Katawa Shoujo: Sides of a coin

Chapter 2: Reversal

English

Japanese

I can personally say that the plane ride for London to Japan was excessively long. I fell asleep and my watch of course digitally auto-set so I really don't know how long it was. Ashton and I got to finally be alone after our parents stuck us in a room together the day before our move-in.

Ashton still hadn't regained his entire ability to speak yet and his bodily motion was reduced to less than 50% for his arms. Thing is, he wanted to be a fighter or a wrestler during his senior year, which was ruined during the fire at the house. I had asked the doctor was had happened, the cause was in fact an Arson, due to the fact that the fire was caused by a combination of potassium permanganate, glycerin, and water. The water is the fuel and the fire got outside and used the rain as fuel to engulf the building.

Ashton sat down and let out a breath that could be translated as a sigh. I just stared at him and knew all that he was probably thinking. First off, his dreams of Variety had been shot to hell. And now as juniors, we had to finish school in one of the most rigorous countries in the world when it came to education. He also was going to have some issues, considering he always had pride in how he looked most of the time. Now his skin was completely scarred from the waist up, including his hands, which I am assuming had little feeling, but surprisingly, I saw him writing.

"Are they gone William?" I heard a very throaty voice.

"Ashton, You can talk again?" I swung around in shock as he lowered his head and nodded.

"Why didn't you speak before?" I asked as I sat next to him on the bed.

"No reason." He was right; I usually did most of the talking for him around the doctors and the parents, so there really was no reason for him to speak.

"I'm sorry, for everything…" I said as I sighed and pulled out a picture out of my wallet. I was last year, when I had visited Ashton's home back in the states. It was us sitting on the on a tree stump near his house. I was sitting on the right side of the photo, my black hair cut extremely short, as to resemble a military hair-cut (Which I kept by the way.). I had a pair of Aviator sunglasses on, a plain red T-shirt and blue jeans.

Ashton was back to back to me on the left side of the photo, the black hoodie on his back, but the hood part was down. His tan shorts not supporting the jacket at all. He stared directly at the camera and narrowed his hazel eyes that were visible past his blonde hair. It didn't help that I was light skin tone that he was. He was tan skinned while I was white as snow in comparison. I also remember what exactly what happened later. Ashton and I made a bet on what side of a coin would face us if flipped one. Then the coin then got stuck on its side in the tree trunk.

We arrived at the gate with Ashton pushing my wheelchair towards the main school when I stared at the gate, and then Ashton stopped and stared with me. The gate was brick and mortar, made in black wrought iron. It reminded me of the entryway to the rich kid school near me home back in London. Ashton seemed to share my sentiment because he tensed up. The rich kids never treated us very well. This…made me scared.

We entered the main campus, which was more of a park than an actual school courtyard. There were trees everywhere. The grass surrounded the school rather than the school surrounding the courtyard. As we approached the main building, I remembered that we needed to go see the nurse, so I told Ashton to turn towards the other building. Nearby, hoping maybe it was the nursing building.

As we entered the building, we encountered a room with the writing, "看護婦長"

"Well, crap. I can't read Japanese…" I said as we walked around. After simply getting more and more lost, the pair left the building and entered the main building which was full of students with walking. Many of the students carried food and it was roughly noon in Japan, so it must be lunchtime…

"こんにちはあなたは誰ですか？" Said one of the students. "Ashton. Hand me the phone." He shook his head. "Really Ashton?" Ashton emptied his pockets to show that he didn't have the phone. "Well, crap. Stuck in a school where everyone speaks another language. "Well, shit…this is very bad now…"

Ashton continued to roll around, but they were absolutely lost here without any knowledge of this school or anything else, even one of the teachers, or at least I thought he was a teacher, could even understand us. Either that or they ignored us.

After rolling around a bit, I accidently rolled into another student, wearing a blazer, glasses, and a freaking Gryffindor scarf, "あなたは子供の誰ですか？"

I angrily yelled, "Does anyone in this damn building speak bloody English!" I yelled, my British homeland sinking out somewhat. I sighed at this point, having lost all hop of this being a good day…

Well, there is Chapter 2 for you. As for the delay, I blame tests and projects…I hate Projects…Anyways, R&R, my readers if you please.

GOLDEN FIRES (GF)