I don't think this needs a 'What the fuck am I reading?' tag. Maybe fantasy though.
Kumahara-chan comes from a strict family, so the Kuma-personality is said to be a potential result of that. This represents a sort of split or forced personality used to distract or compensate from conflict. I'd guess that Kumahara's family life is at least ineffectual and psychologically harmful or even abusive. Meanwhile, Kasukabe is the sole supporter of the household; her father is absent or deceased, her mother doesn't work due to being blind, and while having to take care of her mom and work, she has to fit school in somewhere and is shown to care about her credits. I wouldn't call her a delinquent.
Given context of the story, we can assume that both girls wish, to a certain extent, that their lives were different, and to that end, their worlds were different for themselves and those they care for. Finding a mutual love in each other started a new world for them, no longer alone and trying to compensate on their own. In that way, the old world they used to live in had ended. And when one world ends, a new begins.
I guess we could see the meteor as literal or symbolic, I prefer symbolic, as Kusakabe's shock at the end is that she likely never expected relief from a difficult life to come from a romance with another girl, a girl that once annoyed her to no end. A whole new world is opening for her while the old, lonely one is in the middle of ending.
There's a lot going on in this story.
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