Taka: Her PastThat night I lay in bed a long time, worrying. This time not just over Shinji, who had to keep going back home with that maniac of a father, but also over that i***t girl who’d dragged herself to our place after getting her ass kicked for being around us. I tried to think of a way to keep that pack of girls off her back, but I doubted our telling them to cut it out would have the desired effect. If anything, they’d probably get worse, thinking she’d tattled or something. Just like with Shinji, I was useless to her, nothing but a come-late doctor who could patch up their wounds. But how long would it be before one or both of them ended up with wounds I couldn’t fix?
The lack of sleep and my frustration left me short-tempered. When Shinji arrived at our meeting place five minu
