I feel your body gently stirring beside me, fragile and silky, as you slowly hunch the covers up over your head in your sleep. I quietly chuckle to myself, running a hand over your golden tendrils of hair, which pool in tight curls under your beautiful face. I stroke at your eyelids, which cover an emerald doorway to the depths within your soul. All the while, I cannot stop the glowing smile that tugs at my lips. Your picturesque mouth tightens, your eyebrows raised. I become alarmed, not wishing to awaken you, as I gingerly struggle my hand away from your tender face.
I want to leave before you wake up.
Oh, Fuu, how I love you so. If only words could express the feelings that tug at my heart and mind, the yearning for you to stay with me forever.
Instead, I am condemned to forever losing you to the foreign world that you grew up in.
Why couldn't it be any other way? Isn't Cephiro a place where your desires and wishes are reality? So why, then, must you leave me? Is tonight going to be the last?
No. No, that is not possible. Our love is much too strong to be broken by such a thing as the situation we are in. Together, we can withstand anything. The only problem is, we might not be together anymore.
Oh, Fuu...
Can you ever forgive me for all the hurt and burden that I've placed in your heart? Being here, with you, is only making this worse. Forget about me, Fuu. I love you too much to see you get hurt yet again.
Fuu, when I first met you, I'll admit it wasn't love at first sight. There is no such thing. If sight is what determines love, not character, then ther would be no love. Still, there was that tugging feeling at the back of my mind. You were different from any other girl I'd ever met. But it was finally seeing your smile that caught me in spells of dizziness.
And still, I managed to hurt you. To bring you pain. It was a mutual thing, though, Fuu. I was hurt too. Angered at myself for tormenting you, that was my pain.
I don't deserve you Fuu.
I don't think anybody could ever deserve you. You are so wonderful. How on Earth could you return the feelings I share for you? I'm a horrible, horrible person, Fuu.
Horrible for bringing this pain to both our hearts.
Horrible for thinking that I could keep you with me, forever by my side.
Still, fate is something nobody can determine. The future is how we act today. But there's still nothing that can be promised of the ages yet to come.
Maybe one day, we shall meet again, dear beloved Fuu.
I lay my lips against yours in a gentle kiss for the last time that night, leaving in silence.
Who knows what fate will bring us?
~*~
The two others girls huddled around Fuu, excited and giggling. Fuu, flushed and exhausted, laid a trembling hand on each of her friend's wrists. She caught a glimpse of the nurse, holding the child in bundles of clothes and materials. Her friends backed away, as the nurse slowly lowered the child into its mother's arms. Fuu smiled down at the baby, a flush of utter joy and peace flowing inside her body.
"Fuu, Fuu!" Hikaru tugged at her friend's sleeve. Fuu looked up, her smile drained from the exhaustion that had washd over her that day.
"What are you going to name him?" Umi finished off Hikaru's sentence, her sapphire eyes shining with excitement.
Fuu merely looked down at her child, serene and content. "His name will be just like his father's..." she whispered, the corners of her mouth falling into a melancholy look. She sighed, remembering what once had been hers, so long ago. The pain and lost love she had experienced. She still missed him.
"... Ferio."
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I want to leave before you wake up.
Oh, Fuu, how I love you so. If only words could express the feelings that tug at my heart and mind, the yearning for you to stay with me forever.
Instead, I am condemned to forever losing you to the foreign world that you grew up in.
Why couldn't it be any other way? Isn't Cephiro a place where your desires and wishes are reality? So why, then, must you leave me? Is tonight going to be the last?
No. No, that is not possible. Our love is much too strong to be broken by such a thing as the situation we are in. Together, we can withstand anything. The only problem is, we might not be together anymore.
Oh, Fuu...
Can you ever forgive me for all the hurt and burden that I've placed in your heart? Being here, with you, is only making this worse. Forget about me, Fuu. I love you too much to see you get hurt yet again.
Fuu, when I first met you, I'll admit it wasn't love at first sight. There is no such thing. If sight is what determines love, not character, then ther would be no love. Still, there was that tugging feeling at the back of my mind. You were different from any other girl I'd ever met. But it was finally seeing your smile that caught me in spells of dizziness.
And still, I managed to hurt you. To bring you pain. It was a mutual thing, though, Fuu. I was hurt too. Angered at myself for tormenting you, that was my pain.
I don't deserve you Fuu.
I don't think anybody could ever deserve you. You are so wonderful. How on Earth could you return the feelings I share for you? I'm a horrible, horrible person, Fuu.
Horrible for bringing this pain to both our hearts.
Horrible for thinking that I could keep you with me, forever by my side.
Still, fate is something nobody can determine. The future is how we act today. But there's still nothing that can be promised of the ages yet to come.
Maybe one day, we shall meet again, dear beloved Fuu.
I lay my lips against yours in a gentle kiss for the last time that night, leaving in silence.
Who knows what fate will bring us?
~*~
The two others girls huddled around Fuu, excited and giggling. Fuu, flushed and exhausted, laid a trembling hand on each of her friend's wrists. She caught a glimpse of the nurse, holding the child in bundles of clothes and materials. Her friends backed away, as the nurse slowly lowered the child into its mother's arms. Fuu smiled down at the baby, a flush of utter joy and peace flowing inside her body.
"Fuu, Fuu!" Hikaru tugged at her friend's sleeve. Fuu looked up, her smile drained from the exhaustion that had washd over her that day.
"What are you going to name him?" Umi finished off Hikaru's sentence, her sapphire eyes shining with excitement.
Fuu merely looked down at her child, serene and content. "His name will be just like his father's..." she whispered, the corners of her mouth falling into a melancholy look. She sighed, remembering what once had been hers, so long ago. The pain and lost love she had experienced. She still missed him.
"... Ferio."
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