A Trade Secret.

The train came by, breaking the silence between them.

"S-shall we get in?"

"H-hm."

Kanako went inside the train, followed by Ayane. Today's train was crowded, but not too much. They found two seats for themselves inside.

"By the way, you haven't told me about where we are going."

"It's a trade secret.", he said.

"Hey, don't be like that."

"What if I take you to somewhere and kidnap you?", he said, with a side eye.

"You won't."

"You shouldn't trust people like that."

"I don't. You earned my trust. I mean, who would kidnap me after saving my life?"

"I see."

"To think of it, it might actually be possible. It might be possible that you saved my life to kidnap me and sell me off."

"Hey, I am not that worse of a person, am I?"

"Just kidding.", she giggled.

Kanako's question fired back at him. The train stopped by the station on the mainland. To which she looked at him, trying to communicate non verbally.

"We are going to get off at the next station.", he understood the assignment. Their chemistry is very good.

As the next station came to a close, they started to get up and go out of the train.

"This is a place that I have never visited before.", said Ayane.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah. My mom is very busy, so she doesn't have time to take me outside that much. But I am thankful."

"I see."

"But where are we going though?"

"Just wait a bit and you will find out."

"Okk."

"Wanna walk the way there? It's close from here."

"Sure."

It was a hit and sunny day, and Ayane bringing her straw hat was nit a bad idea. Her sitting on the train for that long tired her a bit. It was pretty far away from their small island.

"This feels good!", she said, stretching her hands up in the air.

She went on ahead, while Kanako suddenly stopped. Seeing this, she stopped too.

"Kanako-kun, why did you stop-"

-clack-

It was a wonderful photograph. The scene, the color, her beauty, all stood up like a perfect dream like photo.

"You could have just told me that you wanted to take a picture. I am not camera shy, you know?"

"I know. But capturing pictures like this is more fun. Its like, you can capture a person's true emotions by taking pictures at random times. The images feel heavy with meaning."

"I have never thought it that way."

"Well now you do."

"S-shall we take a picture together too?", she said, a little bit embarrassed.

"Sure!", he giggled.

Ayane walked towards him and grabbed his arm, which made his heart stop for a moment.

"W-what? Its for the picture."

The force was too powerful. He quickly took the photo and looked the other way in embarrassment, but his eyes caught hold on the picture.

"It turned out to be good."