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How My Life Was Ruined 076: Realization
It has been four days since my late-night encounter with Aina. Ever since that day, she has been avoiding me constantly and there were dark circles under her eyes probably the result of thinking about things too deep till late at night. I have had a few conversations with Nakamura and Ito and spent most of my time in class with Yamamoto. Other than that, I have kept myself holed up inside my room listening to ‘Starting Over’ by John Lennon. Somehow I have found this song to my liking and for the past few days, I have been listening to this on repeat. I am now just waiting for another song to take over.Today is the fifth day of our study camp plus tour meaning the second and first-year students could be coming any time now. Or so I thought while going down for breakfast with Yamamoto and others in tow when we saw that they had already arrived.They were the same as us, looking around the hotel with glittering eyes. The only exception was Miyamoto. He was acting calm and was following
How My Life Was Ruined 077: Betrayal
I ran towards where Miyamoto was like a madman and grabbed him by his collar. His eyes widened in surprise. The other guys appeared equally shocked.Before Miyamoto could say anything, with my hands still on his collar, I dragged him.The other boys who were standing there still, recovered from their shock, and the guy who was talking enviously about Miyamoto screamed at me.“Hey, you. What do you think you are-“ His sentence abruptly and unnaturally ended then and there as I turned around to look at him.With a murderous and threatening aura in my already cold-looking eyes, I gave a passing glance at each one of the boys present there.“Don’t butt in,” I said. Hearing my voice laced with clear animosity, the boys gulped in terror. One of them even ran away like a scared rabbit. The remaining stood there, motionless, without even drawing their breath.This much must be more than enough.After determining that, I led Miyamoto to the empty area behind the dining hall. There was no one h
How My Life Was Ruined 078: Blame It All On Me
Miyamoto Sota.I had completely read him wrong.The fact that he hated me; it wasn’t because I had committed such a horrible act. It was because he thought that I was framed by those girls; I was accused of something I hadn’t done. And instead of fighting back, I accepted and admitted it. I also left them all without saying anything and without any clarification.For Miyamoto who admired and idolized me, it must have been the greatest form of betrayal. That was why he hated me. He believed that I couldn’t commit such a horrible act. It was all a lie.But, now, he has finally learned the truth. What he had believed all these years was a big, fat lie. What he had idolized was a fake; it was someone that didn’t even exist in the first place. That realization crippled him. The only goal he had set for himself in his life was just an illusion. That goal suddenly disappeared and it was akin to the world ending for him.“Really, I do nothing but break people.”How many does it make now? I ha
How My Life Was Ruined 079: Knell
The sky outside was getting a bit darker and I could see dark clouds approaching from the eastern side.“It’s going to rain pretty heavily.”The time was around 4 pm.The classes for the day were over long ago and starting today we won’t have any classes no more. Tomorrow – that is the sixth day – and the day after tomorrow will be packed with nothing but trips to different places in Kyoto. The third-year students had a relieved face. Now they could finally get to enjoy the vacation in its truest sense.I was alone and I walked at my own pace scanning the places around me and committing every detail I saw to my memory. Today, I was once again out in search of Hayami. Even though the past two days had seen no result, I wasn’t going to give up yet. And today, I hadn’t sneaked from the hotel. There was no need to. The school had allowed us, students, to go on a stroll around Kyoto to our liking. We could go anyplace we want to as long as it wasn’t someplace shady. As a rule, we had to ke
How My Life Was Ruined 080: The Schemes
I was angry. But I didn’t feel my blood boil. Instead, I felt calm. Looking at my face, nobody will ever think that I was furious. As if to let the world know the anger raging inside me, from the heavens came a thunderous roar so loud it shook the very ground. Along with the lightning and the thunder came the drops of rain pouring.Every drop of rain felt like bullets and with each drop that hit me I felt as if wounds were opening up everywhere in my body; both old and new.As the downpour got heavy, people around me started running around trying to find a place to shelter themselves from this heavy rain.I, on the other hand, continued to run, all the while being hit by the numerous raining bullets.As I ran, the sounds of water being splashed reached my ears. Along with water, mud was being splashed everywhere including my clothes.When I no longer was able to run anymore, I stopped. Then I suddenly opened my mouth as wide as I could, gasping for air. Seems like I had stopped brea
How My Life Was Ruined 081: Ugly but Effective
When I said that, her smile that was about to reach her ears froze where it was. As if time itself had stopped.“What…do you mean?”“Listen here. You want the two of them to get remarried and I don’t want that happening. So the only solution here is to take me out of the equation. You get what I am saying?”Think about what if she had never learned that Hitomi had a son. The two of them would get remarried and the three of them will live happily ever after. If she wants to have a familial experience, then she has no choice but to ignore me. As long as she doesn’t include me, everything will fall in place.The rain was seeping into my clothes and making them heavier. I had also started feeling cold and hot at the same time. Was it just a fever or pneumonia? I didn’t know. However, I did know that I will become seriously ill if I continued to soak in this rain any longer.With my piece said, I turned around and walked towards the hotel.Because of the loud pitter and patter of the rain,
How My Life Was Ruined 082: Already Betrayed
We were allowed to go outside today as well for the same time period of 4 pm to 7 pm and of course, we had to follow the same rules. The student identity card I was carrying around my neck was swinging here and there in random directions as I walked around the streets of Kyoto in search of Hayami. I went to different bars and hotels and other shady places while keeping my identity hidden. I didn’t want to leave a single place unexplored. Even then, I still had no results to name. I didn’t even have any leads to work with.I continued my search for about an hour. When the clock hit 5 pm, I stopped my search for the day.Today, I had some other plans in store.I took out my phone and checked the location I had been sent in advance.“Oh, it’s not that far from here.”I walked for five minutes down the narrow street and took a right turn to a dark alleyway with barely any light even though it wasn’t night yet. As I walked, I could see light up ahead. Leaving the alleyway behind, I was led
How My Life Was Ruined 083: A Lie (?)
“What…are you talking about?” Nakamura uttered those words so feebly that it was equal to not speaking as well.She, like a mechanical robot, slowly turned her head towards her dad.“Dad, what is he talking about?” She asked but Tatsuya didn’t respond and just cast his head down.She then looked at my mom sitting across from her.“Hitomi-san? Tell me that it’s a lie.” She didn’t speak as well. Just like Tatsuya, she had her head cast down.Nakamura was panicking as time passed.“Hey. Why are you two silent? Answer me!” Nakamura screamed and begged the two adults to speak. But, no. They didn’t speak. They couldn’t. For what I told was nothing but plain truth.A dark shadow started forming on Nakamura’s face as even after five minutes had passed the two of them hadn’t said anything. No retort. Not a single word. Their faces were paling. It was turning white. Deathly so.I gripped the small glass with a cold drink in it and gulped its content in one go.With a small thud, I placed the gl
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