I can’t breathe...

My name is Theo Yuma and I’m 17 years old. Today’s date is December 17 2018 and I live in America but when I was 14 we had moved and I lived in Japan for 3 year at the time due to my father’s mother being ill. I used to be swimmer. To be exact I was a really gifted swimmer making a name for myself when I was a teenager. “Aqua Man” they called me. I’ve gotten use to the name because it was true. I was the best of the best in my team and I swam like the water was meant for me. It all changed until I met them. They, who cheered me on and then blamed me for not swimming fast enough. I still swam after that incident but not like how I used too.

3 months ago during that time my family had moved back to the US while I was still competing but shortly after the competition was done I then quit the team and left. After a few days I quit the team. I lost myself and I didn’t know what I was doing. I walked to a near by gas station and picked out something to drink. After paying for my drink I stop by a near by park. Sitting there drinking my cold water and walked by two kids holding hands walking side by side. The young boy who held the young girls hand so she can walk on white line balancing so she doesn’t trip or fall made me think of the time I held her hand at the beach. Nova Summer, my childhood best friend. The girl who made my heart beat with a smile. She was cute as a kid but when we became older I noticed she was becoming even more beautiful and it made me realize how much I liked her to the point I kissed her without her knowing. We did everything together, we were like 2 peas in a pod.

She’s my neighbor. Our room was across from each other which made it even more better because when we didn’t want to stop playing we would talk through our windows. When we finally reached the age of 14 we became cautious of each other like we knew how we felt for each other but we were to embarrass to admit it. God, how innocent we were. To be exact I’ve loved her ever since they day she moved next door when we were 8. But she doesn’t know that I’ve been in love with her for 6 years even now as we speak. After I moved away we still kept in touch. We would email and skype all the time until last year I stop talking to her because she had told me that she had a guy she like and they’ve been hanging out so she won’t be able to talk to me as much and I hated the fact that she had informed me that. It was like a slap into my face saying get real, your across the world while she’s back home so yeah eventually some guy will swoop her away from you. I was so angry that I had ignored her completely and focused on my swimming. She stop messaging me after that and I never heard from her since then.

My siblings still keeps in touch with her but that was it. She never asked about me and I never asked about her. I have 4 siblings. An older brother named William Yuma (22) and the triplets. Rome Yuma (15), Henry Yuma (15), Sunhee Yuma (15) and of course my parents Leyon Yuma (48), Natile Yuma (48). 2 parents, 3 brothers, and 1 sister. If your wondering about the age difference from William and my parents is...well William was adopted when he was younger. And my sister is the baby of the family and everyone is overprotective of her since she’s the only girl in house. Rome and Henry is just Rome and Henry. My parents are very beautiful people and that makes it very good genes for us kids to inherited their beauty. Even William have good looks and he isn't even our blood. Not to mention my parents are super rich since they own their own multi million business back in Japan and Korean. My father’s a businessman and my mother works along side with him. They travel a lot for work which means we sometimes take care of ourselves which is fine because they’re trip is no longer than 4-5 days. If the trip is longer than usual then Lisa, my parents secretary comes hangout with us. And no she isn’t a babysitter.

After walking in memory lane there was sting in my heart and it made me feel sad. I hated the feeling so I got up and went back to the dorms. That same night before going to bed I made a phone call to my brother William. He’s my person. The one who gets me and accepts everything about me. He even knows about Nova. But that night my heart was uneasy and I ended up explaining everything to him. He just laughed and said...

“ Theo, I don’t know whats making you feel like that but sometimes good things fall apart. We can dramatic about it but at the end of the day you coming to terms with your feelings will make you see the bigger picture.”

After our conversation we hung up and it got me thinking and he was right. I was so angry about everything that it made me not like what was happening to me. Who am I? I closed my eyes thinking to myself why is it so hard for me to breathe. Then Nova image came into my mind. I started to breathe softly and calmer. I start remembering all the good times we had and I eventually fell asleep.

The next morning I called my parents and had explain to them I’m coming back home and that I had quit the team. My parents didn’t really understand why but they eventually agreed and 1 week went by and I came back home, December 17th 2018 I’ve arrived back to my home town in the US. It was winter break for everyone so everyone was off school for the next 2 weeks. It was roughly 6pm when I arrived. My family had made reservations at a restaurant we always use to go as a family @7:30pm. Since everyone was busy they didn’t have time to pick me up so I called for an Uber and went home to drop off my stuff and went back into the Uber and went straight to the restaurant. I got there on time but no one was there yet. I called my younger brother but they seem to be stuck in traffic so I told them I would go get our table beforehand. As I was walking towards the door I can see young boy about my age talking to a young waitress around the same age from the glass door window. It looked as if he was flirting with her because she looked like she was enjoying the conversation. As I was opening the door some random girl walked pass me so fast that it caught me by surprise that I didn’t even see her face. All I could see was that she had on a white hat with long dark brown hair, skinny, height up to my shoulders, tan trench coat, skinny ripped jeans, with white shoes walked up to the guy and tap him on the shoulder and slap him hard.

I walked over to the bar and sat down and watched the girl keep hitting the guy. I laughed a little bit thinking that she caught him cheating. I turned to the bartender and ask for a cup of water and as I turn my head back to keep watching I caught a glimpse of the girls face and I see her. My eyes widen thinking that I might be mistaking her for someone else but no, who would ever forget this kind of face. Nova Summer is a face you don’t ever forget.

As I keep staring at her in disbelief the young man grab her by the hand and pull her out of the restaurant. I sat there for a few minutes gathering my thoughts and I got up and went out the door and started looking for them. I found an alley and walked towards it and just before I get to the end and turned at the corner, I took a deep breath and I couldn’t seem to let it out breath because I saw them....in the middle of the parking lot, kissing.

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