The world had changed since Keito had left them for the first time. Jess could not help but feel the loneliness set inside her soul. She had not been in love with Keito ever, but they had spent quite a while with each other. She knew how he worked, just as he knew her inner workings as well.
They were people who just clicked with each other and Jess had never questioned her place in the other's life before. Everyone knew that she was going to marry once they reached the age and there had never been any doubt in anyone's mind that Keito did not love her.
However, Jess would be the first one to say that this did not love, but misplaced gratitude and admiration on the others' part. He simply saw her as a warrior capable of keeping up with him and thought he did not have a chance with anyone else. She did not feel the same wavelengths from him as she felt from her parents.
