A break from young love and back to the old days.

GOJI

"When it is my love,
It is,
TWO PLAYER.
If I love you,
I don't play at all!
My game is not a game at all,
I play for love,
For hearts,
If its for you and only you!
I play the game of love,
For life,no doubt.
When it is my love,
It IS,
TWO PLAYER!"

I still play this song on repeat every day,every chance I get at this arcade.
The kids these days are beginning to respect the music of the nineties but not enough if they still can not regard the best that generation.

Kaoru Orange.

I let the beat keep me moving fast as I wipe off machines,guide the newest of the generation on how to play the best of the pre home console era,the pre wifi era.

A glorious time to have been young and happy.
It is a long day though,raining heavier now and no one wants to come here like they used to to get out of the rain instead they stay home and scroll there lives away without a breath of life outside except to post it for whatever reason.

"Could you give me five dollars worth?"
I turn sharply,I hadn't even seen anyone through the window walking nearby so I grabbed a candy bar to perk up my spirits.
My eyes do not look up but run on automatic as I fish out the coin dispenser what the lady requested then I turn to look up and pass it to her and I stand as dumb as a door knob,even that I think had more brains than I do now.

Before me is her.
My beautiful obsession of my life and she is before me now.

Kaoru Orange.
Beautiful as ever with dark,wolf cut like black hair and little makeup,she looks just like she did for her comeback she tried to make that failed because her single wasn't as flirty as her first."TWO PLAYER"

I am and she knows it.
The smile that she shows.

"When did heaven get so close to me?"
She laughs and I do not blame her.
I want to bury my head into the arcade games,each and every one of them for using the chorus of her very own failed single and saying it out loud.

Idiot,idiot,idiot.

"Thank you."

Kaoru Orange,the beauty of a former jpop queen walks away softly and heads to a far corner of the arcade and begins playing an old basketball game then a fighting game(The woman was reputed to be a beast of a gamer and I honestly did not believe it and am proven even more stupid than before.)I try not to be as a sixteen year old boy watching his crush but I wind up being a forty  five year old man crushing and staring at her.

Even without the hip length orange hair,without the skater outfit I can't stop looking at her and remembering the first and only concert of hers I went to.
The one where like every one she would kiss a concert goer.

I was the most thrilled and lucky man of that concert,of that year but no way would she remember that.

I never could even kiss another girl.

What would compare to that?
She is all I ever wanted and I won't have anyone else but she deserves better than me so I go back to my work and stop my staring.

ONE HOUR LATER

"Hi uncle.What is up with you?"

I pause like I have been caught and I am clueless why.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you look like you are floating on air and are humming 'TWO PLAYER'so loudly you might as well be at a karaoke bar."
She is smirking even though her eyes look so tired,unlike her usual self.
"Are you okay trouble?"

I ask Yukihana and she gives me the typical'I am fine'but really it means.
'I do not want /do not know how to talk about it'look.

"She likes me."
Yukihana looks at me as confused as ever but I walk into my room away from the kitchen,away from the looping around Cookie and away from the curious looks that are soon going to come my way tomorrow.

For now?
I am going to enjoy the pleasant thoughts of Kaoru Orange,Oiji actually,and recall how she looked at me before leaving the arcade tonight.

"You should know something as my biggest fan as you have said in every posting on my site..."
"How did you...oh."
Sometimes I think I am without a name tag and I do not know why,she reminded me as she looked from tag to my eyes and back again.
"The reason I wrote that song because it was about a fan I kissed that year that never left my heart.He wore mixed black and gray concert tee with a big spray painted logo of my album cover and a denim jacket to match.He had lovely eyes and a naughty smile and I couldn't forget about it.Not even once,so much so I searched every fan letter and site posting to find the name that he printed on it.Took me a while but here I am.Seen you soon."

I took so long to catch on but when she kissed my cheek....

"When it is my love,
It is,
TWO PLAYER"
 I  have playing in my head happily until I decide to listen to "When did heaven get so close to me?"and then I hear something I never heard in that song before because who would have believed it that a song could be written about them?

"When did heaven get so close to me?
When did I decide I should have walked away?
If I would have lingered just a bit more,
Maybe my tomorrow would have been yours.
My lost,heavenly eyes."

I had that painted on my coat to show my deep love for her.
I can't believe she remembered that.
I can not stop smiling.