May 29, 2011

Forecast... Cloudy

Sunday

"Morning..." I yawned as I slowly walked into the kitchen. Em was messing with her guitar and well was headed for the door. "Work again?"

"Yeah, I gotta go in to fix a light fixture in the lobby that hasn't been working since April."

"And they didn't have you fix it till now? Whatever..." Em shrugged for a moment and went right back to plucking at her guitar strings. I rolled my eyes and waved at Will has he left the house.

"It's Sunday, right?" I looked at Em and she nodded. I walked to the door and flung it open. "Bye!"

"Where are you going?" Em leaned over the back of the couch with such a bored look. I grinned evilly at her.

"To keep Death company." I had to laugh at her expression it was absolutely priceless!

"W-WHAT!?" I lost it at that moment, I just couldn't help myself. I started to laugh so hard I had to get on my knees just to breath. "This is NOT funny!"

"I-it's not what you think it is sis!" I stood up and motioned to the door. "Come on, I'll show you."

"If you are taking me to a room full of people hanging themselves... I'm going to shove my foot so far into your teeth, you'll be pissing painfully for a year!"

"Harsh."

Time Change: Morning to Daytime

Floodplain

Em was quiet the whole way to the Floodplain, I guess she really didn't believe me that I wasn't about to kill myself. Yet, old habits do tend to die hard. After all those years worrying about me and my health, I really couldn't blame her. Eventually I saw Hisano standing by the river bed. Smiling, I quickly walked down the steps. "Hisano!"

"What!?" Hisano quickly turned around with a scared expression on her face, but it quickly faded when she saw that it was me. "My, you frightened me there... I thought you were my husband..."

"Sorry..." I rubbed the back of my neck as Em came to a stop right next to me. Hisano looked at her with a very intrigued face. I turned to Em and smiled. "This is what I was talking about."

"My you are a very beautiful young girl." Hisano smiled at Em as she moved her turquoise stands out of her face. Em stared at Hisano with amazement, then looked to me and slapped the back of my head.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" I quickly took a step toward my sister.

"For calling a sweet old lady death ya prick!" Me and Em were now forehead to forehead. We were practically growling at each other! That's when Hisano started laughing... we both calmed down almost instantly and looked at Hisano. Em sighed and looked away from me. "You really are dense sometimes brother."

"So are you sister..." Hisano laughed at us again.

"You two are really close then." Me and Em looked back at Hisano. She looked back at the river. "Watching the river here with you Kreed-chan, like this, brings back memories... Your sister is welcome to stay too."

I waved to Em and we both just sat down next to Hisano. I looked up at Hisano. "What about the river?"

She smiled down at me. "Yes... The area around the river used to be much prettier than it is now. I met my husband here in this town. I was born and raised here, and he was part of a travelling company of actors. They'd come to town once a year..."

Em leaned over and started to whisper in my ear. "You do this every weekend?"

"I'm trying too." I noticed that Em smiled as Hisano continued her story about her husband.

"When I was small, my family took me to see the play..." She smiled a bit as she recited her memories to me and my sister. I was now trying not to cry at this moment, it was going to be oh, so sad, I just knew it was... this kinda thing always did end up that way. Em noticed this and leaned her head on my arm, anyone who did know we were siblings was so gonna get the wrong idea. "That's when I met my husband, who was a child actor. He had clear, pale skin, and he spoke completely differently from the other children... He was my first love."

"That's beautiful..." Was now also trying not to cry... god, this was not going to end in a pretty sight. "I wish I could say that when I get older..."

"I'm sure the boy you like now will see you someday." Hisano smiled down at Em, who started to turn red. Oh, now I was gonna bug the shit outta her to find out who it is; I was never going to let her live this down. Hisano looked back out over the river. "Every year, he would come... And every year, I would watch... I gathered all the courage I had and talked to him. By some miracle, he fell in love with me, too..."

"That's kinda like..." looked at the river and thought back to when me and Chie started training out here. I bright smile came to my face as Hisano continued to tell her story.

"We would just talk behind the stage. One date every year." She looked up to the sky, I knew then that this is where it started to get sad... "Haha... I thought he was just flirting with me, but I thought that was okay... But do you know what he did? He quit the company and said he would live here, and marry me!"

Em looked at the water brushing against the river bed, and sighed, not of boredom, but of want and of other things that I couldn't identify at that time. "He did fieldwork, though he didn't know how... He would come home and show me his blisters. He was so proud... I was happy back then."

"I'm jealous, you had someone very special like that... I can't even start over right..." Em almost started to sob as she slowly stood up and looked at Hisano with sad eyes.

"I'm sure the day will come where you'll be so happy you could just cry out of happiness. No, there are many people who are in the midst of happiness... They just don't realize it." The old woman smiled and put a hand on Em's shoulder. "If you don't know what you should hold dear, then your life is just a journey without a destination. Right now... All I want to do is be by his side... But I know I never will. He went to Heaven... and I will surely go to Hell."

I shot up to my feet so fast, the words that she had just spoken, they kinda pissed me off... she had done nothing wrong that I knew of; no, if anyone goes to Hell, it'd be me for trying to kill myself. "That's not true!"

"You're so kind Kreed-chan." She smiled sadly and started to walk away. "I must be going now. It gets cold here, down by the river... I'll see you later Kreed-chan, and Em-chan... it was a great pleasure to meet you."

Em bowed at Hisano with a sad smile on her face as well. "Good-bye Hisano-sama."

The moment she was gone, I looked to Em. "Come on lets get going..." So we started to trek home, but I noticed something at made me stop. "Hey, Em... is that... Will and Yukiko-san?" I pointed to the bench area near the end of Floodplain. Sure enough, both Will and Yukiko were sitting at the bench's. Yukiko had something in her lap, it almost looked like one of those boxed lunches that I've seen people at school with.

"Holy shit!" Em smiled evilly and started to move closer.

"Hey! Wait for me!" As we got closer, we started to hear the conversation... but from the sounds of it... it just started.

"It came out well, so I packed it up. Try it out." Yukiko handed the small box over to Will who swallowed hard. He opened the box, we still couldn't see it, but the moment he opened it, I could see the steam. I knew it was food.

"It looks good!" Will smiled over to Yukiko, she was smiling brightly at him. Yet, that's when Will, Em, and me all noticed the smell... god that was bad. "Hey, Yukiko... did you taste this?"

"No, I haven't. I wanted you to be the first to try it." Yukiko put on her best "angel" smile... that was never a good sign when people did that...

"W-well, here goes nothing..." Will grabbed something that looked like an omelet and took a pretty big bite... it sounded like it went good... until the crunch... It takes a long while... but Will eventually swallowed the bite... Yukiko looked away and to the ground.

"You're not about to tell me how delicious that was, are you?" Yukiko sounded like she was close to crying, but Will put his hand on her shoulder and smiled.

"There's always next time... you'll get it right!" God, you should have seen how fast Yukiko's face lit up! If they didn't soon, they would so start dating... if not... well, maybe they'd need that little... what's the word I'm looking for, oh yeah, push. That's when an all too familiar face ran past us and stopped to look at Yukiko and Will, but Yukiko got one more sentence in.

"I-I suppose... Thank you."

"What are you doing?" Nanako spoke up, Will and Yukiko both seemed very surprised by the little girl's presence. To, be honest... so was I.

"Ah, Nanako-chan..." Yukiko smiled at the sight of her though. "I was having my friend Will-kun try my boxed lunch..."

"Ooh, I want some." Nanako's face lit up like the fourth of July! I was a little scared for the poor girl at that moment, there was almost no way in hell that this was going to end well for the little girl. That is, if they had her tried it anyway's...

"I-I'm sorry, but I can't give you any. It's not good..." Yukiko seemed sad again... but 'ittle person logic was about to fix that!

"Oh." Nanako seemed to be in thought for a moment. Then she quickly replied. "If you make a good one, will you let me have some?"

"Huh...? S-sure, if you want..."

"Yay! I'm rooting for you!" There you have it folks, 'ittle person logic saved the day once again! Yukiko's face relaxed a bit as her conversation with Nanako continued. I didn't know what it was about kids that could help relax people so much, maybe it was the fact that they couldn't really lie, well when their as little as Nanako... or maybe it was just that people felt like they had to be strong for the kids... I don't know...

"Nanako-chan... Thank you. I'll do my best, okay?"

"I need to go now. I'm going to Mai-chan's house. Bye!" Will and Yukiko waved to Nanako as she walked away from the Floodplain, though I didn't think that she should have been walking around without Yu or her dad...

"Umm..." Yukiko started to blush as she tried to regain Will's attention. "I'm sorry to drag you around..."

"It's cool, I'm having a lot of fun!" WIll smiled at Yukiko, who I shit you not, looked like she was about to swoon! Or was it that she looked relieved... meh, I can't really remember... Oh, well...

"R-really? I'm glad to hear that... Only about a year left, huh...? I need to be able to do anything on my own by then..." I turned to Em with a smile on my face.

"What's that about...?

"I will never let him live this shit down!" There was no way in hell I would pass this one up!

Okay, I got good news and bad news... I need to tell you the bad news first... I'm going to be outta town for two weeks... I'm going on vacation with my family, so... no story updates... I know, I know... it sucks...

The good news, I will have plenty of time to type on my phone, so I should have a chapter or two ready by the time I get back! Hell, maybe even more than that! So sorry, if you guys wanna still talk, I can still communicate, I has a phone with internet!

So, as always... hope you enjoyed, please send your feedback.