A Place to Stay

"We've decided, together, that you two will be Ellie's guardians. Not because it'll be easy. But because you loved us, and you'll love her. In your own opposite, ridiculous ways."

There was a long pause.
The words sank in like slow poison. Kira's jaw tightened. Yumeko blinked fast, then laughed once - soft and broken.

"Joint guardians," Kira repeated, each syllable measured. "That's absurd."
"They trusted us," Yumeko murmured. "Mary trusted me. Riri trusted you."

"They trusted us together," Kira said flatly, as if the word itself were a curse. "That was their first mistake."

When tragedy names two ex-lovers as joint guardians of a baby girl, they're forced back into each other's orbit with no roadmap for how to coexist - or how to heal.
Thrown together in a small house filled with memories, they navigate sleepless nights, quiet arguments, and unexpected laughter as grief slowly reshapes into something else.
It is a story about the strange ways love returns - through duty, tenderness, and the fragile act of trying again.