The Inn of Murder
Chapter 5- Tomoe
By Misao's Angel
What is a smile? Is it the content of your heart displayed on your face? Or is it a cover to come and hide away your pain? Is it a promise, a secret shared between two? Or is it a lie, an illusion, held by only you? Is it the true feeling of happiness? Or is it just a fake?
Happiness. I might have felt that once.
What are tears? Are they the secret to letting go of pain? Or are they there to cleanse a rotten heart? Are they the lonely stars, each a light year apart? Or are they the forgotten wish, that turns a healthy mind insane? Is it a path to mending the pain of sadness? Or just an escape?
Sadness. That is all I feel now.
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One cold night in late December, a young woman waited for her loved one to return. She nervously rubbed her temples, as she leaned upon the windowsill, doing nothing but staring at the darkness of the night...
After three hours of monotony, her eyes began to defy her heart's wishes, and multiplied in weight as each minute passed. She would beg them to remain open... just until he returned...
He left with a friend that night. He never told her which friend it was, for it seemed that she was kept a secret from all of his friends. Well that would have to have changed soon. For if she was going to spend the rest of her life with him, it was best that his friends were aware... To make sure he didn't do something as silly as cheat on her at brothels... But she believed in him enough. He would never do that.
Especially if he died that night.
The woman mentally kicked herself for thinking such a thing. He promised that he would, he promised that her hand would shine with a silver ring when he returned, that they would be free to love together forever...
But why hadn't he come home yet?
The silence of the room combined with her weariness made her imagination go wild. She saw things in her head she could never believe... right? She wasn't so sure anymore...
She saw him splatter against the front of a speeding car. She knew this couldn't be... that she shouldn't let her imagination take over her thoughts...
But the vision was so vivid. She could see his body fall helplessly on the cold, asphalt road, his blood decorating the street, the shards of glass embedding themselves in his throat... but none of those visions scared her as much as when she saw his eyes. For the first time ever, they weren't hidden behind a mask of self-confidence... For the first time ever she saw a forbidden emotion in his eyes.
She saw fear.
After another hour, her heart finally lost the battle to her eyes, and she slept...
And woke up to a police man coming towards her door, hat off and head bent down...
It just wasn't fair.
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The woman strived to leave that town; this town of memories dipped in a coat of pain... No, she did not want to be there anymore. She took herself, and only herself with her as she left for a new place, a new home somewhere faraway. She planed to take a ferry from the Southern port of Hokkaido... Maybe stop at an inn that night and rejuvenate herself as to prepare for the long traveling ahead.
She traveled by a rented violet vehicle, called a car by some, and drove towards the direction she looked for.
When the sky began to darken, the woman thought of the inn she would spend the night. She drove down a thin, tree-lined road, and after some time reached such an inn. She silently stepped out of her car, approached the counter, and rung the small bell...
To meet the most handsome man she had ever seen.
To be continued.
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