1. Dear Flowers That Bloom in Days of Yore
2. "It's nice to meet you!"
3. "Thanks for coming to see me today."
4. Celeb Aura
5. "W-Whoaa... Is it me or... She's pretty!?"
6. "Ehr- Mia might be way too pretty in person!?"
7. "I- I'm glad I came too!"
8. "I can sign it to your name..."
9. "H-Huh...!?"
10. "Hello...?"
11. "You can just write Yamabe."
12. "Oh, sorry, I'm kinda nervous."
13. "Ahahah..."
14. "Yama-be?"
15. Chapter 15.3
Memuat…Memuat…
1. "Oh, that's not so strange."
2. "Sorry, everyone calls me by my family name, so..."
3. "Kayoko would be better."
4. "Uh... Never-mind,"
5. For Kayoko-san
6. Her hand flowed across the page.
7. "She's a natural speaker too."
8. "Wow, that means a lot!"
9. "You're just so cool I can't get enough."
10. "I catch you all the time on TV."
11. No,
12. it's not like I was ever close to her.
13. And so,
14. so very far from me now.
Memuat…Memuat…
1. it's better I stay away.
2. Calling that "lonely" is being full of myself... If I'm going to get the wrong idea,
3. This can stop here.
4. I got to see how far her efforts took her today.
5. That's really all I ever needed.
1. "Okay, here you go!"
2. "Mia-san, I know you'll go far."
3. "I'll be out of the way cheering you on."
4. "Hoping for your happi-ness."
1. "Your time is up."
2. "Right, okay."
3. "I'm glad I got to see you!"
1. "My desk ghost ..."
1. "You still reme-"
1. "Of course, that's Yama-bey!"
2. After that day you pulled me down the road,
3. "That girl... Do you know her?"
4. I went and asked a friend about you.
1. "Yama-be..."
2. "You asked about me...?"
1. "Uh-huh."
2. "After I made lots of friends, I started getting irritated."
3. "Which one are you?"
4. "Isn't it about time you showed me?"
5. "I was sure you only left a letter because I was such a loner meeting would be awkward."
6. "But hasn't that changed?"
7. "You're making this just as awkward for me now..."
8. "I wouldn't stop until I found who the ghost was."
7. But then ...
8. So I'll write stories from each friend group and check her response.
9. The ghost knew school too well not to be a student in here.
10. None of those got a noticeable reaction.
11. "Huh?"
12. By that day, I was already poking around for you...
13. "Oh yeah that's fun."
14. "And today in class~"
15. Barely any reaction to that either?
16. Thinking on it more, you always gave weak responses to things even the whole class did.
17. "Let's go, Mia!"
1. "Oh yeah right!"
2. "Yama-be..."
3. "Of course, that's Yama-bey!"
4. It was real early; she was just standing there...
5. "We shared class our 2nd year in middle school!"
6. "Are you her friend...?"
7. "She didn't try some prank on you, did she...?"
8. "Oh her...? Hey, Mia, I saw her at your desk the other day..."
9. "Yamabey would never!"
1. "... Student council ...?"
2. "I know she was worried if Mia was fitting in, coming back from England!"
3. "She's on the student council too; she wanted to keep an eye on her!"
4. "Mm-hm!"
5. "They have the suggestion box...?"
6. "So what's she like then?"
7. "She's the kindest, sweetest girl!"
8. "...."
9. "...."
1. "And she must have seen the note I left."
2. "It's true the letters did only ever tell me about students."
3. "But even a girl from another class could have left letters in my desk."
4. "I'd been trying my best with Japanese,"
5. "but it was the sign in English that made me check the box."
1. "But I only ever caught you from behind."
2. "After I found out, my eyes followed you everywhere."
3. "What!? We can't do that!"
4. "Moe-chan- I mean, Manager! Give her my number!"
5. "The one I always told you about!"
6. "This is Yamabe-san!"
7. "It's different!"
8. "You knew it was me too..."
1. "I owe her every-thing!"
2. "Ever since that day."
3. "Never leaving me for a moment."
4. "You've watched out for me all along, haven't you."
5. "And you never forgot... You even came to meet me."
1. "Thank you."
2. "I finally got to look at you and say it!"
1. All this time I've regretted...
2. not saying anything to you then.
3. "Eehh...? But you're a star now..."
4. "What's that have to do with anything!"
5. "Hey,"
6. "I gave you my number, so I'll get to see you again?"
7. "Wait... Hang on! About that!"
8. "We only spoke the one time, so how were you so sure it was me today?"
9. "So I'm going to pounce on every chance I get now!"
10. "So..."
11. "I know this sounds silly, but..."
12. "Yeah, course."
13. "...Well I didn't exactly remember your face..."
1. On that rainy day you pulled me behind you,
2. my eyes caught on your straw-blonde hair.
3. I had this image
4. of a straw hat bobbing about.
1. that thought entered my head again.
2. Whenever I peeked at your back in the halls...
3. we'd go walking with straw hats through a field of sunflowers together.
4. I had this fantasy: if we ever became friends,
5. "So if you've been waiting for this since we met up,"
6. Five months later.
1. "It's perfect...!"
2. "is the real thing as good as you imagined?"
3. "If you say so~"
4. "Huh!? What goes better with straw hats than sunflowers?"
5. "I still don't get why sunflowers though."
6. "!"
7. ...I had regrets from then too.
8. "Hold!"
9. "....."
1. "I always wanted to hold your hand!"
1. "I said it! I did it, even!"
2. "Ahhh, that's so lame!"
3. "I don't want to let go of your hand today."
4. "..."
5. "? Oh, huh."
6. "...You know ... with our fingers like this, they call it a "lovers' handhold.""
1. "You're such a ninny."
2. "Huh? Were you just being mean to me?"
3. The untouchable ghost of the past. I'll never let go of her now.
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2. "I still don't get why sunflowers though."
3. Hana monogatari was an anthology of relationships between girls with a thematic throughline of flower symbolism. Continuing in its inspirator's footsteps, each pair in Arisaku is given a flower theme. Kayoko and Mia's is the Sunflower.
4. In the language of flowers, sunflowers signify: Longing. You fascinate me. You're all I ever see. I can't take my eyes off you.
5. Given they're such a popular flower, the meaning may also change depending on the number of sunflowers: 1 sunflower is love at first sight. 3 a declaration of love, 7 a love kept secret. 9 and 99 are an everlasting love. 11 is to love more than anything. 12 and 108 are a marriage proposal. 15 is an apology. 17 love heavy with despair. 999 a promise to love you again in the next life.
6. Sunflowers are universally associated with the sun, brightness, cheeriness. In one of its earliest mentions, the Greeks connected sunflowers with adoration, loyalty, and longevity. Clytie, a nymph who loved the sun god Helios, was spurned when he left her for a princess. Clytie revealed this affair to the king, who buried his daughter alive (why are the greeks always like this). This did not win back Helios's favor. Clytie was then transformed into a sunflower, forever following the sun across the sky.
7. This concept of lasting, unfailing, and perhaps distant love persists through cultures. For married couples, sunflowers are customary on a 3rd anniversary, for longevity and loyalty, seen as the strong foundation for a lasting relationship to come.