Owner of a Lonely Heart

29th of May, 2008

I stood in Celeste’s room, watching from the window how she talked with that guy she met some time before… I didn’t want to recognise it, but I was jealous of him. My mind kept racing questions. “Why him and not me?” “I’ve always taken care of her” “It’s not fair” But I knew it was wrong for me to be like this. I left the room in a sigh and walked through the hallway to get to the hospital’s elevator. I got out of the hospital and wandered the lonely streets of Kazuki.

I stopped at a ramen shop in a business filled street, it was getting dark and I wanted someplace warm to be in. -Welcome!- The waitress shouted at me, dressed in an apron, and she had blue highlights dyed in her hair. It was almost empty, kind of a rare sight. I sat down in one of the tables and waited for my order. -Shoyu Ramen, please.- The waitress nodded and noticed the big, moustached chef. After some time, which I spent watching the news in the TV of the establishment, my soup came. I finished it rather quickly since I was kind of hungry, and I was ready to leave. Before I got up, the waitress left me a fortune cookie. -Isn’t this more of a chinese thing? Sorry if I come off as racist, I’m just… not from here.- She shrugged, smiling. -It’s ok, could you read it?- I bit down the cookie and spread the small piece of paper inside it. “You’re really handsome to be frowning like that” she smiled and walked away… I read the reverse of the paper, and there was a phone number. She looked back at me and stuck her tongue out before returning to the kitchen. -I suppose this day wasn’t so bad-