(a/n) Hey everyone! Here's the next chapter! Betcha ya'll have been waiting for it! Lol Hey, hey…it's just a WILD guess :P By the way, this will be in Xiao's point of view! Well… ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I don't own Tekken. NAMCO rightfully does.
Chapter 21- Going back to China…
A lone figure stares into the pinkish orange sky… a sign of one of another of Nature's beauty… A beautiful sunset… it's reflection showing in the deep blue sea…
Xiao
I'm having those sick visions again…I so I just shrug, for the first time in my life not screaming…I'm used to these devilish visions…I'm used to manipulative people like Jin…
I rest my elbows on my lap; face cupped in my hands as I stare out into a mesmerizing scene…Hmmm…funny…Jin took me to the same Yakushima forest and showed me an equally beautiful sunset…
Ugh…my stomach churned with disgust…at the sound of his name…I hate him so much…I loathe him…he betrayed me again…how could he? How could he do this to me…?
And the same answer keeps popping up in my mind…
"You're just a nobody…a worthless piece of nothing…You can never find true happiness…"
That same answer…over and over…kept repeating itself in my mind…
My eyes filled with tears again… I couldn't control them…they just…just kept falling freely…This was so unfair…no…LIFE was shit… I could never get anything I wanted… not even the only man I ever did love…
Jin Kazama…
Wait…what about Ethan? Hah…I'm such a fool…a born idiot…I should've seen through his good boy masquerade…he was nothing more than a liar himself…
But then again…I had feelings for him too…
No…these aren't feelings…
…Maybe I'm just doing it for lust? Out of jealousy? For payback?
I can't seem to stop questioning myself, and my actions… it was…after all, my choices that affect my future and all because I refused Jin one stupid date…one frickin' date…
Bastard……I hate you so much…
How……could he?
I loved him…LOVED him…and he took it for granted…only because I'm just a plain old school girl… a plain Jane… a nobody…just some wacko out to start her own amusement park…
I almost forgot about that dream of mine… my amusement park…
Jin had become my only dream…heck…his cold, handsome face plagued my very thoughts, dreams, soul…heart…
Heart…
I think I just tried to play up to him for lust…
I sigh again…and I hiccup after crying for so damn long…attracting a crowd of little children around me…their sweet, round faces… staring at me…
And then the sound of their parent's raucous voices brought me out of my dream sequence…How I would've loved to start a family with him…with Jin…
Too late for that now…
I hate that voice so much…yet…it speaks the truth…I have lost him …
A painful feeling surges through my whole heart…and I clutch it comfortingly… hoping to heal it myself…
Once more, the tears pour rapidly…
Why am I crying now?
I'm crying because of good 'ol Ethan and Chris…
Why does it always have to be like this? I have to lose a guy every time…it's so tiring… I'm sick of this monotonous life of mine… hmmm…life really does suck…
With people like me, it's hard to move on, especially when you've known a handsome, trustworthy friend like Jin, and an equally good hearted Ethan…
Then, why am I crying once more?
It's because I hate myself… I hate who I am…what I am…and question myself as to why I was born…
Some one taps me on the shoulder and I gasp in surprise…I shut my eyes hoping it to be Jin or Ethan…but no, just a broken hearted friend …
"I didn't know it was in style to come to the beach in your night gown, Xiao…" Steve said trying to brighten up the dull atmosphere.
"Yeah, well…I decided to take a chance with things…you don't like it, don't look at it…" I reply a little frustrated, as I quickly wipe away the tears and mucus from my face.
Steve kindly hands me a handkerchief and I accept it gladly, almost tearing it away from his hands, as he watches on…
"You're welcome" he replies sarcastically.
"Cut the smart talk…I'm not in the mood, and what are you doing here?" I ask Steve, a bit irritated.
"I may ask you the same thing." was his reply.
I remained silent…and gritted my teeth angrily…ugh…I felt like…like…POUNDING something…I had to do it now, or I'd go crazy…
"I'm sorry Xiao, I know everything now, about Ethan, and Christie…I just found out the hard way like you…" Steve said, his gorgeous blue eyes seemed so endless; like the sea.
"Good, then don't remind me about it." I replied coldly.
"Alright…I won't…it must hurt a lot anyway…" said Steve as he took a seat next to me on the big rock I was sitting on.
He ran his fingers through his blond hair, gave a sigh and lifted his vision to the sky which was slowly deepening in color to a dark blue…
"Steve, am I that bad a person?" I asked all of a sudden.
"Who the bloody hell, told you that?" asked Steve surprised.
"I'm just asking…" I reply sadly, for all I know now, as well…Julia may also be pregnant with Jin's child, I thought in my mind.
"Look, Ling…sometimes…you have to take the good in with the bad…it's how everything operates in our world, anyway…" said Steve as he placed his coat over the Chinese girl's shivering body.
"You're going to get a cold, Xiao…c'mon, it's better if you go home now…relax…forget about Jin and Julia and everyone. It doesn't matter…" Steve said; kindness evident in those endless blue eyes of his.
"How's Miharu's and Hwoarang's relationship going, anyway?" I asked suddenly, boy I sure was feeling random today…
"Not so good…they kinda had a fight over a silly thing…" said Steve.
"He forgot Mi's birthday………AGAIN…right?" I asked, knowing Hwo's habits.
"Smart girl." replied Steve a bit amused.
"Seems everything goes wrong when people are around me, or know me…" I reply sadly.
"Xiao…Don't blame yourself, for anything at all…" contradicted Steve, pulling Xiao closer into a tight brotherly embrace.
I gave a loud, mournful sigh…" But I always mess up things…it's like I have some sort of curse on me or something…You don't know how it feels…" she was cutoff.
"To lose someone you truly loved?" finished Steve, "Look, Ling…the best you can do is move on…follow your heart…fulfill your dream…in my opinion, it's the best thing to do…"
"Coming from a great friend like you, Steve…I think…I will take that advice…" I reply rising from my seat and walking towards home…Clara's house…I have to tell her first, I'm going back to China to finish my studies there…"
"And Steve…" I added, "Thanks for your advice…I hope you and Christie patch up things…"
I trudge along through the sand and finally set my foot upon the cold, hard road in my bare feet and prepare to walk home…
San Francisco Airport…
"FLIGHT 201 NOW BOARDING!"
"Well Clara…there's my plane…" I say with a heavy heart, "Oh I'm going to miss you so MUCH!" I add running to her and giving her one of my famous bear hugs.
"And don't worry Xiao, we've sent Panda already! OK? She'll probably have reached before you!" came a voice. Josie's voice…
"Awww thanks! I love you guys so much!" I squeal in happiness.
I turn my back on them finally and take one look at good 'ol San Francisco…
"XIAO WAIT!" came a voice.
It was Jin.
No…not him again…
"So this is it…you're leaving…" he said…wait…was that sadness in his eyes?
"Who told you I'd be here?" I asked surprised.
"My sister of course……she saw you and Steve at the bea-…" he was cutoff.
"Ok, well I have to get going…" I say hastily, I have no time for people like him…
Then, suddenly his hand grabs my elbow and he pulls me towards him…
"Don't you dare leave me Ling Xiaoyu…" he growled into my ear.
I managed to twist myself out of his grasp, and stared at him fury in my eyes, "Why? You have Julia, don't you? Don't you get it, Jin? We can never be together, there's always some kind of obstacle coming in the way…there's no way…" I concluded finally and ran towards my gate, leaving Jin in a state of shock.
I manage to wipe away crystal clear tear drops falling rapidly from my eyes, and don't look back…
…China…here I come…
(a/n) Well…how was it? Oh yeah, the next chapter will be…when Xiao's 21…3 years of studies in the field of engineering :P another idea from xj master, so I owe it to him, well anyway…THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR REVIEWS! YOU ALL MADE THIS STORY POSSIBLE! Lol Keep reviewing pls! Thanks! This is NOT the end! AWW...isn't Steve the best?