Ok, my first BelaLiech fic. And it's a multichapter one. Am I getting in over my head, or aiming too high? I don't think so. Will I really have time to do this? I hope so. ^^' With school and all I never know sometimes. But I'll try. Enjoy~ (Even if it sucks because I know I'm not the best author out there. I'm still a student and all so don't expect it to be perfect. I'll try to come as close to perfect as I can, just don't expect it to be.)

Sometimes we look back at points in our life and see just how pivotal it was. We wonder what it would be like had we not done this or had done that. Looking back, it is a moment that is important, but at the time it seems to be of little importance whatsoever. And it seems we base our lives on these moments that were never planned, barely even thought of, so much that it only happened at all due to pure, raw circumstance only set up by a small whim. A woman visits a cafe for the first time that has been around for years and meets a man who later would be her husband. Two children play with each other for just a few minutes on the first day of school and later become utterly inseparable friends till death. These little moments changed these people's lives, yet at the time the woman could have just as easily gone to the cafe next week, three days after the man had quit his job as a waiter at said cafe. The children could have ignored each other and played with the countless other children at school that day. Such simple decisions make such an impact when looking back, but it could have been oh so very different had one tiny detail been changed.

We find ourselves at such a moment in young Natalya's life. She is naught but a tiny girl, no more than seven years old and the youngest in her family. Today she is wearing a dark blue dress and a big white bow in her long platinum blonde hair. Normally she would be at home with her brother and sister, but for some reason she felt like taking a walk down the street. She told herself she would turn around and go back before she went to far, but when she noticed a small path leading into the woods that was almost completely hidden from view, curiosity compelled her to go down it. The path, you see, was just a broken up asphalt path that was once an old hiking trail that wound around an even older playground, that now was nothing but a rusty swing set with only two swings. Even Natalya could see it had been abandoned. Probably when they built the newer park years ago, she thought.

She followed the little path and soon heard the small squeak of rusty chains. She carefully poked her head out from behind a tree and spotted a little girl in a pinkish purple dress with two braids of blonde hair on her shoulders. She seemed younger than Natalya, but only by a year or two at the most. The girl seemed like she was trying to swing on the swing set on her own, but didn't quite know how. The girl, sensing she was being watched, turned around as best she could while still in the swing and looked at Natalya.

She smiled at Natalya and said simply, "Hello. My name's Lili. What's yours?"

"I'm Natalya," she said as she stepped our from behind the tree and approached the swing set. "Nice to meet you."

"Natalya. That's a pretty name," said Lili, smiling yet again.

"What are you doing here all alone?"

"My brother was at Roderich's house, and I got bored, so I came here. I come here a lot when big brother's busy."

"I was just going for a walk when I saw the path to here." She looked around. "It's so peaceful here. Almost hard to believe the rest of the town isn't that far away at all."

"It's nice. Since you're here, maybe you can help me. I can't quite figure out how to swing on my own. Can you push me? I'm sure I can figure it out from there."

Natalya moved to stand behind the girl on the swing. "Sure. Just don't fall off." She grabbed the chains that held the sturdy wooden plank that served as the seat of the swing and backed up as far as she could while still gripping the swing. Then she let go and pushed for just a moment. Lili giggled happily and Natalya decided she liked her laugh. Makes my heart feel all happy, she thought. She pushed Lili on the swing a few more times before going to side and watching the girl.

Lili looked at the other girl. "Get on the other swing, so we can swing together." She smiled, and Natalya smiled back, something she didn't do often even though she was young. Natalya hopped onto the other swing and soon the two were swinging side by side in almost perfect unison. Natalya's smile grew and she laughed. Lili took her right hand off of the chains and held it out to Natalya. The other girl barely had to think before smiling at Lili and taking her right hand with her left. The two remained like that for some time until they grew tired and just sat in the swings and talked.

Lili told Natalya about her brother Vash and his Austrian friend. She told her about the nice Hungarian girl named Elizaveta and yet another girl named Chelle who was born in Seychelles who were her friends.

Natalya told Lili about her brother named Ivan and her sister Katyusha. She told Lili she didn't have any friends. At this, Lili just smiled and told her, "Great! Then that makes me your first friend." Natalya smiled at that. If this was what it felt like to have a friend, she liked it.

All too soon, the sky grew a darker shade of blue that turned to a peach shade of pink in the west. Lili looked at the sky and frowned. "It's getting darker. We'll have to go soon..."

Natalya looked up as well, before looking over at Lili. "It's okay. We can play again tomorrow, right?"

Lili looked at her feet. "Well, actually... we can't. My brother is at Roderich's house because he's saying goodbye. Earlier today I said goodbye to my other friends. Our dad got a promotion at his job. We're moving several cities away from here, so we won't be able to come here often at all. I'm sorry. I just had to come here one last time before we left. My brother says we'll come back when he's old enough to care for me and him on his own, but I don't know when that will be."

Natalya looked at the girl beside her. Her chest felt as if someone has just taken the largest rock on earth and put it inside her heart. "B-but we just met... how can you leave?"

"I'm sorry." Lili said. She sniffed and tried not to cry, for she too hated to leave her new friend so suddenly.

Natalya stood up and walked over to stand in front of Lili. She felt bad, but she didn't want to cry in front of her new friend. She put her hands on Lili's shoulders and looked her dead in the eye, mustering as much seriousness as a seven year old could. "You can't help that you're leaving. It's okay. You just be sure to come back. And when you do," she smiled softly, "I'll be waiting right here to swing with you again."

Lili smiled and hugged her. "Thanks," she said. The two left the old park that day hand in hand, only letting go when they reached the street again and had to go their separate ways.

Natalya never told a soul about that day, but she visited that old swing set at least once a day, even if it was only for a moment. Soon however, her visits began to get less frequent. Her time was soon taken up by stalking her brother. She didn't forget Lili. At least once a month she would visit that swing set, but it became something she did not do to wait for Lili, but to simply get away from everyone else for a while and remember what it felt like to have a friend.

Lili moved away the day after meeting Natalya. She did move back to the town one summer when she was 14 and Natalya was 15. She lived with her brother in a house next to her brother's friend Roderich. However, by then she had forgotten about Natalya. She did remember the swing set though. She went there almost every day.

The first day of school was a little bit like a reunion for Lili. She met with the few friends that hadn't known about her and Vash moving back to town. One girl struck Lili as familiar, but she just couldn't place her. She seemed to stare at Lili, who could feel the stare without looking, but whenever Lili turned around to look at the girl, who sat behind her in nearly all her classes, the girl would look away. In the hallway before lunch, the girl finally talked to her. All she said was 'hello'.

"Hello," Lili said. "I'm Lili. Who are you?"

Natalya's heart nervously beat in her chest when she saw Lili. Her hair was no longer worn in braids and was cut shorter, but it was still the same shade of blonde. She even had a purple ribbon in her hair. That was her favorite color, wasn't it? She shared all her classes with Lili (as she had seen from a glance at her schedule when Lili had almost left it on her desk) and took a seat behind her. She watched her, but was too nervous to speak. Finally though, she was able to say hello to her in the hallway just before lunch. What she said in return, however, crushed nearly all hope she had of gaining back her one friend.

"Hello. Who are you?"

Natalya, had she had less control of her emotions, would have looked as shocked as if the shorter blonde had grown two heads. Instead, she simply looked at her feet and muttered, "I'm Natalya."

Before anything else could be said she walked off. She walked out of the school unnoticed and headed to the swing set, where she cried silently. So long she had waited for a friend, who didn't even remember her name. She wiped away her tears and decided that one way or another she wouldn't give up. She would make Lili remember. Why? A tiny voice in her head asked. Why try gain the friendship of a girl who forgot you? All you need is your brother. Besides, you don't love her. Natalya thought for a moment before mentally replying to the little voice. You're wrong. I do. At least enough to want her as my friend again.

Lili didn't see Natalya for the rest of the day. With her purple back-pack over her shoulder, she walked to the old swing set. It was quiet and she could sit here and do her homework in peace. Before then, she had thought she was the only one who knew about the old park, or at least bothered to go there. Then she saw the first flower, a light blue rosemary, sitting in the left swing. There was a single card attached that simply had information about the flower (not a handwritten card just a typed up one that seemed as if it came with the flower when it was bought), but the main thing that caught Lili's eye was the meaning of the flower: remembrance.

Ok. Was that long? I dunno. It did take a while to write though. Plz fav or comment or something.

I'll try to post a new chapter weekly, but if it doesn't always happen then I am oh so sorry. But give or take I should know and be able to tell you ahead of time or something. Mostly expect the chapters on Saturdays, if not that day then Friday or Sunday.

I hope you enjoyed, and plz tell me if I made a mistake somewhere.

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