Dreams and Memories

Chapter 3: Dreams come true!

"You look stunning!" Tsuki said, giving me a small smile. The same smile he used to only ever give me. I wonder if he ever smiles like that to anyone else? "Let's get going. We have a lot to talk about." He said, reaching out his hand for me to take it. Just like we used to when we were kids, except there is one major difference between then and now. He used to never do anything nice in front of anyone, not even his family or mine, and now he is doing this in front of three other people that is not including the others that are walking past and not paying any attention to us. It is a big difference not that I am complaining or anything. I grab his hand and give him a small smile. He still knows exactly what to do to make me feel better. We start walking and he refuses to let go of my hand and luckily so do I. It feels as if I let go, this will all disappear and I will forget again. I never want to forget anything ever again. I never want to forget Tsuki, the last bit of family I have, ever again. We kept walking, neither of us saying anything. It was nice. A comfortable silence. "I want to show you something." Tsuki said, breaking the silence.

"Okay. What is it?" I asked, tilting my head.

"You know that house that me and you used to daydream about?" He asked.

"Yeah I remember that. We used to talk about it for hours while we swing on the swings when we were in elementary school, then in middle school we continued to talk about it more realistically while we just sat on the swings, and finally in high school we actually started to make plans about how we would get the money to buy the house and do everything we wanted to it." I reminisced about all of the talks we had. I also decided to clarify everything so that he knew that I actually remembered and that I wasn't lying to make him feel better.

"Well.." Tsuki started. He stopped walking and so did I. We were standing in front of the exact house that we were talking about. I looked at him confused. It looked as though someone had been trying to make our dream come true but it was missing a few things. "I bought it and started making our dream come true. There were a few things that I couldn't finish in time but that is okay because now we can finish them together. There were also a few things I wanted to wait to get your opinion on before doing them." He started to ramble. As he did so I started crying for the second time today.

"You actually did it..." I was speechless. "This is incredible, tsuki."

"I was going to wait till your next birthday when almost everything was done but I thought that today was the best time to show it to you."

"Why?" Was all I could get out as I continued to cry.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"I had lost my memories. I forgot you even existed for seven years. Most people would have just forgotten about me and moved on but you didn't keep the promises that we made to each other when we were ten years old. We promise to at least try to get ownership of the house. Most people wouldn't have kept our promise; they would have chosen to forget instead of remember. So why? Why did you choose to remember? Why keep our promise? Why not move on?" I was crying less but I was still very confused on why he would do all of this.

"To be honest Ashi, I did all of this just in case you never got your memory back. I wanted to have a way to remember. Yes it hurt like hell everytime I would remember that you might not ever remember but I still never wanted to lose our memories. Our memories were all I had left and I couldn't lose them too. So I kept our promise from when we were ten and talked to the owners about the house and how much they wanted for it. They asked me my reasons for wanting the house and I told them the truth. I wanted to buy the house to fulfill a childhood dream of mine and the.." He stopped and took a deep breath. It was as if he was choosing his next words carefully. "The best person to ever enter my life. The owners asked for information on what I meant and I explained the situation fully. The owners said they would get back to me and just like that I got a call from them and they told me that they were going to give me the house for free. They were already planning to just give the house away to someone but they wanted it to be someone that would take care of the house and turn it into a home not just a house. They of course had a deadline for this so when I had asked about it they were stocked cause they only had a week left till the deadline they had set for themselves. I had called and talked to them originally back at the beginning of second year. They told me since I was still under eighteen they would have to put it under my mom's name for now until I turned eighteen and then I could put it under my name. So from that day forward my family owned this house and I started working on it slowly but surely over the years and this is what it is now. When we were younger I told you that I would make your dream come true and build you your dream house. That is exactly what I have been striving to do for almost seven years now."