Alexis: Hey, guys! Wish you'd love the story. Dedicated to my twin and Kathyrine. :)
Disclaimer: Alice Academy isn't mine!
Summary: A waiting heart still survives with a never-forgotten promise. But will it still be waiting forever? She sacrificed everything for him, lived a life full of longing and heartache, waiting for him to take her in his arms and never let go... But a heart can't wait forever, can it?
A Waiting Heart
10 years had past yet she still waited for him.
She stood there by the open door, which opened to the terrace. From where she stood, she could see a couple, both seemed happy and satisfied with each others company. The girl was smiling brightly while the boy appeared to be amused with her.
She looked at them enviously - being happy and all. She also wanted to be hugged. To be loved. To be wanted and to be appreciated just like them but no...
She was shook back to reality when someone called her attention.
"Mikan, you should give him a chance." Her friend persuaded her. She had been doing this for awhile now.
"No. I told you. I'm in love with somebody else." That was my firm answer. And yes, I was Mikan Sakura.
"Are you crazy or are you just stupid? HE left you and for 10 long years, you waited for him! He never came back so don't tell me 10 years isn't that long!" Hotaru Imai, her friend, retorted.
Mikan studied her friend with a thoughtful expression. Hotaru sat down on a nearby couch while she still stood by the door.
Mikan's hotel room consisted of an elegant bed, well-designed couches, a TV completed with a DVD player, radio, a computer, a laptop, a bathroom with a Jacuzzi and two big closets – one for the beautiful outfits and another for the chic accessories.
She was rich, beautiful and also talented. Not only is she bright and beautiful, she is also kind-hearted.
"NO, I AM neither of the two and besides, I love Natsume. He-he's the only one for me." Mikan tried to explain.
"Hmmm...Well, she has a point there Hotaru." Tsubasa Andou said out-loud.
He was also seated on the couch with Misaki Harada, his girlfriend and Mikan's cousin.
Misaki stood up and reasoned. "But Mikan can't wait for him forever, you know?"
"You both have points, okay?" Mikan flailed her hands in frustration.
Their topic was about whether or not Mikan should agree to marry another one of her suitors. Because of her beauty, brains and talent, she was admired by many, but, mostly loved.
Her suitor was none other than the archenemy of Natsume Hyuuga, Reo – a famous singer who had courted her for almost a year now.
They had met in a local store. Reo, trying to escape from fans, hid at a corner of the local store and, coincidentally, Mikan also went there to get an ingredient for a special cake she wanted to bake. Ever since the accidental meeting, they had 'coincidentally' met again and again.
Mikan being Mikan, was too naive to see that their 'coincidental' meetings were all planned by Reo himself. Ever since Reo met her, he had fallen head over heels towards her. He couldn't sleep nor eat well anymore so he had decided the next best thing and it is - to FIND her and planned everything pretty well. You see, he was also a good actor.
Reo was – you could say – the perfect one for Mikan. They were ideal for each other. He had the money, the looks and the perfect I-can-have-everything attitude. Everyone was really expecting them to be the perfect couple, get married and have kids and so on and so forth.
But Mikan had other plans. She waited and waited for the right time, for the right person. She was so deeply in love that she wouldn't even acknowledge the love and attention Reo had been given her.
Would it be too selfish of her to love Natsume and deny the fact that there were others who were willingly open to love her forever until death do them apart?
Is it so wrong to love him and forget the world as it is? Or should she reclaim her heart and move on as any other would have?
She sighed. She couldn't let it be this way. She yearned for his love..Natsume's love..
"I guess.." Her voice trailed off to the distance as she gazed again to the open horizon.
Her friends, hearing her unfinished sentence, worried they might have been too hard on her. They were about to say something when Mikan straightened up and went towards the door, leading to the corridor.
Before she left, she said silently almost inaudible. "I guess, I should really forget him and move on."
With that, she left her astounded friends.
Alexis: Please review and please read Forgotten and Lingering Love by khul8z 911. Thanks! :)
