Chapter 11
All my thanks to lovely reviewers who have taken their time to say a few encouraging words to me: Kumioko, anon(finally), beauty's black7, and Interested Fan. My original plan was to complete this but I guess, since I'm slow I'll just post this one I finish just now, continue reviewing it motivates me :D I already have the outline but I need dialogues and scenes to fill it and make it I don't know fit into the story? Any suggestions, I'm open, lol :D
Chiori POV
I was on my way outside with my hands on the doorknob after sweeping every single shard from the broken picture inside Kanae's room. I felt like this should be her alone time and so after cleaning up the mess, I've decided to go home but just as easily, I felt a presence behind me which made me to turn around and see Kanae with her hands full of… how should I describe this, …memories.
"Is that-?" A nod from her was all I need to confirm my suspicions that indeed, finally the day have come for her to finally let go. From where I'm standing, I could see a huge white teddy bear, some dried flowers, cards, necklace, cute trinkets and basically every single thing that good-for-nothing guy gave to her, she held it tightly, grabbed something from the kitchen counter and went straight for the backyard. There she dumped everything in one pile, "Wait, Kanae-chan, are you sure about this?"
A match lit up and thrown into the pile was what I got as an answer. I figured it was not the right time for me to talk and so we stood there, watching the flames eat everything. In about fifteen minutes, we were staring at a little black mountain of ashes. She was the first to break the silence, with a smile that could only be described as half-forced, half-relieved; she turned around and said… "Thank you for putting up with my drama, Chiori. Now I'm done, want to go grab something to eat?"
"I'd like to but you don't cook do you?"
"Who said anything about cooking? There's delivery for that, I'll just order Chinese"
She was walking towards the phone when I suddenly got the most childish idea that I know would surely perk her up even just for a bit. "The first one to get to the phone will have dibs on what we're going to order, I call pizza! Oh and a bucketful of ice cream too~" I tapped her on the shoulder and run as if my life depended on it.
It took her a while but she finally understood what I meant so she also started running, screaming all over the place, "Chiori! Get your butt over here, I don't fucking eat sweets!"
"I'm sorry. Did you just mention a dozen donuts and a black forest cake?"
"Come back here, don't twist my words, you food monster!"
"Catch me if you can slowpoke!"
For an actress, her unnatural and forced claim to say that everything's all right now is as fake as some of the boobs of female idols in the industry but because she's my good friend, I'll tolerate it and get along if that's what is needed for her to get over this ordeal. Even if we have two do it as two crazed monkeys who just got out of their cage in a race to go to her room where the only working landline is currently sitting beside her nightstand.
******Aww, I wish I had a friend like that, someone who would cheer me up! TO my reviewers, you already are that kind of friend to me, review makes me stronger and write faster :D******