Tokiha Mai sat on her bed in the solitude of her new apartment, knees hugged tightly to her chest. Memories kept flooding her mind... the losses she had faced, the pain she had experienced, the joy of friends and loved ones returned... Now should be a happy time, a joyful time, a time of healing and laughter.
Yet there was one thing that gave her little comfort.
It echoed through her mind often, usually at the strangest times. Sometimes she heard it when she was out with her friends, and sometimes, like now, she heard it when she was alone.
"I love Mai!"
Yuuichi did say that... didn't he?
Then there was the image of the almost-kiss, accompanied by feelings... the way Yuuichi had blushed, the rush Mai had felt... the thing she had longed for, about to happen...
But it never did. And, at times like these, almost three months after the fact, she wondered if it had truly happened, or if her mind had merely been playing tricks on her all along...