Over the next year he became very popular entering more contests and eventually being asked after by a company for a model shoot from there other people began requesting for his work on there projects he'd even been offered a couple of pages on a photography album. His name was quickly becoming known and his schedule became so busy he had little time for thinking of the past, though he still kept his promise to live and discover things about himself. So every week him, Akira and Yusie would do something different, even if it was as small as trying a strange food.
It was just after the third year started when he got the invitation. An invite for him to enter into the Japanese photography award, an award that only took second place to the international competition which if you placed in you country would issue you an automatic invite.
Each participant was to enter three different pictures each to a different category. City life, themed, and a Nature photo. The deadline was a week after spring began. He had two months for the three photos, and he had no idea what he was going to do.
Takashi looked down at the invite in his hand, he had to send it in tomorrow if he was going to enter. But should he? He would have to drop everything for this, and his career was just taking off, was he ready to take this chance? Things were going so well for him. After that day in the amusement park his episodes had mostly stopped he'd get one every now and then but not nearly as much, his last one he had had was over six months ago. And he was getting peaceful nights of sleep. Takashi blew out a breath of smoke, everything might have been good but there was still his memory nothing had come back it was as if he was waiting for something, or someone.
"What should I do?"
'If you don't gamble, you'll never win.' A dark voice whispered in his ear like a memory. Crushing out his cigarette he made a choice.
Akira set the food on the table near Takashi, who hummed his thanks but didn't look away from his computer screen. Akira shook his head and went back upstairs to his lover.
"So has he moved?"
"Nope. Still in the same spot but the pictures on his computer are different." Akira replied with a smile of humor.
"He's been working hard lately for that contest, he's been only taking work with his really well licked clients still as well. He spends every hour taking pictures and deciding which to keep and which to toss. I didn't think you could get so serious about photography until now." Yusie said.
"Ya, but he's really gotten better over the last year, he's still quiet and sometimes depressed but when he's with people and enjoying himself you can tell he is. It's not so fake anymore. He's even dated a few times, though they never seem to work out."
"Ya he probably feels that they don't' measure up to who ever he loved before." Yusie said setting down his drink. "When's the deadline?"
"Next week he has to have all the photos printed and framed as well as all the information about them filled out. I don't even know if he has all the photos yet."
"I guess we will wait and see."