LATCH
CHAPTER II
Sasuke is standing over the girl. He's wearing his old, faded, ripped pants and that's all. He's smiling, triumphant. Reaching forward, he trails his lips from the girl's forehead down the length of her nose; I am definitely sure she smells the sandalwood and black currant smell of Sasuke's breath. They kissed and kissed.
Abruptly, I wake, gasping for breath, covered in sweat and feeling heartbroken as hell. Holy shit. I'm completely disoriented. What the hell just happened? How? Why? I sit bolt upright, shocked. Whew. It's morning. I glance at my wall clock – seven o'clock. I put my head in my hands. I didn't know I could still dream that dreadful day.
Ino is skipping around the kitchen when I stagger in.
"Sak, are you okay? You look strange. Is that Sasuke's jacket you're wearing? I thought you disposed that already!"
"I'm fine." Damn, should have checked in the mirror. And where the hell did I get this jacket? I avoid her piercing eyes. I'm still reeling from my morning's event. "Yes, this is Sasuke's jacket." She frowns.
"Come here. Give that disgusting thing to me." I come over to her and handed the jacket. "Sak, it's been what, three fucking years. You gotta move on dude." I heard Tenten yawned and walk to the couch and toss herself on it.
"It's not like that Tenten.. you don't understand.. how could you?" I said getting tired of them nagging. "Sorry." Tenten mumbled as she looked away from me.
"It's okay." I said with a fake smile. "I guessed "old habits die hard"."
"Did you sleep?" Ino asked. "Not very well." I answered. I head for the kettle. I need tea. "How was he?" so it begins. "I don't know what you are talking about, pig head." Shit. Please God don't let Ino open this topic please. I promise. I will dispose everything that will remind me of him. Just please God; I don't want to talk about it.
"Where's the poop, Sakura-chan?" Finally, the BFF inquisition team is now complete. "Not you Hinata-chan. I didn't do anything!" there's too much tenacity with my voice that it sounded desperate.
"Sak, we all know what horrible things you do when you wear that filthy disgusting jacket. So where's the poop Sak? Where's the poop?" Tenten added.
"Uggh… He's good. Just like us, he'll be graduating too."
"Skip the flowering talks, bitch. How was Sasuke?"
What can I say? His also graduating; able to survived Nursing School without my help; he's happy with her; she's making him happy; they travelled abroad; he brought her to the place he promised me that he'll bring me to; he's madly and deeply in love with her. Would that be a good summary? I try desperately to remember something I read from his Facebook status using my dummy account that I can discuss with these idiots without totally hurting myself.
"He still doesn't approve of Mayweather."
"Who does, Sakura? That's old news. Why are you being to coy? Give it up, bitch."
"Oh, Ino, I saw lots of things. You know – how fussy he is about things. Incidentally, he still likes your Corn beef with Pork and beans recipe." The kettle has boiled, so I make myself some tea. "Do you guys want tea?" Tenten and Hinata nodded. "Would you like me to review your closing remarks for today, Ino?"
"Yes, please. I worked on it last night. I'll go get it. And yes, I'd love some tea too." Ino races out of the kitchen.
Phew. Yamanaka Ino distracted. I slice a bread and pop it into the oven. I sore remembering my awful dream. What on earth was that about? Last night I found it hard to sleep. My head was buzzing with various questions that really needs answering.
I am so fucking confused. He cheated on me for fucks sake. How the hell can I ever forget that? The only man I loved; the only man that I ever pictured sharing the rest of my life with fucking cheated on me. He doesn't deserve any of me. He doesn't deserve me. I kept that mantra over my head. But I know deep inside of me wants to ask him why? Why did he do that? Why? My inner me with her cheerleading pompoms shouting at me "because you will never be good enough for him"
Ino comes back into the kitchen with her iPad. I concentrate on my bread and listen patiently as she runs through her closing remarks.
I am dressed and ready when Hinata's brother/Tenten's boyfriend, Hyuuga Neji arrives. I open the front door, and there he is; standing on the porch in his finest fitting suit. A warm surge of gratitude and love for this unfussy man flashes through me, and I throw my arms around him in an uncharacteristic display of affection. He's taken-aback, puzzled.
"Hey, Sak, I'm glad to see you too," he mutters as he hugs me. Setting me back, his hands on my shoulders, he looks me up and down, his brow furrowed. "You okay, Sak?"
"Of course, Nej, can't a girl be glad to see her guy best friend?"
He smiles; his slightly tint lavender eyes crinkling at the corners, and follows me into the living area.
"You look good," he says.
"This is Tenten's dress." I glance down at the pink chiffon halter neck dress. He frowns.
"Where's Tenten?"
"I'm here, babe." Tenten called and Neji smiled his most beautiful smile. "God, I love her so much Sak. She's the one." Neji whispered. Tenten throws herself graciously onto Neji. "I love you. Happy Graduation Babe." He kissed Tenten on the cheek and she blushed.
Neji is my guy best friend. We became friends the day he saw me crying myself out at the burial of my parents'. He's my god father's nephew too.
Flashbacks
"Dammit Sak! You scared the shit out of me! " Ino yelped as she saw me by the passenger's window, soaked with the rain, crying heavily. "What happened? God, you're so wet! Get in!" she opened the door and I climbed in.
"Care to tell me what just happened there?" her voice with enough tenacity that it almost startle me. I don't know what to say. I don't; I can't; I can't say anything. "Sakura! Tell me or else, God I will kill that son of a-" my phone rang. I quickly search for it and when I found it, can this day get any better? Hatake Kakashi, my god father is calling me. Please not now. I denied the call and was about to tell Ino what happened, I was interrupted by another ping from my phone. I glance at it and saw Kakashi's name.
"Sakura?" Ino is now glaring at me like she's going to bite me any second now. "It's Kakashi. I need to take this."
From: Hatake Kakashi
Subject: Urgent.
Date: December 24, 2013 7:28pm
To: Haruno Sakura
Sakura, where are you? Call me when you get this.
Kakashi
What is it now? Kakashi is so annoying. I dialed his number and he answered immediately.
"Kash, please if you're just going to share some fucking stupid one night stand story to me, please not n-"
"Ms. Haruno?" this is not Kakashi. My voice trembled slightly. "Yes, who is this?"
"This is Dr. Sarutobi. I'm calling from the hospital." I paused. "I'm calling about your parents." There was silence. Then a breathless, "Yes?"
"Ms. Haruno, I'm the resident on call who examined your parents. They had a car accident earlier. Your father suffered massive internal bleeding. A large part of his heart had stopped working. Well, Ms. Haruno I just don't know how to say this to you but...your father passed away tonight. We tried everything we could to save him but there was just too much damage to his heart. It just couldn't keep pumping blood. I'm...really sorry. I don't know how—I'm just really sorry. I wish I weren't telling you this over the phone..."
A few more minutes of silence passed, and I realized I was crying so hard that my whole body is trembling. First, Sasuke; then Dad; can this day get any better?
"I understand," I said finally with quivering voice. Then I asked, "How about my mom? Is she okay?" there was silence. God Please no. Please. Not my mom too. She's the only one left. Please no.
"I'm so sorry, Ms. Haruno.."
"Thank you." I hung up and found my hands were literally shaking. I stared at Ino, who's face is as confused as mine. "They're all gone, Ino. I'm all alone now." and buried my face in my shaking hands. Ino grabbed me and hugged me.
"'I can't begin to understand how you feel; there are no words which I can say that will soothe your pain now. But I wanted to let you know that I am here for you. I am here for you Sak."
To be continued
Whew. Chapter II is now on the move. I hope you'll like this one. I will be uploading chapter III later. I was listening to the song "Lay me down" by Sam Smith when I was writing this chapter and it made me feel kinda emotional.
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