Last chapter of my kind of sad one-shot, I'm really pleased with the reviews, thank you everyone so much! This one will be quite long just because it took me awhile to plan it out, so enjoy. I don't own Shugo Chara! R&R!
Rima's POV
"Rima, I said no." Amu's stern words stopped me dead in my tracks. I didn't know whether to feel relieved that she didn't want him or scared of what he would say because she said no.
"Why?" I had to find out why; they clearly looked happy together, so why would she say no.
"I don't feel the same way about him." I was still confused, wasn't she happy around him, she made him happy, how could she not feel the same way.
"But you make him happy, aren't you happy when you're with him?" I had to know, even if I wasn't going to win the silent battle I still had to know how she felt about him, even if it hurt.
"He does make me happy," hearing those words almost killed me, she was my best friend, and she was watching me wither away right in front of her. "But I don't like him like that, I like someone else." She said clearly referring to the blue-haired cat that often made her blush.
"I think I forgot something in outside, I'll be right back." I had to get away; my knees were crumbling underneath me like a building that had just been put out of its misery. I bolted down the hallway and the stairs, I closed my eyes tightly as I ran not knowing where I was running or where I would end up, at this point I didn't care. I opened my eyes and found myself surrounded by vivid flowers and lush greenery; somehow I had ended up in the Royal Garden. I leaned up against a wall and slid down it weakly. I pulled myself into my defense mechanism; however, my ball formation wasn't going to protect me from the reality of my situation. I felt wet hot tears uncontrollably roll down my face. The bottled up poisonous emotion that had rotted inside me for the past few days had finally been sucked out through tears and heavy sobs. I didn't care that I was missing class, I didn't care that my grades were slipping because of everything, I felt the lonely numb feeling running through my veins, taking over, as I sat still on the floor like a ragdoll.
"Rima!" I felt as if I had gotten struck by lightning. The last thing I needed was him interfering with my depressed state. It was all his fault, I didn't want him to be the hero, I didn't need a knight in shining armor to pull me out of the darkness that engulfed me, but something told me not to turn him away. I heard his footsteps coming closer, I shut my eyes tightly and squeezed myself into my ball position again; I didn't want to hear what he had to say. "There you are, come on let's get back to class."
"No," my voice was muffled by my clothes.
"Why not?" I heard his footsteps stop inches in front of me.
"I don't want to," I whimpered, trying to hide the fact that I was crying.
"That's not a good answer," I could tell that he put his hands at hips thinking that it would lure me out of my ball. "Look at me." He said sternly.
"no," I replied in a flat tone.
"Rima," he started to sound angry now, "look at me." I knew that he wasn't going to leave me alone if I didn't give him the satisfaction of at least glancing at him. I slowly lifted my head out of my ball position. I knew that my face was puffed up and red from crying and that there were tears involuntarily streaming down my face still. I glanced up noticing that his angry face turned to shocked, "Rima, what happened?" he sure expected a lot out of me didn't he.
"I looked at you, happy now? Can you leave?" I grumbled.
"I'm not going to leave until you tell me what's wrong." He said sitting down on the ice cold flooring that made up the Royal Garden. I might as well just raise my white flag now, this battle was over. I felt like a wounded warrior while my enemy watched me suffer.
"It's all your fault!" I felt the blood rush to my head as I began to suck even more poison out. "You started talking to her and everything went downhill from there. The way you look at her so lovingly, the way you smile at everything she does, you had no idea how I felt about it. I was left out, all alone with no one to talk to or insult, you didn't even bother looking at me. Why her, she's my best friend, I don't want to hate her, but why her, why not me?" I glanced up at him with my golden tear strewn eyes. His eyes grew wide with even more shock.
"I had no idea," he muttered under his breath.
"Of course you had no idea, you never even had a clue did you?" I asked him, anger taking over my expression. He shook his head quietly. "I thought so." I stood up and started to walk away when he grabbed my arm.
"Wait, where are you going?" he asked still tightly holding my arm.
"Away from you," I tried to shake him off but it did nothing against his strong stature. Instead he grabbed my other arm and pulled me into a forced hug. "Let me go! It's bad enough that you broke my heart, I don't need it crushed too." He let me go at the sound of my voice.
"Alright, you can leave." I began to turn on my heel and walk out, "on one condition."
"And what would that be?"
"Tell me why you're upset."
"I already did," I started heading for the door when he magically appeared in front of me.
"No, you explained to me why you were upset, you never told me." Did he have to be a brat about this? We stood in silence for several minutes as I thought about what I was going to say or do. I took one small step and closed my eyes as I pressed my soft lips against his.
"I love you, that's why." I broke away from him and started to walk away, leaving him standing dumbstruck and frozen. I had sucked all the poison out of my system; I had finally pulled myself out of the dark abyss that I thought had engulfed me forever.
"Rima, wait!"
"What? I already told you w-" My voice was muffled by a kiss. I felt like melting into his arms as they wrapped around me, I could've died and had no regrets about anything. "What was that for?" I pulled away from him.
"I love you too," his deep brown eyes looked honest but something told me he wasn't completely truthful.
"No you don't," his luxurious eyes went from warm to ice cold. "but you could, eventually." I gave him one last kiss, and walked away.
"What was that for?" he called after me.
"You owed me one, remember." I smiled back at him as walked out of garden as if nothing ever happened.
Please don't be mad at me for having Rima tell Nagi that she didn't love him, I did it for a reason. Nagi just got over the fact that Amu rejected him, you can't fall in love with someone in fifteen minutes. Please R&R. P.S. this story will be on under the same title if you want to read it there.
