Eternal Feather by Builderofhappines

This is part of the story that I am writing right now. Enjoy!

There had been something missing from his world for a long time, something that made it seem bland and two dimensional. To discribe it was to imagine a color missing from the world, a color you just could not see. The emptyness was unbarible and made him lose intrest in things that made almost everyone else happy, like Christmas, or birthdays. It was not that he was depressed he was simply like the cocoon that the Butterfly had left behind, missing that beauty. This was how it was for Hirono a feeling that left him as a dreamer, because since he did not know what was missing he could not make his life change and so remained. This continued on and on only getting worse and causing him to forget more and more of the things he held presise.In a paper he once wrote for school about what he wanted to grow up to dohe could not think of anything and because of this degletded to turn it in, but in his first year of high school Hirono's world was completly sawn apart.
The first day of High school was nothing to worry about for Hirono because he cared not what people thought of him having been alone for most of his life.Because of this one fact he had a mindset of I do not care as he got on the busto go to his new school. He looked around for a empty seat, but found none so sat next to a teen who looked about his age.This adolesent looked in Hirono's eyes to be one of those children who was very popular. Mostly though it was not as he looked at the boythat he decided this it was the fact that he felt lots of eyes staring at the back of his neck and a lotof sware words muttered under the breath of the new arrivals as they got on the bus. Nothing happened thoughthriugh the whole ride and it remained that way till after he got off of the bus. Hirono had taken a few steps away when suddenly the boy he had beensitting next to slammed into his back causing Hirono to reel forward and fall on the cement. "Sorry I didn't see you there scum" he said with asnobbish sound of supieriority. "No problem" said Hirono as he got and made to walk away, but the boy aparrently hadn't expected thisand so acted even more viciously by grsabbing Hirono's neck and throwing him down back onto the cement.It felt like a miniture sun had just been born in the back of his head and was burning him alive. "Never make me touch you againor you will find youself on the floor of the nurses office", and although pain was was rushing throughhis head the anger of that last comment made Hirono say "it was your choice to do this, and your ownstupid asshole reason to touch me just toget revenge for sitting next to you when you could have just asked me to move". "You dont know who I am do you?" said the boy" I am-" " you are shit" said Hirono and again stood up and was able to walk away.
From there school was just school as usual with the threats and sneering voices surrounding him,and on the bus ride back he got lucky with a empty seat, curtosey of his now horrible reputation.Then finally he was home. of course this meant very little because Hironon practically lived completely alone.His parents were always on trips, but not with each other, but with themselves. For they dispised each other.The first relization came to Hirono when he was quite young. " Mama look I made this for you" he siad proudly holding up a drawing of himself with his mother and father beside him his mother did not stop and kept on walking making not a sound as though she was a ghost.Curious Hirono follwed her carefully until a loud crash shattered the silence in the house. "Mother" he cried sprinting to where he heard the crash, but when he roundedthe corner he found only his mother taking each piece of china that had been a gift from Hirono's fatherand throwing it on the floor. "Mother what are you doing!" cried Hirono, but his mother did not stop rythmiclly throwing each one so it shatteredinto a cascade of beautiful crystals that glittered in the light pouring in from the window.This was the start of Hirono's troubles. He began to drift away from reality, submerge himself in books whilehis mother and father forgot each other in their hearts, and then began to forget Hirono. But for Hirono he had found new friends,friends that could, and would never betray him and so he forgot his troubles and just as he drifted out of his parent'shearts, he forgot about his friends. Of course this was fine with him, for he never payed attention to the world execpt for thoseinside his books. And then... everything changed. In Junior High when the horrible, and godly beastknown as puberty came and turned his head away from his books. He saw the beauty of the people of this world and wished to be among themhe longed for it as he had never longed before. Exept that he couldn't join it.After being along for so long he had become unresponsive and cold. Not unhumnan,for he had his books, and pets who adored him, but scared of other humans, not wantingto become friends in fear that they would also forget him as his parents had.Yet because of puberty he now wanted to be part of it for he found that,likea sheep tied to a stake he had eaten all of the grass up by its rootsand where he stood had become mostly a desert, and he was dieing from it.At this point in his life he realized that he had lost something, he had lost the colorthat he could not find, the color that would make him whole and be able to see the world.Yet from living along he was able to eat the dirt that had come from his desertand although he was dieng from it he could keep living searching for hope.So although only his animals and books were here, they acted like a pacifier, helping Hirono search for what was missing from his view.
And the rest of the evening preceded just as it had for years. He ate with his pets, his living friends that he could confide in.And after that even the week was normal, with bullying and again assuming his identityas a out cast. Then everything changed.End of Chaptrer 1
It was Sunday and had been nearly a week and a half since school had startedand Hirono wanted a new book to calm his mind. "not this one, or this one, or this one" he muttered under his breathas he ran his hand over the spines. He walked along the row of books when he brushed up against a girl he recognized from his school.Seeing her as only a tormentor he immediatly stared walkiing to a different aisle, when suddenly a shoutcame from behind him. whirling around on the balls of his feet he came nose to nose with the girl he had just passed. "Theif"she screamed in his face and the shock of it caused Hirono to back up into a shelf of books which immediatly tipped on him.And much as a drowning man would try and grab for the surface he used is arms as shovels to try and push the books away.Just as he freed himself however he saw that he was surronded by people staring down at him with faces full of loathing."you theif" the girl cried again " you stole my wallet when you bumped me, I knew the people at school were right to call you shit!"These words however just slid over his head, not mostly because he had heard them before, but his eyes itched and he was feeling dizy.However he noticed just befoRe he passed out, the glint of a studded purse umonst the crowd.
Sirens woke Hirono from his sleep. Where was he, how long had he been asleep. He tried to get upbut was thrust back down by a man dressed in white. Docters. " What happened" Hirono asked, slurring the words horribly."You have a minor concusion and a cut on your head, it is nothing major but we will have to stich it shut". Instinctively Hirono reached for his head, but the docter grabbed his hand and set it back down. Deciding there was nothing to do Hirono started thinking about what had happened.Suddenly he jerked up nearly throwing the docter who was trying to restrain him onto the floor. "What about the Woman" he stammered. "What woman?" "The woman with her purse stolen.""She is okay, but is blaming you for everything."I didn't do it though" shouted Hirono jerking forward again, but suddenly collapsed breathing heavily as a wave a pain swallowed his body.Again taking the time to think he rembered the purse under the man's jacket. "What happened to the other there" Hirono said in such a way that the docter tightened his grip on Hirono's shoulders."They were taken to the police for questioning.""All of them?""Yes."Good." and with that last word Hirono fell into a deep slumber.
When Hirono awoke it was just begginging to get dark. Turning his head to the left he saw his clothes bundled up and a note on top of them telling him to get dressed and come downstairs as soon as possible.He got up, stripped off the gown the quikly got dressed and headed down the stairs. As he was approaching the bottom of the stairs he spyeda cute girl looking around the corner. Not minding that he continued on, and just as he passed by, she let out a little squek of fright and hurridly triedto pretend to be tieing her shoe. Hirono just smiled and kept on walking. When he glanced forward again he saw only a police man. Puzzeled he walked over and sat down in the chairopposite him. " Can I help you?" he said in a kind voice, but Hirono mearly shrugged and said only if you can tell me what happened to the people at the book store.Realizing who this must be the police man flipped threw his note book, and stretched out his hand to shake Hirono's. "Hello I am Yuu Nagi, you must be Hirono"'yes""Now dont get allup tight now I just want to ask you a few questions" First can you answer one of mine""Sure""where did everyone go"" We let them go just before you got here""WHAT" "Yeah they just left threw the front doors."Knocking over the chair Hirono ran for the door. He heard the police man yell to him but ignored it, he had more important things to do.
Cold air blasted into Hirono's face as he entered the parking lot. Swinging his head left and right he spotted people walking left and right. The man he was looking for though was a man with a hat as Hirono remberedand just as he was about to go up to people and ask he saw him getting into a car. Running full speed he reached the car and began pounding on the windows yelling"hey open up!" But the man simply took one look and hit the gas throwing Hirono aside. Looking around for something he could use he saw a girl, the same girl he had seen in the lobby,getting on a bike. Hirono ran over, grabbed the handle bars and said to the girl, "I will be barrowing this". Hopping on the bike Hirono began to peddle furiously and shot forward towards the car he was tailing. Luck was on Hironos side thankfully, because to night there was a lot of traffic. The car slowed to a stop allowing Hirono to quikly reach it and begin pounding its side afresh.Sandwiched between to cars though there was very little the car could do, very little but crash into Hirono. And that is what it did.The screech of metal and the hiss of tires filled the air along with the honks of cars and the slamming of doors. Smoke rose from the car partly hiding the reckage, but it was was easy to tell that the bike had become one with the car. As for Hirono and the man they were both okay, execpt the man had been knocked out.Getting up Hirono walked over to the car and yanked open the door, bent over the man and reached under his coat to grab the purse. Turning around he searched the crowd and found who he was looking for, the girl the purse belonged to.Walking over Hirono dropped the purse into her hands, turned around and uttered " I believe that is yours", before walking away. He did not walk away from the accident though, he walked towards it, and with a sickening screech renched thenow mutilated bike apart from the car. Just as he was turning around however a hand came from just outside his range of vision and slapped him across the cheek."What have you done to my bike""sorry"sorry doesnt cut it, how will I get home?" "Here I will walk you home, and on friday we can go out and I will buy you a new bike, okay?" "But that would be a date and I dont even know your name."" It is Hirono, and you are..." "Chihiro" "Well Chihiro this is not a date this is simply me paying my dues okay?" "o... okay" "When do you want to meet Chihiro?" "Is eleven thirty ok?" "Sure we will meet right here" "Okay" "Well I guess you shouldget home now Chihiro, lead the way."

Hirono arrived ten mintutes late at 11:30 to the hospital. Glancing around he saw Chihiro waving to him on the ohter side. Jogging over hirono was about to apologize when Chihiro said
"On a date you should arrive ten minutes early so you don't make your girl wait"
"This is not a date I am simply going to buy you a new bike as a apology for the one I recked"
"Okay what ever you say now come along."
As they started walking into town Hirono noticed that even though the weather was cooling Chihiro was wearing short sleeve shirt, and a skirt that went down to around her knees. Glancing at his own jeans a coat he became self concious and slowed his step. Chihiro who was watching him saw this and turned around so they came face to face.
"Whats the matter silly, why are you slowing down?"
"Well it's just you dressed up so much while I..."
"Dont worry about it"
Hirono who had been looking at the ground the whole time glanced up to see her t-shirt was tight around her breasts, and blushed even more.
"Why are you blushing now?"
Following his gaze she looked down at her outfit and said teasingly
"Well big boy haven't had much expieriance with girls have you"
"n-no"
"well dont worry about it and come on"
Still avoiding eye contact with Chihiro he suddenly felt something warm and smooth grab his hand. Suddenly he was being pulled forward and he heard the annowed voice,
"Jeez are all boys like this?"
Gaining a bit of confidence Hirono replied,
"I can walk by myself"
"Well apperantly you cant because I have to drag you all the way, anyways here we are our first stop"
Infront of them was a restraunt.
"Wait why are we here I thought we were going to buy a bike"
"First lunch, come on you must be hungry"
"This isn't a date though how many times must I tell you that"
"Come on you owe me after crashing my bike"
"That is why I am buying you a new one"
"Come on not only did you crash it you pulled me off as well, it is just lunch"
"Fine"
Since it was a nice day Hirono and Chihiro chose to eat outside"
" I think I am going to get the salad, what about you Hirono?"
"Nothing for me"
"Why not?"
"Well I already am spending so much of my savings I can't afford to also eat out"
"Well if you aren't eating then I am not eating"
"Why aren't you hungry"
"Because if we both dont eat then it wont be a date now come on lets go"
"Fine fine I will eat"
"Really"
"Yes, I couldn't have you go hungry just because of me"
"Great"
After lunch the two of them continued on their "date"
"So what do you want to do now"
"Lets do what we came here for and get you a new bike"
"but there is still so much stuff to do"
"Don't worry after we get your bike we can go try it out in the park"
"and you will come with me?"
"Of course"
When Hirono and Chihiro reached the store they selected a bike with ease, the exact same model as her previous one.
With the bike bought, Hirono and Chihiro went to the nearest park to try it out. Hirono stepped out of the way as Chihiro mounted the bike and started to pedal down the path. He jogged behind her so as to make sure she didn't start to lose her balance.
"How's the bike feeling" He called to her
" Fine, execpt that it is hard to ride in a skirt"
Suddenly Chihiro veired off the path and tumbeled off her bike. Running forward Hirono bent down in front of her and said in a concerned voice
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah fine" Okay here let me help you out, and as Hirono stood up his gaze caught upon her underwear that was visible now that she was laying on the ground.
"Chihiro your skirt"
"What about it"
"It-it..."
Looking down Chihiro let out a squeek of surprise, and hurridly tried to stand up.
"Wait Chihiro, what if your leg is injured"
Just as he said this however Chihiro (who was fully standing up) slipped on the grass and started falling towards him. So trying to be the gentleman Hirono tried to catch her, slipped and fell to. A bone jaring thump rose into the quite of the park, and as their vision cleared Chihiro and Hirono found the were kissing each other. For a second each paused, and Hirono felt her heart beating against his cheast. Then it was over, and Chihiro scrambeled off of him. Getting up himself Hirono felt scared for it was his first time kissing a girl so the first words out of his muth were...
"'Im sorry it was all my fault"
"It's...fine"
"No really I'm sorry"
"I told you it was fine"
"How can I-"
Hirono could not tell if it was anger or embarresment that welled up inside of Chihiro.
"Look now I told you it was fine, and it was fine now drop it okay, I am going home"
"Sorry your right"
Taking a calmer tone that made Hirono think of angels Chihiro said,
"I was overreacting a bit, sorry. Look I will call you tonight so we can shedule our next date"
"But-"
"No buts since we kissed, for right now we are lovers and lovers go out on dates"
"Fine, I guess it is goodbye for now"
"Only until tonight"
"Do you need me to walk you home again"
No thanks I have this bike that is alnost as beautiful as the person who got it for me"
And with that she mounted the bike, and rode away.