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11:30 PM, Tuesday night.
Sayori sat in bed, staring blankly at the messages app on her phone. She was sad—not a big surprise. She usually started feeling sad around this time of night, especially when she was alone. The night feelings were very easy to get lost in.
She was thinking about sending a text.
“Do I deserve a distraction?” thought Sayori. “Do I deserve to stop feeling this way?”
On another night, she might have answered “No” and kept on sinking into her sadness. But tonight, she felt like a good night was still possible for her.
Some greedy, self-preserving part of her still wanted to have a good night, or at least a night that wasn’t completely miserable. How selfish.
Fine, so be it.
She tapped on MC’s name on her phone and typed a message. “Walk tonight?”
She hesitated before hitting send.
Sayori felt always felt slightly pathetic asking MC for a walk. Like he’d say no for some reason—although he never had. But this time, her selfish desire to be happy outweighed her fear of rejection, and she pressed enter.
“2 mins”, came the reply almost instantly. “Lemme put my jacket on.”
Sayori got out of bed and started using her phone flashlight to look for her socks in the dark. Her mind was getting pulled back to reality by the task of getting dressed, and she smiled to herself thinking that it’d be just a moment until she could see her friend.
Already, she was forgetting what she had been sad about.