I tried very hard to finish this story, so here goes the second part!
You wanna stay with me in the morning,
You only hold me when I sleep.
I was meant to tread in the water,
Now I've gotten in way too deep.
For every piece of me that wants you,
Another piece backs away.
How I Met Your Mother – Yellow and Purple
"What happened?"
Running, the boy tailed behind the girl who was killing distance on her scooter. Apparently, the girl also knew of the sudden news.
Then, they both came to a sudden halt, the girl's expression unfathomable, the boy's crestfallen. There, right in front of them, was the sweet Nullifier, now fifteen, with the boy's best friend, hugging.
The boy cringed as he felt a land lightly rest on his arm. He looked sidewards and found the girl with a small smile on her face. The boy's world came to pause, and resumed again when he at once, felt his heart give way for the new kind of feeling he was suddenly sensing as it hammered against his ribs in the situation before him.
But before he can finally be able to let go, there was still one last thing he had to do.
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"[insert name here]-san."
"[insert name here]-pyon!" The pretty brunette Nullifier called out to the boy who once had eyes only for her.
"Wait a sec!" Ryumi cut in, his head jerking forward.
"Hmm…?"
"'Pyon'? What the he – " The purple-eyed blonde boy incredulously asked.
"Watch your mouth." The blonde cerulean-eyed man immediately reprimanded his son.
Ryumi's hands flew to his mouth, the kitten scornfully eyeing him through narrowed eyes and a cocked head.
Without hesitation, the boy took her hand and placed his other one on her shoulder. Everything was well thought of now, and the boy was quite sure he could take this risk in doing this last courageous act of boyhood infatuation for his childhood love.
The Nullifier smiled in confusion, and was startled when he pulled her in and kissed her forehead.
"I hope you can know of the feelings that I've kept for so long. I-I'm letting go of them now, that's why it really matters if you knew." The boy murmured.
"[insert name here]…" She stuttered and blushed. He suddenly held her in a tight embrace that startled the brunette even more.
"I just want you to know that I've always liked you before, but now that I've realized who you really belong with, I've decided to let you go… "He whispered into her chestnut brown hair.
"My heart belongs to someone else now. I hope you understand." She stroked his back apologetically.
"I know, I understand, I've let you go already. But that would never change the fact that even though it was never US in the end, you would always be my first love." The boy smiled, his unwavering blue eyes staring into her hazel ones.
"And you'll always be my first crush." The brunette girl replied, sheepishly grinning back. The both turned a fine shade of pink.
"So, he let her go in the end, huh?" Ryumi muttered, his eyes distant.
"Uh-huh." Ruka nodded, his golden hair following the movement of his head.
The bemused eight year old stared out the window where the crescent-shaped moon barely showed from its hiding place in the clouds.
As their high school years came and went, just like that, the boy couldn't help but think that time was slowly running out for him as each day ended without him confessing his true feelings for the girl. Her best friend tried to help him, but in the end, the girl's coldness and stolidity towards love would always come in the way and leave the boy face down on the dirt, unable to string three simple words yet again.
Time was running out, and graduation was drawing near. He didn't know what to do now.
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With her ethics set aside, she stood there in a deep embrace with her best friend, tears flowing from both of their eyes. They all knew the girl had to leave for Africa, just to help out the kids there with her latest innovations and inventions. Everyone was quite sad about this news, for they hated to see her leave once again, but also happy, since they were proud of her for moving on to great things once she finally stepped outside the Academy walls after eight long years. And nevertheless, the one who would always feel the most emotions on her sudden departure would none other be than her dearest best friend.
"I – I'll miss you…" The girl's best friend sobbed into her shoulder, her diploma in hand.
"Me too, baka, me too…" The girl, who was now anything far from indifferent, said somberly, tears continuously flowing from her amethyst eyes.
"Keep in touch, 'kay?" The girl pulled away, for it was time for her to leave. She wiped a tear trickling down her best friend's cheek.
The brunette nodded.
"Now give me your best smile." The girl weakly grinned at her best friend.
She smiled, not exactly a big one, but one of her warmest, heartmelting, and sunniest smiles ever, and then held her hand before walking away.
The boy watched them from a distance, and gulped loudly, hoping to chase away the butterflies in his stomach and the lump in his throat. He walked forward.
"[insert name here]…" The boy called out to the girl.
"[insert name here]." She wiped away the remainder of her tears, her eyes suddenly turning shrewd and stoic the moment they met his.
"I – " The boy started anxiously.
"Time is gold, and gold is money, [insert name here], now do you have something to say or not?" The girl snapped back crossly, while taking a quick glance at her watch.
"I – Congratulations. Have a good trip, a-and, keep in touch." The boy merely smiled his crinkly-eyed smile that seemed to charm almost anyone but that one girl.
He waved his graduation diploma at her as a sign of saying goodbye. The girl nodded in acknowledgment and turned around to leave. And with that, they parted…
"Woah, cold much?" Ryumi narrowed his eyes at his father, who apparently was being scrutinized by his son for telling a story where the boy parted too formally with the girl he wanted to confess to so much.
"Hold it, there's still more." Ruka raised his hands in front of him, his face wry.
"Mine! [insert name here], don't! Give it back!" The boy shouted back at the girl.
"What happened? Why the sudden time skip? What time was it?" Ryumi asked Ruka.
"They were in a friend's baby shower years later after graduation and just right after the girl's return from Africa." He replied plainly.
"So shrill and noisy. Shut up, [insert name here]." The girl fired her deer-hoof glove at the boy, a box tied with a purple ribbon in her hand.
She blew away the steam rising from her gun as the boy eyed her in desperation through narrowed cerulean eyes.
But then, the girl, with her cold glare and all, had a thought.
The girl's best friend helped the boy up, and as he dusted himself, the girl stared at the two of them almost spitefully.
Careful not to get caught, the girl crept to the coat rack and slipped a small box into his coat pocket.
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"What is this?" Girl and boy asked incredulously at the same time.
The boy held out a small, clear box that had a purple gem sitting inside.
The girl held out a yellow orb and a purple ribbon in the other hand.
"What the hell?!" They both said at the same time.
There was a short pause, followed by an awkward silence as the air was suddenly filled with bitter blows of early December wind and the sound of jolly Christmas songs.
The girl breathed in and jerked her head, motioning the boy to start talking.
"You took that box from me, it's not my fault…" The boy told her nonchalantly.
The girl glared at him through cold, questioning eyes, making the boy swallow in fright.
"Ok, so I was meaning to give it to – "
The girl waved a hand dismissively.
She spoke, "And about the chocolates – "
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot! What were those anyway?!" The boy jumped up, cutting off the girl in mid-speech.
"Look…" They both chorused, the Christmas park lights glimmering in that December afternoon.
"You go first, [insert name here]." The girl ordered the boy.
The boy huffed, his breath visible against the cold backdrop, "I found this," he paused to hold up the clear box, "in my coat pocket. It was filled with what seemed to be late valentine chocolates from somebody," he stopped again to raise an eyebrow at the uneasy girl, "and when I bit into the oddest, most deformed piece, I nearly broke my bicuspids and discovered this little fellow." The boy took the amethyst stone out of the small box, holding it in between two fingers with a benign grin on his face.
The girl nervously swallowed, and though it wasn't fathomable in her expression, her anxiety was reaching its boiling point as she held out the yellow stone in her palm.
"I never got to give you anything before, ever. So that was a little FREE token from me for all those blackmail profits in the past years, just to return the favor. And this… It was in the box I took from you. Is it for her?" The girl plainly asked the boy, her voice nearly breaking in the last four words.
The boy shook his head. The girl's heart skipped a beat, then she walked forward towards the boy, her feet light.
"Hold out your hand." The girl mumbled gently.
The boy held out his palm and she took the purple stone from his palm.
She enclosed the two gems in her hand, and closed her eyes. A faint glow emanated from in between her fingers. The boy's eyes glinted as the luminous light reflected off his deep cerulean eyes.
Then the girl opened her hand, her solemn amethyst eyes focused on the Alice stone that formed on her palm. The stone was halfway between purple and yellow since it was a light violet color with several yellow swirls sticking out from here and there, and it held a soft glimmer as it twinkled against the frozen December sun.
"What…?" The boy uttered, his expression astounded.
"It's the last step in proposing." The girl tonelessly replied.
"Where did you learn it from?"
"From…her." The girl looked up, a small smile, that held all the feeling in the world, painted on her lips. Her eyes sparkled, and so did the boy's.
"Yurple?" The boy chortled.
"…Or Pellow?" The girl jokingly added.
They both grinned cheekily, and for the first time in years, the boy saw her cheeks fluster.
"Lovely color…Hmm, hmm." The boy admired the color of the stone he took in his hands, and the girl's cheeks.
"…Just like the sunset, overhead."
Both looked up and saw some birds migrating south in the pink, orange-tinged sky that was bathed in the setting sun's light.
"And that was how their old story ended, and new one begun." Ruka vaguely gazed off into his son's amethyst eyes.
Ryumi smiled a crinkly-eyed smile.
"So…what did you learn today?"
"I learned that girl bullies act that way because they might have hidden feelings for you, and…" The little boy counted his fingers.
"And…? Go on." Ruka tickled the kitten's chin, his gaze locked on his thoughtful little eight year old.
"And…History tends to find a way of repeating itself." He looked up, beaming at Ruka.
"You're a smart kid, just like your Mama…" Ruka mussed up his hair, chuckling.
"…and your Papa." An elegant raven-haired lady in a business suit greeted them from the armchair near the door.
"Uh-huh."
'Cause you give me something that makes me scared, alright.
This could be, nothing, but I'm willing to give it a try.
Please give me, something, 'cause someday I might know my heart.
You Give Me Something by James Morrison
There! Finally finished with my second story! I honestly liked my first story, but I worked real hard on this one too! Hope it wasn't too cheesy for you guys to handle, so please review! Then after that, we move on to the next story! Please patiently wait for it, k? Yosh! \m/
