The Disease that Killed Love Book III

Chapter 2-Xuyan

Jingxi does not know how to play the violin and never will, but it's funny watching him attempt to play Swan Lake on the violin. Swan Lake is actually pretty hard, but he's trying and I'll have to give him credit for that.

Even so, it didn't really work out. For some reason he couldn't tune anymore. When I told him a note was extremely sharp, for example, he didn't know how much he should turn the peg.

He was great at tuning before. I wonder what happened.

The wizards visited us often. They even brought fascinating gifts along with them. I got this awesome sword that never has to be sharpened because it is so sharp everything just cuts right through and nothing can hurt it. Syaoran got bows and arrows.

Now why would the witches give him bows and arrows? You may ask. The truth is, Yue was very happy about this because he might teach Syaoran how to shoot.

I was busy wondering how he would do it.



Yue never ceases to amaze me.

First of all, he shot first, right beside Syaoran, with an arrow tipped with a loud rock. Syaoran shot right after that, following the sound.

He'll get to be a pretty good archer.

After all, his teacher is one of the best!



" I guess it's in his blood." Yue said proudly to Touya the next morning. " He got it with several tries."

Syaoran smiled proudly as well, happy that his father was proud of him, and stretched out his arms for a hug. Touya hugged him, and I was pretty sure that was what Syaoran wanted.

Touya picked him up and laughed, then said to Yue sternly, " He needs to eat."

Yue growled in annoyance.

" Well, now that you're still light enough for me to carry," Touya swung the frightened kid around, " We're going to get you something to eat. I have a lot of American chocolate."
" Hersheys?" Yue asked.
" Hai." Touya grinned. " Dark chocolate. Your favorite, ne?"

Most parents would complain that their children will get obesity, but I think Syaoran was in absolutely no danger right now.

He took the chocolate and bit into it, but for some reason didn't quite like it because then he turned and drank a lot of water.

" American chocolate's too sweet." Yue explained and I totally agree. How much sugar do they put in that thing?

" Don't drink too much water." Touya warned. " You'll feel sick."

Syaoran nodded dumbly and bit into the chocolate again. This time he didn't drink any water.

" You're very good a chaligraphy." Mimi looked at me. " Did you practice hard or something?"
" Hai, to beat Syaoran." I answered. " He's even better than me at this. Take a look at this," I fetched out a scroll from one of the suitcases. " He won the youth chaligraphy competition with this. It's a poem."

George took a look at it and blinked in approval.
" It looks nice. Nice poem he chose."

I almost forgot the wizards understand every language.
" Yes." I said.

Mimi laughed, then handed the scroll back to me. " Do you two always compete?"
" Not anymore." I answered. " I can't beat him, which is kind of sad, but I still have many things to be grateful for, I guess."
" That you have." George nodded. " Great many things."

I looked at my own work. It was exactly like Syaoran's now, but if Syaoran had been able to write he would have improved.

I sighed. The witch seemed to sense my distress.

" All will end soon." She said.
" How?" I asked.

They did not answer.



Sergei was often at Syaoran's place and talking with him. About what, I have absolutely no idea. The truth was, I didn't like Sergei. Okay-scratch that. I trust the man. The problem was I'm not interested in him. He's boring.

Okay. Scratch that. He's really really boring.

I don't know what Syaoran found so interesting about him to actually sit on the couch and talk to him. I wonder what Sergei was doing...



April 11th. Someone decided to take Syaoran to the zoo. Bad idea.

I think it was Nakuru who offered to do it and Yue reluctantly accepted. Yue didn't go though, which was odd because he was almost always with Syaoran.



Before I go on, let me just explain briefly to all of you who have all five senses. Those of you who have all five senses have all five senses. No big deal. Now, when there's someone like Syaoran, who became blind, that person, ( like Syaoran) develops subconsciously the other four senses. When someone like Helen Keller, has only three senses, well, those develop twice as much.

In Syaoran's case, he's blind and mute, the mute part not mattering much because it's not a sense, but the blind part did. Going to the zoo did not change that fact. Zoos are more for seeing.

In Syaoran's case, he had to resort to his other senses to get in touch with his surroundings, mainly his hearing, his sense of touch, and,

His sense of smell.

The zoo was not a particularly good smelling place.



That trip ended in a disaster, especially when they reached the elephants. Elephants eat a lot, which also means...

You get the point.

So Syaoran did not like that trip and Nakuru was very sad.



When Sakura heard it, she thought it was the funniest thing that ever happened to poor Jingxi and teased him relentlessly about. She eventually made him cry though, because he couldn't get back at her.

That earned her brief scoldings from Touya while Yue had to comfort Syaoran. Sakura was sorry though, I could tell. She didn't mean to hurt Syaoran's feelings.

The truth was we're getting so use to his silence. She thought that Syaoran would just open his mouth and shoot some smart comment back at her.

I know what it feels like. To have something to say and not be able to say it. It's not like you don't want to say it, you're afraid to say it, something like that.

It's when you can't say it. Even when you try.

Which was precisely why Syaoran started crying.



April 16th. That day was a very bad day, because it was raining very hard. So hard, in fact, that our neighborhood was in danger of flooding.

" First thing I'll announce." I grabbed Eriol's shoulders. " I'm going to kill someone."
" Why don't you kill Spinel?" Eriol offered. Spinel glared at him.

I let go of Eriol and turned around. " Maybe I'll break my violin."

The problem was, Syaoran was holding the violin, trying to play on it again. I sighed.

" Good heavens, you're in a bad mood." Eriol cocked an eyebrow. " What's wrong?"
" Why are you asking me that?" I asked. " Everything's wrong. I was planning on...on relaxing, and now I'm forced with going out and walking Lele. And look, she needs a walk too."

It was true. Dogs do have an inner schedule, and when it's time for them to go to the bathroom, they'll go to the bathroom no matter what. This works well for some people, but for most people, weather, occasional colds, fevers,

That won't work well.

So Lele needs to go out and Syaoran offered to go, but none of us would have it.

" You're staying right here where it's all cozy and comfy."

Syaoran shrugged in his silent way and leaned next to Yue. The two of them were listening to a television show. Listening, because Syaoran could not hear.

Of course, Yue was good at picking shows when it came to his son. He chose talk shows instead of regular comic ones because Syaoran cannot see what's so funny but can hear what was funny. He didn't pick action shows because Syaoran would get hurt after not being able to fight anymore.

So quite frankly, the show would have been better on a radio.

Which was best, I guess.

It's really nice. It's really nice to see Yue and Syaoran together. Especially since my cousin's so cuddly. He likes to cuddle to his dad. Yue didn't mind either. I especially like it when they have a pillow fight. Syaoran always knew where Yue was and in the end Yue always won by tickling Syaoran to defeat.

Now, if only it wasn't raining, and I wasn't the one walking the dog...