mei, 22.

mei is from osaka. she had planned to meet her friends near the famous meguro river in tokyo to see the cherry blossoms.

plum wine, baked sweet potato and hand rolled sushi (made by her older sister hana)— all neatly packed and carefully nestled inside her mori museum tote bag.

it was supposed to be five of them altogether. but with all the news of an impending state of emergency in the country, mei will see the flowers by herself.

she is sad.

but not miserable, just sad.

which, considering the state of the world and the possible state of emergency—

is actually pretty ok.