A/N: This fic--- a futuristic one after my very first Aya-Rei fic, "Aishiteru". This is the sequel to it. Centers to Aya and Rei with few Ran-Yuuya and Yamato-Miyu. With some OOCs and the next part is somewhat an AU. Everything might sound crazy for the one who has watched the full series, but still please review! If you loved "Aishiteru" then I bet you'll love this more!

A Girl Like You »» An Aya-Rei Fanfic

Chapter One: One Last Time

She had been waiting for this to come. Her loved one, Rei Otohata had admitted his hidden feelings. They've come a long way already. But one specific event stopped it, and another one made them forget the past…

He was waiting at THE bench in THE park; the park where he and she had talked by themselves for the first time, where she told him she loved him, where he admitted his feelings for her. That same bridge where they watched beautiful fireworks that kept their love together. And now....now where he's going to tell her goodbye. It was hurting him probably more than it would hurt her but he had to do it, it was the right thing to do. She'll thank me in the end, he thought.

He looked up at the moon. It was so bright. He thought of She. Her face, her attitude, probably everything about her. He loved her so much. It was like that same night he confessed his very feelings.

"Rei?"

He looked behind him, it was she. Please not now, he thought. She came up to him, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and sat down beside him.

He stared at her, her hair was glimmering in the moonlight, her eyes were shining,

and she was beautiful. Do I have to do this? He thought to himself. Of course you do, you idiot.


She looked at him in the eyes. "Rei-kun, why did you ask me to meet you here?" she asked.

He stopped staring at her and looked at the moon. She looked at him, and she could tell there was frustration and sadness in his eyes. "Something wrong?"

He took a deep breath. "Aya…"

"Yes?" She smiled at him, and he turned away. Oh god, not those smile. Not that face.

But he had to do it. There was no other choice. "Aya," he repeated. "I…I've been thinking, and…we…we…can't see each other anymore…we can't be together anymore."

She's heart stopped. Everything was obscured around her, she couldn't breathe properly.

"Why?" She asked in a trembling voice.

"But…you know why…"

"Damn it, is this about your job again?!" she stood up and tears started welling up in her eyes. No…not again… "Because we've talked about this---"

"You've got to understand," He tried to stay calm. "What I must do."

Tears were flowing freely down She's face now and her voice shook dangerously. This was like the time he had left them for the opportunity. "…you know that it won't bring anyone any happiness."

He stood up, too. "Aya, I thought you knew me! I must have a good job. That is my only goal. Up until now…I don't know what's been going on…what I've been doing…how come I haven't…"

"Are you saying----" She struggled with her words. "…that all those times we spent together, everything we did…meant nothing to you?"

"…"

"Rei-kun, Answer me! Did they have any meaning to you whatsoever?!"

"…"

She said, pain searing her heart with every breath she took, "Why did you bother being with me…if you…if you never…even loved me…?"

He did not answer her.

"Don't…don't you…love me, Rei-kun?"

"You know how I feel about you," he said very quietly.

"Sometimes I don't think I do!" She sobbed.

He continued with immense difficulty, "This is what I have to do. I'm leaving in the morning. I don't think I'm coming back."

"You'll regret this!"

"I know I won't."

She couldn't contain herself. She ran up to him and threw her arms around him in a mad hug, sobbing into his chest. "Please, don't..."

"Aya…" He sighed, not hugging her back.

"…Aishiteru." [one very common line]
"…" He removed her arms from around him and stepped backward, facing her. "Don't make this harder than it has to be."

He looked at her one last time, and with a single leap, disappeared into the darkness surrounding them.

"Rei-kun! Rei-kun!" Aya shouted. She didn't know that a car was fast approaching, and before she knew what happened, she lay down in a hospital bed at the ICU, in a critical condition…

"Ran! What happened to Aya? Hello! Hello!" Rei repeated his words but the taxi was moving away the source of signal.. Yuuya was still beside him sleeping, and he cursed himself for meeting her at the last time.

"Turn back. We're heading back to Shibuya," Rei said in his cold voice.

"Nani???? Rei-kun! Are you nuts? We're catching up the flight!!" Yuuya was flapped with his eyes open wide.

"Aya, she got bumped by a car last night." he simply said, "There will be a next flight to UK."

"Okay! We need to see Aya-chan!" Yuuya said determinably.

Rushing, they ran to the hospital gates and asked the room of a certain girl named Aya Hoshino, who was unluckily still on the ICU of the 3rd floor. Rei didn't know how to react or what to feel about it--- shocked, sad, regretful--- all are mixing up in him and a surging pain hits him all over.

"If only--- Aya-chan…" he whispered as he and Yuuya rode the elevator.

"Ran!" two voices of boys called out loud, and her face was not that usual genki and it was like dead. Her stirring emotions flowed out in tears as she bitterly wipes them out to show that she's not that weak in front of everyone. Miyu beside her and Sayo too, the three girls show an explicitly lonesome emotion.

"I--- I am sorry, I told you that I will…" Rei apologized as Ran raised her hand to stop his sentence.

"No Rei. It's not you. Nor the driver--- it's fate." she said. "Once you leave her and she knows it--- she's suffering. And if she doesn't--- she'll live a happy life."

"What--- do you mean?"

"Leave her now, Rei. She'll be--- I hate to say this… you need to be apart."

"Ran! What are you saying?" Miyu and Yuuya exclaimed. "Are you taking away her happiness?"

"I. Understand. I fully understand. We can't live apart, knowing each other. I don't want to make her suffer. I'd want her to live a happy life without me. Please help her," he said. "Before that, can I see her--- even just once?"

"Rei!" Yuuya cried. "But----"

"Let her go out of the pain I gave her for years." Rei said sadly. "You all know I love this girl so much."

They all stared at Aya's pale face, and dozens of tubes are connected to her to keep her alive. Rei bent towards her, and kissed her bruised forehead.

"My princess--- my everything, I need to go, please be alive for me. Live a happy life without me. Erase me--- in your heart," he whispered. "Sayonara, Aya-chan. I will love you for always…"

Miyu cried at their sad parting. Everything ended that easy, and the two boys left for UK to be members of a boy band in the making. Ran cried too, when Yuuya left. It's been a year when she and Tatsuki broke-up, and she realized her true feelings for the boy.

"Aya and I--- must forget." she said as she wipes her tears away…

A week passed; and Aya woke up from her long sleep. The doctors pronounced her under amnesia. They did everything to make her remember all about her family and even friends. But they are certain to remove the pictures and memories of this brown-haired lad to everything they tell her. They all kept quiet and haven't told anything about him. Thus, they graduated from college and had different statuses in life.

Going back to Yuuya and Rei, they become the band called "West Side" and practically become a no. 1 boy band in the UK--- till in the US and now they are too well-known to be in Asia. Ran kept the pictures of the band, and even let Aya stay with her for always to protect her. TV is always shut off at showbiz news--- and kept the identity of a Rei Otohata.

Rei hasn't yet forgotten her, the first girl to have his one meaningful word "Aishiteru" and his first kiss. It was even awkward, but it was really memorable. He always kept one picture of Aya in his wallet for years, and never forgot her sweet voice. Thus, she stays in his heart really forever. UK has always been very beautiful, but he doesn't realize it for he only know one place beautiful and even one person--- Aya and Shibuya. [THEY RHYME!]

Everyone tried to forget--- but memories haunt them for always.

And it's so hard for anyone.

But they need to…

Everything hurts.

Last notes: Do you hate it? If yes or no, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well the name "West Side" is based on the Chinese soap opera "West Side Story". I like it so much, you bet!