"Because you are annoying."
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"That explains the rivalry, not the cherry blossoms."
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She stared at the rain crawling down the glass.
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"You always come back. You lose, complain, rewrite everything, and return as though losing only proved you were not finished."
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"That still does not sound romantic."
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"It is not. It is exhausting."
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"Thank you."
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"But I noticed," she said, more quietly. "That is all."
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Warmth reached my face before I could stop it. Hana had noticed me. While I treated her like a wall I needed to climb, she had been watching me try.
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"Promise me this stays here."
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"I promise."
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The tension left her shoulders, though not entirely.
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I crossed to my bag and removed the seventh draft of The Moon Is Drowning.
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"Then read this."
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"No."
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"You have not opened it."
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"Does the hero still describe the moon for six pages?"
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"Four. I have become ruthless."
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She took the pages despite herself. Her eyes found the first paragraph. Ten seconds passed. Then twenty.
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"You used 'lonely' three times."
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"It is thematic."
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"It is repetitive."
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"The repetition reinforces the theme."
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"It reinforces that you need an editor."
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I smiled before I could help it. Hana glanced up. For a fraction of a second her expression softened. Then colour spread across her cheeks and she buried herself in the manuscript.
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"One month."
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"What?"
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"Until the National Young Writers' Prize deadline. I edit yours. You help me with mine. Nobody learns about the notebook, and nobody learns we are working together."
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"Agreed. We write a romance together."
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"This is the worst idea you have ever had."
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"Is that a yes?"
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"It is a temporary failure of judgement."
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She extended her hand. I shook it.
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Thunder rolled over the athletic field, and somewhere downstairs a teacher shouted that the west stairwell was leaking again. The old clubroom suddenly felt smaller, warmer, and far more dangerous than it had ten minutes earlier.
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That was how my secret partnership with Hana Mizuki began.
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At the time, I believed the dangerous part would be hiding it from Mika, Yuto, and the rest of Sakuraba Academy.
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I was wrong.
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The dangerous part was that Hana's notebook contained twelve more entries about me.
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And after reading the first one, I had begun to wonder whether I wanted the others to be fiction at all.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0WZoPwhjw
and then Add to home screen.