krystalkatzficz | Detention (Edit) part 6

“The beach?” Satoshi asked when Nino pulled up in a car park again the small beach. The weather wasn’t really the best for a beach trip, with the sky already growing dark and the first of the stars coming into the sky but somehow that made it seem even more magical and he felt like an eager puppy as they walked to the few steps. The sand crunched under their shoes and for a moment Satoshi wished that he was brave enough to kick off his own shoes and walk barefoot on the sand.

“…I hate being on the ocean, but I love the beach…” Nino hummed slowly with a chuckle as he kicked off his shoes and then pulled off his socks. He dropped them down at the foot of the stairs and then ran over the sand kicking it up behind him as he did so. Satoshi debated about joining his teacher for only about a second before he was doing the same chasing the thinner older man across the beach in an unplanned but extremely fun game of tag. Once they were out of breath they dropped down on a soft sand bank and then laid down looking up at he darkening sky with their chest heaving for breath “…I never knew the stars could be so beautiful before Jun made me do this…Before him…My dad…He…He would take a belt to me…Saying that it wasn’t manly to watch the stars…The truth is, the stars is how people were able to explore…To go into space…To imagine things beyond their own worlds…” Satoshi turned to look at the teacher in that moment realising that he was talking like he did about music. It was one of the few times that Nino had acted more than a robot. His voice always rang with passion when it came to music and now when he talked about the stars it was the same “You look up at them and realise that there are as many stars as there are grains of sand on this beach…Some of them have been dead for billions of years…And yet…Here they are still shining down on us now…It would be a waste if we didn’t look at them ne?”

“Yup…Your dad…He…Was he always bad?” Satoshi asked softly and Nino sighed sitting up and brushing the sand from his hair and the back of his shirt before he hummed;

“…My dad was a sad little man…He was bitter…Still is for all I know…He thought he deserved more from life than what he got…Hated my mum and hated me…”

“Why…I mean…Um…If you don’t mind…telling me, sensei…”

“…My dad was a college star in baseball…Everyone said that he could have gone pro…Maybe if had done things would have been different but who knows? He met my mum in their second year in college…” Nino breathed his eyes alternating between happiness and anger and Satoshi supposed that the happiness came from his mum at the very least he seemed happy when she spoke next “My mum…She was an amazing woman, Oh-chan…She had already won three regional championships for music by the time she was thirteen…She was going places too…She would sing to me all the time…When my dad wasn’t there of course…Unfortunately, they hadn’t used protection when they’d had sex and…She’d gotten pregnant...She offered to have an abortion but my dad insisted that he wanted to keep the baby…It was probably the only act of kindness that he ever gave me...from the moment I was born he hit me…He said that I cried too much, I peed on him, I needed too much attention…Every excuse he could find he used…He’d broken my arm before I was two…It got worse when mum died…”

TBC
A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^