2. "Well, the notifications are annoying."
3. "Wait, are you not checking the class group chat?"
4. "Sorry, I haven't looked at the chat all."
5. "I get that! I turn them off at night..."
6. "So, you don't know about the class reunion?"
7. "Oh... I'm not going to the coming-of-age ceremony."
8. "We've been talking about where to go for drinks after the coming-of-age ceremony, and-"
9. "I see. Well..."
Laden…Laden…
1. "Wait a minute... You need to attend the ceremony..."
2. "I'm not planning to go to any dinner either."
3. "What?"
4. "...or else how do you know you're an adult?"
5. "What? I just know!"
6. "?"
7. "You're so weird..."
8. "Huh?"
9. "So I guess..."
10. "...you still swing that way, huh?"
Laden…Laden…
1. "Nah, nothing, never mind."
2. "What do you mean?"
3. "Wh-"
4. "Well... Good to see you're doing well."
5. "Come by if you're feeling up to it!"
6. "Everyone's been talking about how they miss you..."
7. "..."
1. "Ha ha... We're so far from where I went to school."
2. "Sorry for talking so long."
3. "I didn't think I'd ever run into anyone..."
4. "Sae..."
5. "Huh?"
6. "You should come over."
7. "I feel like..."
8. "...I shouldn't leave you alone tonight."
9. "..."
1. "Sae..."
2. "Are you okay?"
3. "..."
4. "..."
5. "Pet my head..."
1. "Yuria..."
2. "Hm...?"
3. "Mhm."
4. "I love..."
5. "I love you..."
6. "...it hurts."
7. "I'm sorry, yuria..."
8. "...I love you so much..."
9. "I won't."
10. "...hate me..."
11. "Please don't..."
1. "I really love you, sae."
2. "More than you realize."
3. "Does it feel good? Here..."
4. "I'm gonna come..."
5. "I..."
6. "Otherwise..."
7. "Uh-huh... Stop..."
8. "No more."
9. "You want me to stop?"
1. "Sae..."
2. "So embar- rassed..."
3. "It is..."
4. "And it's hot."
5. "How long are you going to stay in there?"
6. "Isn't it hard to breathe?"
7. "With a smile?"
8. "Wouldn't that be scary?"
9. "I don't know how to face you."
1. "I promise I won't laugh."
2. "Any face is fine with me."
3. "..."
4. "Hey. You laughed!"
5. "You made that face on purpose though!"
6. "Pffth ..."
1. That night, I dreamed about middle school for the first time in ages.
2. My hair was short, and...
3. ...I was always hanging around with the boys.
4. I was a real tomboy.
5. "Mr. Sae!"
6. "Sae is like a guy..."
7. Seniors on the basketball team said...
8. "Please stop that."
9. "Mr. Sae is so cute!"
10. "I agree."
1. For all of us, even me.
2. In the beginning, it was a joke.
3. "Heh heh heh"
4. "Mr. Sae..."
5. "I don't need you calling me that too!"
6. "Shut up."
7. "What a romeo."
8. "Have a seat on my lap."
9. "Nowhere to sit?"
10. "Yay"
11. "...so soft."
12. "Ahhh..."
1. I never once thought about kissing boys, but...
2. ...I thought about kissing girls all the time.
3. "What if someone sees us..."
4. "Won't someone wake up?"
5. "I'll cover for us."
6. "Don't worry."
1. There should've been many happy memories, yet...
2. I felt good. I felt invincible.
3. "Oh man. I wish..."
4. "...you were a real boy, sae."
5. Sometimes, when I recall those days...
6. ...I wonder why all I felt was pain.