Three Days of Happiness

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After a while, Miyagi sat across from me and started eating up
Himeno’s pasta.
“Quite tasty even if it’s cold,” she said.
I didn’t say anything.
Once I finished the meal, still unsure how it had ever tasted, I asked
Miyagi.
“Hey, Miyagi. Be honest with me. Why do you think Himeno left?”
Miyagi replied. “Perhaps because she thought you were insane.”
Which in a sense was true.
But the truth was a little more complicated, and Miyagi knew that
too.
And she hid that, for my sake.
After paying at the register and leaving, I heard someone calling me
from behind. I turned to find a waiter running up with something
for me.
“The woman you came with asked me to give you this.”
It was a letter, which seemed to have been torn out of a notebook.
I took my time reading it.
And when I did, I found that Miyagi had been lying to me all this
time.
“You knew about this and kept it from me?”
Miyagi answered with her head hung.
“I did. I’m sorry.”
“No need to apologize. You let me had my good dream.”
I was the one who needed to apologize. But I didn’t have the energy