Rikuo notices that something isn't quite right between him and Shinako. Meanwhile, Haru suffers.

A burglar breaks into Haru's place. Rikuo gives her company for the night after.

Shinako calls off going back to Kanazawa for the new year. She and Rikuo make plans to spend it together.

Rikuo's friends want to invite him and Shinako over for Christmas. Rou has plans of his own.

Shinako invites Rikuo over, but she chickens out, making a fragile friendship even more tenuous.

Shinako and Rou get into a fight. Rikuo tries to help mend things, but the answers aren't clear.

Minato Kouichi was a classmate of Morinome Haru, and a student of photography. They run into each other at Rikuo's workplace.

Hayakawa Rou is in love with Morinome Shinako, who hasn't moved on from the late Hayakawa Yuu, Rou's brother. She visits their home back in Kanazawa.

Rikuo catches a cold after standing in the rain with Haru. She invites him to the movies as a way of apologizing.

Hayakawa Rou is a student at the school where Morinome Shinako teaches. They seem to have some kind of shared history.

Uozumi Rikuo runs into his old crush, Morinome Shinako, and Nonaka Haru runs into her old crush, Rikuo.