FALLEN

Passion & Jealousy 2

Mama, I heard Shoji’s already here!, Belle shouted very excited to see her best friend, when she went home with Mark from the hut. She was running towards the front lawn and was already shouting outside the gate when Shita opened the front door.

Sinano news team, now delivering information on television about an upcoming storm to hit Kyushu which will swerve to Shinano district after. Mama, Shita, Ojichan and Mark are sitting on the dining table for a sumptuous meal of hot pot, garlic bread, fried octopus and nori covered Sushi, when I remembered the time a storm Etau hit Ibaraki and Tochigi last 2015 that brought tremendous rains and destructive floods causing 2.8 million people in the area evacuate. How I knew, well, I love reading newspapers and magazines, plus surfing the net and researching, right!. Damages were so high but Japan recovered from that too. Now this, with the storm named Jebi. In the Kansai region, then to Kyushu, and leave finishing up with Shinano. I can’t believe how may storms we faced. I can’t complain for the Philippines is one country that has been hit by many storms since “Undoy” and all. So, Japan is no different.

Hey! You barely touched your food. Belle, what are you thinking?, Mark asked concerned touching my hand a bit. Shita, Mama and Ojichan looking at each other’s faces getting some reactions but just a shrug and smile from one another. Shita is more of teasing when she looked at me, that I immediately brushed off by a mean look. Which left Shita rolling her eyes and picking up her plate along with everybody’s excluding Belle who hasn’t finished hers yet.

I am okay, it’s just that I have a bad feeling about this storm. Oh, well, it’s just a feeling but I want to introduce you to my best friend, Shoji. He is a great person, I’m sure he will love you too, I’ll be fine, thanks, don’t worry, I added gladly and hugged Mark endlessly. I wanted to think for a while and kissed Mark sweetly on the lips, telling him to rest and we will have a full day tomorrow with meeting Shoji and all. I wonder what shoji looks like now, bet so handsome. Hey! Mark again interrupting my dreamy feeling, haha, what? I’m just thinking about something, I replied smiling at him and gesturing for him to go to him room and rest. I am okay, will be sleeping in a bit. I closed the door behind me, Mark still looking strange, his face was like worried and half questioning. I was doodling something on my diary, when I checked on the previous pages when my childhood friends Vita, Kokou and Shoji were still living in Shinano with me. We had fun in the olden days. I remembered when we went to a an abandoned warehouse last time. I think that textile factory is still standing as I speak. But I think, the district of Shinao wanted it destroyed, I wonder if they continued with the project. Anyway, I need to sleep, Hmm, I haven’t had rest since two days ago when, hehe, when Mark and I….you know had that magical moment. Haaay! Oh, maybe he is like worried or jealous about …yeah why his face was as if questioning me. I opened my bedroom door and there I saw Mark still standing in front of it. Ah…haaaa, you scared me, why are you standing there, and have you been ….I said frantic and almost had a heart attack when I saw a huge guy in the dark standing in front of my door. Hahaa!,sorry Belle, I was hearing what you’re thinking and I am kind of jealous about this Shoji, but when you thought of me and what happened with us recently, I’m relieved. I love you, Belle!, Mark added now not more than 5 inches away from where I’m standing. I love yo…., I said when he kissed me on the lips without finishing my line. And I don’t want to tell what exactly happened next, hihi!. Mark decided to sleep in my room all night long.

Storm Jebi came inside Japan and hit Kyushu. It’s not a bit long now that it’ll deliver havoc to Shinano. Though Mark, Belle, Shoji and Sayaka knew the storm will come at the day, the news later said that Jebi will come at the exact time when Shoji and the gang went to the abandoned textile factory near Lake Nijori, near an iconic shrine called Shinano Shokonsa. Wow! This factory have been here for decades but since made out of iron and clay it stood mighty, but I wonder if it’ll stand against the storm. Anyway, Shoji introduced Sayaka and I, Mark and bought with us food for a time to hide away, as per Shoji, his time off, since now a renowned artist. He wanted to get away from the crowd and just have a bit of peace with himself or with us for a change. It’s been a long time since I visited Auntie Maki . She still seemed distant after all these years that Papa tried to save Uncle Taka from drowning on the fishing trip they did last. Shoji esteemed us and showed the new house he bought for her. Auntie is glad but she still has that scar written all over her face about Uncle’s passing and I too still have that mark when Papa died along with him. But Mark changed everything. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost him. Mark saw me looking at him seriously and he smiled with the handsome grin which my make my heart melt always.

Time to visit our childhood spot, the textile factory. Mark asked where it is and advised us not to go there since there was a storm coming and it’s been reported that high tides are coming in soon. A strong gust of winds gave me the chills but I ignored it. We still went ahead since Sayaka and Shoji seemed to miss adventures like this such as when they went mountain climbing one time almost reaching Mt. Fuji but since frost bites pretty painful, they decided not to pursue and just chilled in Toe Bar.