Do You Remember
by Regina
Eriol Hiiragizawa
Tomoyo Daidouji
Chapter Twelve
"The Wedding Day"
This was the day. The awaited day of two people. And dreaded by one. But the other was unsure, uncertain of her own feelings if she must really do what she is about to do.
Eriol Hiiragizawa, seated at the front, was looking at Syaoran, who was the best man, and at Sakura. 'They're getting married soon, too.' He thought. And as soon as that thought came, many others followed. But to his dismay, the organ of the church broke his thoughts.
His eyes turned to the bride's direction. This woman he is seeing right now. Was going to marry the man waiting at the altar, Rei Hanabishi.
A girl he believed was just a normal girl back then. Yes, she was an ordinary woman even if she is a reincarnation of a non-magical person. But to his eyes, she wasn't normal anymore. She wasn't an ordinary girl—no, woman to him anymore because she was his life. One touch away would seem hard to him.
She was dressed in a very beautiful dress. He continued. 'But wouldn't it be better if I were the one she was going to marry?
And before he knew it, Tomoyo was already at the altar, facing Rei. They were just smiling at each other.
Tomoyo
As the priest started the ceremony, she couldn't understand anything since she was lost, deep in thought, thinking of what her mother, Sonomi, just confessed to her a day before the wedding.
Flashback
"Tomoyo, are you sure of what you are doing now? To marry Rei? Or are you still in love with Hiiragizawa-san?" Sonomi asked Tomoyo. "Of course not!… Or at least… that's the last I knew of…" she tracked off, not knowing what to tell her mother. "I have something to tell you." Sonomi said.
Sonomi was watching the figures from the window of her office. "Azure eyes. I know something." She muttered. She ran outside of her office and immediately came inside the library and closed the door. She stumbled to near bookshelf and was desperately finding an old book. And then, her eyes lit up as if a child who has come by a candy store.
She opened the book and opened it were the neat writing with ink started. 'This was passed on from generations of the Amamiya family. And now I know, that the one who was destined was these two."
"I have met a lad with the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. He asked for me to dance with him, and I didn't have the heart to reject his only request. And then, as if we have been friends long ago, we went to the garden and talked. I was surprised with my growing fondness of him every minute at that time. But oh, I can't help myself. Everything was like a trap and as if I was it's awaited victim, I was attracted to it. I wanted to ask him if we were to meet again, but I kept silent instead. Somehow, there's this feeling inside of me that makes me calm as if it's telling me that we would someday."
"I unexpectedly saw him walking at the park when I was taking a walk myself. And as if he already knew everything would happen, he came to me and smiled. And again, I was surprised at my actions as I blushed in front of him. I was looking for signs if he noticed this. But it seems like he didn't for he kept his gentle smile. After that, he offered a walk in the park with me seeing as we were both alone and in need of company. And I accepted."
Sonomi turned the page somewhere further.
"Things have been going so well with Clow these days. We became the closest of friends. And I have been developing these feelings inside of me I am quite not sure of. It is a feeling so strong that I don't know if I should be happy or sad. I am planning to introduce Clow to my family since only Ayame and Kazuki-kun knows about our long time friendship."
Sonomi, again, turned the pages, referring to it as unimportant. She needed to get to the important part of Rumiko's Diary right away.
"I have introduced Clow to my family now. And sadly, my parents have forbidden me to meet up with him again. I could only remember Ayame and Kazuki's concerned face towards me and Clow. And Clow… he only smiled at me. Just like at the park. I have been so broken, I had to run outside the manor."
"I was looking at the stars at my balcony last night. And I was so happy that even if we are forbidden to see each other, I saw him standing in front of our gates and he was turned to me. I could almost see him smile if not for the dark. And as if we were having a normal conversation, he spoke to my mind, saying that everything will be alright as he always tells me at times when I'm sad."
"Everything will be alright. Everything will be alright."
Those were the last words written.
"And so, Tomoyo, today is the only left time you can decide. And I am afraid to say that I could do anything for an advice. Everything is up to you." Sonomi said and went outside the room.
After their talk, Tomoyo sat on the chair in front of the mirror and continued to brush her hair absent mindly.
End Flashback
"Tomoyo?" Rei's voice disturbed her. Tomoyo was brought back to reality when the priest coughed and almost everyone in the room laughed at her. "Tomoyo." Rei whispered to her to encourage her. "Oh." 'Have I been thinking that long?' she asked herself.
"I marry this man," she started, and then stopped for a while as if hesitating. "No matter what the health situation is, I will love him, respect him, console him, help him, until death, protecting fidelity, I swear, Amen." She said.
"No, not that dear. We need the I do's before that." The priest said. Then, Tomoyo blushed because she was now, really embarrassed. "I d-…" she was bout continue when she suddenly gave an exasperated sigh. "I can't do this. I'm sorry Rei, but I can't do this." Tomoyo told him.
Her head turned to Eriol, and then she looked down, and ran outside of the church. Eriol stood up, and looked at everyone else for signs on what he was supposed to do. 'The heck!' he thought and ran after her.
Everyone inside of the church looked expectedly at the supposed-to-be-groom to see what he was planning to do.
"Well, that was all I was supposed to do." Rei said, and then he smiled at everyone.
Then, a flash of light surrounded them and Rei was no where to be found.
"Yoshiyuki, what are we doing here? And Chiharu, Naoko, and Yamazaki as well! And others too." Rika expressed.
"Let's go to the mall, then!" Yamazaki proposed to everyone inside the church. "Good idea!" Chiharu encouraged.
While the other people went home.
Rei
Rei was standing in front of a manor. People, walking around dressed in old clothes.
"There is where you belong, Tomoyo. In Eriol's arms." He said. "While I, belong in the past and is destined to meet someone else."
Eriol
Eriol turned to left, and then to his right. He couldn't find a sign of Tomoyo anywhere.
'Damn it, Tomoyo! Where have you gone to!' he thought to himself. He turned his head to the right when his eyes caught a glimpse white silk. 'Tomoyo, how long are you going to run away?' he thought. He ran after her as fast as he could.
By the time he was approaching her, he grabbed her arm hard and pulled her against him.
"What are you doing, you mad man!" the voice said, angrily. He looked at the woman's face clearly and it was certainly not Tomoyo.
"O-oh, sorry ma'am." He said, embarrassedly.
Hours Later
It's already night time.
'Where are you now, Tomoyo?' he thought.
He went to the Penguin Park to see if she was there, sitting on one of the swings like she would always do when drama was happening. But she wasn't.
He approached the swings and sat on one. He looked up, and saw the moon. It was full tonight.
Flashback
"The moon looks lonely, doesn't it?" Tomoyo said. "Yes it does." He replied.
They were sitting on swings that night when she called him saying she wanted to see the moon from the Park.
"Eriol-kun, what do you think the moon does to make itself less lonely?" she asked.
"I don't know. Do you know the answer?" he asked back. "No. But perhaps my own opinion is enough." She said.
"What is your opinion?" he asked.
"That it watches people, entertain itself and you know, something like that. Just watching soap operas." She said.
"Do you know what it does in my opinion?" Eriol asked her. 'No. What?" she asked back.
"That it plays hide and seek with the sun and it never gets lonely because that game is fun." He said.
"That's a very weird opinion, Eriol-kun." She said. "Yeah, I know. But after all, it is just an opinion." He said.
"Yeah."
End Flashback
'It was less lonely because you were watching it with me.' He thought to himself. He looked beside him and saw a letter. He took it and looked at the back.
It was addressed
To: Eri-kun
From: Tomo-chan
"What the hell is this? A letter?" he said.
Syaoran and Sakura
"What are you doing, Syaoran-kun?" Sakura asked her fiancée. "This is the least I could do." He said.
"And how the hell did you get Tomoyo-chan's letter from the 6th grade!" Sakura said.
"She wanted me to give it to him back then. But I guess I forgot when I saw it in one of the boxes when you helped me clean yesterday." He said.
"This love story just can't get any better!" Sakura exclaimed happily.
"Women."
Tomoyo's Letter
Eriol-kun,
We have been friends for a really long time now and I just can't keep my feelings to myself anymore! I, I think I like you! If you can't except my love then please, oh, please, stay being my friend!
Tomoyo-chan
Eriol
"So Tomoyo did like me. Once." He laughed bitterly, stood up and ran.
"I'm coming Tomo-chan!" he yelled through thin air.
Syaoran and Sakura
"It's like he's a 5th grader again." She said.
"Hiiragizawa's always acting weird." Syaoran said.
Tomoyo
Tomoyo was standing by the windowsill. Staring outside the great big sky. Looking at the glowing full moon.
'I wonder who else is watching the stars.' she thought.
She wore no more make up but her smile still stayed with the problems she bear.
A knock came to her door.
"Mistress, the limo is waiting outside." Said the maid.
"I'll be there." She said quietly, but enough for the maid to hear.
'This time, Eriol, I'm going to leave. And this time, I don't want to forget. I just want to think of it all. Please wait.' She thought.
'No. If a star falls, then I'll stay.'
She stared at the sky, expecting a star to fall. To tell her that she mustn't go.
'I'm sure everything wouldn't have turned out like this if only he didn't leave and blame it on himself about my pain.' She thought as 5 minutes began to pass away. 'I guess I must go now.'
The moment she turned her back away, it was a shame that a star just fell.
Outside: 8:30 pm
"Please be careful on your journey, Mistress." One of the maids said.
"Don't worry. I'll be gone for a while. You do remember Eriol, right? If eh ever comes here, treat him like I treated him when we were only children." Tomoyo said. "Treat him like how you treated him?" the maid asked for reassurance. "Yes. As if he's the master. Let him discover that I am gone on his own." Tomoyo said.
She entered the limo, and the driver closed the door for her.
"For now, I'll forget about Rumiko. And Clow. And Rei. But I'll think about Eriol." She said.
And then, the limo started moving. Towards the airport.
Eriol: 8:50 pm
Eriol reached Tomoyo's house and stepped inside the gates after getting greeted by the maids.
"May I come to Tomoyo's room, please?" he asked one of the maids.
"Sure, Master Eriol."
"A.. ahaha! Don't call me that!" he said and ran upstairs, to Tomoyo's room.
Tomoyo's Room
He knocked on her door a few times but got no answer. So he went inside.
"That's weird. After what happened, I was so certain that she would go straight home." He said.
He sat on her bed and looked around when his cell phone rang.
"Hello?" he greeted.
"Eriol-kun!" the person on the other line said.
"Ah, Mizuki-san!"
"Just now, I was talking to Daidouji-chan's mom! I heard something from Sonomi-sama! Daidouji-chan! She's going to leave by plane to America at 10!"
"10!" Eriol looked for a clock around Tomoyo's room and found one. It read, 9:58 pm.
"If the plane leaves then, she's probably already left her house!" Kaho said.
"How awful!" Eriol exclaimed. "I haven't. I haven't told her how I really felt. Oh no!"
"Hold on, Eriol-kun! There's still time! Remember, Sakura-chan's invisible phrase!"
"Yes. Everything will be alright." He muttered and dashed outside the room after turning the phone off.
Outside: 9:00 pm
'Think, Hiiragizawa!' he thought. And as an idea came to his head, he snapped his fingers and time stopped. "I'm not Clow Reed for nothing!" he said aloud.
He snapped his fingers again and he disappeared.
Airport: 9:00 pm
'Is this what I think will make everything alright?' Tomoyo thought.
Then, she noticed that the noise around her stopped. She glanced around and found all of the people there frozen in their places.
'What the…'
"Tomoyo-chan. You're going to leave without my consent?" a voice said behind her.
She turned back, seeing the man who made time stop just to talk to her standing.
"Eriol-kun. I want to think things over." She said as she smiled at him softly.
"Tomoyo-chan. I think it would be better if the two parties would agree." He said.
"Eriol-kun…"
"Tomoyo-chan, would confessing my feelings stop you from going away?" he asked.
"Eriol-kun…"
"The one I love the most, Tomoyo-chan, is you." He said.
And unexpectedly, she broke down and embraced him.
"Thank you." She said. "I'll come back."
"When!"
"When I'm done thinking about you." She said.
"Promise me."
"Promise."
Then, as she watched time continue, he disappeared.
"Now boarding plane to California" the speaker said.
Tomoyo walked to the gates.
And then into the plane.
And as she found her seat number, she stared at her ring. Eriol-kun's ring.
Four Years Later: 10:00 pm
"Ah. Such a refreshing day." A woman said, waiting for the driver to finish putting all her baggage at the trunk.
"I'm back in Tomoeda." she whispered.
At The Daidouji Mansion
By the time she set foot at her home, she was showered with welcomes.
But one person caught her eye.
"Welcome back, Tomoyo-chan."
"Thank you, Eriol-kun."
The atmosphere began to tense. It was one of their mistakes. They didn't keep in touch these past years.
"Do you want to take a rest first, dear, or do you want to keep the party going?" Sonomi asked Tomoyo.
"What, are you kidding? Let's party!"
And so, a party was going on that night. While Tomoyo, she sat by the pool, looking at the moon's reflection. When another figure came and sat beside her.
"It's been long, Tomoyo-chan." He said.
"It has."
"And I'm tired of waiting."
Eriol grabbed Tomoyo by the waist and pulled her to him and embraced her like there was no tomorrow.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Tomoyo said as she sobbed. "I missed you so much." She said end embraced him back.
"I love you." He said.
"I love you too, Eriol-kun. I love you, too." She replied.
For once, the great magician, didn't notice all the eyes watching them from inside.
Inside
"Aw. I just know that after this, they're going to get married and then have kids!" Chiharu said.
"Yeah, and I waited for Tomoyo-chan so we could be wed already!" Sakura exclaimed and pretended to pout.
Author's Note:
This is the ending of the story. And I just know it stinks! Um, after this story, I'll be continuing my story 'True Love' now. It's about Eriol and Tomoyo. About a soul who can't go to heaven because she wants to experience something. Please read it!