PROLOGUE TO PAST
It's already way past 2 in the morning, as I gazed at the mini clock on the screen. Great. Knowing my biological clock, my beauty sleep for the night had just flown away. It's not too bad though. At least, I can make use of the time to finish up the paperwork for the big event tomorrow. Being an organizer is not a walk through the park, more like I took a detour to the hell of bureaucracy.
There, it finally finished. With a triumphant smile, I took a sip of my hot chocolate. Ah, the feeling of satisfaction combined with the melting chocolate in my mouth took me to cloud nine.
As I took another sip, my eyes fall on the picture on the desk. It was a picture taken years ago, featuring a group of people of about 15 to 25 years old. The picture is great and all, showing a joyous occasion with the smiles but anyone can detect that there was something wrong with picture. With a glance, it look just like any other picture, but if one look at it closer, the positioning of the group does not add up. That's because there were 4 people-two girls, a woman and a boy, to be exact, missing, as in they were there but shouldn't be there. Its not that they were sick or had something else that was more important. It just they could not be there or should not be there.
That's because they are virtual idols, and it's just a miracle that they can make themselves appear as a solid entity in this reality. And as they suddenly reappear, so were how they suddenly vanished without leaving a trace except for the memories of people that has come close contact with them.
I suddenly have the urged to gaze on the sky. Don't ask me why, I just did. I went to the window and sat on its windows sill, still holding the mug as I gazed through the night. The dark sky is like a black hole that would engulf everything in its darkness. Even the moon shine is hardly visible. Then, I noticed four little twinkling stars, grouped together forming an unfamiliar zodiac.
Somehow those small stars remind of them. The cheerful and playful smile of the fruity twins. The shimmering and lovely pink hair of a hot looking lady who may or not wearing panties. And finally the fluttering twin tails of a teenage girl, her light olive hair bring calm and peace to mind, such as her smile. The vague images of our memories together years back play like a broken VHS in my mind.
I took my time, afraid to open my eyes as I feared they might disappear. And they did, leaving me and few others who wished for more times to hang out and have a wonderful time together.
It was about 5 years ago, on this very same day...
9 March 0f 2010, the sky was also the same
Rin, Len, Luka and Miku. Will we meet you guys again this year?
I closed my eyes again, hoping to see them once more.