Prologue: Wish
"When your heart is broken and your life is falling apart what is there left to do besides wish?" Those were the last words my grandma would say to me. Those were the last words I ever heard. I was ten when I went deaf in an accident. The doctors told me I was never going to hear again. I don't think it was the accident that caused it though. I think it was losing my grandma. My parents and I were never close, I never had any friends, and so when the night came and I made my wish, I knew I wouldn't miss anyone.
Finishing dinner, I left my family, feeling their eyes on me as I got up and went to my room. As always, I stomped, my family liked to tell themselves and others that I just couldn't hear how loud I was being, but really, I just knew it annoyed them and if they were fine with lying then I was fine with not arguing with them, I mean I couldn't really argue with them anyways the words never made sense coming out of my mouth.
Laying in bed I stared at my ceiling until a bright light shined in the corner of my eyes stealing my sight fully when I looked out. It was almost like having a flashlight shined in my eyes for a second it was so bright. Then it started falling, my grandmother's words echoed in my ears as it always did, and I made the wish I always made when I got the chance to wish. "I wish, I wish, with all my heart, to stay with anime in a land apart." My lips formed the words but no sound left me.
I know, who wishes for anime when they could wish for their hearing back? Well obviously, me, because at least in an anime I feel like I could break my mental trauma and be able to hear again. I mean anime don't ever make sense, so wouldn't it make sense for that to be possible? Noticing the realistic world around me, I give up and close my eyes and get comfortable in bed, falling asleep an hour later.