It was a lovely afternoon, perfect weather for a vacation ,or so Maki thought, she was returning from school,

"Every school has given holiday today why didn't my school give holiday too." As she came near her house she was totally surprised to find the ginger haired girl there. Honoka was wearing a Pink dress with a white hat to block the sun, she held a pink basket in both her hands as she leaned against the gate. She was humming a song which Maki didn't recognize. Although Maki noticed her she seemed to have not noticed Maki as she kept humming the song. Maki was surprised she usually goes to Honoka's house after school to bring her to her mansion.

"Honoka-chan" Honoka immediately stood straight hearing Maki's voice ,she looked towards Maki as the redhead was approaching her. " You are here and waiting for me, how come".

Honoka looked confused "Eh, your asking me why, weren't you the one who suggested we should go on a picnic today?"

Of course Maki remembered saying that, "Yeah but I never thought you'll come here, much less waiting for me."

"We had a holiday today, and I wanted to reach there quickly", Honoka said holding her basket up.

" I guess Honoka-chan is becoming much more cheerful aandi guess she thinks of me as a good friend now." Maki thought unconsciously smiling at Honoka.

"Hey why are you smiling Maki-chan?" Honoka asked she didn't see anything funny in what she had said.

"Eh simply, hey give me some time to get ready I'll be right back." Honoka nodded as Maki went into her house to get changed.

A few minutes later both of them were walking side by side through the familiar path,

"That basket looks heavy Maki-chan," Honoka asked Maki who was carrying a basket much too big for her size, Maki had decided to put on a simple red dress with sunglasses although it was not that sunny.

"Well I packed enough lunch for both of us,-"

"And enough dinner, seriously I think that food will be enough for 5 sumo wrestlers" Honoka laughed a bit after saying that.

" Hey I resent that, besides I'm sure we will hungry again soon-" hey stop laughing. " Maki said loudly seeing Honoka laugh but she was glad to see Honoka laughing."

"OK OK sorry , oh look we're here," Maki looked at the picnic spot they had picked which was exactly the same spot were the cherry tree was last time when they were picking cherries they decided it was a good picnic spot , since it had many flowers,trees, and a river flowing nearby not to mention the tree was shady enough, the grass was free of many stones,and the waterful nearby gave a feeling they were somewhere in middle of the forest , far away from home, away from all thier problems.

They sat down under a huge tree and had some rice cakes.

"This place is beautiful Maki-chan, " Honoka said taking a bite from her rice cake

"Yeah, it is,"

"Hey Maki-chan how long does it take for a cherry tree to grow",

Maki stopped eating her rice cake,"Huh? That question came out of nowhere,".why do you want to know that?".

" Look at that cherry tree, it provided us with so many cherries that day so I wanted to plant another one so more cherries will be there,"

"Are you sure it takes 1 year for just a small cherry plant to grow, we must take care of it, water it ,protect it-"

Wait a minute protect? "

" Yeah it's very delicate and is prone to dangers easily,"

After discussing about planting the tree they did plant a tree very next to the old cherry tree. Honoka said she didn't want the cherry tree to be lonely ,that didn't make sense to Maki as trees don't know talk but she planted it the same place anyway.

" l'll go and get some water from the river," Maki said carrying a huge nodded. She quickly filled it with water and as she was returning back she heard Honoka talking to herself, she hid behind a tree to listen to at least it looked like she is talking to herself but turns out that she was talking to the new seed they had planted.

"Hey you are going to grow up in a few years, there might be lots of hardships ahead people may pluck your leaves or try to destroy you but you must stay strong, I know that grow to be an awesome tree, providing shade and shelter to birds and animals, and of course giving cherries too.

It looked like Honoka stopped so Maki was about come out but stopped when she talked again

" And you'll never be lonely the nature and other trees are with you, just like Maki-chan is with me now.

Maki who was leaning against the tree smiled hearing took the bottle and went over where Honoka was.

"Maki-chan you sure took a lot of time to just get water".

" oh just got distracted ".

Together both of them water the that Honoka found some dandelions she took one and blew it only few flew away, she tried again with the same results.

" You must blow them like this".Maki said catching the Honoka's hand which held the Dandelion. Caught off guard Honoka could only stare at Maki who blew away all the petals.

See"

"Yeah,I will try again." But that too ended up the same way.

They soon realised it was late and decided to go home

"I can't believe that I could not blow them properly." Honoka pouted.

"Hey you could always try tomorrow.

"OK see you tomorrow Honoka said waving goodbye to Maki who waved back.

As Honoka returned home happily that day, she didn't expect a visitor, not just any visitor the visitor was her.

"Daddy, what are you doing here?.she asked coldly looking at her father.

" Honoka-chan don't be rude to your father," she aunt said and then smiled " Aren't you happy to see him."

"Not really should'nt he be in his very important work," she said it with a angry tone which made her father instantly guilty hearing it.

"Honoka-" her aunt went to say , but Honoka's dad interrupted.

"Honoka-chan, I'm really sorry for leaving you alone, how can you forgive your dad.

" You could leave me alone again,"

"But Honoka-chan, we can stay together as a family so I've come to take you home,"

"I don't want to come with you, and what do you mean take me home is'nt our home here in Osaka."

"No Honoka-chan", her dad said " we are leaving Osaka and shifting to Tokyo."

"What,!?" Honoka exclaimed, dropping the basket which she was holding.

AN: hey everyone long time huh?.so I don't have much to say, yeah sorry for the delay.

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