"Aa sorry!" haru abruptly apologizes to her. The girl suddenly bows and expresses her sincere apologize towards him,
"no! i think i should be the one to apologize to you for not walking properly! ". "No no! it's completely fine you don't have to worry!" haru replies to her gently.
Out of the blue she takes a glance at haru's hand which is a bit wounded the time when he fell off the hole into the backyard, "oh you've got a wound on your hand!".
"Oh! it's just a scratch don't worry!" pretending as if it's fine yet suddenly it hurts him when he accidentally rubs his wounded hand *ouchh*.
"You see, sometimes you don't have to act to be strong and cool all the time... if it hurts, express it!".
"hmm i remember i once read the same words in a book!" haru answers to her smoothly.
*Ahm ahmm* ignoring his answer she asks, " well! shall we go to treat you?".
-"no it's okay, you don't have to bother yourself"."Atleast let me treat you as my apology, please!". "okay fine!" he replies her gently.
"By the way you're stubborn!" haru says.
-"And you're brutally honest with your answers".
he laughs saying, " yeah you are right! i like to be honest in everything so be careful as i can be very harsh and honest!". She chuckles" i see, you're mean".
Continuing their argument they both walk ahead.
She is a poor girl with a sad past, who lives alone in a small apartment. After arriving at her place she says, "Let's go upstairs!".
-"Yeah, Okay".
She takes out the key of her apartment, under the doormat and opens the door. "Please come inside" says the girl.
And while bringing him the first aid box she says "Please make yourself at home!".
While looking everywhere around him, he replies, "yeah!". Then she applies some ointments on his wound and then wraps it with a bandage "and it's done....for your information, it'll be fine
by tomorrow or in two days!".
"I owe you one!!" haru responses her kindly.
She smiles and then puts back the remaining stuff inside the first aid box and then puts it in it's place.
Then she goes in the kitchen, washes her hands thoroughly, then turns onn the stove and takes out the packets of ramen inside the cabinet, she asks him if he wants to have some too, "Do you want to
eat something? i am already making some ramen for myself so lemme make some for you too...right! let's eat together!".
Suddenly that guy where haru was before, pops up inside his head, laughing terribly like the way he was, haru mutters, "should i really eat here or is she the same as him??".
Then he looks at her waiting for his yes or no, haru with a depressed smile says, "y-yeah s-sure please!" while thinking in his head "i believe in her! i believe in her! i believe in her!".
- "Okay then lemme prepare some!!!" she responses excitingly.
Right after 15 minutes she serves her ramens and asks him to taste first and tell her how is it. Finally haru gets to taste them for the first time "WHOAAAAAHHHHH!!!! THIS IS HEAVENNN!!".
-"REALLY?.
And while his eyes all widened he keeps eating and finshes his first bowl and asks her for more "CAN I HAVE ONE MORE!! I WILL MAKE SURE THAT I PAY YOU BACK!!"
With teary eyes she says, "You see, you don't really need to pay me back afterall you're my guest so you can eat as much as you can, don't worry!".
"Thank you! you are really so kind!" haru replies.
It is 1a.m now and they both are already done with their dinner. lying on the floor after finishing five bowls of ramen he appreciates her kindness "Huhh, thanks to you my tummy is full now! and
thanks to you my wound will be alright as well! i will definitely pay you back oneday!". "oh my goodness no! believe me you don't really have to pay me back, infact, i'm glad to hear that my guest
really enjoyed the dinner and my hospitality... i don't have any friends to offer them my ramen which is another reason why i'm happy to see someone in my house" she says while washing the leftover
dishes.
Then haru asks for her name saying, "By the way what's your name? like i totally forgot to ask your name all this time!".
-"My name is Sakura...S.A.K.U.R.A".
-"Yeah yeah i got it".
she asks for his name too, "what about you then?"
-"Haru!".
-"HARU...such a cute name awww!!"
-"don't aww me like that!"
All of a sudden she asks out of curiosity, "So haru where are you from? 'cause your outfit seems quite unique!".
" Well i-i live pretty far.." he answers nervously.
-"Hmm, i see!".
Then he stands up with a weary sound "ah" and appreciates her again for the dinner and stuff. He puts on his shoes and is about to open the door to leave, sakura stops him nervously, "WAIT!".
Haru stops and turns back to her saying "what?". "Where are you going at this time?". "Well...i am leaving" although he knows that there's nowhere to go but he doesn't wanna bother her for
doing more for him. But since sakura is concerned about him so she insists him to stay "w-why don't you stay over for tonight?". "pardon?". "Well you see, you're my guest so taking a very good care of my
guest is my responsibility...and then you don't even live here so obviously you might have nowhere to go to", pointing at his wound she says, "and then the wound!...your wound hasn't even fully
healed up yet, it's still fresh". "She's got a point, secondly i don't even know what kind of world is it and i don't even know where will i end up once i leave this place... until i don't find my way back to
my world i think it's better to stay here for sometimes!" haru thinks and then responses to her "fine i''ll stay here!". She widens her eyes outta joy and says "okay so actually there's another apartment
right above mine's and it's completely empty so you can live there but there's an issue!". "What is it?". "That apartment is pretty much covered in dust so we must clean it first!". And since haru is
too much sensitive when it comes to dirt and dust, he decides to clean it.
Then sakura takes him to that apartment and opens it. *Cough* they both cough because of the dusty atmosphere inside. "I didn't know that you own two apartments".
Then she gives him a brief explanation, "actually it belongs to my late father...we used to be very wealthy back then when my parents were alive...but unfortunately my father's company faced serious crisis and gone bankrupt
And nfortunately my father had to give up on his entire company. Because of that my family had to move in such a small apartment because of our very low budget we just couldn't afford a palace like we used to own.
My father decided to buy atleast these two apartments with his leftover money so that one of them could be of use someday if we ever have to need money, he thought selling this apartment would
benefit us so that's why until now i am saving this apartment for my own good". "Such a broken family!" haru says. "Anyways let's clean up this place as soon as possible because it's already too late
and i have to sleep because i don't wanna be late for my job!! c'mon, shake a leg!!".
Then they both hurriedly start from the dusting part together to removing all the spiderwebs inside the cabinets and the other corners of the apartment. After that they clean up the
dusty floor and till 2a.m they both eventually get rid of all the filthiness of that apartment. *Pheww* "finally it's all done...looks like we just renewed the apartment cause it's never been this polished before,
haha!", sakura says while sitting on the couch stretching her hands. "Gosh!!! my clothes are all in dirt...i don't even have any other one to wear!!" haru responses distressfully. "Well...lemme see if i
have any!" sakura replies. Then sakura looks for some clothes for him, inside her cupboard and finds a hoodie that's actually unisex and then give it to him.
It is 3a.m now, haru comes out from taking a shower, drying his hair with a towel, "it feels so refreshing after such a weary day!". Then he puts that towel aside and starts thinking about how can he
go back to his world again. He lies on his bed while thinking "i want to leave this world after meeting that person for whom i came here but i wonder if i would be able to find them here or not", after
which he falls asleep. All of a sudden the same lullaby which he has heard in his world reverberates in the midst of the night. And when the booming of that lullaby reaches haru's ears he immediately
gets up and looks for it everywhere around him "i am sure this is the same voice i hear in my own world but where...where is it exactly coming from?".
Then haru comes outta his apartment, opens his eyes and tries to concentrate the direction from where the lullaby's coming from to him and unexpectedly ends up outside sakura's apartment. He takes out the key that she
usually keeps under the doormat and with it he opens the door. And as soon as he walks inside, he senses that the voice is coming out of the balcony pretty more clearly. The more haru steps forward to
the balcony the more the sound of the lullaby get transparent to him. The lullaby leaves him completely in awe that the whole of his body starts to shake. With his trembling hand he
opens the balcony's door and there he finds sakura singing that lullaby. At that moment sakura is unaware of his presence and keeps singing the remaining lullaby.
And the minute she finishes it, she turns back and seeing haru standing right infront of her, with his eyes wide open, startles her.