Mattino Scarlatto

Scarlet Dawn (Mattino Scarlatto)

Overwhelming sensations, which she couldn't help but feel, were crossing her mind since months. The sorrow sword hung over Kinomoto Sakura, who had awoken early , peeping out to a leaden dawn, which turned red by chance, anytime the rising sun rays pierced the cloudy blankets.

*It's not an usual color for sunrise* , she thought, while the cold breeze of the winter morning was caressing her cheeks. The road her window overlooked was empty, and yet she felt like seeing the shape of a guy, possibly a memory's ghost, or else an unforgettable presence...

*Just like Mummy.…*

She sat down in a chair at the  writing desk , crossing her legs and letting her bare right  foot stretch out and  kick playfully the wall.

She wore a pinky night-gown.

Her hair  front bangs tenderly hung down her forehead, which made her gracefully shift them, occasionally.

She softly opened her childhood diary, the one with the Teddy-Bear cover Erioru-kun had presented to her, ten years ago. He had also presented her with a tape of his piano performance.. she remembered it with a melancholic joy.

She was pretending to avoid the issue of her inner regret, as if she was hesitating in front of its bosom friend's doorbell. Sakura didn't dare to enter that room. So odd..she thought every moment of her feelings towards the chinese guy, but  she had someway repress all her  memories of him, filled with words and flashes of life they had  shared beside their mutual friends, a long long time ago,their ordinary life merged in a magical world.. She couldn't recall his friend's face, without starting to cry hopelessly, feared by her desire, never-ever realized.

She bent down, and leant her right ear on the wooden desk, her eyes reading stealthily the pages narrating the 13th July happenings, in 1998. It was Syaoran's birthday, and she had not dared to give him the birthday present she had bought: a wolfish key holder. Tomoyo had tried to convince her friend not to be so shy: to no avail.

It had been always the same old story, about her not succeeding to show him what she felt. So he had left to Hong-Kong, and now she missed him. She regretted all the time she had made him become even more puzzled, after he had confessed her his feelings, when she had surely become the new consecrated  Clow Card master.

He had not dared to talk to her easy, since he had exposed what he could no more suffer to be concealed.

They both were shy, and destiny had made its way.

He was so far, every day was pitched-dark.

But she couldn't forget, that morning when she had closed her heart in her left palm, then letting  it open, to show Syaoran a shell, causing him to smile in the sunset light.

It was on the seashore, their school trip last day, maybe the last time she had seen him smile, apart from the airport time, when he had left for good, and she had not even that time succeeded in giving him the teddy-bear of love she had made by her own. She would have possibly regretted it for all her life. But she still had his smile, and she didn't recall his face smiling bride, not to waste the magic of their  hidden lost  world.

*Gomen-nasai*, she uttered. * For the times I made you feel abandoned, 'cause I did not want to.The same as

you.But now…I feel alone, don't you?*

 

C & C are welcome.Consider this as a mini-thiny-sad ffic.