I have always been fascinated by the things we don't notice while they're happening. The last conversation. The last ordinary afternoon. The last time a familiar name felt like home. Perhaps that's why I began writing. Constellation of Us was born somewhere between memories and imagination—a collection of feelings I couldn't quite put into words until they became a story. This is my first novella. My first little piece of a world I carried quietly inside me. I'm still discovering what it means to be a writer. I don't know where every story will take me, or what kind of writer I will become. But I know this: Some stories arrive like stars. You don't notice them appearing. You only look up one day and realize they've been there all along. So, if you've found your way to these pages, I hope you find something here that feels a little like your own memory. Something familiar. Something you thought you'd forgotten. And maybe, a constellation of your own. — Akemi