I thought it would be great if he had finally found some closure. We took off in a jog for the station.
,Shinogu. You've become more of a Narita than ever, haven't you? So never leave me. Don't annul your adoption... ...whatever your reasons. Please...don't do it.
I repeated these words softly within my heart again and again
We Just Missed Each Other Spring break. When I took out the trash one morning, all the housewives had formed a circle and were deep in conversation. "Did something.. .happen?" "Oh, well if it isn't Hatsumi Narita!" They pulled me into their circle. "The Tachibanas are leaving the complex." "What?" "You're Ryoki's girlfriend, aren't you? Tell us why they're leaving." Startled, all I could do was stammer. "Uh, well.. .me and Ryoki...we aren't dating anymore..."
"Really?!" They closed in on all sides. "Urgh! Excuse me. I need to go now." scurried out of the circle and somehow got away.
Ryoki...is leaving... He's leaving... My legs unconsciously led me to that place—the landing at the top of the emergency stairs. Ryoki's secret base. The metal stairs clanged under my feet. I went up slowly. But Ryoki wasn't there. The landing was where Ryoki and I began, where he pushed me down the stairs when we were kids. When I was his slave.. .and then his girlfriend-in-training, I could always find him there. A lonely wind was blowing across the landing now that its master was absent. If Ryoki had been there, what would we have done? But I guess we just missed each other. Nothing could be truer.
,Shinogu. You've become more of a Narita than ever, haven't you? So never leave me. Don't annul your adoption... ...whatever your reasons. Please...don't do it.
I repeated these words softly within my heart again and again
We Just Missed Each Other Spring break. When I took out the trash one morning, all the housewives had formed a circle and were deep in conversation. "Did something.. .happen?" "Oh, well if it isn't Hatsumi Narita!" They pulled me into their circle. "The Tachibanas are leaving the complex." "What?" "You're Ryoki's girlfriend, aren't you? Tell us why they're leaving." Startled, all I could do was stammer. "Uh, well.. .me and Ryoki...we aren't dating anymore..."
"Really?!" They closed in on all sides. "Urgh! Excuse me. I need to go now." scurried out of the circle and somehow got away.
Ryoki...is leaving... He's leaving... My legs unconsciously led me to that place—the landing at the top of the emergency stairs. Ryoki's secret base. The metal stairs clanged under my feet. I went up slowly. But Ryoki wasn't there. The landing was where Ryoki and I began, where he pushed me down the stairs when we were kids. When I was his slave.. .and then his girlfriend-in-training, I could always find him there. A lonely wind was blowing across the landing now that its master was absent. If Ryoki had been there, what would we have done? But I guess we just missed each other. Nothing could be truer.