Have done the English skills test
OMG it was hardddd
however, from now on I can focus on writing fics
Chapter 14
[Nov 6th, 2009]“Yay!! Winter’s coming!!!”
“How cold…”
“Tanaka-san’s birthday is coming!!!” Koharu shouts.
“Hey! What the hell! Reina stares at her.
Ai-chan comes mear to Reina and put a hand on her shoulder.
“Reina, although you don’t like, we’lll still cerebrate it.”
“But it’s my birthday! And I don’t like to cerebrate anything!” Reina screams out.
“But we like.”
I look at them and giggle.
“Michishige-san…” Koharu comes near to me. “That part… how to move? Can you teach me?”
“No. I’m no longer your mentor and I’m not good at dancing at all. Come to ask Eri.”
“How poisonous…” She pouts and turns to Eri. “Kamei-san, how to…”
She calls me Michishige-san instead of Sayu-chan. She talks to me as if there’s nothing happened between us, as if she has never been in love with me. That hurts. But I’m glad that she looks cheerful now. It shows that she is happy. As long as she’s happy, I’ll be happy, too. Perhaps it’s time for me to forget her.
“Hey I have an idea. Why don’t we go to Sapporo to cerebrate Reina’s birthday party? We can go skiing there. In winter, Sapporo is always snowy.” Gaki-san suddenly suggests.
“Good idea.” Her girlfriend nods, of course.
“No way! It’s so far, and so cold! I don’t want!” Reina yells.
“No one objects? So it’s decided!” Ai-chan ignores her. I burst into laughs.
“Sayu…” Eri comes to me. “This afternoon… Can you hang out with me?”
“Hang out? What to do…”
“I’ll tell you later.” She whispers to my ear.
“Hey! You two were impolite! Why did you have to whisper like that? Eri, speak louder so that we can know what the hell you two are saying!” Ai-chan teases.
“Ai-chan, Kamei-san is asking Michishige-san for a date! How cute!” Linlin laughs.
Crap. Now everyone thinks that I has comeback to Eri. But I feel it unnecessary to explain. I look at Koharu, but she doesn’t notice me. She is sitting next to Mittsi and talking to her. I don’t want to admit that, but this scene is really killing me.
“Sayu, are you ok now?”
“What do you mean?”
“About Koharu-chan… is it ok if you let everything end up like that?”
“If I tell you I’m ok, or I has already forgotten her… It’s really a lie. But I don’t have intention of coming back to her again…”
“Why?” She raises her eyebrows.
“Can you see?”
“What?”
“Her smile. She’s smiling happily now. I don’t want to keep her in pain again. I should let everything happen like this, right?”
“Hm…”
“How about you?”
“I… I think I won’t give up…” She blushes. “I will try to make Reina come back to me…”
I give her a smile.
“That’s the best, Eri. I’ll help you as much as possible.”
“Ah… About this afternoon… I want to go to buy some wool.”
“Wool?”
“Yes…I’ll make a woolen scarf for Reina… for her birthday…”
“How cute” I put my hand to the stomach and laugh. “That’s sweet, Eri. Come on! Get her back!”
“Hey don’t speak loudly like that!” She covers my mouth with her hand.
“I’ll make one for you, too…”
“What? Eri, Don’t tell me that you have fallen in with me again.”
She gazes at me. I burst into laughs.
“I only want to return your favor…”
“What favor?”
“The scarf you made for me, 2 years ago. You don’t remember?”
“2 years ago? Oh… I think I remember it…”
I look through the window. Such a beautiful day. I feel relaxing. No love, no hurt. I really feel at ease. But whenever I remember Koharu’s smile, I still fall into sadness. The feeling when I had her by my side, I’ll never have it again.
Sad memories are not things we have to forget,
They’re only something that hurts us whenever we think about them.
That’s the reason why we need time, to make sad memories become no longer sad,
Then loneliness will never be fearful anymore.
[Nov, 8th, 2009]“Hurry up! Everybody! The car is waiting!” Ai-chan shouts to everyone.
“Damn you. It’s so cold! I’m going to die!” Reina mumbles.
It’s really cold. I check my luggage for the last time.
“Sayu have you got gloves yet?” Eri looks at my luggage.
“No, I don’t bring any… I don’t know whether I have or not…”
“It’s necessary, Sayu. It’ll be very cold there.”
“So… please wait me. I’ll find one.”
I quickly run back to my room. I open the wardrobe, trying to find a pair of gloves.
Finally, I see one.
Those gloves…
I gaze at them. I don’t remember buying those woolen gloves. So where does it come from?
[*2 years ago*
*
“Hey, Sayu, you really make all of them??” Ai-chan screams out.
“Wow, SUGOI!! They’re beautiful!”
“But why Kamei-san’s scarf is more beautiful than ours? There are even some flowers on it.”
“Linlin, don’t complain about that. Of course it’s special. Because they’re lovers, you know?” Gaki-san teases me.
*
*
“Michishige-san…”
“What’s wrong, Koharu-chan?”
“Ano…” She looks at me with hesitation.
“Thank you very much… for the woolen scarf…”
I let out a smile.
“You don’t have to say that. I make it for everyone, too.”
“But I’m still very thankful…!”
I turn to look at her. I notice that she’s hiding something behind. She is keeping both her hands behind her back.
“What’s it, Koharu-chan?”
“Ano…” She slowly gives it to me. It’s a box. I take it and look at her. She seems to… blush?
“I don’t know how to knit… but I tried to make it… It’s bad, I guess. But… maybe it’s useful for you in winter. It’ll keep you warm…”
She says in a hurry and runs away before I can say anything.
I slowly open the box.
A pair of pink woolen gloves.
I take a piece of paper at the corner of the box.
* ♥ For my beloved Shige-pink ♥ * ]
*
My tears start dropping.
I put the gloves on my chest and hold them tightly.
* “It’ll keep you warm.” *I kneel down and cry.
To look back,
sometimes you had let out some signs to make me know that you loved me,
but I didn’t notice anything.
Every time I remember what you said in the past
my tears start to drop.
I suddenly realize that, in every part of my memories, you always exist.
Although I force myself to forget,
but some parts of me cannot forget,
hasn’t healed at all.
I know from now on, your warm hands will never hold out to me again.
After more than 2 weeks in love,
It’s over between us.