CH. 10

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Saia started to cry, and didn't want to go home like that, so she went to the place where she first met Chihiro. They met in a park, she was new in town, Saia could tell because Chihiro had a notebook and seemed to be "memorizing" the neighborhood.

Saia neared her and sat next to her in a bench. "Hello, I am Yamabuki Saia, what's your name?"

"Ogino Chihiro" she answered without looking up from her notebook. Saia took a peek. Chihiro was drawing something; a beautiful white dragon in the night sky with a girl on top of it.

"Wow, that's beautiful" Saia said; Chihiro closed the notebook fast, not wanting anyone to see the drawing. "Oh, but don't stop, it was beautiful."

"It's mine... It's... a very precious memory... a very precious promise... only mine..." Chihiro replied shyly whilst hugging the notebook.

"Well, maybe you could share it with me too," Saia suggested cheerfully, still, Chihiro shook her head not wanting to let anyone know about her secret adventure in the Spirit World.

The memory faded and Saia found herself hugging her knees and crying on them. Another memory came, when they found out they went to the same school. Chihiro's first introduction was very soft, barely audible, she was about to cry out of shyness. She was sitting in the last seat of the last row, so far away from Saia.

On the lunch break a few girls approached her, trying to be friendly; but when they saw she wasn't good with work and was so defenseless they changed their attitude.

"Look at yourself, so skinny and pale, are you sure you are supposed to be in this grade?" said a blonde one, very full of herself.

"Yeah, I think you should be downgraded... or better, you should go to a doctor to check if there's nothing wrong with your brain..." replied the other one, laughing at the comment.

"Just look at her, she can't even speak when we mock her... you won't do any friends like this..." a third one intervened.

"I have an idea, we will give you the privilege of being our friend, in exchange of some favors." the blonde said again.

"Yes, you will have to do our classwork, homework, and carry our stuff wherever we go..." was saying the third girl when...

"Don't you have anything better to do?" Saia interrupted.

"Oh, our little Saia is here to defend the new girl, how sweet."

"At least I am not that idiot as to need 'the new girl' to do my homework" Saia smiled victoriously.

The girls looked at her offended, then at Chihiro meanly and finally left her alone.

"Thank you" Chihiro said once they were gone. After the adventure in the Spirit World, she had come to expect everyone to be like Lin or Haku, but they were not; the people was mean and treated her bad, leaving her own self esteem on the ground.

"No problem, I'm really glad I helped you; or else you would've ended up as their slave" Saia said and laughed at the comment, but as she got no response of Chihiro, she started hesitating. She grabbed a chair and neared it to Chihiro's seat, but when she was about to sit down, the chair slipped and Saia ended up on the floor.

Chihiro couldn't help the laughter that came out of her mouth. "Oh, so you can actually laugh" Saia said as if she had discoveres America and joined Chihro's laughter.

At the remember of that day, Saia hugged her legs tighter wishing Chihiro would come back once more. "Chihiro, I miss you... where are you?"

'I'm fine Saia, I've never been better,' answered Chihro's voice as if carried by the wind; it was a melodic tune, almost like a song. Saia jumped in surprise and fell off the bench.

"I must be going crazy" Saia whispered to herself.

'No, you aren't'

"Hiro-chan? Is that really you?" Saia asked again, never expecting an answer, Hiro was the nickname Saia chose for her on their first hangout together... she said Chihiro was too long and made a shorter one.

'Not really, just my voice. I'm using it now just to let you know I'm safe and sound.'

"But... where are you? Are you alive, dead?"

'I'm alive, but in a place unreachable for you. I am not going back, and I just needed you to know that you were my best real friend in the human world and I am grateful for that. I knew... know I can count on you for anything and I want you to know, that even if I'm not there in person, I will always be with you. In the good and the bad.'

"You can't just leave like this... there are a lot of things I need to know... and your parents!"

'Unfortunately I don't have enough time, I just came to tell you that. Now, farewell my friend... Oh! And don't worry about my parents, I'm going to them now...' After that, silence came. Saia kept asking questions, but she didn't got the answers because Chihiro was already gone.

Saia woke up on the bench again, confused. Had it all been a dream? She had the weird sensation it had, but at the same time it hadn't; she knew that what she heard from Chihiro's voice was the truth and felt at peace for the first time in weeks, although she could not explain herself why. "Farewell, Hiro-chan."