"Gin… Gin..!"


Hotaru didn't know what brought her back to that damn forest. It had been 3 years. Hell, it wasn't even summer yet. The wound was still fresh in her mind, the same moment replaying a million times in her mind, not a single second forgotten. She remembered.


"…Gin, you're glowing…"


Gin's warm, tight embrace around her shoulders, coiling around her frame while clinging tightly as his illuminating body lit up the darkness of the forest. She remembered his fast, erratic breathing against the crook of her neck, fingers curling and pressing into the material of Hotaru's yukata, almost hinting to never let go. She remembered his warm, velvety voice against the shell of her ear, sending a dozen shivers along her spine, but she didn't mind. She also didn't the hundreds of butterflies fluttering in her stomach, dismissing them as Gin's low tone mumbled the three words she never even dreamt of hearing; no, the three words that she had always dreamt of saying.


"Gin, don't go…"


The forest reeked of him. It smelt all too familiar that it hurt. Hotaru felt her own arms wrapping around herself, as if to imitate the movements that seemed all too long ago for her to remember the feeling of being in his hold. The mixed feeling of nostalgia and loss pricked at her eyes, causing her to tear up at the thought of the silver-haired male. She didn't want to think about him, but the more she denied, the more she'd think of the last moments they shared.

The other spirits' eyes fell on her clutching herself, as their eyes rounded with sympathy and pity, but didn't dare approach her.

It was for the best, they thought.


"I'm glad I can finally touch you, Hotaru..."

"Me too, Gin, me too..."

"I love you.."


Well I watched Hotarubi No Mori e for the first time the other day. Man, wasn't that the worst life decision I've ever made! The heart ache is too much for my achy breaky heart goddamn-

oh well, I hope you enjoyed that (like hell you did lmao did your heart hurt lIKE MINE DID!11?!)

okay im out thanks bro leave your reviews yes yes?