Chapter 20: Truthful Friendship
Throughout the week , Sakura kept making excuses to herself for not inviting the girls over so she could tell them the truth. She knew Akari had a student council meeting on Tuesdays and Hina had band after school Mondays, so “of course” it would be rude to ask them to come those days. Wednesday afternoon, she was packing her bag at the end of class when Hina and Akari came over to see if she wanted to go to the arcade.
“I’m sorry. Karasu-kun seemed like he might be coming down with a cold this morning, so I really want to check on him.” A cold spell had come through, dumping a freezing rain over the area for days, a prelude to the still elusive first snow, at least according to the forecasters. Karasu had gotten caught in it the day before and had been fe
