Epilogue:
Starting tomorrow, Kei's mommy and daddy are going to live separately in terms of the law. That is what you call a divorce.
Kei's mommy decided Kei would be staying with her, so that means Kei has to leave her home town and settle somewhere else. And that would also mean leaving her friends.
Rephrase that: that would mean leaving her friend.
Between you and me, Kei doesn't really like the idea especially when it means leaving someone very special.
There was a loud tapping on the door before it opened, and without Kei and her friend's consent. The trespasser was a woman and she very well happens to be Kei's mom.
"Kei, what're you still doing here!" she asked in a exasperated voice, exasperated because she had spent the last few minutes looking for her child when they could've used those precious dwindling minutes going to the airport.
Kei held the hand of another boy, who is her friend. Her only friend, by the way
He looked up in surprise at the woman that had just burst through the door of their supposedly 'secret base'.
Not very secret now, huh?
"Kei, let's go, we have a plane to catch!" she latch on to her child's hand.
"But I don't want to go!" Kei tried pulling back from the firm grasp of her mother's fingers, "I want to stay here with-"
But of course, she was just a kid and most of the decisions are left for the grown up to think over so… Kei doesn't have much of a say in the matter, if you think about it, which is kind of sad. And besides, those darn plane tickets are expensive.
"Kei, you know you can't stay with daddy anymore" the woman tried to explain softly, but the clock was ticking away so fast "Now please, don't be disobedient"
She stole a glance at her best friend as she got pulled away of their place.
The boy couldn't say anything as he followed them out.
Kei called out his name once and twice.
And he called her name, too.
As Kei got pulled away from their hide away, he knew he have to say something.
And before he knew it he was already screaming out to Kei's form as it got a good distance between him now.
"Kei!" And there were tears falling down his face, but he realized that later. Maybe he'll deny it when he goes home later, but he's not denying it now. Boys are really complex creatures.
Kei looked back and her small features were scrutinized into a babyish look of despair, "I'll be waiting! I'll be waiting right here for you to come back, all right?"
Never mind that he looked ridiculous with his phlegm dripping down his nose along with them were the tears that streamed down his eyes as he forced himself to keep a straight face.
Kei could only look back and murmur her playmate's name as he screamed those words.
"You have to come back! Promise me you'll come back Kei!" he continued, "If you don't, I'll get mad and hate you for it!"
And as she got into the car, she kept looking back at the form of her only friend from the back. His face was dirty and he still hasn't stopped crying. The boy even tried trailing them but that only got him exhausted. And in the end, he resigned to falling down on his knees as he watched her away.
Her tears kept falling. And it didn't really matter now as the gap between two of them got all the wider as the car got faster.