Right, this is really really short, pointless
stupid, yeah I know that much.

Anyway, if you're wondering why I wrote this,
I'll tell you.

It's because, I always write really long work.

No matter how much I would like to write
something short, it always turns out to be
a dozen or so chapters long.

So this is just me experimenting around with
writing short pieces. Hopefully I'll get better,
maybe make them a little longer since this is
EXTREMELY short. And perhaps even get more
time, plot, etc in there, especially my favorite
character growth and interaction, which is why
my stories tend to spiral out to lengthy multi-
chapter stories.

Anyway....on with the story.

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Doubt the Heart

By Mara tmj17@aitenshi.zzn.com or
tmj17@geocities.com

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He's been my best friend since we were children.
I've always been the one protecting him, looking
after him. Why do I feel so much pain when I see
him going after her?

We moved apart, but were still together, I moved
on to other friends, and so did he, but 'we' were
always friends. We might not have talked or hung
out together, but we were friends.

And now he's in love with my best friend. It feels
like betrayal. I don't know why it does. I should
be happy about it, if they get together, that means
the competition for Yanagiba-sempai is less. That's
what I want, isn't it?

The other girls like to tease me, about his nickname
for me, saying there is something there that isn't.

I always argue with them, I always tell them I don't
feel that way about him, but do I?

I always felt that I knew him, but now I'm not so
sure. He's been going after Momoko, even using
measures I wouldn't have expected. And he's different
now, different then how I remember him. I liked him
better the old way. When he just acted like himself.

He was gentle, he was reliable, he was someone I could
always count on. I'm brash, he's quiet. We...compliment
each other. Opposites of each other, so that we can always
accomplish our goals, because when one way doesn't work
one of us can come up with another way.

I can't need him, I don't need him. He's just a friend,
and he's hurting my friend.

I don't know what's come over him, but it's scaring me.

With everything that's going on, it always seemed so
seperate from my normal life. Sure, I'm a love angel
that fights against devils, but there was never something
I couldn't defeat, never something that all of us, working
together, couldn't handle. And I always knew it was them.

Maybe I'd actually like to believe it has something to
do with our war, our own little war that regular humans
know nothing about. Because that would explain it away.
That would make everything right with the world.

He was only doing it because some Ojama, like Jamapii
made him do it.

He didn't really want Momoko, he didn't really try to
hurt her, he wouldn't force her to do anything she didn't
want, he wouldn't try to steal a kiss.

That wasn't Amano Takuruu, that wasn't my childhood friend.

Why did everything have to go wrong, right when it seemed
everything was looking up?

What are all these feelings inside of me, and do I really
want to know? I don't think I do.

It must be nothing, my heart belongs to Yanagiba-sempai.

The only thing Takuruu means to me is my childhood friend
someone who's been acting strangly, someone who has me
questioning everything I believed I knew.

Damn. Why did I have to think that?

There is nothing between Takeruu and me, nothing but
an old friendship.

And I'll do my best to make sure Yuri and Momoko don't
suspect that there might be anything more.

I am Tamano Hinagiku, 12 years old, and in love with
Yanagiba Kazuya, the star soccer player. I'm also
secretly the love angel, Angel Daisy. I can't be afraid
to voice my love for anyone, that's why I'm going after
Yanagiba, right?


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For now this is the end. But can I really leave it
here?

Probably not.

But I may surprise myself, hehe. Maybe not. -_-