Hi hi minna! Amyblue-chan's here AGAIN! *giggles* It's been SO long! Anyway, here's
a new one ^^. I really hope you like it! It took me a bit to actually CONTINUE it
once I had started, but *sweatdrops* I guess it didn't come out too badly in the
end.

Major, MAJOR thanks and hugs go out to all of the Wives (You guys ROCK!!); to
Hermanito, for being there (Thankies!) and to all those other wonderful people
who continue to brigthen up my life each day. *huggles minna* What would I do
without you guys?

Now, BEFORE I bore you *giggles* I'd like to dedicate this story to Lexi. She has
listened to me ENDLESS times, without complaint and has shown me how great a friend
can truely be. *hugs Lexi* Thank you, hon. I hope you like it!

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Standard Disclaimer applies

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Enjoy!

~Amy-chan





"Moonstruck Icicles"

Prologue

By: Amyblue-chan
Rated: PG
E-mail: monicam_1@yahoo.com




She was always alone. It wasn't that she didn't want to let anybody in,
because if there was something she wanted, it was love. But she couldn't.

She was scared, not only of opening up, but of getting hurt.

She grew up with a lonely soul. The people that surrounded her were barely
those that she could call friends. And it hurt her. Deeply. What else could she
want more than to share her hopes, her dreams, her fears? To see understanding
in a person's eyes, and not pity? To give, and in return, to receive?

It was those little things that were reflected in those deep, melancholic
eyes. The same ones she cursed, because they showed her weakness.

One day, though, she came to a new place. Expecting the same as all the other's
she had been to, she waited for the pang of hopelesness that always came with each
rejection, with each cruel stare.

But it never came.

She was greeted with warm smiles instead. For once, that empty space in her soul
that had always belonged to friendship filled up. She began smiling more often, and
it was that innocent smile that captured the heart of a stranger.

A stranger, that like her, was afraid as well. Afraid of the warmth, always
welcoming the lonely cold. Their eyes met, and two lives changed forever.

Her wish came true. She had found her heart's most treaured desire.

But something happened, and her heart was broken. So our story begins...
She would never be the same again. Now that she had learned to love, how could she?

It was a tear that came, born in the very depths of her soul. A tear that gleamed
like a diamond. Bathed in silvery light, it trickled slowly down her rosy cheek.

Resembling a moonstruck icicle, it soon melted; taking with it the most precious
of gifts.

Happiness; but happiness from love.