One Path Only a Few Peoples Happy.

Christmas is coming, and I still living the same as usual, but one message arrived to me. It's from my aunty, she is my mother's sister the middle child of the family her name is Yoshino Kagami, she been married, and has a daughter. She invited me to have a reunion with the family.

  After I received that message, I replied to her that I will go. And so, I packed my things.

She will pick me up, iher car, she asked me to wait for her outside and so. I decided to wait at the spot where Shizuki waiting for me before.

  I was sitting on the bench, reading a book, and suddenly a van stopped in front of me. But I didn't notice it.

  A girl get out of the car, and she shouted at me. "Baka-ni!" She waved at me.

And so, this is Sakura Kagami, my cousin she treats me as her big brother because she is the only child of Nee-san.

  I stand up from the bench, grab my bag and so I walked to get closer to her.

"Sakura, nice to see you again." I said to her.

I get inside and sit in the passenger sit, and Sakura sits behind the passenger sit. "Nice to see you again, Nee-san" I called her this because I know she won't want to look old if I call her Oba-san.

  "Hahaha! Pretty good, did you bring your passport?" She asked me.

"Yeah, I have it." I said to her.

"Baka-ni looks gloom out today," Sakura said to me.

  "That's my normal looks Sakura." I said to her.

And so, we continued on our journey.

  As were on the ride, Nee-san strike a conversation. "Kuromi, what year you are now in high school?"

  I replied to her. "I am 3rd year of Junior High now."

And she asked me. "Wow, 2 years left you will graduate, what strand will you choose?"

  I replied to her. "I still don't have any thoughts of that right now."

  And she said to me. "I see, but you need to know, so you will not get confused and lost, and regret it at the very end."

I have never been able to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

  But I just said to Nee-san. "I see, maybe someday I will think about it."

Suddenly Sakura said. "For me, I want to be a teacher."

  And I said to her. "Teacher, that's great. What year you are Sakura?"

She replied to me. "I am in middle school now."

And so, Sakura asked me. "Baka-ni, do you have any girlfriends?"

  "Why you asked?" I replied.

"Because, all of my classmates, their older sibling or cousin, have a couple, so out of curiosity." She said to me.

  I replied to her. "Well, I have before, but for now I don't have one."

And she said to me. "That's not good, Baka-ni, you will grow older as a single middle-aged person."

  You heard her, Inasuke-neesan Sakura said that, so you need to find your love as soon as possible.

I said to her. "In love, you don't need to hurry it, because for some reason, as people who live now, they will experience something in life, because they are alive. So even if you don't look for it, maybe fate might bring it to you, or not. But don't hope for it, accept and love what fate bring you."

  Suddenly Nee-san laughed as she was driving. "Hahaha! You heard him Sakura, don't hurry to have a boyfriend."

  And so, Sakura pouted.

The journey continued.

  Hours passed, and we arrived at the airport, so, we took the plane towards Miyazaki prefecture, where it's rare to snow there.

  We landed at the airport, and so the car we used to get me is a rental. So Nee-san real car is here parked.

  The temperature here is quite warm, not like in Chiba.

Get inside the car, a few hours, we arrived at the family house of Asahi.

  I get out of the passenger seat and stared at the huge house, suddenly Nee-san patted my shoulder and said. "Don't worry I got your back."

And so, we get inside the house, we are welcomed by the noise of our cousins, and noise from our uncles and aunties.

  I walked to the living room, a huge area.

  And so, I put my things in my room, this is not a house it's a mansion, looks like I know now, why my mother, didn't look like them, because my mother, choice her own life. And so, this is one reason, they hated my mother, my mother they have seen her as a rebel of the family.

  We decided to go to the living room, where there were a lot of my family members I didn't know. And so, I just sit in the corner and not talking to them. As I said, I am just a stranger to them, and they are strangers to me. All I know is Yoshino-nee-san and my father. I heard this family only sees the fortune, and the successes you did in your life. And this is one reason, why youth become lost in their life, because they are influencing the youth, to follow fortune, not their passion.

  Whatever passion you have, follow it,with this in the end you will be content and happy. And that is moral. And that is what Mother did, she chose what she want, not forcing herself to like she don't want, and didn't know.

  And so, I get tired of hearing their story about the future, goals, and success. I walked outside, to head to the back garden. A huge garden.

  As I was walking under the night sky, the moonlight, the sound of silence, and the night breeze.

And suddenly I saw Sakura with some people four girls and one boy. And, looks like all of them are friends, suddenly as I was hearing what they talking about, and seeing them talking to each other, I realized, the three girls like the guy, and the guy like the girl who doesn't find him as a prince.

  I know Sakura knows about it she is like a wing girl. And she doing something about it.

After a few minutes all of them left, and so Sakura waved at them as they left.

  I approached Sakura who is alone.

"Oh, Baka-ni what are you doing here?" She asked me

  "Well, inside is quite noisy so I decided to walk here, but I stumble you talking with them." I said to her.

"They're my friends." She said to me.

    "Friends? Looks like half of them didn't see each other as a friend anymore." I said to her.

"Ehh! You know it?!" She was shocked, so I was right about my thoughts earlier.

  "Well I used, to read people so I noticed it." I said to her.

"Then, you know that I am helping them?" She asked me.

  "Well yeah." I said to her.

"So, means they all know that they like each other?" She asked me again.

  "No, some people might not notice it, but I know people ways on a conversation." I said to her.

And so, she wiped her cold sweat. "Phew~ I thought my plan was doom."

  "Plan? About what?" I asked her.

And so, she decided to explain to me.

  Minutes have passed, of listening to her. "I see, so you want them to be happy if the boy choice he likes."

  "Yeah, but I didn't know if this is going to work, so what do you think?" She asked me.

And so, I think for a sec to help Sakura with this.

  I finally think of a solution. "Listen here, this will hurt to hear, but it's true. Making everyone happy is a lie. We can't make everyone, happy in our clique, we can't make everyone follows us on one path. Every choice we made, will affect the people who surrounded us. Making everyone happy is false, but you can make just one or a few people, but you need to sacrifice a lot just makes that person happy. You can't make everyone happy, you need to betray or lie, to a lot of people to make one person who is truthful and genuine towards you. And that's reality itself. Making everyone smile is an illusion and white-lies we made. Like in politic, some people have their idolization, if that person wins the people who like that person, will be happy, and the other will not. So, everyone becoming happy for one thing is a lie."

  And so, Sakura looks down and sounds ashamed. "S-So I can't do a thing to make everyone happy. I-I just want to make them feel right about their feelings."

  And I said to her. "It doesn't matter if we're wrong... Because every time we go wrong, life is still meaningless, which means that all mistakes you have made don't matter in the end."

  "Thank you for the advice Baka-ni, I didn't know you knew a lot about this." She said to me.

I smiled at her and said this. "All I know is the present itself."

  A few days have passed, since Sakura and I have those conversations. One night, I was strolling the town, and I stumbled across a bridge, and I saw a girl looking at the bridge and this girl is Sakura's friend, so deja-vu strike me.

  I walked closer to that girl, I know this girl hesitating.

I climbed the railing beside her without hesitation.

"Wait!" She pulled me, out of it.

We fall to the ground.

  And so, I stand up from the ground and said to her. "It took more courage to live than to kill yourself."

  And so I walked away as if nothing happened.

I arrived at the house, and Sakura mentioned to me, that the guy didn't choose, but he found someone outside the circle.

  The next week have passed, it was Christmas, we exchanged presents with each other, and I didn't get them from other family members, maybe because I had forgotten too. presents I received from Nee-san and Sakura.

  I didn't get angry with the other family about this.

And When Christmas ended, Nee-san drove towards the airport, Sakura didn't go with us, she just said goodbye to me. So I was in passenger and Nee-san is driving, and she said to me.

  "I heard about the words you said to Sakura, about her friends."

"Really, well she asked for some advice." I said to Nee-san.

  She smiled as she said this. "I remembered your mother, she sometimes has weird ways to deal with some stuff in life. She is the one who helps me, choose the love of my life. So, I was thankful to your mother."

  I arrived at the airport, I decided I will take the plane by myself because I can travel on my own.

She just waved at me and said this. "See you next Christmas Kuromi!"

  I waved back and smiled. "Yeah, I promised I spend Christmas here again!"

And so, I headed to the plane, I was getting on.

A few hours passed, I arrived, and I finally go back home.

I suddenly jump onto my couch, without changing my outfit, right now. My thought told me.

'What now, should I commit suicide now? Or I should spend my days like always.' And so, I spend my days like usual.