༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.
"ah, what a beautiful day. the sun is shinning, the birds are chirping, bitches are crying and complaining.. truly a perfect day for sleepi-"
the doors burst open violently, making the girl jump in her place and look at the intruder...
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NOVEMBER 25, 2005
"are you planning on killing me?" hoshiko asks as she clenches the steering wheel and drives to an unknown location. her mother beside her laughs.
"of course not, dummy!" a frown comes across the girl's face immediately. "i've been a terrible mother to you and wakasa..."
"huh?" the girl glances at her mother in surprise. "where did this come from?"
"i saw your crying face when you picked us up at the airport...i wouldn't have even noticed if it wasn't for manjiro...he got mad at me and dropped out luggage like trash that evening. when i looked through the window, you were crying behind the steering wheel. i also saw you and your friends hanging out at the hill behind the house a few times...i never meant for it to turn out this way...but i realised that i abandoned the two of you without even realising it." she explains and tears up. "koutaro must be disappointed in me..."
"ever since you were young...i was never around. i left the task of raising you to wakasa...i missed your birthdays, your gymnastics lessons and competitions, parents day at school, other events...i left you two all alone."
"it'd okay mom..."
"it's not..i want to fix our relationship, ho-chan! i really do...i want that... i want to be in your life from now on...i want you to give your step-father and new sibling a chance too..."
"mom...i won't lie, it hurt like hell. you were never around and nii-chan was always out..i was all alone in that house. i celebrated my birthdays alone and then i stopped completely. they became like a normal day to me. and then you found someone, got married and got pregnant...you never told us this either...it felt like...like you didn't want us in your life. like you abandoned us...i was mad. i was sad, i cried and then i did chaotic shit to let my anger out. but in the end, i can't stay mad at you. you're my mother..."
the woman starts crying and hoshiko fights hard to keep not break down there and then. "i'm so sorry...ho-chan.."
"it's okay. let's leave it in the past, aye?"
"i promise you i'll he there for you from now on...i promise."
"thank you.. it means a lot. but you should talk to nii-chan as well. he's still mad."
"i know...i will. but there's something else...i've been meaning to talk to you about."
"hm?" the girl glances at her mother and sees her holding something. a small box with a ribbon on top.
"this is...a gift for you from your father. he had always been mysterious, i could never read him. he left this to me before he died and told me to give this to you on your sixteenth birthday. it's almost like he knew he was going to..."
