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four years ago, you left miyagi behind.
along with your first love.
yamaguchi tadashi was your neighbor, your best friend, and your boyfriend for three years. from awkward high school confessions to promises whispered beneath summer skies, he was woven into every part of your life.
until distance pulled you apart.
when you left japan to study abroad, the relationship neither of you wanted to lose slowly slipped through your fingers. phone calls became texts. texts became silence. and eventually, you became strangers who still remembered each other's birthdays.
now, after graduating college, you're back home for the summer.
the streets are the same.
your friends are the same.
and next door lives the boy who once knew everything about you.
but four years is a long time.
long enough for people to change.
long enough for love to become a memory.
as old feelings resurface beneath cicada-filled evenings and miyagi sunsets, yamaguchi is determined to prove that what you had wasn't something meant to be left behind.
the problem is that you're no longer sure love should be this easy to lose in the first place.
a story about distance, growing up, missed chances, and learning that sometimes the hardest person to come home to is someone you never truly stopped loving.