The One That Got Away
You've got to leave me now
You've got to go alone
You've got to chase a dream
One that's all your own before it slips away
When you're flying high
Take my heart along
I'll be the harmony
To every lonely song that you'll learn to play
I knew she didn't want to go, and really instead of enforcing her presence, I wanted to say, "Screw 'em, you're staying with me, there's nothing wrong with you!" But you couldn't tell that by the way I had mercilessly hoisted her out of her bed earlier that morning.
She wasn't needed there, she had a better chance of getting over Takeru on her own. Having Kunio Hirosu getting into a fight with every breathing organism in the vicinity wasn't exactly the greatest way of doing the job. In fact, Kyo-chan was most likely to come out crying again than feeling better about the whole thing.
A way I figured it had really got to her was the fact that that morning she grumbled a few words I didn't even know she knew, about everything under the sun. I believe that has been the first time I had EVER heard her curse, and I've known her since elementary. So, yeah, that right there just kinda gives that away.
"I'll be out here, okay? Now get in there!" I had said, giving her a gently nudge of encouragement.
"Yeah right." I giggled at her as she trudged into what she had made out to be hell on Earth. Feeling a bit tired myself, I slumped lightly against the door and looked at the floor as I listened to what had to have been Miaka's high pitched voice. I was on the verge of curling up in a ball and going back to sleep right there - my mind had been seriously debating it for some time - when I heard a few various startled screams. Through semi-blurry vision I watched a gentle, purple, velvet-like light crawl out from under the door then fall away like it had never been.
"Kyo-chan!" I nearly tore the door off it's hinges and nearly busted my nose with it. The Klutz Syndrome strikes again!
The room was completely empty of life, all the furniture was a it had been, but everyone was missing, including Kyoko and her bag. No, wait, a book was opened in the middle of the floor.
Not just any book! It was our book!
I rushed over to it and dropped to my knees in order to see the black and white print. There on the first page was a picture of seven people lying, knocked out, on the ground. Certainly wasn't there last time I had checked. I gathered the book up in my arms and made a mad dash for Yui and Miaka's room. Somehow as incredibly off the wall as it sounds, I believed that they were apart of the book now. When Kyo-chan had first told me about Shinji and the others, as much as she didn't want to believe that they could have been apart of it, I did. I don't know why, but I had wanted to believe it, totally and completely.
Anyways, I went to their room because if they really were gone, Ryuen, their kitty, couldn't just stay there alone, and quite frankly I don't think I could have just stayed by myself.
I settled into a chair and flipped open to the first page and began to read.
I'll keep looking up
Awaiting your return
And my greatest fear will be that you will crash and burn
And I won't feel your fire
Or be the other hand
That always holds the line
Connecting in between your sweet heart and mine
I'm strung out on that wire ~ When You Come Back Down, Nickel Creek
You've got to leave me now
You've got to go alone
You've got to chase a dream
One that's all your own before it slips away
When you're flying high
Take my heart along
I'll be the harmony
To every lonely song that you'll learn to play
I knew she didn't want to go, and really instead of enforcing her presence, I wanted to say, "Screw 'em, you're staying with me, there's nothing wrong with you!" But you couldn't tell that by the way I had mercilessly hoisted her out of her bed earlier that morning.
She wasn't needed there, she had a better chance of getting over Takeru on her own. Having Kunio Hirosu getting into a fight with every breathing organism in the vicinity wasn't exactly the greatest way of doing the job. In fact, Kyo-chan was most likely to come out crying again than feeling better about the whole thing.
A way I figured it had really got to her was the fact that that morning she grumbled a few words I didn't even know she knew, about everything under the sun. I believe that has been the first time I had EVER heard her curse, and I've known her since elementary. So, yeah, that right there just kinda gives that away.
"I'll be out here, okay? Now get in there!" I had said, giving her a gently nudge of encouragement.
"Yeah right." I giggled at her as she trudged into what she had made out to be hell on Earth. Feeling a bit tired myself, I slumped lightly against the door and looked at the floor as I listened to what had to have been Miaka's high pitched voice. I was on the verge of curling up in a ball and going back to sleep right there - my mind had been seriously debating it for some time - when I heard a few various startled screams. Through semi-blurry vision I watched a gentle, purple, velvet-like light crawl out from under the door then fall away like it had never been.
"Kyo-chan!" I nearly tore the door off it's hinges and nearly busted my nose with it. The Klutz Syndrome strikes again!
The room was completely empty of life, all the furniture was a it had been, but everyone was missing, including Kyoko and her bag. No, wait, a book was opened in the middle of the floor.
Not just any book! It was our book!
I rushed over to it and dropped to my knees in order to see the black and white print. There on the first page was a picture of seven people lying, knocked out, on the ground. Certainly wasn't there last time I had checked. I gathered the book up in my arms and made a mad dash for Yui and Miaka's room. Somehow as incredibly off the wall as it sounds, I believed that they were apart of the book now. When Kyo-chan had first told me about Shinji and the others, as much as she didn't want to believe that they could have been apart of it, I did. I don't know why, but I had wanted to believe it, totally and completely.
Anyways, I went to their room because if they really were gone, Ryuen, their kitty, couldn't just stay there alone, and quite frankly I don't think I could have just stayed by myself.
I settled into a chair and flipped open to the first page and began to read.
I'll keep looking up
Awaiting your return
And my greatest fear will be that you will crash and burn
And I won't feel your fire
Or be the other hand
That always holds the line
Connecting in between your sweet heart and mine
I'm strung out on that wire ~ When You Come Back Down, Nickel Creek