WIP Wednesday - Joe/Cherry snippet

It’s a week after graduating high school when Kojiro sits him down at their local skatepark and says, “I’m moving away in a month.”

Adam has already moved to America, but not without doing more damage. Kaoru, for all his bitterness, still aches from his absence. The concept of losing Kojiro as well makes him feel like he’s in free fall, the moment just after he knows that things aren’t going to plan, but he doesn’t yet know how much it’s going to hurt.

“Just for a couple of years,” Kojiro says, cushioning the fall. “There’s this culinary school in Kyoto—”

“Kyoto,” Kaoru repeats despairingly. It feels so impossibly far away.

“We’ll keep in touch,” Kojiro says, so confidently that Kaoru can tell that he actually believes it.