I think that this is the quickest that I've ever updated this story before…maybe I'm imagining things but that's kind of what it feels like. And so here is the eighth chapter, but I still don't own any of the characters. Boo hoo. Hope you like it!
Her Favorite Color- chapter 8
Away
'I'm on a plane right now. Looking out the window I see that we're flying above and sometimes through the clouds. We had a three-hour delay because of a storm, and the storm still lingers in the air, suspended in a beautiful painting. Every now and then the sky lights up and it looks like daylight. But it only flashes for a few seconds and then we're pitch black again. The lighting takes my breath away and I feel like I'm going to cry. The flash is so quick and it reminds me of what I now feel like. I had been so comfortable in New York City, but what I believe to be destiny has brought me into the sky to travel above the seas. My destination? London.'
I looked up from the notebook in front of me and read over its words. I'm writing to the magazine that has been keeping track of my search for Tai. I may be only writing to this certain magazines, but I have found out that there are many other around the world that have been telling my story, envious that their magazine didn't find me first. Too bad for them.
'I can already feel my life changing, and I haven't even gotten there yet. But I feel like a little child, quietly anticipating something new because you aren't allowed to misbehave. I'm happy, scared, hopeful, and nervous all at the same time. Why you ask? Because I've finally found him.
He's in London, which you already know is my destination. It is my destiny. He is now an author, that is how I found him. His book is titled Her favorite Color and is a story that he wrote about his childhood with me. I guess he did think about me as much as I thought about him. I am presently reading it, but I usually need to stop because his emotions are so strong and I always begin to cry. I remember everything that he writes about, too.
I remember everything about him…and now that I have finally found him, (so to speak, I actually haven't found him yet, but I can feel him close to me, and that must be a good sign) I have started to wonder if he's changed. Maybe he doesn't want to see me…
And what if he does, what will I say? Will I have to talk first, or will he make the first move? What if he can't even recognize me? I don't know why I'm so nervous, he is, after all, my best friend, my confidence and my strength. Maybe he reads my letters here, and thinks I'm a fool, or maybe he still wants to be lost from his family, his friends, and from me. What will happen? But most importantly, after all these years, does he still love me?
Until next time! Sora Takenouchi'
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I was so overwhelmed when we got off the plan that I stopped moving and just stood there. I was finally near Tai, I was so closest to him then I have ever been in the past five years. I was so completely an udder wreak, that both Alyssa and Mia had to practically carry away from the terminal. Oh yeah. Mia came with us. She said that she always wanted to just see England, and that if we got to work in London, so could she. Mia was going to find the same bookstore chain that she worked in back in New York and get a job there. However, both Alyssa and I knew that she couldn't bear to be alone. We were pretty much her only friends. I was really happy that she came, because I knew that I would need a lot of moral support, and Alyssa couldn't do It all by herself.
Everything that happened after that was a blur. The next thing I knew, we were in the flat that the company had given to us, and would be paying for the next six months. It had more than enough space for the three of us, and it did feel wonderful to be in. I knew that the mostly white walls would bee soon painted with bright colors, and by next week we would be feeling like we've been living here for a year.
However, I did not join in on the conversation of what to do with the furniture that they had given us, or what colors should be used in the kitchen as not to make us eat all the time, but instead found my way to a room with an unmade bed and flopped myself upon it. I look up at the high ceiling, and it felt more like I was looking into it. I tried to figure out what the people that lived here before us were like, trying to expand my mind so I wouldn't think so much about why I was really here in the first place. The only answer I came up with was rich, because of all the fancy molding in the rooms and around the massive fire place that I had taken notice to on my way to find a bed, and boring, because everything was white. After that, I felt like I had thought way to much than I could handle, and settled on trying to read Tai's book again.
I opened to my bookmark that I had made out of magazine clippings in my spare time. Colors popped into my eyes and that made me think of the title of the book, which made me think of the song Tai had written about me and for me. I closed my eyes for a split second and saw him on the stage again, looking at me with his eyes that I couldn't turn away from.
"I'll be there, and I'll try to identify, try to look through the gray skies in your eyes…"I thought of the rainstorms that had comforted me long ago, and I heard rain falling somewhere in my mind. I wanted to see the rain, wanted to feel it against my face, and I wanted to know that it was there, when I felt like I wasn't anywhere myself. I was pulled out of my subconscious when I realized that the rain I heard was falling right outside my window. I got off of the bed and walked over to the window. I reached out to touch a drop that was slowly falling, no, dancing down the windowpane. But it was outside, it was free, and I was inside, and trapped deep within my heart was a love that had been tormenting me day in and day out for the past five years. And now that I was so close to seeing him, it hurt more than it ever had. I knew that I needed him, and all the pain of not being able to see him, hold him, or just merely speak to him was finally showing its true power. I sat on the large ledge and opened the book. If I couldn't be with Tai at the moment, this was going to have to do.
'It was raining, and I was inside. My soccer game had been canceled, and after complaining for about a half hour I decided that staying inside and watching TV was going to be enough to keep my attention span at bay. I could almost feel my ADD kicking in as I finished jumping through ten channels. I was already bored. (AN:// I always thought that Tai might have ADD. Maybe it's just me…) I stared at the phone on the coffee table.
'Maybe it will ring, and it will be for me' I thought. But I knew that nobody was going to call me. All my friends hated it when it rained, and always wanted to be left alone. All my friends, except for my best friend. She loved rain, and I loved being anywhere that wasn't my house, so I picked up the phone, and…
I stared at it.
It was one of those times when you have your mind set on doing something, and you know you will, but you can tell that your body doesn't want to. I could feel myself moving my finger across the numbers to connect me to her, but I couldn't see it. I just laid there, convinced that I had taken action already and that I had already called.
The phone stared back at me
"Tai!"
"AAAHH! What do you want with me?! Don't kill me!"
"You, are so strange. I shouldn't hang out with you. I'll just end up demented in the head and I'll probably never be able to get my license if this continues. But I guess I'll keep you company when you get sent to an insane asylum."
My best friend had just seated herself at the end of the couch and I could tell that she was trying hard not to laugh. I must have looked pretty stupid.
"How did you do that?" I asked.
"Do what?"
"Get here!"
"I walked over and your mom let me in…Are you feeling okay Tai?"
I stared stupidly at her. She was so beautiful. She looked like she had walked over in the rain. I guess I should have seen this coming. She would do something like that.
As I said before, she loved rain. It never bothered her are made her depressed like it has a tendency to do for other people. She always amazed me by her simple love for life and all that it has to offer us. It was one of the many reason that I loved her.
"Yeah, I guess I am…I'm so bored!"
"How bout' we go to the park or something?"
"It's raining…" I told her.
"So?"
So, I found myself walking in the rain towards the park. It was a warm day and the cold rain really didn't feel so terrible upon my skin.
I saw her dancing in the rain ahead of me. She was spinning in circles and letting the rain just drip down her soft skin. She had taken her hat off, and her hair was scattering the water off in different direction, sending them on their way to the earth to nourish the ground that we now walked upon.
I remember that day better than any of my memories. I marveled at her that day. As she looked at me with her crimson eyes, shouting for me to join her in her dance, I was overcome with love for her. I saw her that day very different than I usually would have. She was an angel in my eyes. She is an angel in my eyes.
These days, when it rains I simply look back into my mind where I now keep this enchanting memory. The rain reminds me of my days with her and how I will never be the same. I'm no longer depressed when it rains. Instead, I feel free.'
I looked up from his book and put into the new world that lay just outside my window. The world was covered in rain, but somewhere out there, was my Tai. Once I found him, we could be free forever.
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Alyssa, Mia, and I were walking down the streets of London trying to find the bookstore where Mia would be hopefully getting a job. It was around eight o'clock, and Alyssa and I had just finished out first day of work. We met a lot of great people who had a lot of great ideas. I was overwhelmed most of the day, considering that this was really the first time that I was doing something like this. Besides that, we were welcomed and everybody was very friendly to us, and I must say, I could get used to this.
We really didn't know where we were going, but we were having a lot of fun attempting to figure it out. Laughing about the conversations we overheard while strolling our way through the foreign streets was making this normally awkward situation seem like a pleasant mistake. It took us a good amount of time before we finally saw the sign to the store.
"This place is massive…" Mia said in a trance like voice.
And she was right. That was the first thing that I noticed about the bookstore, it was way bigger than the one in New York. It had four floors. The next thing I noticed was a very large crowd, many of them teenage girls, standing around what I guessed was a stage, because of the amps that I saw beside it. I couldn't see if there was anybody on the stage since there were so many heads squeezed around the platform.
Mia quickly pulled us over to the information desk before I was able to try and get a better look. The lights began to dim on the lower floor and many of the girls started to scream and I turned my attention back to the makeshift stage.
With my attention still on what I guessed was a show, I overheard Mia ask the man behind the counter what was going on.
"We have a young author here tonight for a book signing, but he plays a lot of shows around here, so he's going to play before that."
"What's his name?"
"Tai Kamiya."
If somebody had told me it was going to be that easy, I don't think I would have believed them. I could feel my heart stop once again, and just as I heard the man answer Mia, he began to play.
It was another acoustic song, but this time I noticed that there was also another guitar and a violin playing with him. I tried to get as close as I could to him while he played the introduction. And for the second time in my life, I heard him sing, and I was once again changed.
'Sew this up with threads of reason and regret
So I will not forget, I will not forget
How this felt five years six months ago I know
I cannot forget, I cannot forget'
Five years, six months ago…? That was the last time that Tai and I saw each other… Maybe this was another song about me…
I'm falling into memories of you
Things we used to do
Follow me there a beautiful somewhere
A place that I can share with you
I can tell that you don't know me anymore
It's easy to forget, sometimes we just forget
Being on this road is anything but sure
Maybe we'll forget, I hope we don't forget
I'm falling into memories of you
Things we used to do
Follow me there, a beautiful somewhere
A place that I can share with you
So many nights
Legs tangled tight
Wrap me up in a dream with you
Close up these eyes
Try not to cry
All that I got to pull me through
Is memories of you
Memories of you
Memories of you
Memories of you
I'm falling into memories of you
Things we used to do
Follow me there, a beautiful somewhere
A place that we can share
Falling into memories of you
Things we used to do'
Singing the last words, Tai looked at me. I was having déjà vu and I was wondering if he would disappear again after he saw me. But we both just looked at each other. I felt tears in my eyes as I looked into his eyes. There was pain, and hurt me to know that I had been the cause. But I also saw something else. Maybe he was happy to see me. Maybe he was shocked and didn't want me here. Just by looking at him I knew that he had started a new life, and I wasn't in it. But then why was that song about me? Was it about me?
It had been to long and now that I saw him, I felt a pain shoot through me and into my heart. I didn't know what to do, so I did the only thing that I could get my self to do. I turned away from the intensity of Tai's emotions through his eyes, and I ran. I ran away from him. The last thing I remember was Tai's amplifies voice shouting after me.
"Sora! Come back!"
------Yes, Sora just ran away from Tai when she finally found him, seems sort of familiar, no? What's going to happen next? Well, this is how it goes down, it's called a review and you guys have been very good with them so far. I'm almost over 50! Yeah! Go me! Thanks so much, it's all because of you.
(The song was "one year, six months" by Yellowcard and as you can see, I changed it to five years because yeah, that's how it needs to be for this, but you know that…)------
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