Carousel ch1: Introductions… sort of
By Dodona Flora
I
talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again
I
stop to think at a wishing well
My thoughts send me on a carousel…
The air was still and the sky went dimmer from each step he took. Kyou walked home after a long afternoon in the dojo. He always felt content in his long walks home. It gave him a sense of solitude and clearness. He never has to think about the direction to get home that he could concentrate on his thoughts without ending up lost. Some might say its muscle memory while others who knew him might have implied it was because of his cat like instincts that enabled him to do so with such ease. At that moment his thoughts were focused on his "feelings" about Tohru.
It's normal for someone to see a person standing in front of a house and ringing a doorbell. It's quite peculiar to witness a person standing in front of a house and acting like they're arguing with themselves about whether or not that person should ring the doorbell or not. One might assume that person was either fickle or weird. Kyou, in the other hand, was too amused to make any instant assumptions of the event.
Machi stood in front of a pastel green two story house. The house was ordinary but had an essence of perfection that surrounded its existence. Machi kept doing a back and forth motion to the door and away from it. She finally made up her mind and walked the opposite path from the door. She followed the path that led her from the house to the main sidewalk. As she walked she noticed Kyo. She gave him a blank gaze and then strolled away forward.
Kyou had an urge of curiosity that just had to be answered. "Yo! Yuki's girlfriend!"
She came to a halt and confirmed Kyou with a calm tone. "I'm not his girlfriend nor am I even anywhere close to a friend to him."
"I don't care if you are Yuki's whatever. I just didn't know what to call you. What were you doing at that house back there?" he had finally caught up to her.
While still walking and facing forward she replied. "Why would you care? Yuki and you are the same, always with those idiotic questions. You are his cousin are you not?"
"Wished I wasn't. I am nothing like that damn Yuki. I don't want to be answered as Yuki's cousin. Call me Kyou, and look, I was just asking. Can't a guy ask a question without getting shit thrown back at them?"
Silence is a strange but ordinary thing. If one were to categorize the different types of silence one would make a category for subtle silence and another for uncomfortable silence. In this case it would have been subtle silence. Both neither desired to speak or listen to what the other had to say. They just walked on concentrated on their individual thoughts.
A white and blue city bus approached towards the empty bus stop. Machi got to in time. Kyou kept walking without realizing or intending to notice Machi's absence. When she was only two steps into the bus she turned around.
"Kyou, so you would know what to call me next time, my name is Machi Kuragi." She still spoke with the same serene tone.
The bus doors shut themselves automatically. It took off to the city with only a trail of gas that spread behind it. Then Kyo was alone once again. His mind wandered from the Thoughts of Tohru before to the conversation with Machi.
That was an awkward conversation. She was one weird girl. It was like talking to that rat. I couldn't get a straight forward answer. Even though… there's something interesting and different about her.
Here
I am standing on my own
Not a motion from the telephone
I know
not a reason why
Solitudes a reason to die