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When I was a little kid, I had a guardian angel. There wasn’t anything he cannot do. He could break the bonds of time. Make things go forth half its normal continuum. Fly. He was amazing. He was my best friend.

But he had an ultimatum. Once you are old enough to do things on your own, to make friends with normal people and not with mere winged things like me, I’ll have to go. I didn’t understand back then, what he meant by all those words that were way ahead of my years—until he did leave and everything surrounded me like smoke so thick. I cried—my thirteen year old self who couldn’t be swayed by bullies and teachers and even my own parents, cried.

You’ll grow up amazingly, you’ll be unforgettable, but me—you’ll forget me. I didn’t. I still remembered him.

That was why when I saw his face flicker briefly within the crowd of pedestrians as I walked my way to my first university class of the day, I stopped and stared to find him again. And when I did, my legs broke into a run—everything that boasted of calculus and world history and biology escaped my mind.

“Kame,”

“Kame,”

“Kame!”

Just like a mantra.

I finally caught him at the other side of the road, and almost instinctively my hand reached out to connect with his shoulder. I felt air and whispers and fragments of what I want to say tumble out of my lips—and I felt like cowering back a few steps. He still wasn’t turning back.

“I was right.” He finally spoke, and I could almost feel the smile in his words, “You grew up amazingly.”

“Liar.” I gritted out.

He turned around and he was still the same as I vividly recalled. “It’s true.”

“Not that, dammit.” I muttered past heaved breaths, “You said I’d forget. But I didn’t. I fucking didn’t. I remembered, everyday. How you spoke, how you looked, how you left. It pissed me off how you never even told me you were going and now it pisses me off how you’re here yet I didn’t even know. How are you going to make up for all that?” I demanded, giving him a firm albeit slight push back.

His smile was half a smirk. “I’ll stay.”

“This time, I’ll stay.”

▓░★赤亀 in an alternate universe of guardian angels.

(Source: bentobride)