Last Push

The Future

Time is a funny concept.

Seconds change to minutes, minutes change to hours, hours change to days, and days change to weeks, and so on it goes on.

For a person, a normal day would be to wake up and go to school or work. This was a basic concept.

Time, plays a part in a person's life in a way where it leads to happiness or sadness. Fate plays it's part in a person's life with the aid of time.

For a certain boy, time hadn't been too much of a worry. For he did not eat properly, nor get any sleep. His body had been abandoned by him.

This boy is Akihiro. Fate had played with his life in a way that he had no way of countering it, it had simply left him shocked and saddened.

The clock to his left had displayed the time as "18:45" so it was clearly evening. In the time of one day several people had came and knocked on his house's door, but we're met with a strict shout of his voice saying...

"I'M FINE! LEAVE ME ALONE"

And the people gathered at his door would just gradually leave.

But there wasn't the tiniest bit of truth in what he had said. He was not fine. He was most definitely in need of someone.

But he had no one. He had lost everyone.

"Who would have thought I would have lost everything like that...everything that was precious to me...just disappeared right before me..."

He had said this rather louder than he had hoped while standing near his open window and his neighbor, Mr.Robert Krutz, heard what he had said.

Robert had no way of knowing what had happened to the boy. But he wanted to say something to him. So he walked over to the open window.

"Hey kid, something wrong?"

Akihiro was kind of shocked to hear him. He poked his head out and answered, "what's the point...nothing's gonna change even if I told someone what was wrong.."

Robert raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, "it might lessen up the burden building up in your heart, and I'm not forcing you to tell me, but I'm willing to listen if you want to"

"Where do I begin.... I have lost everything that was important to me...my love..my sister... They were all taken from me..I have nothing left... I shouldn't even exist right now..." Akihiro had lowered his head and was looking down.

"So what?! You lost some people that were important to you. I agree that's sad. But it's no reason to be drowning yourself in that sorrow of the past. Those people that you lost, they wouldn't want you to join them anytime soon. Nor would they want to see you harming yourself over their loss. Instead they want you to look at the future you have, the chances you have. They're watching from there. They'll be happy as long as you're happy." Robert had actually said things that had popped into his mind, and only a bit of time later did he had realized what he had said. "Sorry! I didn't mean to say too many things, I'm really sorry"

Akihiro, who was seemingly about to cry simply laughed and shook his head "no it's fine, I think I needed a lecture about that"

Robert seemed shocked but he asked something stupid, "kid, you wanna come over for dinner with my family tonight?"

Say no..I just wanna be alone

But much to his own surprise he was nodding his head as a sign of yes. So Robert just smiled, waved and walk away.

After his neighbor had walked away, he closed the window and looked at his arm.

There was a blade next to him. And blood that was dropping down his wrists.

The future huh?...

He suddenly threw the blade into a dustbin and ran off to the kitchen.

Grabbing a first aid kit and bandaging his hand, he went up to his room to get some clothes.

Sis wouldn't want me to be sad...and neither does Nanika...he's right, instead of drowning myself in sadness I should look at what I can do in the future...

He was smiling. Even he didn't know what had made him smile so much but he was smiling as truly and honestly as he can.

my future

------------------------- Authors Note ----------------------

This is the third story arc, so please make sure to check out and read the previous stories to understand what happened.

Stories in order:

1-Broken Hopes....

2-Everything breaks...

3- (this book)

Have fun reading~

-Aki-