July 28th 2009
"Yokohama! Yokohama!"
The train announces its departure. Ryuuto Sakurabi ran like hell, and yet he still missed it. He needs to catch that ride for he was late. He was transferring to Kanagawa high after the incident. He figured out that he need to sort out my feelings and just move away. Soon enough, he'll be living with my aunt.
"Damn! I missed it! I gotta get myself out of Shibuya..."
"I can take you!" A girl talking right beside him. He didn't noticed her.
She maybe sat a few moments ago?
"The next train will arrive at exactly forty-five minutes. You see, I'm waiting for someone for hours, but I don't think he is coming... So if you want, I can get you there. What do you say?"
"But I'm a stranger, don't you think you might be putting yourself to danger?"
"I can scream, you know? Plus, I'm from Shibuya myself!" She pressed.
They had more time than anyone else today. This cheerful lady dazzled Sakurabi with her charms. He couldn't say if she liked him or anything, cause he hasn't been with other people ever since the incident.
He grew unsociable after all this all this years...
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"What the hell is wrong with you!" Takahashi, the club advisor, was infuriated by his performance.
"A simple flyball! Everybody in the region was hoping for us to win it all!"
He slapped me hard across the face, and left the locker after that. I was sufdenly quiet, isolated at the locker room with full of melodramatic emotions. All my teammates were pissed off with me, but no one care of what I felt.
He felt nothing but guilt. Everyone thinks of him as a trash, an arrogant superstar who lost it all when he didn't gave his team a championship. He didn't get another chance to prove himself after that.
I guess you could say he was done for...
Ryuuto told Denzel and Tohru, that he retires from baseball the next day. Things doesn't work out as it used to be anymore. Tohru was mad at me for giving up.
He said to me, "What? Don't let them pull you down Ryuuto. Tokyo, they called, they say they want to offer scholarship next month. What are you gonna do about that?"
"I don't know anymore. I can't play with all this..." Denzel and Tohru sat beside their bestfriend one last time. They all knew they wern't gonna be there for each other after today.
Denzel's dad was asked to work overseas, so he had no choice but to follow. As for Tohru, he'll be playing for Nagoya High, the team that beat us last summer. After Ryuuto know all these, he started to question their friendship.
"Your going to leave me alone?"
"I guess so, I mean...theres nothing left for us in Shibuya, Sakurabi."
My friends even turned their back in me. It looks like the only one I can depend on is myself. After a few months, I finished the second semester and took entrance exam in Kanagawa.
Then, Im riding the flow...
"I wanted to start a new life here in Yokohama,,,I want to have a purpose and not get left behind..."she giggled," Im Sayuri Misaka, nice to meet you!"
After all this time she just wanted me to be comfortable with myself...
I returned a smile...
. . . . .
Its past five,
Its getting pretty late,
"Isnt it beautiful, the sunset I mean."I looked at her,she loves to meet new people.Its peaceful,being alone with her in the station,this will be one of my treasured moments in life
Meeting Sayuri...
YOU ARE READING
Koushien
Short StoryIs satisfaction a factor...? Ryuuto Sakurabi was an Interhigh baseball player that failed to bring his team to win the finals for some uncertain reasons. Soon after, he lost his will and determination, leading to the end of his career.
