#18: Empty Box
Title: Chopsticks
There was a box in Watanuki's apartment, the size of his palm, lacquered with twilight-and-periwinkle squares, that sat on a shelf, half-forgotten. There was a silver butterfly emblazoned across the top.
There was a box in Yuuko's storeroom to match.
One on Doumeki's dresser, too.
Yuuko's had a pair of ears, an old watch, a set of cooking chopsticks.
Doumeki's had a hydrangea, two gloves, a pair of chopsticks.
Watanuki had thrown all those silly odds-and-ends out when he got back from the hospital. But he left the chopsticks, bound together by red string, right where they lay.