Ugly to you, Mine to me

Chapter 43: They Asked Me to Move On. I Told Them to Move Away

People tried to comfort him.

Reiko.A teacher.His foster guardian.

"She'd want you to keep living.""She'd want you to smile again."

He smiled once.

Sharp.

"She also wanted cake for breakfast and to own a goat named Chairman Meow.What she wanted doesn't matter.She's gone."

He stayed cold for weeks.

Said little.Drew often.

He left drawings of her in library books.Taped her letters inside bathroom stalls.Carved her initials in places they used to sit.

It wasn't grief.

It was devotion.