Reading The Summer You Were There

Chapter 34

2. Two girls playing at love. 4. "I'm sorry, Shizuku." 5. "I can't be with you anymore." 6. Their story nears completion. 10. "You... what?"

1. And beg desperately for her to stay. 2. Those words send shizuku into a stupor. 3. She can only watch as kaori prepares for their farewell. 4. Shizuku's answer: to take up the pen. 5. "I need to give back to her. Something, anything."

1. "Hah..." 2. And yet, 3. The kaori I see, and the real kaori... 4. She's like my ideal self. 5. They've always been different. 6. I hope she lives a normal, healthy life. 7. Even if I was just projecting my version of her onto the page, 8. She liked it. 9. I think I'm starting to get what she meant by that.