Chapter 2
The sweet smell of petals falling got Mei's attention, so she peered out the window and towards the cherry tree in her garden. The swirling petals made intricate patterns as it fell. She sighed as memories came flooding …
/ flashback /
"Touru-kun! Where are you?" She cried. They were playing hide and seek and it had been hours already. She lay hidden in a bush near the cherry tree and it was getting dark. Shaking from the cold and from the darkness, she gave out a whimper. Touru hadn't found her yet. Baka, Touru! She cried out, to ward off the cold feeling within her and to scare away those frightful demons that may lurk. Timidly and bravely, she crept out of her hiding place.
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He sprinted through the darkness and shivered slightly as he a cold blast of wind met him.
"Mei-chan, where are you?" He shouted into the darkness, begging … pleading for the darkness to give back his light, his best friend.
He hung his head … almost giving up. Why am I such a baka … baka baka baka! I can't believe I slept in the couch! He banged his hand onto his forehead, stressing the point.
"Mei-chan …" He stared in front of him, somewhat dazed. Then suddenly, he heard a sob … a small timid whimper. Scared … searching … etched with fear. Hope filling him with bright resolve, he walked briskly towards the sound … hoping.
"Touru-kun … where are you?"
Mei-chan! Hope was filled him with renewed strength and triumph as he cried out. "Mei-chan!" Then he saw it … his light, returned. His prayer was heard as his light was brought back to him from the shadows and the intoxicating scent of the cherry tree's swirling petals.
He heard him sob and sniff as she dashed towards him and embraced him tightly.
"B-baka Touru-kun!"
Touru smiled meekly. "Gomen … Mei-chan." He hugged her tighter as petals swirled and danced with joy for them in the night.
/ end of flashback/
How many years has it been? She wondered as she looked down and resumed reading her reviewer for her entrance exams. She closed her tired eyes trying to remember … How long has it been since we last saw, talked to each other, wrote to each other … ?
She remembered the countless letters that they wrote to each other over the years. The last thing she remembered was that Touru was doing well. He found new friends, was getting high grades and still playing basketball as he used to. Then, she stopped replying to him … feeling jealous about everything. The friends that talked to him and the people around him. Why can't she be the one to be with him.
Was she jealous … obsessed with him even?
He still kept on writing … she looked at the right side of her desk. On it was an envelope … a letter from Touru-kun. He still wrote despite all the selfish things I did.
I always told him that he was a baka … but I'm also one. A selfish baka.
She sighed as she remembered all too clearly what happened to her after. Those memories were still too vivid.
After he left, nothing seems to go right. I stayed away from people. I became so distant.
I became a shell of what I was. From the out-going, cheerful, active and naïve little girl, I became a distant, quiet, selfish baka.
I tried to make friends at first … but nothing really happened after.
Nothing …
I still miss him … I truly do, but it pains me to see his perfect life diminish if I step forward again into the light as a ghost of what I was.
~ to be continued ~
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Author's note: I really am sorry if it is short … I haven't been myself lately :P … Anyway, next part is Hanagata's point of view over the matter … ^.^ R&R! Arigatou!