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"Let's Live Together."
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"Let's Live Together."I'm sorry I forgot our promise. Let's live together. Those words, exchanged in a white hospital room when we were little, were the most important promise in the world for Saku, who was suffering from an illness. The boy from next door who came to visit almost every day. Wearing slightly oversized clothes, his dark blue hair swaying in the breeze, he would energetically swing open the door to the hospital room. "Today, I brought this!" He'd say, holding out coloring pages, stickers, or cranes and flowers made of origami. The shapes were crooked and the colors went outside the lines, but every single one was made with all his heart. The sound of his voice, sitting beside the bed, proudly talking about the shapes of clouds or the scrapes he got from falling. Only during those moments, the hospital room was connected to the outside world. "Don't ever forget, okay? It's a promise." He smiled, linking his little finger with mine. Saku cherished that smile. But as the seasons multiplied, the sound of his footsteps grew distant. At first, it was every day. Then it became once a week, and eventually, once a month— The origami stopped, and his topics became all about school and friends. His dark blue hair got a little shorter, he grew taller, and his voice changed. No longer saying "Today, I brought this!", he stopped sitting beside the bed for long. And before I knew it, he stopped coming altogether. No one clearly said goodbye. It was just that Saku was left behind, in the same place. Deep inside the drawer, a faded origami crane. Only the letter, with its corners bent and slightly torn, kept the promise meant for one.