Lilith

There was cake too. It was deep, dark black. It wasn’t very sweet; it was made almost entirely of chocolate.
📚🔔 Tatil zili çaldı! Bir yıl boyunca verilen emeklerin ardından şimdi dinlenme, keşfetme ve yeni maceralara atılma zamanı. 🌞 Bu yaz bol kahkahalı, bol anılı ve elbette bol kitaplı geçsin. Tüm öğrencilere keyifli tatiller diliyoruz! 💙📖
Mixed in among a grove of ornamental trees such as Japanese oaks, silver birches, southern magnolias, and maples, were fruit trees such as persimmons, peaches, and summer mandarins, in addition to showy varieties like fragrant olive trees, azaleas, and hydrangeas, all growing together in a jumble. The undergrowth was a mass of English-style flowering grasses with tiny white and blue blooms, and over the entrance to the premises was an arch with large roses.
There are plenty of people in the world I don’t dislike, some of whom I almost like; on the other hand, I almost hate some of those whom I don’t dislike, too. But how many people did I truly love?
Hitomi, I . . . I’m not very good at this, I’m sorry, Takeo said softly. Not good at what? Everything and nothing. That’s not true. I’m the one who’s no good at this. Really? I mean, Takeo said, looking me straight in the eyes for a change. You’re not one for, for getting through life either?
I couldn’t decide whether I should be angry or sad about it, or just laugh.