Almost done, just one more chapter to go.

Roll

Nothing extremely amazing happened that night between Hiroki and Sora. But that was okay because everything else just seemed to roll into place. She spent her time with Hiroki fishing, and with Aiko learning how to cut and clean a fish for dinner. And Mei taught her a few tricks she didn't know about altering clothes. Yuri even taught her a thing or two about this and that. She was learning so much that she didn't think much about her year coming to an end.

But in a month she would have been in Kiri for a year.

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Warm-Blooded

One day she is at her favorite place. She's missed it so much. All day she lays with her eyes closed and feels the sun's heat hit her and thinks about everything. She knows in less than a month she will be going home, she is so mixed about it all. She wants to go home and see her Parents and all of her friends. But at the same time she doesn't want to leave her new town and her new friends. And most of all she isn't sure she wants to leave Hiroki. That is the main reason she doesn't want to leave.

What if they never see each other again?

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Crawl

She's been here all day, thinking about this and thinking about that. And then she hears her name being called, she knows it's Hiroki's voice. When she looks down she sees him waving to her and running her way. At the bottom of the root he shouts for her to come down, she laughs and sticks her tongue out at him telling him to come up to her. He smiles and tells her fine and pulls up his sleeves and starts to climb the root. For a minute she thinks that he looks a bit like a monkey, but with less hair.

Before she knows it they are nose to nose

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Sea Shells And Sand

She watches him put one hand in his pocket and slide it out and behind his back. She wonders and questions what it is he's got hidden and he only smiles before pulling out a closed fist. He counts to three and opens and she sees a small bottle filled with dirt and something like a rainbow. He tells her that it's sand from under the roots of the tree here and a scale of a fish. He says that the fish scale he found underneath all the mud from the sea, and that it somehow reminds him of her.

He tells her to always keep it.

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Goodbye Isn't The End

She has been there for a year now. And because it's been a year she has to leave. It's part of becoming a Witch. She leaves the town of Kiri at the stroke of midnight just how she left her own town of Koriko. She is surrounded by friends and teary faces, Maru on her broom bristles, bag slung over her shoulder. Hiroki is close by her side, he doesn't leave until the stroke of midnight. When the clock tower rings out twelve times everyone knows it's time to say goodbye.

She's gotten on her broom a million times before but this time it feels different.