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Best way to wake up? By sunlight, a good night's sleep, and steeped tea already poured by the bedside. Even though I nearly harassed Sayoko everyday to not bring me tea, she did it regardless. It was a single gesture that he really appreciated, especially after feeling the way he did.
The worst way to live? Never feeling happy even when you have everything you could ever want.
As if Sayoko sensed this, a single sugar cookie was coated with dulce de leche*. I smiled indulgently at the action, the smile widening when I tasted the maple flavored orange pekoe brew. I glanced at the crumpled up slip of paper from the Chinese restaurant, promising for tomorrow to be the start of an incredibly bright future. In that moment, when he considered the after math of what happened in the cable car. Hope had feebly rose in his heart then when I looked up and stared into Suzaku's eyes.
Only to be squashed down as he carelessly rested an arm around Euphy's shoulders. She paid him no mind as she spoke, animatedly telling the rest of her extended family about the event her and Suzaku had first met. But we continued to lock eyes, a silent language conveying that what I hoped for, was the last on his agenda.