My love for you was only a lie that I should forget... ― Florence Joyce
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[Rinako]
I just decided to go home instead of the initial plan to roam around for a while. I even had a plan to buy a book. But then, because of what happened at the entrance of the Engineering building a while back, I never got to do that. My focus was ruined because of it. The only thing I could do at the moment was to heave a heavy sigh since this event made me unable to breathe properly if I had to be honest. It made me think about a lot of things, as well.
In one month since I transferred, three flowers unexpectedly changed the course of my life.
Three flowers that I was thinking of, perhaps coming from just one person. Or maybe not. Maybe it was just me thinking that it belonged to that person. The events since that day kept creeping up in my mind, for some reason, even though things that have all happened turned out to be weird, I couldn't help thinking that there was a hidden story in each of those flowers.
Stories that I would never have fathomed at the moment.
Then again, who knows.
I forgot. The other two flowers' origins were also mysterious to me. And honestly, they were just enough to drive me crazy whether I was asking for it or not.
I don't know what to think. The last time that flowers made a wreck of my mind was when during the first semester of that year. I was still in Yokohama at the time. We still haven't returned here to Yakuramoto. But my father was getting ready to transfer to his new working place.
I only sighed when I recalled that memory.
Here we go again...
I shouldn't have remembered that. It was all in the past.
'All in the past but why are you still affected even though you're just remembering everything about that?'
I couldn't think of a retort for that particular thought that my mind resounded for me. I even thought of putting up a fight just to contradict that but I couldn't think of anything to say.
Maybe in a way, I might have ended up saying it was right.
But since I didn't want to dwell on those thoughts any longer, I forced myself to remove those thoughts from my mind. So far, I succeeded in doing that. At least, I think I succeeded.
That was when I heard my phone ringtone for my Incoming Call. When I took my cellphone out of my bag where I put it, I got confused when I only saw an unregistered number flashing on the screen.
Weird... Who would even call me at this hour? As far as I knew, I didn't give my contact number to anyone recently.
Now I couldn't even decide. Should I even answer it?
My phone kept on ringing for almost a minute. It would soon redirect to my voice mail if I didn't answer it already.
But I thought... this was perhaps, the best thing to do.
Okay. I would stick to that. At least I won't answer the call of whoever was calling me at the moment.
A few moments later, the mysterious call redirected to the voice mail.
I tried to prepare myself to hear whatever message that the mysterious call would leave on the voice mail. Seriously, why does my heart have to beat fast like this at the moment? There wasn't anything scary about all this, right? And yet, my heart wasn't easily convinced, it seemed. But I froze to the spot when I heard the voice of the caller who left a voice message there.
'Rinako... it's me. Can we please meet somewhere? We need to talk.'
Was I hallucinating? Did I hear his voice?
"That's not... possible." Was it?
Okay. What in the world was going on at the moment? Does this have to happen? I needed to calm down.
There had to be an explanation for this.