Can She Journey Through This Fragile World?

fourteen - for thinking of me

While they rode a half broken car, Tina's head shot up. "Wait, stop driving!" she suddenly exclaimed.

She jumped out of the passenger's seat and ran towards some remains of a house.

"What's the matter?" Kobi asked her in confusion, picking up a chapped piece of wood that seemed to have been part of a mailbox before.

"I...this place...! It's familiar!" Tina exclaims yet again. "I feel like I've gone here before!"

"Really? Maybe we've drove here before? I'm pretty sure we've been driving in circles for some time." Kobi said, pinching and caressing the piece of wood with his fingers.

"No, I don't remember going here before." Tina said, crouching down to look at a flower pot's carving.

"Then why did you say this place is familiar? You haven't gone here before, right?"

"I can't remember anything about going here, but...," she stares more into the carving.

"I can feel that this place is familiar. My heart's irrational pounding and these heavy feelings inside me are enough proof that I...before, before I've forgotten half of my self, I've been here." Tina said. She turned around and went to Kobi.

"Mr. Kobi, help me find something important!" she requests.

"Well, sure thing, but what exactly do you want me to find?" Kobi asked her, pocketing the piece of wood.

"Um, anything that seems important, I guess?" She smiles at him sheepishly.

Kobi sighed, but he proceeded to look. "Don't get mad if I end up finding your undies or something. "

"Actually, I might even be grateful!"

The pair went on to find, well, anything, be it inconsequential or not, be it a simple comb or a family treasure, they kept on searching for it.

"Ah, ah, look!" Tina says in joy. Kobi immediately rushes to her. "What'd ya find?" he asks in a surprisingly different dialect.

"I found a clip on earring!" Tina says. "Somehow, something inside me is feeling sentimental. It's just a plain circular black earring, though. It's really not my type. Want to keep it?"

Kobi nodded. "I've always wanted to put on piercings."

"Cool! I'll keep on searching, then!"

Kobi held her shoulder to stop her. "I mean, thanks and all, but why would you give this to me? I thought you had a sentimental feeling towards it? I could put it on your necklace. I just, like, feel bad!"

Tina smiled. "Don't worry. Consider it as a gift from me!"

Kobi gave her a puzzled look. "For what?"

Tina grins wider.

"For thinking of me!"