Ano_ko_no_kawari __full__ -

And yet — I stayed. Because even being "instead of her" meant being somewhere . Even a shadow has a shape.

I was ano_ko_no kawari — the substitute. The stand-in. The spare umbrella they grabbed only when the rain started. ano_ko_no_kawari

I wore her silence like borrowed clothes. I laughed her laugh so many times I forgot the sound of my own. In the dark, when you held me, I knew whose ghost was in the space between your ribs. And yet — I stayed