Café-Down Stairs
I sighed as I started to clean up after everyone left. I stood alone in the kitchen looking at the bottle of whiskey thinking about how much pain me yelling at her the day she left caused me. I never really wanted to yell at her like I did. Heck I would even get close to saying that I'm in love with my Strawberry. But if I tell her that she will run. Like she did when I yelled at her so harshly. She didn't know that I almost got on to a plane to tell her I was sorry about how I treated her. I wanted to write her and tell her to make it easier on my self and everyone else around me but I couldn't do that. So I didn't call and I didn't write her. I just took to the bottle like my father did after my mother left. Only returned when he was put to rest. I was nine when he was put to rest. I still think about what mom told me that day after we left.
Ryou sat on his bed looking up at his mother at just the little age of nine as his mother spoke. "Your father loved us both even before you came into his life my little one. He couldn't ever say the words we know we always wanted to hear from him and showing emotions was something that we both know that he couldn't do for the life of him. But I only left to try to save my sister's kids life. It was the least I could do for her. Your father couldn't see it that way and more to the point ordered me to leave the house and to never come back." Ryou watched as his mother wiped the tears away "I loved your father dearly. And I knew deep down that he loved me to. And we both know that he loves you as well. And always will love you even in the next life." Ryou nodded his head as he wiped away a tear from his mother's eye as she hugged him to her tightly. "You will never leave will you mom." His mother smiled down at him and shook her head "No son I will not leave you. Not until you find that right girl for you. Then I will leave you. But not until then."
I sighed as I picked up the bottle and took a swig from it deeply. I never under stood what she meant buy that. But I would have to guess that she would meant that even in death that she would be there until I found the right girl. I rubbed the back of my neck as I put the bottle away. I some times could smell my mother's scent around the café when Ichigo is around. Even now I can smell it only faintly but its still there. I looked around the dark place and sighed as I spoke quietly into the dark as I headed into the café it's self. "Mother are you here." But no sound came that sounded like my mother's bell like voice coming from the darkness. Just the sound of a cat mewing at the moon. I chuckle slightly as I turned and walked up the stairs headed towards my room. Maybe just maybe my mother was pushing me towards Ichigo. Maybe mother was right maybe I should tell Ichigo how I feel or I just might end up like my father. Drunk and alone doesn't sound like a good thing to me anymore. I walk into my room and change into my sleepwear (I think he sleeps in his boxers. But that's just me) and I crawled under the covers as I lay there looking at the moon. "Maybe I will tell her in the morning." And with that thought I fell sleep dreaming of my Strawberry.