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The Fate Twister: An Accidental Meeting
Himeno was sitting on the swing in the forest. She was reading a storybook regarding angels. "Is it true that if I closed my eyes and counted to 20, an angel will come and grant me a wish?" Himeno thought.
She shut her eyes and started to count. "1...2...3...4...5...6...7..." she counted to 7 and heard a rustling sound from the tree she was sitting under. She looked up and saw a male in white sitting on the branch. He looked at Himeno with his bright sparkling blue eyes. He seemed to be sending an SOS to Himeno.
She saw that his parachute was tangled with the branch. She tried to help him down. But she could not even reach his legs. So she jumped. She caught hold of his pants and he was jerked down by Himeno. When they landed on the ground, their lips met.
For a minute, everything seemed still. Himeno recovered from the shock before the 'angel' did. She then pushed him away from her and raised her hand to slap the 'angel' for taking away her first kiss that she had kept for 16 years. She was furious. But her attempt to slap him failed when the 'angel' stopped her hand when her hand was making its way towards his face. "I had not been hit by anyone since I was young."
"Listen to my explanation before you hit me." Himeno put down her hand, allowing him to explain. "I was parachuting and I lost control and landed on this tree. I did not mean to kiss you on purpose. It is a pure coincidence and accident. Now I have finished my explanation. You can scold, hit or kill me since you are a girl."
After hearing his explanation, Himeno was not as furious as before. Looking at her expression, the 'angel' decided to introduce himself. "My name is Hayate. What about you?"
"Himeno," was her reply to his question. "Which school are you studying in?" Hayate continued to ask.
"Zheng Hua. Last year."
"I am from Zhong Qiao. Last year there too."
"Since you are on your last year, why do you still have time for parachuting?" Himeno asked Hayate.
Hayate answered her "Examinations do not have the rights to take away my rights to play right? It will be so cruel!"
"Hayate... Hayate... Hayate..." A group walking nearer and nearer to them, calling out Hayate's name.
Once they reach the place where they are, they crowded around him to attend to his wounds. "Luckily Takako is clever enough to put a detecting device on you. Or else you will have to stay here for quite a long while." One person from the crowd said to Hayate.
After a few minutes, Hayate left with them. Himeno returned to the swing that is once again peaceful. She picked up her books preparing to go home. Then something on the top of her book fell onto the ground. She bend down and picked it up. It was a necklace with a pendant shaped like a fire, a water droplet and a finely carved heart.
"Mum, I am home!" Himeno called out to her mum, Natsue.
Himeno's dad, Kaoru died when she was only three years old. "Dinner is ready!" was the reply she got from Natsue.
They sat down on the dining table to have their dinner. Himeno asked "Are all love stories like Romeo and Juliet, Rose and Jack and others true?"
Natsue reply to her question was, "Some parts are exaggerated. But the love and feelings in the story are real."
"Mum, do you believe in love at first sight?" Himeno continued to ask.
"Well, love is something that you cannot predict. When it comes, you cannot avoid it. Sometimes fate can walk pass you and you will not even realize that that person is going to be the other half of your world in the future." Natsue replied.
"Himeno, you..." Himeno cut off Natsue's sentence and said, "Ahhh... I am just curious." Himeno quickly answered even though she was stuffing her mouth full with rice and soup.
"Delicious!" Himeno commented her mum's soup.
They quickly finished dinner and wash the plates.
"Were you and Dad very loving in the past?" Himeno asked suddenly.
Natsue's reply was "Why? What impression of your father? He left us when you are three years old."
"I only remembered that his palm was big and warm." Himeno said.
"Ding dong...Ding dong..." went the doorbell. Himeno went to open the door to see Sasame at the door. He was their neighbour. He came to change the gas for them.
"Why you didn't come to my store this few days? There are several new books that came in. Come over later?" Sasame asked Himeno.
"Why not? I will go over later." Himeno answered.
Holding the necklace that she found earlier that day in her hand, Himeno wrote in her diary: 'It might be fate...'
Back at home, Hayate was bathing. He then found out that he lost his beloved necklace that he had been wearing since he was three. His parents are always abroad, working. But whatever they gave him was the best.
However he just totally hated the house he is staying in. It is because it was practically empty. It isn't bustling with activities.
If he was given a choice, he would have stay in his school. But there is something that he like in his house that he will not bear to abandon, which is his dog, "Devil".
He changed into a fresh new set of clothes and set out for the forest in his bike. He hopes to find his necklace there. But the forest is empty. He walked round and round the tree that he had landed on earlier, but he just could not find it.
He then remembered Himeno, the girl that was reading under the tree. The first time he set his eyes on her, he thought that what he saw was a fairy tale, or even a miracle...
Author's Note:
I really appreciate if you write a review for this story... I love you all that read this story... Hope you all will carry on and support me... Thanks... Muackz... Remember to wait for the second part to come out... It is going to come out by the end of this year... Thanks for your support once again...