Mika sat in the park across the street from her apartment, hoodie drawn tight, phone dark in her pocket.
She should’ve gone home.
She hadn’t.
She wasn’t even sure what she was waiting for — just that she couldn’t sit in her own room pretending not to notice Rin’s silences, or the way Aurenya’s eyes sometimes glowed in places where they shouldn’t reflect light.
It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Rin.
It was that Rin was changing. Pulling away. Even when she smiled.
And Mika… wasn’t used to feeling left behind.
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She picked up a leaf and broke it into tiny green shards, one piece at a time.
She thought about the way Rin had said:
“I helped you too — remember?”
And she did remember.
That horrible week. The late-night phone call. Rin showing up at her doorstep with a blanket and tea and a dumb card with a cat in a cape.
She hadn’t told her parents.
She hadn’t told anyone.
But Rin had sat with her in silence and made it feel like the world wasn’t going to fall apart.
Now Rin was doing the same for someone else.
And Mika didn’t know how to say:
I don’t want to lose you too.
She wiped her face with her sleeve, stood up, and started walking home.
She didn’t know what Aurenya was.
But she knew what Rin was.
And she wasn’t going to stop being her friend. Even if it hurt a little.
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