#38 - Irony (Atsumina, AtsuYuu, TakaYuu)Oshima Yuko
There is it… this is how love stories start. It is an ordinary love, nothing surprising or shocking, nothing that would make your head turn into different direction and be jealous of the connection that seems to radiate through time and space. The only exception here is the love between two girls but knowing that it is 2016 already and people can actually chose who to love, is it really that extraordinary after all?
It is better to start from the very start… what is the point of mentioning white wedding dress, smiling relatives, vows when you don’t even know how everything started. The thing is… every love story starts with a first meeting. Every love story starts the moment you see that someone and can feel your heart flutter.
This is what happened to Yuko when she went out for jogging one early Sunday morning. Natural/every day act, that the girl did but never before she noticed a stranger sitting alone on a bench with glasses that hide her eyes away from the sun and a little puppy that slept on her lap.
It was the very first time she saw the girl… and at the same time the very first time when something stopped her from running away. Instead of that she unconsciously walked there… ready to introduce herself to a stranger, ready to do something so out of character that she realized the fact that maybe she’s not feeling that good, maybe she’s not thinking straight.
But Yuko couldn’t help the feeling… she couldn’t help but fall in love, the very first time she saw Takamina’s face.
Takahashi Minami
This was truly the happiest that Takamina felt in a very long time. No, it is not because of her future holiday plans, not because of success in job and good relationship with her family, not because she won a lottery ticket recently and can help out with her friends moving in together. No, it had nothing to do with previously mentioned things. Takamina was happiest about the fact how a certain brunette made her feel.
It was a strange thing, to fall for someone in a few seconds’ times. Hell, Takamina didn’t even believe in love at first time… but time, THIS TIME ONLY, she knew there is no escaping the facts. Her heart wouldn’t have beat so fast and her mind wouldn’t have become blank when Atsuko smiled asking to take care of her dog for a little while.
Takamina was surprised honestly… would you actually ask a stranger to hold your dog for a few minutes while you rush to a coffee shop nearby? But of course… Atsuko was special in her own kind of way. She confessed seeing Takamina spending her weekends here, so for this one mere reason — she trusted older girl.
While looking at Atsuko walking away, Takamina still had her heart fluttering, her mind was fuzzy. At that exact moment she knew that she has fallen in love.
Maeda Atsuko
Atsuko rarely done such things… trusting strangers in order to take care of her selfish plans, but today felt different… she decided to make an exception and ran to the shop for a couple of minutes.
That’s all it took… she spend there 4, maybe 5 minutes and taking coffee cup with herself Atsuko smirked while walking back, wanting to see her new and very young puppy as soon as possible.
Someone made her stop in her tracks when she was halfway back though. She noticed Yuko, standing in front of Takamina and both girls were laughing about something, while Yuko patted her dog.
Atsuko couldn’t quite grasp the situation… she felt a shortage of breath; her eyes were glued on the girl in front of her. For a moment Atsuko forget what was the reason of her walking around, why her dog was still sleeping in Takamina’s lap, and that her best friend Mariko still hasn’t showed up for their meeting.
The laughter of Oshima Yuko hypnotized her and Atsuko couldn’t deny it, not for herself — she fell for that laughter. She fell in love.
Shinoda Mariko
I was running late and I knew that my best friend Acchan will probably kill me when I finally show up. Surprisingly she hadn’t called me just yet, so I started wondering whether it is a good thing or I’m really screwed at this point.
Actually, I got my answer when I showed up in the usual place. It was the park where we spend our weekends. But on this Sunday the atmosphere here was somewhat different. Three girls were chatting about life, love, music, books… I overheard parts of it, and I did notice that my friend was one of those girls.
The irony of that situation was… It hit me like a lighting — Atsuko showed her full interest at some girl called Yuko (I heard her calling the girl’s name), while Yuko didn’t take her eyes of a midget sitting on a bench. That midget though stared at my best friend as if she was mesmerized.
The irony of this situation was… it appeared that all three girls fell for someone, but neither of their feelings was directed in the same way, and I couldn’t stop my giggle realizing that they weren’t even aware of this chatting and going deeper into awkwardness that definitely waited for them in the future.