"I have come to receive chocolate." "Huh?" A head covered in blue hair suddenly popped out from my flank. Based on the shade, I could tell that it was Yachii. I often ran into her on my way back from school, but today was different. How, you ask? Well, right now, I was just outside of our house. Had she been waiting for me? "I have come to receive chocolate", Yachii repeated while spinning her arms around. I decided to give mine a quick spin as well, all the while not really sure what was going on. I'd gotten her some, sure, but I'd ended up eating those on a whim. They'd been really sweet. And delicious. No regrets. "Valentine's Day is over already." "Yes, but our promise isn't", she said back, countering my statement with a grin on her face. Wow, that was actually pretty cool what she did there, rebuking me like that. On a base level, she was still begging me for chocolate, but I guess there were ways of doing it that made you look less like a child. Hmm... "Wait for a second, okay?" "Waiting!" Yachii exclaimed while straightening out her back. Leaving her there, I broke into a run and rushed inside the house. Sis's shoes were nowhere to be seen. I tossed my backpack into my room, after which I returned outside carrying my wallet. Yachii was now bouncing up and down like a rabbit. "Calm down." Deciding to imitate Sis, I tried placing my hand on top of her head. The keyword there being "tried". I was unable to reach it. All I accomplished was make my sides hurt. It wasn't that Yachii was big, but rather, I was small. Even when standing on my toes, her head was simply outside of my reach. What if I started hopping too? Hop, hop, hop. Jumping in place alongside her, I somehow managed to get my hand to touch her head. A problem arose, however; with my feet no longer touching the ground, it was impossible for me to push her downwards. Ultimately, we ended up hopping together until we were both exhausted. With my cheeks flushed from all the moving around I'd done, I turned towards Yachii and spoke: "Let's go buy it now." "Oh, that sounds wonderful."
I didn't think we were quite on the same wavelength here, but regardless, Yachii seemed delighted. The way in which she spoke was sometimes quite strange. It almost sounded like she wasn't used to it. Did that mean that she was a foreigner after all? "Off we go to the neighbourhood supermarket." That was where we headed. Before, I'd found it pretty weird walking with her by my side, but these days, it felt completely normal. "This is your own fault for not coming by on the 14th like you were meant to. Make sure to do that next year, and I'll have the chocolate ready for you." "Next year? Hmm..." Yachii muttered. She appeared to be thinking hard about something. "I was planning on leaving straight away once I'd found my brethren." "Your... brethren?" "You wouldn't happen to know where they are?" Obviously unable to answer that question, I was left tilting my head. What did she mean by her "brethren"? "I did get an approximation of their coordinates before setting off, but even so, looking for them is quite difficult as Earth's surface is too flat for me to tell one place apart from another now that I'm actually down here. Hmm, yes, it's a tough situation." Half of what Yachii had said just now sounded like complete nonsense to me, but from the remaining half, I was able to gather that come tomorrow, she might not be here anymore. Even now, her presence felt—in many ways—faint, as if she could at any moment melt into the cloud of particles of light that surrounded her and disappear. Looking at her, I instinctively spoke the following: "I don't really get the details, but it should be fine making a promise, right? If you find that you can no longer keep it, all you need to do is say so." The fact that I didn't know much—or let's be honest, anything—about Yachii's circumstances didn't particularly factor into my decision. After all, between being unable to keep promises and being unable to make them in the first place, I personally found the latter to be much sadder. It was for this reason that I felt that we should do it while we still could. Yachii smiled, and as she did, blue particles—the same colour as her hair—shot out from her body. "Alright. Let's do it then." They drifted through the air, some even reaching me. We then hooked our pinky fingers and swore. How come she knew about pinky promises, but not about Valentine's Day? What a weirdo... And so, in clear terms and not vague. We promised to each other that we'd forever stay friends.
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