In January she was offered a shoot.
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It was a documentary project in Hokkaido. Six weeks. It was the kind of work she had spent ten years doing. It was a real job.
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She told him on a Tuesday evening.
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They were eating dinner. She set her chopsticks down and told him about the offer and about the timeline and about the fact that she would need to decide by Friday.
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He listened.
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"Are you going to take it," he said.
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"I don't know."
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"Why not."
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She looked at him.
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"Because I don't know if I'm staying," she said.
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"You've been here three months."
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"I know."
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"Are you staying."
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She did not answer.
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They did not talk for the rest of dinner.
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She did the dishes. He went to the balcony and stood outside in the cold.
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She came out after a while.
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"You're angry," she said.
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"I'm not angry."
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"You're something."
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He looked at the building across the alley.
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"I don't know what I am," he said. "I don't know what this is. You're here. You've been here three months. I don't know if you're staying or if you're waiting for something to end."
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She was quiet for a moment.
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"That's fair," she said.
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He did not say anything.
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"I've been leaving since I was fifteen," she said. "I don't know how not to."
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"I know."
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"I'm not saying it's an excuse."
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"I know."
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She stood there in the cold.
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"I don't know if I'm staying," she said. "That's the truth. I don't know if I can. I don't know if I know how to be in one place with one person."
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He turned around.
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"Then don't take the Hokkaido job," he said.
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"Why."
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"Because if you take it you'll be gone for six weeks and when you come back you'll have decided without deciding."
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She looked at him for a long moment.
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"That's the most you've said to me in three months," she said.
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He did not answer.
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She did not take the Hokkaido job.
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She called the production company the next morning and told them she could not do it and they offered it to someone else and she did not tell Ren.
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He found out a week later when she mentioned it in passing.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvki1rZURP
and then Add to home screen.