sirens

Akira had hoped that the distance would ease him of just how excruciatingly fond he was of his best friend. Maybe with enough time, it would have. He was getting begrudgingly accustomed to the bleak, beige nothing days where texting his friends seemed more like an event than part of an integrated daily lifestyle.He kicked at a rock as he walked down the copy-pasted sidewalk back home from school and put his phone away.He had no idea then, but summer would change everything.(In which Akira takes a vacation with his friends and realizes that time could never separate them.)