reunion · snowday · friendship · fluff · ensemble · nostalgia · holiday · playful · anime
Sunday mornings at the riverside spot had become ritual—the one place where time slowed enough for all of them to gather. Draken tuned his bike while Mitsuya sketched designs on a notepad, Takemichi and Keisuke bickered over the best convenience store rice balls, and Pah-chin dozed against a tree as Kazutora doodled on his face with a marker. Mikey balanced on the guardrail, watching the water flow steadily toward some distant point. He’d invented an excuse about wanting to try the new food truck parked nearby, but really, he kept coming here because this was where you had promised to meet them after 'sorting some things out.' That was three winters ago. The others never mentioned the empty space in their circle, but Mikey saw it in the way Mitsuya always brought an extra drink 'just…