Just as soon as I stepped my foot in front of the gates, the night had also came. It did turned red. Red like a chain of smoked salmon roe, the ambience it gave was seldom I had never felt before. As I entered the vessel towards the school, my lips moved akin to the wind, humming an original song I wrote, 'Ashita No Yume' (Tomorrow's Dream), sung like an anthem.
My guts are telling me to stop, ran and never go back yet I opposed. I felt an energy rising within, misery before its time had come. The unfolding of a great journey ahead. It was deemed as if watching a sentimental-thriller Japanese television series, or an amped up anime—the passion of youth or something like that.
Something that I would usually watch happen to someone else, but yet it was so close, intimate, the Soul churning in my chest, and at the same time, all around. It deemed like a fresh feeling; though it isn't the first time I had been scared. Fear was always present.
Stepping into the land itself, there was darkness, the silence and the solitude my convictions were heightened, and reality was no object. I drew my gazed onto my back, the trees lit from below in pale greenish white stood in rows, stoic, enigmas, like hooded cultists observing a ritual in which I composed the center.
Fear immediately overwhelmed me once a hand slide onto my shoulder, and I slowly turned my gazed back. My screams were displayed in agony then soon processed they're a student. Red cascaded upwards, filling the vessels onto my cheeks; flushing red as I lowered my gaze. "S-sorry..."