Chapter 18 Seventeen goodbye, Saga!

In the chilly season, I received good news.I was admitted to Koryo High School in Hiroshima at public expense. "Tokunaga, that's great! Only two people from Kyushu Island were admitted." Mr. Tanaka, the advisor to the baseball team, patted me on the shoulder approvingly for my letter of recommendation. Guangling High School is a famous baseball school that participates in the Koshien High School Baseball League every year. In addition, public funding students do not need to pay admission fees and tuition fees. Also, I can go back to my mother in Hiroshima. To me, it's like a dream of doing the best of the best.

I rushed into the house. "Grandma, that's great! I can go to Guangling High School! I don't have to pay tuition fees, and I can live in Hiroshima!" Grandma said happily: "Oh! Amazing, it's free." But from that day on, grandma looked weird. "Saga Business seems to be good too!" She muttered aimlessly during dinner. Saga Commercial is the nearby Saga Commercial High School, and their baseball team is also very strong. If I did not go to Guangling High School, I would also enroll by recommendation. "If you read Saga Business, I can watch you practice again."

"If you study accounting in Saga Business, you won't have to worry about finding a job." "Saga Business is very good!" Grandma never said that she wanted me to stay in Saga, but said those words from time to time. My heart began to waver. I really wanted to live with my mother, but I couldn't let go of leaving my grandma alone in Saga, and I had many friends in Saga.More importantly, in the past eight years, I have fallen in love with this super rural Saga with nothing. I only once tried to say to my grandmother: "Grandma, can I stay in Saga?" Grandma replied to me:

"What nonsense!" I kept worrying, but I still decided to go to Guangling High School.After high school, I will live in Hiroshima.Then participate in the Koshien competition. That was my dream, that dream kept supporting me, and I was determined to move towards it. That winter was really hectic, and it was graduation in a blink of an eye. On the morning of my white breath, I went out earlier than usual. In one week, I will be going to Hiroshima. I walked on the embankment, imagining the scene of my aunt leading me as a child. The young me who was deceived by adults, stunned, and tense.

Just as I was thinking, someone called me from behind. "Hey, Tokunaga." It's the teammates on the baseball team. Everyone seems to be very impetuous, and they all go out early.We walked to school together.The campus was full of voices and cheers could be seen everywhere, and the graduation ceremony reached its climax.Suddenly, everyone's figures became distant like a lens with a filter... The pink carnations on the chests of the friends who looked at each other with smiling faces were very vividly reflected in their eyes. "Did you really graduate today?" Suddenly, I felt a sense of peace as if it had nothing to do with me.

"Don't be reluctant anymore, now we are going to send off the graduates, please line up the ikebana for the current students, and line up for the graduates." The sound of the radio brought my consciousness back, and I lined up with my companions. The current students lined up on both sides, forming the flower path for the graduates to walk, and the sound of sobbing was heard everywhere. The drum band began to play the school song. "I respect my teacher..." In line with the singing of the students at school, we started walking. "Wow!" I don't know who yelled, breaking the dull atmosphere.

We baseball players ran across the flower path and rushed out of the school gate, and everyone laughed loudly.Then he laughed and looked at the sky and wept. There is a sense that, at this very moment, something is really over. One week later, in the morning, I left my grandmother's house with a small luggage bag.Grandma didn't send me off, and went to the river to wash the pot like usual morning.I said to my grandma's back: "Grandma, I'm leaving." "Okay, let's go." "Thank you for eight years." "Okay, let's go...ah, water..."

I peeped from behind her, grandma was crying.She rinsed the pot of water roughly, splashing water on her face. "Water...water..." "Grandma..." "Okay, let's go." "I will come to play during the summer vacation, you have to take care!" "Okay, let's go." "I'm leaving!" I turned around and started walking. On this day, the riverside in spring was peaceful, and two little white butterflies were chasing and playing, flying among the grass. When I reached the corner of the street, I turned around. "Grandma, take care!"

I waved vigorously, and grandma waved too. "Okay, let's go." There is really nothing to do with her. What a stubborn grandmother. "I'm going to my mother..." After I smiled and waved vigorously to grandma again, I turned around and walked. About twenty or thirty steps away. Grandma's voice came from behind: "do not go……"