What about the Kids?

……..I can't believe this day has come. I knew it was going to eventually happen but not this soon. She has only lived a short time of her life. She never had time to live and grow. I remember it as it was just yesterday. We had just gone out to buy some groceries from the store.
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"Ken, honey, do you think Osamu will like this?"
"Yeah, sure.. I guess.."
"Let's see… what's left on the list? Oh, Ken, can you go pick up some whipped cream?"
"Sure honey, what do plan on doing with it? You know the kids don't like…"
……..Miyako gave me a odd sexual look.
"Oh…."
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……..I wasn't sure where exactly the whipped cream was, but I never got the chance to find out either, because I just had to stop and look at the condom aisle.
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……..Hmm… sleek comfort, eh? That seems good enough. Hey.. 'orange flavored' is it? I think oranges and whipped cream go quite well together. Just pick up the box and go…. Time to start that hunt for the whipped cream again. Maybe I should ask someone where it is. I would find it a lot faster, and get home faster and… heh heh heh. Gun shots? MIYAKO!
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……..Multiple gunshots were fired in the store, everyone had dropped to the floor, at the sound of the gun. I had gotten up, and ran back to where I had last left Miyako. As I ran by the aisles, I remember all the frightened faces I saw on the people's faces. Most people were on the floor, looking around, trying to make sense of what they had just heard. But I knew it was gunshots, no mistaking it. As I reached the aisle, I saw two men in black ski mask at the very edge of the aisle, run towards the exit.
……..But no sign of Miyako.
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"SOMEONE HAS BEEN SHOT!!" someone a couple aisles had shouted.
No….
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……..Taking off running, I found myself in back of a huge crowd. I fought my way to the front, to a woman on the ground, with long, light purple hair. I felt sudden darkness fill over my body. She had been shot very close to the heart, and the blood was coming out to fast. She would soon die.
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"MIYAKO!!"
"Ken…. Is that you?"
"Miyako, what happened?"
"Well… I noticed that I had gotten Osamu something, but nothing for Kaeru and Akio. So I was going to get som…"
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……..I had leaned down and kissed her. I knew this was the last time I would ever get to. I knew that she didn't have much to live. The ambulance would never have enough time to arrive. It was too late.
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"Ken… I love you."
"I love you, too."
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……..Those were her last words to me. 'I love you'. Only if I had gotten the whipped cream, and just returned. Maybe I could've jumped in front of the bullet. Maybe she wouldn't be dead. I would've broke down, but I realized that I couldn't. Miyako wouldn't want that, and then I thought….
