I guess.... [sousuke frowns as he looks down at the floor.] You know you didn't hafta do that all by yourself tho.... right? You kinda had me worried too. [a pause] I thought that I might've... I dunno... upset you in one of our letters when you stopped replyin to me.

[sousuke can still remember the sadness and confusion he felt when he would run out to an empty mailbox. he was too young to understand some of the stuff rin could have been possibly going through. and now he only wishes he had been even more adamant about writing to him. even if it was just enough to distract him from the trailing days he had to go through all by himself. maybe... maybe he would have liked a distraction.

he sniffles a little as he tries to make breathing through his nose a little more easier.] But that's in the past now and there's no use worryin' over somethin' you can't change