After losing his mother, Ren moves to a quiet seaside town where life feels slow and heavy. But then he meets Aoi-the boy who draws in silence, the boy who sees him in ways no one else ever has.
Through poems, sketches, and shared silences, Ren and Aoi begin to write their own story.
A story about healing. About staying.
And about finding love beneath the cherry sky.
He wasn't offering kindness. He just didn't shut the door.
I said I could cook. I lied.
I said I wasn't a thief. I lied again.
But for some reason, he let me stay.
And that's when everything started to hurt less.
Kai doesn't trust people. He trusts what they leave unguarded.
Living on the streets has made him quick with his hands and quicker with lies. When he spots Elias - calm, unreadable, alone - he sees an easy mark.
But Elias doesn't react the way he should. He doesn't panic. He doesn't question. He offers Kai a place to stay. No strings. No rules. No locked doors.
Kai tells himself it's temporary. He tells himself it's survival.
He doesn't expect to feel safe.
He doesn't expect to start wanting to stay.
And he definitely doesn't expect that staying will bring everything he ran from crashing back into his life.