Thread: Life is a Game (TriniMad & Blue Hatter)

It was a bright, warm day in Chiba, Japan with the sun sitting in in the blue sky that had only a few fluffy white clouds, and the sun shone down on the city, bathing the earth in a brilliant golden yellow glow. Though perhaps warm was an understatement, honestly it was hot, blisteringly hot, and the fact that there was no breeze at all certainly didn't help matters. Kenta Tatchibana was just one of the many people suffering in the sweltering heat. He was on his way home after another day at college, and though he had a car college wasn't too far from the Tachibana household so he usually just walked to his classes. Right now that was a decision he was very much regretting, if he had drove in he would have been home long ago and relaxing in the cool breeze of an air conditioner. Perhaps it was no surprise that he was hurrying home as quickly as he could, though this was only making him feel even hotter. Yes, Kenta was still living at home with his mother, father and younger sister. It wasn't a bad arrangement, really, and it gave him time to save up money from his part-time job and get a place of his own later. His parents had often told him that so long as he went to college that he was welcome to say at the house, and it was an offer he had clearly taken them up on. But he did pay them some rent, he wasn't total freeloader. He and his sister got along about as well as any other brother and sister did, he supposed. They were close, or so he thought, though there was a fair amount of teasing between the two of them-- though perhaps most of the teasing came from him-- and they did have their occasional arguments, but the latter was to be expected, all siblings fought every now and then. Despite how much he teased his younger sister he did care about her greatly and was always looking out for her and watching over her even if he wouldn't openly admit it. He always did his best to protect her. That was a brother's duty after all, right? Kenta wore a simple black button-up shot-sleeved jacket with white stripes on the sleeves, a red T-shirt with the logo of a local band and bold kanji characters that spelled out Wasabi Senpai, the name of the band he also wore a pair of faded and worn black jeans and old black and white sneakers. The clothes he wore were a bit too hot for the weather but they were his usual style and old habits were hard to break even if they did lead to suffering. The walk from the college to the family home took a good twenty minutes but finally he had arrived. Upon reaching the front door he fished the house key from his left hip pocket and slid it into the key slot on the door knob, turned it until he heard it click and unlock, and then he turned the knob, pushed the door open and slipped inside. He let the door close behind him and lock, and then, finally, he breathed a sigh of relief at the rush of cool air within the house. Much better! He wasn't sure if anyone else was home yet but he wasn't too keen on checking it out just yet, not until he got some water in his system, so he made his way to the kitchen and withdrew a glass from the nearby cupboard, a filtered water pitcher from the refrigerator, then filled the glass with some water, plopped in a few cubes of ice from the freezer, and greedily began to gulp down the cold liquid. He could almost feel his body temperature dropping.