Miyano Shiho, a 17 year old teenage girl who lives with her parents in peace and harmony. She has a normal life, and attends a normal public school. She has numerous friends, as well as rivals.
She's got the beauty, talent, skill, intelligence and all features that a female teenager would like to have. She doesn't brag about it, though.
She always helps other, and lends them a hand in times of need. But the most important of all, she's got herself a decent boyfriend—her other half. He's kind-hearted, charming, smart and good-looking. Miyano Shiho's life is perfect! No flaw is visible.
But, of course, those are not all true. That’s just what Miyano Shiho would like to think of herself as. Cruel truth to be said is that her life is not actually perfect. It's miles away from "a perfect life" she always wishes for since her childhood, and since her parents were brutally murdered right in front of her naked eyes.
Her parents were involved in some kind of illegal organization. They tried to get out of the organization completely after her birth. They wanted her to live a peaceful life without any distraction. But they never succeed in that. Instead, they were murdered. Right in front of Miyano Shiho's eyes, were their chopped body parts, scattered with their blood spilled on the floor. That has left Miyano Shiho a disarray state of mind and amnesia. Her memory before her parents were mudered was completely hidden with her conscience as somehow that scene sticks out the most and keeps on haunting her everynight.
She couldn’t have any peace of mind. Her personality has taken a drastic turning point. Her cheerful, carefree personality has changed into that of a gloomy person—always down-to-earth. Dark aura surrounds her, as her eyes turn into a darker shade of her original eye colour.
Due to the sudden change of herself, she wasn’t able to make any friend. Everyone seems so frightened by her eyes that they kept their distance from her and won’t come any closer than 3 metre if it's within their ability. Even adults kept their distance if they can’t help it. Nobody wanted her, and nobody wanted to take her in. She was thrashed around, treated as a piece of garbage. No one even dared to understand her. She's unfamiliar to all kind of emotion as she was never shown nor shows any emotion.
One day, her relatives who took care of her have had enough. They couldn’t stand her anymore although she wasn’t the one who chose to be involved in their life. She had no choice anyway; then afterwards, she was banished from their house.
She had nowhere to go. No money, shelter, companion, or at least a friend to support her. She wasn't able to go to school anymore as she was banished from school as well for the same reason. All she can do was stay in the dark alley for the night and sleep there on the cold cement that's coated with dirt. She uses a sheer of dry newspaper as a blanket though it wasn’t enough to warm and cover her from the freezing wind that blows from time to time.
The next day, she doesn’t have much to do. She has no school to attend. Nowhere to go to. No goal to reach. She was in the middle of nowhere, both mentally and physically. She just wanders around the city without looking to her way, till suddenly, she bumped onto someone. She was afraid to get scolded and thus ran away as fast as she can. And without her realisation, she dropped something important to her on the ground when she bumped him. Fortunately, he picked it up. He was supposed to hand it over, but as he looked up, she was already gone. He was determined to search for her and give it back as it appears preciously invaluable to her.
Later that day, she was curling in the alley; starving, lonely, smelly, dirty and cold. She had nothing to eat the whole day and the last time she stuffed something into her mouth was yesterday morning. She was drowning in her despair and sorrow. She did not notice that somebody is approaching her. Once she felt the touch, her eyes widened in surprise as if it'll pop out in no time. The touch was extremely warm for her. She had never felt this way before, or at least as much as she can remember. Suddenly, a realisation hit her. She doesn’t have any memory before that horrible scene that was played in front of her eyes. But that warm touch was able to bring back the memories that were deeply hidden within her conscience. Memories flooded her mind; the good times she spent with her parents, and the childhood she had. She retrieved it all back, as tears burst out from her eyes.
The man was puzzled as their eyes met. He did not know what to do; neither could he utter a word. But his body did the least thing he expected it to do. He hugged her.
It seems that this action of his has shocked her for a fraction of seconds. He could feel it. She was astonished. And to his comfort, she hugged him back, leaned onto him, buried her head in his broad chest and cried real hard.
She then told him the past she had forgotten as soon as she calmed down. The guy didn’t show a feeling of disgust or aversion, but remorse and sympathy. His sincere eyes were fixed on her, as he noticed the change of the shade.
Afterwards, he told her that he was willing to adopt her as he has no problem on having another member of family and that his parents won’t mind. She was surprised of hearing the idea. She was reluctant in agreeing with him, but she doesn’t have the energy to oppose him. His look eases her mind. Eventually, she agreed. And they left the alley together, holding onto each other's hand.
'Maybe, being with him won’t be so bad. Maybe, I can use this opportunity to make a new start; to find true happiness—as long as I’m with him, as long as I’m holding onto this warm hand that melted my heart and brought back my memory, and as long as I stay by his side and him staying by my side, I'll be okay.' and so Miyano Shiho thought.
The End?
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