YAY... finish with this chapter. It's shorter then the rest, but I enjoyed writing this one. It was somewhat emotional…hehe. I'm sorry to the other people who supported the other couple but I was always leaning for this one…even though I said otherwise. Ow, and to make this chapter effective, I suggest listening to a heartbreaking love song…hehe…really touching.
Thanks to…
-Litto Girl – for that review. After you finish reading this chapter, I added a few words at the bottom to remind you of something.
Anyway, have a read and enjoy it.
On with the story.
Chapter 12 – Emotions
Told.
"What are you doing here?" Kimi was still surprise, finding Tommy standing besides her.
"I came looking for you."
"But how did you know I was here?"
"You told me."
Kimi just stares completely riddled.
Tommy caught the expression, "Your dream remember. You told me that you were on a swing in a park somewhere. This was the only park I knew off."
"But… what about Lil?"
"I told her that I'd probably know where you'll be so she let me go after you."
Kimi sank in a pool of despair. "He only came after me because they were all worried. I was hoping that…" she sighs in discontent slouching her head in foolishness for believing he came for another reason. "Oh. Well I'm fine so you don't have to worry", she said, turning her head in sadness. The overflowing tears at last impeding but her quiet sobs lightly echo through the night.
Tommy slightly frowns, perceiving her body shivering as a cold breeze brushes against her delicate skin. He removes his blazer and gently places it around her. Kimi lightly lifts her head up, guiding her gaze to look at him. She watches him move across, situating himself on the swing next to her. Together they sat in silence for a moment. The swaying of a swift wind could be heard rustling the peaceful grass across the whole park.
"Do you remember…" Tommy began, breaking the hush between them, "when Taffy use to take us here and she would sit on that bench there and play us her music.
Kimi brings her eyes to a bench located a few yards in front of them. "Yeah, and she use to call us 'minis' and we would just have fun listening to her play her guitar", she said, kindly laughing between her words.
"We use to have so much fun in this park. The best adventures began here." Tommy turns his head to a familiar jungle gym, a light smile forming across his lips. "I remember when we were still babies, we pretended that playground over there was Mt. Everest and we imagine that we were ice climbers on a mission. I fell and actually became scared to climb that mountain again. You guys did everything to help me overcome that fear, but you guys also made sure that I didn't get hurt or made sure we stop when I got really scared. Use was always there for me." He lightly wilts his head, eyes staring at the ground beneath his feet.
A gentle smile lights across Kimi's face, her eyes staring at the playground, delicately giggling at the reminiscence. She misses those days, but they'll always be engraved in her memory, always treasured.
"Especially you." Tommy softly said in a calm voice as he gently directs his gaze at her.
Kimi eyes grew wider at his preceding words. She slowly turns her gaze in his direction. He was faintly frowning his eyes relaxed. Her mouth shaped in surprise, confuse to what he meant by her. She slowly turns her head away feeling dismay, "What do you from me Tommy?" she questions, her tears imploring to fall once more.
"Nothing. I just wanted to make sure that you're alright."
"I told you I'm fine."
"So why are you crying?"
"Nothing just something in my eye." Kimi was beginning to become irritated. "Look you better get back. Lil is probably waiting for you."
"What about you? I need to take you back with me. Phil is…"
"I just want to be alone for the moment okay" she said, interrupting him, feeling anger bubbling within her, annoyed that he couldn't understand the suffering she was going through. Her eyes were hidden beneath her ebony hair, but an everlasting stream of flowing tears trickled its way down across her pale cheeks. "Are you that dense Tommy? Can't you see that the reason I'm crying is because of…you."
Tommy just stares at her wondering why she wouldn't come back, but he had to try, "I can't do that. I can't leave you here knowing that your all depress about something. I wouldn't feel right."
"Please just go Tommy." Kimi steadily rises off the swing, the blazer slipping off her falling in a heap onto the grass and begins walking away from him.
"Kimi wait" Tommy calls out, motioning his body up to follow her. "Kimi …" He manages to grab hold of her wrist gently, "What are you so depr…" He stops as Kimi whirls around eradicating his grip upon her, tears endlessly flowing, her eyes glaring at him in anger, hatred and passion. Her emotions emerging all at once.
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO STUPID?" She screams, unable to believe that he couldn't see it.
Tommy's eyes slightly widen, a little surprise to her sudden outburst.
"How could you not see how I feel?" Her voice was calmer, yet carried vehemence. She slouches her head, her head trembling in anguish, "Are you really that dense Tommy?" She hated him. Hated him for not understanding, hated him for doing nothing, but most of all, hated him for not seeing that the one causing her agony, was him. "Can't you tell?"
Tommy continues frowning, mystified to what she was saying.
Kimi slowly and serenely raises her head up looking at him with teary eyes, her tears sliding off her face being carried along by a gentle wind, glimmering under the bleeding light of a crying moon.
"I love you Tommy". Her voice soft, light, emotional.
Tommy's face went blank, eyes growing wide again with shock, mouth slightly open.
A silent moment settles between the two friends as another cold wind swirls between them.
Kimi continues to watch, his impression still stunned. For a moment she stares before finally breaking the quiet. "I have always loved you."
Tommy continues to focus his eyes upon her still briefly surprise to the words escaping from her lips.
"Even though it seemed I like someone else, there was always a part of me that has always had feelings for you. I've liked you for as long as I can remember. I even wrote it on a wall." She pauses, weeping feverishly as she watches him listen, "You were my best friend. You were always the one closest to me when we were growing up even after I became best friends with Susie. I told you everything about me, anything going on in my life, good or bad and you always listened. You have always been there for me more then the others have. You actually made me feel special." Kimi cried eternally, sobbing between her words. "I tried to ignore it but my feelings for you grew as we got older. I didn't want to admit it because I was afraid what would happen with our friendship if I told you how I felt. I was scared that you wouldn't feel the same way, that thinks will become awkward between us, that we will eventually push each other away and I didn't want that...but I found myself falling for you again after that night we had our conversation about my dream." Kimi felt her tone rise in slight anger. The words were overwhelming her within. It was all extremely affecting for her but she wanted him to know, "Ever since we nearly kissed, all I could think about was you and the possibility that you were the one from my dream. As soon I began dreaming that you were the mystery person, all my questions that I was so confuse about started having answers. The time I had that dream when he ran away, we had that stupid argument the day before. He ran away because we weren't talking with each other. As soon as we made up, the dream followed through like it always did. For once if felt so right to me. That's why I was so hurt when you and Lil went to the dance together instead of with me. I felt like my dream was just mocking me, that it was all a joke. It was all torture to me. I couldn't stand it. It became worst when I saw the two of use dancing in each other's arm." She pauses, her breathing heavy, her weeping piercing through the air that bounds them, "Nothing will ever hurt me as much as to how blind you were to my feelings." Kimi let out one final breath in tears, furiously crying through her entire emotional confession.
An uncomfortable outbreak of silence plagues the two individuals staring at each other remaining motionless. A light breeze passes through Tommy, his purple hair waving along. He stares at her, his face frowning, still somewhat daze to her confession. He didn't know how to react, what to say. All he could do was stare at her cry, her expression sad, depressing, heartrending. It tore him inside to see her crying, especially when the reason was him.
Kimi felt her worst nightmare slowly becoming reality as the stillness linking them continued. She found herself crying even more then before, lowering her head in regret turning herself around wanting no more then to just walk away from him. As she turns, time slowed down, her tears sliding from her face, gleaming within the moon's weeping rays of light as they soar in midair, slowly diminishing upon the grass
Tommy stares "Stop her. Say something. Anything." He thought desperately, but his lips remain unmoving, sealed. No words came out. All he could do was watch the distance between them escalate with every passing agonizing second as she walks away.
To be continued…
So there's this chapter…I know it probably
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