Even After Years, I still love you

"I do." The woman said and the priest then shows to the people in the church the new married couple of the Ogasawara family.

While everyone applauds and gives congratulations to the couple after they first kiss, a lonely girl on the shadows of one corner in the church looks at the gorgeous woman with tears on her face. Even if the girl don't want to come to this place and see this, she come, because the girl have promised to that woman that no matter what happened, she would be at her side.

It was her decision to follow the path that her family have chose for her and for the man on her side. They had married for the power that they parents want the family to have. Love is something that doesn't matter for them, and the girl knows how much it hurt to the woman in an elegant white dress that with a smile in her face, she thanked to everyone who have come to see the marriage, on the side of her husband.

The girl on the shadows don't go to congratulate the new couple, she chose to stay hide in the corner and just see the love of her life go away from her, and she, just a girl with no prestigious or powerful name, could do nothing to stop it. That woman knows about her love, and she too, loves the girl with the same strong passion, but then, nothing matters now.

The girl on the shadows then close her eyes and after clean her face with her hands, she steps on the light and walk to the exit of the church, but before go, she felt a pair of eyes on her back, and when the girl turned around, looking to the couple, she see the sapphires eyes of the woman on her. The happiness that they held one time ago now shows the true emotions that the heart of that woman has in the moment.

The great pain and sadness in there are visible only for the girl, and she, in the exit of the church only looks one more time to that beautiful eyes and smiles gently and sadly to the woman, her lips moving like if she was saying something. And she definitely was. She knows that even in that distance, that woman can read her lips and understand what she's was saying.

"Try to be happy, Sachiko."

With this, the girl finally exits the church.

"Miss?" I heard a feminine voice calling me, and then a see a woman in my side, I look at her and she smiles at me, giving a pillow to me and disappeared in a passage of the plane.

I sigh and look at the window. I don't know why I'm doing this, it's already eight years I leave Japan to live in America and now I'm coming back home. Eight years after the marriage of Sachiko and Suguro-san. In that time I just don't want to see nothing more, know that I live very close to the person that I love and yet I can't reach her. So I just choose to leave the country and everything behind. One more time I see the marriage in my dreams, haunted me with painful memories that I wish I could forget.

Even after years I have dreams of her with me in Lillian, when we walk together, or we just talk and smile to each other. Sometimes it was not just dreams, but memories that I still treasure with me in my heart, like the fist time she talked to me, or when she give the rosary of our fist date together… But too, sometimes, painful memories like the marriage between her and her fiancé I see in my dreams.

I want so badly to see my parents and my brother. I miss them so much, like my friends from Lillian. I want to go home and embrace them hard enough to kill every emotion that made me leave everything behind. But I'm scared to go home, because I know that if I do, I will see her again, with her husband and maybe, children that happily she will present they to me.

Oh god how much I miss her! Even after eight years I still love her with so much and strong passion like the time when I said to her "I love you" And she's says to me back "I love you too, Yumi". I was so happy just by stay in her side no matter what, but in the deeper of my heart I know that she already have forgot those words, this sentiment, this strong and painful emotion, that little by little was killing me.

I look at a little mirror in my bag, I see a gorgeous woman, dressed in a coat and a dark blue jeans. She have a long brow hair that falls like an cascade in her back, a mature face with white, almost pale skin and hazel eyes, deeper and mysterious that different from her face without emotions, they held an great sadness. I can't even recognize myself anymore, this was just a little of what I was eight years ago…

The plane where I was then settled in the airport and I sigh, quickly taking my bags with me, and exit from the plane. I walk in the track with some people with me, entering in a corridor, preparing myself to face my parents and my brother in more some minutes. I already know that they will came for me and take me home. Maybe some of my old friends are with them, but I think that it will be better if it was just my mother, my father and Yuuki. I'm still not ready to face anyone else than my family.

They will be in the entrance of the airport, they already have said it to my in the phone, before I enter in the plane and fly back to here. So I quickly pass among all the people in the airport walking to the entrance. My head is low and my eyes are in the soil, I do not dare to look at my front, however perfectly I know that I will not bump against someone in the corridor.

I close my eyes and sigh when I know that I'm already in the entrance. And then, I take a long breath and look forward to see my family for the fist time in so long. But choked, I stop my walking to look better at my family, and all of my friends waiting for me. Mommy, Daddy, Yuuki… Sei-sama, Shimako-san, Noriko-chan… Yoshino-chan, Rei-san, even Eriko-sama come from only-god-knows-where is there too… I see my ex-petite sœur, Touko-chan with Youko-sama, and then…

I see the most beautiful person that I've see in my life in so many years far away from home. A gorgeous woman dressed in a black coat, not so different from the mine that I'm using now, and dark black jeans. She is taller than me, and her skin is so beautiful that makes me jealousy just to see that such perfect person can exist. Her hair is dark and much more longer than mine. I don't have known who is this person if I'm not having look at her eyes, the sapphire eyes that a long time I don't see, full of happiness and love. When the woman sees that I'm looking at her, she smiles such an wonderful and happiness smile that almost made me cry, and then she said do me, in a gentle and loving voice.

"Welcome back home, Yumi."

Yeah, I'm don't English so sorry if the writing is not so good^^ Anyway, this was an idea that I have some time ago and finally put on the paper. I don't know if I need to do a continuation… What do you guys think? Anyway, thanks for reading this^^