"Fujimoto."
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"Mizuki."
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"What are you holding?"
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"A notebook."
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"I can see that."
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"Then why did you ask?"
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Her eyes narrowed. Even during a disaster, I couldn't resist correcting her. It was one of my less useful traits.
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She closed the door carefully, set the umbrella down, and crossed the room with the calm of someone trying not to startle an armed criminal.
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"Give it to me."
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"Is it yours?"
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"Give. It. To me."
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I held it out. She seized the cover. I tightened my grip without thinking.
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"You have three seconds."
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"You skipped the part where you answer."
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"One."
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"That confirms it."
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She pulled. I released. Hana stumbled backwards and hugged the notebook to her chest.
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For the first time since I'd known her, she looked frightened. Not embarrassed. Not angry. Frightened. The joke I'd prepared disappeared.
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"I won't tell anyone."
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"How much did you read?"
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"Enough to know your fictional hero has excellent hair."
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"His hair is explicitly untidy."
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"Excellent, complicated hair."
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Colour rose across her cheeks.
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"It is a character exercise."
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"Using my full name?"
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"A coincidence."
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"And my desk?"
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"Many desks are beside windows."
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"And the ink on my hand?"
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"Lots of students have hands."
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"That may be your weakest sentence."
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Her composure cracked.
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"I am under pressure!"
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Footsteps passed in the corridor. Hana went still. The handle shifted once, and Mika's voice came through the door.
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"Hana? Did you leave your umbrella in here?"
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Hana looked at the umbrella, then at me, then at the notebook in her arms. Panic sharpened every line of her face.
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"You are holding the evidence."
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"Be quiet."
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I slid the loose manuscripts on the centre table over the pink corner of the notebook just as the door opened.
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Mika leaned inside. Her gaze swept across Hana, me, the closed windows, and the suspicious pile of paper between us.
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"Oh. Private editorial meeting?"
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"Club business."
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"You are not in the literature club."
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"Cross-club cultural consultation."
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Mika looked impressed.
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"That lie had a necktie."
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She collected the umbrella from beside the door, but her attention remained on us.
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"The building closes at six. Try not to create a scandal before then. It would ruin tomorrow's newspaper schedule."
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When the door shut, silence settled over the room.
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"She knows."
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"She suspects. Mika suspects everyone. Last month she accused the chemistry club of operating a black market."
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"Were they?"
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"They were selling imported sweets."
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"So yes."
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A tiny breath escaped Hana's nose. Almost a laugh. Then she looked down at the notebook, and the humour vanished.
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"I write things I cannot say."
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It was the most honest sentence I had ever heard from her.
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and then Add to home screen.