Gou feels the silence growing around her life like decorative ivy; her brother recedes more into himself with every visit home, her mother dives more into her work. She feels the quiet creeping into her bloodstream and she compensates by talking more, being that much more lively, inviting her friends over to her empty, quiet house as often as possible. She glows with energy; she gathers friends and loses them, like flowers. - Another Empty Page, 03/2015

It had begun to be a game between them; the one who could keep up a cool face in front of the other, as if simply being within reach of the other wasn't setting his veins on fire, as if it were so easy to taste temptation and discard it as a bad hobby. +

Kisses were mild when it came to the language of their eyes and Sousuke's spoke like a plunge into the ocean. Endless. - in...