Indispensable

She always feels like she's chasing after him.

Whenever Mai sees Naru's figure in her dreams, she can't help but think that he has some secret deep inside of him, for reasons she can't comprehend. Behind that kind smile, a sort of mystery looms. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why Mai loves him.

The young girl hates him for not giving her a clue. She's reached out for his hand numerous times and yet he's never grabbed it back. Looking at him, it feels like something important is constantly changing him, but he hasn't told her a thing.

She's not sure how she feels about the situation…maybe he's leaving her behind, there's a distance growing between them, or she's being left in the dark for good.

And Mai's not really sure how to react to that.

Sometimes she just wishes she could forget her feelings for him. Just, cut all ties with him and be done with it. He's stubborn, insensitive and a narcissist - it couldn't be too hard to do, right?

But then out of no where he gives her a rare smile of such purity that it pulls her right back to where she'd started, without her realizing it. Sometimes his tone looses its hard edge the slightest bit and the way he looks at her can't really be interpreted.

And for those reasons, Mai realizes that maybe, just maybe, things will work out fine after all.