I watched the words come and go. I couldn’t even blink. I felt unbelievably sad. My throat quivered. I placed my palm against my chest. I knew that me and Naruse were still alive and everything, but the people we were then, back when he sang to me, were gone forever. It hurt so bad I thought my heart was going to pop. It pained me to remember Naruse, the teenage Naruse who was gone now, and the way he’d felt about me back then. He really cared about me, even though I was a lost cause with nowhere to go. Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older. We could say goodnight and stay together. Wouldn’t it
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