The sound of waves echoed in my mind, the ocean water vibrated and waves were visible on the horizon. A calm and beautiful view.

However the view was ruined by Sakura who appeared in front of me with a surfboard.

"Hey Ishikawa-kun, do you know how to use this? " she asks me and points to the surfboard.

I look at her and then at the surfboard. " I don't know how to use the surfboard though why do you have one of those with you? ".

" Well I rented it from here behind the beach and thought you might want to take a ride in the ocean " she says smiling.

I look at the bright sun for a moment and then behind Sakura at the ocean. " Don't you think it would be a bit risky to ride these waves with a surfboard? " I ask her calmly.

"Nope, I'm experienced, when I was 11 my dad taught me how to surfboard extreme waves and these are not extreme" she tells me and turns to face the ocean.

I look at her and she starts moving slowly towards the ocean. "If you don't want to join me at least you can look at me" she tells me starting to run towards the ocean.

I walk in her direction and she has already entered the water and is getting ready to get into the surfboard. I sit on the ground and watch her try to get up on the surfboard but she keeps sliding off.

Eventually she manages to get up on the surfboard and manages to ride it through the big ocean waves. I can see she is happy at the way she 'flies' through the ocean waves.

Suddenly I hear a voice from behind me and when I look over it's Yuto who says hello and sits next to me. " Hey man, what's up? " he asks me.

" Fine, I'm looking at the ocean, you? " I answer him without looking at him and continuing to follow Sakura with my eyes.

He turns his gaze to her and laughs a little and then continues talking. " I saw you here so I thought I'd say hello " he tells me and sits down on the hot sand.

"You're alone, aren't you? " he asks me, looking at the ocean.

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" What do you mean? " I ask him continuing to watch Sakura ride the waves with her surfboard.

" What I mean is, you hate socializing " he tells me still looking at the ocean.

I turn my gaze back to him and he continues to stare at the ocean.

" I can't necessarily say I hate socializing but nah " I tell him and turn my gaze back to Sakura who is even happier from what I notice.

" Why are you like this? " he asks putting his hand on my shoulder.

A memory hits me, a terrible one from my past when I was a mere child who just wanted to socialize.

"Don't leave the house, you will stay here and study! " my mother tells me and slaps me upside the head with a great force that manages to slam my head against the table.

- I was just a child.

I lifted my head off the table and looked tearfully at my mother who was preparing to hit me once again. "You don't have a reason to cry" she says and slaps me so hard I spit up blood.

But still she kept hitting me until she knocked me unconscious on the floor with blood coming out of my mouth. Yet she was laughing along with my father who also appeared.

- I was just a kid who wanted to socialize. A kid who wanted to make friends.

And as if that wasn't enough, my parents after I woke up put headphones on my ears telling me it was music so I could learn quietly but once the music started, my ears went crazy.

The pain I felt was terrible, I just wanted to take the earphones out of my ears but my dad held them tightly in my ears and with more tears in my eyes I could see my mum, laughing her head off.

But one day, one day karma struck. I was with my mother who was holding my hand tightly and because of the pain I pulled my hand out of her grip and she being careless crossed the pedestrian crossing and a car ran her over. I watched in horror as she was thrown 20 meters away from me.

Her blood was dripping on the asphalt and the people around were panicking and one of them even put his hand over my eyes so I wouldn't see my mother as she was already dead. But I didn't regret it.

And since karma doesn't let anyone escape. My father died of a heart attack in front of me a few days after my mother's death. As with my mother, I felt no regret that my father died.

And eventually I ended up living with my grandfather who took care of me until due to old age he died but while he lived he managed to pull me out of the trauma a little. But the trauma still didn't go away. The wounds I received from childhood remained anyway.

And the only person I ever cried for in my life was my grandfather because he knew how to raise me and understood my needs.

And after that I started working until I managed to get into Kurogawa School where I could receive money every month for my school attendance and for lack of a family.

"I'm like this because I just don't like socializing," I tell him and get up from the ground.

" Really? " he asks looking at me.

- I don't have to tell my past to anyone, I'll just weaken myself.

" Yes " I say and turn my back to the beach and walk away from Yuto.

Sakura seeing me leave finishes her surfboard session on the waves and comes towards me, reaching the beach she runs towards me and when she is close to me she takes me in her arms.

" Where are you going? " she asks holding me in her arms.

"I just wanted to get some water" I tell her and take her hands off me.

Without another word I just walk away from her and she watches as I walk off towards the cottage by the beach.

The look in her eyes, calm and sad at the same time. Eventually she walks towards the girls' place and I enter the beach hut where I buy a water.

Sitting at a small table I look out to the ocean, its cool breeze felt to my bones making me shiver a little. "When a person knows too much about you, they'll use that to make you their dog. " I say in my mind continuing to stare out at the ocean.

After a few minutes or so the waves become more aggressive, extremely aggressive reaching almost 6 meters high.

" At least Sakura is safe now ".

I continued to stare at the ocean until the sun slowly started to set. The yellow-orange color fascinated me a little but nevertheless it's still a normal thing.