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29 - See You Later

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

JULY

      Sometimes, Misaki wondered how time had gone by so damn fast. One moment, she was busy preparing for the University of Tokyo's entrance exam with Hanamaki and Matsukawa; the next, the three had given the exam and cleared it with pretty good marks. Not that their passing the entrance exam was ever in question. All three had already found a cheap apartment in Tokyo, about ten minutes away from campus.

       Surprisingly, Misaki's mom had agreed to this arrangement. After all she knew Hanamaki and Matsukawa and both of them were pretty damn nice; when they weren't teasing Misaki, that is. Given how the three of them had chosen the furniture of the apartment (six rounds of rock-paper-scissors), living together would be a lot of chaos and a lot of fun.

      As happy as Misaki was about that, there was a certain part of her that was wallowing in sorrow. In what was a very freaky coincidence, both Iwaizumi and Tooru were leaving on the same flight. Iwaizumi would fly to California, to the UC at Irvine, and Tooru would also fly there, but take a connecting flight to Argentina. Them leaving at the same time? That broke Misaki's heart. Just a little bit.

      Just a little bit.

      Okay, maybe more than a little.

       The three of them had been together for so long; almost their entire lives. And now, all of them were going their separate ways. Iwaizumi to California, Tooru to Argentina and Misaki to Tokyo. At least, Iwaizumi and Tooru would be in time zones that were close to each other. She would be more than 10 hours ahead of both of them. Weird. Weird. Weird. But also annoyingly sad, she thought.