Flashes
Ichigo is restless and everyone knows it. Sometimes, during rainy nights, he would wander off without his umbrella. When he got home, Yuzu would always scold him for getting wet, but Ichigo just walks back to his room.
Ichigo's clothes are always stashed around his room, but never in his closet. He never cleans his room, so Yuzu has to. He tells her to leave the closet alone. Sometimes, he would go inside his tiny closet and just lay there thinking about her.
Ichigo visits his mother's gravesite every now and then. He would always bring flowers for her. The flowers reminded him of how fragile life really was. A few days later, he comes back and finds nothing but a few withered leaves. He wonders whether the flowers would have lived longer if he had taken better care of them
Ichigo remembers little things about her. How she would be fascinated by the little things like carousels, irises, or post-it notes. He had never taken these things seriously, but as he grabs his wallet to pay for some post-it notes, he wonders if he should have.
Ichigo thinks about that one day when she presented him with some daisies which she had grown by herself. Ichigo tries to tell her that you can't give flowers to a boy, and how he was going to toss them anyway. She just smiles and walks away. For some reason Ichigo has kept them between two pages of a book dried but preserved.
Ichigo walks to school every day by himself. He sees others walk in pairs but he doesn't join them. He is used to this because he has been alone for his whole life, his whole life not counting those two short months when she was here with him.
Ichigo remembers when he was showing her how to use a computer. She didn't understand what the little "green button" on the "metal box" was for. She was so frustrated that she pushed the "metal box" off of the desk and on to the floor. He starts yelling at her. This makes her laugh. She wonders why he would care so much about a "metal box". Seeing her laugh only makes Ichigo angrier. Now, he wishes that he could hear her laugh once more.
She was gone and he knew it. But that wouldn't stop him from remembering the past. Every time he closes his eyes he swears that he can remember every single detail of her. He knows he is lying to himself just as he knows that those memories are growing fainter every day. Someday, they will disappear altogether. But until then, he will hold on to them for memories sake.