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Monday. 10/24/05. 04:21:45 AM
Eiji's relationships were random, in spots here and there. The
first girl that the Mock could find in Eiji's trail was someone
Eiji had met in early High School freshmen year, the
relationship broken when she had to move, due to the fact that
her father was in the military, and the move that eventually
followed.
"We tried to keep it going for a while," She said on the phone,
her voice now rough from cigarette smoke. "But it just didn't
work out, you know?" A pause. "It was kind of like a mutual
thing, we drifted apart, he looked for other girls, and I looked
for other guys, you know?"
The second girl in the trail still lived back in Kettering,
Ohio, where Eiji resided when he first moved here to the United
States. She was now pregnant with two kids, the oldest being
five, despite the fact that she was probably only twenty-three
or twenty-two. "Eiji had this kind of mood swing, you know?" She
recalled. "Sometimes he'd be the nicest guy ever, but sometimes
he'd be the biggest bastard in the entire world." She laughed.
"He'd always go into anything head on, with all the enthusiasm
he had, and then get bored of it as fast as he could." She
paused as a child cried in the background, her head turning back
towards him. "I think that's the reason our relationship went
out." She continued, as she started to get up. "He just got
bored of it, after a while, and sort of became distant."
"His biggest problem was probably the fact that he couldn't get
himself to be committed to anyone." His third relationship, the
one that lasted the longest, which was almost six months, spoke
to Ryo as the Waffle House waitress filled their coffee cups up.
"I mean, he would call you as soon as he felt lonely, but he
would ignore you or find excuses to not pick up the phone
whenever he wanted to be alone." Sips of coffee, the people
talking in the background. "I remember that he would call me his
girlfriend, yet tell his friends that he wouldn't really
consider anyone a real 'girlfriend' till he had dated them for
over six months." She chuckled at this. "He would tell me this
and say that we were both in a relationship, in a courting
position or something like that."
The few girls before and after her were pretty much one night
stands, barely remembering Eiji from parties or meetings. Most
of them slept with him while drunk, while others while they were
drugged, neither of them going further than that little moment
shared at that moment.
"He was nice to hang out with, and he would never object to
going anywhere." His fourth relationship told Ryo through the
phone. She was the only girl who still kept touch with Eiji,
friends even after the end of their relationship. "But he always
seemed like he was losing interest in the relationship week
after week." She sighed. "Even though he wouldn't say it, you
could tell that he was bored of the relationship, till we sort
of just broke up." A pause. "He didn't even look sad when I told
him it was over."
"It's not true." A male voice came through from the other end of
the line.
And just like that, the phone went dead, and Ryo was left over
with the deafening buzz of the line.
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