"Usui! Making another girl cry!"
"If you fail in Britain, I'll never forgive you!"
"I do."
"Stop it...the kids will wake up...Eeh! Takumi, stop ittt..."
"You know I love you! Geez..."
"Look! These are on sale!"
"Now that the children are grown, let's travel all over the world!"
"We've made so many memories together, haven't we?"
Eighty-five-year-old Usui Takumi nodded. "We have, Misaki. We have." He knelt by the grave and kissed it. The wizened man had lived without his beloved wife for three years. He would be ready to let go of life himself, except for his children and grandchildren. They were worth bearing the pain of going on without her. The kids reminded him of her, so much...his heart broke all over again when he saw them.
Takumi let the tears fall. Instead of putting her on medical drugs, so that her life and her pain would be lengthened, he had chosen to let her go. He remembered the hospital bed, the tightness of her grasp on his hand before it gradually loosened, and her eyes became empty, her smell taken over by the stench of hospital anesthetics. Gone, gone! Amber, specks of pure gold, melting into her irises...even with the wrinkles, he'd been able to see her beauty, then. Now she was marked with a cold stone slab, the golden sunshine a memoir of her wonderful eyes. Usui smiled painfully at the memories that flooded in, squeezing the broken pieces of his heart. He let out a sob. "Misaki..." His mind searched for earlier names. "Darling...Ayuzawa...Pres..." One more name. Usui still had the work uniform from decades ago. "Misa-chan..." Why? You...left me, in our twilight years... They'd gradually lost touch, over the years, with Satsuki-san. Usui vaguely remembered hearing about her passing, some years ago... Those years...
He stayed there for a long time, going over each and every thought of her, remembering her features throughout the years, the tears pooling and sinking into the dirt over the grave.
I will always, always, love you...
I-I-I...I just...I just... T_T What possessed me to write this? My heart is breaking. Thanks for reading.
