Sawada's Smile - Completed [√]

Chapter 9

The apartment Sawada lived in was actually the one he used to rent long ago back in High School. The land lord is still the same. However, now he settled in a different room and on the top floor since the building itself has been reconstructed and renewed. He just loved staying at those areas. The surrounding was not so crowded and there were less vehicles passed by at night so it's more peaceful and quiet at night.

The room he rented now was much bigger and fancier. A criminal lawyer like him plus his successful business would of course had made him afford to buy such a luxury. He was dealing with a new case. However he was always thinking about sending someone to jail. Yup, he had a very big grunge over a person who made his one and only beautiful sister took her own life.

He always remembered the last message he got from Natsumi. The last video call they had before her neighbor found her body hung between the kitchen and the dining room at her own apartment. The most bitter thing they found was that she carried a two months old baby in her stomach. She died pregnant.

ONIICHAN, I REALLY MISS YOU.
I WISH I COULD SEE YOU AND HUG YOU NOW.
I NEED YOU SO MUCH.

That was the last message he got from her. At the time he was about going back to Tokyo. After he finished his last voluntary work for Green Peace.
The living room he entered was still dark. He didn't even try to turn on the light. He only lit up the lamp on the hall between the bedroom and the kitchen.

All were almost the same. The sofas, the surroundings, all were almost had a Gothic like sense to it. The black leather couch he was always sitting on were put right in front of the chimney.

There were two photographs standing on the corner table, it was him and his sister. And surprisingly, there was a photograph of him with those boys the sannen D class and Yankumi. It was taken at the onsen when they went together before the graduation day.

Actually, he's still thinking about his buddy. He missed them inside. He quietly had a thought of being nice to them. But something made him think the other way, he knew exactly his thought was as selfish as the way he treated Kuma or Noda. But he had no choice, he didn't know how to react. He was in confusion,

"Why they didn't try to reach me that time, what kind of friends who let bad things happened unnoticed? It was the worst!" His mind was battling.

He drowned his head under his arms. He untied his shoulder length jet black hair, sighed and drowned in his agony.

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"Oniichan, Okaeri!" A lady with long hair opened the door for him, she looked much prettier than usual.

Her long hair seemed blowing as she turned around and welcome him to her apartment. The room was so bright, There's a voice of a little child following.

"Uncle!! Let's play…" a little girl he couldn't see the face spread her arms and grabbed him on his shoulder.

Then she hugged him tight. So tight that Sawada couldn't breathe. Shockingly, the figure turned to someone he knew, her face was so pale. Her eyes were swollen from crying. She grabbed him on his neck, sobbing desperately asking for help.

"Oniichan, taskete kudasaiii…!!"

"Huhhh!!!" Sawada woke up from his sudden dream, or might it be called a nightmare. The same one he got when the fist time he knew Natsumi was committed suicide.

"Gosh! This dream, it came back!" He thought.

His hair was a bit damp from his own sweat. He looked at the alarm clock next to him. It's three o'clock in the morning.
Sawada sat down on his bed, the a goosebumps feeling crept to through back. He sighed and drowned his face under his palm.

"Natsumi please forgive me…" in a trembling voice he whispered bitterly.