"Help me up."
"Ok.", I take her on my shoulder so she could reach the kay hidden over the door.
"Got it."
"I'm putting you down."
As I try to put her down my foot slips. Boy she is heavy!!
"You ok?"
"Uhh, yea." I say slowly.
"Great!"
She opens the door. It's rather clean for a house which hasn't been used over 8 years. It smells kind of like old newspapers in here. It's cold too. All the furnitures are covered with clothes.
"Turn the power switch on. It's in the kitchen. Left shelf."
"Aight."
I go to the kitchen. Left shelf. There's three left shelfs here. I guess the top one due to safety reasons? Yup. Found it. I turn the small switches on first. Then the big one. The whole house lit up.
"Great. Now come help me clean this place up.", Tachibana says.
"Isn't It a little late for that."
"Just hurry up!!"
Great! Now I'm a housewife.
Tachibana is taking off the covers from the furnitures and I'm cleaning them up. Luckily there were some cleaning equipment left in the store room. There was some bleech too. I mixed up some with water and mopped the floor. At first the tiles on the floor looked yellow but after cleaning they rather look white. I guess that's 8 years of dust for you.
"Alright, most of the places are done. We can clean up the rest when we start using them. You go to the shower first. I'll cook some food in the time being."
"K."
"Turn the valve left for hot water."
"Gotcha."
The washroom looks like something out of a movie about royal people. Everything looks clean and expensive. I've never really used bathetub before. Well, there wasn't any at my house. Nor in Kai's house. And I didn't really take a shower in the mansion. I guess I'm a filthy guy you can say. Well, here it goes! I get in the bathetub. Water falls out of it. I guess I filled it too much. Oh well. It feels like a warm pool which is really short. It feels great to be honest. I wonder Kaigara and Aiko are enjoying their together. I hope they are doing ok. I don't know about Kaigara but Aiko was bleeding pretty hard. I don't know if she made it. What is happening in this world. Just the other day I was eating with my dad. Going to school with Kaigara. And asking favors from him. I don't know why but I miss the plain foods dad made. I miss dad. Am I really crying now? A drop of tear falls into the water of the bathtub. My vision is blurry due to the tears, just like the future ahead. I wanna go home again. Meet up with my dad, talk to him for real this time, I wanna have friends in school, maybe walk Tachibana home after school. I just want my life back. I won't mess it up this time. I promise.
"Whatchu cooking?", I ask.
"Nothing much. Put a shirt on!!"
"Um.. my body is still a li'l wet. I don't wearing something while my body is wet."
"Atleast cover it up with towel."
"Why would I do that? I'm not a lady you know."
"Yeah, but it's..... distracting."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Your... your muscles, they are too... They are too hot.", her face turns red.
"Whaa... I mean uh... s-sure.. I'mma go and... get something to wear."
Tachibana holds my hand, "It's fine.", she looks the other way.
"Uhm.. ok", I'm sweating.
She starts working again.
"C-can I help?", I ask.
"Uh, yeah. Could you get some dishes down from that cabinet?"
"Sure thing. Let me get a chair."
It's quite high up. I try to reach the cabinet from the chair. I'm streching my whole body to reach it. Yet it's hard. There we go. Opened up finally. What's touching my belly? As I look down I see Tachibana touching my body.
"Tachibana?"
"Won't you do something to me?"