Lily stood, looking down at the bustling city below her. Many ordinary people carelessly rushed along the crowded pathways beside the peak hour traffic jam, many furious and tired-out drivers beeping their horns, yelling profinies out of their car windows.
'What a beautiful world'. Lily thought to herself, gingerly fingering the letter in her coat-pocket. Checking her watch, the time read 5:29. 'I might as well wait until sunset, get my head together, put the finishing touches on my letter. Besides, it would be nice to jump at sunset, rather then before. Less people to frighten walking along, though, they probably would just walk past me without a care in their world, clicking their dirty little tounges because I blocked their path.'
The blonde sat down, letting her nimble legs hang over the edge of yet another corporate building. A dead rat, metres away from her, being eaten by a starving pidgeon. Down in a drain on the road, there was a dying cat, feeding her kittens what would probably be their last meal. Across the street there were four boys, surrounding a little girl, throwing her bag to the ground, tossing her with it, calling her awful names.
'What an arrogant, ugly world full of suffering'.
Sitting in silence for a few moments, minutes, hours, whatever time went by, Lily breathed in some smoggy, putrid air that clouded the city, then after holding that dirty air, she sighed it out, tears welling up in her eyes. She pulls her coat-sleeves down covering the various scars on her arms. Lily remembers how she got every single one of those scars. The chilly light breeze suddenly turned into a large gust of hot air, the sun breaking out of the clouds, ready for her smooth fall.
'Noone is going to see me till I am gone, anyway'! The abused girl thought, taking her jacket off, Then sliding off her boots. She shouldn't be able to look at herself, though she did. She looked down and traced every single cut, bruise or burn. Suddenly looking to her left, past the decompsing rat, she saw her reflection in a piece of broken glass. For a moment, she didn't see the broken teen staring back at her, but she saw a young girl. Dirty blonde hair in a strait bob, biercing sea blue eyes full of mischef, a little white sundress and sandles. Not a mark covering her body, beside those mad by falling of her bike. Then she dissapeard. Lily only saw her ugly, broken self.
'I miss that little me. A girl of sunshine, even in the dim times'. Lily's cracked lips smile, for a second, before looking away from the mirror. 'How foolish I was. Being Happy wouldn't keep my mother alive. Being happy wouldn't put food in my mouth when my dad forgot to feed me. Being happy wouldn't keep my friends from spreading rumors. No. They all became enemies. Though, I did make a great family of people once "they" abandoned me'
Yes. Lily had some GREAT people. She has Rin and Len, Meiko, Kaito, IA and SeeU, Yukari and Luo, Cul and Gumi, Gakupo...and Luka. HER Luka. HER REAL family. 'I wonder how they are going to react?'
At that moment, the sun started to grow dim, leaving the sky a brilliant orange hue. Lily knew that it was time. Lily walked to the edge of that building. She looked to the right, at a cheap bar. She saw her father leave with some woman, he could hardly walk strait. Looking a bit farther in that direction, she saw her crappy apartment block, where she and her father lives. Lived. Sighing, Lily took out the letter, she held on tightly, and jumped.
She then, and only then, knew what happiness and freedom felt like.
At that very moment, the gang are in Meiko and Kaito's little lounge room, disscussing Lily's 16th birthday party, the next day.
