Chapter 2: The Photograph
Everything started happening so quickly again, the organization escaped prison before the day of their execution, Ran and Shiho were kidnapped by the organization and the police and everyone in the globe was ready for the upcoming World War 4!!!
Many things occurred since the fifth day, yet, only two days past. It was supposed to be the day of the organization's execution and Empror Akihito was filled with anger about what was happening. Everyone in the universe was shocked about the sudden flow of time.
"How can events fly so quickly like that?", Shinichi pondered, looking at the picture of him, Ran and Shiho. He was almost crying, tears that were threatening to fall near the glass window, and he sat beside the window, icy cold, it was therefore a rainy day. He was in the middle of the photo, Shiho in his left and Ran in his right. What a beautiful photo it was.
Flashback from 7 years ago………………………………
Shinichi then reminisced the time when he and his best friend, Heiji, was playing soccer in the Kyoto Park during summer vacation when they were just 11 years old. He remembered something disturbing that Heiji was blabbering to him that same day right after their soccer match during lunch. While the two were eating delicious California Maki in an expensive Japanese Restaurant (Yusaku paid for them), Heiji then got his "Superstitious Magazine of the Year for Kids" and went to page 78.
Then, he started to talk about it, "Kudo- kun!! I have here a cool magazine! Wanna see it? There is something wickedly cool in page 78!! Listen to me. I'll read it, okay?"
"Wow! Gee! Sure, Hattori-kun! That would be so cool!"
"Okay then! Here it goes!" then read it to him, saying, "There is an American saying, if you looked at a photo of you and your two friends right before you meet Shinigami (God of Death), and you are in the middle of two people in a photo, you will be the first one to die of the three, and the right one will die second and the left will die the last, in sequence order. And, there is also another Chinese saying that if the two people in each of your side in the photo are of your opposite gender as the one in the middle, the right one is your true love. But, there is a saying that counter acts it that if the first saying were to be the opposite, maybe, just maybe that the second saying that comes with it will be exchanged as well. None of these are for certain."
"Wow! That sounds so complicated! Cool!", Shinichi exclaimed (amazed).
Heiji then bragged, "See, Kudo! What I'd tell ya! It's wicked!! I just bought this with about 250 yen in the Kinokuni Bookstore near my place! I love this magazine!"
"Wow! That's so cheap for that cool a magazine!! Yeah! Let me see more!", Shinichi begged to his best friend.
Then, suddenly, remembering what Heiji read from the magazine 7 years ago, he stopped reminiscing and went straight back to reality, then, eventually realized that he was already crying subconsciously.
He then smiled, ignoring the abundant tears in his eyes, and murmured to himself, looking out in the window on the rainy day, saying, "So, I'll die first. It's okay, as long as my two most precious friends won't be the first. Then, it's all good."
Started: December 2006
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Hi! If you were able to reach this point…well, I congratulate you for being this patient to read! Especially the crazy long A/N I wrote years back… I can't even read this through and through… So for those who read this all, thanks for your time! And please do review if you have reached this line…
Now you all know how I write when I was a child! XD
There's more to come, you know! Bye!
-Miyano Ran