Romance manuals and fortune telling

I gave up after a while

Little by little, I began to be impatient

The changing shapes of everyone around me

I made a note in my diary of the day we'll meet

Somehow it's sort of strange

That I could be more obsessed than before

Maybe it's the spell of ­summer love...

- Summer Love Prologue -

My mama has always told me about love at first sight. She and Papa met in the park, and they both jumped into the same tree hole when a large Shiba Inu barked at their way. Luckily the master of the dog pulled it away before it could cause any harm. After my Mama and Papa went out of the tree, Mama stared into his eyes and melted. I guess that hit their relationship off.

After they had me and my brother, Papa was killed by a hungry stray cat, and Mama went hystarical. She stopped eating and began to see things. I was scared, and I remember that she died after my brother and I were sent to a pet store to find a new human. I hurt a lot. I guess Mama's love for Papa was so strong that she didn't even think about me before dying of misery. Pssh.

That's when Hillary picked us up. Me and my brother are twins, so she probably thought she couldn't get one of us without the other. She was so cool, and she satisfied all our needs until we were older, and she gave Stan, my brother, to Noel, one of the guys that Hillary went to school with. Day after day without my brother, my memories of him began to fade.

After a year, I met incredible friends called the Hamu-chans, and they helped me find Stan again. My heart no longer hurt, and I even had a boyfriend named Maxwell.

...that's exactly what this story is about. Max.

Well, having him as a boyfriend was cool after a good long while. He was sweet, caring, and smart: everything a perfect boyfriend was. He couldn't provide athletic support, but he was great anyway. But after a period of time, my fantasies of living forever with Maxwell faded. I slowly began to tire of his dry jokes and his head being stuck in books. He actually began to get annoying to me, and whenever I saw him coming from somewhere, I quickly moved away.

It was summertime now, and by now, I was over Maxwell. I felt a bit sad about it. And how I would tell him, I can't imagine...when I headed down to the lake, I was surprised to see Max there. Of course, he saw me and beckoned me over.

"Sandy, um. Here," he said breathlessly. He handed me a caramel covered sunflower seed. I knew these were unhealthy but delicious, and I felt really guilty about Maxwell going through the trouble.

"Um...uh," I couldn't say anything. I just looked down, leaving Max to cock his head at me.

"Sandy, what's wrong?" he asked anxiously. "...actually, for the last few weeks, I had a feeling you were avoiding me..." Correctomundo. "Can you tell me what's going on with you lately?" It wasn't a demand, just a simple request. I decided to get over it.

"Maxwell, I...I can't accept this!" I thrusted the seed back to him. "The truth is...I kind of think we should split up." My heart broke in half when seeing Maxwell's face, filled with confusion, sadness, and hurt. I avoided his gaze and shifted my feet in the grass.

"But I thought we were-"

"Relationships like this don't last forever, Maxwell, so...can't be please just still be friends?" I held out a paw to him, and waited with baited breath as he stared at me, then my hand, then at me again.

My heart sank when he actually turned roughly, slamming my hand away, and stalked away, leaving me alone, my knees crumpling beneath me. That wasn't something Max would do. And this hurting and squeezing in my chest...I think it wasn't anything compared to the pain Maxwell was coping with right now. I sat down on the grass, watching the small rippling waves in the lake. I allowed a few tears to stream down my cheeks.

-Prologue End -