Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. The characters do not belong to me. I only use them in order to create a fiction for my own pleasure. I do not make money from this and do not intend to do so.

Warning: There may be grammar/spelling mistakes, as well as missing words or letters due to authors (mine) carelessness.

Angel Beats

Silent World

It was painful. It was so painful that even the heart, that I didn't even have, started to hurt. Or maybe that was the hollow spot in my chest that hurt.

I don't know. I don't care.

I just know that it hurts. Hurt so much that I can't breathe and my hands desperately try to catch something in the air. Something invisible and nonexistent in this world.

Something that's no longer here.

Even when I know that my tears won't get her back here, back to this world, back to me, I can't stop. It's like everything that I have been keeping inside of me for all this time, since the moment I died and wandered in here, is now spilling out. Releasing itself, trying to tune down the pain but only making it worse.

Because, now I really feel the impact, the sadness of understanding that everyone: T.K., Yuri, Yui, Ayato, Hinata, Noda, Matsushita, Shiina…. Everyone have found their peace and left me behind. Even if that was my own idea… It still hurts.

But what hurts the most is that Kanade left too. Disappeared in front of me and I couldn't do a thing, except hold her close to me and repeat 'I love you' over and over again as my tears fell into her hair.

"Kanade…"

I wish I had said that to her earlier. I wish I had more time with her. I wish I had known her better. I wish I had done a better job at being by her side. I wish I had held her closer. I wish I had at least kissed her goodbye.

I wish I had said 'I love you' one more time.

I lean against the stone wall, not really seeing anything, only staring somewhere in front of me.

The pain is no longer there though.

Maybe I cried it all out? Maybe it just stopped on its own? Maybe I just made a decision not even knowing it myself.

"Ne Kanade…"

My hands are transparent and slowly turn into little floating balls of light, together with the rest of my body. Maybe it's happening fast in reality, but then again, this can't be called reality, but I feel like seconds are as long as hours as I stare at my slowly disappearing form.

"Let's meet again, in real world. It's a promise."

A/N: Umm… No, nothing for me to say.