…Prologue...
"Okaa-san!"
"Otou-san!"
"Okaa-san!"
"Otou-san!"
A chubby little girl with huge emerald eyes running her way to the other side of the house, finding her mother and father as she smiled all the way, repeating what she has said the moment she was awake.
!BAM!
That little girl tripped and fell on the floor flat…
Nope sobbing sound was heard or muffling sounds either.
She didn't cry. Unlike other little girls, they would cry for tripping and falling down. But she didn't nor did she say anything. She stood back up, dusting off the discrete, minute dirt on the back of her skirt as she ran her way again to find her mother and father.
Then she stopped.
Reaching where her mother and father were… she whispered 'okaa-san and otou-san' softly as she entered the room, where her mother and father were there.
Today was her birthday.
She's turning 7 today but her mother wasn't there and her father too.
No longer will they be there.
As they have passed away when she was 3.
When she was only 3.
She was all alone already, except her brother Touya who's 12 and her cousin, Tomoyo who's the same age as her with her only aunt, Sonomi.
"I'm 7 today, kaa-san, tou-san. Me… is getting big! Okaa-san happy? Saku is growing like what you said to nii-chan… to make sure I'm happy. Right? Sakura's happy. Kaa-chan can see?"
It really hurts her that seeing other kids spending their birthday with their parents and having parties.
She never had something like that…
She wanted to…
But she would never want…
Even if Sonomi offered to organize one…
Coz it just reminds her that…
Her parents are no longer with her…
To show care and affection…
Love and just simply be there when she's happy or sad…