Chapter 1 Part2 (2/2)

“Takuya-kun, could it be that you actually didn’t want to come?” she asked “Maybe the teacher forced you to?”

I felt like it would be insensitive to be truthful and say, “Actually, Kayama was supposed to come” I remembered the phrase, “Circumstances may justify a lie”

“No,” I said “I came here of my oill”

“Really? That’s good,” Ma truly relieved

She seems smart, but she’s the type who expresses her eht

“What is this?” I asked, wanting to change the topic

A glass sphere that looked like a crystal had been placed on the bedside table Looking closely, I could see that there was ahouse The light trickling through its sinside it

“Ah, it’s called a snow globe I really like that Give it here,” Ma her palm towards me, so I handed it to her “Look There’s snow here”

I looked and saw that the ground surface around the house inside the glass sphere was covered in so like confetti that imitated snow

“I see,” I said

“That’s not all If I shake it like this…” Malobe As she did, the confetti inside the glass suddenly began to dance Through some trick, the confetti scattered around and fell slowly “What do you think? It’s like snow, isn’t it?”

Indeed, it was like snow

“My father bought it for h That’s why I treasure this,” Mamizu said

So, her parents are divorced after all? I thought, but I couldn’t ask her

“I look at it and i in a snowy country, and when it becomes winter, it snows My breath is alhite I spendwar that”

Snow continued to fall inside the glass sphere

Mary for soht occur to me But I didn’t really dislike it The conversation wasn’t that boring, and I didn’t dislike the way she talked

The conversation finally stopped when it becao home

“Say, Takuya-kun,” Maain soon?”

I was bewildered But looking at her lonely-looking expression, I couldn’t say, “No, I don’t have any intentions of ever co back”

“Soon”

I gave her that vague reply instead

“And I have a request,” Mamizu said

“What is it?” I asked

“I want to eat Al a little embarrassed

“Pocky?”

“Actually, I’m supposed to eat only hospital food And my mother is a strict person, so she won’t buy it for me even if I ask They don’t sell it at the store in the hospital I don’t have anyone else to ask” Mahtly upturned eyes “Is it too much to ask?”

“M about it too deeply, and then left the room