Post by sgamer82 on Jan 20, 2018 20:03:48 GMT
What if Eri had accepted her Harvard scholarship?
Word Count: ~506 Words
Eri Kisaki was not, as a rule, prone to daydreaming or of flights of fancy. She was a woman grounded in reality. Every so often, however, something came around that made her think. To consider the choices of her life and where they might have led her.
Eri's last client had been such a catalyst. She had taken the case to defend him against charges of embezzling from his business. He hadn't been particularly subtle, however, and the prosecution had him dead to rights. He had strenuously resisted Eri's advice to cut a deal while he still could. It would have been just another day, except the client had complained incessantly about his ex-wife. The hag, to use his word, was apparently trying to take him for everything he had, so or course he had started putting a little off to the side, out of sight.
Eri had not been sympathetic. She had kept her cool, however, and repeated her advice and her reasons. The whole meeting left Eri in a foul mood. The kind of mood that made her think of what could've been.
Where would she have wound up if she had taken that scholarship to Harvard? If she hadn't chosen to stay in Japan with her friends and loved ones. She almost certainly would never have married one of those loved ones. Maintaining a relationship while overseas would have been a chore at the best of times. Whether Eri could have managed it or not, she knew he never would have.
On the other hand, maybe he would. Kogoro Mouri could always surprise Eri when he had a mind to.
She wouldn't be a small time defense attorney. One of many in Tokyo. A Harvard graduate was a cherished commodity. The world would have been her oyster. She might not even have returned to Japan, instead finding the high life in the land of the free.
Her old friends and family would become a distant, far away memory.
Eri sighed. These little games of imagining the path not taken always left her melancholic. The idea that one decision could have sent her life in a whole other direction was one thing. The idea it might have sent her in an objectively better one only left her feeling worse about the life she had now.
When Eri got like this, there was only one cure.
Eri pulled out her phone and, as she dialed, she thought of only one thing. The one part of her current life she had never regretted. The one aspect of it that Eri Kisaki the Harvard Graduate could never, ever have had. Not in the way Eri Kisaki, formerly Eri Mouri, absolutely did.
The other line rang. Then…
"Mom?"
"Hello, Ran," Eri said. "Are you busy?"
"Not at all," Ran said. "I'm just finishing up some studying. Is everything alright?"
"Everything is fine. I was just hoping we could talk for a bit" Eri said. She leaned back in her chair and smiled.
"I felt like hearing your voice."
Word Count: ~506 Words
Eri Kisaki was not, as a rule, prone to daydreaming or of flights of fancy. She was a woman grounded in reality. Every so often, however, something came around that made her think. To consider the choices of her life and where they might have led her.
Eri's last client had been such a catalyst. She had taken the case to defend him against charges of embezzling from his business. He hadn't been particularly subtle, however, and the prosecution had him dead to rights. He had strenuously resisted Eri's advice to cut a deal while he still could. It would have been just another day, except the client had complained incessantly about his ex-wife. The hag, to use his word, was apparently trying to take him for everything he had, so or course he had started putting a little off to the side, out of sight.
Eri had not been sympathetic. She had kept her cool, however, and repeated her advice and her reasons. The whole meeting left Eri in a foul mood. The kind of mood that made her think of what could've been.
Where would she have wound up if she had taken that scholarship to Harvard? If she hadn't chosen to stay in Japan with her friends and loved ones. She almost certainly would never have married one of those loved ones. Maintaining a relationship while overseas would have been a chore at the best of times. Whether Eri could have managed it or not, she knew he never would have.
On the other hand, maybe he would. Kogoro Mouri could always surprise Eri when he had a mind to.
She wouldn't be a small time defense attorney. One of many in Tokyo. A Harvard graduate was a cherished commodity. The world would have been her oyster. She might not even have returned to Japan, instead finding the high life in the land of the free.
Her old friends and family would become a distant, far away memory.
Eri sighed. These little games of imagining the path not taken always left her melancholic. The idea that one decision could have sent her life in a whole other direction was one thing. The idea it might have sent her in an objectively better one only left her feeling worse about the life she had now.
When Eri got like this, there was only one cure.
Eri pulled out her phone and, as she dialed, she thought of only one thing. The one part of her current life she had never regretted. The one aspect of it that Eri Kisaki the Harvard Graduate could never, ever have had. Not in the way Eri Kisaki, formerly Eri Mouri, absolutely did.
The other line rang. Then…
"Mom?"
"Hello, Ran," Eri said. "Are you busy?"
"Not at all," Ran said. "I'm just finishing up some studying. Is everything alright?"
"Everything is fine. I was just hoping we could talk for a bit" Eri said. She leaned back in her chair and smiled.
"I felt like hearing your voice."