Okay this is the epilogue. Hope you like it.
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I sat beside the window, closing my eyes. The warm breeze touched my skin. I longed to feel this touch since I had been confined to hospital room for almost two weeks.
Yeah, I had been hospitalized for two weeks because of this stupid illness. But then because of this stupid illness we could be together.
Kai and I.
Kai. He had accompanied me since I entered the hospital. He had been here every day, brought flowers, held me to sleep.
I smiled slightly and slowly opened my eyes. After a deep breath, I turned my focus back on a piece of paper on the table before me.
Dear my love Kai,
Or maybe I should call…Nami.
You are surprised, I know. I'm sorry I didn't have the chance to tell you. I knew your real name. Not for long though. I had my source searched for you a couple of months ago. Please don't be mad. I don't mean to do that behind your back. I just…I just couldn't let you out of my mind. I tried to forget you back then, now you finally know why I was avoiding you lately, but I couldn't. So, instead of seeing you I look at magazines, news papers, tabloids. But they had little information about your life before you became the personnel of Persona. That's why I had my source did a search about you. Could you forgive me?
To tell the truth I was shocked. You know, loving someone who apparently didn't exist…But then I realized being a man or woman, Kai is my Kai, correct my Nami. Did I have your permission to call you that?
Sadly, I never have chance to meet Nami. But I am sure Nami has no different from Kai, am I right?
Anyway, I owed you another apology. I'm sorry for keeping secret about my illness. I just…don't want to be a burden. You have your life, as an idol, you have big event back then. So I decided to just walk away from you. I know I was being selfish, clinging into you and then just walked away. I was selfish to decide that I didn't deserve to have you, but then changed my mind. I'm sorry, Nami.
I am happy, truly am happy. To have you worry about me. To have you hold me and squeeze my hands. To have you beside me. To have you love me…
I really happy you had come to see me after your concert. Also, the 'dating' you had for me. I finally have a date! I want to tell the world that I love you, and you are mine. Silly I know.
Nami…Please don't be sad. I don't want you to be sad. Although I could no longer see it, I want to see you always smiling. Keep singing and dancing…I want the world to see the 'man' that had stolen my glance and also my heart.
Nami…Please forgive me for leaving you… I would never ever forget you. You have this place in my heart and that place is just for you, and only you. As much as I hate the idea, but it would be selfish of me to keep the place in your heart while I'm no longer in this world.
So, Nami…live your life. Just…keep me in the small place of your heart…and live your life…
God, I'm crying like a child now…This is too much to you, isn't it?
I've never been this mushy person honestly. You had changed me, Nami.
I've never been in love before. So, when I fell for you I don't know what to do. I just did what my heart told me which is clinging into you. Sorry if I had bothered you a lot.
Okay, enough for the mushy talk.
I feel light now, like the burden was off my shoulder…
I missed the beach…You really should go to Okinawa, the beach is very beautiful there… Maybe you can go with Riku and Kuu…
It seemed that I had told you all the things I wanted you to know…
Nami…Please take care of yourself, will you?
I love you, and I will always love you…
From your girlfriend,
R
PS: Thanks for the Lilies.
Even though she had gone for a year and ten months now, I never get tired to read her letter. I read it every day, and cried after that though. You couldn't blame me. Like now as we: Riku, Kuu and me, were heading back to Tokyo from Shizuoka. We had small concert there. Shachou had told us to take shinkansen, but we preferred car. Because we could make stop if there was a good shop. That was what Kuu had said.
I was sitting on the left side of back seat, while Kuu was on the right, leaving Riku between us. The two were sleeping now. We had driven for two hours and now I slightly felt sleepy too. I folded her letter and saved it in my jacket's inside pocket. I was about to close my eyes when the car suddenly hit the break and spun around. The next second came in blur. I felt my body was thrown aside as something big hit the car from the right.
Finally, it had finished. After sighing, I wiped the sweat on my forehead. "Yosh, let's eat lunch," I said to no one. Well I worked alone today. Usually Ken san would help me but he he had lessons today so he couldn't help me.
My job was cleaning grave by the way. You might find it rare, but I had no choice since I only graduated from senior high school. It was difficult to find a job nowadays anyway. This job wasn't that bad since I had free time whenever I wanted. Whatever kind of job you could have free time almost a whole day? Plus the salary was good. You didn't have to ask why.
After washing hands, I sat under a cherry tree at the backside of the grave and started my lunch. However, minutes later I saw two girls walking across toward a grave some feet apart from me. One was browned hair and tall girl, while the other was inches shorter and blacked hair. They wore Jeans and shirt. It was simple but looked nice. They were very pretty. Nice view for the lunch, I thought.
They were holding bouquet flowers in their hands. Once they reached their destination they kneeled down and said something. I leaned forward slightly so I could hear. Well nothing harm with it, right?
"Hey, how are you? Sorry it's been awhile," the tall girl said.
"Yeah, you know Shachou and her almighty," the short girl said and rolled her eyes.
I wonder what she meant by saying that.
"Anyway, we missed you a lot," she added, smiling.
"Yeah," the tall girl agreed. "You know, we will have tour to Okinawa next week. I remembered you had said you want to go there."
Tour? What were they? A travel guide or something?
"Though, I don't know what is it you exciting about," the short girl added.
They were silent for moments before the short girl said. "We bought your favorite flowers. Correct you two."
They then put the flowers over a grave and the one beside it. Ah, the side by side grave. I had noticed that before.
"Even now I couldn't believe you like flowers." The short girl chuckled. The tall girl joined too. "Sorry."
So, their friend didn't like flowers then. What a waste. They then were silent again.
"I still can't believe you were gone. You two I meant," the tall girl said. "We all missed you two."
They looked sad. I felt sorry for them. This was the thing I hated about my job. Everyone came here would always cry.
"Even now your fans still kept sending letters, you know. They won't forget about you two," the short girl said. "I just…wished that, that day I didn't insist riding the car and took the train instead. I'm sorry."
Fans? What were they? So, car accident. Both of them?
"If I could turn back I will scold and slap myself," she added, smiling a bitter smile.
"But we won't go back, sadly though," the tall girl said.
Why not?
"Because now you finally could be with her," she added. "You didn't say it, but we know you had wished you can go with her."
So, just one then.
"So, now you two were together huh," the short girl said and smiled, or she tried to. "Lucky you."
"Well, I'm sorry but it seems we have to go now, or Shachou will whip us. Oh I almost forget, she and Marilyn say hello," the tall girl said.
I wondered what kind of Shachou that would whip these pretty girls.
"We'll come again after the tour," the shorter said.
"Bye then."
They stood up and started to walk. But after some steps, the short girl turned around and leaned down to the other grave. "Take care of her, will ya?"
The tall girl smiled. "Let's go."
I watched as the two pretty girls walked out the cemetery. I then looked back at my forgotten lunch. After lunch, I gathered the bunch of garbage and put it in the garbage station. They would take the garbage tomorrow.
I had changed my work clothes and prepared for leaving. After locking the office, I walked toward the exit. Out of curiosity, I stopped at the grave the pretty girls had stopped by earlier.
It was a white marble grave. I frowned as I looked at two tombs on it. It had only three letters and one letter written on each of it.
K. N. (K) and R.
No dates. Nothing.
"See you tomorrow," I said and turned around.
On the opposite direction, two girls were walking down the opposite path. One was tall and had long straight black hair. She wore tight Jeans and white shirt under a black leather jacket, black boots covered her legs. The other girl beside her was much shorter. She wore short black pants and green shirt under brown jacket; she wore black boots too; her hair tied up in ponytails.
The short girl was talking while the tall girl was laughing happily at it. Their hands intertwined between them.
~Fin~
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