Sunday, April 24, 2005
Labbyuki: A girl I once liked... and liked me.
Ingemar is currently unavailable right now. He's.... occupied with an essay, it appears. Thoreau. Hmmm, bless his heart (Ingy's, not Thoreau's)--he's been worried sick over the silly thing. I hope that he gets an A for all his anxiety. "A" for anxiety. Who would have guessed?
Tomkyou is absent as well. I heard him mutter something about going out with "Maurice and Archibald" and another thing about picking chunks of my flesh out of his teeth using my bones. Well, it is truly an insane person... cat... person-cat that keeps trying the same thing over and over again and expects different results.
Now that I have the place to myself for the moment, I just feel like... reminiscing. About many things. But if I really had to choose, there is only one thing I would like to remember for the moment. Rather, one person.... As you may or may not remember, I come from a laboratory. Hence, my name. The research group that worked in the lab was headed by Anthony Surpriso (M.D., Ph.D.). His research involved studying (and even synthesizing!) animal anomalies like me and Tomkyou. Naturally, I didn't want to be gawked at like...for lack of a better similie... a lab rat. But fortunately, my life wasn't restricted to the lab. When I was in my tender childhood months (6 mos, which is already into adulthood for rats, but infancy for humans), I had, what I shall from then on know as the greatest pleasure of meeting Dr. Supriso's daughter. Her name was Tohru. I had my suspicions about Tomkyou's story because it seemed like he wanted to take mine and twist it to his own ends. Anyway, Tohru was a brilliant girl, and in fact, so brilliant that at the age of ten, she was already in her first year of high school. Unfortunately, this meant that she had little friends--her high school classmates thought of her as a nerd, and in, fact, so did the kids her age. Anyway, I'm almost getting off track. Since Dr. Surpriso was saddened by Tohru's lack of friends, she decided it would help to aquaint her with other friends. So, for her tenth birthday, Dr. Surpriso introduced me as a "gift" to her.
She was not pleased.
I'm not so sure myself, but if I had trouble making friends, I would feel a bit insulted if my father thought the best way to do that was to introduce me to a total freakshow. I wasn't deterred, however. I'd rather take whatever flaming darts she would sling then return to the lab, and drudgery. I tried to get to know her... her likes, dislikes, anxieties, fears... her trouble making friends.... It wasn't easy, but I persisted. But there was one thing we had in common, that helped us bond together. We were both rejected by others. I, by the other rats in the lab, for being too wierd. As for humans--they saw me as an experimental sample rather than a person with feelings. Dr. Surpriso less so, but... I am part of his research. I told her that I knew how it felt to be an outsider, to be "wierd." Eventually she had sympathy with me. And after that, she started to call me her friend. After a while, we became almost inseperable.
As the years went by, Tohru opened herself up more and had more friends. I, on the other hand, decided to share my works and knowledge with other humans. Other rats still didn't accept me though. I still lived mostly in the lab, but Tohru visited very often. It made life more liveable.
Things changed, though. Four years later, she graduated and received many scholarships and invitations to go to Harvard. She did, and majored in Physics. Life in the lab became all the less liveable again. So I escaped. Though, I did hear gossip that she would assist her father some season or another--but I digress. Why base my hopes on feeble chatter--
Oh! Yuki! Father was getting worried about you!
TOHRU! It's been so long! How have you been!...and, what are you doing here?
Hey Yukes. I was walking down school one day, and happened to mention your name, and this girl immediately ran up to me and said, "You know Yuki? You have to show him to me!"
"Yukes." That's new.
Yuki, you'd better come back to the Lab now. Daddy's worried, and he says he'll try to make life more liveable for you here. Will you come back? Please?
Tohru, as much as I'd like to do anything for you, I just can't go back there. I like it here with Ingemar.
You know Yuki, if you're as chummy with Ms. Tohru here as she tells me you are, maybe you should listen to her.
You're trying to get rid of me aren't you? But don't worry, if it means so much to you, Tohru, I'll put up with anything.
Oh, you'd do that? Thank you Yuki! And don't worry--I'll be there often--no, I'll be there every day, so we'll have fun! I'm helping Daddy with his research now. Maybe, at the same time, we can chat and have fun like the old days. Okay?
Tohru... I would love that.
# posted by Ingemar @ 12:10 AM 
