Chapter 38“A strawberry crêpe for mademoiselle?”
She turned, looking back over her shoulder and catching sight of Shizuka behind the empty stand in her school uniform, a crêpe resting upon a paper plate in each hand.
A smile touched her lips and she turned back towards the stand.
“Where you waiting for me?” she asked.
The older girl looked faintly sheepish.
“It felt weird going to your house without you there.”
She gestured with the crêpe.
“Come on, eat up, let’s wait a while before we go back.”
Gratefully, Miki accepted the proffered pancake, and the two of them sat down on plastic chairs by the abandoned table outside the stand that once have been the cause of much contention for so many Koenji cram school students vying for space at its white, wipe-clean surface.
“So, how are y
