stay green

p1
>Whatcha guys doing?

>Reading a manga I bought the other day.
>Reading... Kuroki-san... manga...
>Why is she talking like that...?

>Is it interesting? Let me read it next.
>I don't mind... but you might not like it...
>It's fine. It's important to read all kinds of things...

p2
>Man, when did you two hook up!?
>How sneaky. So that's why you haven't been hanging with us lately.

>Don't worry. We ain't gonna stop hanging with you just cos I got a girlfriend. Nothing's gonna change.
>I guess you're right.
>Hahaha

>Bullshit!
>Of course he's gonna spend less time with them while he's entranced with that slut!
>I figured she's say that...

p3
>Ah, but are you sure about that?
>I don't think things will change.

>The circumstances may change, but whether they themselves will change along with them is down to the each person himself. It's the same with everyone.
>Even if things change physically, it's not like the fundamentals will change with them.

>That may be true...
>But when guys like that say "things won't change" (we won't become adults) and then proceed to look down on people behind their backs, it pisses me off.

>There goes Kuro, being uncooperative again...

>I get you.
>!!

p4
>Birds of a feather...

>But...

>I understand. As a person, it's probably better to grow and change.
>In the end, I've just been running away. I try to chase after the things changing around me, but I get scared of not being able to do it well and getting left behind...
>I'm scared of getting stabbed by my own lack of ability.

>..Hey, Kuro.
>I don't think it's scary at all.

p5
>You've actually changed quite a bit, haven't you? If you compare talking to us like this to how you were before.
>Oh...

>No, well... That may be true but...
>It's not like it was my choice or anything...

>And it's thanks to you that I've changed.
>I was gonna keep quiet about wanting to be a voice actress until graduation, and if I ended up sucking at it I might've fought with A-chan and broke things off with her...

>You've changed a lot more by yourself than you think you have.
>Both in terms of yourself and others.

>Me too...
>It's because you were there that I became friends with Yoshida-san, and being able to take an interest in other people is a huge change in my books.

>It's thanks to that that I've been having fun lately.
>I-I see...

>But it's kinda lonely, huh... Our mouthes say these things so easily, but our minds think about how we soon won't be able to talk like this anymore...

p6
>Ah. I guess...

>I won't change after all.

>Like Nemo said, the circumstances may change, but I'm pretty sure my personality and sense of values won't.
>It's so bothersome that I won't do it unless I really have to.
>That's my way of life, deeply engraved into my body.

>That's why I'm storing up power for when that time comes.
>That's just my stance, though.

p7
>Then that's just fine, right?
>Profound thinking isn't your style anyway, Kuro.
>Hey, what does that mean...

>Yo.
>!!
>Yoshida-san.

>Whatcha talking about?

>Erm...
>W-We were talking about that couple doing it over there...

>Oh dear...

>...

>Playing Mario Kart?
>Hehe...
>A pure delinquent, as ever!!