Music monthly / Red square
Entry No: 29
Subject: Tumon Bay
by Akanishi Jin
A couple of days ago, I went to Kashima for work. It had been eighteen years since I last went there and I asked Mr Shimatani to arrange for me to stay in the same room as my previous visit.
The triple-sharing room is now a twin-sharing. The furniture and carpeting have changed too. The only thing that remained unchanged was the colour of the sea from the room.
I had a very enjoyable week there in my teens.
Pi, Kame and I had a photoshoot at the nearby Tumon Bay. Our work ended early and the sun hadn’t set, so Kame took out the camera and the three of us began taking pictures for each other…. After that, we got scolded by our manager for messing around with the equipment.
At night, we shared a room. Pi, who slept on the single bed, went into dreamland very soon. But Kame, who shared the double bed with me, was having trouble falling asleep as it was his first trip away from home. He tossed and turned in bed continously, until I asked him if he was ok. He replied, “I’m missing my own bed”. Thus, I asked him to shift closer to me, and offered my arm for him to sleep on. I used my other hand to pat his back, just like how a mother would pat her baby to sleep.
We both fell into deep sleep after that. Later in the night, Pi saw us and decided to squeeze into our bed as well. He then hugged Kame from the other side. When our manager came into the room the following morning and saw the empty single bed, he though Pi was missing. But when he saw Pi’s backview and my sideview on the double bed, he thought, “oh no, now the youngest one is missing”. As he was about to go off to search, Kame woke up from his sleep and asked him what time was it. It was only then that the manager realized Kame got squashed between the two of us and well hidden from the manager’s view at the door.
He said, “I should have taken a photo of you all then. What a pity.”
For the nights that we stayed there, we continued sleeping in that manner. In my sleep, I heard Pi mumbling in his sleep and smelled the fragrance of Kame’s shampoo.
After more than a decade, I’m here for work again. I stood by the windows and called Pi. We reminisced and laughed at our manager’s reaction, the photographer’s strange requests and Kame’s blunder during the dinner performance.
“He totally dozed off while lying on your shoulder. He didn’t care about the performance anymore” Pi laughed.
Even after I emptied my memories, my teenage years never returned to me.
Nowadays, I can’t remember every detail of my teenage years either...
The only thing that remained vividly clear was the emotions.
I was really troubled when I was a teenager.
I was troubled over love.
I was an early bloomer, I think. I met my soulmate – someone that I wanted to spend my entire lifetime with, at the age of 16. Looking back, I am amazed at my self-confidence then because it was a one-sided love. I just thought, “Ah, I like this person. It’s not enough just seeing this face regularly. I want to see this smiley face for every moment.”
But I was very timid then, thus I did not declare my love.
Time flew by quickly.
When I was in my teens, I fantasized about falling in love.
When I was twenty, I was madly in love.
After that, I lost the love of my life...
And now, in my thirties, my peaceful life might seem a little boring.
But I guess peace is a kind of happiness too….
Music monthly / Red square
Entry No: 29
Subject: Tumon Bay
by Akanishi Jin
A couple of days ago, I went to Kashima for work. It had been eighteen years since I last went there and I asked Mr Shimatani to arrange for me to stay in the same room as my previous visit.
The triple-sharing room is now a twin-sharing. The furniture and carpeting have changed too. The only thing that remained unchanged was the colour of the sea from the room.
I had a very enjoyable week there in my teens.
Pi, Kame and I had a photoshoot at the nearby Tumon Bay. Our work ended early and the sun hadn’t set, so Kame took out the camera and the three of us began taking pictures for each other…. After that, we got scolded by our manager for messing around with the equipment.
At night, we shared a room. Pi, who slept on the single bed, went into dreamland very soon. But Kame, who shared the double bed with me, was having trouble falling asleep as it was his first trip away from home. He tossed and turned in bed continously, until I asked him if he was ok. He replied, “I’m missing my own bed”. Thus, I asked him to shift closer to me, and offered my arm for him to sleep on. I used my other hand to pat his back, just like how a mother would pat her baby to sleep.
We both fell into deep sleep after that. Later in the night, Pi saw us and decided to squeeze into our bed as well. He then hugged Kame from the other side. When our manager came into the room the following morning and saw the empty single bed, he though Pi was missing. But when he saw Pi’s backview and my sideview on the double bed, he thought, “oh no, now the youngest one is missing”. As he was about to go off to search, Kame woke up from his sleep and asked him what time was it. It was only then that the manager realized Kame got squashed between the two of us and well hidden from the manager’s view at the door.
He said, “I should have taken a photo of you all then. What a pity.”
For the nights that we stayed there, we continued sleeping in that manner. In my sleep, I heard Pi mumbling in his sleep and smelled the fragrance of Kame’s shampoo.
After more than a decade, I’m here for work again. I stood by the windows and called Pi. We reminisced and laughed at our manager’s reaction, the photographer’s strange requests and Kame’s blunder during the dinner performance.
“He totally dozed off while lying on your shoulder. He didn’t care about the performance anymore” Pi laughed.
Even after I emptied my memories, my teenage years never returned to me.
Nowadays, I can’t remember every detail of my teenage years either...
The only thing that remained vividly clear was the emotions.
I was really troubled when I was a teenager.
I was troubled over love.
I was an early bloomer, I think. I met my soulmate – someone that I wanted to spend my entire lifetime with, at the age of 16. Looking back, I am amazed at my self-confidence then because it was a one-sided love. I just thought, “Ah, I like this person. It’s not enough just seeing this face regularly. I want to see this smiley face for every moment.”
But I was very timid then, thus I did not declare my love.
Time flew by quickly.
When I was in my teens, I fantasized about falling in love.
When I was twenty, I was madly in love.
After that, I lost the love of my life...
And now, in my thirties, my peaceful life might seem a little boring.
But I guess peace is a kind of happiness too….
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