▫One last time..▫

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"Sometimes you just have to erase the messages, delete the numbers and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, only accept that they aren't that person anymore.." 

He opened his eyes and everywhere was white, the curtains were white, and the sheets that he was in were all white, he can hear voices beside him, they were smiling, as if they were waiting for me, "My son! Your alive!" A guy's voice said, "Oh Mr. Kaneshiro I knew that he can fight this!" An old woman's voice said, "Riku, Riku! Can you hear me?" 

Wait its...a dream..?

I slowly opened my eyes, and view a person's figure that I call my father, and the other was an old woman figure whom I call Mrs. Aiko. So it was just a dream, he wasn't real, it was all a lie. I smiled infront of them which made them smile and cry, for so long, I thought it was real, but this feeling with them was overwhelming, its like I missed them. 

"How long has it been?" 

Riku asked his father who was beside him sitting near the bed, his father hesitated but he merely answered.

"4 months. And we've been waiting for you, and your finally back." Mr. Kaneshiro chuckled.

Riku just answered giving a smile to them. 

Riku was looking outside the car's window while it was moving, outside can be seen windy, the sun was shining, and mostly field of flowers can be seen as they pass by, "You missed Okinawa?" Mr. Kaneshiro said. The driver slowed down and stopped by a big mansion, with fountain on the middle, Riku's eyes brightened it was pretty, like it has always been.

He walked outside the car following his father, they walked pass a big hallway with paintings, it was bright inside, with light colors painted on the walls, "since your back, are you ready to continue middle school?" Mr. Kaneshiro asked, Riku nodded in exitement. Everything will be fine. He thought.

"here's your room." He opened a huge door and there shown a royal bedroom, "feel free to roam around" Mr. Kaneshiro winked and headed to a different room. Riku touched the furnitures amble, "4 months huh?" He whispered, he sat on a near wooden chair, and saw an old laptop above the neat bed. He took the old laptop and sat on the chair again, he opened it slighty, and saw a journal with clean and proper grammar , he read the very first sentence and made his eyes wide. 

'Why does this feels like its familliar?' He asked himself, he searched for the very last word which made his heart rate accelerate. Then there it was. 

[ I..miss him.]

He controlled his breath while he looked at those last words again.

'Why is this here?' A question escaped him. He closed the laptop and set it aside, Riku approached the nearby window and gazed outside, there was no sea, no apartment near, it was just an open field of flowers and cold trees. He opened his cabinet and saw a uniform and a notebook, he took the notebook and peeked inside, 

[ name: Riku Kaneshiro

      Incase of lost, return it to classroom A-8! Thank you!

Co. Number: 09*********      ]

"grade 8?" He scoffed. Opening the notebook and saw his drawings, he stared at a sketch, it was a sea, a sun, and the lights reflecting on the waters, which made him remember more. He was searching for answers, but somehow he don't remember his dream when he was on coma. 

*after a few days.*

It was 6:00 in the morning, they were droving off to the school he was going unto, and start grade 9. He stayed silent in the rest of the ride, while looking at a small city and a sudden big gates of a campus, "here's the school you've been wanting, I still don't know why you chose this school, but I guess it'll be alright." His father said while looking at Riku. Riku nodds, and the car stopped infront of a school, the students were wearing a uniform, it was a normal school uniform, and cherry blossoms were surrounding the school, he took the bag beside him and wore his gray well ironed hoodie, he looked back and the car moved away while Mr. Kaneshiro waved goodbye, he continued to walk straight inside the school looking at the ground and not aiming to look at the other students as he walk. 

The morning wind was still there, inside of the school was clean and students were talking to each other, it was as expected to a all boys school, and like any other as well. Some of them are with a group and some are arraging things on their lockers, he walked up on the stairs not looking straight on where he was going. The bell rang and the students were all walking to their rooms, he calmly walked to his room located upstairs while looking at the papers on his bag, until, someone ran up to him, messing all the papers and his bag were on the floor of the stairs, 'really?' He asked himself picking up the papers and arraging them, the person just ran away, he then noticed someone helping him to arrange the papers, they both stood up as the person was giving the papers to Riku, he still didn't look on the person's face then, he saw a word written on the person's left wrist, he glared at it making his heartbeat faster.

'Is it really true?'

He asked himself as he reads the person's wrist, it was the same as his,

could it be...?