"Please take your seat, Ichiro and sit with complete rest and feel free for anything if you want, just ask me, I will just go, bring everything for you and we will have two shots." The woman said with joy and I smiled with a sweat, Eve was just looking at me surprised, laughing from inside and also curious to know who the woman is. I kept Eve on the sofa and I sat next to her and the woman was just going to leave but I stopped her and called, "Wait, we both are fine, you just sit in front of us and talk to us...I am really curious about a lot of things, I want to ask from you about a lot of things. Take your seat."
The woman had no problem, she was worried if I would be bored or make thousands of excuses to leave and run away and to hold me she said for that, but it's her own good, she also wants to know and ask about many things, she also had questions and curiosity to get the answer. "Well then, as you wish...Ichiro my dear."
Eve was more shocked and surprised and she looked at me with a great shock and I started sweating, I shook my head and tried to explain her, "There's nothing like what you are thinking, there everyone used to call me with adding sweet words, don't think wrong about me and nor about her."
The woman smiled brightly, kept her chin on her hand and looked towards Eve and nodded head, "Yes, don't misunderstand, I used to consider him my little brother--" But suddenly the woman was left frozen, she realized...that all this time she was ignoring Eve! The woman panicked and tried to apologize, "Uh...um...I-I am really sorry that I didn't see you! I was just lost by seeing Ichiro after a decade! I am really sorry, don't feel like I was ignoring you!"
I was surprised, Eve just smiled and shook her head and said, "I am not hurt, it's all fine. But I am just curious about his and yours friendship, would you mind telling me that?"
"Sure--" But the woman was stunned again, she couldn't recognize Eve, how she could even do that, she has never saw Eve ever before, even when Eve was born, it was such a hurry that she couldn't give me a goodbye and nor she could see Eve. The woman looked at me while sweating, by the eyes and her face, she was asking me that who is she and I smiled, and introduced, "She 's Eve, my little sister, she is of ten and stays with me."
And by the ten years, her eyes widened and she looked at Eve...she finally recognized her. "Wait, so it's you?! I actually couldn't see you when you were born, and then time flew and many things happened, I am really sorry that I couldn't recognize you."
But Eve didn't understand, "What's the reason to say sorry, don't feel sorry, it's all fine. Now please take your seat, calm down, take a deep breath and relax, everything is fine. Don't hurry and chill."
The woman looked at me with a sweaty smile...she realized that Eve is just like me, but she just laughed and took her seat and looked at Eve and I and said, "But you actually gave her a beautiful name, Eve, it's pretty. I can call you by that, right?..."
"I have no problem, I would actually love it." Eve said, and I was feeling awkward here now, they both were talking properly like women...and I felt like that I am still mannerless, I have always believed that girls are better at everything and thinking about boys talking to each other...it's better to not say that, I guess.
The woman looked at Eve and with curiosity asked, "By the way, how did you both end up here? Or were you all always here in this town...and I never saw you both even if I had explored this town completely like three times, it will be shame if you both were living here, near to me..."
Eve denied, "No, we were living at a shelter in the forest from the last ten years and yesterday we left to migrate now and will be moving more ahead."
The woman was surprised, "You both are migrating? That's something surprising, Ichiro would be just of sixteen and you are of ten, and at this age you both are leaving and moving to another place, I am impressed. So you both will keep on moving at north right now?"
"No, we will stay here till the tomorrow morning and then we will left." Eve explained and I started sweating, this wouldn't be me, I would still try to leave as soon as I could because...it feels strange and kind of betrayed with someone to whom you left years ago and coming back to their life, I was still feeling like I may spoil their day and life, even if I am just going to stay till the night...but still...
"Don't think like that, Ichiro." The woman said and I looked down and started sweating, Eve didn't understand it and the woman was already looking at me with the same bright smile and said, "I know what you would be thinking right now, planning to leave quickly and believing that your presence can spoil my day, you are thinking that, right?"
Eve was surprised, she couldn't understand me so well as much the woman could. I looked at her and she shook her head and said, "It's not like that, in fact I am actually happy...you were one of those who united everyone, you were the one who made everyone of us a family, a small family where you were also a part of, even if the people have left, I also left...but still, if anyone would come back, even for a moment, nothing would be changed, you are still in my family like you were always, and you don't need to think like that. Just smile and apologize to me for thinking that."
Eve was more surprised and I laughed gently, nodded my head and said, "I am sorry then, Sister Sea."
"You can still remember my name? That makes me feel more happy. Anyways, how were you doing, Ichiro? It has been a decade since we met, you know that."
Eve just looked at me with curiosity, she never expected that I had so many people who cared about me and would also care about her similarly. I looked down and nodded my head, "I know it has been a decade or more, but I am completely fine, alive, still the same, I guess. And what about you? How you were doing and how did you stop here and settled."
The woman started thinking...and ten seconds passed, and Eve and I started sweating, she was taking so long to think for the answer? For the reply? Sea finally smiled and laughed out, she was just acting of thinking.
"I am also doing great, six years ago I just ran from there and settled here, and from the last six years I am living here, living a normal life, and do you know what..." I looked at her and Sea was excited to tell and she expressed, "...my dream has come true now."
Eve was confused but I was surprised, but I just smiled and stood and gave a hand for the handshake and said, "So you have started your own restaurant? That's great, I am really happy that you made your dream come true." And Sea also stood and made an handshake with me and replied, "Aww! You can still remember what you promised?"
Of course, I had make a promise with her when she told me her dream work, the promise was to make a handshake and I would be there as her friend congratulating with the handshake. Sea could remember, that it looked funny when it happened because I was just a child but looking like an adult, but the warmth in our hands, Sea had realized that I really wanted to fulfill her own dream at all cost, whatever it takes and we both are having the same handshake after a whole decade.
Sea and I left each others hands and took our seat again and Sea looked at Eve and said, "And Eve, how are you? I am seeing you for the first time...but you don't look like as I expected, Ichiro was a silent guy, but you are even more silent and saying nothing. Do you want something, to eat, to drink or anything?"
Eve was surprised, these words looked to be more normal, Sea wasn't considering Eve special but a family member of her own and trying to open for her. Eve looked down, and she blushed a little bit and Sea and I started sweating...Sea looked at me and said, "You are definitely not like your big brother, I would really doubt that he would have even ever blushed in front of any of us, since he was just a baby. I am now sure that there's a huge difference in you and Ichiro, which is important... but don't be shy from me, take me as another friend of yours."
And Eve was still blushing, but she nodded her head while still looking down.
Suddenly the door opened, and a voice came, "Who is there, Sea?"
Sea smiled and looked at her husband, Eve looked at him and couldn't recognize him either, and I was completely shocked and speechless. The guy came...and he started looking at me, staring at me and said, "I really think...I have seen you before."
Eve understood that he would be another friend of mine and she smiled and Sea laughed. "Try to look at him and recognize him dear."
The guy bowed, greeting to Eve because he was seeing her for the first time and he would greet new people like that only and he finally sat next to Sea and started staring, "So, as she said, we have met before, don't we?"
Actually, he could recognize me but he never expected that he would be ever able to see me again, the same goes for Sea and that was why first she confirmed because she never believed that we would ever meet again. The guy kept on staring at me, thinking and only one face was coming in his mind but the face was also blurry in his thoughts. He pointed at me and said, "...If Ichiro would be alive, then he should look same like you--" And Sea hit on his head hardly and with anger said, "What do you mean if he he would be alive? This is only Ichiro, the one we know, the six year old head and captain of us."
And Eve and I smiled with a sweat, this is so common in love marriage, although I am curious now, when did they both get marry. I guess I missed the chance to attend their wedding.
The guy was shocked, he looked at Sea first and then at me...and he was completely speechless, shocked... "I...Ichiro...? It's...you?!"
And I nodded my head, and the guy was left with open mouth...he never believed that we both would be able to ever meet again, but I guess it was the fate of us, maybe we were going to meet one day or another and that fate couldn't be changed. The guy dropped his head, looking down... and he suddenly started laughing. Eve and I were surprised but I just smiled and Sea also smiled looking at the guy.
"...I...I never thought that we would meet again, Ichiro." The guy raised his head and looked at me and he looked at me completely and pointed at me and said, "You...have actually grown up. A decade ago, you were just of two to three inches. "
Eve started giggling and Sea also laughed, I smiled with a sweat and said, "You mean by feet, and I was of around three feet and seven inches back then." And this made them laugh more and more loudly, they couldn't hold their laugh and they all three laughed, teasing me.
But Sea also looked at me, her laugh faded...and she just smiled, "You have really grown up... Ichiro, I really feel like I missed watching you while growing...but I am really happy to see you again, fit and fine and living on your own...I am really feeling proud that the person with whom everyone grew up has also grown up."
Eve looked at me smiling, the guy finally stopped laughing and he also nodded his head, agreeing with Sea and I just smiled.
Yes...I also think that I have grown up quickly, time actually flew in the ten years...but I am just happy, whatever life I have got, I am happy with it and I am also happy that others with whom I spend my six years are also fine...