Hey! This young lady Jia Hui is translating the keitai shousetsu Koizora over here at http://jiahuishousetsutranslation.blogspot.com/ - check it out. Koizora isn't high art or anything, but you'll be able to see pretty quick why I fell in love with the format. Also, it corrected my spelling of shousetsu, which I believe is the most accurate or at least the spelling most often used by folks in the know.
getting back to fairview is weird its not like i had some super-great time at my parents or anything like that
but its like i miss it at home already even though im kind of glad to be back at fairview in this way that i completely cannot explain
but mostly im just pretty bummed out that greg wasthe only guy i really hung out with the whole time i was there
i mean no one else even called me back at all or whatever and that pretty much sucked so when
i go back up into the dorm richies back and i hang out with him for awhile and thats pretty cool cuz hes not being a dick
and we talk about how weird home was and how no one would hang out with me cuz of the gun thing and it comes to my mind
that richie totally did not give a shit about the gun thing at all which was awesome and even though hes a creep in other ways
i guess i am too or whatever so hes talking about his time at home and how he didnt hang out with anybody either and it was lonely
and strange and he doesnt
talk about his parents at all except to say that they hardly exist anymore which is fine with him
and i think about how my folks really arent there at all either but im still not totally cool with that but then again
im not sure what i do want cuz if they were in my shit all the time id probably freak out anyway
the most surprising thing is that richie goes -this may sound weird but i think that maybe we should
-like try to make more friends- and thats kind of what i was feeling too but i totally didnt expect that from richie and i tell him
and he goes all sheepish like he got caught doing something -yeah i know but its like you know i totally
-get sick of just hanging out with you all the time- and im like –thanks- and he goes –no no i know you get sick of me too-
and i say -yeah totally especially when you say shit like that- he scoffs -its not about that its more like just idk
-trying harder everybody here cant be a total smackhead you know- and im like
–what happened to you over break that made you come back all like mary poppins-
he sighs -idk i just thought maybe that theres a way to be like healthier you know- shrugs -idk- so i go
-okay lets try to be like more social justin can be pretty cool- and richies like -the kid with the hair- and he makes this big
swooping motion over his face and im like -yeah- and he goes -well i mean yeah we gotta try right itll be like an experiment-
so we go through school and stuff the next couple of days and i can see that richies trying really hard
not to be as much of an asshole like in class he doesnt call guys out on
being dumbasses as much
and in the dorm he starts hanging out in the common room more even though he just reads and doesnt say anything
so the one night the 40s are out and guys are taking hits off the bong and theres this time travel movie on the flatscreen and
guys start talking about time travel and richie puts his book down for like the first time ever and listens
and im drinking with justin on one of the couches and frejean blurts out totally baked -time travel would be awesome-
big bald tyshawn goes
–hells yes go back to the 60s do nothing but smoke weed trip balls and get my dick sucked-
frejean responds -id go back to gladiator times thats my favorite shit get me a big-ass sword some slave bitches some wine
-pretty sweet son- then richie suddenly cuts in -you cant go back in time- and all of them look over at him kind of shocked
that he even talked frejean scoffs -no shit sherlock but fuckin what if you know fuckin what if- richie throws his arm over
the back of the chair hes in and goes -no no i mean you can absolutely travel in time no doubt you just cant go back
-you can only travel forward in time- blank stoned looks in return richie hikes himself up in the chair -time is a river right it just keeps flowing along
-but as soon as you notice a moment its past you it flowed by you the past isnt behind us its way out in front of us far far away-
tyshawn takes a sip off his 40 -so if you cant go back in time how do you travel forward-
richie smiles -well you know were actually travelling forward in time right now and now and- points -now-
frejean scowls -aw fuck you man thats all you got- richie shakes his head -naw im just being a dick- and im kind of amazed by that
-to travel forward in time all you ultimately have to do is somehow get out of the river of time out of the flow of time
-and just wait for time to pass by you and then like jump back in- he shrugs -you just have to find a way out of the flow which is a bitch-
this kid tyler all glassy-eyed murmurs -yr kind of blowing my mind right now- frejean actually seems interested
- so what could take somebody out of the time stream- and richie goes
-well death- frejean scowls again
-no doubt fuckhead- and richie leans in hard -no listen what if death takes you out but you find a way to stay aware after death
-what if you stay you and you come back in the future just in a different body with a different name- richie shakes his head in amazement
-wouldnt that be like travelling in time- tyshawn turns and points at richie accusingly -i got
-no idea what yr talking about right now dude none- and richie just gets up shrugs at me with his hands open and leaves
tyshawn and frejean go back to talking about fucking past-bitches and i help justin finish the 40 and head back to my room
so pretty much the next day me and richie get together and make an informed decision that our experiment
was a miserable failure and that we should steal another car as soon as humanly possible
