1,000 Words by Yume Yuuki

I know that you lied to me

Using just, your words, to shatter me

Your words are like a dream

But dreams could never fool me

It's not right to me...

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Key:

[--] : italics

'--' : thoughts

"--" : Speech

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Chapter One: Foolish Dreams

[I'll be by your side forever, Yuna...It's a promise...]

Yuna pulled the thin bedspread over her face, as if trying to hide herself from the world and the echo of heartbreak that had her bursting at the seams. He had promised her so many things.

[We'll go to Zanarkand...together....]

But he had left, leaving her to defend herself from the quickly changing world around her. She iwent from the daughter of the High Summoner to being the High Summoner's High Summoner daughter. Before, people didn't believe that she would make it. They felt that she was merely another summoner with too-high dreams that would die in the end like all the others before her. But she had proved them all wrong....

[Sometimes I smile when I feel sad...]

But now the sadness she felt was too strong for even the smallest smile. She would lock herself in her room, covering her small frame with her thin bedspread as she was doing now. She would try to eat but her throat would close up. She tried to sleep but her dreams were haunted with passing dreams...

[And the dreams that had faded....Never forget them....]

How could she forget him? He saved her life, the lives of her guardians and the whole of Spira. He was her everything. He was the air she breathed. He was the ground she walked upon. He was her soul, her spirit, her very being.

Yuna pulled the covers down. What would he think if he could see her now? Would he think her a coward, a fool? She quickly wiped away her tears, new hope swelling up in her heart. She had to be strong, if not for herself than for him. And who knows? Maybe he's still out there, looking for her. All she had to do was go out and look for him.

'I will go to Zanarkand....'

Yuna smiled.

(a/n: Short, I know, but I'm kinda experimenting with different writing styles right now so you may notice drastic changes between my chapters. Don't worry, eventually I'll find my own writing style...-_-;)