Angelic

-Toshiki-

I’ve been thinking about her lately. I don’t know where she’s gone. I haven’t tried to look her up yet. (I’ve been on the streets. Even then I didn’t think about it.) Honestly, I thought I forgot about her. But seeing Yumi’s face again.

I am just here rambling. What am I talking about?

I’m got to back up for a bit.

I had someone I loved years ago. She was like an angel. I can’t fully explain her in words. I loved her so much. We met in high school. I was seventeen at the time. Maybe seventeen or eighteen. It was the last year of high school. It’s so weird. I can’t remember her face. I don’t remember what she sounds like. I know that she was real.

I’ve tried to dig through my memories. I keep coming up with nothing. I don’t know why that is. I didn’t have any head injuries. The only injury I’ve had during the war was…

I put my hand to my chest.

It’s so strange. I used to not believe in reincarnation and the supernatural. But now, I don’t know.

The last time I saw her was before I went off on active duty. She didn’t want me to go to war. I had no choice.

“I did it for us!” I shouted at her. We got into a fight that summer. She didn’t understand. We were to marry. We needed the money. So I joined the army. I still don’t remember the whole argument. But she wouldn’t talk to me after that. That was the last time I saw her before going to war.

Since then, I have been trying to get everything back together. Yumi has been a good help to me. She’s weirdly attached to me. I don’t know why. But I can’t help but wonder…

“Toshiki-kun? Toshiki-kun?”

I turned my head. Yumi stood behind me, smiling.