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Thinking
04. His secret
When Sendoh went back to the hotel, he sat at the lobby.
"Who care" a whisper from Rukawa repeatedly played in his brain again and again.
"He spoke like usual, but why do I have this feeling? He just looked like a lost child, begging for love but rejecting it in order to not to get any hurt. What'd happened to him and his sister? Can I help?"
'Sendoh, what are you doing here?'
Suddenly someone shouted to him. He jumped a little. Headed up, he saw Koshino walking toward him.
'Why do you sitting at the lobby?' Koshino asked while inspecting Sendoh.
'Are you looking for me?' Sendoh asked.
'Yes, time for dinner. But I didn't see you back.' Koshino said, 'what are you doing here?'
'I just sit here waiting to eat.' Sendoh said with a big smile on his face.
'Can you be serious sometimes?'
'I am serious.' Sendoh said, 'I am pretty hungry. Let's go.'
When Sendoh and Koshino went into the dinning hall, he saw Rukawa sitting at the table at the corner.
Sendoh shook. After finished picking his food, he took his tray and went to Rukawa's table. Koshino was surprised.
'Sendoh?' He puzzled.
'I sit with him.' Sendoh said gently, 'you come?'
'um...I sit with them.' Koshino replied and pointed to the Ryanon basketball teams table.
'OK!' Sendoh shrugged.
He looked at Rukawa and saw he was eating as if nothing happened.
'Mind if I sit here?'
No reply.
'I take that a yes.' Sendoh smiled and sat down next to him.
He looked at Rukawa's tray, there was no meat nor fish but only a bowl of rice, some vegetables and mushrooms and a bowl of miso soup. Well, and a glass of water.
'You just eat that little for dinner?' Sendoh asked.
Waiting a second, but there was no return as usual.
'Dinner is free here, you can eat as much as you can.'
Rukawa continued eating, showing no interest to reply Sendoh.
'Hey, do you want a piece of chicken?' Sendoh asked excitedly, 'it is nice.'
About hearing this, Rukawa headed up immediately and shook. Sendoh felt amazing and happy when he got Rukawa's response within second.
"I don't eat meat and fish after that ... " he thought. He still remembered that awful experiences which his uncle, a man who claimed to be his father best friend, did on him.
Flashback
'Yeap, take it whole, doesn't it taste good?' his uncle said while panting.
Rukawa, only thirteen at that time, just tried to escape but he was not as strong as a well built Judo guy. He tried to turn his head away but that dreadful strong man just pushed his head on. He wouldn't resist, but only did what his "uncle" said. Finally, he tasted some disgusted thing shoot into his ' He wanted to cry and to spew out everything. But the nightmare was not end.
He still remembered the first time after his uncle raped him, he tried to escape. But what he got was a cut on the arm, he still remembered the expression on his uncle's face when he tasted his blood. After this crazy action, he blackmailed him that either he or his sister will be the one doing the same thing. He had no chance...
End of Flashback
'Try it.'
Headed up, he saw a piece of chicken flying to his bowl.
Rukawa eyes widened with shock when he saw Sendoh trying to put a piece of chicken on his bowl.
'No.' Rukawa said hurriedly and pushed Sendoh's hand away.
The chicken dropped on the table. Sendoh was surprised by Rukawa's reaction. He looked at Rukawa and the feeling of disgust clearly showed on Rukawa's face. Rukawa looked down on the table for a while and tried to calm himself down.
'Sorry, no meat and fish.'
Rukawa took a glance at Sendoh. He then tried to resume his meal. But he already lost his appetite.
After a while, Sendoh spoke again.
'You should eat more.' said Sendoh, 'Especially when you don't eat meat. You need more rice to support your exhausting exercise.'
Rukawa shrugged.
'...and why don't you take meat or fish? because of religion?'
Rukawa took a deep breathe, shrugged and pretended nothing happened but he didn't know that Sendoh already noted his shaking hand and the sudden rapid breathing.
"What happened to him?"
"There is something in his heart
eating him up
making him breathless
He feels so heavy
He feels so cold
He wants to get out, but
he is sinking into the ocean."
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