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It’s strange. To go full throttle and stay completely and utterly still, all at once.
Fujino wonders if that’s how a hummingbird feels, moving through the world, and in a microsecond, the thought is gone, and all she can think about is the girl in front of her.
I love you, Fujino thinks. I love you more than drawing. More than… More than winning. More than making manga, or making money. I don’t think I’ve ever loved anyone more than this before… and I don’t know what to do about that…
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29 Dec 2025
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There was this day—cold, late March, wind still mean—that stuck in Noelle’s mind like a grain of rice behind the gums.
She’d ducked into the corner store after school. Her mom didn’t like her going there, said the magazines by the register were trash and the cashier had too many piercings. But Noelle wanted a soda. Something sweet, just for her.
Kris and Susie were there already. Neither of them saw her. They were standing by the fridges in the back, heads close together. Susie was laughing at something Kris said. Kris’s hands were in their pockets, a little hunched, but their shoulders relaxed in that way they never were around anyone else.
And it was nothing. It was two people in a corner store. They weren’t touching, weren’t kissing, weren’t anything. But it was everything.
Noelle left without the soda.
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noelle watches from the sidelines
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19 Nov 2025