Borderline Chapter 3
Title: Borderline
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter 3
December 22, 2006 ; 20:36
This is a dream but I am suffering a dream again? Who is that guy... Is he telling the truth? Ghost? He is a ghost and he died 6 years ago? I am a scientific person, I only believe on things that is explained by theory and the power of science. Things that cannot be explained by matters, physics, chemistry, anatomy etc are things that i don't believe at all. This is one thing that makes me and Hikaru differ from each other, Hikaru is a human of paranormal thing, he believes on ghost since he said that he has third eye and he can feel them, he believes on spirit, on fortune telling but me is the opposite. B...but how can science explain such phenomenon? If he is not a ghost, is he someone who can defy gravity? He is floating and he is a man who can defy the mass and matters making him his body like a light, he is transparent. He told me that he can't remember anything except for his name and the way he died. He is 14 years old when he meet an accident and that cause his death. He said that he is following me since yesterday coz that is the day we first meet each other which i can't remember at all. Is this part of this dream? Why is a ghost suddenly pop up? I don't know anymore where is this dream going.
"When i woke up i find myself in that cherry tree, there is also an old man who is staying at that place and he asked me what i am doing there. I told him i don't know and then he told me maybe i am someone who can't go to heaven yet because i need to do something to the human world before living." Kota explained as he floats around Kei's room. Kei on the hand is laying already on his bed and reading some books about paranormal beings that he borrow from his sister. "and so maybe that is the reason why i am still here coz i can't go to heaven."
"Then why don't you find a portal or a black hole that can bring you to heaven?" Kei asked him.
"Of course it's not as easy as that besides i don't know where it is if ever it does really exists. But that old man said that i will automatically vanished and go to heaven if that something will be fulfilled it's like a wish that needs to be granted."
"In short, that wish is the trigger for you to go to heaven." Kei conclude. "Then why are you following me?"
"I don't know too but i found you interesting and so i follow you around besides you can see me and we can talk to each other normally so i feel not alone."
"But talking to a ghost is really not normal. Wait...i am sensing something, it is not because you are interested... It is because you wanted help from me right?"
Kota stop from flying around and then sit down normally like having a serious talk. "You are so smart Kei Inoo."
"I refused." he replied back without any hesitation he doesn't want to get involved with a ghost "I'm tired i wanted to sleep already."
"Inoo-san, if you don't want me disturb you then why not just help me. Besides i can't get help with the other spirits because they didn't know what to do as well and you are a human who can see me and even talk to me and you are smart and knowledgeable enough so i am thinking that you can help me with this matter."
"Stop it, i am not going to help you so search for someone else who can help you besides i am running on my own problem as well so don't give more weight to it."
"Then tell me what your problem is, maybe i can help you with that. I may not look like it but i am reliable enough. I can't remember about my own self but i can remember the knowledge that i have."
"Borderline... Do you know it?"
"Eh? What was that?"
"I knew it. Your useless." Kei whispered and then he turn off the light of his lampshade and close his eyes but he then open his eyes and he saw Kota's face so near him and that make his heart skip a beat because of fear and shock. When there is light, Kota looks so pale and light but when it is dark he looks like a real living person. "Don't scare me like that." he shouted back on him.
"i am not scaring you. Besides do i look scary? Look at me, i look like a normal individual right? You even thought that i am alive. I am not like those ghost you can see in the movies, do i look like sadako? The Grudge? Or the slit mouth?" he asked him again and he pout his lips.
"But still you are a ghost and seeing you is not normal at all. When i wake up i don't want to see you again." Kei told him and then he close his eyes and cover himself with a blanket making sure that the ghost will not disturb him from sleeping anymore.
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December 23, 2006; 06:09
Kei rub his eyes and then looks around, he thought that ones he wake up he will be back to his present time but still he is in the same room before he close his eyes but the ghost is not there anymore and so maybe something good happened. He stand up and then stretched his arms but he jolted when all of a sudden the door of his bathroom opened and he saw half naked Kota exited the bathroom. "Good morning Inoo-san." he greeted cheerfully as if they are not in conflict just last night.
"The... What the hell are you doing?" Kei asked and then he turned his back away and act like a girl who seen something forbidden.
"Why are you being flustered. You are a guy as well right? And additional to that you are just a 14 years old innocent boy."
"I am not 14 years old... I am 20.. 20 years old." Kei answered but then he immediately covered his mouth coz he said something unnecessary. He look back at Kota who is now wearing something. "I told you to go already right, why are you still here?" he asked, he tried to change the topic about what he just said a while back."
"Even you told me to go away so many times if i didn't want to go i will not go. Alright i can accept that fact that you can't help me but i wanted to stay here so i will not listen to you. I will just find someone who will going to help a poor soul like me. I can't believe that there are people who have no heart at all and can't help someone who needs help." Kota implied, acting so pathetic but of course it doesn't affect Kei. Who will be affected by such lame act. He sigh and ignored Kota's effort, early morning his mood is already ruined. He went straight to the bathroom and brush his teeth and wash his face.
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December 23, 2006; 07:00
"Good morning." Kei greeted his mother. He look at the window and it is snowing again.
"Your up early Kei-chan, today is the start of holiday vacation right?" Kime asked him. Kei just nodded his head and went in front of the television and switch it on. He covered himself with a blanket that is folded in the corner and search for a channel that he wanted to watch. While concentrating his eyes in the television, Kota suddenly covered it and now he is standing in front of Kei and because of that he can't see what he wanted to watch. "Go away." he whispered to him. He can't say it loud since his mother is just a distance away and she can hear him talking without someone everywhere.
"I told you i will not go." Kota replied back.
Kei change position but still Kota blocked his view, he scratch his head and then he sigh. He doesn't know what to do anymore with this ghost.
"You will loss happiness if you keep sighing Kei." a familiar voice said and when he take a look it is his father who is wearing his suit like always since he is working in a financing corporation. He take a sip of his coffee and sit down to his chair as he start eating breakfast. He always eat first since his job starts early. Kei pause for a moment, he feels a nostalgic feeling that ones again he saw his father and talk to him like he used to do. It's been 6 years since he died but now he can see him with his naked eyes. "Is there some dirt on my face?" his father asked him coz he noticed that Kei is not averting his eyes away from him.
"N...nothing. Good morning dad." he greeted and then he stare back at the television.
He send his father outside the house and then told him that he should be careful. His mother feels that Kei is acting strange a little since he is not someone who is sending anyone off by the door not him or his father and this is the first time. Keirin also goes down and they start eating breakfast with each other. Keirin is already 19 and a university student. That time she is dating her first boyfriend named Shori and she asked permission to his mother that she will spend the Christmas Eve with him.
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December 23, 2006; 9:00
Kei went to the park which is near their house and he saw children making snowman. They look so happy and carefree that they didn't care about problems at all. He remembered himself that when he is at that young age he is just reading books inside their house. He will just go outside when Hikaru asked him to go but it is rare situation since his best friend came from a rich family and it is hard for him to go outside because mostly he is not allowed to. His parents is kind of strict, but its normal since he is the only son and because of that Hikaru grew to be spoiled.
"Do you love your father that much?" Kota asked him. Kei immediately look at Kota as if he saw through him. Is he that transparent a while back? "I am just asking."
Kei sigh and then he avert his eyes back to the children playing with the snow "I just miss him... He is dead already in my present time so seeing him again makes me feel happy." Kei confessed though he was aware that he mentioned about the present time. He remembered the twins told him about going with the flow but he wonders what will happen if he take a little detour.
"What are you talking about? What present time? Isn't your present time here? And your father is strong and kicking he is not dead."
"I told you, i am not 14 years old. I am already 20." Kei emphasized. "I don't know what is happening but i am back on the past which is part of a dream. Right now my real body is sleeping and i am having a dream and this is my dream."
"Huh? I don't get you at all"
"I don't understand it either but it is what it is. I am actually a 20 years old guy who is a 3rd year university student taking up chemical engineering and then when i open my eyes i am already in a pitch black world called Borderline. I saw a twin little girl and explained to me what is going on. I am inside a dream which is focusing something on my past." Kei tried to explained but he knows Kota cannot understand that at all or he will believe it.
"So that's the reason why you talk so mature even you are just a 14 years old guy and you are not innocent at all." Kota whispered. "Then if this is your past... Then does it mean that i am also part of it?"
"Eh?" Kei uttered and then he think. He believed that this dream is all about his past but he can't remember Kota existing on it. But it is a dream and anything can happen on it, it can shift easily and can add characters that are unknown and not needed. He then realized that maybe Kota's existence to his dream is the way for him to go out of the Borderline and be back to his present time. If he helps him to fulfil his wish then there is a possibility that he can wake up and end this dream. "Kota, I'll help you." he whispered. "I will help you go to heaven." he decided with just a split of seconds but in that lapse of time he already calculated the possibility that Kota is really the trigger for him to wake up in his present time.
"Really? Are you sure about that?" he asked as if he can't believe what he just heard. He is not expecting that Kei will accept it after all the words that he leak out since yesterday. Tears start to fall from his eyes and that startled Kei.
"W...why are you crying?" he asked him.
"I...i was so happy. I was really happy." he replied back. "Thank you...thank you." he repeated.
Kei sigh and then he stand up. So ghost can cry too, he thought that they don't feel anything anymore besides they are already dead. "Let's go to the library maybe we can search something about how you can a wondering spirit go to heaven."
Those that are odds are the key to opening the locked door. I can't remember Kota existing in my past which means he is the key for me to go out of the Borderline and wake up to my present time. If i can successfully do this then i can go back any time soon and so i need to do this fast.
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December 23, 2006; 10:49
He wear his glasses and then start scanning the book that he located in the library that can give him a clue as to what can help Kota from going to heaven. As much as possible he wanted to do it fast so that he can go back to his present time and leave this nonsense world. He read silently the book and he is sitting there without saying anything. Kota on the other hand is spying on the group of girls that are on the other side of the table and he keep on mentioning how good looking they are.
After a few more minutes Kei sigh and then stretch his arms. "You really look different when you are inside your house and when you are outside." Kota commented. The girls on the other table already left and so he is back disturbing his peaceful life again.
"Humans has their own side that they didn't want to see by other people. In the outside world i am known to be serious about everything which actually i am and in house i am a little carefree coz i know i am safe there." Kei answered him honestly.
"But if you will be serious forever you will not gain more friends. Well i just noticed that you are only hanging around Yaotome-san and then you are not good at all with girls. You just rejected a confession yesterday and that girl was crying so much. You are so cruel."
"Is that something you should say to someone who is helping you?"
"Yeah but don't mind it. I like those both sides of you." Kota told him carelessly and for some reason Kei feels something hit his heartstring. He avert his eyes somewhere else, he scan another book and then he remembered that he has something he wanted to asked to that ghost whose eyes are wandering around again.
"Kota, when you are alive is there anything you wanted to do?" Kei asked him abruptly.
Kota is wondering why Kei asked that but he tried to think. Like what he said he only can remember his name and how he died and after that he can't remember anything anymore but sometimes he can have some vague memories inside his mind that causes him think what are those pictograph that are flashing on his mind. He asked why Kei wanted to know about it and then he explained what he read. In one of the book that he read it is stated that a soul of a death can stay to the human world it is because they wanted to do something before they go to heaven or there is someone who they didn't want them to leave. When a people die, their relatives who really love them sometimes can't accept about their death and so those who are dead cannot leave them at all. Since Kota can't remember anything about his family then the no. 2 options is useless and now the only option they can do is the no. 1 which is to fulfil something he wanted to do before he died.
Thinking what he wanted to do there are 3 things that flashed on his mind but he is not sure if he really wanted to do those stuffs but since he didn't know anything yet he said those 3 things to Kei. First, ride the Ferris wheel on Christmas Eve, Second, go on a trip to Hokkaido and third to catch a goldfish in tanabata festival.
"Are you a child? What's with those kind of wishes." Kei whispered upon hearing those things.
"You can't blame me, those are the things that flashed to my mind when you asked what i wanted to do. Besides what's your right to complain? Aren't you glad that those wish are just simple? Do you think if i asked for a million cash you can give it to me."
Kei sigh an then close the book that he is scanning but he is not actually reading it. He ignored what Kota just told him and stand up like nothing happened. "Fine, the first thing to do is the Ferris wheel."
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December 23, 2006; 19:30
Every Christmas Eve one of the attraction of that special night is to ride the Ferris wheel because you can see the whole town brightly and there are also people who believed that when you are riding that ride on the Christmas Eve you can cast a wish and it will be granted and because of that buying ticket is really hard but not for Kei since he has connection on the theme park near their area.
"Now that we bought a ticket already then there is no problem anymore. We just need to wait for the Christmas eve to come." Kei told Kota but when he look to his back he is not around. He look side by side but he is not around, he walk back and then he saw Kota staring at the lake that is near the amusement park that they just went. "What are you doing?"
"I have this nostalgic feeling, i can remember this place. I see this place already before."
"Are you sure about that?" Kei asked him. "That means that you are living in this place before you die, by the way how old are you when you die? You said that you die 6 years ago right? When is that 6 years ago?"
Kota pause for a moment, he think before he said a thing besides he didn't think about it as well. "I can't remember what year it is when i died but what i know is that i am 20 years old now but i didn't die at 20 years old... I am... 14 years old that time." he told.
"So... Ghost can still age? I can't believe this, without a human body to function and growth hormone that can degrade, a ghost can age?"
"I don't know too and stop using scientific term which i can't understand." Kota said and then he look back looking at the lake. "I hope i can be alive again." he whispered and Kei heard it clearly. "I don't know but there are lots of things i regret when i was still alive. Whenever i watched you and every child with the same age as i am i feel so much regret that i am hoping i can still do. I want to eat ice cream in winter like you do, i want to study and chat with friends, i want to hang around in a karaoke bar and dance in a disco, i want do date sexy girls and then i want to fall in love. It's not easy being dead... So Inoo-san I'm telling you, you must live your life to the way that you will not regret anything."
I am an individual who believes on something which there is a scientific explanation on it but there is an exception on it and that is what they call fate or destiny. It is something that is intangible, cannot be seen, cannot be touch and cannot be explained by theories and calculations. But the word itself explain so many things that is happening to people's life. When you are born you cannot choose who will be your parents, you are destined to a family that take care of you and i consider that because of fate. There are lots of people around the world but you can meet someone that you will considered your friends and i think it is fate, even about lov,e 2 people who are individual before can become one because of fate and the most intriguing is about death, you didn't know when will you die but everything is written on your own destiny and is been manipulated with fate. But then if everything is written in our book of fate then what's the use of us living? What's the use of making decisions when in the end you will end up to what is written on your book of fate. It is like you are a character to a novel and your life is written by a writer, your life is dependent on it.
It is not people's choice to have regret it is because of fate.
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December 23, 2006; 20:00
The two are silent for a moment while enjoying the scenery they are given by the lake in that park. The fresh wind touching Kei's cheeks and the winter making everything in his surrounding white."Inoo-san, thank you for deciding on helping me." Kota told him out of the blue.
"What's with that all of a sudden, you give me shiver." Kei answered him back. Since he is someone who is a loner there is no chance for him to help on others and a word 'thank you' is rarely heard by his ears. "Besides thanking me today is not the right thing, i didn't do anything yet."
"But still you choose to help me so it's a big thing for me. I promise i will treasure these memories."
But you are just a dream, you are just a part of my dreams so... You are not true at all. Yo...you doesn't exist at all.
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Long time ago there is a boy who is the eldest among the 7 children, he is fat and being bullied but he doesn't care at all to those bullies what he wanted is to see the smiles on his sisters and brothers face. They are not rich, his father is working in a construction area and his mother is sick and always need to stay in the hospital and because of that at a young age he already need to work for their living expenses. He is industrious and hard working and everything is for his family. He is someone who sacrifice everything for their sake. He doesn't care about himself anymore as long everything's gonna be fine for his family but because of sacrificing that cause his death.
When he open his eyes a young lady is staring at him, she is beautiful like the sacred angels. She smiled gently towards him and he give him warmth. He likes the new place where he is staying coz he is not suffering pain, hunger and problems. But one day he saw the world of the living and realize that he still wanted to live there, to stay there because he has lots of regrets he wanted to erase.
The angel smiled at him and wipe his tears away and then she asked "Do you want to live again?"
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December 24, 2006 ; 17:56
Kei wear his clothes and then fix his hears, after all the preparations are done he stare at the ghost who is soundly sleeping on his bed. Does ghost sleep? Kota opened his eyes and then rub it a little and then he saw Kei staring at him and his arms are cross with each other "You good for nothing ghost, how long are you intending to sleep?" Kei asked just after Kota opens his eyes.
"I fall asleep?" he whispered ignoring Kei's words.
"Obviously." Kei replied. Kota stand up and then stretch his arms and do some little movements. Kei tried to calm himself because he didn't want to ruined his day by just a ghost. He get his bag and then sling it to his shoulder."Let's prepare."
"For what?" Kota asked innocently.
Kei scratch his head "I hope there is a limit on how stupid you can be. What are you talking about? Christmas Eve is just a few hours away."
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter 3
December 22, 2006 ; 20:36
This is a dream but I am suffering a dream again? Who is that guy... Is he telling the truth? Ghost? He is a ghost and he died 6 years ago? I am a scientific person, I only believe on things that is explained by theory and the power of science. Things that cannot be explained by matters, physics, chemistry, anatomy etc are things that i don't believe at all. This is one thing that makes me and Hikaru differ from each other, Hikaru is a human of paranormal thing, he believes on ghost since he said that he has third eye and he can feel them, he believes on spirit, on fortune telling but me is the opposite. B...but how can science explain such phenomenon? If he is not a ghost, is he someone who can defy gravity? He is floating and he is a man who can defy the mass and matters making him his body like a light, he is transparent. He told me that he can't remember anything except for his name and the way he died. He is 14 years old when he meet an accident and that cause his death. He said that he is following me since yesterday coz that is the day we first meet each other which i can't remember at all. Is this part of this dream? Why is a ghost suddenly pop up? I don't know anymore where is this dream going.
"When i woke up i find myself in that cherry tree, there is also an old man who is staying at that place and he asked me what i am doing there. I told him i don't know and then he told me maybe i am someone who can't go to heaven yet because i need to do something to the human world before living." Kota explained as he floats around Kei's room. Kei on the hand is laying already on his bed and reading some books about paranormal beings that he borrow from his sister. "and so maybe that is the reason why i am still here coz i can't go to heaven."
"Then why don't you find a portal or a black hole that can bring you to heaven?" Kei asked him.
"Of course it's not as easy as that besides i don't know where it is if ever it does really exists. But that old man said that i will automatically vanished and go to heaven if that something will be fulfilled it's like a wish that needs to be granted."
"In short, that wish is the trigger for you to go to heaven." Kei conclude. "Then why are you following me?"
"I don't know too but i found you interesting and so i follow you around besides you can see me and we can talk to each other normally so i feel not alone."
"But talking to a ghost is really not normal. Wait...i am sensing something, it is not because you are interested... It is because you wanted help from me right?"
Kota stop from flying around and then sit down normally like having a serious talk. "You are so smart Kei Inoo."
"I refused." he replied back without any hesitation he doesn't want to get involved with a ghost "I'm tired i wanted to sleep already."
"Inoo-san, if you don't want me disturb you then why not just help me. Besides i can't get help with the other spirits because they didn't know what to do as well and you are a human who can see me and even talk to me and you are smart and knowledgeable enough so i am thinking that you can help me with this matter."
"Stop it, i am not going to help you so search for someone else who can help you besides i am running on my own problem as well so don't give more weight to it."
"Then tell me what your problem is, maybe i can help you with that. I may not look like it but i am reliable enough. I can't remember about my own self but i can remember the knowledge that i have."
"Borderline... Do you know it?"
"Eh? What was that?"
"I knew it. Your useless." Kei whispered and then he turn off the light of his lampshade and close his eyes but he then open his eyes and he saw Kota's face so near him and that make his heart skip a beat because of fear and shock. When there is light, Kota looks so pale and light but when it is dark he looks like a real living person. "Don't scare me like that." he shouted back on him.
"i am not scaring you. Besides do i look scary? Look at me, i look like a normal individual right? You even thought that i am alive. I am not like those ghost you can see in the movies, do i look like sadako? The Grudge? Or the slit mouth?" he asked him again and he pout his lips.
"But still you are a ghost and seeing you is not normal at all. When i wake up i don't want to see you again." Kei told him and then he close his eyes and cover himself with a blanket making sure that the ghost will not disturb him from sleeping anymore.
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December 23, 2006; 06:09
Kei rub his eyes and then looks around, he thought that ones he wake up he will be back to his present time but still he is in the same room before he close his eyes but the ghost is not there anymore and so maybe something good happened. He stand up and then stretched his arms but he jolted when all of a sudden the door of his bathroom opened and he saw half naked Kota exited the bathroom. "Good morning Inoo-san." he greeted cheerfully as if they are not in conflict just last night.
"The... What the hell are you doing?" Kei asked and then he turned his back away and act like a girl who seen something forbidden.
"Why are you being flustered. You are a guy as well right? And additional to that you are just a 14 years old innocent boy."
"I am not 14 years old... I am 20.. 20 years old." Kei answered but then he immediately covered his mouth coz he said something unnecessary. He look back at Kota who is now wearing something. "I told you to go already right, why are you still here?" he asked, he tried to change the topic about what he just said a while back."
"Even you told me to go away so many times if i didn't want to go i will not go. Alright i can accept that fact that you can't help me but i wanted to stay here so i will not listen to you. I will just find someone who will going to help a poor soul like me. I can't believe that there are people who have no heart at all and can't help someone who needs help." Kota implied, acting so pathetic but of course it doesn't affect Kei. Who will be affected by such lame act. He sigh and ignored Kota's effort, early morning his mood is already ruined. He went straight to the bathroom and brush his teeth and wash his face.
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December 23, 2006; 07:00
"Good morning." Kei greeted his mother. He look at the window and it is snowing again.
"Your up early Kei-chan, today is the start of holiday vacation right?" Kime asked him. Kei just nodded his head and went in front of the television and switch it on. He covered himself with a blanket that is folded in the corner and search for a channel that he wanted to watch. While concentrating his eyes in the television, Kota suddenly covered it and now he is standing in front of Kei and because of that he can't see what he wanted to watch. "Go away." he whispered to him. He can't say it loud since his mother is just a distance away and she can hear him talking without someone everywhere.
"I told you i will not go." Kota replied back.
Kei change position but still Kota blocked his view, he scratch his head and then he sigh. He doesn't know what to do anymore with this ghost.
"You will loss happiness if you keep sighing Kei." a familiar voice said and when he take a look it is his father who is wearing his suit like always since he is working in a financing corporation. He take a sip of his coffee and sit down to his chair as he start eating breakfast. He always eat first since his job starts early. Kei pause for a moment, he feels a nostalgic feeling that ones again he saw his father and talk to him like he used to do. It's been 6 years since he died but now he can see him with his naked eyes. "Is there some dirt on my face?" his father asked him coz he noticed that Kei is not averting his eyes away from him.
"N...nothing. Good morning dad." he greeted and then he stare back at the television.
He send his father outside the house and then told him that he should be careful. His mother feels that Kei is acting strange a little since he is not someone who is sending anyone off by the door not him or his father and this is the first time. Keirin also goes down and they start eating breakfast with each other. Keirin is already 19 and a university student. That time she is dating her first boyfriend named Shori and she asked permission to his mother that she will spend the Christmas Eve with him.
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December 23, 2006; 9:00
Kei went to the park which is near their house and he saw children making snowman. They look so happy and carefree that they didn't care about problems at all. He remembered himself that when he is at that young age he is just reading books inside their house. He will just go outside when Hikaru asked him to go but it is rare situation since his best friend came from a rich family and it is hard for him to go outside because mostly he is not allowed to. His parents is kind of strict, but its normal since he is the only son and because of that Hikaru grew to be spoiled.
"Do you love your father that much?" Kota asked him. Kei immediately look at Kota as if he saw through him. Is he that transparent a while back? "I am just asking."
Kei sigh and then he avert his eyes back to the children playing with the snow "I just miss him... He is dead already in my present time so seeing him again makes me feel happy." Kei confessed though he was aware that he mentioned about the present time. He remembered the twins told him about going with the flow but he wonders what will happen if he take a little detour.
"What are you talking about? What present time? Isn't your present time here? And your father is strong and kicking he is not dead."
"I told you, i am not 14 years old. I am already 20." Kei emphasized. "I don't know what is happening but i am back on the past which is part of a dream. Right now my real body is sleeping and i am having a dream and this is my dream."
"Huh? I don't get you at all"
"I don't understand it either but it is what it is. I am actually a 20 years old guy who is a 3rd year university student taking up chemical engineering and then when i open my eyes i am already in a pitch black world called Borderline. I saw a twin little girl and explained to me what is going on. I am inside a dream which is focusing something on my past." Kei tried to explained but he knows Kota cannot understand that at all or he will believe it.
"So that's the reason why you talk so mature even you are just a 14 years old guy and you are not innocent at all." Kota whispered. "Then if this is your past... Then does it mean that i am also part of it?"
"Eh?" Kei uttered and then he think. He believed that this dream is all about his past but he can't remember Kota existing on it. But it is a dream and anything can happen on it, it can shift easily and can add characters that are unknown and not needed. He then realized that maybe Kota's existence to his dream is the way for him to go out of the Borderline and be back to his present time. If he helps him to fulfil his wish then there is a possibility that he can wake up and end this dream. "Kota, I'll help you." he whispered. "I will help you go to heaven." he decided with just a split of seconds but in that lapse of time he already calculated the possibility that Kota is really the trigger for him to wake up in his present time.
"Really? Are you sure about that?" he asked as if he can't believe what he just heard. He is not expecting that Kei will accept it after all the words that he leak out since yesterday. Tears start to fall from his eyes and that startled Kei.
"W...why are you crying?" he asked him.
"I...i was so happy. I was really happy." he replied back. "Thank you...thank you." he repeated.
Kei sigh and then he stand up. So ghost can cry too, he thought that they don't feel anything anymore besides they are already dead. "Let's go to the library maybe we can search something about how you can a wondering spirit go to heaven."
Those that are odds are the key to opening the locked door. I can't remember Kota existing in my past which means he is the key for me to go out of the Borderline and wake up to my present time. If i can successfully do this then i can go back any time soon and so i need to do this fast.
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December 23, 2006; 10:49
He wear his glasses and then start scanning the book that he located in the library that can give him a clue as to what can help Kota from going to heaven. As much as possible he wanted to do it fast so that he can go back to his present time and leave this nonsense world. He read silently the book and he is sitting there without saying anything. Kota on the other hand is spying on the group of girls that are on the other side of the table and he keep on mentioning how good looking they are.
After a few more minutes Kei sigh and then stretch his arms. "You really look different when you are inside your house and when you are outside." Kota commented. The girls on the other table already left and so he is back disturbing his peaceful life again.
"Humans has their own side that they didn't want to see by other people. In the outside world i am known to be serious about everything which actually i am and in house i am a little carefree coz i know i am safe there." Kei answered him honestly.
"But if you will be serious forever you will not gain more friends. Well i just noticed that you are only hanging around Yaotome-san and then you are not good at all with girls. You just rejected a confession yesterday and that girl was crying so much. You are so cruel."
"Is that something you should say to someone who is helping you?"
"Yeah but don't mind it. I like those both sides of you." Kota told him carelessly and for some reason Kei feels something hit his heartstring. He avert his eyes somewhere else, he scan another book and then he remembered that he has something he wanted to asked to that ghost whose eyes are wandering around again.
"Kota, when you are alive is there anything you wanted to do?" Kei asked him abruptly.
Kota is wondering why Kei asked that but he tried to think. Like what he said he only can remember his name and how he died and after that he can't remember anything anymore but sometimes he can have some vague memories inside his mind that causes him think what are those pictograph that are flashing on his mind. He asked why Kei wanted to know about it and then he explained what he read. In one of the book that he read it is stated that a soul of a death can stay to the human world it is because they wanted to do something before they go to heaven or there is someone who they didn't want them to leave. When a people die, their relatives who really love them sometimes can't accept about their death and so those who are dead cannot leave them at all. Since Kota can't remember anything about his family then the no. 2 options is useless and now the only option they can do is the no. 1 which is to fulfil something he wanted to do before he died.
Thinking what he wanted to do there are 3 things that flashed on his mind but he is not sure if he really wanted to do those stuffs but since he didn't know anything yet he said those 3 things to Kei. First, ride the Ferris wheel on Christmas Eve, Second, go on a trip to Hokkaido and third to catch a goldfish in tanabata festival.
"Are you a child? What's with those kind of wishes." Kei whispered upon hearing those things.
"You can't blame me, those are the things that flashed to my mind when you asked what i wanted to do. Besides what's your right to complain? Aren't you glad that those wish are just simple? Do you think if i asked for a million cash you can give it to me."
Kei sigh an then close the book that he is scanning but he is not actually reading it. He ignored what Kota just told him and stand up like nothing happened. "Fine, the first thing to do is the Ferris wheel."
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December 23, 2006; 19:30
Every Christmas Eve one of the attraction of that special night is to ride the Ferris wheel because you can see the whole town brightly and there are also people who believed that when you are riding that ride on the Christmas Eve you can cast a wish and it will be granted and because of that buying ticket is really hard but not for Kei since he has connection on the theme park near their area.
"Now that we bought a ticket already then there is no problem anymore. We just need to wait for the Christmas eve to come." Kei told Kota but when he look to his back he is not around. He look side by side but he is not around, he walk back and then he saw Kota staring at the lake that is near the amusement park that they just went. "What are you doing?"
"I have this nostalgic feeling, i can remember this place. I see this place already before."
"Are you sure about that?" Kei asked him. "That means that you are living in this place before you die, by the way how old are you when you die? You said that you die 6 years ago right? When is that 6 years ago?"
Kota pause for a moment, he think before he said a thing besides he didn't think about it as well. "I can't remember what year it is when i died but what i know is that i am 20 years old now but i didn't die at 20 years old... I am... 14 years old that time." he told.
"So... Ghost can still age? I can't believe this, without a human body to function and growth hormone that can degrade, a ghost can age?"
"I don't know too and stop using scientific term which i can't understand." Kota said and then he look back looking at the lake. "I hope i can be alive again." he whispered and Kei heard it clearly. "I don't know but there are lots of things i regret when i was still alive. Whenever i watched you and every child with the same age as i am i feel so much regret that i am hoping i can still do. I want to eat ice cream in winter like you do, i want to study and chat with friends, i want to hang around in a karaoke bar and dance in a disco, i want do date sexy girls and then i want to fall in love. It's not easy being dead... So Inoo-san I'm telling you, you must live your life to the way that you will not regret anything."
I am an individual who believes on something which there is a scientific explanation on it but there is an exception on it and that is what they call fate or destiny. It is something that is intangible, cannot be seen, cannot be touch and cannot be explained by theories and calculations. But the word itself explain so many things that is happening to people's life. When you are born you cannot choose who will be your parents, you are destined to a family that take care of you and i consider that because of fate. There are lots of people around the world but you can meet someone that you will considered your friends and i think it is fate, even about lov,e 2 people who are individual before can become one because of fate and the most intriguing is about death, you didn't know when will you die but everything is written on your own destiny and is been manipulated with fate. But then if everything is written in our book of fate then what's the use of us living? What's the use of making decisions when in the end you will end up to what is written on your book of fate. It is like you are a character to a novel and your life is written by a writer, your life is dependent on it.
It is not people's choice to have regret it is because of fate.
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December 23, 2006; 20:00
The two are silent for a moment while enjoying the scenery they are given by the lake in that park. The fresh wind touching Kei's cheeks and the winter making everything in his surrounding white."Inoo-san, thank you for deciding on helping me." Kota told him out of the blue.
"What's with that all of a sudden, you give me shiver." Kei answered him back. Since he is someone who is a loner there is no chance for him to help on others and a word 'thank you' is rarely heard by his ears. "Besides thanking me today is not the right thing, i didn't do anything yet."
"But still you choose to help me so it's a big thing for me. I promise i will treasure these memories."
But you are just a dream, you are just a part of my dreams so... You are not true at all. Yo...you doesn't exist at all.
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Long time ago there is a boy who is the eldest among the 7 children, he is fat and being bullied but he doesn't care at all to those bullies what he wanted is to see the smiles on his sisters and brothers face. They are not rich, his father is working in a construction area and his mother is sick and always need to stay in the hospital and because of that at a young age he already need to work for their living expenses. He is industrious and hard working and everything is for his family. He is someone who sacrifice everything for their sake. He doesn't care about himself anymore as long everything's gonna be fine for his family but because of sacrificing that cause his death.
When he open his eyes a young lady is staring at him, she is beautiful like the sacred angels. She smiled gently towards him and he give him warmth. He likes the new place where he is staying coz he is not suffering pain, hunger and problems. But one day he saw the world of the living and realize that he still wanted to live there, to stay there because he has lots of regrets he wanted to erase.
The angel smiled at him and wipe his tears away and then she asked "Do you want to live again?"
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December 24, 2006 ; 17:56
Kei wear his clothes and then fix his hears, after all the preparations are done he stare at the ghost who is soundly sleeping on his bed. Does ghost sleep? Kota opened his eyes and then rub it a little and then he saw Kei staring at him and his arms are cross with each other "You good for nothing ghost, how long are you intending to sleep?" Kei asked just after Kota opens his eyes.
"I fall asleep?" he whispered ignoring Kei's words.
"Obviously." Kei replied. Kota stand up and then stretch his arms and do some little movements. Kei tried to calm himself because he didn't want to ruined his day by just a ghost. He get his bag and then sling it to his shoulder."Let's prepare."
"For what?" Kota asked innocently.
Kei scratch his head "I hope there is a limit on how stupid you can be. What are you talking about? Christmas Eve is just a few hours away."