I think this time I might actually post a few chapters in the span of a few days. I already started the next one. Please bear with me, and enjoy.


Dear Hayato,

I'm sorry it took two months for me to write again! I've been really busy with college applications and essays and finals.

Naturally.

I don't have much to write about this time, because nothing has happened recently. I've just been studying and, as I said before, working on applications.

Christmas is coming up! It's always been my sister and I's favorite holiday. My sister is easy to shop for because all fall she writes up very specific wish lists, specifying brand names, colors, sizes, and where each item can be bought (as you can tell, she mostly asks for clothes). Then she types up the completed list within a week after Halloween and emails them out to everyone who needs one. It requires collaboration between her friends and family, and we always have a very complex code of color coordination that organizes who's buying what.

Wow, you never mentioned that your sister was a perfectionist freak.

My parents and I just tell people what we'd like. I'm not interested in all the fuss.

I'm not surprised.

Does your family celebrate Christmas? I don't know if the divorce makes it more difficult to celebrate holidays, or if your religion doesn't celebrate it.

Actually, I've always thought the divorce made it somewhat simpler. We each get a few things from our parent and one thing from the other. Easy.

The enclosed gift card is your early Christmas present. It's one of those bank ones that you can spend anywhere since I don't really know where you shop. There's 2500 yen on it.

Aw, you shouldn't have.

So how've you been in these last few months?

Same as ever.

I meant to ask before, but do you play any fall or winter sports?

Actually, the guys managed to drag me into basketball freshman year and I've kept with it ever since. It's better exercise than fighting constantly, although I do that sometimes too.

I've been playing tennis in the fall and spring since I entered high school, and I really enjoy it.

That's probably the only sport I can picture you playing. You're too much of a klutz for anything else.

I've made a lot more friends, if you can imagine.

You're right, I can't.

Do you do any extracurricular activities at all? They look good on your college applications, you know, like being the president of the student council for six years running.

Rude. Watch out, Aoi, people might start to think you have the ability to be a snob. Good thing I already knew.

Speaking of which, are you planning on going to college?

Doubt it.

You might be as swamped with applications as I am for all I know. That's an odd scene to picture.

Ha. I can't imagine myself being swamped with much of anything. Except for Valentine's Day chocolates. Does that count?

I considered asking Touma to ask you if you'd gotten my last letter, but I decided against it in the end. I don't know if you would lie about it or be embarrassed or something.

I'm not sure how I would react to that, actually.

You aren't predictable. Also, I don't know if I would be able to handle it if you said you hadn't.

I can imagine.

Sorry this isn't a very long letter. Hopefully next time I'll have more to talk about.

Until next time.

-Aoi


Sorry this chapter and the last haven't been very interesting. They're mainly fillers, really, and they aren't all that well-written either. But, like I said, the next one is actually almost finished. I just finished rereading the manga for the fifth or sixth time, and now I'm really eager to keep writing, which is good for me and bad for my AP World History homework.

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