A fleeting memory, like a butterfly’s wings endlessly fluttering in the playful wind, it flees before my eyes, never to return. Gently closing my eyes before the glaring street lights that seemed to beckon me through the thick windshield, my fingers slowly gripped the steering wheel, my mind soon plummeted into an abyss, which I could not comprehend. ‘Mr. Kuroko, you will be assigned to a different department starting tomorrow. Please read this to fully understand your new work, as well as your new superior.’ Slowly it resembles back, forming puddles of incoherent puzzle pieces that had only thrown me into more confusion thus, deep in reverie with no reasonable grounds of my current plight, I could only bite back my own protestations. “What will I ever tell her?” Mumbling to myself which only heightened my anxiety, I turned to the …show more content…
“…I wan’t to see you.” Gripping the phone tightly, thus almost crushing it in my palms, I could only hear the continuous and annoying sound of the beep. Hence, heart heavy with uncertainty and with other uncertain emotions, I loosened my grip, consequently allowing the device to sleekly slip through my grasp. Noiselessly, it dropped on the carpeted floor, followed after by my trembling knees which betrayed my confidence and laughter earlier. Now, down on my knees with the soft touch of the scarlet carpet brushing against my skin, which greatly did not matter, warm tears soon trickle down along my cheeks. ‘I have never felt so miserable before…’ Remembering his words only made things worse, for it contained a promise so bitter, I cannot bear the consequence of telling him of my circumstance. “Why must you torment me, Tetsu-kun? How much painful would it be if I shall see you?” Hence, drenched in my own sorrow, with agonizing bitterness almost filling my bowels, I thought of just simply wanting to escape my fate. But, how can