Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

Time goes on even when we do not.

I love you exactly as you are.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.