1Chapter 1- Prologue
Today was the day. With nothing left in her home but emptiness it was time to live the dream. Aya was moving to Midgar to make herself a new life. Her room was empty, packed into boxes that were in her old small run down car. She was packing the last box, putting her photo album away last, but before she did, she opened the old leather bound cover. She saw pictures of her first birthday, her mother, but mostly of her and her childhood best friend, Reno. She frowned bitterly remembering him. She remembered the day he left to make his own life, to live his dream, and how her promised to come back for her. She remembered when he stopped writing, stopped caring. Most of all she remembered the last day she ever saw him.
He told her to meet him at the beach in the morning, but when she got there, there was nothing but a small daisy with a note tied to the flower taped to the large rock they spent so many days, afternoons, and nights sitting on, on that beach where they talked about everything. She picked up the flower and opened the small piece of paper slowly. It read...
"By the time you read this, I will be on the train... I'm sorry Aya, this morning I woke up and I knew it would be too hard to say goodbye to you. So I figured leaving this flower and piece of paper in apology was the only way I could bring myself to leave being able to remember what you look like when you smile. I didn't want to be the last thing I remembered of you to be your crying face..."
Aya was obviously in tears at this point, but continued to read.
"I'll come back for you... I promise."
She reread the first line and clutched the letter to her chest. She turned and ran for the train station as fast as her small feet would carry her. Breathing heavily, clutching her chest in pain, the tears weren't making running any easier. She had to see him one more time. It was all she could think, see, breath. She ran frantically through the streets, pushing through the morning rush. Onlookers stared at the determined girl. When she finally arrived at the train station she found the platform that the train to Midgar was leaving from. She began to cry his name into the crowd.
Reno heard his name and turned to look, and that's when their eyes locked through the window. He saw her, and her tears. It tore him apart. Even more-so when she collapsed grasping her chest. He tried to run to her, but the doors shut and it was too late. The train started and rolled away from her collapsed form on the pavement. The young and frail Aya had over exerted herself. She was helped up by a brown haired boy around her age and moved to a bench and fetched her a glass of water. All Reno could do was watch with his hand against the pane till the two were out of sight.
That was four years ago...
Aya remembered that it was also the day she met her future room mate, Logan. After Reno was gone, Aya spent her free time with the green eyed boy. They went to school together, Logan was two years older than her. They became fast friends. So when they graduated they decided they would get a place together. Logan had already been in Midgar for four years. Aya had finished school two years ago but couldn't leave. He was already in Midgar awaiting her arrival. Now she was finally able to leave. Aya packed the photo album and sealed the box and carried it down the old creaking stairs of her childhood home, passing the mirror her mother used to look at herself in every time before she left the house. All Aya saw was a pair of sad blue eyes surrounded by a sea of black hair. After one last look at her slim build in blue jeans and a black tee shirt carrying a box she continued down the hall. She exited the building and walked passed the for sale sign. Her neighbor leaning against the side of her car.
"You'll take care of the realtor business for me Chris, right?" Aya asked the older blonde man.
"Yeah, just take care of yourself. I'll call you when we have a serious offer."
"Just leave me a message. Once all the paperwork is done I'll come close on the house." She frowned as she loaded the last box into the passenger side of her vehicle.
"Good luck kiddo." He patted her on the back. She smiled at her neighbor and got into the driver seat and waved goodbye to the life she once knew, for her new life.