Title: Sewn Clouds
Published: March 5, 2013
Author: Ribbon
Target: Yukimura Seiichi
Default Name: Honjou Chiharu
Author's Note: I forgot I'm meant to be alive. Sorry guys.
It seems like a no-brainer, really:
just outsmart them and be on our way.
Go honking on home in an Alto,
if the sopranos stand down
and let us steal the show.
/
She stumbles across her drawer of old cassettes while looking for a place to store her CD collection, so she sits down to go through them. She discovers many of her old parents' cassettes that she didn't want them to throw away. The Carpenters, ABBA, Alla Fitzergald, and Frank Sinatra, among many others, are all stacked neatly along the left side of the drawer. And on the right, she discovers a row of tapes that look blank at first sight.
She takes them out, and on the front of each other, Chiha & Mura, followed by a number, are marked. She is curious, thinking that maybe this is one of the mix tapes that she and Seiichi used to make. So she put it in a cassette player and plays it.
"Heads, Chiha."
"Oof! It's heavy..."
A laugh. "I put grip tape on it to make it easier for you to play. Here."
"It's so weird..."
"Give me your hand."
The sound of a racquet swinging through the air. Breathing.
"This is how you return?"
Chuckling.
"That's not fair, Mura. You play tennis."
Unceasing. "Don't pout, Chiha. I'll teach you how to play, so cheer up, okay?"
"O-okay..."
Laughter.
My mother's voice. "Look over here, Chiharu, Seiichi-kun."
"Smile, Chiha."
The sound of a camera shutter.
Princo & Ribbon
August 22, 2013.