The Gravestone

The little Girl

        "I don't know but it looks like you've got your hands full, hey wasn't last Monday their birthday?" I ask out of curiosity. "Yes, it was they both turned 7, they're growing up so fast, Reo's been watching them for me so I can get some money to take care of them." She smiles. "Reo is your brother, right?" Yuzu asks, "Twin brother at that, you don't want to keep Haruto waiting." "your right come on Hashioki." Yuzu says grabbing my arm and pulling me along. We walk from the back of the Cafa' to the bosses office in the front. "Ah, there you two are." Haruto says. "We are here now." Me and Yuzu say. "Yes, Hashioki come." He jesters for me to come close to him. "Here is your pay check." "thank you, sir." I say grabbing the check. "and Yuzu here is yours and Mei's pay check." He hands them to Yuzu. "Hashioki, I heard from a little bird that you was looking for a child to adopted with Ai." "Yes, sir that is correct." "Well I've got a little bit of money for you to help you guys out." "Thank you, sir." "Think nothing of it, you, Mei, and Yuzu are the best workers I've had in a while, you may go now." "Alright" We say walking out of the Haruto's office. "Hey, I'm going home early today but I wish you the best of luck Hashioki, for your goals." "thank you." Yuzu walks out the door and down the street.

         An hour goes by and I go home to lay on the bed. "Hey, do you want to go to the adoption center?" I ask Ai how was walking into the room. "Sure but why though?" "Well I was thinking that we've been together for a while so... I think it's time for us to make a family of our own." "I agree, let's get ready and then we'll leave to go to the adoption center." I get up and walk to Ai, she raps her arms around me and squeezes. "It's up to you if you want to adopt a child, right?" "it's up to us if we want a child" I say sticking my tongue out at her. "You know your just like a child." She says grabbing at my tongue. "Go get ready." She says kissing me on the lips. A few minutes later and I'm walking out of the bathroom zipping my brown boots, Ai walks out behind me zipping up her dress. "Let me get my phone and money and we'll go ok" "ok" She walks to the bedside table and grabs her money and phone. We walk out hand in hand, down the street. "Hashioki!" I turn to see who yelled. "Hashioki! Over here!" "Ai do you hear someone yelling for me?" "No why?" "Because I keep hearing someone-" Be for I can finish I hear my name again but this time I feel someone grabbing my shoulder. "Hashioki~ don't do it, please daughter" and like that it's gone the feeling, the sound, the coldness of the thing grabbing my shoulder, wat of the perisher on my shoulder. "don't do what?" I ask but to my suppress I don't get a response. "Don't do what?" Ai asks to get my attention back to us.

           "I don't know" "okay but can we please keep walking so we can get out of peoples ways." "yea." We start walking to the adoption center, when we get there, I stop Ai and say, "here we go." We walk in and see a little girl sitting by herself crying. "I'm going to go find a manger, I'll be right back." "Ok, please be safe." Ai walks off to find a manger, I walk up to the little girl and sit down beside her. The other kids laugh and point at her, like she's a doll that no one likes or wants. "Hey are you okay?" I ask putting my arm around her. "No... The other kids are picking on me and the manger won't do anything about it." "I'm sorry, but can you look at me for a second?" She has hesitates, her hall body tenses. "Are you going to make fun of me?" "No, I just want to make sure you don't have any bruises, because if you did, I can take you to the police and get the manger fired." She looks at me and her face is all red from crying, I lift my hand and wipe her face off. "There we go you look cute, why would anyone pick on you?" I say while I pull her close and start hugging her. "T-thank you Ms." She says returning my hug. "What's your name?" I ask. "I'm Aina, I'm Five." "Nice to meet you Aina I'm Hashioki, I'm here with my girlfriend looking for a child." "I wish you luck every kid here is a bully..." "Well why don't you come with us instead?" "Uh?" she says. "Yeah come with us and be our child." Someone behind me says, scaring Aina into my arms more. We get pulled into a hug by Ai. "W-Who or you?" Aina asks. "I'm Ai, Hashioki's girlfriend, it's nice to meet you." "I'm Aina, I'm five" She says holding up five fingers. "Ai can we adopt her?" "The manger said that for all she cared she goes and dies in a car crash..."