With You, I Can Sing For Tomorrow ch8-2

E-Eeh..?
Bit much?
A little, yeah...

I'm not worthy enough to receive such affection anyway.

Why so humble? Aren't you the one who's thinking so little of herself?
Why do you act that way?
...

...Um, my "mom" you spoke to earlier
isn't my real mother.
Ah, is that so?
So it really wasn't her?

She's not a bad person or anything.
She's been doing her best to take my mom's place.
It's just... the remarriage happened so soon after Mom died that I've been having a hard time accepting it.
And maybe it's because I look so much like Mom, but Dad's almost never home because of work.
My stepmom gets affectionate from time to time.

Would my parents have been happier if I weren't around?
Why do I even exist?

I don't have any dreams like you do, Terada-san.
There's nobody who'll accept me.

Y'know... it's cos you're like this that you attract weird boys.
Th-The heck!

But y'know... Kengo said he loves even someone like me.
That's why I love Kengo too.

You understand, don't you, Terada-san?
Kengo gave someone like me a purpose...

Eh...?

What is it...?
Ah...
I jumped the gun...

Who needs that silly chap when you got me, innit!
Wanna have a good ol' chat, luv?
Eh~?

Or rather, hearing friends talk about romance crap is embarrassing.
It's fine, ain't it? You poking fun of me is making me get embarrassed too.

If you like that guy so much, go write some love song lyrics or something~
Tch
Lyrics~?

How do you even write lyrics anyway?
Oh, is she interested?

You basically just take what you're feeling and put it to words...
Wow, how kind of you.

Hmm... I guess it's kinda like writing a story.
You have a protagonist and think about what they're holding onto and what they wanna say.

So for a long song, if the protagonist has someone they like, you should think about what feelings they have for them
and how you want those feelings to be fulfilled.
You make a story out of that
then make good use of some metaphors and stuff to express it.

Well, but ultimately, I guess it's all comes down to emotion...
Emotion...

You had that half-finished song, right, Terada-san?
What emotion led to that?

...I based it on a movie I saw long ago.
The cheerful protagonist had a dear friend, but she wasn't able to shine the way she should.
The protagonist tried hard to get her to shine, but it didn't go well and they ultimately parted ways.
Wanting to make someone shine...

It's kinda like the sun and the moon.

I mean, the moon can't shed light on its own, so we can only see it because the sun shines on it, right?
It's something like that.
Ah, I see.

That's pretty good. Let's use it as lyrics for that song just now.

Okay.

I-...

p10

It's finished!!

It's still only one part, though.
But still, just finishing this much is amazing~
Really?

But thanks... for sticking with me this far.

Then we should celebrate! Let's hit the convenience store.
Yeah~

What'll it be? I'll treat you to anything. Ice-cream? Cake?
That's a bit heavy for the morning.
Geez, Kengo. Hurry up before our Mama and Papa come home.

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