"I do! We talked forever about it. He actually said he loved me. That's..." Momoko rested her chin on her hand. "That's something he'd never said before. Not even on the phone as a goodbye thing."

She didn't know how to explain her muddledness on this. She was happy and terrified. How did that make sense? "And he said it's been since even when we were together. I'm just..." muddled.