The Ryoma Today's is Tomorrow's Yesterday

Chapter 6: A Ghost

"Meow…" Karupin meowed and then he jumped towards Ryoma.

"Hey, Karupin…I think you are right…if you did something, you mustn't regret it…"

Meow…" Karupin answered.

Ryoma put him down.

"Can you talk to me again, Karu?"

"Meow...

Ryoma sat in front of Karupin.

"Meow…meow.." Ryoma translate his words in Karupin's language.

"Meow…" Karupin replied then he lied down.

"Meo… Ryoma tried to talk again with Karupin but he stopped when he heard someone's laughing.

It was his Dad. Nanjiroh

"Is this the way of enjoying yourself?" Nanjiroh sarcastically asked.

Ryoma blushed because of embarrassment. He ignored his father and went up to his room.

"Meow.." Nanjiroh also tried to talk to Karupin. "Hoy, Karupin, talk to me!" he insisted while ho poked Karupin.

"Aaarrhh!" Nanjiroh cried out when Karupin scratched his face.

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CLICK!

Ryoma locked the door.

"Huh?" he reacted when he turned back.

He saw Jei-dy. She smiled at him.

Ryoma got straight to his bed, as if he didn't saw her.

"Afraid isn't?" she asked him if he was afraid seeing a ghost.

Ryoma looked at her.

"Don't close your door just because someone left you…how about the others who want to come in and wanted to be your friends?" she asked Ryoma.

"They will come and what comes next? They will leave. Like what you did…" Ryoma said disappointed then bowed his head to shadow his face.

"If someone leaves you…a two will come. And if it's not enough, there's a lot more.."

"I want you…not them.." he whispered.

"You know what…when I was a child, the only friend that I had been, was Makisig. I've closed my door, and my world only revolved on him. I didn't want to entertain others, until the day that I needed to leave him…" Jei-dy narrated with a very lonely tone.

"You're always like that! You always leave those who you called friends!" Ryoma thought.

"And then…" Jei-dy hung up her next words.

"Then what?" Ryoma asked sarcastically but he didn't face her instead he look on the opposite side.

"I found you!" she said so sweet.

Ryoma thanked himself for looking at the other side of Jei-dy. He didn't want her to saw his reaction.

"At first, I tried to refuse but there's a feeling that arouse inside myself. And when I came back to our home…"

(She used the word home instead of house, because for her, house is just a building while home consist of family with love all over with it.)

"…I told my Grandpa; 'You know what, Lolo?'" she stopped for a while.

"Lolo?" Ryoma murmured.

(Lolo is the Filipino term for Grand father.)

"Karupin…" Ryoma thought. He remembered that the name of her grandfather was Karupin.

"I'm glad that I’d met him…" Jei-dy continued, referring to Ryoma.

"You…are glad?" Ryoma uttered. He felt happy.

"And then he said, 'It would not happen if you didn't give up Makisig, someone will be gone but a lot of them will come and it is destined to happen…"

Ryoma reacted too much on what she said, to the point that he turned his head on her.

"Set me fee…and you will get much better…" her final message, and then she started to vanish…