Chapter 6: Okabore
(Unrequited Love)
"Kayla it's 12:30," Ryo said as he cautiously opened the door into Kayla's room and went in. "don't you want some lunch?"
"I'm worried about Cye, I can no longer sense his presence in this world..." Kayla said softly as she stared off into space. "Something terrible has happened to him, I know it."
"Cye is a Ronin Warrior he'll be all right." Ryo said in an affirming tone as he laid his hand on her shoulder and she turned to look at him.
"I know what I sense, Ryo. He's gone somewhere...and I must get him back because:
Now I'm all alone again,
Nowhere to turn, no-one to go to,
Without a home, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near, now I can make
Believe he's here.
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping.
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping.
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head.
On my own,
Pretending he's beside me.
All alone, I walk with him till morning.
Without him
I feel his arms around me,
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me.
In the rain the pavement shines like silver,
All the lights are misty in the river.
In the darkness the trees are full of starlight,
And all I see is him and me forever and forever.
And I know it's only in my mind,
That I'm talking to myself and not to him.
And although I know that he is blind,
Still I say there's a way for us.
I love him
But when the night is over,
He is gone; the river's just a river.
Without him the world around me changes,
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers.
I love him
But everyday I'm learning.
All my life I've only been pretending.
Without me his world will go on turning,
A world that's full of happiness that I have never known.
I love him, I love him,
I love him, but only on my own.
"I never knew you felt that way about Cye..."
"He's all I think about when I'm alone..." Kayla said softly as tears welled in her eyes and threatened to fall. "The thought of anything happening to him is more than I can bear. I just hope he's ok, wherever he is out there."
Author's Note: On My Own is from the movie "Les Miserables"