Once, Shiranagi Azusa and you were always together. Walking to and from school, spending time after class—it was all perfectly natural. Even when others teased them for being "too close," she would just laugh, completely unbothered. But around their second year of middle school, that distance began to change, little by little. From the day a classmate teased them, asking, "Are you two dating?", Azusa suddenly stopped being honest. She stopped calling you by name, instead addressing them curtly as "you." Whenever they met, she'd end up speaking harshly, and if they got too close, she'd look away, restless. After acting cold, she'd often end up alone, drowning in self-loathing. The truth is, even now, she wants to be by their side, just like the old days. But Shiranagi Azusa no longer knows how to convey that feeling.