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My Own Happy Ending
Chapter 2: The Park
I walked aimlessly through Tokyo; there were a few more hours left to kill before my shift at the Daruma-ya started. As I roamed Tokyo's busy streets with my lost expression and book bag, I probably looked like a tourist.
I looked up at the clouding sky. 'It's going to rain soon,' I thought, unaffected.
I kept walking. I wandered through all kinds of districts in Tokyo. I was in a residential area with lots of high-rise fancy apartment buildings when I found it.
It was a park, tucked in the middle of a cluster of tall buildings, but still visible from the street. There was a lonely swing set with a plastic yellow slide attached to one side. Two rubber black swings hung from metal chains attached to green metal monkey bars. A relatively large patch of grass surrounded it all, encased in a ring of vibrant wild purple flowers. But it looked shrunken in, and sad, because of the tall towing buildings around it.
They probably would have turned it into a parking lot, but it was much too small for that, and there wasn't enough space to build a whole new complex, or else I'm sure they would have done it already. The flowers might make it look cheery, but I knew, that it was anything but. The park was abandoned and lonely, like it belonged in a black and white picture.
'I know I shouldn't, but I will anyway.'
I walked towards it, passing the entrance of one of the buildings, but I didn't care if anyone saw me. I reached for a swing and sat down, which is when it all finally hit me.
I was just like this park, out of place and alone, even in a crowd. Unwanted and abandoned because nobody cares enough.
That was when it started. The heavens cried as I did. The sky opened up and dumped it all down on me. It was raining in buckets.
I was numb until now, but not anymore. I cried in the rain as it pelted my face in stinging bullets. I could be as loud as I wanted to, because there was no one listening here, in the deserted park. A searing, white hot pain encompassed my body, burning a hole in my chest. It writhed inside me, eating at my soul from the inside out. It's tendrils reached outward, unstoppable until it consumed my whole body.
And when it did, I was broken, numb, alone, and homeless, lying in the rain on the floor of an abandoned park in the middle of a city. My hair was plastered to my face, and grass stuck all over me. The pair of raggedy old jeans, and soft gray-tee shirt I was wearing were like a second skin. The rain stung my face, spurred on by the harsh howls of the wind.
Heat flashed through my body, and I shivered, granted acceptance into the dark.
I really dislike writing Kyoko so torn up over Sho, but it's an important factor for the storyline, so I needed it. Also, I hope you guys are excited to know who's going to be introduced next!
Love, mE-chan! :3
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