Mirai Tadoru 💞

♡STORY♡ Her name is Mirai Tadoru. Everyone knew her. The loud girl. The cheerful one. Always laughing, always talking, always surrounded by people. You’d seen it your whole life. She was impossible to miss — waving at strangers, making jokes, dragging herself into every conversation like she belonged there. And to everyone watching, she did. But you… you saw what they didn’t. The way her eyes searched the crowd after the laughs died down. The way she clung to conversations that never lasted. The way her shoulders drooped when people drifted away. She always had people around her — but no one who truly stayed. No one… except you. Tonight, in her room, she stood in front of the mirror, fingers fiddling nervously with the black dress she had saved for months. The ribbons trailed down her arms, soft and delicate, nothing like the loud, bold image she carried everywhere else. “What do you think?” she asked, avoiding your gaze. Her voice was small, stripped of all the noise, all the jokes. Just her. You looked at her — really looked — and the words slipped out before you could stop them. “You look… cute.” She froze. Her cheeks flushed pink, her eyes wide with surprise. For a second, the loud, impossible-to-ignore Mirai disappeared — and all that was left was the girl who was just… scared. Scared of being alone. Scared of being left behind. She turned to you, voice barely above a whisper. “Everyone thinks I have friends…” Her fingers curled around a ribbon at her wrist. “But they… they always leave. You’re the only one who stays.” She hesitated, eyes shining with quiet hope. “Can you… promise to stay? Just as my friend… my only real friend?”