My Girl 14

Chapter 14: Just want to be like Mama

Page 1
1- Koharu-chan, // what is this shape?
2- Hmm?
3- This hamburger…
4- That is a ladybird.
5- Doesn’t looked like it!
6- Oh…
7- Is it for your daddy? // Then what about a heart-shaped?
8- Heart-shaped?

Page 2
1- Oji-san is very simple. That is why by doing so, he will be elated!
2- Okay…
3- …
4- Are you joking? You said that you are pregnant? Youko…
5- It is the truth. I just came back from the hospital.
6- How did this…
7- This is too sudden. What are you going to do?
8- Firstly it is better that you don’t study abroad first. We need to discuss about it. // Who is the father? The one going out with you, Kazama?

Page 3
1- Don’t leak this to Masamune-kun.
2- I want to bring up the child alone.
3- Don’t take this matter lightly.
4- Do you understand it?
5- Do you know how pitiful is a single parent household going to be? // Do you want your child to even undergo that?
6- Am I pitiful? // I don’t even know that…
7- Sfx: Hmm
8- Huh?
9- The dad will have another family of his own…
10- And a single parented household will occasionally be given cold shoulders by the others. // Isn’t that all to it?

Page 4
1- It is as what you had mentioned earlier… but you…
2- The one who has an inferior complex is only you, Mama. // I have given up on that thought a long time ago.
3- It is because… do you remember?
4- During my elementary grade 4 sports meet // In the father paired up event…
5- Is your dad not participating?
6- Upon seeing that other people’s dad are participating in the competition, // I had been made fun off by my class.
7- It can’t be help that she doesn’t have a dad!
8- Hahaha…
9- At that time unexpectedly …
10- Mama will run!
11- Aah…
12- What are you talking about Mama?
13- You don’t have to force yourself!
14- Ah! I will never lose to those pot-bellied uncles…
15- I must be going now!

Page 5
1- It doesn’t matter if you run off smiling being a sports idiot…
2- In the end you fell down dramatically only half way into the race and got the last position…
3- I’m sorry, Youko…
4- But…
5- I’ve lost.
6- But I…
7- Don’t have a problem with it.
8- I felt that this is the type of mama that I am proud of compared to anyone else in the world.

Page 6
1- I have decided to bring this child up alone… // the reason could be partially due to the path that Mama took.
2- I…
3- Want to be a Mum, just like Mama.
4- I’m sorry, Mama.
5- You are really crafty.

Page 7
1- Crafty…
2- Are you really going off without taking dinner?
3- Yeah!
4- It is rare that you decide to keep me back for dinner. But if I’m not back for dinner, my dad might rant on me…
5- Auntie, sorry // Sorry to trouble you.
6- I will go for a check-up tomorrow.
7- It’s okay. // Even though I am not that reliable, you can still look for me.
8- Koharu-chan, bye bye.
9- Please take care of Hanna!
10- Yeah… Right!

Page 8
1- …
2- An…
3- Anna onee-chan, do you have a baby in your tummy?
4- Eh… // That… that hasn’t been confirmed.
5- You say that you don’t want the child…
6- Is it because you don’t want to become unfortunate?
7- ?
8- Everybody in the class said, being a single mom takes a lot of hard work. Hence, unfortunate.

Page 9
1- Is it that Anna onee-chan doesn’t want to become unfortunate, hence saying that you don’t want the child?
2- Then is it that a mom bringing up a child alone is being regarded as unfortunate?
3- No… That isn’t true, Koharu-chan.
4- Then why did you say that you don’t have the child?
5- That is… That is because…
6- Koharu-chan… // Stop asking Onee-chan such complicated things.
7- But… But…
8- Waa Waa
9- Aah… Aiya
10- I’m sorry… sorry // Koharu-chan…
11- It is all my fault.
12- I don’t have that meaning.
13- Sfx: Sniff

Page 10
1- It is okay… Fine… really…
2- Sfx: Waa Waa
3- Shucks… // What should I do…
4- …
5- Yeah…
6- About that…
7- I’m back…
8- Sfx: Waa Waa
9- And nobody seems to notice me…

Page 11
1- Granny, where’s Masamune-kun?
2- Huh? // He is bringing Anna home.
3- Heh…
4- I’m sorry, Granny…
5- It’s okay… It doesn’t matter..
6- I understand Koharu-chan’s feelings…
7- Granny is the same in the past…
8- Because of yourself, you let the people important to you suffer… // no matter who is it, nobody wish for that to happen…
9- Come over here…

Page 12
1- Koharu-chan… // To bring up a child alone requires a lot of hard work like everyone had said…
2- That is why Anna’s thoughts aren’t wrong…
3- But… you don’t misunderstand…
4- Youko decided to give birth to Koharu-chan…
5- Is because she is well awared of the challenges and also she wished to meet Koharu-chan…
6- Mama… Mama…
7- That is why… Youko’s hard work does not mean she’s unfortunate.
8- Just like me in the past…
9- You have to remember this point…
10- All right…
11- Hmph…
12- I understand…

Page 13
1- I might be hated by Koharu-chan…
2- She is the first friend that my younger sister has made…
3- Eh?
4- That isn’t such a thing… // You guys are willing to play with her and we are grateful about it!
5- … // Oji-san…
6- How did you go out with Youko when it started?
7- Aah?
8- It is because from what I’ve heard. // She doesn’t want to trouble Oji-san and decides to give birth to Koharu-chan all by herself.
9- Aah… Eh… // That is right.
10- Even though I was only in high school at that time, but I didn’t notice this matter. I was too foolish… // Such an embarrassment.

Page 14
1- This is not it! // I am not blaming you!
2- I am trying to ask on how you guys get along and why did she is willing to go to that extent for you?
3- ?
4- It is because in this world there isn’t anyone for the sake of Oji-san and Koharu-chan…
5- Decide to resolve things on her own.
6- If… // it was me…
7- I will be afraid of the glares by my parents, my boyfriend and the people surrounding me. And be scared into not confronting them.
8- I will first try to hide… // Before this whole mess gets out, I will pretend that it didn’t happen…
9- Sfx: Sniff
10- What… // What happen to you?
11- Sfx: Waa Waa

Page 15
1- Please don’t mind me. I am a bit mentally fragile…
2- Sfx: Sniff
3- She’s telling me not to mind her…?
4- Kids these days are difficult to understand…
5- That’s right, Oji-san…
6- If you had knew of Koharu-chan’s matter while in high school… // Would you still want to be that kid’s dad?
7- …
8- I sometimes…
9- What will I do?
10- About this…
11- Dream.
12- Even though it could be that I am thinking too perfectly… // But I still wish…
13- That I could have the same answer just as now…
14- Sfx: Grab
15- Huh?

Page 16
1- Aah- What are you doing, Shiro?
2- Huh?
3- Sfx: Thump
4- Isn’t this Oji-san the cause of you crying?
5- Eh?
6- Of course not. He is the father of my sister’s friend!
7- Eh… // Sorry…
8- What shall we do?
9- Stop giving me problems!
10- Besides that what are you doing here?

Page 17
1- I should be the one asking the question… // When I saw you this morning, you are weird. That’s why I came over to look…
2- I… I’m fine! You can go back now.
3- Aah… // This is too much. I ran over here and even disregard tomorrow’s morning shift.
4- Sfx: Guilt
5- What is work? // I haven’t seen you properly for a week!
6- What happened?
7- Looking at your foul mood, is it because of the exam preparation stress?
8- It isn’t!
9- Besides it is because I can’t grasp the main points. That is why I’m stressed.

Page 18
1- Is it because you missed a drama episode?
2- It isn’t!
3- You said you want to borrow money. It is because you want to purchase new clothes?
4- Are you an idiot?
5- Or is it because you are now on a diet?
6- This is getting noisy!
7- Then it must be because I ate the biscuit of yours?
8- It doesn’t matter if you had eaten it!
9- Aah…
10- Sfx: Hahaha
11- Don’t tell me that it is pregnancy?
12- Even though it’s a wild guess…
13- Sfx: Impact
14- Damn…
15- Eh…

Page 19
1- Preg… // Pregnancy…?
2- Onee-chan, we are here for you.
3- Dad…
4- ? // ?
5- The 14th Day: FIN