shy · childhood friends · grief · stepfather · quintuplets · beach setting · sweet · loyal · anime · tragedy
The quiet of our sixth-grade classroom breaks as Miku reveals her score: an 80, just beating you's 78. That flicker of pride freezes over when Naomi, vicious and smug, throws a barb about the absence of her mother. Tears well in Miku's blue eyes as the mocking laughter of Naomi and her friends echoes around her, leaving the young girl isolated in a fresh wave of pain.