The morning sun is bright through his open window, and the sound of the hospital alarm quickly had Lenny up and about. He slept surprisingly well last night, secure in the knowledge that at least he had got another chance with Emi. If Lenny can just keep himself from doing anything stupid, maybe He'll find out what's been eating her recently and more importantly himself. He had a few educated guesses, but nothing concrete. And certainly nothing that told Lenny he was going to say to her; He'd much prefer to have her tell him herself. Although Lenny can't help remembering the School Nurse's warning about his heart that he might not like what she has to say. Did he need to know that badly? What if it's something awful that makes him repulsed by her? Can he really say that he was prepared to handle whatever she has to say, regardless of what it is? Emi said she wanted to tell me without screwing it up. What the hell did she mean by that? What's there to screw up? Lenny supposed there's not much use worrying about it, though. He'll find out today. It occurs to him that he really, really needed a run this morning, to clear my head if nothing else. Emi is waiting for Lenny as promised, looking a little haggard but otherwise bright and cheerful. Much more so than any previous day this week.

Lenny was being discharged from the hospital that morning as he had recovered enough to get around without much trouble. He looked at his left elbow where the IV needle had been. It left a small hole that had scabbed up, but he also looked at his pulse monitor as it was flashing steadily. He knew he needed to not screw this up. Emi waved him down while in the hallway.

"Lenny! You're late!" Emi greeted him. Lenny waved back his hand dismissively.

"Nonsense! You're just early." Lenny tried to joke around with Emi. Emi grins back, and it feels like we're finally back where we should be with one another. Except now Emi, not just Lenny, wants to take another step forward. Although a part of him worries that she'll back out at the last second.

"Hurry up and stretch, Lenny! I don't want to miss the bus!" Emi told him as she was stretching as fast as she could. Lenny was a bit puzzled by this.

"The bus?" Lenny asked.

"I said I wanted you to come back to my house, remember? And I promised mom we'd be there in time for lunch, so I wanted to hurry!" Emi responded before she turned around and kissed Lenny for a moment.

"Early start, huh?" Lenny asked. Emi began to think before scratching the back of her head.

"It's more for my mom's benefit than anything else." Emi told Lenny while she was blushing a bit.

"Ah, well that's okay." Lenny replied. Lenny unsuccessfully tries to guess what Emi has planned, shortly before realizing that it doesn't matter that much to me. Lenny quickly goes through his warmup routine while Emi bounces impatiently from one foot to the other. She really does seem to want to get moving as fast as possible. The standstill run is over so quickly he can barely believe that Lenny hasn't fallen over dead afterwards. Emi set a blistering pace and Lenny, in his foolishness, kept up with her. Well, until the last few laps around the hospital floor as Lenny needed the blood in his legs after resting all night. Lenny had to slow down just in case. But he doesn't mind, and Emi's waiting patiently for me when he finishes. As patiently as she can wait, anyway.

"Finished? Good! Come on!" Emi told Lenny, she grabbed his arm, she practically rushed me down to the nurse's office of the hospital building to make sure Lenny could get discharged and out of there. The nurse who was working in her office noticed them and she began to speak. Lenny's pulse monitor had only picked up slightly.

"You seem in a hurry, Emi. Trying to catch the early bus?" The nurse asked them.

"Yeah, I told mom I'd be back for lunch." Emi sweetly told her. The nurse nodded and although Emi wasn't a patient, she had noticed Emi had prosthetic legs.

"Well, I'll take care of you first, then." The nurse told Emi. Emi was ready to protest.

"But Lenny's gotta come with me too!" Emi stated the nurse raises a single eyebrow at this statement and peers at the two of us searchingly.

"Really? Today, huh?" The nurse asked Emi. Emi's response is a nod, followed by a surprisingly shy grin. "Well then, we'll make this quick." The nurse told Emi. Emi enters the nurse's office, and Lenny patiently waits outside for her to be finished, wondering just why the nurse seemed to be surprised by Emi's declaration. Lenny felt like he was missing out on some joke or the significance of today. Beyond the fact that it is clearly significant in some way, of course. True to his word, the nurse has Emi out of her office surprisingly quickly, and Lenny takes her place after promising to meet up at the front gate. The nurse takes Lenny's pulse and listens for a bit. It was to make sure he was healthy enough to be discharged without the fear of another heart attack.

"Your heartbeat's faster than usual. Been pushing yourself again, have you?" The nurse asked. Aside from that, Lenny was in good order.

"Well, Emi seemed in a rush to get through the run, so..." Lenny tried to explain to the nurse. The nurse just laughed as she remembered Emi quite well.

"Hm, I'm not surprised. Today is rather important to her, you know." The Nurse began after finishing the test. She got out her clipboard and began jotting down the note.

"I suspected that could be the case, but I have no idea why that's the case." Lenny told the Nurse that he wasn't familiar with Emi still.

"She hasn't told you. Interesting." The Nurse told Lenny while jotting down the notes.

"So, you're not going to tell me either, then." The Nurse began. She gave the note to Lenny that he was good to go for the discharge before she continued to speak "No, I'm not. I suspect that Emi has her own plan for explaining today to you, and I don't want to mess with that. You'll find out when the moment comes, so what's the rush? Now as for your heart, I would take it easy the rest of the day. No spontaneous races or anything like that, got it?"

"Got it. She won't have her running legs on anyway, right?" Lenny asked if this was going to be the case.

"No, but if you think something like that is going to stop her..." The Nurse teases Lenny before he gets a giggle out of her.

"Good point." Lenny tried to calm himself down. The Nurse nodded.

"I don't think it'll be much of an issue today of all days, but still." The Nurse began. If she's trying to reassure Lenny, she's doing a terrible job. Lenny was quickly becoming more and more worried about what today could be for, like suddenly finding out Emi's in a cult or something. At the same time, if today is such a big deal and Emi wanted him to be with her for it, then maybe she really does want to grow closer to Lenny. Maybe this will be the answer to all the riddles, to the sleepless nights and the sudden mood swings. Either way, Lenny was barely able to remember to thank the nurse before taking off as quickly as he dared Emi to get a shower first and throw on some decent-looking clothes. If today is as important as it seems to be, Lenny should dress appropriately. Emi, of course, proves him wrong when Lenny reaches the front gate of the hospital, wearing her usual shirt and shorts. So at least I know it's not a terribly formal affair, whatever it is.

"You're early, Lenny." Emi teased. Lenny was wearing jeans and a striped, yellow shirt

"Not as early as you. Eager, are we?" Lenny told Emi. Emi cheekily pokes out her tongue. The bus stop at the hospital isn't very crowded at this hour, which seems to please Emi, and we end up relaxing a little as they wait. They sat in silence for a while, but Lenny can tell that Emi's trying to work herself up to say something. Lenny doesn't have anything to say to himself, so he sat waiting for her to talk. It doesn't take too long.

"So uh, I'm sure you're curious as to why the nurse thought it was so weird for me to be bringing you along today..." Emi began. Lenny worked up the courage to speak.

"I was a bit, yes, but if you're not ready to tell me…" Lenny told Emi, but Emi stopped his sentence by placing a finger on his lips.

"Don't tempt me, Lenny. I want to tell you this, but I'm just uncertain as to how to go about it. I don't want to keep delaying or deferring, I just want to be able to say it." Emi explained but she was worried about them ruining it for each other. Lenny wanted a bit more from Emi.

"So, say it." Lenny tried his best to remain calm and they knew they weren't going to have an easy time about it.

"You know that it's not going to be that easy for me, Lenny." Emi admitted. He then remembered what Yuuko had told him about bringing up a difficult topic like this today.

"So, treat it like running. Warm up to it with something small and easy and go from there. But don't do it too fast, okay? I'm a patient man, I can wait for you to get to it." Lenny explained to Emi how to bring it up. Emi seems to consider Lenny's words, weighing them against what is probably a desire to get it over with. Lenny would admit, as much as he kept telling Emi to take her time, Lenny wouldn't mind her getting it over with either. But somehow Lenny knew that Emi probably needs more time than the bus ride will provide to get it all out, whatever it is.

"Yeah, maybe you're right. The bus stop probably isn't the best place for this anyway. But just to make sure that I don't go back on my word, I'll at least say this:" Emi began. She takes a deep breath, lets it out, and after a moment says in a low voice. "We're going to see my dad today." The words hang in the air, and Lenny could see that Emi's afraid that he'll panic and disappear in response by toppling over and having another heart attack. Which a part of him almost wants to do. But it would be stupid of Lenny to back out, or to suddenly abandon the promise he made to be there for Emi when she needed him as much as he needed her. The nurse thought it was so weird of her to bring Lenny along. She doesn't bring anyone along, or at least he was willing to bet that she hasn't before today. The day seems to take on an even greater significance. What has it taken Emi to even get this far? The pulse monitor began flashing a bit faster though Lenny knew he had to be calm.

"Ah." Lenny sighed, he wanted to get it out of his system. And why is that the best he could manage as a response?

"Yeah." Emi sighed back.

"I uh, I don't know what I should say." Lenny asked as he began to blush with embarrassment. Emi knew it would be best not to push it.

"Nothing, I think. Just promise that you're going to come with me." Emi smiled when she told him, she knew this was going to be a tough day, but she was willing to pull him along for a source of comfort.

"Of course! You know I will." Lenny tried to make Emi feel proud. Emi smiles wanly, looking a little relieved.

"Good. In that case, we'd better get going." Emi told Lenny. The bus pulls up just a little after she finishes the sentence. They boarded the bus and left the hospital for Meiko. Vague memories of Lenny's first trip out here come to mind as Lenny and Emi step off the bus, but unfortunately, they're too vague to be of any use. Lenny will be the first to admit that he doesn't quite recall how to get to Emi's house, so he let her lead the way. She seems content to walk in silence, and Lenny himself has no idea what he could possibly say, so the two of us arrive at her house having said nothing since getting off the bus. Emi's mother opens the door and doesn't seem surprised to see me standing next to her daughter. Lenny expects that Emi would have phoned ahead to let her mother know of the change in plans.

"Emi, Lenny, you're just in time! Lunch is just about ready." Meiko told the two of them that they were just in time. Emi stepped in happily while Lenny trailed nervously behind.

"Great! I was afraid we might be running late." Emi replied to Meiko as she was ready to get settled down. Lenny was on the edge as this was going to be a difficult day for the both of them.

"As fast as you were going this morning, I doubt there was much of a chance of that." Lenny nervously told Meiko. Emi playfully jabbed Lenny before she walked away.

"I certainly hope she wasn't too much of a bother, Lenny. She tends to get a little paranoid about being on time when food's involved." Meiko began to tell Lenny that Emi wanted to be on time whenever there was food at the table. Lenny began to wonder if Emi didn't like eating anything cold.

"I hadn't noticed." Lenny nervously told Meiko. This earns Lenny a playful swat on the arm from Emi, who despite the serious nature of their conversation on the bus and the almost brooding quiet walk has quickly become cheerful again. Probably to keep her mother from worrying about whatever it is, Emi plans to tell Lenny about it later. Mrs. Ibarazaki ushers us in, and in short order we're around the table devouring lunch. Lenny hadn't realized how hungry he was until he got here, but for once he seemed to be eating almost as much as Emi.

"Goodness, it's a good thing I made so much. The two of you are acting like you haven't eaten in days!" Meiko was surprised when she noticed the two of them were eating.

"I skipped breakfast this morning." Lenny admitted. He didn't get anything from the hospital when he was discharged.

"Me too." Emi added on.

"Had to catch the bus, I assume?" Meiko then asked them.

"That and I figured you'd make too much food so it wouldn't matter if I skipped breakfast." Lenny added as he tried to speak with an empty mouth.

"Well, it's good to know that I'm predictable." Meiko laughed as she noticed that they were doing well. Emi nods enthusiastically, and conversation falls off again as they very nearly clear the table of anything edible. It is a testament to the sheer amount of food on offer that we don't finish everything. Lenny leaned back in his chair with a sigh and thank Mrs. Ibarazaki for the food. "I'm glad you liked it, Lenny. Now, has Emi told you where we're going?"

"Yeah, sort of. Is it far from here?" Lenny replied to Meiko's request.

"Not really, but we'll drive there to save time. It closes kind of early." Meiko told them that they needed to get going now. Lenny nods in assent and stands up, ready to go.

"Well then, shall we?" Lenny asked. Mrs. Ibarazaki nods and leaves the room to grab her keys. Lenny turned to Emi, he noticed that she had started to fidget nervously. "Second thoughts?" Lenny asked. Emi smiles tightly at Lenny and shrugs. She's fallen silent again, which probably means that Lenny was right, and she is starting to regret bringing me along. Not that he blamed her; she's done such a good job of shutting him out that Lenny was starting to doubt it's easy to suddenly open up. Honestly, Lenny was worried that she's forcing it. But she said while waiting for the bus that Lenny was not supposed to give her a chance to back out, and since he promised to go with her anyway, Lenny supposed there's not much of a choice. He can't go back on my promise, and she can't go back on hers. Lenny just hopes the both of them are up to it.

"We're off!" Emi's mother blows through the dining room, collects the two of us, and heads out the door at a brisk pace. Now Lenny knows where her daughter gets it from. They got in and drove off. Within a few minutes the car pulled up at the cemetery gates, and Lenny felt Emi tense up beside Lenny. He reaches over and gives her hand a comforting squeeze, which causes her to relax a little. Emi's mother doesn't follow them, explaining that she prefers to visit the grave alone. Emi steps through the gates and looks back, as if to make sure he's still there. They step into the cemetery. Lenny looked back at the name of this cemetery in particular. It seemed… familiar to him. His pulse monitor began to race as if he was getting some unwanted thoughts. They walked deeper in.

Lenny didn't feel comfortable in cemeteries. Gravestones litter the ground, each one serving as a reminder that someone used to be alive and is no longer. How many died young? How many were as old as he was now? When will he wind up with a marker of his own? How much longer did he have left? The concept of not waking up, not seeing Emi anymore, is not a happy one. It frightens him, and Lenny very nearly turns around and exits right then and there. He doesn't want to go among dead people, Lenny didn't want to see their stones and think about who they were or what they could have been if they'd only had more time. Then Lenny looks at the girl next to him, and his resolve returns. Emi's striding purposefully down the path, eyes clear, setting a pace that's very nearly a jog. The faster they get there, he suspect she thinks, the better.

"We're here." Emi softly told Lenny. A gravestone, wholly unremarkable in everything except for the name etched upon it. The grass has grown up around the base. Emi's eyes are riveted to the stone. After a few moments she turns around, looking surprisingly calm, yet solemn. She looked up to Lenny as she was ready to tell him "Pink's not actually my favorite color, you know." Emi began. Lenny was a bit confused by this.

"Er, what?" Lenny asked, he tilted his head to the left in a puzzled manner.

"I'm warming up to it." Emi explained.

"Ah." Lenny sighed while his head went back to where it was. Emi continued to speak.

"People tend to think that pink's my favorite color. I think it's because I like strawberries, and even though those are red they just assume that pink's the right color for strawberries. And that it's my favorite color. But it's not. I'm too polite to tell anyone otherwise, of course, and it's not the kind of thing worth getting worried about, but I'll bet even you thought pink was my favorite color. Blue. That's my favorite color. My mom and dad are the only two who know that, and now you do too." Emi explained that her favorite color was Blue to Lenny. "Just like your eyes, Lenny."

"Thanks for telling me, I think." Lenny was still puzzled but he did like the compliment that Emi gave him. Emi continued to speak.

"You're welcome." Emi sweetly complimented. There's a pause as she considers what to say next, drawing a quick breath. "I can't carry a tune to save my life. I can hum, but actually singing a song is something I've never been able to do. I don't mind, because I'm not a fan of karaoke anyway."

"Well, that's one potential date idea out the window." Lenny added a bit of humor to the conversation. Emi continued to speak

"People all think that I'm a really popular and friendly person, but I only have a few close friends. Probably because I keep everyone in the dark, but I think it's also because I hate the idea of losing a close friend. There aren't many people worth the risk. I'm terrible at saying goodbye. I sometimes think that I only run because it's what I used to do with my father. You're not my first boyfriend. I dated a guy for a long while during my second year at Yamaku, but in the end we broke up, because I didn't want to get closer to him. He couldn't live with that distance between us." Emi explained that Lenny wasn't the first person she dated. Her rate of speaking increases slightly, as if she's rushing towards a finish line. "I'm actually one year older than you. Everybody thinks I'm younger because I'm short, but I had to skip one school year because of my accident. They initially thought I was paralyzed when they pulled me out of the wreckage. I'd lost my legs already, but they were afraid that I wouldn't even be able to use what was left of them. After surgery, it was clear that their initial assessment was mistaken. I couldn't feel my legs because of the shock. Short term paralysis due to the other trauma I'd experienced. My recovery was one of the fastest they'd ever seen, or so they told me. I never found out if they were serious about that or if they told that to all the patients learning to walk again. I..." Emi continued to explain before she paused, gathering herself for one last effort. Her voice began to get a bit somber as she knew this was going to be the hardest thing to say. "Eight years ago today, I lost my legs. And I lost my father as well. He died on the way to the hospital. I didn't even get to go to the gravesite until two months later and couldn't attend his funeral."

"I'm so sorry." Lenny told Emi; his eyes were beginning to water a bit.

"Don't be. That's what everyone always says that they're sorry. I hate hearing that. Like anyone could have done anything to change what happened. You know the best piece of advice I got? "These things happen." I don't even remember who said it, but I guess they didn't have anything better to say. But it's true, you know? These things happen, and there's nothing you can do about it. They aren't necessarily planned, and they aren't always bad, and they aren't always good, but they are. So, I made the decision that I would live without worrying about the future. And to be sure that I never had to say goodbye again, I decided I wouldn't let people get close to me anymore. After all, they could be taken away at any time. And you know what?" Emi explained. She laughs, a little bitterly. Her eyes start to well up with tears, and Lenny steps forward to embrace her but she holds up a hand to stop me. "M'not finished." Emi told Lenny even though she had more to say. A deep breath, and she continues. "It worked pretty well! Until I met you and saw that you were trying to adjust to stuff here, so I thought I'd help and then you were so nice, and I couldn't help it, I just..." Emi couldn't figure out what to say next before Lenny knew he had to ask.

"Emi?" Lenny tried to figure out what Emi was going to say next. Lenny got her on the right track and began speaking. The tears are flowing now, and she accepts the embrace this time. The rest of her sentence is mumbled into his chest. Lenny placed his arms around Emi as the words fell out of her mouth.

"I tried not to fall for you, but I did. And then I tried to keep you at a distance, like with my first boyfriend, but I couldn't. But I've been so scared, because I don't want to lose you and I might anyway…" Lenny knew Emi was crying now and he had to be there for her.

"Hey, I'm still around, right? And maybe I won't be forever, but don't you think it'll be fun while it lasts? Neither of us could survive the day, there could be a bus crash or something, but so long as I know that I've been with you, I don't think it matters." Lenny reassured her that he wasn't going anywhere. A sudden thought strikes him, and he can't help laughing. His condition had him scared of dying so badly that Lenny had immediately seized on the opportunity Emi presented to improve his odds of living longer. But without Emi, would there have been any motivation to keep up with Lenny running? It hits him that Emi is the reason he wanted to go running every day, so he can spend as much time with her as possible. Emi looks up at Lenny, confused. "We'll go on living until we stop. And when we stop living, we'll be able to know that at least we've had time together, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Because you're there for me, Emi, and right now that's enough for me." Emi smiles through her tears, and steps back from him.

"You know, it's funny." Emi began, she was wiping some tears away from her eyes.

"What is?" Lenny asked Emi.

"I thought that the best way to live in the moment was to do it alone. But now, I don't think I'd have it any other way either. I'm glad I met you, Lenny." Emi hugged him again. After a moment they released each other.

"Well, these things happen." Lenny sighed. Emi and Lenny stay by the grave for a while, as Emi pays her respects to her father. When she's ready to go, they exited the graveyard side by side. Meiko was waiting at the entrance before she began speaking to Emi and Lenny.

"Before we go." Meiko began. Emi and Lenny paused as Meiko continued to speak. "I learned someone was buried in section 2C. I got the name of who was buried, and I wanted to go visit there before we leave." Lenny began to think 2C was very familiar to him as well as the burial site.

"Where is 2C?" Lenny asked.

"It's close to the exit plus the person who was buried is close to the road. Looks like she was buried next to her husband." Meiko explained. "I'll take you both there." The two of them hopped into the car and Meiko drove them off. It seemed to be a long way away. Even though Emi had paid her respects to her father, she was curious about who was buried. After a few minutes of slow driving. Meiko parked the car and opened the door. She was going to let them see who it was that was buried. She stood at the car watching from a distance as Lenny and Emi got out.

Lenny was still on the edge, much like to go and pay their respects to Emi's father. It was only a short walk as Emi paused and decided to tell Lenny about it. The two gravestones read the last name of Hirahi, the first one looked like it had been resting for a few months now and the other still had the dirt kicked up from when it was put to rest.

"Lenny, Meiko told me this is the place your parents are buried." Emi began. Lenny turned to see Meiko talking to the grave keeper of the area and Lenny decided to open up to Emi the same way she opened up to him.

"Red's not my favorite color." Lenny began.

"Oh. I guess you're warming up to it." Emi asked Lenny if this was going to be true.

"Yes." Lenny told Emi. "People tend to think that red's my favorite color. I think it's because people think about my pulse monitor, and even though those are red they just assume that Red's the right color for fruit such as strawberries. And that it's my favorite color. But it's not. I'm too polite to tell anyone otherwise, of course, and it's not the kind of thing worth getting worried about, but I'll bet even you thought Red was my favorite color. Yellow. That's my favorite color. My mom and dad are the only two who know that, and now you do too." Emi knew that Lenny's color reflected in her hair.

"You're taking the words out of my mouth. I guess you're following me." Emi told Lenny.

"I can't carry a cheerful tune when the moment gets serious, nor can I say that everything is fine. I can't carry a happy mask like you do as I feel like I'm hiding something I don't want people to know. I suck at Karaoke as I can't sing like Hanako or Rin." Lenny added.

"Well, we can have similar date nights if you want." Emi added, she placed her arms around him.

"People say I'm a shy person when I got to Yamaku and that's true, I never had any close friends outside of school nor has a girl confessed to me as of yet. I keep myself at a distance as I don't want to get involved in any sort of drama that can end a friendship. Iwanako was the closest friend I have had, and I had never met Hisao at the time. When she told me he had suffered a heart attack? I wished him the best. Now that we've spent some time together, it only shows how similar we are." Lenny continued to admit to his secrets, in fact the first girl that admitted that she loved him was Emi. "About four months ago, I lost my father in a car crash similar to yours. I was emotionally devastated, and I only got worse. I was often sent to the nurse's office for being unresponsive and they thought it was a fit. When I visited Iwanako that day, who promised me to get some therapy to help my condition, I felt like my heart had shut down and I fell over. Iwanako told me she was rushing by my side as she felt like I suffered the same thing as Hisao. She thinks she's bad luck whenever they talk to her, they fall over and never respond. I told her that wasn't the case and she stayed by my side for the first couple of days." Lenny explained, his eyes were beginning to tear up as he was spilling out his secrets.

"Hisao told me that when your old school announced that you were dead, Iwanako was the only person who didn't believe it. She sent countless letters to you to check on your condition, but she got no reply back. She sent a letter to Hisao, and he told her about you and how you were now at Yamaku Academy. When we learned that your mother had died, we were wondering if you were going to follow them too. But you're still here." Emi explained what exactly happened while Lenny was down and out. Lenny was now tearing up as he embraced Emi into his arms.

"So, you think you're gonna fix me? Well, you can't." Lenny sobbed while tears were staining Emi's shirt. Emi knew she needed to speak to him the truth.

"It was never about me fixing you, I just want to help. I can't make the nightmares go away, any more than I can stop your heart from being a time bomb. It's not about us 'fixing' each other. It's about being there for each other to make it less miserable. To have someone to trust and rely on, and work through the problems as best we can. Lenny, I love you. If you want me in your life, I'm going to be involved in it. And you're gonna be part of mine. We need to do this together to make this work. Can we do that? Can we make this work together?" Emi explained to Lenny that they didn't have to fix each other so much as be there for each other. Lenny leaned up to see Emi.

"If you're willing to be there for me. I will be there for you. You opened up first and I got the courage to open up about my feelings." Lenny softly spoke to Emi. Emi kissed him as it was a means of making him feel better. Meiko approached them and stared at one of the graves.

"Mrs. Hirahi had been buried this morning. We sadly missed out on it." Meiko told them as she watched them open up to each other. Lenny, Emi and Meiko decided to pay their respects to Lenny's parents before they walked back to the car. Meiko was going to drive them straight back to Yamaku academy. In the car, Emi began to speak.

"Hey Lenny?" Emi asked.

"Yes?" Lenny asked.

"Well since I told you blue was my favorite color and you told me your favorite color is yellow…"

"...Want to make green?"

[A/N]: Another long chapter for you as we finally find out what ended up happening to Lenny's father and what happened in the first chapter when he had the conversation with the girl who was Iwanako all of this time. I think there will be some last wrapping up after this with some Emi and Lenny and probably some Shizune, Misha and Kenji antics at the end.

All good things have to come to an end. See you in the last chapter. Goodbye.