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A thought that has turned and turned and turned inside her head for what must account to months by now leaks out from her mouth without a second thought to reel it back in. Would she even had minded it, Kumi would've put it on the account of the air being still, silent and inviting all at once. A dangerous combination to be sure.
“I don’t wanna be alone anymore.”
Azumi, who until now was content just working on her microbiology homework, lifts her head up.
éDid you say something?é
Kumi could’ve tried and said she had been silent all along, sure… but did she want to do? She trusted Azumi. In fact, it may’ve been thinking Azumi could leave too, after Tsubasa and Sanae and Yukari, that brought that thought back to the surface.
“I just… realized how scared I am of being all alone. Everyone I've ever grown close to seems to move to the other side of the planet…”
“Trust me, people are never as far from you as you think,” Azumi replies with a smile. “But I know where you’re coming from. Long distances are scary, when people can just vanish without a trace nor a word.”
It only falls half into her ears.
“And you? Will you go too?”
Azumi waits for a moment.
“No. Even if I’m on the other side of the ocean, I’ll be here for you.”
It sounds honest. It sounds believable.
“Can I trust you?”
“When could you not?”
Good question.