Behind the glasses

Chapter 2-Shinobu

                                 CHAPTER 2

                                   Shinobu

It was midnight and young Shinobu was still wide awake looking at the dark night with passion behind the window of the hospital he was staying. He loved the night because it reminded him of those days that his mother was still alive and of those nights she will go outside with him and sing for him, just him alone. His mother had a beauty that it could not be compare to no one, but unfortunately her health was weak, including her pale skin. Making her not to be able to walk under the sunlight and because of this, Shinobu was born at night in a fool moon at her own house.

When been small Shinobu didn’t go outside, he prefer to stay inside with his mother making people to think that he was just like his mother, but no. he will never forget the day he first went outside in the light of the sun and saw the beauty for the first time in his short life. And so he started to go to school and actually made friends with other kids, mostly girls because the other boys bullied him by his feminine looks.

But Shinobu never forgot about his mother. Every time he came back from school he went straight to her room and stayed there for the rest of the day and night.

But one day when he was arriving to his house with the hopes of telling his mom that he had A+ in all his grades and she will smile for him and fill proud of him. But instead he found an ambulance in front of his house and saw how they took his mother inside the car, asleep. He was never able to show her his good grades nor was he going to be able to hear her sing again.

A tear fell out of his eyes and didn’t bother to brush it off. He was too concentrated in watching the stars.

 BAM!!

He heard the door next door that led to the stares close suddenly making him to jump in surprise

“Who the fuck will be awake at this time……? Oh, right, me”

He heard sounds coming from the stairs that sounded more like a voice, a voice singing. He knew it was a bad idea to see who it was, but his curiosity was so big that he just had to know.

He slowly got off his bed and walk towards his door, and once out of his room he walked towards the door of the stairs and as quiet as he could he opened it slowly making him to be able to hear the voice more clearly and was surprise by a boy sitting down in the second stair with one eye cover, a rap arm, and a broken leg. He looked so hurt physically and mentally, creating his voice to give more emotion to the melody. But what surprise Shinobu the most was the song he was singing

“Yesterday I died; tomorrow's bleeding

Fall into your sunlight

The future's open wide beyond believing

To know why hope dies

And losing what was found, a world so hollow

Suspended in a compromise

But the silence of this sound is soon to follow

Somehow sundown