[She grins at his expression, but then it fades. The last part of the month had been wonderful, but it ended quickly, much like the cheerful tone of her story.]

Ryoji-kun... was a sweet person. He was best friends with Junpei-kun. Nearly everyone at school liked him, especially the girls. I...

[This is so hard to say. She doesn't want to feel guilt over her decisions, for her emotions... but it's hard to stick with the justifications she'd made when Shinjiro is standing right in front of her. When she knows now he probably isn't terminally brain dead.]

I liked him too. And he was interested in me. ...We ended up getting close. That was the rest of November.