Sorry, I know the last chapter was kind of rushed, especially Hiroki's letter, (if anyone actually read it to that far) R&R please!

Today me and Kara were sitting on the floor of her apartment, studying, as usual. She was reading a book, kind of slowly. I wondered why. Wow, I can't believe I'm wondering why she's reading a book slowly. I have obviously been too far away from Hiro-san… I wonder what he's doing.

" Back to the book, Nowaki" Kara said without even lifting her head. I guess she's gotten to really know my actions. Which kind of scared me.

" Kara…?" I said.

" Yes?"

" I was just wondering, you said you had a "photographic memory", right?" I said.

" I did," she lifted her head to look me square in the eye and said. " And I wasn't lying I really do. I'm a freak, remember?"

" Well, I guess I was just wondering why, you read so slowly?" I asked.

" Oh, that's all. Well actually I could read this in about 5 minutes and know all the words that are said. I just read slowly so I can pretend to be like other people." she told me.

" I see." I said. I smiled and followed with, " You know someone once told me that how can you be true to yourself if your not true others."

She returned the smile saying " I'm not lying to anyone, now am I? I'm just trying to be normal."

Trying to be the wise older man I said " Now how do you define normal?"

Wrong thing to say…

Kara looked at me and kind of sneered " Oh, how about not being able to remember every god damned thing that has ever happened to you? I think that's normal."

" Alright, alright you win" I said looking back down at my book. Kara threw out a question to be answered every once in a while. Once she thought she fried by brain enough she concluded with, " I'm sorry for not answering your question the other day."

I got a little confused and then remembered what she was talking about. " Don't worry Kara, you don't have to answer if you don't want to. It's not any of my business…"

" No, I told you I'd tell you another day. Today is another day. I don't break promises. Even if I didn't say " I promise" it seems as if it was close enough to actually saying it. Anyways sit down and listen to your answer." Kara said.

" Well how should I start… how about a picture?" She ran to her room and came out with a photo album. She sat down and opened the book, not really caring what page it fell on. I guess it was filled with him and her. She pointed to a boy with short black hair, gray eyes, and a tan. Native American perhaps? " His name is Sky. It's a long story, if your willing to listen to it." Kara said looking at me.

" Sure, I'm all ears" I said.

" Well, we met in dance class when we were kids. He was the first person to not find me weird enough to stay away from. Of course I wanted to hang out with him more, too. I loved him at that moment on, I was too little to understand it, though all I could think of was I couldn't believe it, I had my first friend." Kara said smiling down at a picture of, what must have been, her and Sky as little kids. They looked about 4 or 5 years old. She had a pointed foot up in the air holding on to a rail, and concentrating really hard. Sky was sitting down cross legged and smiling, clapping at Kara's pose. " We grew up together, he was my best friend." She laughed softly, " I guess my only friend, is the right word. People really only liked my dancing, I was happy that I could please them somehow. Sky was always my partner. He had such a warm feeling to him. He could also make friends with anyone. Everyone thought he was crazy when they saw that we were dating, in high school. Even I wondered about his sanity.

God, he was so nice to me. He found me when I was hiding from everyone else. Made me smile when I was gloomy. I still don't know why he ever liked to be around me." Kara said, her eyes a little watery. Now I was looking at a 16 or 17 year old Kara and Sky. This one obviously more new. Kara was smiling at the camera being held by Sky who was also smiling looking down at her. They were in swim suits and at a beach.

" When I was with him, I didn't feel lonely anymore. I didn't care what anyone else thought about me either." She said, sighing. " But, I guess you want to hear the complicated part. You can see that I don't see him anymore, right? Well, that's because I have no clue where he is." She said.

" You don't?" I said, confused. It sounded like he loved her back, to me. Why would he just up and leave her?

" Yeah, that's what's complicated. If I knew where he was I would have asked him what the matter was. Why he just left. All I know is that he was acting strangely before high school graduation. He was saying stuff like ' If I left, would you wait till I got back to you'? I didn't know what he was talking about. I kid and said ' Who would want to see me if they weren't you?' He never said stuff like that, ever. To this day I try to figure out what had happened. But that's all he left me with, no other clue what so ever." Kara said closing the photo album. " And that's my tragic tale. Romeo and Juliet, well sort of. There, I answered your question. Are you happy." she said turning towards me.

" How old are you Kara?" I said concentrating on the ground.

" I'm 21, why do you ask?"

" Just curious…" She had been away from her lover for 3 years. I can't stand being away from Hiro-san for as long as I am. How was she doing this? She just kept on surprising me. She didn't even know if she would ever see Sky again. I know that when I get back to Tokyo, I'll see Hiro-san. I know how bad I'm tearing myself up for not seeing him. Kara must be going crazy.

Now knowing her pain, it made it easier to weather through being away from Hiro-san. But only a little bit. I still missed him, more than anything.

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A couple months or so…

Me and Kara were walking down to the university. Like usual I was daydreaming. Until I noticed Kara wasn't ahead of me anymore. When I looked behind me, I saw that she was a couple of feet behind me. She was looking straight ahead with a blank look on her face.

" Kara? Is something wrong?" I asked

She didn't answer right away but she gave a quite, "huh?"

" I said"

" Sky?" She said. I wasn't really thinking and looked up. The sky? What was going on with the sky?

I looked back over to Kara again, she was still looking forward. I turned my gaze to the direction she was starring.

Then I saw what she was talking about. Sitting on a bench reading, was the person I saw in a picture awhile ago.

We walked up to the guy, me standing back a little, being cautious.

" Sky?" Kara asked. The boy sitting down looked up into Kara's eyes. " Kara?" he said. He got up from the bench saying " I can't believe I found you. Thank god." He stepped forward, intending to give Kara a hug. But before he could, to my surprise, Kara slapped him across the face. Very hard by the sound of it.

" What the hell?!" she shouted in his face. Sky looked at her with a shocked face. " who do you think you are?" Kara fumed. " You disappear from me for 3 years, not even telling me what was going on, and you think it's going to be alright and fine? Like nothing ever happened?"

Sky looked at her and smiled warmly saying, " No, I didn't. But I haven't seen you in so long, and I've missed you so much." he said calmly. I could tell he meant it.

" You missed me?" Kara said. " You were the one who just left!" she said her voice breaking. " Do you even know what you did to me? You were the only person in the world that didn't make me feel lonely anymore. I had to start all over again, this time, I didn't have anyone…" she started to break down and cry. She put her hands to her face to hide it from everyone else.

I felt kind of awkward and out of place. But I didn't want to just leave Kara, what if something happened? I was trying to figure out what to do. In the end, I decided to stay. This was getting interesting. In a sad way, of course.

During my thinking, Sky went up to Kara and hugged her. Her still crying with her hands to her face.

" I know, and I'm sorry I did that. But I had to do it for you too." Sky said, in a soothing voice, running his hand down her hair. " But I'll tell you about that later. Right now, I want to hold you again. And I'm never going to do that to you ever again. I'm staying by your side until you want to get rid of me.

With that, I knew I didn't need to be there anymore. Obviously this guy wasn't going to hurt her and it seemed they needed time alone anyways. I wasn't stupid of course. I said to Sky softly " I'm one of her friends. I'm going to take my leave. Tell her not to worry." He looked at me kind of confused for a couple seconds and then nodded.

I walked away and up to class. That was awkward. Kind of romantic, but still very awkward.

Is that going to be the reaction that I'm going to get? I thought. But decided that it was impossible. After all, Hiro-san knew where I was. I had a different idea of how my homecoming was going to go.

Not that I think you guys are interested but, would you like to know what was going on with Kara? PLUS!!! Should I continue with Nowaki back home? Or continue at all? R&R please!!!