could... We can... But its just...
Is it real? Are you really letting me in? Are you not just leaving me in the guestroom? I don't think I've ever been allowed to see the master bedroom, let alone been allowed into it...
Not even once...
Is there a single soul in existence that knows you inside out? Somebody that you've told all your secrets to? All you insecurities? All your thoughts?
I can't imagine that anyone has the right to any of that...
I can't...
Because I know that person isn't me right now...
I know that if such a person did exist... if you allowed such a person to see you in your most vulnerable state...
Then I would lose my purpose.
I would lose my will to keep trying so hard for something that I can barely keep a grasp on as it is.
I would lose everything that I ever tried to salvage for us.
For us...
Have you ever done anything for us?
Have you so much as considered where I stand in all of this?
I want you to look at me when you speak.
I want you to hold my heart while you hold my hand.
I want you to speak to me when you speak to the shell of the person standing before you.
For us...
Ai-chan, have you ever looked at me?