It rained harder than ever that night. The sound of the rain hit the pavement. Down a windy pathway to the old park through the grass and trees, lay an old fountain in the middle of the park. I single body lay in it shivering and shaking from the cool windy breeze that flew past her. Her dark wavy hair fell loosely around her small pale frame. A white dress torn in several places clung to her as the rain weighed it down. Her feet were bare and soaked with a small trickle of blood running from her boney ankle. Her eyes shut to keep those salty tears away. She would not cry.

Then up the windy pathway and through the old park and grass and trees, walked a tall young man with a now drenched white dress shirt and long black dress pants. His hair clung to his face as he searched for something. His slender framed glasses slid down his face numerous times only to be put back in their place.

As he neared the fountain he saw a figure laying in there leaning against the base of the center piece. He sprinted as fast as he could and when he reached the fountain he grabbed the drenched girl and fell to his knees. He could hold them no longer. A small flood of tears fell down his face as he held her as close as possible. Why did she run? Why didn't she stay with him? He loved her but he never told. He just held her crying his heart out.

When he was done he took her to his house where he cleaned her up and put her into one of his large shirts. He put her in his bed and then cleaned up again. Afterwards he crawled in after her and fell asleep with her in his embrace.

"Good night…Tomoyo…" were the first words he spoke to her that day.

Flashback

"Do you Daidouji Tomoyou, Take Haru Takeshi to be your lawfully wedded husband? To have and to hold till death do you part"

Tomoyo froze. She looked into Harus green eyes…could she make this commitment now?

"i… i…" She looked into the church pews and saw Eriol Hiiragazawa sitting there in the front pew with a hurt expression on his face…she couldn't do it…

She dropped her bouquet of flowers and grabbed the front of her wedding dress running down the church aisle and out the front doors. As she ran down the aisle her husband didn't follow her. Instead Eriol sprinted down the aisle after her. The second he stepped out the skys turned cloudy grey and it poured. He went and searched everywhere for his lost love.

Tomoyo had run for a long time and now because of the rain her dress clung to her and she had lost her shoes a while back from landing on her foot wrong, just lightly twisting her ankle and cutting it. She had run far and had come upon an old fountain in the old abandoned park and she lay inside it waiting for someone to come find her. She couldn't think of her life with Haru and not with Eriol. The arrangement of her marriage from her fathers death will was no longer her concern. She wanted to marry for love. No matter how much it hurt her father and mother.

As she lay there she fell into a dark sleep of no dreaming. Then she felt the warmth of someone familiar and openly welcomed it.

End Flashback