Part 2

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the sun light bathing mayu with its ray while Mayu sitting beside the window, her pencil lightly on her drawing book. her eyes focused on the paper, and for all the beautiful things in the world, that golden sun on Mayu's serious face, its just so...magnificent. it  can't be helped that the other girls on the class drooling over the scenery

"gosh...do you have a tissue?! I'm having a nose bleed"

"angel...she is an angel for sure *faint*"

"its one of our school 7 mysteries that watanabe san never had a girl friend before"

"what mysteries?? she is waiting for me! she just too shy to tell me!"

"yeah.. in your dream"

"what did you said??"

Mayu just focus on her sketch, a sketch that she always do whenever she had a free time, a sketch of a single object, a same object she's been drawing for these past years. Mayu fling her head, clear her bang from her vision with a single light move..and start shading her sketch...

the eyes

'ah you are watanabe san?'

the hair

'nice to meet you'

the...lips

'i am Kashiwagi .. Kashiwagi Yuki'

"HEI MAYU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Mayu abruptly closed her sketch book as Sae suddenly come and slam her back

"ah you are drawing again? geez...i never understand why you like boring things like that "

"i...just like it" Mayu put her drawing book on her bag, Sae never interested in her drawing so she never really care with Mayu sketch, and Mayu did not really care neither...but now.. suddenly  Mayu has a good reason to care about it.

"wanna go home together today?"

"ah...today i have an after school date with yuki" sae said brightly

"oh..." Mayu heart skip a beat on that name

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"Tadaima" Mayu said when she reach her home, no one ansewered, seems like her grandparents not around, a sweet couple that still like to traveling together even in their golden age, they rarely at home. Mayu walk around, find a note on the dining table

Mayu,

we are going to the hot spring, be back in a few days!

don't forget to eat well, 

take care

your grandparents, Yuko and Haruna <3

Mayu smile, imagining her lively grand parents having fun in the hot spring together. her grand parents, despite already on their golden age, still always act like teenagers in love with their first crush, they also still magically looks like they are in their 30, makes Mayu sometimes wonder if her family is secretly an immortal vampire or something .

Mayu  put the note back, her foot then start taking her to the corner of her house, on one point, she stops, and pulling the ropes hanging in the ceiling, a stairs slowly descending from above, mayu climb the stairs

and here she is again... in the dusty attic

she sit at her usual spot, on a blanket she put there to covering the dusty floor, take her drawing book out and finishing her sketch

Mayu could not remember since when.. she start to sketch it on her own...

maybe its because of her longing .. or her desperation... or her useless effort to be closer to this.. this object  of her obsession... she don't know how many sketch has she draw... or how many times has she spend it here in the attic

as she continue sketching, Mayu gaze at the old painting ... its still as beautiful as the first time she saw it..

'Mayu i like you to meet my girl friend'

'she is...different'

and a wild unfamiliar tormenting feeling suddenly rose from within Mayu, she ripped the sketch on her hand, and throw it across the room, her head fall on her hands

'cmon Mayu...get a hold on your self! she is not the same girl with the girl in the painting...cmon!' Mayu combating her self in her mind

the wind blowing from the window, open up page to page of Mayu drawing book. only one single object portrayed in there, different angles..different poses.. but one singular repeated object

she don't really know why she still do her sketching here...

now... when the girl in the painting, the one object of all her drawing... finally had a name she could called

'i am Kashiwagi...kashiwagi Yuki'

What Would you do, if the obsession that you think would only stayed in your  dream ... come and see you when you awake

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weeks has passed, the school has over, but Mayu still sitting on her chair beside the window,Sae asked to wait for her.

Mayu look out side, its sunny...and nice, out of habit, Mayu  pulled her sketch book from her bag, and start sketching, even thou now that activity gave her more anguish feeling rather than a calming sensation it used to bring.

weeks has passed... and sometimes, even tough Mayu tried her best to avoid it, as she always stick with sae all the time, she would occasionally met the one named Kashiwagi Yuki...

on their way home

when they hanging out

and sometimes could not run away as Sae dragging her to their date ...

and now Mayu  knew how the girl in the painting could be so loud, and her eyes could be so wide when she surprised by something, how the girl in the painting always speak out her weird mind, how she hates bugs... and dogs...and cats...and just animals in general, how she always kindly look on the other eyes as they speak...

Mayu keep sketching ... and since don't know when .. the girl in her sketch has change little by little...

if Mayu ever imagine what the girl in the painting would be like if she is alive... Yuki exceed all her wildest expectation

her smile is brighter than Mayu ever imagine

her touch is gentler than Mayu ever tough

her eyes... is kinder than Mayu ever though it would be..

the way she move her head while talking ... the way she fling her hair ...

and the way she cling on Sae... the way she always smile to sae...

...a Living hell

since don't know when... the girl in Mayu sketches is no longer the girl in the painting...  it has  became the one named kashiwagi Yuki

Sae came not long after, and mayu put her sketch book inside her bag

"Mayu sorry to make you wait"

"its okay, so whats up?"

"ah..um..well...its about Yuki..." and mayu heart suddenly swollen at the mention of the name

"whats about her" Mayu look outside the window, averting her eyes from her best friend

"well you know, its been a while since we going out"

"...yeah"

"and... I think..its about time for us to.. um..go further"

"further?" Mayu tilted her head

"you know..erhm..do further things.. things you wanna do with your girl friend"

Mayu head processing her friend words slowly ... and suddenly...she understand

"THE HELL SAE!! WHY YOU NEED TO TOLD ME ABOUT THAT?!"

"wellll.. you know..my cousin come and crush at my place this whole week.. and um.. your grand parents.. are went traveling again this week.. aren't they"

Mayu start to realize where is this going to

"so..can i bring yuki to your house this weekend?"

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