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Months passed, March arrived and things hadn't changed at all.
"Mary Jane I have to talk you" said Akito.
"Tell me dear"
'SHE has never called me like that' he thought and then said: "You see, I'm here in Los Angeles to rehabilitate my hand and because of my father's work, but know my hand's well " 'of course I'm not the same, but how could she know?' "…and my father job…"
"Do you have to return Japan?" Mary Jane interrupted.
"I guess so" he answered, 'If she says it, it's simpler for me…' he thought.
"Well, probably I'm coming with you!" a large, happy smile lightened her little face.
Akito turned pale: "What d'you mean?"
"My school is giving me the chance to frequent a famous karate school in Tokyo! My life's not good here; I'll build another life there."
"Where are you going to live?"
"There's an American college in Tokyo, I'm going to go to the American High School and sleep in the dormitories" "Smile, Akito! Isn't it wonderful? We will see each other every day; I will know your friends!"
Tsuyoshi, Aya, Fuka and …Her! No…No!
"Are you happy?" she asked.
"I guess so" but this time he didn't smile. He wasn't even good at telling lies: acting was out of his possibilities. Mary Jane appeared satisfied, though.
'She is a little dense…as Sana was…' thought Akito, his heart sinking down. 'How am I going to cope with this?' he was asking himself.
Two days before leaving he called Tsuyoshi. He had to.
"Hello"
"C...can't believe it! Is it you Akito?"
"I guess so"
"You're laconic as always, aren't you?"
"Listen to me, the day after tomorrow, at twelve, I will be at the airport"
"We're going to be there Akitokun! Have you already told Sana?"
But Akito had already interrupted the phone call.
AT THE AIRPORT
"Are you happy?" Naozumi asked her.
"Yes, I'm very happy!" answered Sana, a big smile. But her eyes were shining of something else than joy.
"He loves you. You know, do you?"
Sana wasn't able to answer him: he never told her he loved her…
"Hey! He's there, it's him!" Tsuyoshi was jumping up and down with enthusiasm.
Sana rose up her head and looked at him without speaking…
A long, painful, loving look answered hers. Why these sad eyes? Sana's heart was frozen.
Akito, surrounded by his friends, confused by Fuka's chatting and by Tsuyoshi's weeping, was searching for Sana. Her worried look wasn't Sana's look!
"Akito, introduce me to your friends!" Mary Jane put her arms around his neck, then she said: " I'm his girlfriend, Mary Jane, has he ever told you about me?"
"If I didn't introduce myself, he will never…" Everybody was staring at her, they couldn't understand everything but they still heard the word girlfriend. There was a moment of silence, then Naozumi, as always, proved to be able to master the most difficult situations: "Hello, I'm Naozumi, glad to know you, Mary Jane!" he said in perfect English.
'How cute! But he's not Japanese…' thought Mary Jane, then she remembered something and said: "I've already seen you, you're the actor, aren't you?"
'How nice and delicate she is! She seems fragile as a flower!' thought Naozumi. Through the anger against Akito, whom he never looked at, was growing in Naozumi a weird and unknown feeling of protection.
While others, even if nervously and embarrassed, introduced themselves to Mary Jane, Akito walked in Sana's direction.
"Sana…"
Sana was still there, as if she had frozen solid, but at his words she started running, while tears began to flow on her cheeks. Akito ran after her, but he couldn't catch her because she got into her limo, which Rei was in.
Akito remained there, with the word "Wait" unsaid, and his heart aching in pain. He then reached his friends again. Nobody asked anything: they knew what had happened. Tsuyoshi with a little nervous voice proposed to sit down and chat somewhere, while Mr Hayama and Natsumi would take luggage home.