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Tsuyoshi Sasaki is dead... Tsuyoshi Sasaki is dead... The words echoed round Aono's head. She stood there, frozen, pressing the phone harder and harder into her ear. Tsuyoshi's dead...
"Hello? Hello? Are you there?" said the voice at the other end.
"Aono? What happened? Here, I'll take it." her mother offered, holding her hand out to Aono.
Aono stood, rigid in shock. Her voice shook as she spoke again.
"Em... I think you want my mother..." She said to the person, and passed the phone over to her mum whos worried face soon turned pale, and crumpled up. A single tear rolled from her eye, travelling down her face, ending on the tip of her top lip.
"But how... How did he die? Are you sure it's him? And what about my partner? Is he OK?"
"Ms. Sasaki, Tsuyoshi died after a car hit them full speed on the motorway. A blow to his head resulted in a broken neck. Your partner was luckier. He is now in hospital, being treated for 1 broken arm, 3 broken ribs, and some cuts a bruises. I'm sorry, Ms. Sasaki."
She put the phone down, although the person speaking might have had more to say about Tsuyoshi. Looking over at Aono, sobbing quietly on the couch, the grief welled up inside her. She ran to the sofa, and flung her arms around now, her only child.
"Why..." stuttered Aono through her tears. "Why did he have to go like that? And now?"
Her mother just sniffed.
The phone ran again. They ignored it.
"By the way mum," Aono said, weakly. "I won a competition for my drawing. I wasn't gonna tell you 'till they phoned."
"Well done dear." her mother said, gulping back her tears.
Soon though, she just gave up trying to hold it together, and ran upstairs to the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
Aono was alone. Her grief turned to anger.
Tsuyoshi had always been her mums favourite child. It was always Tsuyoshi this, Tsuyoshi that. But for Aono, it was just disapproving glances, and shaking heads.
Ginta, her mothers partner, was always horribe to her, and he mother never understood her. Ever since she was little, form as far back as she could remember, she would have been getting smacked, or shouted at. She had never really been hurt that badly... Maybe emotionaly, but certainly not phsically.
Thinking about all the times when she had been unfairly treated just made her angrier.
In her rage, she stood up and kicked out at the sofa opposite.
It hardly budged.
Even angrier now, she lashed out at a vase, and knocked it to the floor. It smashed, and Aono turned round, sheilding her face incase any peices came flying, but also to grab the next thing she could possibly break, smash, or destroy in any way.
But instead of touching somthing hard or rigid, she flet the soft material of her mothers favourite blouse collar.
Aono turned round, slightly shocked at how quickly her mother had come down from the bathroom when she heard the vase smash.
"So you've decided that I acctually mean something to you now?" she said, spitefully.
Her mum just hugged her.
It was in that simple moment that Aono knew her mother loved her.
Two days later, Aono was sitting on her bed, in her room. She was holding blank CD. Well, thats what she thought. She stood up, on put in the CD, switching it on.
A blast of cheesy music and the buzz of voices floated out of the speakers.
It was Tsuyoshi's karaoke night, for his 16th birthday.
"I'm not a girl.... Not quite a human..." the drunken voices sang, not quite along with the music. She didn't recognise who was signing at the moment.
As she listened carefully, she found that song playing was 'I'm not a girl, not yet a woman' by Britney Spears.
Aonos eyse brimmed as the next song came on. It was Tsuyoshi's favourite, and he was singing this time.
She sat, dreamily listening to the singing, and remembering all the good times that her and Tsuyoshi had had together.
Downstairs, the phone rang again. Her mother answered it quickly.
Aono heard her mother speaking, but couldn't make out what she was saying, because the the CD was too loud. She switched it off to try and hear what her mother was saying, but was too late, as her mum have just put the phone down. She was coming upstairs, and burst into Aono's room.
"Nice of you to knock..." Aono said quietly.
"Oh, stop being silly. Listen, I've got great news! They're releasing Ginta from hospital! We're going to go and pick him up in two hours, once they make sure he's OK. Isn't that great?"
"Yeah... For you..." Aono muttered, under her breath.
Two hours and fifteen minutes later, they were in the car, on the way to the hospital.
Aono was sitting very silently in the back seat of the car, trying not to break down in tears.
How could her mum be like that? She was humming cheerily along to the radio, as if she had forgotten about Tsuyoshi... How could she?
The car slowed and stopped, and they got out.
"Right. We're here!" Aono's mum said. She looked at Aono.
"Oh, cheer up, it's not the end of the world!"
"Mum. You're forgetting something. Tsuyoshi's dead. He's DEAD, mum. Don't forget that. Dont forget Tsuyoshi." Aono said, fiercely. "You're forgetting him..."
Aono's mum's mood and the expression on her face abruptly changed. She now had a deep frown, and her bright smile was no-where to be seen.
"I'm not, Aono." she said quietly. "I'm not."
Ten minutes later, they were back in the car, but this time, with Ginta.
They stopped at a petrol station a couple of minutes later. Her mum got out to fill up the car.
He turned round in his seat to face Aono when when her mother's back was turned, and grinned evily...
And then Aono knew exactly what he had done.
"Y-you didn't!" she gasped.
"I did." he grinned again. That evil grin...
"Y-you killed him! You killed Tsuyoshi!"
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