Sancko
You feel his eyes on you and you raise your head. He’s looking at you through the mirror. You meet his eyes and you smile, it’s a small smile, but a smile nonetheless. He seems content with that and smiles back, only a little sad.
You think about the way he used to hold your hand as you walk together to work, it was perfect. The smile you smile is a little bigger now.
You were walking down the hallway and you suddenly stopped at the vending machine. You remember when he first confessed to you, right there with two sodas in his hands.
You are brought back to the world of the living, when Jin is calling you. You smile, but you both know that it’s not how you used to smile.
You are done for the day and you start on your way home. You walk pass a store and sees a little puppy looking at you. You suddenly remember the day he came up to you with something behind his back. Curious as you were, and still are, you asked and he showed you. It was a little puppy with big black eyes and you instantly fell in love with it. Absent minded you walk into the store and comes out five minutes later, with the puppy in your hands.
You walk in the park one day, with your new dog, who you decided to call Sancko. You’ve only been walking for ten minutes when you see him. He sits there, on the ground, looking at the sky.
You walk over to him and sit down next to him. He doesn’t notice you before Sancko starts to lick his hand. You smile and starts to play with your dog.
“I miss this,” he says and pats Sancko. “What happen to Toya?”
“She’s back at the apartment. They get along you know, her and Sancko.” You say and smiled as Sancko bit his shoes.
“I’m sorry, you know that right.”
“I know, want to come back and say hey to Toya?” You ask and for the first time you look his straight in the eyes.
He nods, you take his hand and Sancko’s collar and walks the way to your apartment.
When you enter the apartment Toya is there immediately, she knows his smell, since he’s been here a lot. You walk pass them and into the kitchen. He follows not long after and sits down on the table. You hand him a glass of water and somehow things feels like before everything happened.
“Do you believe in second chances?” You ask and look at him curiously.
“I do, but I’m also afraid that with second chances things will end the same.” You nod as he says it, but somewhere deep inside you know that you want this second chance just as much as him.
“I know what you mean, but sometimes you just have to take that second chance and hopefully things will turn out better than they did last time.”
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying?” He asks and looks carefully at you.
“I miss you, Ryo. I bought a new dog, because I missed you so much. I really, really want us to take that second chance, because,” you dry away the tears from your eyes. “I don’t think I can live without you.”
You suddenly feel him hugging you and you know he feels the same way you do, because both your hearts is beating at the same fast pace. At your feet Sancko is barking happily and your life feel complete again.