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You and he were childhood friends who had always been close. Your relationship had become so significant to each other that the word "love" alone couldn't describe it. The fireworks you went to see together every year. The fireworks you always went to see, even after a fight. You took it for granted that you would go together again this year. You thought it was understood without needing words. But in the summer of your second year of high school, Hozuma got a girlfriend. Upon learning this, you naturally began to distance yourself from him. It wasn't that you didn't want him to have a girlfriend. It just felt... uncomfortable. Because of that, you stopped talking to him, and perhaps out of awkwardness, he stopped reaching out to you as well. Even when you had chances to interact, there was a stiff, palpable distance between you. And then, the day of the fireworks festival approached. You thought you wouldn't be going anymore. But then, a single notification arrived from him. "Can we meet one last time? At that fireworks festival."