In the evening, Shin Iwahashi went downstairs to check the mailbox and came up with a stack of New Year's postcards.
Writing a lot of New Year's greetings postcards in December, and then receiving a lot of New Year's greetings postcards in the first month, this has been my New Year's routine since I started working in this industry.
For people who only communicate on official business, postcards are sent to the company, and those sent to home are from acquaintances. Even so, the number is quite large.
Matsumoto Akiko, who he has not seen all year round, sent it to him, and the fat young man he met with from time to time sent it to him. Brother Nakamura and Miwa-chan, who are in the same band, also sent it to him. Watanabe Manyumi and he bowed their heads without looking up, and also sent them to him.
Still sending postcards to each other.
Exchanging postcards is equivalent to sending group greeting text messages during the New Year.
Most of Iwahashi Shinichi's acquaintances are from the entertainment industry, and there are not many artists in front of the stage. Most of them are behind the scenes.
The contents of the New Year's postcards were similar, and they were not interesting to read. With nothing to do, Shin Iwahashi looked at the postcards one by one.
After flipping through a few pages, I turned to the one sent by Akina Nakamori.
Last year, I got used to seeing her long, chatty letters, and the style of her New Year's postcards is very similar to the letters. It's not the standard template on New Year's postcards. If you read it carefully, you still maintain her chatty attitude.
style.
Shinichi Iwahashi read the postcard and remembered the record and letter he sent before Christmas, but Akina Nakamori had not replied yet.
I had a busy schedule last year and didn’t have time to write a reply. But...
He suddenly remembered something, got up, walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out the origami peacock that came with her last reply.
When I received the letter two years ago, there was supposed to be an origami class. However, due to the intensive schedule at the end of the year, it was also postponed.
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at the beautiful peacock, and while judging the difficulty of folding it, he recalled the promise of his bad teacher Akina Nakamori, "I will teach you seriously."
An idea came to his mind that if he couldn't learn how to fold a peacock, Nakamori Akina might not know how to write a reply.
It's never good to be assigned a new question before you can solve a question.
On New Year's Day this year, Akina Nakamori didn't call to say New Year greetings.
On the night of the Red and White Song Concert, the backstage was very busy, so I only met her while waiting and had no chance to talk.
Iwahashi Shinichi held the origami peacock, thought for a moment, came to the phone, and opened the address book.
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This year, Akina Nakamori stayed in her hometown during the day and did not leave early like last year.
My younger sister Mingsui ran out early in the morning to play small steel balls and didn't come back all day. Without the person who was most diametrically opposed to her at home, the atmosphere was not so tense.
Similarly, when Akiho is not around, Nakamori Akina can stick to her mother and chat coquettishly with her. If her younger sister is at home and sees her sitting with her mother, she will try her best to know what they are whispering.
In the end, it turned into a scene of mother and daughter chatting together.
This situation has not changed since she was a child, and it has not changed now that she and her sister have grown up.
When talking about Akiho to Iwahashi Shinichi, he bluntly said that the two sisters were fighting against each other. Now, sitting with her mother, Nakamori Akina thought of his "confrontation" words again.
Akiho, who is younger and more energetic, and Akina, who is frailer but more sensible. Ever since they competed for their mother's attention when they were young children, these two sisters have been natural rivals.
Iwahashi Shinichi is such a person who understands people's hearts when he reveals such a secret thing with just one word.
Not only that, he also has the reliability and gentleness to hand over others' hands when they need them.
Since their acquaintance, Nakamori Akina has been encouraged by him more than once, holding that hand in her heart and firming up the courage to take the next step.
Before this, I had never met anyone like Iwahashi Shinichi.
Affirm her value and encourage her to protect her dreams.
Although Iwahashi Shinichi is actually one year younger than her, Nakamori Akina respects him in her heart and regards him as someone with whom she can discuss matters and an important friend.
Until the night of the Kohaku Song Festival, I saw him holding hands with Yoshida Miwa.
I knew that Miwa Yoshida had a good relationship with him, and I heard him talk about how he met Miwa Yoshida and formed a band in order to realize her dream and enter the entertainment industry.
If it hadn't been for Miwa Yoshida, he would probably be working in another job right now, and nothing that happened later would have happened.
She obviously knew everything, but when she saw the two holding hands, talking and laughing, what Nakamori Akina thought in her heart was not "the relationship is as good as he said", but that she felt uncomfortable and subconsciously wanted to retreat.
I didn’t want to talk to Shinichi Iwahashi in that situation.
How weird is this reaction?
Throughout the day, Nakamori Akina kept recalling the feeling she wanted to avoid at that moment.
I don't want to see him so close to others...
Nakamori Akina gradually realized that the discomfort at that time was a kind of jealousy. He was jealous of Yoshida Miwa who was so close to him.
In addition to jealousy, I was also unhappy. I was unhappy to see him and Yoshida Miwa being so close.
When she realized this, she was shocked.
She respects Iwahashi Shinichi and regards him as someone with whom she can discuss matters and an important friend. However, would she feel such jealousy when looking at her friends and the opposite sex with whom she is close?
It seems like something has changed.
Was it a change that occurred at the moment when he saw him and Yoshida Miwa holding hands, or was it a possibility that happened quietly without him realizing it, and was only reminded and touched when he saw them acting intimately?
Woolen cloth?
No matter which one it was, a brand new possibility suddenly opened up in front of her.
However, facing this new possibility, Nakamori Akina was at a loss as to how to deal with this change.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't know anything. She was the only one who felt jealous and unhappy. Because of this, she didn't know how to face him. She didn't even know how to call him for New Year's greetings on the first day of the year.
When a new possibility opened up before her, she realized how little she knew about him.
I was chatting with my mother when suddenly my mother reminded me: "Akari-chan, the pager is ringing."
Her mother, Chieko, had surgery not long ago and is not in good health, so she has been recuperating at home. However, as her body becomes weaker, her hearing and observation skills seem to have become sharper.
When Nakamori Akina came home, her second brother complained to her that her mother's hearing was too good and she couldn't even whisper at home.
"ah."
Akina Nakamori stood up, took the bag, looked at the number, and didn't know what to do.
"Is he an important contact?" Chieko looked at her daughter's expression.
Akina Nakamori held the pager, without saying yes or no, "I'm going to make a call, mother."
