Mechanic's Heart

Midnight "Talks"

Taiyaki - Taiyaki is a Japanese fish-shaped cake, commonly sold as street food.

The beach that relaxed her when she needed it most, the small restaurant owner, who gave her an extra Taiyaki when she got it to go. This was all something she would say goodbye to, out of something she couldn't decide. Blakes lived in Okinawa since she could remember, but when she woke up to yelling and couldn't find her place back in slumber, she had got up and peered through the crack of her door and down the hallway. The light above illuminating the walls, peering into the kitchen she finds her mother yelling at her father, him yelling back just as loud.

The words she can make out are just barely clicking, as she's in a dream-like state, still very much asleep.

She's too tired to deal with this, she shuts her door as quietly as she can. Lazily dragging her feet to her bed, crawling into the soft mattress, sleep enveloping her again.

Yet when she's nudged, coming out of her comfortable state of dreams, she wakes up to light intruding her room. Her father shook her awake, telling her firmly, yet to her, he seemed to be yelling, telling her that she was going, that Blake's mother didn't love him anymore. When she heard those words she sat up, as quickly as she could, running out of her room, past her tear-streaked father, and into the living room.

"What's going on..?" She asked, her voice raspy and deep.

Blake's mother looks up from her suitcase and bags that she had bent down to grab. Those eyes, the brown irises, and dark brows show it all. A frown creased at the corner of her lips, she speaks, in the most unloving, hateful tone a mother could ever give.

"I'm leaving." Blake's mother stated. She wasn't the one to beat around the bush, she would cut straight to her point in a blunt way. And Blake loved her mother for that, that she didn't spend unnecessary words and wasting breath to get a point across, she was formal and Blake admired that. Yet now, Blake wished she hadn't done such a thing so that she would beat around the bush, so that her mother, would stay just a few seconds longer, and maybe just maybe change her mind.

But that wasn't happening, because the door had already shut. And she was gone.