When she came to live with Keisuke and Natsumi, along with her younger brother, Nagi, it was a bit of a tough fit, like wandering into the home of the one you've fallen in love with's found family, not quite like returning home. But she's grateful for Natsumi for believing in them, for working hard to help them out, and Keisuke is different than she expected. Sterner and less stern all at once, and when he goes to see his daughter, his eyes truly light up, as happy as he is to see her.

It's a family, and for a while, it doesn't even feel like Hina's. She misses her mom, who had a way of brightening any day with a smile, not taking the rain away, but making the rain all worth it despite everything. And her mother, she, was an absolutely incredible woman to walk with, to go for a walk beneath the warm sun and just be happy for a while.

Hina fought every day to be there for Nagi in the same way that her mother had always been there for the both of them, and scribbled out on pages that have no address, she writes down little notes, stuff for her to remember, and stuff that she can't quite send to Hodaka, stuff she wishes she could.

And they go into a little cardboard box, that she tucks underneath her bed in the room that Keisuke gave her when she moved in. It's work living here, and some of it is in fact working for Keisuke, but most of it, is just being present and caring for others. Love has a way of bringing along with it, purpose, and she's relatively happy here.

But it's here that she misses Hodaka the most. This was a place that he found to be a home, a true home, and he'd lived here, found purpose here, worked here, and spent his days here. And now in the water soaked streets of Tokyo, he isn't here. He isn't ready to brighten her days with a smile and a moment spent together.

He had a way of warming up cold days and making this all mean a little more, of bringing purpose with him, and sometimes it's so hard to see the daily task of attending class, working, and living past the sheer heartache of loving someone and having no idea how he is doing, having no way to reach him.

In a happy home, she misses Hodaka more than even words can define.