A fifteen year old girl sat alone at a table in the canteen of the high school. Her long, chestnut brown straight hair was tied back tightly with a sparkly pink hair band that she fiddled with occasionally. She glared at her sketchbook lying open on the table top and scribbled something out, 'damn! ' She thought, ' I just can't get him right, ever!' Two girls in pink miniskirts and crop tops stalked towards her, high heels clicking on the marble floor.
"Hey freak" they sneered at her "still believing in spirits are we?" The girl stiffened in her seat and tightened her grip on her pencil "still do and always will" she spat out through gritted teeth "now why don't you go and hang out with the rest of your Barbie friends." They gasped and the tallest slapped the girl around the face 'Chihiro, don't be so rude! You're just sad because you don't have any friends and your spirit boy isn't real!' Chihiro stood up, fists clenched at her sides and slowly turned to face them, "you know nothing about me" she screamed "I hate you and I hate this school, why won't you believe me!" She launched herself past the girls and ran from the canteen, leaving the girls to gape at the now empty space.
Chihiro ran and ran and ran as fast as she could, ignoring the tears streaming down her face and not paying any attention to the direction she was running in, she just wanted to get far, far away from the people telling her she was crazy and that world didn't exist. She just wanted to see him. She tripped on a stone and fell to her knees in the middle of the road, she gasped and choked on a sob. Glancing around her she was surprised to find that she was kneeling in front of the same stone statue the car had stopped in front of all those years ago, the statue where she had left Haku behind. The pain in her heart increased tenfold at that thought and she clutched at her chest gasping, a throbbing in her head made itself known and she cried out before blackness enveloped her and she knew no more.
Fuzziness was the first thing that made itself known to her groggy mind as she blinked rapidly to clear her blurry vision. A face swam into focus above her and she registered the soft surface beneath her head as someone's knees, she moaned softly at the blinding pain in her head. "Shhh" a soft voice whispered as a hand gently stroked her hair "you're alright."
That voice, achingly familiar, there was only one person it could possibly be, she shot upright and winced, swaying slightly at the sudden light headedness. "Easy" he laughed as she stared at him wide eyed, "Haku is that really you?" she cried, he laughed at the shock on her face and nodded, "the one and only, it is so good to see you Chihiro, I missed you" he smiled and opened his arms welcomingly towards her. She took one last look at him and threw herself on him, hugging him tightly and sobbing. "I thought you would never come back, it's been so long since I saw you and everyone was telling me I was crazy, I was beginning to believe it and it hurt so much!" Haku flinched and held her tighter at the words she spoke in his ear, "i'm so sorry, I came as soon as I could and I never meant to hurt you, can you ever forgive me?" he whispered kissing her on the head.