Chapter 8 - Discovering Herself: Part 1

Aoi and Miyuki said goodbye to each other that Saturday night outside her building, exchanging telephone numbers. Maybe it was a slightly crazy idea, especially for Aoi, but since he agreed, it meant he gave Miyuki a lot of trust, such as that she won't be selling his private telephone number online to his fans. For Miyuki, it was also a huge step, as she was just opening up to a friendship with someone other than Yumiko, and a man at that. His number was the first man's number she wrote down on her phone, ever. Yes, there had been times when a boy at college or in a bar asked for her phone number, but Miyuki would dispose of such adorers, even run away from them, and of course, Yumiko often chided her for something like that, especially if those men clearly had no bad intentions, and they were only sincerely interested in making friends with her, or something more. If, on the other hand, one of them was a creep or some kind of womanizer, Yumiko was able to defend her friend like a