Granny visited me on my dream again. She was reading me my favorite bedtime story. She had always been a good story teller. She re-enacts whatever it says in the book and even change her voice according to the character. We always had so much fun together, just the two of us. I feel tears trickle down my face as little I hugged granny goodnight in my dreams. I wan’ a see granny again, I wan’ a hug her again. But that’s impossible now. She’s gone…forever.
I awoken as I felt someone shake me awake. Darn! I really want to stay on that dream. I miss my grandma too much.
I groaned as I forced myself to wake up and see whoever it was in front of me. “Are you okay?” For some reason, I can’t help but laugh at that question.
“Why are you always asking me that?” I asked with a chuckle.
“What? Oh, sorry!” Matsuru said as he looked away embarrassingly. It was as if it’s the first time he realized he had been doing it since the first time we’ve met. It’s like he’s always worried about me.
“It’s just that, you’re crying in your sleep. It made me worry. I thought you were having a nightmare,” he explained. His face is going red from shame.
“Oh, sorry. It’s just I’ve been dreaming about my grandma for days. I think it had been getting closer as we get closer to Izumoshi,” I replied.
“Oh so you wan’ a visit your grandma. I see,” he said with a nod. He’s starting to go back to his normal self now.
“No. I want to visit the place I’ll remember her most. Grandma won’t be there when we arrive,” I said. Tears started to form in my eyes but I tried my best to hold it in.
Matsuru looked at me confusingly at first but after awhile it seems like he finally got what I meant. “Oh I’m so sorry. It must be heartbreaking for you. You seemed to love your grandma very much,” he said with a look of remorse on his face.
“No don’t be. But yeah I was. She was only the one who took care of me back when my parents were too busy to expand our business abroad to take care of me. Quite frankly she took care of me far better than both my parents combined,” I told him in all seriousness.
“I guess we all have parental issues huh,” he said sincerely but it still made me laugh anyways. But my laughter ended shortly as I saw a figure of someone in front of us.
“We’re here,” Ryota said as he stared at us as if angrily. I tried not to mind his attitude. Instead I stared at the small city out of the window. I’m home! I thought to myself in delight. The tears that I had been trying to hold back finally trickled out of my eye as I watched the city in front of me, as my memories started to flood back in my mind.
“Fiory what’s wrong? Why are you crying?” Haruka came to my side and placed her hand on my shoulder. She had a sincere worried look on her face.
“I’m fine it’s just…I’m so happy. I’m back! I’m back!” I can’t help but exclaim and she held me tight in her arms happily.
It was exactly 6:30 in the morning when we arrived. We would have arrived sooner but when 10 o’ clock struck last night, we decided to give our driver a break and we all fell asleep together. It was already 5:45 when we resumed our trip earlier that morning.
I hurriedly went to where the driver was and asked him, “Can you please take us to this address?”
He looked at it for awhile and said, “This is already outside the city.” He started to complain.
“I’ll give you additional pay,” Matsuru said as he handed another ¥5000 yen to the driver. The driver took it greedily and didn’t complain any more as he took us to the address I gave him. I went back to the back of the bus which served as my bed since last night but as I passed Ryota who’s glaring at me like usual, I just had the urge to talk to him.
I sat down next to him happily and I was right, he was not in the mood to talk to me again as he attempted to live as soon as I took my seat. But I raise my legs to block his way.
“What do you want?” He asked irritated.
“Sit Ryota!” I ordered him crossly. I’m so over this. I’m gon’na end this right here right now.
I thought it was not gon’na work but he stared at Matsuru who was staring at us at the moment and just sat back to his seat. So I started.
“What’s the deal? I thought we’re already going on the right track the other day. You were already starting to warm up to me,” I asked him confusingly.
“Heh, it’s all in your head,” he said with a chuckle.
“No it wasn’t! You were worried about me getting hurt. That’s why your brought me those snack,” I said debatably.
“No I brought you those snack because I want you to be fat,” he said jokingly but I didn’t laugh. I was trying to get serious here.
“Now will you just go back to Matsuru? You two fit together so well like a puzzle anyways,” he added. And then it hit me! He started being like that once more when I started became closer to Matsuru. Could it be…
“Oh my God are you jealous?” I said trying to tease him. His eyes grew wide as he looked at me; a look of shock was on his face.
“Yeah, you’re jealous. Wow, I didn’t know you like me. Or maybe you like Matsuru but oh my gosh, you’re jealous, you’re jealous!” I stared teasing him and everyone stared at us confused what the two of us was doing back there. I was in the middle of singing, “your jealous, your jealous” over and over when Ryota leaned in closer to me and said, “So what if I am?”
My laughter and teasing died at once and I looked at him in pure shock. For some reason, my heart just decided to beat hastily. I tried to calm myself down so I started laughing out loud to try and ease my system. “Now, that’s a funny joke! You’re funny Ryota.” I said as I laughed aloud and I just started walking back to my seat.
The laughter halted again as I was finally able to digest what just happened. Was that a joke? Or was that a true confession?
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Hitsuzen (Completed)
Genç KurguHitsuzen is a story of a girl trying to find herself outside the comforts of her own home. But as she undergo this journey, she met four strangers, each trying to find a path of their own. But as their path entwined, they'll soon find out that it wa...
