Since then, you started to grow closer and closer to the family you've come to know as the Matatagi family. Since you were doing well financially, you tend to buy anything Yuuta and Shun wanted (including racecars) and showered them with gifts every time you pay them a visit. However, Matatagi Hayato took your good deeds towards his family in a different way…
"I don't know why you're doing this," he told you, "But we don't need your sympathy."
"I just want to help," you insisted, looking straight into his shiny black eyes. "Is that really a bad thing to do?"
"This is my family and I can take care of them myself. Why do you have to poke your nose into my family business?"
You stared at your feet.
"Because…" You said and then paused for a while, as what you were going to say might make you end up crying like a baby, so you thought you should at least take a deep breath and be prepared for the worst situation.
"Because I want to know how it feels to have a family."
You turned away as your chest felt tight it was hard to breathe. You could feel warm tears rolling down your cheeks as you thought about the cruel fate.
Yes, you lost your parents and two younger brothers in an automobile accident when you were only four; when you hardly knew how to count one to ten, when you hardly knew the word responsibility exists.
You knew your guardians as grandpa and grandma, and you wondered why your friends were cared by younger couples, whom they call mother and father. You've always heard how your friends bicker about their brothers and sisters being pain in their butts and how you desperately wish you could experience the pain they were talking about.
When you started middle school, it was your grandpa's turn to be taken away by the angels, and you were left to stay with your grandma who blamed you for bringing bad luck to the family. Sometimes you wondered to yourself: was it really your fault that the accident happened? Was it your fault that grandpa got so old that he had to die?
Those things did not make any sense. You just…
Wanted to be part of a family.
Without knowing it yourself, you sobbed harder and harder, thinking about those burdens life has given you. Why must it be you who had to suffer the world's punishment? Was being born to this cruel world a sin itself?
What demon do you carry?
Will you bring misfortune to Matatagi and his family?
"I'm sorry (name)…" you heard Matatagi whispered, as he put his arms around your small waist. He was so close that you could feel his warm breath on your neck. "I shouldn't have said those things to you. I just… Want to take full responsibility of our family."
Our family…
It took a while for your mind to digest those two miraculous words. Your brain sent a type of impulse to the muscles on your cheeks, and you suddenly felt like smiling. You felt like you had no reasons left to cry, because you've already had a family!
That was when you realized every single living thing was destined to lead a happy life every since they were born. It was only the time that matters when that happiness will come knocking on their door with a 'hello'.
You felt bad for blaming fate. You felt bad for blaming this life God had given you, because…
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow. Everything happens for a reason. Maybe God took your family away from you, because he wanted you to meet a very special person, who worth the same as your da, your ma, and your brothers. Matatagi… was scheduled to meet you when you lost your phone. What a twist of fate!
He kissed your forehead, your cheeks, and your nose. Without doubts, he then pressed his lips against your cold lips. With your fingers in his hair and both of his hands on your waist, you kissed each other passionately without holding anything back. You never knew that this was what you had anticipated. You didn't realize you loved Matatagi more than anything else.
In the end, everything's gonna be okay… If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
When both of you parted for air, you heard him softly whispering into your ear.
"Will you marry me someday, (name)?