Sorry for the extra slow updates... I'm getting there... slowly and even more slowly -_-'
"Mikan Chan~…. We're moving house~! Aren't you excited?"
After Reo said that I could not help but stare at him.
And it wasn't because of him wearing a tweed suit (Oh, the horror of having to stare at that sight!)
No… It was because we were moving…
What about Jii Chan?
What would happen to him?
I wouldn't be able to see him anymore!
So standing up in my defiant posture (or in my case… all the defiance that I could muster at seven years old)
I proclaimed, "I'm. Not. Moving. Anywhere."
Oho, how smooth was I at this whole 'talking back' concept?
Answer: Zilch.
Reo just looked at me as if I had just grown a second head.
"What do you mean you ain't moving anywhere? What is this all about…?"
I just stared back at him.
"You heard me."
Reo massaged the brink of his nose.
"I see… this is seven year old psychological stuff… You're scared about adapting into a new environment and making new friends… don't worry about it… You'll manage and… if you want, I can give you a whole new cooltastic makeover!"
Reo said the last part with a gleam in his eyes.
I tried so hard not to cringe.
Reo's idea of a makeover would make me a Lady Gaga lookalike (but toned down just a bit…) it would not look cooltastic on me.
"Look here unc-" Reo glared at me. "I- I mean, Reo… you don't get it do you? I'm talking about Jii Chan… How am I gonna leave him?"
Reo's eyes softened.
He crouched down low and gently said, "Look here Mikan… um… the thing is that your Jii Chan is um how do I put it… unavailable right now…"
"I know he's unavailable! He's been sick for the past year!"
"No Mikan… He's… well, um in a… comatose state…"
"What's a com- comitose state?"
"It's Comatose state…. Well.. its kinda like well… when you're asleep but can't wake up… kinda like that fairytale… um, whats it called…?"
"You mean sleeping beauty?"
"Yeah! Sleeping Beauty! That's it! Yeah, well its kinda like the fairytale sleeping beauty where… you know… the princess doesn't wake up for a thousand years until a prince comes and rescues her… and all that jazz…"
"But what kinda prince is gonna want to kiss Jii Chan? Yuck! Oh! My! Gosh! At this rate, Jii Chan is gonna be asleep forever and ever~! He'll never wake up!"
Reo just looked at me while he sweatdropped.
And I could swear he muttered something like, 'ouch! Man, that was harsh!'
I just looked at him with big teary eyes.
At the time all my innocent mind could comprehend was the fact that Jii Chan was asleep like sleeping beauty except he wasn't going to wake up anytime soon because I was very sure that there was no prince kind enough on earth who would kiss my Jii Chan so that he could wake up… and even if there was the thought of the sight just made me cringe and want to puke.
Everything at the time seemed so desolate and the fact that I wouldn't be able to see Jii Chan awake again (because let's face it a handsome prince wasn't easy to come by) just made me want to plummet and gorge myself in deep self-misery.
Reo put his hand on my shoulder.
"Come on Sweet cheeks… We have to leave Japan… I'll take you to the hospital before we leave so that you can, you know… say goodbye to your Jii Chan, and… besides we're going to move to the countryside in France for a while… it has a lot of different kinds of flowers too… now, doesn't that tickle your taste buds…!"
"Well… I do like the countryside… and I do like flowers… and I've heard that magical things do happen in France so I suppose it is okay…" I said thoughtfully while contemplating my decision very seriously. 'Besides, I get to tell Jii Chan about all the different flowers I learn about when I get back!' I added as an after-thought.
But little did I know that it would be a long time till I met Jii Chan again…
And so I went and followed Reo to his car where he would be taking me to the hospital to see Jii Chan.
And being the naïve girl I was I did not question Reo's decision to take the long way to the hospital after he saw a certain man crossing the road supposedly 'staring' at the car we were driving in.
Neither did I question Reo's decision to take the back entrance into the hospital and stealthily creep into Jii Chan's room without any of the nurses or doctors noticing.
However, when I saw Jii Chan sleeping on the bed and being scared shitless of whether he was going to wake up or not; I could not repress my cries of anguish.
I spent a good half hour just crying beside Jii Chan while Reo awkwardly hung around near# the door; not sure of what to do in this situation.
After I had become a little more sober I quietly asked Reo, "Can he hear me?"
Reo just gave an awkward nod and turned his head away.
After receiving the confirmation I quietly whispered into Jii Chan's ear.
"Jii Chan… If you can hear me… I-I want to say that I love you… so, so much."
My voice had begun to quiver at the end of the sentence but I still had a lot to say to Jii Chan.
"And please don't leave me… not yet. I know that you are going to be lonely in this hospital without me but I want you to know that me and Reo are moving to America for some reason… so until the day that I come back I want you to know that I'll be sending a letter to you everyday in hopes that when you wake up and I'm not there the first thing that you will see is a stack of letters each and everyone of them written by me!"
I had sudden feeling that I Reo may not let me send letters when we were in America so I decided to knick a few slabs of paper from school just in case, so that Reo would never catch me writing if he told me I wasn't allowed.
So anyway I carried on sounding a little less mournful.
"So, you had better wake up fast or else the next thing you know there will be a hu~mun~gous~ pile of letters just waiting to be opened and read by you! And me and you both know that you hate reading because it strains your eyes so wake up really soon okay! Oh! And don't forget to smile and never give up because each day of your life is precious… isn't that what you told me…?"
A tear escaped my eye as I whispered a quiet "goodbye I love you".
If there was one thing that Reo did right in this whole predicament was that, he did not say that the hospital smelt like death (but you could still see his expression on his face).
And off we went to the hospital to fly off to goodness knows where in France.
Well… we would if Reo hadn't got caught smuggling knockout drugs and explosives halfway through the journey when we stopped at an airport in Vienna... and I had to go to another relative… again…
Okay who ever read this story so far has a lot of patience because it is STILL the prologue... I know... its so looooooooooooooong... and the next chapter will most definetly be a prolugue (because the prolugue is the most crucial part of the story because it carries the answers towards the rest of the story 'hint- hint') and after that... the main plot begins!
Call the heralds and sing because my story is finally taking shape!
Eheheheh...
Soo, if you would kindly give me a review of how crappy, boring and/ or insanely yawnifying (who cares if its a word) is on a scale of 1 to 10!
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