Chapter 4

The night was fun. The most fun Eiji had had in a while. But unfortunatly, it had to come to an end to soon. They exchanged e-mail adresses and instant messanger names and went their spearate ways.

Eiji got in at eleven and was surprised to find Ryo not in the room. He shrugged it off, figuring he had just gone to the library or something.

He changed into more comfortable clothing, sat on his bed and took out his lap top. He was going to add all the e-mail adresses to his adress book, and screen names to his buddy list, but as soon as he logged on, he was instant messaged.

'Ne Eiji. Long time no talk?'

Eiji pulled out the list of screen names to find out it was Oishi. He smiled.

'Hoi!' He typed. 'Whats up?'

'Nothing really just got back. You?'

'Almost the same, been here a few minutes though.. did some things…'

'I see…'

'Yeah…'

There was a few minutes of silence, then Oishi typed 'So how have you been? What have you been up to these past years?'

The red head really didn't have to think about it and quickly typed it in. 'My mother controlled my life. I did school work, tennis and things around the house. I didn't really have a choice.'

'That's it? Did you do anything fun?'

'Nya, tennis.'

'Some how I just can't picture it. Nothing? Did you go on any dates?'

'Nya…nothing since…'

'Oh, I see…'

'What about you? What have you been doing.'

While waiting for Oishi to reply, Eiji sighed. If there was really one thing from the past he missed, it was Oishi Syuuichiro. The boy now man had always been there for him… no matter how trivial the problem may have been.

'My mom didn't controll my life, but that was basically my life too. Study, tennis, chores. Everyday… But I did it so I could get into a good school.'

'Still going for doctor?'

'Yeah..'

'Hoi, good for Oishi! Make people all better!'

Eiji could almost hear him laughing.

'I'll try, Eiji.'

'Good.'

'Listen Eiji, I'd love to talk to you more tomorrow morning one of my courses has it's first lesson early. So I'm going to go to bed. Good night.'

'Night Oishi.' Eiji typed. But Oishi was no longer online to get the message.