Premonitions by uoroaix
Once upon a time, a healthy little boy was born into a pretty normal family;with a mother, a father, and an older sister. The family was fairly rich during that period, and traveled around the world quite frequently. The father was a marine who was working in America in the embassy of republic of Taiwan at the time and so they lived in the USA. It was a wonderful environment, and a wonderful time for the little boy. There were no worries or anything...although there weren't much that he could remembered. It was far too little for the boy to need to remember anything because everything was so carefree. The only few things he could remembered were:
1. building a snowman in a park somewhere in the USA with his family.
2. playing around with his sister and a two little girls that was their neighbors.
3. singing karaoke together with his mother in their home.
4. joining a parade with the girls and his sister for the Halloween.
So you see the boy must had a wonderful time there.
When the boy was around four years old the family went back to Taiwan. The father Ted had a transfered in the army. It was to go back to the headquarter, back to their home country.
The family moved into a friendly neighborhood that was close to where the father worked, and quickly settled in. Everything seemed fine except that the boy was lonely then. There were no friends there that he knew. His sister Trinity was in elementary school and thus can't play with him. His mother Jean noticed and sent the boy to the kindergarten. To her surprise he was very scared and didn't like the new environment. After only half-day of kindergarten he ran back home to seek comfort from his mother. And so the little boy stopped going to kindergarten.
When Jay reached age 5, Jean decided to let little Jay to go try another kindergarten. This time, Jay was still scared, but he didn't ran away from the kindergarten. He saw with his own eyes a beautiful cute little adorable girl that was there. She had big round eyes that looked super cute, especially with a beautiful long hairstyle, and some cute bangs that gently touched the eyebrows of the little girl. The adorable girl saw that Jay was staring at her so she came up to Jay and introduced herself. Jay and Elena quickly became friends and were always together in the new kindergarten.
Happy time always passed by quickly. A year had passed, and suddenly Elena had to moved away. Jay was devastated since Elena was the only friend he made ever since he came back to Taiwan. But Jay was too small to understand his own feeling, and watched as Elena drifted away. Jay became lonely again.
That same year, Ted retired from the army and became a stock investor. And for some reason Jay couldn't remember properly, mom and dad began to fight a lot. There was this time mom threatened daddy to kill her while holding on to a kitchen knife. There was this other time mom tried to kill herself in the house by opening up the gas tank and locked herself in there. The only thing Jay could do was to seek comfort in Trinity's arms. Shivered in fear, the seed of loneliness began to sow and hidden deeply within the heart of little Jay.
As we fast forward with the camera, little Jay reached age 7 and went to the same elementary school where Trinity attended. Trinity was a grade 6 student and will graduate from elementary school(Elementary school in most of Asia only consist of 6 grades)soon enough. Jay for the first time made a friend with a boy in his class. Markus was really cool. He and Jay would always play together. They would sing together, walked home together, and often at recess slipped into Jay's sister's class and got all sort of candies and gifts from the older students. However that may sound, at home, the tension was very different. As if the constant fighting of his parents wasn't enough, his sister began to rebel and fight against the parent too. Trinity ran away from home a few times to make it worse. And afterward, his sister wouldn't play with him anymore. He once heard his sister told her friends that it's so annoying how little Jay always tag along with her everywhere she went.Poor little Jay just didn't know what to do, so he learned how to protect himself by shutting away everything, by putting on a mask, or more properly gained the skilled of a wall to protect himself. Though at that time that skill was just starting to develop.
Jay became a more quiet and a more introvert child as grade 2 came to view. Jay's sister already graduated from the elementary school. She left Jay and the parents and moved to LA in California where the grandparents lived. Trinity said that it was best there for her(she attended elementary school in USA before they moved back)and thus Ted and Jean agreed to it. Because Trinity was no longer around, Jay went to a new elementary school that had just finished building which was much closer to their home. Jay, already miserable and unable to put up with all of this didn't bother to complain about the disadvantages of changing schools. More likely Jay was still too small to confront the parents and to make decision for himself. Not to mention that the parents were fighting a lot more as the investment on stocks failed, and this only instilled more heartache in Jay.
During a medical examination Jean found out that something was growing inside the uterus or ovary, and that it could be cancer. Now that the mother needed to be hospitalized, the family moved again closer to where Jean's relatives were. Jay transfered to a new school for grade 3 where a term had already passed.
There he met a very strict teacher(one that hits children as punishment, and yes it is legal to hit children back then.. I am not too sure about the law nowadays)Jay was hit many times as he was pretty clumsy, and the parents didn't have time to worry over Jay's schoolwork. On the other hand Jay, of course, was also reluctantly to tell the parents what happened at school.
Half of the terms quickly passed by, and when the new term started the entire class was to find out that the class president transfered to another class.(rumors said that she couldn't take the pressure from the teacher)Jay maybe already used to tension and pressure became less clumsy. As hard as it sounded, Jay still managed to stay normal. One really interesting aspect was that during grade 3 the kids already started to notice the difference about the opposite sex and thus would felt shy with the each other . As the result, the kids would usually hang out with their own sex. But for Jay it seemed that he would always play with the girls in class instead of his male classmates.(Jay was more interested in what the girls played at recess)
Shortly after, Jean's surgery was successful and was concluded that it wasn't cancer. It was a huge relief for Jay and his family. It was prominent that she would be able to return home soon enough. At the same time, Jay started grade 4.
Grade 4 was something for Jay, at the least it was his first time that he stayed in the same school into another year. The classmates were mostly new, a few girls though were his grade 3 classmates(students were to changed into other classes so they get to know more people every 2 year or so)and thus, he was still more friendly with the girls in grade 4. Grade 4 was also when extracurriculum started. You can choose many different things such as poetry club, astronomy club, sport club, library club, and many others. Maybe it was fate or something, Jay was sick that day when the entire class were to decide on what they wish to join. And thus when all the choice were full next day he had only two option left. One was to join the poetry club, the other was home economic club. Jay, certainly not a poetry geek, chose the home economic club. This club of course was packed with girls, Jay however didn't really mind. He quickly fitted right in. It was a natural for him, but he didn't really understand why. He learned how to knit and do needlework. He also learned how to do tie properly. Sometimes the club would teach them how to cook desert and stuff. Jay had a lot of fun. And then without any warning, Jay thought that he might had just fallen in love with a girl in his class. Jay being as clumsy as he was, didn't really understand the feeling at that time though.
There will be gossip everywhere you go. The girl that Jay thought he liked very much was very pretty. At least she was the prettiest in the class. Her personality was angelic and everyone really liked her. Jay, being an introvert couldn't really express his feeling to her. Especially when there was also a handsome guy who was tall and good at sport in class, who seemed to be always hanging around with the girl.
The gossip of course stated that the guy had already told the girl about his feeling, and they should be going out. Jay didn't really believed the gossip, since they were just elementary kids. Jay however knew that the pretty girl and the handsome guy liked each other. If you want to asked how Jay found out, Jay would probably say he didn't know, and that he simply could tell just by looking at those two.
Jay still remembered clearly that one time when he coincidently walk by the girl's house. And there she was on the balcony talking on the phone, most likely the guy in the class. Jay didn't know that she lived here, and kept on walking until he heard his name being called. He tilted his head and there she was on the balcony wearing a one-piece white dress with her black silky hair hanging on one side talking on the phone. She invited him to go up to her house, but Jay refused knowing too well that nothing will get out of this. She then told Jay to wait, and ran into the house. After awhile she came out with an ice cream bar and threw it to Jay. She said it's on her treat. Jay, dumbfounded , said thanked you and off he went. Later, even after so many years, Jay still remembered vividly about her smile and her kindness on that day
where she stood on the balcony, so peaceful, so natural, so angelical.
The unbearable summer heat was finally gone. what followed was the emotional season of fall. It was the raining season. Jay's grade 5 elementary also started when the raining season started. Everyday it would rain, and non-stopped for days or more. Sometime, the sun would pop up just to bid farewell again and disappeared faster than ever. Jay loved raining day. It fitted his mood, the grayish atmosphere, the tone of the rain, so melancholy, and mechanically. The downpour of the rain was so hard that the school would usually be in a mess during raining season. The drainpipe system was too old and water would always inundated everything in the way.(even on the fourth floor of the school) The students ,then, could use the class time to help out to get rid of the newborn lakes here and there. Sometime, there would be thundershower after lunch in the afternoon. The world darkened, the humidity of the atmosphere would become high and tense. And then there was the lightning. So beautifully struck through the grizzle sky accompanied by the roaring sound of the thunder repeatedly. Nature itself was truly the most incredible artist ever to existed. Conciliated by this, Jay would always feel reborn into this surreal world. That was all Jay could really remembered about grade 5. Jay didn't really understand, everything just seemed to dim away and Jay could careless for anything.
Grade 5 quickly ended. Jay's parents had planned to move to Canada. When the immigration was passed, they began to pack for their stuff. They decided to go the LA first to pick up Trinity. Then, they would fly to YVR Vancouver International Airport for Landing. On the airplane, fate was playing around with Jay again. He lost his contact booklet, and never founded it again...and thus he lost touch with all his classmates period.
For the first time after four years, Jay finally got to see Trinity again. Everything seemed to be fine, the grudge against each other were gone. Siblings were indeed mysterious in their own way Jay thought. Jay however didn't want to be a burden to anybody, so he didn't act like before, and gave Trinity her own space she needed. After a few weeks, the family bid farewell to the grandparents.
Canada, was, a very nice place to live. Not to mention the family settled down in the Greater Vancouver area where the weather is the best. Jay totally didn't forgotten about his babyhood, didn't remember any English at all. So Jay started to learn English from the most basic stuff such as the twenty-six alphabet letters and things such as how to write the capitalize form. Jay would often go the the library and borrow the kid's picture story. With a dictionary on one hand and the story on the other tried to figure out what the story was all about. The library even got tapes that came along with the children's story. Jay was busy learning the new language, and to his surprise, school would be starting soon.
to be continued
(oh god I went back and read the story and so many mistakes ^^||| I fixed all that I could find... hopefully all of them....... Anyway got to go eat, so hungry XD)
