The light from the street lamps faintly illuminated my face. There were some small creatures flying around that light for whatever reason.
“She hasn’t called me for a while now, has she?”
The last time we talked was about two weeks ago. After that, she hadn’t contacted me and I, because of things happening here and there, didn’t have time to think about calling her.
I pulled out my phone and dialed the only eleven-digit number that I had memorized.
Two rings later, she picked up.
“Yo.”
“Oh, it’s Kageyama. How are you doing?”
“If you really wanted to know how I was doing maybe you should have called me?”
“Aah, sorry, sorry. I have been busy lately with all this work and don’t even have the time to rest properly.”
I heard the sound of a yawn from the other side.
“Were you sleeping, perhaps?”
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