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“This Tanabe guy,” he said, “I hear he’s pretty weird.”
“I wouldn’t know,” I said. “I hardly ever see him ...and we don’t talk much. They just took me in like they would a dog. It’s not that he especially likes me or anything. So I don’t know anything about him. And I had no idea about that stupid incident.”
“It’s just that I often don’t understand who you like, or love, or whatever,” said Sotaro. “In any case it seems like a good thing for you. How long are you going to stay there?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, hadn’t you better decide?” he said, laughing.
“I intend to,” I answered.
On the way home we walked through the park. There was a good view of the Tanabes’ building through the trees.
“That’s where I live,” I said, pointing it out.
“How great – right next to the park. If I lived there I’d get up every morning at five and take a walk.” Sotaro smiled. He was very tall, and I was always looking up at him. Glancing at his profile, I thought, if I were with him, he would…he would grab me by the hair, force me to decide on an apartment and pull me kicking and screaming back to school.
I loved his hearty robustness, I thirsted after it, but in spite of that I couldn’t keep pace with it, and it made me hate myself. In the old days.
