"Its five centimetres per second" Zane said, cutting through Lani's daydream. "Huh" Lani said, confused. "The time it takes for cherry blossoms to fall." He said. "Wow, how do you know these things?" Lani asked, he shrugged and caught a falling cherry blossom. "They look just like snowflakes, don't they?" he smiled at her. "Yeah" She smiled cheekily, then ran off "Lani! Wait up" Zane yelled, running after her. She ran across the train tracks. Zane went to follow, but the boomgates fell down in front of him. "Lani" he yelled, she giggled and spun around, her red umbrella twirling as she opened it. "I won't leave you ever" she promised

(The flashback ends)

"Lani" Melody said, walking around the table to get to her sister, who was just staring out the window, blankly while their brother Cole was standing at the door. "C'mon we have to get home. You can't just stand there all day" Lani blinked "I'll be there in a minute". Melody sighed, ever since Zane and his family had moved away last year she had been like this. "Remember soon you get to go see him" Lani snapped into action, moving away from the window "Beat ya home sis" She said, sprinting out the door, Cole following. Melody smiled and ran after them.

They reached home. Despite the head start the twins got, Melody still won. Soon after they got home, Lani sat down and started writing a letter. She finished writing it and put it in the pocket of her red winter coat.

(Next day after school)

"Lani. The clubs starting" Some one yelled. Lani was back at the window staring into space. She turned. "We've got to go." She said. "Yeah, Lani's got somewhere to be, and we've got to pack." Melody stood up. Everyone waved at the siblings.

(A hour later)

"I'll see you when I get back" Lani yelled out to her siblings and their father, from the train window. Melody waved, but their father just scowled and turned away, talking to whoever it was on the phone, probably Tom, a man in his quartet. Lani sighed and turned around. Melody turned and hit their father on the arm and walked away from the railway. Lani pulled out the letter she going to give Zane and smiled. She thought about how they had first met.

"Now Mel. This is your school. You, Cole and Lani will be staying here for a couple of months" Lou told his youngest child as he peeled her off his leg. Lani and Cole nodded, already having gone through this six years ago themselves. "But daddy" the six year old looked up at him with wide green eyes. "I'm sorry." He passed her to Lani and gave Cole their bags, then drove off. Cole sighed "Might as well get this over with" He said. Lani shrugged and looked like she wanted to set something alight. Then a old man came out, a six year old boy following him. "Lani, Cole. Nice to see you again. And you brought your little sister. Come on I'll show you to your room" The man said, taking Mel's hand.

Lani's room mate, Maya was very happy to see her again. Cole's room mate Jay was so excited to see Cole again that he told him everything that had happened to him on the holidays, before the door was even closed properly, and Mel's room mate, Nikki was a nice girl who was said to be the principal's youngest daughter. Lani had gotten changed immediately and went to the library. She was struggling to get a book when someone else grabbed it and handed it to her. "Thanks" she turned to look at who had helped her. A boy with blonde hair and pale blue eyes stood there. "You're welcome" he said. "I'm Zane Julian" he held out her hand "Lani Brookstone" she said, shaking his hand.

That afternoon she was walking to her room, when she walked past a room where she could hear Gene cackling at something. Gene was the school bully, Lani hated him. She looked into the room and saw what he was laughing at. There was a picture there of a boy hanging from a tree on the blackboard, Zane was written in capitals underneath it. The real Zane was staring at the blackboard, frozen. Lani ran into the room, erased the picture, threw the duster at Gene's head, grabbed Zane's hand and dragged him out of the room. "I'll get you for this Lani" Gene screamed after them.

Lani laughed at the memory. Gene never got his revenge because his father had taken him out of the school the next day after he had done something to Lloyd, the nephew of the principal and Lloyd had put him in his place. Lani and Zane were spending every moment they could with each other so much that Kai, Zane's room mate had regularly suggested that they were dating. Lani had said maybe Kai should worry more about finding a girlfriend then teasing them about their friendship. Kai had went red after that comment and everyone else started laughing. Mel had become good friends with Lloyd and his best friend Luke. Them and Nikki would run around the school causing mischief and when they weren't doing that they were pulling pranks on Nikki's older sister Alayna and her room mate Nya or spending time with the group. They were inseperable. Then Zane had moved away and Lani had started drifting away from the group, spending more time in her room, writing letters to Zane or reading letters from Zane and listening to music and staring into the air. Now she was on the way to see him. "Sorry for the interruption, but due to heavy snow in the area, we may be delayed." the voice said over the speaker snapping Lani out of her reverie "Ughhhh" she shook her head. She put her headphones in and listened to Never too late.

(5 hours later. I didn't want to go through the whole journey)

Lani finally stepped of the train at the Birchwood Station. The snow had delayed the journey longer then she'd thought it would and she had been in and out of trains most the night. She looked around for Zane or at least his white coat. She didn't see a single person. She ran into the waiting area and there was Zane, slumped on the chair asleep. She smiled and woke him up. They walked around for a while before standing in a field under a sakura tree. "Wow, it's just like the one near the the monastery" Lani said. Zane nodded and then they kissed. They spent the night in an abandoned shed, trying to keep warm as they talked the night away.

Lani got back on the train the next morning. Zane stood silently on the otherside of the doors. "You take care of yourself" Lani yelled, banging on the door as the train pulled away. As soon as the station was out of sight, Lani started crying. It would never work between her and Zane and she knew it. Destiny was pulling them apart