Hikari + Marico, three

three years and hikari still answers messages whenever the planets align. #

Three years Hikari + Marico today <3 I sent her a message earlier and she answered late, which means some things remain stable in an unstable universe. It made me think about how weird it is that everybody's relationships are starting to be measured in years. Not `”we’ve been together five months”` but two years, three years, four approaching. Things have histories now. Arguments you barely remember. Restaurants attached to specific birthdays. Songs attached to specific nights. Little jokes that would require a twenty minute explanation to anybody else.

Work today, anniversary messages, tea at five when I got upstairs and exactly four biscuits because apparently that ritual will survive nuclear war. Then Yuri came over and asked why I was staring at my old Splinder archive. Because I was looking at posts from when Hikari and Marico had just started and everything felt ridiculously recent. The Internet is strange that way. You can scroll downward and meet a version of yourself who has absolutely no idea what’s coming.

Happy three years, you two. Still here.

Remember me, Eclipse.