Chapter 3- Those Memories
They were seating in the train waiting for their stop. Yukina was sleeping on Akira's lap. He sat there watching her sleep, hoping that she would come back with him when all of this was over. He didn't want her to go way from him like she would always do when thing got hard. He didn't want her to go somewhere out if his reach, he loved Yukina, she was his only friend and hated when she would just pack up and live without a word not even a goodbye. She hated saying that world but he wanted to hear it when she was living or at list know that she was live but he also knew that that would never happen.
She was always there for him, when his parents died and also when kids would tease him for not having them there. And he only wished that she would let him in so that he could help him to but that was hard to do with her bring afraid to let people in. When they were younger and she would be teased about the eyes she would never tell anyone she would just came home crying and locked herself into her room and when Akira would try and help her she would just get mad at him. He thinks that what help in her running away because when these things happened she would just live and go anywhere and when she was fifteen she started to live like go to different places and countries.
He punched her hair back so that he could her her face but she jumped when he did.
"What!" she shouted as she sat up. "What happen?"
"Nothing." he answer laughing at her. Her hair was a mess and everyone was look at her like she was mad, explicitly because she just shouted on top of her lungs.
"Is it owner stop yet!" she asked as she tried to fix her hair so that the people on the train would stop looking at her. She had notice them and as she watched them they got scared looking at her eyes and turned away.
"No. Not yet, the next one is ours. So... how did your meeting go yesterday?" he was hoping for her to say something like it was the worst time of her life after all she did tell him that she hated Shigure, but the fact that she had agreed to it so willingly yesterday made him have second thoughts.
"Oh... it was ok." she knew that she took too long to answer but she didn't want to hurt him by telling him the she had a good time yesterday with Shigure, something she didn't expect, plus Akira hated Shigure.
"What are you two doing it on?"
"It's on...Wait are you going to still our idea."
"Oh came on. I have my idea already."
"OK. No...Wait how came you get to do it on your own?"
"I'm not working on my own. The girl am working with has taken some time off school, so we get exert time to do it but we talk online so we may be angle to make it on time. Are they giving you two more time to do your project?"
"I don't know. I didn't talk to that "MAN" but I guess if he does Shigure will call me to let me know."
"So he has your number, so does he knows what happened."
"Yeah, he has it so that we can talk about the project and on he doesn't know what happened." the train stopped and she stood up. "Came Mr. Jealous lets go find my step-dad."
He was standing holding a post with her name on it. He was standing holding a poster with their names on it. He did that every time with the mom, the two of them thought that is was a nice laugh to do that but now it just brought back bad memories. This was the first time that she had came back home and her mom wouldn't be there to greet her. Her step-dad was surprised when he sow Akira he thought that it would only be her coming. When Yukina sow her step- father, she dropped he bags and an up to him. Holding him tightly and started crying. This was the first time that she had being back home and her mother wasn't there to meet her.
"I missed you Yukina." he said has he held her. They dropped each other and her step dad picked up the bags. The three on them then walked to the car.
Yukina loved her step- dad; he was the closest thing she had to a dad as she grows up. He was the one to talk her to the first day of school every year and took her to her first basketball game. She loved him like a father. She could still remember the first time he came to live with her and her mom. She was seven and she had derived him nuts. She didn't remember her real dad that much but she always wanted to meet him, hoping that one day he may came back for her and her mother. Yukina never understood that her step dad loved her mom but she put his life through hell and he still stayed with them. She could still remember that in the car, this very red and black that she gave him the yes. He was puzzled and then she explains to him that it was ok for him to marry her mom and smiled at him. It was the first time he had ever seen her smile for him normally she keep her face straight but she had smiled and it touched him, then and there he knew that she was happy with him. The next day he took her mom to diner and asked her out. Yukina's mom was shocked before she answered and he just replied Yukina told me to do it and gave the same smile that she gave him.
When they got home, Akira and Akihiro (Yukina's step-dad) went to the attic and pulled out some boxes.
Shigure laid on his bed steering at the Yukina had wrote her number on, he was going back and thought with the phone in his hand. What the hell am I going? I have called so many girls before so why is it so hard to just call her. Not like I like her or anything, all I have to talk to her about is the project. Shigure was thinking to himself. Then there was a knock on his door
"Is it?" he got up waking out of his room to the door.
"Shigure. Its -far." Shigure opened the door. "Shigure do you know where Yukina has gone too?"
"No, she told me that she had to live that's all. I guest she's just couldn't take whatever happened in her family."
"So you know what happened?"
"No."
"Her mother so the board gave her two weeks off school, oh and u guys have to exert weeks to do the project." he was turning."Great now I have to go call them and give my respects. I HATE THIS!"
Shigure closed the door, picked up his phone and call Yukina. The phone was now ringing and he had no idea what he was going to say. What the hell was he doing?
"He...hello." she answered the phone with a teary voice.
"Yukina is that you."
"Sh...Shigure." her voice changed
"Yea it's me. Um... Sense just told me about your mom. Well... What... I'm..."
"Ha. I know what you're trying to say."
"So... what you doing?"
"Just going though some of my family albums."
"Well that must be nice, how many are there?"
"Not such but I know that it's a lot, there three hole boxes."
"Wow that's a lot of pictures. Are you just sitting there watching them or remembering the good and not so good times?"
"Ha. I'm remembering everything about my mom." and tears began to feel her eyes.
"You miss her don't you," there was no answer," Ok, then came on tell me about your mom."
"Oh no. I don't want to trouble. Don't you have something better to do?"
"Oh came on. Its 7o'clock and I done every thin that I had to do so came on spill."
"Ok." she started she was on the first album that her mother had every done. She remember it from the cover it had this pink ribbon going around it. This one had pictures of Yukina when she was one. This one was when the mother lived in the first house. It was a one bedroom house, she doesn't remember much about it but tried to explain it as much as she could, trying to remember things her mother had said about it.
The memories in this album were all happy but as she got to the next ones of her growing up, it got more pain full. Remembering the entire thing she and her mom when through, all the smiles and tears, all the birthday and parties, trips and dips. It all got sadder; Yukina was regretting the fact that she never spent much time with her. She was still on the phone but tear ran down the face.
Shigure knew it; he could hear how her voice was creaking up. He hated to her cry, it made his heart hurt and he tried to corm her down with soothing word.
They stayed doing this for had no problem doing this, it was nice to just talk. Shigure had cool down from his nerves and Yukina had just let herself go. This was all knew to all of them. Yukina had laughed more than ever and Shigure hadn't had so much fun in a really long time. This was strange to him, he never thought that Yukina's life would be so interesting but he wanted to know what was behind those eyes. Those cold, dark eyes that he couldn't stop thinking about. They talked for three hours straight until her step dad and Akira came home. when she hang up the phone she looked at the album and sow a picture of her mother smiling and she began to cry, Akira hearing her came up to be with her.
"Yukina why would you look at those pictures when you know that they will make you cry."
"I...I...I just needed to see her, just one more time. I have seated her with her for years and now am all alone. I just wanted to know how it would feel without her and it was a bad feeling I hated it and I don't want to do it ever again. There was no laughing and no more smiles." she stopped and looked up at him. "Akira remember the promise that we made with each other when your parents died."
"Yea, we promised to always be never live each other no matter how far away we are we will always be together."
"So now Akira please keep that promise to me and stay with me."
"Yes, Yukina I promise. I will never live you." as tears rolled down your eyes."
For two week Yukina stayed up in the arctic and never came down, only when she needed to eat and sleep. She kept looking at those pictures try her best not to cry but they just wouldn't stop. She hated not having her mother that she would make all the remembering good and happy.
Now that had part was yet to come.
