The Bliss Of Akari Sakurazawa Chapter 2
The door creaked as I slowly opened it. As I stupidly felt like James Bond's theme song was playing through the entire house. The light of the nearest lamp flickered open by a silhouette.
My back shot straight and the cowlick on my hair bounced. Slowly, I turned around and saw a stout old man, my father.
My voice started to crack due to my discovery, "G-good evening… father…" Father was not happy of me coming home late, a complete contradiction to my 'early bird' status. "Gillian Hamilton, why haven't you come home early as expected?" Father said in a stern voice. I hated when he called me by my full name. For some reason, my words were stuck in my throat, as if all the letters jumbled up and formed a knot. "Well, you see… um…" I stared down at my feet, when I looked back up to my father, his face engraved sort of a bewildered look, and I perfectly knew that face of his was directed toward me. "Gill, are you in a lost of words?" I didn't reply. My head fell down again. From the polished reflection of the nearby lamp table, I was paranoid by a sudden smile that grew on my fathers face.
"Gill… If I may ask…"
"Yes, Father?"
That paranoia-making smile of his grew impossibly wider. He tried not to laugh as he spoke. "Is it… about a girl?"
My ears glowed red and my face turned hot and pink. My heart skipped like a shadowy beast lurking through the night from tree to tree. How could father think of something so outrageous like that?! "Don't let your sleepiness take you over! That's obviously ridiculous…" As calm and tolerant as I could be as of now, I walked up the stairs and locked my bedroom door.
I changed my clothes and lay down on my bed. I thought hard of the days events. From meeting the new farmer girl to the paranoid-making statement of my father. I reached for my journal, opened the table lamp, grabbed a pen and began:
Dear diary,
Today was very interesting. The new farmer girl, Akari Sakurazawa seemed very different from the other girls. She exerted more effort than anybody to revive that stupid ranch. I've been a witness to her determination.
Father grew suspicious of me being late, because of a girl! Even if I did oversleep at the Caramel Falls and caught Akari working her head of even at a time like this and thinking that she was interesting dosen't mean-
I paused, the ink of the pen sunk deeper into the paper as my hand stayed there, not doing anything. I thought the day's events all over again, I realized majority involved Akari. Regaining my thoughts, I uneasily waltzed the pen back to life, swirling on the page.
…You know what Diary, I possibly think that father was right. It could actually be about her…
I closed the green hard-covered book. Unable to complete another sentence. Maybe he could be right all along. But I was refusing to think it was about her.
I blankly stared at my ceiling, involuntarily muttering a significant name, a name that was stuck in my head.
"Akari."