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Chapter 7 – Part II

Dear Diary,

I remembered telling you that my greatest wish is to go to England to learn Photography, didn't I? Akira had been pretty /weird/ about it…I just can't put it into words. His favorite activity is actually fishing, though everyone thought he does best at Basketball. Same here. No, I don't enjoy fishing, but in my case it's photography. I intend to go to England, learn photography and take the best nature shots there are in the world. I want to scale Mount Everest, ah, mountaineering, another thing that I like doing, and take shots of the wild-life found there, all the amazing Ibex, Musk Ox, Snow Leopard (if I'm lucky enough not to get eaten up) and maybe even the rare, rare, White Tigers, all right, provided I run fast enough.

Mum and Dad liked this idea too, and I'm glad to have their support, which was also why I'm polishing up my English now. It was not bad before, since Dad can speak English due to his multi-national job, but I'm going to perfect it to go to England.

Eriko

P.S: The music playing in the radio…it's so nice. Clarinets. "Seasons of the Wind".

10.12.2002

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Through the camera she saw the little kid sticking his thumb in his mouth and gurgled happily, on his other hand was a humongous lollipop. Kawaii. She took the shot and found that she had used up all the film.

"Oh well, let's go to develop them now, including those from yesterday." Eriko whistled a cheerful tune and skipped down the path.

Just as she was cheerfully whistling the new tune she learnt over the radio, something slammed into her without warning. Eriko yelped and jumped out of the way as the 'thing' swerved to crash into the side of the path.

"Oh you, Kaede, not sleeping and cycling at the same time again…" She glared at the raven-haired boy, who was now rubbing his eyes sleepily and wondering what in the world happened a minute ago. He looked as though he was going to hop onto his bike and go off again, when he suddenly realized out of his mundane sleepy head, that the person was Eriko. Rukawa nodded in acknowledgement, "Konnichiwa." He paused for a while and seemed to think of something, "Want a lift?"

"Okay!" Eriko beamed, sitting on the rear of the bike, "I must check if there are flying pigs in the air today…Rukawa Kaede offered me a ride!" She patted his shoulder playfully, "Dear Chauffeur, please send me to the Kodak film development shop just down the streets, thank you."

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"Hahaha! Look! Your hair's all messy," Eriko laughed aloud, pointing at the photo, showing it to Akira, "Frankly, I'm pretty pleased with the 'Friends' series, they came out very well! Must be because I have additional assets, dumdumdumdum…the superstars of high school basketball! Oh look!"

Sendoh looked at the photos half-heartedly, but was actually peeking at Eriko. She looked just so adorable going all excited and bubbly like that.

Rukawa was seated on the ground, flipping through another album nonchalantly, but to the careful observant, his facial muscles twitched occasionally trying to stifle laughter caused by the various strange shots that Eriko took of him and Sendoh. Like there was this when Rukawa was supposed to be scrutinizing a black cat and Sendoh was supposed to look as though he was going to tickle Rukawa from the back. But Rukawa had actually picked the cat up and cuddled it, making Sendoh go all goggle-eyed and Eriko took that hilarious moment when Sendoh looked like a goldfish. There were many other shots like that, and they were almost all accidental shots, but totally amusing.

Eriko suddenly stopped flipping and stared at a photo, "How…eh…" Sendoh looked at the photo as well.

It was a shot of Eriko running on the beach, trying to catch Sendoh. The golden sunset in the background, and the darkening sea, with the multi shadows cast by the coconut trees made the shot look breath taking. But she was the photographer…so how…

The two turned to stare at Rukawa, who glanced at them briefly and returned to the album he was browsing nonchalantly, "do-aho."

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