At just half past three, Sachiko and two friends from school arrived at the station to take the Yokosuka Line. On Saturday, the carriages to Kamakura were almost full, and a few girls were unlucky enough to find seats next to each other.

Friends Eri and Haruko sat next to each other, and Sachiko sat behind them alone.

After getting into the car, the two friends also apologized to her, "I'm sorry, Sachiko." I didn't expect that. ”

"It doesn't matter. Sachiko said.

But I thought to myself, there is nothing more upsetting than a triangular relationship.

She doesn't mind sitting alone, and it's not the fact that she's left alone that makes her feel upset. But when she was alone, the apologies of the two people who were a partner to her made her not know how to deal with it.

Once someone apologizes, such an accidental thing as being alone suddenly becomes miserable.

But this is not only between friends, but also in other places. This became another reason for her upset.

From here, it's an hour's drive to Kamakura. Eri and Haruko talk and laugh, and Sachiko is not jealous.

When she first went to Beijing from Akita and just transferred to school, it was Eri who first extended her hand. After that, he introduced her to Haruko. The two girls opened up their own little world and accepted her as a third person.

When Sachiko was so loved, she also thought in her heart that if it was her, I was afraid she wouldn't be able to do it. That's why she thanked Eri and Haruko for being able to do it, and took a small step back at the right time.

…… It's like whenever she is invited by Yukie Nakama, when the two of them are together, if they are taken to see Ye Zhao, they will always consciously take a step back and keep their distance.

Sachiko couldn't say what she really thought in her heart.

The scenery outside the train window was hurriedly skimmed, and when I reported to the name of Yokohama Station, I was halfway through the short journey.

In spring, the nights begin to get shorter and the days increase. When we arrived in Kamakura, it was still very bright. After finishing the check-in, the three girls happily ran to the seaside boulevard.

A resort, the sea of Shonan shines brightly and is as beautiful as a pearl.

After coming to Tokyo, Sachiko felt that one of the most significant changes was that she saw the sea differently.

"Nice and gentle sea. Sachiko looked at the sea where seagulls flew in flocks, and subconsciously compared the sea here with the Sea of Japan, which she had been accustomed to since childhood.

"What?" Eri reacted, suddenly realized, and smiled, "That's because Sachiko has always looked at the Sea of Japan in the past, so that's why she thinks so." ”

The Sea of Japan is black, cold and heavy, and matches the gloomy and dreary skies of northern winter. In fact, Eri has never been to the north, nor has she seen the Sea of Japan. She only listened to Sachiko talk about it, and she had a vague impression of it.

For girls born and raised in Tokyo, the north is distant and ambiguous.

Akita is a remote country that is only reminiscent of things like Akita dogs and udon, and even the local young people can't stay, and they have just started junior high school and have already begun to imagine when they will leave.

But for Sakiko, Akita still has memories of her life from birth to her teenage years, and the painful burden that her parents brought to her almost as a result of her birth.

Fathers committed suicide for their mothers, and later men committed suicides for their mothers. At that time, at a young age, I already knew that my mother was called a "witch".

Then she is the witch's daughter.

Thinking of this, Sachiko felt creepy, and was afraid of being looked at differently, so she secretly hid and cried alone.

Later, when I grew up, this matter was buried deep in my heart. It's just that she wants to leave Akita more than anyone else, no matter what.

She felt very happy to live with her mother again. Even if you are a mother and don't know how to be a mother, and you don't know what a good daughter looks like, you still feel very happy.

The only thing is that after living together, the beauty of her mother awakened the thorn that pierced her heart when she was a child. Her mother was so beautiful and dazzling that even she felt envious. But the beauty of her mother is a painful burden for her at the same time.

At night, three girls shared the same room. They dragged the sleeping bunks next to each other, and after taking a bath, lay down side by side on them, and had a girls' meeting.

"It's fun to live together like this. ”

"I'm at home, and I'm so lively all day long. So sometimes, there are fantasies about living alone. Eri said. Of the three, Haruko and Sachiko are only daughters, but Eri has a big family with an older brother and a younger sister.

"There are a lot of brothers and sisters, and it must be very different. ”

"Actually, it's not good at all. My brother never took me seriously, and sometimes he would pretend not to know me when he met me outside, and he only wore underwear to walk around in the summer. ”

"Eh-" Haruko frowned, and Sachiko reacted similarly.

"My sister was very cute when she was a child, but now she is seven or eight years old, and it is time to be disgusting. At a young age, I already knew how to fight against me as an older sister. ”

"It's horrible. The two girls were stunned when they heard this.

"I didn't expect life to be so hard with siblings......"

"No wonder Eri wants to live alone. ”

"However, it's okay to live alone once in a while. Eri looked like she had seriously considered it, "Occasionally live alone, and then go back to the family." ”

Haruko heard this and said that Eri was "cunning". Sachiko was silent, and subtly agreed with Eri's words in her heart.

Leave your mom and try to live alone once in a while...... Such a strange thought crossed her mind.

Teenage girls' school students, the topics they get together seem to be all-encompassing, but they are actually very simple and pure. Going around and around, you can't do without those few things.

On Valentine's Day, Haruko's mother, together with her daughter, made chocolate chip cookies for the whole class. Although it is a girls' school where there are no boys who can give chocolates, because of this, there is a tradition of giving friendship chocolates to girls on Valentine's Day.

"Actually, I sent a Honmei chocolate this year. Haruko couldn't hide her words.

Eri and Sachiko were curious, "Who is it?"

"It's a classmate from the former elementary school.,The surname is Tachikawa.。 Tachikawa-kun plays baseball very well, and the team he belongs to now is said to be the favorite in Koshien. "Haruko is very generous.

It's much easier to tell your friends about someone they don't know than to say they know someone.

"So powerful?!"

Such emotion does not necessarily come from Tachikawa playing baseball well, but from the fact that Haruko gave away Honmei chocolate.

However, because of Valentine's Day, the following White Day is unsettling. Haruko held her chin with one hand, a little worried, "It's like she's waiting for a trial." ”

"Maybe 'acquittal'. Eri laughed.

"It's a shame you can say that. Haruko also smiled, "What about Eri, did you give out the Honmei chocolate?"

Eri shook her head, "Who can send it?" ”

"So, what about Sachiko?" the two girls united and faced her.

"Me?" Sachiko was stunned for a moment, "I haven't been in Tokyo for a long time, and there is no one to send to." ”

That being said. On Valentine's Day, Sachiko also gave friendship chocolates to the locals, but they were bought from a chocolate store. Mother won't have time to spend with her to make chocolate.

However, she worked with another person to make a chocolate with her own hands.

Can that be considered natal chocolate?

"Yes. Eri and Haruko nodded, a little unrelenting, gossiping about her past, "Sachiko was co-educational when she was in Akita, right?"

"Well, yes. ”

"So, there's no one you like?"

"Come on, I was a kid then. Sachiko smiled wryly.

"But it's only a year away. The two girls were excited by her flickering words.

Before Valentine's Day, Yukie Nakama invited her to join her, and the two of them went to the chocolate workshop and made chocolates with their own hands. The chocolate I gave to my boyfriend was made into a heart-shaped.

Nissan might be embarrassed to see it. Sachiko half-joked.

Ye Zhao doesn't seem to be very good at dealing with this kind of explicit expression.

Yuki Nakama smiled implicitly, "I think so." After a pause, he said a little playfully, "However, once a year, it would be better to embarrass him a little." ”

This is a privilege that belongs to her girlfriend, so she uses it with peace of mind.

"Loving love, you two. Sachiko teased her.

That day, Sachiko made several chocolates one after another, and finally, as if on a whim, she made a chocolate in the shape of a rabbit that looked like she had landed on the ground from the sky and had been run over by a car.

"It's all here, and I'll bring one for Nissan. She said.

When he received this unshaped chocolate, Ye Zhao smiled bitterly, and did not forget to ridicule her, "This kind of handicraft is really 'touching'." ”

"You're welcome. Sachiko showed her thorns all over her body again.

"First of all, there is no return gift on White Day. Before March 14 arrived, Ye Zhao first pronounced the death sentence.

Can that be considered a natal chocolate? Sachiko couldn't think of an answer to that question.

Eri and Haruko seemed to have been pressed on the switch of excitement, grabbed Sachiko and asked about Akita. A momentary distraction made Sachiko casually say something dangerous: "At that time, there was a senior in the first year of high school surnamed Aoki......"

As soon as she said it, she realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, as if she was spitting poison.

Aoki shouldn't show his sincerity...... Sachiko thought to herself. However, I don't know what kind of mentality I have to continue this topic.

What she really thought of was the cup of hot cocoa that connected Ye Zhao to her.

Sachiko couldn't say what she really thought in her heart.