Hidden Meanings is being upgraded. Please bear with me through the transformation.

Code translation though you can probly figure it out. This is mainly for my... well whats left of my sanity.

"-------" -someone is speaking normaly

'-------' -someone is thinking to themselves

"-----" -someone is speaking so only one other person hears them

Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne Bandi does. blah blah blah blah blah do I really need to continue? I think you get the drill by now! Now on with the fic!

Chapter 1

Dark troubled clouds spread across the sky blocking out all light. A storm was approaching with great speed, but she had to keep going, she couldn't stop now. Giving up was something that she hadn't done in years, and she wasn't about to start now.

Her deep even breaths hung in the cold air. With every step propel her forward. Her mussels ached from the strain. One after another men blocked her path proclaiming their love for her. Yet she continued to run, pushing herself to keep going. All of the sudden a pillar of blazing blue- white light illuminated the sky over a mile away.

Memories swept through her mind, urging her to hurry towards the man she loves. "Almost there!" she said to herself.

All of the sudden someone grabbed her arm. Angrily she spun around to face who ever it was that had stopped her. She gasped at the man holding onto her arm. He must have been six one, with waist length blond hair, his sapphire blue eyes gazed into her emerald ones. He kneeled on the ground in front of her and said "I love you. Will you marry me?"

Pulling away she stuttered, "I-I-I c-can't. I'm sorry." Turning she started though the trees that surrounded the pillar of light. The low branches and brush scratched at her bear arms and legs. She stumbled into the clearing and was automatically blinded by the light. As her eyes adjusted she saw a figure in the pillar, and started toward at full speed. When she was about ten feet away she noticed he was not alone, but in the arms of a nude woman. "OH NO! He found some one else!" Tears stung at her eyes, as she started to back away the ground below her started to crumble. Falling though the darkness she tried to scream but couldn't. "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!"

Hitomi bolted upright, a cold sweat matted her sandy brown hair to her face. "BEEP BEEP BEEP" her battered and dented alarm clock rung (many of the objects in her room were like that from being thrown out the second story window at the guys trying to serenade her. Though Hitomi's aim has gotten rather good.) Turning it off, she swung her legs out of bed, and walked into the bathroom. Splashing cold water over her face. She felt as if some one had slapped her. "What is wrong with me?" she asked staring at her reflection.

This is the fifth time she had that dream this week, with one difference. That girl that was with Van, had never been there before, and why wasn't she wearing anything?

Hitomi shook her head, "I would have seen her with Van before" she stated trying to reason with the fact that she hadn't even seen Van in five years, except for the occasional mental image. Walking around as if in a trance she got ready for her morning classes, continuing to muse over last nights dream.

She took her keys out of her bag, and climbed in her green mitsibishi. Hitomi barely noticed she was driving till she got out of her car in the campus parking lot.

Dazed she walked to her first class, when some one tapped her shoulder. Startled she jumped.

"Hitomi?" came Yukari's voice from behind her.

"Yea?" she replied turning around her red haired best friend.

"Are you okay? You don't look so good."

"I'm fine, just... thinking."

"Its not about that Van guy 'again' is it?" Hitomi didn't need to answer, Yukari could tell she was right, by the deep shade of red that her friend's cheeks were turning. "Hitomi, its been five years!" Yukari scolded "I'm sorry." seeing the hurt expression on Hitomi's face. "Was it that dream again? The one with the pillar of light that you can't get near before the ground cracks open?"

"Yes...I mean...No...I mean-"

Yukari interrupted "What do you mean? Explain what the hell are you talking about!"

Hitomi sat down in the back of the class and enplaned about how Van and that strange woman.

"Hitomi... don't your dreams usually mean something?"

She hated to admit it but Yukari was right. As the teacher droned on and on Hitomi finely admitted to herself that its possible that Van has moved on. "It was so stupid of me to think that he would wait for me forever." when she said this a single tear slid down her cheek, splattering on her desk.

To Be Continued...