Baby Blue

A ninth-grade girl named Harumi is mostly ordinary, except for her habit of sleeping with a stuffed animal she calls "Umetaro" and her unusual ability to sense snow before it arrives. When her mother accidentally damages the stuffed animal with coffee, it triggers a chain of events that alters her perspective. She meets a young man who works at a nearby novelty shop and resembles Umetaro in some way. As she learns more about him, she begins to believe there are people in the world who can accept her as she is. The story includes a one-shot titled "10-nen mo 20-nen mo."