Disclaimer: I don't own Daa! Daa! Daa! (UFO Baby).
Hi again!!! So, like before, I thought of this story I got from a group of friends when they had a role play, and it kinda got in to me to write something about it. Well anyway, please enjoy reading!
I thought I was a loser. A loser who couldn't do a thing to help himself.
I was on the verge of losing everything since my parents broke up. If you think them, breaking up like that would need a divorce to be formally and legally known. Simple! My parents COULDN'T even afford it!
They couldn't even afford to pay my school anymore, so I was forced to quit school. I've been wandering the streets aimlessly since this morning. I'm hungry and I smelled funny. My parents weren't able to pay for our apartment for two months so my family got kicked out. And, unexpectedly, wait, I should've had expected this anyway.
They left me.
What is the world turning into?
I should just die. But. Wait!
Oh my God! This is the book I've been dying to buy since I was in junior high! I thought to myself.
Making a Sense Out of Life
Mackey Wilbert
$21.50
Shoot. Like the day it was released, it's still too expensive. I can't even afford a cheap pair of sneakers which only cost four dollars!
Just go away and forget about the darn book! It's not like you can't live without it, even if I had that much money with me right now, I'd rather save it for food. Leave. Must leave before my eyes pop out.
But, before I could turn around and leave the place, something, no, someone caught my eyes. When I walked to the door and looked through the glass window, I saw this beautiful girl. Automatically, my hand reached for the door knob and went inside. I was like, possessed. Possessed by her beauty. Those golden locks, which were long and curly, and those incredibly green eyes. I instantly got mesmerized by them… Without knowing, this girl who was inches away from me would become my friend, my girlfriend, and eventually, my wife.
Well, let me start from day I first met her.
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"I'm so hungry! And I'm shivering so badly! Why did we have to be kicked out mercilessly like this on a cold and snowy day! Ugh, if the day comes that I'll be the one who'll be rich, God knows what I'll do to them!" He kept cursing under his breath while he walked down the streets. The last thing he wanted to think about was getting hypothermia. It was a good thing that he managed to get one of his father's jacket. He rubbed his hands and hugged himself. So cold he thought. His eyes were searching aimlessly for a store to shelter on for the time being. As he was walking, almost shaking profusely due to the coldness of that day, he passed by a bookstore and happened to see something that made a big smile on his lips, that he almost jumped for joy.
Making a Sense Out of Life
Mackey Wilbert
$21.50
"This is the book I've been looking for ages!!!" As soon as he saw the price, his arms fell in frustration and disappointment.
"Twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. Great. I can't even buy some new shoes. Get away, just leave Kanata, before your eyes drool at it." After feeling defeated, something again, caught his attention. Wait, it wasn't a something, more of a someone. Goosebumps he thought. It wasn't like it was a ghost or something. Suddenly, he felt the urge to go near the door, and placed his hand on the door knob. Walking slowly as he entered, his gaze fell upon a girl, with long golden locks that fell until her waist, a face which he thought belonged to an angel, like her real mother, who died when he was just three years old, and those set of incredibly green eyes that he seemed to be lost looking at. "How mesmerizing..." He said to himself as he continued to look at her.
The pretty girl, as he described her, chuckled when she met his gaze. She approached her and snapped her hand when she found out that he was kind of spacing out. "Hello?" The girl said. He didn't seem to hear so she touched his shoulder, to which he finally noticed that someone was talking to him.
"Wha-wha-what?" He seemed kinda startled. Must be sick or something, the girl thought to herself. "Are you okay?" She asked him, he could sense the worried look in her eyes. For a moment there, he looked at her eyes, lost in them again. It reminded him of his mother, everytime he got hurt or had a nightmare, her face would always look like this.
She snapped her fingers at him again.
"You must be totally out of it." She told him as she let out a small laugh. She left him there, still gazing at her, then she went towards the front part of the store to get something. A book.
"Did you wanted this?"
"Uh huh."
She chuckled again from his reaction. He was like a little boy who liked agreed unconsciously upon receiving a really nice robot toy. She handed the book to him and placed her hand on his shoulder again.
"Do you want to buy it? I can wrap it up for you if it's a gift for a friend or so."
It was then that it finally occured to him that he couldn't even afford the book... even for a gift wrap.
"N-no! No... I'm not buying the book... I was just looking at it, really..." With his reply, she could sense a feeling of sorrow from his voice. It sounded more of I really, really want that book!!!. Like before, she laughed at him again.
"It seems so hard to believe that you don't want this book. When I saw you staring at it so intently earlier, you almost melted looking at it even if you were shivering outside." He could sense that the girl was studying him, looking at him from top to bottom. Must be because she's rich, well, she does look rich to me, he thought. But by the way she talked to him, it seemed that she was a nice person. "Really? But... even if you're true, I still can't buy the book... I don't have enough money for it..." He sadly said to her, his frown casting upon his lips, it made her feel weary that pitied for him.
"If you want, I can give you a discount. How much do you have?" She asked, smiling at him. It made him feel calm, as it she was his mother, inviting him to come home. She waited for his response, to which he just shook his head. "I'm sorry... I'm really broke right now," He explained to her, his eyes still glued momentarily on the book. She crossed her arms and thought for a while, then she left him again and went to the counter. At the counter was a man, he seemed to be in his early forties. The girl leaned to him and whispered something in his ear, to which the man replied by nodding, with a smile on his face, he tapped the girl's head and motioned her to return.
"Here, you can have it." She said, handing him the book. It made his eyes widen. But still, he received the book from her with a delighted expression. "Really? I can?" He has such beautiful eyes, she thought, that she almost got lost in them, together with his unruly hair. "Of course you can! It's not everyday someone as young as you would want to read a book like that." She said, referring to the book he was now holding. He just nodded and continued to smile. And upon seeing that smile, she smiled as well, not only because of the fact that she had a young customer like him, because of the fact that their bookstore only sold books, which adults would prefer to read.
"Thank you, so much. I really am thankful." To her, his eyes were really expressive. She could sense that he was really happy and thankful. So he held both of his hands that were on hold with the book and raised it, leveling at their chests.
"Please, do enjoy reading it."
It made him raise his head, because earlier he was just staring at the book. "I will, I promise!" The bell at the door suddenly rang, meaning that there was a customer who just stepped inside.
"Miyu!" The voice sounded like they were from two girls. The girl, who now Kanata knew what her name was, turned around to see who it was that called her.
"Aya! Nanami!" She replied, making her way to the two girls who were at the door.
"We've come to fetch you! We guessed your phone was off so we decided to come by." Aya, a short girl, who you can assume as someone who's in grade school, having her long hair braided into two sides.
"You did promise to come with us to the mall, right?" Nanami, the other girl beside Aya, reminded her. "I did?" Miyu wondered as she tapped the side of her head with her pointer finger and turned around. Shoot! They're gonna kill me, I totally forgot I had to do something important too today!
"Uhm... You see -" Before she could answer Nanami, the two girls barged towards her and flashed a magazine right in front of her face.
"See this?"
Upon hearing her, Miyu scanned the magazine. Rolling her eyes, something caught her attention and she grabbed the magazine from them immediately. No way!!! They have this??? There's no way I'm gonna miss this! NO WAY!!! She was like jumping inside her mind that she grabbed her coat that was near the counter and dragged her two friends outside the door, leaving Kanata clueless inside.
"Bye?"
He was left here sighing, because the three girls ran like a flash of lightning. Even with that, a smile played on his lips and he looked at the book he was holding. Making a sense out of life, right now, my life doesn't have any sense at all, but, I can feel something good is gonna happen.
He can still be hopeful.
Uh... Got nothing to say hehe, so please just R&R, and I'll come up with the next chapter pretty soon.
