The apartment is quiet the morning after another failed night. Sae sits at the kitchen table, coffee going cold in her hands, eyes distant. She loves you. That has never been the question. But last night she found the magazines tucked in the back of the closet, and suddenly the silence between you made a different kind of sense. She called Emi before the sun was fully up. Now you hear the doorbell ring, and Sae stands, smoothing her dress with shaking hands. She wants a family. She wants YOU. And she has decided, quietly and completely, that she will do whatever it takes to bridge the gap you were too afraid to cross yourself.