Dusk To Dawn ( Tsusuku X Koichi)

Chapter 3 - Silhouette

"If we had met and time had moved on, would you forget me if you were gone? I wish to be like the wind, like a feather floating in the sky. So close to you and yet just passing by."

The next few days passed and nothing really new happened, I was starting to get worried after a while. Then I saw it, him; a silhouette of him pacing through the window. I had to with held myself from calling out his name, from climbing up to the window and reaching out to him. Instead of all that I just stood there mesmerized  by the figure in the window.

I wanted to know what the expression on this face, was he happy, sad. I wanted to know why he hadn't come out all these days. Though somewhere deep down I already knew the answer to the question. There had been days where I could watch him more closely across the park, days where I could consider the idea of going and meeting him. Those days have now become a distant memory, like a leaf blown away by the wind.

I had made myself a promise to make him smile again, I hadn't given up I was just stuck on what to do. I was stuck on a repeat of doing a daily activities of the same thing over and over again. Like the answer would suddenly appear itself without my effort; though of course that wouldn't happened.

I sighed standing there, glad that it was late, glad that no one was around; so that I could just have this moment to myself. I watched him walk past the window a few times as if he was pacing the room. Then after that he became hidden once again just like before. I went and sat down on log nearby the entrance. I would wait, I would watch and then a day would come where he would walk out and I would see him again and meet him for the first time. I so longed for that day to come, as days dragged on teasing me with the endless time I already had in my life of eternity.

That was the closest I got to seeing him after all those days. It gave me a spark of hope. I made my way back home in the early morning before the sun was up in the sky. I promised myself that I would come up with a plan soon. There had to be another time he would step outside at dusk. Or was he bound by his father's rules too much to break them. I sighed and closed my eyes as a new day had just begun and the yet I would only see the ending of it.

Hours later I woke up to the sound of rain being blown against the window. I got up telling myself that I had enough sleep. I went and looked out the window. It seemed like there was a storm on its way, and this rain was just the start of it. Despite what humans would think it was the perfect weather. The only time I could go outside during the day.

Then it hit that at that very moment, it was a time when we could meet. I pushed every thought of making a plan aside in my mind. I grabbed myself a coat and put it on, I was out the door within seconds.

I ran along the muddy path that I had memorised after walking through it so many times.

I only stopped when I was exactly right in front of the house that I had come to know, even if was from a distance. Though I didn't stay still though I walked and looked around to the window I had seen him in before. Though there was nothing, no sight of him at all.

Maybe he was in the sitting room spending time with his mother and father. Then I went and checked the other windows but there was no sign of movement. The next thought that came to my mind was;town. So without a minute passing by I started to make my way there.By the time I had got to town the rain had stopped for a brief moment. I began scanning the streets of this small town. I know I would notice him the minute I saw him. Though by the time i had gone through half the streets and looked through multiple crowds of people, the sun was trying to push its way through the clouds.

I felt like my time had become limited and any moment that heat of the sun could burn my skin. I ran back into the closest shade of tree and made my way back from there. I was right though was only a few more minutes before the sun was shining in the sky again. After a few more minutes of aimlessly looking around for him I left. I left leaving somewhat less hope that I had when walking out the house earlier on.

I left not waiting any longer, I left not seeing the shadow of such a beautiful person, I not knowing the next person to walk in the town square would be him.