She scrolled through the tracklist until she found it: Bye-Bye-Bye by Girls². "One last round?" Miki asked, her voice small.

The song was high-energy, full of sparkling synths and defiant joy. It wasn't a sad song about endings; it was a song about moving forward. “Bye-bye-bye!” the chorus rang out.

The neon lights of the Tokyo arcade flickered as Hana plugged her headphones into the rhythm game console. She didn’t want to be at the mall; she wanted to be anywhere else. Her best friend, Miki, was moving to Osaka in the morning, and the weight of "goodbye" felt like a lead blanket.