Masato couldn't sleep. Ever since he had found the envelope that afternoon it had bothered him. Kasumi's weird behavior, her agitation, the way she ran off... it had to be a love letter of some sort. He couldn't remember Kasumi ever having received a love note before. Maybe it was no big deal - a secret admirer, someone who just had a crush on her. But he couldn't see Kasumi reacting like that to a simple love letter. Was it something more serious?

Maybe she just never told him about any love letters she might have gotten. Perhaps she was upset because he had caught her with one... she was at school pretty late, and he normally wouldn't have been there. It suddenly occurred to him that perhaps Kasumi had things going on in her life that he didn't know about.

That thought made him even more uneasy. Was it possible that Kasumi was seeing someone else?

Why did it bother him so much?




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