Sorry it took so long to update this! I seriously thought I could knock out at least three more chapters within that week. Whoops.

Anyway, this is long(ish) for one of these chapters. The actual story part of this chapter alone was more words than the entire last chapter (author's note included).

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Dear Hayato,

I assume since it's been a month since I wrote to you and you still haven't replied that you don't want to speak with me.

Untrue.

It's alright.

Is that so?

Should I tell you about me? Is that too selfish?

Have you ever been too selfish a day in your life?

I decided last week that whether you reply or not I'll still write. Maybe one day I'll tell you something you something you find the need to say something about.

Alright, that's a bit selfish.

Anyway, I suppose it's not all that selfish.

I plan on going to university after I graduate, and my teachers have told me that with my GPA I could go to any school I please.

For once, the teachers are right.

What are your plans for after graduation?

My plans? Good question, Aoi.

You're such a smart guy,

Would a smart guy avoid talking to the prettiest girl he knows for three years, the girl who also happens to be the smartest girl at her school and who, for whatever reason, has a huge crush on him? Would this "smart guy" turn his back on the most perfect girl he could even imagine, without a word? Would he really throw away the best independent variable the universe could throw at a guy with no future? That's a great guy to you?

I'm rambling.

And you could go to any school you like as well.

Maybe with my grades, but one look at my personal record would send the colleges running.

If you really try you could have a GPA higher than mine. Speaking of which, how are your grades?

Better than I would've thought three years ago.

We never spoke about the future, so I don't have any idea what you want to be or do. I always wanted to be a doctor. That's what I want to go to university for.

Med school? No thanks.

I asked Ryuu,

Please stop bringing up the bane of my existence.

But he said you'd never spoken to him seriously about the future to him either, not even when you were children. Why is that, Hayato?

Not for any interesting reasons, that's for sure.

My sister wants to be a model, and I believe she can achieve that.

A doctor and a model. Interesting combination.

She's thin, and truly beautiful, much prettier than me.

Don't be so harsh. Jeez.

She's been doing a few amateur modeling jobs as of late. She already has a small fanbase. My sister is going to be a supermodel, of that I am sure. (I can only hope she'll never succumb to eating disorders and the like. Goodness knows how often supermodels lose their careers to things like that)

How nice it feels to witness a functioning sibling relationship.

I hope you respond this time, Hayato.

…

I'll be honest, I miss you.

How sweet of you to say. Miss you too.

I have since the day you left. I guess I sort of secretly enjoyed running back and forth between your school and mine incognito.

Knewww it.

It provided some much need excitement in my "perfect" life.

Please write back.

I would if I could.

-Aoi

(I guess formality was never our forte, now was it?)

Very true, Aoi. Very true.