~11~

Memory: 7

Some Birds Won't Be Caged

I've changed, have I?

Maybe I am difficult to put up with, sometimes.

Maybe I'm unreasonable.

Didn't you understand, though? Those times I asked things of you, they were only because I wanted anything from you. I wasn't asking you to move mountains, Takumu. If you'd just brought me a flower from the mountain's side, I would have been happy.

I thought you knew me, I thought you knew me more than anybody else. I trusted you more than anyone else. So I thought you were able to read me, predict me, know me. I know you're not psychic but you're not stupid and I thought I was obvious, though maybe I wasn't.

I heard you leave, the door of the Student Council building slamming, too loud.

I didn't have the strength to follow you.

I didn't have the strength for anything. Because you were my strength, weren't you?

You were my everything and so when you went I was left with nothing.

There's nothing.

There's nothing, Takumu.

Without you, I'm nothing.

Therefore: I am nothing.