I left my wife behind to go back to my hometown alone to visit my hospitalized mother. As nothing serious happened and I was heading back that day, I found myself at the staircase where I used to play as a child. As I was climbing the stairs, reminiscing, a couple came down from the other side. I thought the face looked familiar, and it turned out to be my childhood friend and first love, who was now a married woman. Kokoro at this chance reunion, I waited on the stairs, expecting something to happen, when she appeared in front of me alone...