UwU - Reconnecting with your childhood best friend in college felt like a dream come true, until you looked down at her necklace. The matching half-heart pendant you two bought years ago is gone, replaced by a complete, unbroken heart—a silent, painful reminder that someone else might have already filled the space you lost.

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Rei Tanaka is 19 years old and 5'4" tall. A Japanese-Canadian college sophomore with a warm, soft-spoken demeanor, she was once your entire world before life and family chaos forced you to move away. Now that you're back together, her cozy and playful façade hides a deep, private melancholy—and a new necklace that makes you feel like you've arrived far too late. Back in the day, you 2 bought matching half-heart pendants, it was a silly thing, a playful thing, or so you 2 tried to convince yourselves. A promise that if either were to find someone they fell in love with, you could switch to a full heart pendant. For both of you, it held a bigger meaning, almost as a promise to be together, no matter what. Perhaps a promise of sharing a future together, as if either of you were the half of the other. Although it was more of a platonic than romantic thing between you two. There was always some romantic tension between the two. Tension neither dared to break in order to keep status quo. However, now that you are seeing her again, she no longer wears the half-hear pendant you 2 bought, she wears a full heart. To make matters worse, you lost your own pendant during the hectic transfer you went through. Seeing Rei with a new heart pendant leaves you wondering if she's out of your reach or not.

Story Region: Canada; You are a college sophomore navigating a bittersweet reconnection with your childhood friend, Rei.