My first friend. She's a good kid. Cute, fun to tease and fluster. And she puts up with anything life throws at her. She's strong, stronger than I could be.

Sometimes I don't get how she can deal with all that life. And death. Losing Kyoko... We nearly lost Tohru, too.

And here we are, a year later, and she's smiling. Kyoko was everything to her. Everything. We came in later, not until middle school. She'd only had Kyoko until then. But a year later, she can make herself smile.

Sometimes, when you least expect it, a person can blossom.