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Chapter 6: The letter
Miho rushed to check the mail, there was a small letter enclosed in an envelope with a rose
stamp. It was addressed to her. She tore the envelope open, there was no return address or
even a name, but she knew it was him. It had taken a few weeks, but Bakura had finally written
to Miho. All the other girls had lost faith in him if they even had it at all. Hearing the sudden
rustling of paper and Miho dash over to the mail the other girls ran in to see what was going on.
"Miho what happened?" Téa asked.
"He finally wrote!" she exclaimed
"I didn't think he really would," Mai added, "Guess I was wrong."
"Hush!" Serenity cried, "Read it out loud if you don't mind."
"I don't..." She began to read, but as remembrance and confusion took over her voice
began to waver with uncertainty, "Lovers forget your love/ and list to the love of these/ she a
window flower/ and he a winter breeze/ when the frosty window veil/ was melted down at noon/
and the caged yellow bird/ hung over her in tune/ he marked her through the pane/ he could not
help but mark/ and only passed her by/ to come again at dark/ he was a winter wind/ concerned
with ice and snow/ dead weeds and unmated birds/ and little of love could know/ but he sighed
upon the sill/ he gave the sash a shake/ as witness all within/ who lay that night awake/ perchance
he half prevailed/ to win her for the flight/ from the firelit looking-glass/ and warm stove- window
light/ but the flower leaned aside/ and thought of naught to say/ and morning found he breeze/ a
hundred miles away..."1
His letter, as anticipating it as Miho was, had surprisingly upset her. It
wasn't what she expected, but what did she expect? He held the gaze of a demon in disguise, the
charisma of one of those cult leaders and most likely held a dark past too, common sense. What
was he doing out in the rain anyways?! All these thoughts were running through her head and
more, but she quickly pushed them out. reasoning with herself that she was just upset because his
letter didn't leave the essence that he was there as she wanted it to. As she glanced over the
paper, she saw the lines it wasn't loose leaf because of the tears, but there was a little fancy letter
in the corner. It was somewhat faded, as if it had gotten wet, but it was clearly there. The letter
was a little M, just like the paper in her old notebook full of poems. She had stopped writing
since she lost it in the rain.
"What kind of joke is this?!" she cried out before storming out of the room.
He was the only guy that she could have liked and he played a dirty trick like that on her.
Once again her heart was telling her that his intentions were good and her mind kept reminding
her of those intense blazing eyes of his and oddly soothing voice, he had tricks up his sleeve for
sure. The letter, just like my old notebook. he knew I lost it and that poem was on the first page.
The girls walked into her and Serenity's room.
"Miho," Téa asked uncertainly, "What happened?"
"He's mocking me about my notebook! that was the first page in there!"
"Oh and he would know that?!" Mai cried.
"Yeah he was looking at it and it even had the little mark, that's why I brought that
one...remember the M for my name."
"A little," Serenity replied.
"And he would go through all this trouble just to be mean?" Ishizu asked.
"Yes!"
"And you were the one defending him , look how fast you turned on him."
"Probably because he didn't write you a little lovey-dovey letter like in the movies, you're just like Mai." Téa laughed.
"You do the same don't start!" Mai retorted.
"Ah whatever!"
"You guys..." Miho whispered suddenly looking very scared, "What if he has my book..."
"That would be good," Serenity replied, "Because then you can get it back."
"Thinking positively yes, but they were personal and if he read them..."
Mai interrupted Miho mocking her, "It would be horrible because then he would know my deepest
feelings and what kind of boyfriend I want and how I like the moon-"
Téa immediately interrupted, "And then I can have a perfect little boyfriend!!! And I'll be so
happy because he's cute too!"
Ishizu soon caught Miho's drift and stated what she couldn't," But then he'll know what I'm
looking for and he can be that, I won't know if I can honestly trust or know him, or if it's the
understanding he got while reading my inner feeling and thoughts."
"Exactly..." Miho whispered. There was a moment of silence before the mail slot moved
once again and startled the girls.
"Didn't mail just come?" Serenity asked. A look of shock and came over Miho's face, she
was obviously trying to hide the gleeful smile that was soon to be showing on her face.
"What if he's here?" Téa said with a grin. Mai walked over to the door and opened it. It
was Saturday so they had no school, and everybody was outside in the park area, they wee
enjoying the sunny day, there hadn't been one since Bakura left. He wasn't hard to spot standing
over by the tree where Miho had first met him.
"He's here!" Téa squealed with excitement for Miho. She blushed and quickly turned to
leave the room when she saw him looking at her from afar. Serenity touched her shoulder.
"Don't be like the flower in the poem you have to tell him." Only Ishizu who was watching
the stranger out of the corner of her eye seemed to notice that he held a book in his hand and
was steadily growing closer. "It's just a poem!" Miho cried out, "Nothing more!"
"You didn't feel like that when writing used to make you happy, remember if you go upset
or loved something so much you could write about and not have to tell anyone."
"Yeah, and now he knows all my feelings, I feel so exposed." He was now at the doorway,
behind Mai. She turned and glanced at him then turned back around, making sure it was him.
"I don't care anymore." Miho said blandly.
"Yes you do!" Téa cried, "Stop denying who and what you are! Don't you understand that
you can have all you ever wanted and needed if you just tell him that!"
"He's not Kaiba, Téa, not everyone is rich or at least has a boyfriend who is and can give
her the world. All I'm asking for is to be able to write again, I haven't wrote because I felt
lost...like I'm waiting for something that's never going to happen, but I know now it's childish to
keep waiting, I'm waiting for a lousy dream and if I want to write again I can't depend on
someone else to get my book I have to go on! I can't keep living like this hoping and praying that
he has my book and the answer to all my dreams that-"
"You can depend on me." A voice said, it wasn't one of the girls but had a sense of
familiarity with her.
"...He's.. what I need..." Miho turned around and stared directly into Bakura's eyes.
"Oh please no..."Miho whispered, closing her eyes and looking away as if he could vanish
from sight like she once cast out the shadows the storm caused. Seeing him again had opened
feelings she hadn't experienced in a while.
"Please what?" he asked with a small smirk clearly showing his amusement as if it wasn't
noticible in his eyes.
"What did you hear?" she asked.
"Enough to know you were thinking of avoiding me."
"I wasn't going to a-"
"Then why did you turn away when I looked at you?" She said nothing, but instead looked
away once more.
"And she does it again!" Mai snapped. Miho looked up at her friend and said nothing. A
hint of tears was showing in her expression and in her eyes. They were all glossy. Bakura took a
step forward. Miho backed up a little after she flinched.
"Are you afraid of me?" he asked that smirk still showing. She did her best to look him
dead in the eyes before replying.
"No..." "Well then, "He took another step and was now standing right in front of her, she
looked away again.
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing..." she replied. A single tear slid down her cheek. Bakura wiped it away and
raised her chin with his forefinger and his thumb, she was now forced to look him in the eyes.
"Please tell me."
"Well...it's just...it's the fact that...do you have my book?" He and the girls looked shocked
at her outburst. Mai grumbled something and Téa nodded her head while Serenity just giggled.
"That's it?!" he snapped and backed away from her, looking utterly disgusted, "That's what
you wanted from me your book! That's why you're scared and all nervous you think I read your
little poems don't you!"
"They're not just poems!"
"Well, that's what you said earlier-"
"I don't care they're not just poems, that was my life, my everything, until I lost them in the
storm! Do you have any idea how happy I would have been if one day I was to just receive a
letter and see...no have the one thing I've ever wanted and the one thing I ever had come into my
life once more?"
"Well they're here..." he passed her the book he had in his hand, the one that Ishizu had
seen, and pulled her to him embracing her tightly in his arms. Miho was shocked, what was going
on?
She noticed the gleeful smiles on her friends faces as they pretended to back out of the room, to leave them alone. She peered up at Bakura through her tearful eyes.
"Did you mean what you said earlier?"
"About what?"
"About them being just poems?"
"It got you to open up didn't it, so I learned about you through you and not your poems,
your private life." She said nothing. Bakura smiled at her before saying anything else.
"Tell me what your thinking, using what you know best."
"Poetry?" she inquired.
"You tell me."
"Umm...I'm happy and you probably think I'm sappy-"
"Nevermind." Miho just giggled, she couldn't put it into the right words...
'Dreams in their vivid coloring of life / As in that fleeting shadowy misty strife / Of
semblance with reality which brings / To the delirious eye more lovely things / Of paradise
and love and all my own / than young hope in his sunniest hour hath known' 2
"Dreams aren't childish they give you something to pursue in reality." she whispered into his ear
as he smiled down at her contentedly for he first time.
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1 Wind and Window Flower, Robert Frost
2 Dreams, Robert Frost