Tooi Kono Machi De

I lay blissfully on a bed I used to dream on every night. I would dream of meeting new people and places, wondering if I would ever get there. I had dreamed many times of my future, where I was headed. But I never really knew what they meant until one afternoon..

.. when I was to be a cardcaptor.

From that moment on, my life has changed. I met knew people and I went to new places. I was a cheerful, carefree, little girl back then during those days, but they all ended when you left me.

.. yes, you.

He was the best person I have ever met. He showed me friendship, longing, desire, and most importantly ..

.. he showed me how to love.

I loved him with all my heart, though I was a silly, little girl. At the age of ten or eleven, I knew how it felt to love someone and how it felt to be in love with that person. He loved me back. But I have always wondered if he truly loved me back, for he has left me here, alone.

As I lay in my bed where I once dreamed of my future, I lay in deep thought. Will all this have a meaning in the end? Or will I just end up where I started from, in agonizing despair because of your leave?

I try to remember, what has made me fall for this person. Was it his messy, brown hair? Or his deep amber eyes? No, it wasn't his looks that I have fallen for, it was who he was. And I love him.

I can remember the times where I would be alone in a room with him, and he would just blush, as if he didn't know what he was feeling. He would see me, and run away as if he was an Olympic runner, racing others for the gold. He was racing from his feelings for me. He would rescue me, whenever I were in need of helping. He would carry me home if I were to faint from an exciting day of changing the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards.

.. But then, I was too dense to realize that he was in love with me.

I know now, because during the last battle when I had to change the dark and light cards into my own cards, he had helped me change the cards, though he had lost a frightful amount of energy from his body. He collapsed and I held him in my arms. He looked down for a moment, considering that it might have been the perfect time to tell me words that would change me forever.

"Sakura! I.. I.. I'm in love with you!"

He said those words, and I have changed ever since. Does he notice that I'm still in love with him, even after three years?