"Y-you seem troubled. You don't know me, but... I... I'm not sure what I can do to help you, but... if you want, I can... Well, maybe you could talk to me about whatever is bothering you? You don't have to if you don't want to; I just... you just look like you need someone to talk to."

Hitomi was sitting in the grass under a tree when she saw a boy around her age enter the quad. It was pretty late at night; why would he be awake at this hour? Better yet, why would he just now be returning to the school? The answers to these questions were probably none of her business; after all, one could just as easiliy ask what she was doing in the quad so late at night.

Since it was quite chilly out, Hitomi wore a black sweater, a long navy blue skiry reaching her ankles, and had her socks loose and rather bunched up at her ankles. The words "Love is a light that illuminates the darkness of the heart" were embroidered on the front in pale white Japanese symbols (Since Japanese was her first language, it only made sense).

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