My Teddy Bear (1/1)

She walked in and leaned up against the closed door.  She glanced around at the instruments and sank down on the bench to the grand piano.  She let her fingers mindlessly glide over the keys as she thought.  If she had paid any attention to the sound emitted from the piano she would have found the base for a sad song, but  she didn't notice as she thought about  how her mom would play as she sang about the weather or what she wanted for dinner.  Her dad would be on the other side of the room on his guitar playing along and expressing his thoughts on his mom's ideas.  Yui sucked in a large breath, trying to hold in the tears.  She laid her head down on the keys, making a dreadful noise and looked over at the microphone and ukulele sitting next to each other on the small platform.  She chuckled at the thought of Akira and Ruki.  Ruki had picked out the ukulele for his brother saying, "Look Akira!  It's Akira sized!"  Every time that Ruki would say this Akira would remind him that he only liked it because it was Ruki sized.  Ruki then would pout because he thought he was making fun of him for always being smaller, but Akira was always dead serious.  Nothing meant more to him than his brother.Yui sighed as she stood and made her way over to the sound booth.  She sat down at the computer and wondered if her recordings were still on there.  Curiosity got the best of her and she turned it on.  It didn't take her long to find one of her recordings.  She timidly pressed play and jumped when her voiced made it's way out of the surround sound.  She hadn't heard it since that day, believing that she was the reason for her parents untimely deaths and that her voice was never meant to be heard.  She listened closely to the lyrics and realized that the song that she had written about her best guy friend was now turned around and was talking about her.  The tears that she had worked so hard to keep in where now sliding down her face.  That's what she did for five hours, until her tears stopped.  She shakily took a breath and stood.  Yui made her way to the bathroom in the building and cleaned herself up before going back to the house.Honestly, if Rina had not been there Yui would have fooled everyone.  But, no.  Rina was there and saw the withdrawn expression that she had only seen whenever she cried.  Rina tried to get Yui to talk, but she just replied with quick one word answers.  Yui went into her room and debated going to sleep, but decided that was the worst thing she could do in her position.  About one in the morning there was a knock on her door and she jumped.  Yui strode over to her door and carefully opened it to find a sleepy Cnu.  She gave him a questioning look, that turned into shock as he pushed past her and sat on her bed.  He glanced around, "Wow for such a big house and spacious, your room is very small and cluttered."  She rolled her eyes, "For someone who just barged into my room, you sure are picky on how it should look." He smirked and laid back.  "So tell me about this teddy bear and why you can't sleep without it." He said and patted the space next to him.  Yui closed the door and laid down in the spot, looking at the way the ceiling reflected her lights.  Yui sighed and started the story.  "Right after the accident I was having a horrible time going to sleep.  Every time I did, the whole incident would play over in my head and I would be awake within a matter of minutes shaking and scared.  My family back in Korea thought that maybe if I was away from Tokyo for a while, that it would help with my insomnia.  So we went to this resort.  It was one that my family used to always go to when we were in Korea, because it was where my parents met.  My mom was walking along the trail when she ran into this very lost Japanese man, who didn't know Korean.  My mom helped him off the mountain and when they got to the bottom he thanked extensively in Korean.  She hit him over the head for tricking her and he said sorry and such.  Then they were around each other for the rest of the week.  When it was over they exchanged phone numbers and e-mails and saw whenever they were in the same area, they would see each other.  Until my dad asked my mom to move in with him in Japan.  My grandpa protested for a long time, he still does, but my grandma gave my mom the go a head and she moved here."  Yui glanced up and Cnu who was biting his lip, trying to take everything in.  "But, that is way off topic.  So we went to the resort and it wasn't helping and it wasn't helping.  I was irritated and frustrated and tired and ended finding a little garden to cry in.  After being there for a while this little boy showed up.  His name was like Woo Shin Dong, or Dong Shin Woo, or Shin Dong, I don't remember, but he had this teddy bear.  He asked me what was wrong, and for some reason I told him everything.  I told him about my family dying and how I felt like it was my fault and how I couldn't sleep.  He just smiled and held out that silly bear and told me how he had won it in one of those claw machines and how he was getting too old for teddy bears and that I could have this one.  Then his older sister came to get him and he smiled this big grin and ran off with her, his arms waving a mile a minute."  Yui smiled fondly at the memory before glancing back up at Cnu.  His eyes were wide and face surprised, "His name was Shin Dong Woo."  The girl smiled, "Yeah that sounds right.  How did you know?"  He peered down at the girl and sighed, "Because I was once at this resort when I was 15 and won this teddy bear in one of the claw machines.  I was planning on giving it to my older sister before she went off to university, but while I was walking through one of the gardens I saw this girl who was crying.  She told me about her parents dying and how she couldn't sleep because she felt it was her fault and that her family was making her go to the resort so that way she could maybe sleep again.  As she was talking I was thinking about the bear that I had and how she seemed like she needed it more than my sister did.  So I gave it to her and told her I was too old for teddy bears and that she could have it.  The girl looked happy and then my sister came to get me and I waved at the girl until she was out of sight.  It wasn't until then that my sister asked me what that little girl's name was that I realized that I didn't know.  When I got back to the garden she was no where to be seen and I looked for her the rest of the weekend, trying to figure out her name."  Yui's sat up and looked at Cnu, "Are you just pulling my leg?"  He shook his head and she sighed, "How did you not figure this out before?"  Cnu shrugged, "I didn't really pay attention to what the bear looked like and you've changed a lot since the crying mess that I encountered."  Yui blushed a little, remembering that he had seem her crying, which she had not even done around Rina.Cnu yawned shifted so he was comfortable in Yui's bed.  She rolled her eyes, "Hey now you can't taunt me in here.  If you are going to go to sleep go to your own room."  He shook his head and pulled her down into the bed next him.  Yui blushed as his arm went around her, and she relaxed when she realized he was just grabbing the blankets to cover them.  If only that had been the case.  He had pulled the blankets around them, and then wrapped Yui in his arms.  He smiled and she listened as his breathing slowly evened out to a soft steady drone.  It was soothing to her ears and did a pretty quick job of lulling her to sleep.  Subconsciously, she snuggled up into his chest and fell into a blissful slumber.