Sho thought that nothing would ever change between the two of them... that they would always be at each other's throats, but they would still always have each other. He never knew that he had already lost her. And along with her, himself. However, sometimes even the undeserving get a second chance.

-Elf- Shoutaro looks beyond the frame of his mirror and decides that he doesn't like what he sees. 'Next time', he thought, promised, hoped, 'next time, she will smile for me again'. A side-story to 'Charm'.