It’s just impossible!
The sa dark blue eyes, dark blond hair, face, nose, head shape, height, build, and even the look in her eyes...
- (Karin). "Mom? Mom?! Are you okay? Why aren’t you answering?"
- (). "Haah... Haah... Haah... Haah..."
I started to breathe very heavily, my heart still hurts, but now I need to calm down and pretend that everything is fine.
Runo closed her eyes, shook her head from side to side, lowered it, and finally returned to her usual appearance.
- (). "Karin... everything’s fine, dear. I rembered sothing... from the past. Do you know this boy?"
Every word ca out with great difficulty... I can’t believe such a resemblance could even exist.
- (Karin). "This cute boy’s na is Sohen. My close colleague is his family doctor. He’s undergoing rehabilitation, which is why he’s here. His doctor should be here soon. How lucky that we t him, haha. It must be fate."
- (). "Sohen..."
- (Sohen). "Good afternoon, young auntie and slightly older young auntie."
His voice... just like his...
- (Karin). "Waiting for the doctor, right?"
- (Sohen). "Yes, auntie."
His posture... just like his...
- (Karin). "Can you wait for a few minutes? I’ll bring you so chocolate that you probably haven’t tried yet. It’s foreign and very tasty."
- (Sohen). "No need, auntie... but thank you."
The character... like "his"...
(~sound of a door opening with a key)
- (Karin). "I’m so glad you t Sohen yourself. He’s wonderful, isn’t he? Co on, this way."
- (). "..."
My gaze was fixed on this boy, and it seed to scare him a little.
- (). "Nice to et you, Sohen."
- (Sohen). "Likewise... lovely young auntie."
Although he was scared, he tried to show only his friendliness, and then...
- (Sohen). "I have a feeling that we’ve already... t sowhere."
- (). "???"
These words shook my peace of mind, and what finally knocked out was... his sweet smile, which was identical to the one Saho gave almost 30 years ago.
I rushed into Karin’s office and closed the door behind .
- (Karin). "Mom? Are you really okay? What’s wrong?"
Runo leaned her back against the door and exhaled heavily once.
- (). "Don’t worry, dear. I think... I’m just a little tired. Give so sedatives and I’ll definitely go to work. I have so work to finish today."
I lied about the sudden work, but I really am feeling bad right now... too bad, even.
- (Karin). "I knew it, Mom! Don’t neglect your health! You’re not twenty anymore, you need to take care of yourself."
Karin gave a prescription for sedatives, and I left the hospital.
Before that, I watched this boy from a distance for a while and then finally returned to my main activities.
Throughout the day, I couldn’t calm down and kept thinking about Sohen.
(Is this a hallucination? Does he really look like that, or has Runo finally gone mad?)
- (). "What should I do about this?"
Runo’s head was in complete chaos, her body was behaving strangely, and her heart seed to be beating only according to its own rules.
(There can’t be so many coincidences!)
This boy... who is he?
Maybe it’s... reincarnation?
- (). "Runo... you old fool! You’re over forty years old, and you believe in such things?"
The young grandmother answered herself self-critically.
- (). "God would not like such words, because in our religion the concept of reincarnation contradicts the fundantal dogmas and is generally impossible."
When Runo grew older, she loved various romantic stories about spouses who could be reincarnated in other worlds or sothing similar, and there were even several cases when she secretly visited the church and prayed to God that at least after death she would be with her best friend, but she couldn’t even imagine that in this mortal world there would be a person who would be so similar to... Saho.
You can cry for a long ti and rember your first friend, but the fact is... Saho is no longer in this sinful world.
Saho has gone to a better world, but Sohen... why do you look so much like him?
- (). "..."
I need to find out everything about Sohen in detail, and then maybe I will be able to close this painful wound of the past and my soul will finally find the peace it has been waiting for so long.
I returned ho and inadvertently asked for more information about Sohen.
The information I heard surprised even , and for the first ti in a long ti, I began to feel at least a little sympathy for the man.
Through Karin, I learned a lot of new things about Sohen, but it wasn’t enough.
Over ti, the mature woman began to visit the hospital where her daughter worked more often.
Once a month, Sohen and a female police officer visited the family doctor to find out about the boy’s physical and psychological condition.
When I found out that the boy was being abused by his own father, I felt real hatred for the first ti in a long ti and tried to teach this scumbag a lesson, but unfortunately, I lacked legal authority and my friends did not want to have a conflict with him, because he was a prominent figure in this town, had connections to the criminal world, and was said to be a dangerous man himself, so Runo could only sympathize with the young man...
...
She began to imitate her own daughter and give the boy various gifts.
Contact and personal conversations with him beca more frequent, and I myself did not understand how I began to return to the tis when Saho was alive.
The more Runo spent with Sohen, the more she began to feel a closeness to him that was not characteristic of her towards n.
The boy was truly unique, with an extrely kind soul, who, when he himself felt pain, tried to do good to others.
He laughed when his soul cried...
He joked when life turned into hell...
He smiled when he didn’t have the strength to do so...
(Sohen, you...)
- (). "It seems... now I’ve really gone mad..."
Saho and Sohen... these two boys... the past and the present... for Runo, they... beca one.
She could no longer tell them apart, and although it took her a while, she eventually accepted this fact.
Saho beca Sohen, and Sohen beca Saho... the past rged with the present, and as a result, the future was ford.
...
- (Runo). "What?"
She had a strange dream. In it, the two personalities of Saho and Sohen rged, and then a single person was ford, embodying all the qualities of both young n.
- (Runo). "Sohen..."
She still didn’t understand what to do next and who Sohen was to her.
Several years had passed since Sohen beca part of their family.
When he turned ten, Karin adopted him and our family grew.
Over ti, I really began to sympathize with the boy and pray for him, so that his father would no longer bother him.
God heard , but He did sothing very drastic and made Sohen a complete orphan.
Wanting good, I ended up with evil, and vice versa, wanting evil, I ended up with good.
Sohen felt sothing similar in his life when a bad event changed his fate and sent him in a positive direction.
In our ho, he began to feel better, and the gloomy look that hid behind a sweet smile disappeared forever, and now he shows his sincere, true emotions.
I was happy to have such a wonderful grandson, and over ti even Phoebe accepted him as her brother, but there was sothing unexpected that greatly disturbed Runo.
Sohen began to... grow up and was no longer the cute little boy he had been a few years ago.
He beca taller, bigger, and more masculine.
The little wonderful boy turned into an athletic wonderful man, and for the first ti in her life, Runo began to feel so new emotions that she had never even imagined.
She began to... fall in love with her grandson.
Runo didn’t understand anything, and many questions swirled in her head, but the answer ca by accident.
One day, Sohen was helping install new programs on my computer.
Those were the first days I had encountered such technology, so I didn’t understand anything.
My grandson told what to do and how to work with the new technology.
After the installation, he asked for a USB adapter to download so files from his phone to my computer.
I didn’t know what that was, so I told him to look for them himself in my desk drawer.
Five minutes later, he found what he wanted, but he also held sothing from my past in his hands.
- (Sohen). "What is this book in one of your drawers?"
Sohen was holding a book that Saho had given many years ago.
- (). "Oh, that’s..."
He kindly gave the book, and I told him the story of my childhood friendship with my first friend.
- (Sohen). "Wow, you really had a wonderful friend, but where is he now?"
- (). "He’s... in a better world."
Sohen didn’t understand my words at first, but then...
- (Sohen). "I’m sorry, Grandma. I thought you were still friends. Did he... die as a child?"
- (). "You’re a smart boy, and yes... that’s the only mory I have of him, a mory I will cherish forever."
- (Sohen). "I understand... I also have ntos of my mother, whom I never knew, and my father, who hated ."
It seems I gave him a reason to rember past scars, so I decided to change the subject to sothing more positive, but...
- (Sohen). "I’m sorry, Grandma. I think I rembered sothing that probably shouldn’t be rembered."
For a few seconds, his gaze beca nostalgically familiar to .
It was the sa look Saho had before he died, and I beca frightened.
I began to tremble as I rembered that mont and could hardly hear anything Sohen was saying.
Runo closed her eyes and lowered her head until...
- (Sohen). "I want... to be your friend."
(~sound of a book falling)
I raised my head and the world ceased to exist for .
Before was Sohen and his smile, which was identical to the one Saho had before...
No... No... No!... No!... NOOOOO!!!
(I won’t let you die again!)
Runo hugged Sohen tightly and didn’t let go.
Her grandson was surprised by his grandmother’s reaction, but then he gently hugged her back, and they remained in that position for several minutes.
- (). "Promise ... Promise you’ll always be there for ."
- (Sohen). "Grandma?"
- (). "Promise !"
- (Sohen). "Okay! I promise."
- (). "Also... let Grandma kiss you not only on the cheek in the morning."
- (Sohen). "No...."
- (). "Oh! You’re so greedy."
- (Sohen). "The cheek is the maximum, and that’s it."
- (). "Okay..."
Life returned to my eyes, but the fear of letting him go was still there.
Now he must always be near.
I will not repeat the mistakes of the past, and now I have made the decision that has troubled for so long.
- (). "I love you... Sohen..."
- (Sohen). "Hm? What did you say?"
- (). "Hug your grandmother tighter and don’t ask questions."
- (Sohen). "Okay...
...
While Runo hugged her grandson, an unknown otherworldly being in astral form watched them with a sweet smile.
- (???). "You have finally found your love, my dear Runo. After so many years, you have managed to love soone again. I am happy and wish the sa for you. This is my last chance to see you, so... see you in the next world, and Sohen... I wish you luck, because you’ll need it, ha ha. I’ll et you sooner, Sohen... or should I say "Saho"..."
Saho’s spirit looked respectfully at Sohen... at his future reincarnation, and dissolved into thin air, leaving this world forever this ti.
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