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Disclaimer: FruBa isn’t mine and the song mentioned is by Crowded House called
‘Don’t Dream It’s Over.”Music Without Words
Chapter 5 – don’t ever let them win
And so, when I came to
school two days later, Yuki came up to the rooftop and plopped right next to me.
I was lying down and looking at the sky as usual.
“How are you?” was all
he could manage to say to me.
“I’m fine. You?” Yuki split his disposable
chopsticks and nodded.
“Doing fine.”
The cold breeze blew at that
moment and I looked up to Yuki’s face.
I wanted to etch his face into my
head.
Yes, very beautiful indeed.
“Akito had a talk with me,” he
sighed while eating.
“I heard from Momiji you came to the main house
yesterday.” I told him while looking away and watching the clouds pass above
us.
“He didn’t do anything to me,” he finally said while gulping. His
hands began to shake, but then he breathed calmly. “That’s worse than him
shouting at me…or worse things.”
My eyes focused on his hands. They were
still trembling a bit.
Of course, years of torture can’t be erased in so
few days. It would take twice as much to heal, wouldn’t it?
I sighed
inwardly. Then, I looked away from his hands as I reached out to put my hand
over his gently. “Stop shaking. Don’t think about Akito.”
I then grabbed
his hands and pushed my thumb on them. “He shouldn’t hurt you
anymore.”
“Haru, what are you saying?” I could feel him beginning to stop
quivering. “I’m confused.”
With his face becoming even more worried, yet
suspicious, he asked, “I know you won’t lie to me, Haru. But I can’t help but
feel…Is there something you’re not telling me, Haru?”
I didn’t say
anything.
I wouldn’t let up.
Then, he shook his head while he
became a bit angry. “Akito will do anything to keep me scared of him. And the
funny thing is, whenever I think of certain things, I’ll always fear him for
them.”
“Learn to think beyond that Yuki.” I then clenched onto his hand
warmly. “You’re the only one who should chose to live as you want.”
Then,
I laughed, “Aren’t you the prince of this damned school?”
The tension
broke as his concerned and frustrated face became relieved for a moment. He
laughed.
Yes…
That’s it. That’s all I wanted from you…
And
I will protect you.
Because I believe in what you
see.
Because,
I believe in that there is happiness, little as it
may be for us.
And you are mine, Yuki.
Even though I wasn’t the
best with singing and all that, I tried my best to ease his mind. I looked up to
the sky as I began to blush a bit while singing,
“There is freedom
within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper
cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never
see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me
Hey now,
hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the
world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between
us
We know they won't win
Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole
in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no
proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn
right over to the T.V. page
Now I'm walking again to the beat of a
drum
And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only
shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of
liberation and relief
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's
over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come,
they come
To build a wall between us
Don't ever let them
win.”
“Thanks, Haru,” he told me while smiling at me.
Then, I
squeezed his hand harder before letting go.
When the bell rang, we both
got up.
“Yuki?”
“Yeah?”
Shaking my head and smiling with
one of my hands in my pockets, I poked his forehead with the hand holding my
lunch bag. “I always hate it when you frown.”
With that, I left for class
with even more confidence inside of me. I repeated to myself in the hallway
softly,
“Don’t ever let them
win.”
Tsuzuku…
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author’s note: Now, the descent
from grace…
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