"Naoko! Naoko!"

I call her again and again but she was gone, swallowed by the early morning fog. I hope it keeps her safe. Safe from the world, safe from me too.

I stop running behind her, my heart hurts so much, I didn't see this coming at all. I thought we were in love, that she wouldn't leave but then she's gone.

I try hard to concentrate, to look beyond that cloud of mist but nothing, I can't see anything beyond it.

"That mist must have been magical," my friend Sinzo suggests.
"Maybe," I...