Beauty With a Broken Heart
Ichigo sat on the balcony counting the stars as she used to with Masaya. Oh, Masaya. She had recently seen him in the park with another girl, kissing her, so she had left him, and now she sat crying to herself. He had been engaged to her for 2 months. He had sworn he loved her. She thought of all the good times she had with Aoyama, what fun she had with him, walks in the park, picnics by the beach on the stones. She suddenly felt an arm on her shoulder, and when she turned around, no one was there. She felt a pinch on her hand, and she looked down. There was a hand on her's, a hand that must have belonged to a young man, with long fingers and sharp fingernails, and the hand had a big sapphire ring on the middle finger. But the hand had no body. Thinking she was going entirely insane, she left the balcony to go to sleep. When she wasn't looking, a single drop of blood escaped her finger where the hand had pinched her.
The young man had seen girls crying constantly, but none of which were as beautiful as the girl he had seen that night. The girl's long ruby red hair had flowed in the moonlight like a river on a windy day. The girl was of lowest rank in society, a mere peasant, but her beauty captured his heart and he was determined to visit her the next night. When he returned to the castle, his father said "Kishu, you're not supposed to let them see you! The reason you're kept at the palace at night is so the townspeople don't know that the wizard has had a child! When news breaks out the men will all want to marry their daughter's off because we are of 2nd rank and society and the ones who have the 2nd most amount of money in the kingdom!" "But father, I'm going to have to find a wife someday, and if she does not know what I look like or what kind of person I am she will be unhappy at the wedding and in the marriage! And besides, I would not like to see such a girl–no, such a beauty with a broken heart. I believe I have fallen in love with that girl. I wanted to show her my hand so that when she saw the ring she would recognize me." And with that, the conversation ended. He had also left his mark on the girl's finger–the same pattern as the one on his ring–a cresent with 2 dots on each side.