Man In The Distance

"What?"

I say that to the doctor with incredible despair in my eyes as he answers back

"I apologize but there was nothing that we could do, no matter how hard we tried we just… couldn't save her"

"b-but why, there must be some way"

"the wound was just to deep and it was rusty so it would have taken to long to get the extra shrapnel out of her body"

I begin to cry as I say

"I-I no"

and as I open my eyes I see a blank ceiling above me and I think to myself

"oh… just a dream"

I get up and walk towards the bathroom so that I can brush my teeth and as I do I realize something

"it's too dark out"

I looked at my clock after turning on the lights in my bedroom and read that the clock said 6:58 am and, as I saw this number I said to myself in my head

"I woke up early again, well might as well get ready if I am"

so I walk down the stairs at my house and as I am I view out of my window which points directly out to the street from my kitchen

"what the hell-"

I saw some man looking into my window from across the street although he walked away afterwards it seemed as though he were there for quite a long time

"he's gone, that really creeped me out"

I let out a sigh of relief and then went on to grab my breakfast from the fridge and sat down on the floor to eat

"this is good"

while i'm eating I can hear something from my parents room

"honey, you forgot to pick up yo** ******** you don't want the **** finding *** **** *** **** **********"

"ah, ya alright"

I couldn't hear all of it but I think she was telling him to pick something up

"Hmm… I wonder, you know what never mind"

I thought on it for a few seconds but gave up

"oh T-T-T… Tooru! Why are you up so early?"

I answered by saying

"oh, I uhhh… just woke up like this"

"ahh, I see then"

after saying that my dad continued

"mind if I sit down"

I answer him by saying

"sure"

dad asked me a question

"so, how have your days been going"

I say back

"they've been going really well actually"

then dad says

"really now, so what'v… what have you been doing at school lately"

I answer him happily

"I have a lot of fun at my club"

he then answers

"wow really, that's very good to hear"

after that we have simply sit down and eat for a few minutes until I asked him something

"hey dad are you going to work today?"

I ask him this since usually he's either at work or at home, so he answers with

"I think i'll go to work today"

I reply to that answer by saying

"alright"

my dad asked me a question after I said that

"why did you ask?"

I answer

"I guess I just wanted to know"

he replies

"alright"

"huh"

"what's wrong?"

I answer my dads question by saying

"I just wasn't expecting it to be 7:30 already"

dad was also shocked when he checked his watch

"well, I guess I should be going"

he said

"see you"

"goodbye"

after he left I cleaned up the dishes that we left behind

"oh, Tooru"

"what do you mean she was…"

"you're already awake"

"stabbed"

"oh hey, Aki"

I said so with a smile on my face as I said

"I just woke up early"

Aki replied with

"I get it, I was worried for a second"

"worried… about what?"

Aki answered by saying

"I don't know, just worried"

"uhh… alright"

I think to myself

"that was… odd, anyway I should probably get dressed"

so I walk to my room so that I can get dressed and as i'm getting dressed I get the feeling as though i'm forgetting something

"well, off to school now"

after waiting for about an hour I walk to the school and I see Ren awaiting me by the sidewalk, so I tell him

"oh, hey Ren"

"hey Tooru"

we greet each other as we walk towards the school building for the first time since last tuesday

"it's been a while since i've seen these faces"

I say and Ren says

"yeah, it really has"

we walk to our classroom with that thought running through our heads then, as we finally reach the class I say

"well let's go back in"

Ren replies

"yeah"

so we walk in and see our classroom and it after many days of not seeing it

"it's exactly the same"

everything was the exact same as we left it on Tuesday

"I guess it was mostly renovations of the majorly damaged parts and we aren't that close to the kitchen"

I say back

"I guess you're right"

so, we sit down at our desks and class begins

"hey Tooru, what's the answer to this question right here?"

I answer Ren with

"like i'd tell you, do it yourself"

Ren replies with a light laugh

"hehe"

as we are doing it I hear the bell ring and I ask Ren

"hey, Ren wanna do that"

Ren replies to my request by saying

"uhh, s-sure but aren't you usually against doing something like that?"

I then answer his question by saying to him

"well, yeah but I still think it's fine if it's just once, to be honest with you i'm really bored"

I scratch the back of my head as Ren tells me

"sure, but uhh…"

I ask in confusion

"huh, w-what's the matter?"

Ren begins to speak in a very informative tone as he tells me

"it's actually not lunch time yet that bell was for a teacher, did you not here the announcement"

I then say while embarrassed

"well, I must have forgotten"

Ren says back

"it's fine, though we should definitely do 'the thing' when it's lunch time"

as he says that I can hear voices saying something

"could you guys meet me up on the… roof a-after lunch"

it seemed as though the person was hesitant to say such words although the people he was talking to answered by saying

"uhh… alright, I guess"

the boy's voice continues

"uhh… t-thanks"

as he said that his voice seemed to be very unclear and groggily

"aww man, but we were gonna go there"

I replied

"well, it's probably just a kid trying to confess his feelings to a person so we shouldn't butt in"

I then thought to myself

"yeah, probably why his voice sounded so… what's the word for that again, I think it was something like scratchy or something… yeah let's just go with that"

Ren replied to my former answer by saying

"alright, I guess"

however I felt as though something was off about it so I decided to answer Ren by saying

"well, they shouldn't be that long if it's just a confession"

Ren asked me

"what does that mean?"

I answered his question by saying

"well, I just think that, since that guy is just going to confess and nothing else we could still make it to the roof"

upon hearing that Ren widened his eyes as though he were surprised by what I had said

"yeah… I guess you're right"

he seemed to have dragged his top lip so that it could overlap his bottom lip as he had said that, and as I saw this I said to myself

"huh, what's up with everyone today, they've all been acting really weird?"

I was very confused by what Ren just did although I still ignored it

"so, what should we do in the mean time"

I asked Ren

"I dunno… wait, I guess"

and after that we waited for about 2 hours until the we heard the bell which was to lunch ring

"well, I guess it's time"

so we walked out of the door and started moving throughout the hallway

"you alright?"

Ren asked me

"yeah, just thinking"

I had my hand over my chin as I thought to myself

"wait, if he just intended on confessing then why…"

as we walked through up to the door that was used for entering the rooftop

"then why would he ask all of his friends to be…"

upon seeing the sight which was in front of me all I could do was freeze up and as I looked to it all I could think was one single thing

"of course, I had nearly forgotten"

what was in front of me was a knife to my sisters head and the friends of that same sister in complete fear at the sight they too are witnessing…