My Life
Old Fiat
I'm just skipping the whole, disclaimer, summary and notes and getting straight to the story. Okay?
-Old Fiat s. Italy
Existence six: Eiji
I have had a very confusing life.
I haven't always been with my family; I only came to them when I was eight, before I lived with my real father and mother.
Now I live with my dad, mom, grandparents, two older brothers and two older sisters. They treat me like part of the family, like I've always been there. I even sort of look like some of them. I have hair sort of like Mitchiko, who's 18 and eyes kind of like Go, who's 24. I love my grandparents. They're so kind to me but they can't make me forgot the first eight years of my life.
My real dad was soooo mean. He almost never fed me and he was always smacking me around. My mother was the same. She just ignored me, but she did pay for me to go to school, when I was seven she died in a hit-and-run I don't know who did it, but afterwards dad smacked me around more. I still went to school but always had a tell-tale bruise on my face.
Then my real dad just kicked me out and I was picked up by an orphanage. Then my new dad adopted me. I love my mom and my dad but they can't stop me from being afraid…
What if he comes back?
That's the thought that always comes 'round again and again. I'm always afraid my dad is going to take back and hit again. When Go taught me how to play tennis, when Michiko taught me how to knit, when I was cooking with Grandma- it was always on my mind.
What if he comes back?
I used to be so scared I couldn't sleep. I would lie in bed and wonder if he would bash in the window and take me back- if he wanted me back.
Things like this don't worry me anymore. I love my step family. It makes me so happy that some one likes it that I was born.
Well, it used to not worry me.
I saw him again last week. I was running down an ally way so that I could get to the bus stop A.S.A.P. and then I stopped because it seemed familiar. Then my real father came out of the shadows, he recognized me and I ran faster than a race horse that had just been branding right on the keister.
I always try to walk around with large groups of people- I have a lot of friends out side of the tennis team- just in case.
He hasn't come back, yet. But I'm only 14 and there's still time.
I don't mind though. I have fun just hanging around O'Chibi and Momo-chan and Oishi-kun and (sometimes) Fuji and others who you probably wouldn't know.
But I don't want to worry about my real dad right now. I need to work out what to buy my favorite dad for his birthday.
Hello! It's Old Fiat! I can't believe it! Yesterday I finished Tezuka's chapter which I had started the night before, wrote Kaido's, wrote Oishi's and started Eiji's! Oh man, am I good! Yes!
-Old Fiat s. Italy (This note was written 6-18-06)
By the way, I don't think this is my best chapter. Which is a pitty, 'cause Eiji is one of my fave characters. If you think this chapter isn't as good as the others I totally agree with you.
Next chapter is Momo