A handful of pale yellow blonde hair faded by the sunlight. A reflected sparkle clashing softly against the ear. A bundle of footsteps springing off the basketball court floor. A warm touch caught between tangled earphones.

And a spoonful of a heart that, contrary to appearances, becomes clumsy only for one person.

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Add to this the temperature of the canned coffee shared while sitting on the campus bench with you—and let it slowly ripen under the sunset glow—

And the kindest, sturdiest fence on Earth named 'Inoue' is completed.

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Beyond that completed fence, an unpredictable light called 'you' enters. And a lot of it. Just when I thought it had filled up past the fence, it was already breaking through the limits and overflowing.

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I didn't hate that feeling. No, I felt like I could die because I loved it so much. A dizzying—

——feeling, as if my heart might jump out of my mouth.

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So, come and hold me tight today, just like always.

The fence has become flimsy because of you.