Author's Notes: Ok, I've decided. there are going to be four chapters to
the story. This is the third, so the coming chapter is the fourth and the
last! So.. your job is to read and review, okay? Thank you.
Our Story By like a falling star
*Eriol's POV*
It came as a shock to me. One moment, we were on the beach, being best friends and nothing more, talking and laughing and teasing as usual, and the next, I was hit by a ton of bricks. The shocking revelation-that I was falling in love. Falling for Tomoyo, my best friend.
I suppose that I had been in love with her for the longest time, but I never knew it - or how much - till she said those fateful words and looked at me with that look in her eyes. That is our star. Look to it and remember me.
Before that, when I imagined my future, Tomoyo would no doubt be in my mental picture, but where would she fit in? I'd never thought about it till then. Would she sit at the coffee table and tease me while my wife and I sipped coffee and read the papers? Would we play poker together after dinner while my wife washed the dishes and my children watched TV?
It was then that I realised how much Tomoyo meant to me. It was then that I realised that my future, my life, would be meaningless without her. Not as a friend, but much, much more.
It was then that things changed.
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*Tomoyo's POV*
I wouldn't say that things changed drastically. It was more of a gradual thing.
The both of us knew that we were in love. The both of us knew that the other knew it. Yet we never had to say a thing. No earth-shattering revelations made to each other. Yet we knew. We knew because we'd always known in the deepest, darkest regions of our hearts that we'd always be together. We'd always known that we were meant to be together, meant for one another. We'd always known, since the beginning, that our fates would somehow intertwine and twist our futures into a bonded love.
We'd always known.
Yet we never once mentioned it. Never once uttered declarations of love. There was no need to. For we knew each other, inside out and outside in. There was never any need for words.
Oh, there was always the 'I love yous'. But even before that starry night on the beach we'd said that countless times to each other-and always meant it, but never knowing that the love would change from one of friendship to one much more complex and intense, never knowing how much more meaning it would hold in the time to come.
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*Eriol's POV*
Our friendship was a fragile thing. It was the one thing I never took for granted, and Tomoyo was the best thing that ever happened to me.
In the beginning, we were scared. Scared of what might become of our then unbreakable friendship if we chose to risk it with love. Sure, love can scale mountains and cross oceans and bring one the greatest joy as it is said-to love, and to be loved in return. On a bad day, love can also create rifts in the closest of kin, tear families apart, and cause generations of war and conflict.
We were scared. Then I think I would rather have not loved at all than to have loved and lost. Because loss was a scary thing. Loss meant that the one thing I treasured most in my life would be taken away from me, driven away by me.
So at first we were careful, very cautious with one another. Polite conversations, carefully hidden feelings and measured tones. Of course, neither of us could take it. One evening while watching a carefully picked- out movie [The Princess Diaries-a good laugh, nothing too emotional] in Tomoyo's house during our ritual Friday Night movie marathon, [I know this sounds all too cliché, but.] we reached for popcorn at the same time, and our fingers accidentally brushed. The both of us looked up at the same time- and into each other's eyes. I opened my mouth to mumble an apology the same time she did.
Both our mouths halfway open, we suddenly realised how childish and ridiculous we were being. We were best friends, for goodness sake!
Our mouths twitched, and we burst into laughter. There, in Tomoyo's bedroom [I was the only guy whom Sonomi allowed in Tomoyo's bedroom], I clutched my stomach and laughed until my stomach ached. I felt really good after that- like a fog had been cleared, like a heavy burden had been lifted from my shoulders.
Later that night, we were in the middle of our personal renditions of Aerosmith's 'I don't wanna miss a thing', when something happened-we kissed. I don't know how it happened, I don't know what made it happen, and I don't care why it happened. All that mattered was that it did. And I finally knew the meaning of mind-numbing happiness.
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Our Story By like a falling star
*Eriol's POV*
It came as a shock to me. One moment, we were on the beach, being best friends and nothing more, talking and laughing and teasing as usual, and the next, I was hit by a ton of bricks. The shocking revelation-that I was falling in love. Falling for Tomoyo, my best friend.
I suppose that I had been in love with her for the longest time, but I never knew it - or how much - till she said those fateful words and looked at me with that look in her eyes. That is our star. Look to it and remember me.
Before that, when I imagined my future, Tomoyo would no doubt be in my mental picture, but where would she fit in? I'd never thought about it till then. Would she sit at the coffee table and tease me while my wife and I sipped coffee and read the papers? Would we play poker together after dinner while my wife washed the dishes and my children watched TV?
It was then that I realised how much Tomoyo meant to me. It was then that I realised that my future, my life, would be meaningless without her. Not as a friend, but much, much more.
It was then that things changed.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
*Tomoyo's POV*
I wouldn't say that things changed drastically. It was more of a gradual thing.
The both of us knew that we were in love. The both of us knew that the other knew it. Yet we never had to say a thing. No earth-shattering revelations made to each other. Yet we knew. We knew because we'd always known in the deepest, darkest regions of our hearts that we'd always be together. We'd always known that we were meant to be together, meant for one another. We'd always known, since the beginning, that our fates would somehow intertwine and twist our futures into a bonded love.
We'd always known.
Yet we never once mentioned it. Never once uttered declarations of love. There was no need to. For we knew each other, inside out and outside in. There was never any need for words.
Oh, there was always the 'I love yous'. But even before that starry night on the beach we'd said that countless times to each other-and always meant it, but never knowing that the love would change from one of friendship to one much more complex and intense, never knowing how much more meaning it would hold in the time to come.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
*Eriol's POV*
Our friendship was a fragile thing. It was the one thing I never took for granted, and Tomoyo was the best thing that ever happened to me.
In the beginning, we were scared. Scared of what might become of our then unbreakable friendship if we chose to risk it with love. Sure, love can scale mountains and cross oceans and bring one the greatest joy as it is said-to love, and to be loved in return. On a bad day, love can also create rifts in the closest of kin, tear families apart, and cause generations of war and conflict.
We were scared. Then I think I would rather have not loved at all than to have loved and lost. Because loss was a scary thing. Loss meant that the one thing I treasured most in my life would be taken away from me, driven away by me.
So at first we were careful, very cautious with one another. Polite conversations, carefully hidden feelings and measured tones. Of course, neither of us could take it. One evening while watching a carefully picked- out movie [The Princess Diaries-a good laugh, nothing too emotional] in Tomoyo's house during our ritual Friday Night movie marathon, [I know this sounds all too cliché, but.] we reached for popcorn at the same time, and our fingers accidentally brushed. The both of us looked up at the same time- and into each other's eyes. I opened my mouth to mumble an apology the same time she did.
Both our mouths halfway open, we suddenly realised how childish and ridiculous we were being. We were best friends, for goodness sake!
Our mouths twitched, and we burst into laughter. There, in Tomoyo's bedroom [I was the only guy whom Sonomi allowed in Tomoyo's bedroom], I clutched my stomach and laughed until my stomach ached. I felt really good after that- like a fog had been cleared, like a heavy burden had been lifted from my shoulders.
Later that night, we were in the middle of our personal renditions of Aerosmith's 'I don't wanna miss a thing', when something happened-we kissed. I don't know how it happened, I don't know what made it happen, and I don't care why it happened. All that mattered was that it did. And I finally knew the meaning of mind-numbing happiness.
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