Chapter #4Jon, Kokoro and me by: sith   I am quite convinced that everyone knows those events you are eagerly looking forward because they are bound to be fun and to become a nice, lovely memory in the end, an experience that you are able to look on fondly and with a certain feeling of nostalgia.
But at the same time, I guess that everyone knows the contrary of these promising events. Events you might be looking forward to, but that turn out to be completely different from your expectations. Now, whether that´s good or bad depends on the circumstances, but rest assured that on that day I am going to tell you about, things really did take a different turn from my expectations, to say the least, "allowing" me to relive one of the craziest and most amazing experiences of my entire life once again...
It all started one week after my most peculiar shrinking accident that brought me quite into some predicaments and eventually inside my best pal Jon, which made me feel like a micronaut, if you will...or like Dennis Quaid in that "Innerspace" flick. With the considerable difference in my case being that the person whose body I was trapped inside was not some paranoid jerk (or Martin Short, to be precise...), but much rather a most respectable, extremely intelligent, calm and strong person, someone I am proud to call a best friend of mine. And one week after my amazing journey throughout Jon´s body (a trip I am glad I was able to survive...), it was of course still hard to believe that all this really happened to me, and to be perfectly honest, I still wasn´t so sure what to think of it. It certainly was quite a scary and intimidating voyage, no doubts there, and at several points I thought I was gonna die inside my best friend, a situation too cynical to be put into mere words. But then again...this journey wasn´t just the equivalent of a nightmare come true in the most horrible way imaginable. No, it was also a more than intriguing and fascinating trip to places hardly anyone has ever seen with his or her own eyes before from this direct angle, if you will, and it was more than amazing to see my best friend from the inside - even though, admittedly, I would have preferred to see my beloved Kokoro from the inside...but hey, if you go onto a shrinking adventure and wind up inside the body of a good friend, you cannot really choose who it´s gonna be, you know...
Ah, speaking of ma belle Kokoro, this brings me to the beginning of another adventure, an adventure that once again involved my friend Jon and me...an adventure I like to describe as a dejà vu in cruel way and a completely new experience all at the same time. You will see.
One must say that Kokoro is not just an extremely beautiful, smart and kind hearted girl. No, it´s also pretty obvious that she is from a family with a high social status...after all, she was able to arrange an evening at one of the most expensive fancy-schmancy restaurants one can think of with a french name that implied that the proprietors don´t expect their guests to speak french that well - one of those cliched restaurants with the stereotypical arrogant french waiter - for Jon, his girlfriend Christine (and to my joy, it seemed like Christine really seemed to be the perfect match for Jon, as she was not only pretty, but also quite witty and intelligent, just like Jon himself...I was really hoping for the two to get together, since Jon really deserved such a wonderful girlfriend, being a wonderful person himself), Kokoro herself...well, and me, of course. According to Jon, it was pretty much a surprise that some normal-Joes like us were able to be put onto the list for this evening, but as I already mentioned, Kokoro´s family was one of the most highly regarded in Japan, with her ancestors having been members of an old dynasty that brought forth some tennos (tenno is the Japanese term for their Emperor) over the centuries, and nowadays, her father was the CEO of a highly influential conglomerate of electronic-enterprises, making her practically one of the richest girls in Japan. Which makes it all the more peculiar to see that Kokoro is working here in the United States together with Jon at an almost sci-fi like company. Even more amazing is the fact that someone as remarkable as her...chose someone as insignificant as me to be her boyfriend. Sometimes, I am still wondering how I got so lucky, why fate allowed me to be together with the girl I fell in love with the moment I first saw her. Perhaps it is true that there are some girls in this world who are able to look behind mere appearances and see true beauty in its purest form: kindness, kindness I´ve shown toward Kokoro to the best of my abilities...and sometimes in a rather clumsy way that Kokoro obviously still liked a lot, judging from her cute giggles I sometimes got as an answer, followed by a hug that words would only fail to describe..."amazing" would be an understatement, in any case.
And of course I knew somehow that Jon was the mastermind behind our first meeting, that he arranged it because he must have seen that the two of us would be the perfect couple - at least in his opinion. And that´s...that´s why I will always be thankful for what he did for me. And that´s why I was not in the least bit angry at Jon when he accidentally swallowed me when I was so small, not after all he did for me; after all the proof for being the best friend I ever had, almost like a big brother I was never fortunate enough to have...
(Note to Sage: you may already continue if you want to. I will probably add a small paragraph about Kokoro´s and my walk through the park and to the restaurant, but it won´t influence your next chapter in any way, so feel free to add!)  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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