Meanwhile, it was around 2 in the afternoon all those miles away in Japan. Kai had unwillingly dragged himself to work. He worked in a small café in central Tokyo. Yet, it wasn't his. It wasn't theirs. Kai had secretly been praying for the day Eve called him since he'd last seen her, in the stupidly bright aisle of the stupidly bright supermarket.
His shift was boring. Taking customers orders with the same fake smile. Day in, day out. Then after his shift he'd say the same fake goodbyes, and take the same boring route to his shitty little apartment. Then he'd load up some random game and play with random friends until he'd climb into bed and stare at the stars through the small gap in his curtains until he'd eventually fall into a numbing sleep.
No matter what, his days were almost always the same. He wasn't living his dream. Eve was his dream, having her here with him in Japan. Even if she worked in the same shitty place with him, he knew she could always find a way to make him smile. That's what was special about her. That's one of the things he truly loved about her. She brought light to his world. Kai had been lonely for a few years now. He was antisocial, nothing more to it. But more than that, he was grieving. Losing Eve, to him, felt like losing a big part of his heart and happiness.
He thought back, as he lay alone in bed looking at the stars, to the moments before they fell apart.
--- another flashback ---
Eve was lying nude between the sheets of her and Kais bed. She was staring up at the ceiling, catching her breath. Just before her, the bright screen of Kais computer was causing an unnatural light to be cast in the room. He was hunched over, his primary focus on the game in front of him and nothing more. Shadows were cast so unnaturally around him. Eve was in the shadows. After many failed attempts of trying to beckon Kai to bed, he heard her sigh behind him.
His focus was only snatched away when she turned to him from the doorway, pillow in hand. "I'm sleeping on the sofa tonight. Goodnight Kai" was all she said in a thick, monotone voice. The door was shut. Another wall had been built in their relationship.
It never truly dawned on Kai what he was doing until it was too late. The next day was the day he lost her, and the final door was closed. That day he smashed his computer and his mirrors and his knuckles, before drinking himself into a painfully numbing slumber.
He did this for a while. That day he saw her for the last time, watching her turn and walk away broke the last part of his heart. He was never the same.
--- end of flashback ---
Kai had decided to take a walk that afternoon. It was fairly warm out, and luckily he got off work early. He walked through the park by his house. Sitting upon a bench, he couldn't help but notice a couple having a sweet little picnic across the path from him. The girl was laughing loudly as the boy kept adding and adding to, what Kai assumed, the joke he was telling her. Kai could tell they were happily in love.
It should've been him and Eve. But no, he fucked up. He lost her. Watching that young couple, so happy and full of joy, was just becoming sickening to him. He slumped home as he always did. His hood up, headphones in, gaze mostly facing the floor. As Kai got to his apartment, shutting the door and filling the room with an echoing silence had never felt so lonely.
That was until he heard his phone ringing, and Eve called.
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this chapter is shorter but I feel like the storyline is going all over the place now. Sorry? xo
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