The rain that was falling was covering everything in sight, as if the heavens were crying. And for one blue-haired girl, watching it fall from underneath the awning of a store, it only made the guilt and pain in her chest increase.

"I'm sorry, Masaya-kun…" Ayaka whispered, holding a hand to her chest and sobbing lightly. "I'm sorry… that I hurt you…"

As she cried for hurting the young man who had captured her heart in her last year in Vincennes Private Girls Academy, Ayaka became aware of her phone ringing. Pulling it out of her bag, she checked the caller ID and realized it was her mother.

"Hello?" Ayaka said as she picked up the call.

"Ayaka, are you outside right now? Did you get caught up in the rain?" Ayaka's mother, Misako, said from the other side of the line, her voice full of concern.

Quickly wiping her eyes and controlling her voice, she responded, "I'm fine, Mom. I'm going to wait the rain out in a restaurant. Don't stay up waiting for me, okay?"

"If you say so. I left some food for you in the refrigerator, okay?"

"Thanks, mom. See you soon," Ayaka smiled as she finished the call. She was extremely happy that her mother, her actual mother, was now truly trying to be her mother, and while she could be a little overbearing at times, Ayaka knew that it was all with good intentions.

But thinking about that only brought about thoughts of the young man she had just broken up with, the one who had done his utmost to help her.

Looking back up to the crying sky, she could almost imagine the clouds sympathizing with Masaya's feelings, and if he refused to cry… well, the clouds would do it for him.

She teared up as she imagined that and, deciding to ignore her earlier plan, she pulled out an umbrella from her bag and opened it, preparing herself to walk away from there and get home already. However, before she could even take a step, she heard it.

A voice that sounded far away, but that even through the rain, she heard it.

A familiar voice filled with despair.

"Ayaka-saaaaaaan!"

Ayaka gasped as she heard that, and her heart beat painfully. She knew that voice. Looking back at the direction it had come from, she gazed with sad, crying eyes at the thought of Masaya, alone and in the rain, thinking of nothing but her. With cries escaping her mouth, she turned back and hurried away, continuously saying one phrase in her mind as she walked away from the voice.

'I'm sorry, Masaya-kun!'