"See you tomorrow, Tomoyo-chan!" Fifteen-year-old Sakura Kinomoto told her best friend before racing off to her house.
"Take care!" Tomoyo replied, smiling after the vanishing figure of Sakura. Then she sighed.
She just wasn't herself these days. Maybe it was because Sakura seemed to pay Syaoran more attention than she did Tomoyo. It hardly had anything to do with the rumors that she was in love with Sakura. She wasn't. In fact, all she was simply [and selfishly, she added] asking that Sakura would smile and laugh with her too. Just like old times.
Tomoyo missed all those times when everything was so perfect. Back in the fifth grade, it was wonderful. But it had all changed somehow. Everyone went his or her separate ways.
Meiling had gone back to Hong Kong, saying that she wanted to pursue further training but she suspected that it was because she still couldn't accept the fact that Syaoran and Sakura were together. Chiharu was happy with Takashi, being his girlfriend. Rika had Yoshiyuki and even Naoko found herself a partner to be happy with. And Eriol?
Eriol went back to England to take care of some business. He hadn't called and didn't reply to their letters either. It was as if he died right after the Sakura Card business.
Why do I have to be the odd one out of the group? Tomoyo thought. She kicked a pebble and looked up at the sky.
It was turning dark already and she knew she'd better hurry home before her mother noticed her absence. Her mother's words rang in her ears, "If you're not home by six, Tomoyo-chan, I'll send out the whole police force in Japan hunting for you!" She chuckled. That was when she lost track of time and returned at seven. Her mother was in hysterics by then.
She raised her head to the sky again and saw a star fall out of its place in the heavens. She supposed she had to make a wish now.
I wish I wouldn't be lonely anymore. I wish I had someone to be with.
Tomoyo laughed at her silly antic. She looked at the sky and saw the stars share her mirth. I wonder whether it would come true.
Of course it won't.
But it did. And Tomoyo wasn't sure whether she liked her wish or not anymore, as her vision spun and she was sent into a world of darkness.
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A/N: Am I evil? Well, here's the edited version of Another Reality, prologue. Not much right? But I'm trying.