Theme 21 - Ryou's summer vacations
[Vacation]
Summer break. It got him away from the bullies, true, but it also left him more alone than ever. During school, the occasional student would pass him a glace, or a smile, even just out of courtesy, but during the weeks-long vacation… there was nothing. No one. Even his neighbors would leave out-of-town to visit family or friends. Sometimes, he would go out and wander the sidewalks, looking at the bustling people that passed him without a glance, and he would give a fragile, broken smile, pretending that maybe, somewhere in the vacationing crowd, someone was happy to see him.
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