Phone-string - Hyoshi Kuratake (world of reading .txt) 📗

Phone-string

  When I took off headphones after the music ended, a shocking big sound echoed in left ear. It was like a sound of a broken speaker. Felt like a film was formed in earhole, I thought the ear was wounded and discharged pus for heavy using of headphones, so I inserted a cotton bud softly. Slightly pained, big rustles echoed inside head. I felt a little fear and rolled the bar carefully to search for the cause. So. . .

 

  "Oh."

 

  The strain was discharged at once, I found the cause.

  It's a hair that made echoed sounds.

  I didn't know whether from first or when I took off the headphones, a hair intruded inside of earhole as rounded.

 

  "Huh, huh. Sound like that."

 

  I felt fun and interested at my first experience that a sound sounded only inside of ear.

 

 

  But, after that, same things happened repeatedly.

 

 

  Listened music, took off the headphones, I was surprised by a rustle echoed inside left ear, __maybe the hair filled the hole in a shape of spring.

  At first I thought it was an accident, but after several times I found the rule when the phenomena happened.

  I was working for web design company. I always couldn't keep myself ease without music, so when I did the take_out work on PC at home at night I listened CD with headphones.

 

  That's the CD, a hair intruded into my left ear and made an echo.

 

  Always same CD: an album titled "Chaser of Love", by a charismatic female artist of UK.

  Not a recent album, released almost twenty five years ago. Recently she released new, for the first time in twelve years, album. I heard good reputations of the album, so I pulled out her old masterpiece album and was addicted with it in these days.

  It was not so long ago when I got this CD, I thought. . . maybe seven years had passed. . . My girlfriend at the time gave me this as a present, saying, "This is very nice. I love her." She was an artist who had many fanatics just like her. After listening the album my impression was "too much" for the sense of too much originality.

  Later I broke up with her.

  She always wanted to be with me, at first I thought the behavior cute, but little by little I began to feel nuisance and I came to hate her.

  I canceled the date with her for busyness of job several times in series, after a while I said her we had better be apart. She dropped tears, but she had noticed that I avoided her, so she granted my suggestion obediently.

 

  I remembered these things and felt bitterness.

  Thought again, why did I think to listen to this CD? I heard the good reputation of new album from the colleague who loved music, so I remembered that I had her album simply without any idea. At that time I had forgotten completely where this CD came from.

  It meant that I had forgotten her completely.

  Though I remembered bitter memory, without her memory, this album was my favorite now. I had to thank her for giving me this CD.

 

  It had to be an accidental coincidence.

 

  For meaning of checking it, I put the CD on opened tray of player, wore headphones __being careful not to put hair in ear, pushed the tray in, and __music started.

  The sound of her unique female sense and her exceptional high-toned voice lifted me up.

  Feeling comfortable, now, I returned to work; finish it early and enjoy music till going to bed.

 

  PC taught receiving an e-mail message on display.

 

  I opened mailing software and saw the name, which reminded me of old days.

  What a timing! He was the old friend who introduced her to me.

  I had a little bad feeling at this timing.

 

 

 

SUBJECT: It's been a long time

 

MESSAGE:

 

   Hello. How do you do? __Do you remember me?

 

  Saying honestly, I don't know whether I should teach you or not, but I'm mailing you now.

 

  XXXX died of illness.

  She had been in hospital from two weeks ago, but she couldn't recover.

 

  You must remember her, don't you?

  Though she looked to long to see you, but she kept her not because she didn't want to show her face of such a condition to you. __I regret why I didn't tell you early.

 

  After all, I have taught you.

 

  Then, let's talk on phone soon, that time in day.

 

 

 

     Chaser of Love running up,  Chaser of Love running up,  Chaser of Love running up,

 

  Oh,my. . . . . I held the forehead. Then, were these phenomena messages from her on the bed of hospital, saying, "Please remember me."?

  I stopped the music and took off the headphones. I thought I could never listen to this CD again.

 

     rustle,  rustle,  rustle,

 

  Again, the rustle sounded in left ear. I scratched the inside of hole with the little finger and pulled out a hair.

 

"Ouch!"

 

  I shouted out for the terrible pain which seemed to be burst at eardrum.

  When I pulled the hair slowly, shocking pain rushed, the muscle of neck was tightened up.

  The eardrum. The hair had taken root with the eardrum.

  I saw the hair timidly out of the corner of the sight.

  Isn't it a white hair? And long. Maybe three times long than mine.

 

 

     rustle, rustle, , , scratch, scratch, , ,

 

 

  A voice, I heard, saying:

 

 

   " Finally, connected. __Hello? It has been a long time.     It's Me.   "

 

 

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