Fan Fiction ❯ Random ❯ With No Words ( Chapter 4 )

With No Words

The girl with curly hair

Had elusive eyes.

It's strange, but

I don't even remember what color they were.

Click, click, click…

The echo of black boots foretell her arrival

And I hear her murmuring something to herself.

I've always wanted to know what she was saying.

If she smiles,

It's the early spring daffodil breaking through the snow.

If she laughs freely,

It's the wind blowing away grey clouds.

But some days it rains.

Our Japanese teacher asks,

"Daijoubu desu ka? How are you?"

She doesn't speak.

I say to her, "Answer,

Daijoubu desu. I'm fine."

In a soft voice I'm not familiar with,

She asks me,

"But what if I'm not fine?"

And I don't know the answer.

We never learned how to say that.

"Daijoubu desu ka?" my teacher repeats.

"Daijoubu desu," she replies.

It's not fair,

That there are no words

For a girl with curly hair.

One day, in a sunlit hallway.

Click, click, click…

She was approaching from around the corner.

I heard her murmuring something to herself.

And for the first time, I realized…

She was singing.