In Tokyo, there was a boy that never knew what happiness and smiles were. His parents lived far away, he only has a shy and timid maid who only calls him 'master' nothing much. He was always alone at home, teachers would teach him privately in his home.
One night, he looks at the city, lights shine but his eyes never showed emotions, he just stares at the lights and the families eating together while he was eating in a big dining table with only empty seats.
One day while walking and looking at the other childrens playing in the park, he accidentally tripped. His knee got a scratch, blood was pouring out a bit. He just stres at it without any emotion on his eyes and face, just then a girl approach him and without asking she wrapped his knee in her handkerchief, the boy stares at her and for the first time he talk "Why did you help me?" he asked, the girl just gave a bright smile.
"Because i like making people smile!" her joyful bright smile, that sentence and her voice made his heart tighten, he glance at his bandaged knee.
"W-...will you be my friend" he gathered his courage to ask, the girl nodded and eversince then the two meet up at the same place they first met and hangout together almost daily, he would accompany her to help someome, they would have memorable moments, she would laugh at silly things and he slowly starts to smile then giggle. She became his world in his life and he didn't want to destroy it.
"Will you....marry me when we grow up" he asked one day sitting nearby a spot that they first met, the gir turn to him and she start to laugh at him.
"Why not! Let's get married when we grow up okay!" she gave a pat on his head, he blushed and turn his head away in embarassment.
One or two years passed since they met, the boy was now 8. He was waiting for the girl in the same spot they usually meet up, but after a while the girl didn't came, he waited there for hours but slowly the sun starts to set and she didn't came and he returned home that day with a upset face, his maid didn't ask she avoid talking to him.
The next day he wait there again, but that day too she didn't came. He decided to ask some of her friends and the next day after others school end, he ask some of her friends.
"She is sick" one of her friends said, that alone shook his mind. He rush to her house without a second thought and by the time he was there, he was breathing hard. He press the door bell and a woman open the door, her hair was tied, looking just like her.
"Where is she" he asked, the girls mother face showed a sad face a little but she lead him to hmthe girl's room anyway. Inside the room, she was in bed her body was pale.
The boy approach her and she open her eyes and gave a smile the same she always gave him. "You fibd out" she said, the boy sat beside her.
"You'll recover right?" he asked, the girl looked away and his eyes was now teary he touch her hand and it was cold.
"She had a strange disease that has no cure. She only had a year maybe" the girl's mother said, the boy tear were coming out without stopping.
"Hey, can i ask you something" she said, the boy nodded vigorously. "Can you help as many peopke as possible" she said, the boy nodded again, his voice stuck in his throat.
From that day onward, the boy and girl started helping people as much as possible, the girl would smile and laugh but the boy laugh louder than her, cherishing their every moments. Slowly the girl body weaken, she first needed a support and as months passed by the boy was the only one helping, she would just watch from far away, smiling and laughing softly, every dau he would gve her favourite flower, read stories. But a year was near and the girl couldn't even move. She was in bed but the boy didn't give up, he always run to her house every day and tells her how many peole he helped, she just smiled.
On a bright day, it was 4:56 P.M the boy has only reached her house when he noticed a crowd of her friends and relatives crying, his heart ache,he slowly walk to her room and she was in her bed but her eyes were closed and her parents were cried non-stop.
She had passed away, and inside the boy something died, he just stand there. His whole world was shattered he couldn't even hear her last word.
After a few days he was standing infront of her with a lily in his hand, and a letter her mother gave him. He remembers one of his conversation with her. "I want to build a place where peole could laugh and smile happily, a heaven" he remembered, and slowky opens the letter and inside ut was a poem she wrote in messy letter.
'We laugh while it last,
we cried when it ends.
But the time we had together
I will cherish it forever' he gripped the letter tightly. His world was now destroyed, but there was two thing left for him. To find a cure of the illness that took her and make the things she wants the most. Heaven.
His world hadshattered, but he was now her.
–THE END–