Warning: If you liked to leave off where you were with the bittersweet ending, I suggest you leave. This is for all the people who are ExT. I couldn't help it. ; I couldn't leave Eriol so sad.

Months passed. Time flowed by. Regardless of the petty human troubles, just like tiny pebbles tossed in the mighty river of Time. The sakura still flowered, children went in and out of school, and children became older.

And yet, a certain person felt sad, and for the thousandth time, felt her heart break. The photos, memories, all came to haunt Tomoyo. And her dark rippling violet hair grew longer, she grew taller and even more slender, and her eyes...just a bit sadder.

No, I love Sakura. She doesn't have to love me. As long as she is happy, I am happy. No matter how many times she repeated the mantra, the raven haired beauty could not convince her heart to believe.

So she went to her piano. Her piano seemed so solitary, its black and whiteness a sorrowful painting in which colors could not brighten. He played the piano too. Her heart whispered. Shut up. She whispered back.

She held her fingers above the keys, poised to sing some cheerful song. But her heart bade her to play something else and the words that suddenly sprung into her throat:

I hear you calling, calling

Calling out my name

Why do things have to change?

Now nothing is the same

I feel like I'm drowning

Into your gentle gaze

How can you make me

Feel like I'm in a daze?

I feel like I am falling, falling,

Falling in love with you

But I thought I loved another

How can this be true?

Her fingers flew over the keys, pouring out her soul. Her sweet voice... and the piano sang, until the tears spilled and her mind too distraught to put in any more lyrics. Her voice broke as she sang a last phrase

"How can this be?"

And she blacked out. Confusion.

Apparently, the human mind works in strange way. Tomoyo's strength gave away, crumbled into dust, and when her heart beat on ruthlessly, her mind was pitiful and mercifully forced her consciousness to sleep, so that Tomoyo would rest.

But even her sleep was troubled.

His face, all around. She should not think about him. Think about sweet Sakura! Your true love! She whirled around. "Let me escape!" she screamed. The memories playing in her head...were all of him. And then a voice...YOU ARE WRONG.

Tomoyo covered her ears. No, she was never wrong! Never! "No, not wrong," she whispered, trying to comfort herself. The voice screamed again...YOU STUPID CHILD. MASQUERADING...LIAR TO YOURSELF.

"SHUT UP!" she screamed. She started to sob hysterically. HYSTERIA AGAIN TOMOYO? The voice laughed. YOU PATHETIC, INSECURE-

Then a blinding whiteness came over her...and she heard a voice, like an angel, "Sleep, Tomoyo, sleep..."

So she slept on.

Only to wake up in the darkness again. Back into reality.

The next day, the inevitable... "Tomoyo-chan!" called Sakura, with a rather strange look in her eyes. "You look...tired."

Tomoyo opened her mouth to speak but found that she could say nothing. Sakura leaned over and whispered, "You know, you ought to listen to your heart..."