The weeks that follow are spent making pillow forts, watching movies with Atsushi, camping in the backyard, making poorly decorated sugar cookies together in the kitchen 'simple things, things Chuuya always took for granted about his own childhood '

But to Dazai and Atsushi, 'it 's all

new

, and even

Mori

gets involved with the cookie decorating, handling the icing bag with surgical precision, and Dazai doesn 't think he 's seen his Dad that

happy

before, drawing perfect kanji on

cookies

while Atsushi exclaims with awe.

And part of him wishes 'that this summer could just stretch out forever 'and that whatever change is happening in their family (because things really

are

changing) could be permanent, but '

But nothing ever is.

It 's slow, at first. The bad days are a little more common than the good days. Chuuya 'lingers in bed a little longer in the mornings. The dark circles get a little deeper.