Emily Miku's Introduction: Chapter 8

Chapter 8

The next two weeks were going to be very difficult for B: K’s birthday
(December 22^nd), Xmas, and New Year’s. He told me that they used to
celebrate, and play, almost the entire time. He was so depressed he
didn’t even try to put “Fortune” up this year. “Fortune” was a
not-so-little village he and K put up every Xmas, instead of a tree.
The village grew each year to represent the fortune they had with each
other. “Fortune” only had twelve buildings and houses the first year
and at K’s last Xmas, it had almost fifty. B showed me some of the
pictures of that year’s village… it was beautiful.

In an attempt to alleviate his mood, he tried a photo shoot. I could
tell his heart just wasn’t in it. All he did was trade the brown smock
for a green one and take a few pictures. At least he did try something
different; he took the pictures in natural sunlight. It was awfully
harsh and seemed to “wash” everything out. I don’t think he was
terribly impressed with the pictures. I was sad that they didn’t come
out very good, and he told me not to be sad, that it was his lack of
skill and, in this case, probably a lack of enthusiasm. He can be so
sweet sometimes. It would be so nice if I could just hug him… out of
the blue. He assured me that he would recover from this… like he does
every year.