excited I guess you’ll be satisfied just by that."
Without looking at me at all, and just looked at the “boring” scenery she just mentioned, Hiyori casually suggested that.
"That, that means we’re going together…?"
"Huh? Why should I go with you? When I’m not going out you can just go out on your own"
"Ah, em……."
And as usual I couldn’t incite Hiyori’s interest, the dialogue just ended like that.
After the night talking with Hiyori on the phone, I had completely misunderstood that we have a close relationship now, till the next day at the school corridor when I greeted her “Good Morning! Today’s weather is great this is really great!” and got ignored, and became a laughing stock for the crowd, I finally realised my own standpoint.
That’s right, Hiyori didn’t specially looked up at me or something, but it’s just and only because the reason “seems that you can be easily assigned”, therefore invited me to a trip with her during the summer hols.
And just because of that, of course till now I had never have a conversation with her in school before. Those moments before leaving for today, the only way to communicate with Hiyori was just irregular phone calls by her, and that was the cruel reality.
Of course, to prevent the phone calls from Hiyori from being dashed, I started to continuously sit at my house corridor and waited.
Even if there was one week she didn’t call at all, but there was times where she called twice in a day.
Although all the phone calls are about transactional contents, yet those dialogues were deeply marked inside my brain, that once I close my eyes I could even memorise it all.
That quiet battle was tough and hard, if it was to precisely described it’d be a really long story, and also if I say that even my mom who first was worried about me, yet in the end she made some tea sent me water and said “it’s been tough for you” these striving words, can anyone even understand that.
That’s right, to let that kind of parent to accept it, I also wasted a lot of effort in it.
The first night when I told my father “I wanna go to the town during summer hols”, I was locked outside the house, trembling among the howling sounds of the wild dogs, and deeply felt the taste of creepiness. And so I thought “This can’t be it, I have to find a decent reason”, and thought of “attending summer hols tuition classes” this extremely clever reason, once again I took the challenge with my parents.
However my parents said “If you wanna study then do it at home” and again I was thrown to the wild, and kindly accepted the severe test by the raccoons.
Later on I brainstormed, researched for a lot of info and finally, I came up with this ultimate-to-the-max reason, “In the whole Japan the one and only, the school that I can learn about India’s tradition which I don’t really know much about it, and because the books are only sold there, therefore I had to go”.
The last time I negotiate with my parents was until midnight 3 o’clock, and to convince my stubborn father, I even said “I CAN’T SEE ANYTHING NOW BESIDES INDIA” and “IF YOU WANNA STOP ME THEN YOU’LL HAVE TO ELIMINATE THE ENTIRE INDIA FIRST” and after all my ridiculous-to-the-max words my father left a sentence “It’s me who educated you the wrong way”, and FINALLY agreed to let me go to the town.
So now, I’m currently “a boy who has an unusual curiosity towards investigating the traditions in India which he does not understand at all”, with a status of half severed-relationship with my parents, I exist in here now.
I myself was the one who started all these downright low self-esteem nonsense, but the one who made me surprised was Hiyori.
Yet it’s too embarrassing if I say that I did all these things just because of Hiyori, so I kinda gave a mentality that I might be looked down by her, and announced to her “Just right that from long ago I have the interest
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