Oregairu: Reappearance

Chapter 2: Where were you?!?!

"Yeah, yeah, whatever"

Both of us grinning at each other.

Until

Thud!

Something dropped, again.

At the direction.

A purse? A bag?

Probably.

The question is...

Whose bag was it?

My eyes then changed their target.

And from there.

I saw someone.

A middle aged woman, almost mirroring Komachi in almost every aspect.

My mother.

Another family member that I haven't seen for 12 years

She was showing a face different from Komachi's:

One of shock and disbelief.

It was at that time though, that she slowly walked toward us.

Step

Step

Step

It was dead silence, until I myself decided to speak.

"Hi...uh...Mom"

She looked at me, and then...

"Hachiman?"

"Uh...yeah it's me"

Before I noticed, just like Komachi, she hugged me tight.

"I was so worried, where were you all this time?"

She spoke quietly yet it was shaking.

"Welcome back"

She said.

I didn't want to say it again.

I didn't want to do something cliché.

But just this time, I'll do it.

"Yeah, I'm back"

She stopped her hug, and looked at me from feet to head.

"Look at how much you've grown"

Yeah, I know.

It was then, someone else opened their mouth.

"Honey, who's at the door?"

A man's voice.

Yet, vaguely, I remember that voice.

A man in his early 50's , wearing a standard salary man suit, with somewhat messy, somewhat tidy hair.

My father.

With a face full of surprise, it changed.

With small groans coming from him.

He looked at me with a serious face.

Slowly approaching me.

He kept approaching, he was not stopping.

Until the distance closed.

Looking at me again with even more groaning.

It was at this moment.

That he gave me...

A hug.

The first hug he'd ever given me.

A hug between men.

It was firm.

It was tight.

And suddenly he talked.