An Angel's Love Story

Prologue

If you had only a month to live, how would you spend your time? That is what 17 year old Tenshimi must decide. While she has a rather distorting past she wants to make as many memories as she possibly can to help piece her remaining time together. Some mistakes can never be taken back as every one of us finds out sooner or later. Coming to Tokyo to see her true love one last time, she wonders will he still love her? She has only thirty days to go to Tokyo, graduate, meet the only person who holds the key to her heart, and fall in love with him all over again. Can she do it?

Chapter 1: An Uncertain Feeling

"Wake up!" Shinji's mom yelled at him. "You'll be late for school!" Shinji was your average high school student. About 5'6, broad shoulders, laid back personality. Although he didn't quite yet fully understand what he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he was happy with the way things were going right now. He was loved by the girls at the school, friends with almost everyone in his class and loved by the teachers. He didn't worry about what things would be like a year, even 2 years from now. Shinji's father had died when he was 10 years old from a car accident. Ever since that time Shinji had never really had much confidence in anything. He lived day to day without a care in the world. His mom worked two jobs to try and make ends meet as best she could, no matter how ungrateful Shinji appeared to be sometimes. "I'm up!" Shinji yelled. "Is breakfast done?" "Yes, it's downstairs and on the table, We're all out of syrup though." Shinji's mom replied politely. Shinji was tired of living in poverty. He wanted to help his mother out but she wouldn't let him. She always told him studies come first.

After eating break fast Shinji had gone upstairs to grab his backpack and wish his mother goodbye. After taking about 5 steps up the stairs he found a small piece of paper folded up. Being curious about why such a thing was in the middle of the stairs he picked it up and attempted to read it. "We are sorry to inform you that we still have not received your payment for rent. This puts you two months behind in your payments. We have no choice but to take action if you are late another month. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Shinji was shocked having read such a thing. Who would have ever thought that his mother had such troubles? She certainly didn't say anything about it to him. He thought they had no secrets between each other. He didn't want to worry his mother anymore, so he decided to keep the fact that he knew to himself. He had placed it right back on the stairs where he had found it and pretended he had never read it. "Mom, I'm heading out!" "You need your backpack don't you?!" his mother said in a confirming voice. Shinji rushed upstairs to grab his backpack before he had taken off.

"HEY!! C'mon man we're gonna be late." Sakurai has been Shinji's friend since about the third grade. While his mother has never really admired him, he has always been a good friend. Shinji rushed out the door as fast as he could to join his friend. "Sorry, I got kinda held up." Because his friend had a car, Shinji never had to walk to school, except the days when Sakurai would call in sick or some other unexpected event, in which case he usually took the bus like most everyone else.

On the drive to school Shinji couldn't get the note out of his head. He tried convincing himself that he didn't care; everything was going to be ok. However, he was mature enough to know otherwise. "Whatsup? You look a bit down today." After being friends for this long there was no doubt that his friend knew something was wrong. Even so he did not want to bother Sakurai with his problems. Things were hard enough as they were, having an exam today and such. "Nothing, just tired, that's all." "Whip up into shape man, we got that test today! Plus you've got to meet you know who..!" Sakurai said as he looked over at his friend with a Convincing look. Yuna had always been one of Shinji's closest friends. But he couldn't let her see him like this, he was a mess. None the less he promised her he would come to see her after school. She lived right around the corner from the school so the distance he would walk was always very little. She lived in the upper class neighborhood, away from the rural and sub areas.

"Ok, were here." Sakurai said as he was unloading his backpack out of the back of his car. He noticed Shinji was just sitting there, kind of a staring out into space look. He snapped his fingers and yelled, "HEY! C'mon snap out of it, we're here. What's wrong with you today? You don't seem to be yourself..." "I told you I'm just tired." "HEY GUYS!!" Yuna said as she ran out to the parking lot to greet them. She gave Sakurai a big hug and gave a friendly kiss to Shinji on the cheek. "Hey that's not fair! Why does he get the kiss and I get the hug?" "Because he's my bestest friend!" she said in a perky little girl voice. "Yeah right…" Shinji said in a cough to hide his words. "Huh?" Yuna asked. "Nothing, nothing. Shall we?" Shinji said as he pretended not to notice her feelings towards him. "That's the last time I give you a kiss you jerk!" Yuna whispered to herself. "Huh?" "Oh nothing, shall we?"

Shinji's classes were all divided with his friends, so he never really had both of his friends in one class together. The first class was always Shinji's favorite, math! He loved it because everything in math always made logical sense; no matter what way you did a problem as long as it came out right it was correct. He was always a very logical person and never really believed in anything he couldn't see with his own eyes. His partner for this class was none other than Yuna herself. Although she was horrible at the subject and had joined up soley to be with Shinji, she enjoyed the challenge.

The professor, Mr. Yuji was very strict. "Ok class, have your homework assignments on your desks and I'll have someone go around and pick them up for me!" Yuna was always a klutz, and this time had forgotten to bring her homework. She knew she would get in trouble this time. Shinji volunteered to collect the papers. The first he attempted to collect because they sat beside each other was of course, Yuna's. "Yuna where is your homework?" He whispered as he noticed nothing lying on top of her desk. With a speechless response he already knew what had happened. "Yuna…" "I'm sorry Shinjikun." She said as she sat there biting her nail nervously. He continued to collect papers and signed Yuna's name on his own, figuring she could use the points more so than him. After taking them up to the teacher an apology was stated for forgetting his. Yuna was in shock. He had never done something like that for her, she couldn't believe it. Could it have been that kiss this morning? Maybe he knew how she had really felt after all. She wanted to wrap her arms around him and never let go, but she couldn't bring herself to tell him. As Shinji was about to sit down, she said thank you in a very eccentric voice and blushed. "Whatever…" Yuna had grown to hate those words, it put a certain uncertain atmosphere in the air.

The bell rung and it was already lunch time. Shinji got ready to grab a tray as Yuna snuck up behind him and grabbed his arm, releasing the tray onto the floor. "Yuna!" "Shinjikun, I'm buying your lunch today. After all you did help me out a lot…!" Shinji wondered where his friend was… normally about now he would break in to release the tension but he couldn't find him anywhere. Yuna was bouncy with a tingling joy inside of her. For the first time the boy she had a crush on might have sent her a sign. "FINALLY!" she thought. "Let's see, you need your veggies Shinji, and a bit of meat never hurts anyone! OH! And here's a slice of cake for dessert." "What are you my mother?" He said sarcastically. Yuna had gone so fast with picking out his food for him he didn't even know what it was that was on his plate. "Um, Yuna, I think this is enough…" "Hmm… fine…" "Why aren't you getting anything?" Shinji asked curiously. "Well my parents gave me enough for just one lunch so… I'm not hungry anyway!" She said while laughing. "If you would like, we can split it?!" Shinji said as he made an unconfirmed face, not knowing what her answer would be. "Su-re…! Why not..!" She responded. Why was he doing this? This wasn't like him… Having lunch alone, with a girl?! Was it to keep his mind off his financial troubles, his father, why?

The final bell rang; meaning the end of school has finally come. None the less a very surprised Shinji walks outside only to discover Sakurai's car is parked with a note attached saying, "Hey buddy! Sorry I can't be there to pick you up today, but you and Yuna go ahead, I've got a few things I have to stay for. Well, CYA later… P.S. pick me up around 8 tonight at the school." Since Shinji had promised to come to Yuna's house afterwards, he had no choice but to go…, but alone? And why all of a sudden did his friend lend him his car like this. The first thought that traveled through his head was, "It must be a setup!" More importantly, what was it that his friend was doing that he had to stay after class?