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I want to protect her. She's my best friend, and I won't let her get hurt.

She landed in my arms like a leaf, with her hair in the crook of my arm, her pretty face so serene, and a faint smile at the corners of her mouth.

Was it because he had saved his lover?

My eyes blurred. I had held her many times, but this time her gentle body was cold.

I sobbed for a moment and with a thought