Blurry Memories

Memory Five: Somewhere over the rainbow

Narrator

"Mommy! look at the flowers!" the kid pointed the cherry blossoms falling off from the tree.

"Yes love, they're pretty just like you!" the lady said smiling while caressing the kids' cheek. The kid smiled and put her two hands under her chin, because of that the mother chuckled.

"Baby, you know. Your name came from the name of that tree. "

"Really Mommy?"

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5:35 Sakura woke up feeling a little different than usual. She again dreamt of the little girl and the lady the little girl acknowledges as her Mom. She didn't cried, it wasn't a sad dream yet she feels sad and it feels heavy.

She stared at the rounded clock, watching its fingers move slowly.

She got up, she moved the curtains and saw the quiet, vast ocean and heard its calming waves.

"This feels nice.." she closed her eyes and took a deep breath "..and yet, why do I feel sad?" she sighed and smiled bitterly with that thought.

She took a hot shower and changed her clothes into a jogging outfit.

She again jog along the oceanside with the sun slowly rising. She explored and jogged further and saw a light house after the road curve.

She went up to the light house and she was amazed by the view she just saw. An overlooking view of the park and the village to the left side and the vast ocean with different hues of blue to the right.

She stared at lights that gives the streets and the houses warmth. Somehow, looking at the quiet village, the lighted streets and houses gave her warmth and comfort.

It comforted her in a way she doesn't knew how, it comforted her to the pain and sadness she doesn't even know where came from.

She closed her eyes for the second time, she felt the cold sea breeze with the warmth of the sun rising touching her skin. She heard the calming sound of the ocean and the sound of someone singing.

"Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby."

She opened her eyes and slowly viewed the waves hit the rocks that creates a big splash.

"Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby?" Sakura sang the song, she's quite familiar with that song but she doesn't know the lyrics, she hummed the song "I probably heard it somewhere a long time ago" she thought.

She took out her phone and snap some photos of the view to put up on her "memory lane", she took photos as many as she can, in every angles and corners she can reach, as pretty and nice as she possibly can.

While she was admiring the view, a man is also jogging towards the light house. He was surprised to see someone reach the light house since it was quite far from the village and no one actually jogs around this hour, "it's too early" he thought.

Usually people get up around 8 or 9 in the morning and the people living around the neighborhood gets busy at 11. He stopped at the bench near the light house and did some stretching to cool down.

As he was stretching to cool down, Sakura headed back to the village jogging while listening to a song.

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  SAKURA 

Today is Friday and we're having a meeting for the incoming spring festival this Monday. The School president announced earlier that we wont be having any classes because the teachers are having another meeting and this will be the given time for us to think of something to do for this coming spring fest.