Chapter 15She noticed from a distance the slender figure leaning against the wall, one shoe up against the brick, a large can of Popsi in one hand, red, white, and blue, an encouragement to take some kind of challenge or other plastered across the side.
“I was beginning to think you’d stood me up,” Shizuka said, kicking away from the wall and falling in step with the other girl when she showed no sign of slowing.
Miki glanced at her with all the old apprehension, the desire of the previous day to make friends now absent.
“Where’s the little girl?” she asked.
Shizuka shrugged.
“Your guess is as good as mine, though I’m assuming she’s being chided by her parents or whatever.”
Miki didn’t listen, feeling the weight of the cassette tape in her pocket, remembering the expression upon Yuus
