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Yesterday, when he was meeting with Beidou, he didn't have an idea what all this was about. It wasn't like her to spawn unannounced near the campus and ask Gorou to meet her without Kazuha. She was busy more often than not, buying an apartment with her girlfriend, starting a life of her own. And the talk they had was as strange as the hours before it. She greeted them as aways, but something seemed to be pulling on her face features, making her look a little lost. Kokomi had been very exited to get to know Beidou, the latter may have been too if there weren't so many things going on right now.

"I'm sorry for calling you in the last minute, but I don't know what to do with this." She sighed as soon as the both of them sat down, pulling something shinny from her pocket. Gorou had no idea what all this distress was about, the item on the table didn't help his situation either. It was a little sphere of purple stone with some kind of drawing on it, surrounded by gold ornaments. A keychain made of cheap plastic, a piece of it had been broken off and the stone had a lot of scratches. Gorou was pretty sure he had seen this somewhere but couldn't recall where.

"Should I know what is this?" He asked, wishing he never came here. There was nothing he wanted more than to snuggle with his boyfriend and pretend this was all a dream. Beidou was a strong woman that he felt he could reach out for in the worst times of his life. Seeing her so devastated was making him scared for no reason. "You are making me nervous."

Kokomi was sitting by his side, even more confused. He could feel her tensing wanting to reach for the thing so bad and find out what the was going on.

"Tomo's mother called me today, she couldn't reach Kazuha, thank God." Gorou couldn't help but feel relieved that he managed to make his boyfriend block her number. "She gave this thing to me to give it to him. I will be honest, I have no idea what is this and why she was so persistent that Kazuha has to have it. She had that crazy look on her face that's still making me anxious. She was speaking so soft and nice, that I would have fallen for it if it weren't for the things she had done."

While Gorou and Kokomi were drinking coffee, Beidou was nervously sipping a can of beer, passing it around in her hands. She used to drink a lot, but calmed down since she started dating Ningguang. She drank only when she was in distress or really mad. He wasn't sure what to think.

"I'm not sure if we should give it to him, but if it's something from his best friend I don't want to keep it away from him." She confessed, pushing the shinny thing closer to him, he did reach for it.

Kokomi switched her gaze between Gorou and the keychain for a hot second and when no one took it, she did. "Why do you think there's a bad intention behind this?" His sister asks, checking out every detail on the keychain.

"She... she's not a good person." Gorou doesn't know how to describe Tomo's mother to his sister. He didn't want to bash her too much. She's a mother that lost her only child in a freakish accident, but she's grieving in a strange way.

He knew her even before he started dating Kazuha. "Knew" is a bit strong word, but he didn't even knew his boyfriend that well around the time it happened. He was a quiet dude that seemed to be going to university for the sake of it, not because he wanted. They knew each other of course, but Kazuha wasn't the type to sticks around much after class to socialise. After the accident involving him and his best friend his popularity reached it's peak, but not in a good way.

He was at the hospital for a while, healing from minor injuries. Gorou and a couple of their mutual friends visited him a few times. Kazuha was sedated most of the time they came around, Beidou told Aether, who then told Gorou. He wasn't dealing with the post traumatic stress pretty well. The brunette stoped coming after a while, he couldn't bring himself to look at him like this. He still wonders how were Aether and Beidou feeling then.