Quiet Devotion

My girlfriend, whom I’d been in love with for many years, was going to be sent abroad for three years. “If I leave, will you always wait for me?”

“No! I’ll find the next woman and the one after that. I won’t waste my youth clinging to a single promise.”

Because of that sentence, Yumi called me every morning, noon and night, afraid that I might forget her even for a moment.

In order to give her a birthday surprise, I pulled every string I could to get an overseas visa.

On her birthday, I rushed over to see her, only to witness her blowing out candles with another man.