Twin Hearts: A Parallel of Destiny
Chapter 10: One Life for Another
Shiori grasped the stinging hand mark on her face, her tears propelled into the air behind her by the force of the wind against her cheek. She couldn't stop running. She didn't want to stop running.
How could this be?...Why? Why?...It doesn't make any sense! It was working so well..My plan . . . But now . . . Now I'm left with no one . . . Now I'm all alone . . .
She squeezed her eyes shut, forcing more tears out of her eyes. This world couldn't get more blurry.
Now that I've messed up this bad, what do I do now? There's nothing I can do to fix this!!...Nothing!..I'm stuck alone now . . . And no one's gonna want to be with me when they've found out what I did.
She stopped in the middle of her tracks and tilted her head back, barely able to make out the white pin points of light in the midnight-blue sky. I might as well stop living. Stop existing . . . I might as well die.
As she stared up at the sky, she noticed some flashing lights just on the edge of her vison. Adjusting her gaze she noticed the Ferris wheel, the ride that had helped contributed to this new, extremely potent feeling of hers. She gazed at it, pondering, the gears in her head clicking as they spun. She knew what she wanted to do.
***
Sei ran, no flew up the stairs to the roof. She shouldn't have even been able to get up there! He thought to himself. I shouldn't have even been able to get into the school! He nearly hit the landing face first when the realization hit him like a bullet from a gunshot. There's a play going on in the auditorium tonight! So they had to leave the main entrance open! Sei hit his palm into the side of his head, cursed, and continued his flight up the stairs.
***
Tomo's eyes were blank as she balanced on the edge between life and death. She wavered there, contemplating her next move.
All she could see was Shiori kissing Sei. That moment played over and over again in front of her eyes, and it seemed like it would go on for eternity. The tears poured out like a steady stream and she had stopped bothering to wipe them away a long time ago. They fell, unobstructed from her cheeks and onto the pavement five stories below.
The door to the roof slammed into the wall beside it, but she didn't jump in fright, she didn't even notice, and the tears didn't stop.
Sei . . . Sei . . . I thought I could trust you . . . I thought . . . I thought I finally found someone I could talk to, someone who had understood me . . . But now . . . Now I realize that was all a lie. She was right, I though she was lying, but she was right . . . You still love her, Sei, and . . . and . . . I'm sorry that I got in the way . . . I guess I was just fooling myself, loving you . . . And now . . . Now all there is . . . is darkness . . .
***
"TOMO!" Sei screamed, even though he was out of breath. "Tomo! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! God, I'm sorry! It's not what it seems, I swear it! I swear it on my life! Please, step down!"
She didn't hear him. She couldn't. She was still seeing him kiss Shiori, she was still hearing the nighttime sounds of the amusement park, and the tears were still flowing down her cheeks.
"Tomo! Shiru, Tomo! Please! Oh, God, PLEASE listen to me! She kissed me! I didn't kiss her! I don't love her, Tomo, I love you!" Sei couldn't believe that he had finally admitted it. He had clasped a hand over his mouth when he realized he had said it, in shock, of course, but realizing that was useless he tore the hand away.
She shook her head a little. The image of Shiori and Sei started to fade a bit. She was beginning to hear the buzz of the night time bugs as the amusement park slipped away. She could faintly hear someone . . . calling to her?
"TOMO! Please, listen! Oh, God, can you even hear me?!" Sei had fallen to his knees in despair, but was quickly climbing to his feet again. This was useless. He needed to be more drastic. This just wasn't working. He ran up to her and threw his arms around her. He was crying now too.
"Tomo," he whispered. His voice was hoarse from screaming. "Tomo, please, please get down. I'm sorry. I truly am. But honest to God it wasn't what it looked like." He buried his face in the back of her shirt. I can't lose you. I've already lost so much.
Suddenly the amusement park vanished completely from her eyes, and the night time scene of the school appeared before them. Confused for a moment, she looked down and realized she was standing on the edge of the roof. Oh, God, how'd I get here . . . I . . . I don't even remember anything . . . at all . . . about getting here . . . I must've really wanted to jump . . . but, what . . . What snapped me out of it?
Tomo looked around, noticing nothing she was a little puzzled, but then she felt the arms around her waist. She struggled to twist around to look behind her and paled at what she saw.
"S-Sei?" She realized she had been crying when her eyes, already filled with tears, once again overflowed down onto her cheeks. She remembered now. Remembered the scene that had haunted her for . . . she didn't know how long . . . It could have been minutes . . . hours . . . years even, she didn't know, but she remembered it well.
Her eyes faded again. "Let go of me, Sei."
She could feel him shake his head, but could barely hear the squeak of his"no."
"I know you still love Shiori, I saw what you did," her tears just wouldn't stop, but her voice wasn't choked. Was she going numb?
She could still feel him shaking his head. Was he denying the whole thing?
"Sei, I saw you!" she yelled. "You kissed her," her voice cracked as she said it. The tears increased. "You kissed her and it wasn't just a regular kiss . . . Let me go, Sei. I'm not yours. Let me go."
She could've sworn she heard sobs coming from behind her . . . And was her T-shirt getting moist? No, it had to be her imagination.
"Don't go . . . ," she heard him whisper. "Please, don't leave me."
"Why?" she looked out over the courtyard of the school, at the view the roof gave. "You have Shiori. You don't need me."
She tried loosening his hands from around her waist, but he only increased the strength of his grip.
"Tomo . . . Tomo . . . I love you, not Shiori . . . What you saw, . . . ," he sobbed. "What you saw was merely an act of her jealousy!...Tomo, we didn't even kiss when we were going out! The first one I ever kissed was you, Tomo. It was you! Because . . . because I love you, Tomo . . . I don't love Shiori . . . I almost hate Shiori now, but it's more like I feel sorry for her, for what she did came from desperation and shows how shallow she truly is . . . Please Tomo. Please, step down . . . I . . . I don't think I'll be able to take it if you leave me. I'll probably end up joining you."
Tomo would've cried more if she could have. She could hear the desperation in his voice, and the love behind it. She knew his words were true and could definately believe what he said about Shiori.
She turned around and stepped down off the roof and flung her arms around him. Her eyes had gone dry from all her crying but she could feel the fresh moisture on his cheeks. He kissed her cheek and cried on her shoulder.
"Tomo . . . Tomo . . . I thought I'd lost you . . . "
She intertwined her fingers in his hair and pulled him closer. "And I thought I lost you too."
***
Rei watched from the doorway to the entrance to the roof and was a little embarrassed to run in on this scene of mutual affection. He stared at a patch of the roof until he noticed them break apart out of the corner of his eye, and even then he didn't approach them, he waited until they walked over toward him.
***
The announcement for all people to leave the park because it was closing soon had come at least an hour ago and already they were starting to turn off the lights on the rides and the street lamps. She had watched the janitors pick up the trash and the mechanics shut down the rides. Finally, the park was getting dark. Now was time for her to do what she had been waiting for.
Shiori stepped out of the patch of woods behind the Ferris wheel and gazed up at it, up to the very top. Now was her chance.
***
A/N: When Sei notices that Shiori has not accompanied Rei to the school, Tomo is the one that gets a little worried. Even though he is still disturbed about what she did earlier, they were still friends, and he still did care about her. After Rei told him what happened when he left, Sei got even more nervous, and Tomo started to panic. Shiori was totally unpredictable and only God knew what she would do now.
Next Chapter . . . Chapter 11: The Final Heartbreak
Chapter 10: One Life for Another
Shiori grasped the stinging hand mark on her face, her tears propelled into the air behind her by the force of the wind against her cheek. She couldn't stop running. She didn't want to stop running.
How could this be?...Why? Why?...It doesn't make any sense! It was working so well..My plan . . . But now . . . Now I'm left with no one . . . Now I'm all alone . . .
She squeezed her eyes shut, forcing more tears out of her eyes. This world couldn't get more blurry.
Now that I've messed up this bad, what do I do now? There's nothing I can do to fix this!!...Nothing!..I'm stuck alone now . . . And no one's gonna want to be with me when they've found out what I did.
She stopped in the middle of her tracks and tilted her head back, barely able to make out the white pin points of light in the midnight-blue sky. I might as well stop living. Stop existing . . . I might as well die.
As she stared up at the sky, she noticed some flashing lights just on the edge of her vison. Adjusting her gaze she noticed the Ferris wheel, the ride that had helped contributed to this new, extremely potent feeling of hers. She gazed at it, pondering, the gears in her head clicking as they spun. She knew what she wanted to do.
***
Sei ran, no flew up the stairs to the roof. She shouldn't have even been able to get up there! He thought to himself. I shouldn't have even been able to get into the school! He nearly hit the landing face first when the realization hit him like a bullet from a gunshot. There's a play going on in the auditorium tonight! So they had to leave the main entrance open! Sei hit his palm into the side of his head, cursed, and continued his flight up the stairs.
***
Tomo's eyes were blank as she balanced on the edge between life and death. She wavered there, contemplating her next move.
All she could see was Shiori kissing Sei. That moment played over and over again in front of her eyes, and it seemed like it would go on for eternity. The tears poured out like a steady stream and she had stopped bothering to wipe them away a long time ago. They fell, unobstructed from her cheeks and onto the pavement five stories below.
The door to the roof slammed into the wall beside it, but she didn't jump in fright, she didn't even notice, and the tears didn't stop.
Sei . . . Sei . . . I thought I could trust you . . . I thought . . . I thought I finally found someone I could talk to, someone who had understood me . . . But now . . . Now I realize that was all a lie. She was right, I though she was lying, but she was right . . . You still love her, Sei, and . . . and . . . I'm sorry that I got in the way . . . I guess I was just fooling myself, loving you . . . And now . . . Now all there is . . . is darkness . . .
***
"TOMO!" Sei screamed, even though he was out of breath. "Tomo! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! God, I'm sorry! It's not what it seems, I swear it! I swear it on my life! Please, step down!"
She didn't hear him. She couldn't. She was still seeing him kiss Shiori, she was still hearing the nighttime sounds of the amusement park, and the tears were still flowing down her cheeks.
"Tomo! Shiru, Tomo! Please! Oh, God, PLEASE listen to me! She kissed me! I didn't kiss her! I don't love her, Tomo, I love you!" Sei couldn't believe that he had finally admitted it. He had clasped a hand over his mouth when he realized he had said it, in shock, of course, but realizing that was useless he tore the hand away.
She shook her head a little. The image of Shiori and Sei started to fade a bit. She was beginning to hear the buzz of the night time bugs as the amusement park slipped away. She could faintly hear someone . . . calling to her?
"TOMO! Please, listen! Oh, God, can you even hear me?!" Sei had fallen to his knees in despair, but was quickly climbing to his feet again. This was useless. He needed to be more drastic. This just wasn't working. He ran up to her and threw his arms around her. He was crying now too.
"Tomo," he whispered. His voice was hoarse from screaming. "Tomo, please, please get down. I'm sorry. I truly am. But honest to God it wasn't what it looked like." He buried his face in the back of her shirt. I can't lose you. I've already lost so much.
Suddenly the amusement park vanished completely from her eyes, and the night time scene of the school appeared before them. Confused for a moment, she looked down and realized she was standing on the edge of the roof. Oh, God, how'd I get here . . . I . . . I don't even remember anything . . . at all . . . about getting here . . . I must've really wanted to jump . . . but, what . . . What snapped me out of it?
Tomo looked around, noticing nothing she was a little puzzled, but then she felt the arms around her waist. She struggled to twist around to look behind her and paled at what she saw.
"S-Sei?" She realized she had been crying when her eyes, already filled with tears, once again overflowed down onto her cheeks. She remembered now. Remembered the scene that had haunted her for . . . she didn't know how long . . . It could have been minutes . . . hours . . . years even, she didn't know, but she remembered it well.
Her eyes faded again. "Let go of me, Sei."
She could feel him shake his head, but could barely hear the squeak of his"no."
"I know you still love Shiori, I saw what you did," her tears just wouldn't stop, but her voice wasn't choked. Was she going numb?
She could still feel him shaking his head. Was he denying the whole thing?
"Sei, I saw you!" she yelled. "You kissed her," her voice cracked as she said it. The tears increased. "You kissed her and it wasn't just a regular kiss . . . Let me go, Sei. I'm not yours. Let me go."
She could've sworn she heard sobs coming from behind her . . . And was her T-shirt getting moist? No, it had to be her imagination.
"Don't go . . . ," she heard him whisper. "Please, don't leave me."
"Why?" she looked out over the courtyard of the school, at the view the roof gave. "You have Shiori. You don't need me."
She tried loosening his hands from around her waist, but he only increased the strength of his grip.
"Tomo . . . Tomo . . . I love you, not Shiori . . . What you saw, . . . ," he sobbed. "What you saw was merely an act of her jealousy!...Tomo, we didn't even kiss when we were going out! The first one I ever kissed was you, Tomo. It was you! Because . . . because I love you, Tomo . . . I don't love Shiori . . . I almost hate Shiori now, but it's more like I feel sorry for her, for what she did came from desperation and shows how shallow she truly is . . . Please Tomo. Please, step down . . . I . . . I don't think I'll be able to take it if you leave me. I'll probably end up joining you."
Tomo would've cried more if she could have. She could hear the desperation in his voice, and the love behind it. She knew his words were true and could definately believe what he said about Shiori.
She turned around and stepped down off the roof and flung her arms around him. Her eyes had gone dry from all her crying but she could feel the fresh moisture on his cheeks. He kissed her cheek and cried on her shoulder.
"Tomo . . . Tomo . . . I thought I'd lost you . . . "
She intertwined her fingers in his hair and pulled him closer. "And I thought I lost you too."
***
Rei watched from the doorway to the entrance to the roof and was a little embarrassed to run in on this scene of mutual affection. He stared at a patch of the roof until he noticed them break apart out of the corner of his eye, and even then he didn't approach them, he waited until they walked over toward him.
***
The announcement for all people to leave the park because it was closing soon had come at least an hour ago and already they were starting to turn off the lights on the rides and the street lamps. She had watched the janitors pick up the trash and the mechanics shut down the rides. Finally, the park was getting dark. Now was time for her to do what she had been waiting for.
Shiori stepped out of the patch of woods behind the Ferris wheel and gazed up at it, up to the very top. Now was her chance.
***
A/N: When Sei notices that Shiori has not accompanied Rei to the school, Tomo is the one that gets a little worried. Even though he is still disturbed about what she did earlier, they were still friends, and he still did care about her. After Rei told him what happened when he left, Sei got even more nervous, and Tomo started to panic. Shiori was totally unpredictable and only God knew what she would do now.
Next Chapter . . . Chapter 11: The Final Heartbreak