“Huh...?”
“I saw it,” I said. “The earring that matches the one you have, the one with the moon and star. If she’d gotten it from a sister she hated, she would’ve thrown it away a long time ago instead of carrying it around, right?”
Holding her breath, Runa brought a hand to her mouth in apparent disbelief. “So that’s how it was...” She then lowered that hand to her chest and closed her eyes. Her long eyelashes trembled. “Maria...” she said softly.
It felt like there was love in her voice that hadn’t been there before.
When Runa next opened her eyes, there was an intent in them that hadn’t been there moments ago.
“I should’ve known for a long time now that Maria could be difficult and stubborn. But we were apart for so long... I think that at some point, an invisible gap appeared between us.” Gazing at the asphalt, Runa sounded gloomy, like she was lamenting the lost time. “I’d speak to her every now and then and she’d say she hated me... And that cold attitude she’d give me... At some point, I started to think she might really mean it, so I couldn’t act toward her the way I’d used to.” After saying that, Runa looked up. “But if Maria transferred to our school for my sake and still has the earring I gave her...that means she feels the same way she did in the past, right? In that case, I’ll have to do what I can to move forward.” Her eyes were blazing with determination. “I’ll do that so I can go back to being not friends with her, but sisters.”
As I watched over her growing resolution, Runa directed her eyes straight at me.
“Thank you, Ryuto.”
Her smile, white and radiant like the moonlight, was as dazzling as that of a goddess.
“Thanks to you, I might be able to get something important to me back that I’d once lost sight of.”
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