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~Front Cover~

There's a big embankment where the wind blows. My hair always gets messy. But I like it because you're here. On this path that stretches from the school to the station, we've passed by each other so many times as you run back and forth. It would be nice if, someday, I could muster up the courage to ask you why you seem to run with every ounce of your soul.

"Hmm? Thuh heaso hwy Hren huns?" Rin, sitting upon a stone bench with the straw of a plum juice box anchored between her teeth, raised her eyes from her socks.

"Umm..." Miku looked off to the side, somewhat abashed. "Y... yeah..."

Dislodging the offending bendy-straw Rin began affixing a shoe to her foot. "Well," she replied speculatively, "We do go running sometimes. Wait, you walk home along the embankment?" In the midst of her afterthought, she began with the other shoe. "I don't know. He's not in a sports club."

A regretful smile flashed across Miku's face. "Oh. Kagamine-kun always..." She turned in the direction of the creek and sighed. A soft breeze played about the strands of her teal hair. "He's always doing his best, running all alone..."

Rin shot her classmate an ominous stare. "So, basically, that means..." She paused for a moment, searching for the right words. Looking up for her friend's reaction she mumbled, "You like him... or something like that, right?"

For a moment Miku perked up at the words. She thought about it for a few seconds. Only a few seconds. As a harder gust blew leaves about she grinned, nodded, and exclaimed, as though she had only just decided at that moment, "Yeah! That's probably it, isn't it?" And then she laughed.

"Whoa! Wait! W-what?!" Rin backed away and flailed her arms. "Him?!"

"Eh? Did I say something weird?"

"Aiyah..." Rin palmed her face, flabbergasted. "Don't smile like that...!" Then, pulling her things together she answered with a grimace, "Look, if you want to know that badly, ask him yourself! If it's too embarrassing to ask him during class, all you have to do is wait for him at the embankment."