When Tohno and I were kids we used to spend hours in the library with each other. Sometimes we would read our own books, other times we would read together. We read 5 Centimeters per Second together once. We would sometimes read in the library while other times we would check out the books and take them to the cherry tree to read. Tohno would help me get into the cherry tree and we would sit in the tree and read. Other days we would lean up against the trunk of the tree and read. I read so many books with Tohno. Tohno would recommend books for me to read like Prince Caspian. Soon I had read the entire Narnia series in less than a month. I would recommend books for Tohno too such as a wizard of Eathsea. Whatever book I saw Tohno reading that day, I would take a mental note of it so that I could go back to the library and read it too.
On our way to school and on our way home we would always stop at the cherry tree. Sometimes I would dance in the falling blossoms. Other times we would take shelter under it from the rain. I picked up a pedal from the ground every day so that I could put it in my flower book. I was collecting flowers from the whole walk home. One day Tohno stopped at the cherry tree and picked me the most beautiful cherry blossom that was just in bloom for me to put in my book. But that one I didn't put in my book. I couldn't bring myself to part with it. So I put it in a vase in my room and I looked at it every day. When it died I was so sad. I mean I knew that flowers died eventually, but this flower was different, this flower was special to me. So special that I cried. I still love cherry blossoms to this day because of Tohno.
My mother would never allow me to have any pets. But I loved Mustache and Mimi. I loved seeing them every day on our way to school and on our way home from school with Tohno. I would bring them milk, or a bit of my tuna sandwich from that day at school for them to eat. Tohno and I would stop and cuddle with them sometimes. One day Mustache followed me home. I got in so much trouble, but I was able to bring Mustache back to Mimi. Every day after that Tohno and I would make sure that there was no one but us walking home.