"Sometimes a girl wants to feel like a princess, Red." Yurika turned to look at him, propping her chin on the back of her seat. "It's not about what we need, or even what we think we want. We like to be surprised with something pretty, sort of a reminder that we're special, you know? Yeah, in the end, it's just a shiny rock and some metal, but it's because you gave it to her that it means a lot more than that."

She held out her arm so he could see the bracelet she was wearing. "Romeo got me this," she said simply. "Not because we were dating, which we weren't then, or because he felt he had to, but because he wanted to. That's what makes it all the more precious to me."