Water's Blue, Sky's Blue Shin Yui 141 (plish) My first ever day... skipping out of school. "Anna, did you hear?? They say Takita-san had an abortion!" "For real!?" "They don't know who the guy was. Apparently she got abducted and raped!" "It happened when she was walking home alone from cram school..." "Then, that's partly her fault, isn't it?" What a crock of shit! "You know, I only fall in love with other girls." 142 If I ever really said that... wonder what the story'd be once the grapevine got through with it? vwoooooo Brrr! Huh? What... is that? (plsh) Hey!! (splash splash) Wait!! Don't be in such a hurry...!! (splsh) Pant... Pant... (hack cough cough) Pant... 143 Don't do stuff you don't have to. Takita Ayano! Stuff I don't /have/ to!? You were trying to /die/!! It's Polar Bear swimming. (Like heck it was!!) (Voice of her heart) (flap flap) Ugh, now I'm covered in sand. Torikai-san, was it? Don't tell me you believed it too? I'm not going to kill myself because of some //stupid// rumor. (Mooo-ron!) (whirl) (zoom) What the heck was that!? 144 I'm home. (roll) Anna! Your sister's morning sickness was really bad today, so she's sleeping. Please keep it down! (kshk kshk) I'm soaking wet over here. (You don't care about that?) Huh? Did you say something? You'll be a mother yourself someday, Anna. So help us out. Your father's coming home early too. Why is it... already decided I have to have a child? "You really don't have a boyfriend, Anna?" "You seem like you'd be in high demand!" "I'll introduce you to my boyfriend's friends sometime!" Why is it strange if I don't have a boyfriend? Takita-san... 145 (fwshhh) Here to watch over me? Not really. You're a loner too, Torikai-san. Huh?? You don't fit in with that group of friends at all. ... YOU TOTALLY DON'T FIT IN! Okay, I get it! I know I don't!! I won! (Eh heh heh) Do you come here all the time, Takita-san? (fwsh) Yeah. School's just such a drag. 146 (fwshhh) Yeah. It is. (step step step) I... didn't really want to die or anything. 147 I just wanted to disappear. To turn into foam. Just like they do in fairy tales. (fws... shhh) That was all. 148 Was that weird of me? You beat me... to the punch. (Listen to this! My boyfriend's hilarious!) (Huh? Didn't you two break up?) (Already on the next one?) I didn't know where to go, so I came to the ocean. (I don't care about the past!) (Yeah, yeah, we get it...) (Anyway, so lis-ten-!) I know it's kind of full of yourself... to say nobody understands you. 149 But I really... just wanted to be understood. (fsshhh) 150 (fwsh) The next day... 151 Takita-san transferred out of our school. So the rumor was true! Feels a lot better with her gone! (Ah ha ha!) (Oh!) Anna, c'mon! Let's walk home. Sorry, I'm going alone. What the heck!? You're ticking us off, Anna!! You damn loner! I'll never forget it. Every time I hear the sound of the waves, I'll remember... (fwsh) that sweetness, and that warmth.