Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or any of the characters included in this story.. But I do own a rubber-ducky and a couple of smelly socks.. P

Author's Notes: Hi guys.. I FINALLY got to update my stories.. I've been busy at school and with my growing passion for collecting gundams and other mecha, I have lost most of the free time I used for writing.. But don't worry, Ill still be sporadically updating my fictions.. As long as I don't get writers block or my computer craps-out on me..

Please do check out my other fiction, NGE: Destiny…

Please feel free to review my work after you read it.. (assuming you do read it.. O.o)

Now on with the story!

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I'll be waiting:

Within the darkness.

She sat all alone in the darkened room; Her tear-stained pillow bearing silent witness to her emotions.. From the redness of her eyes, one can see that she has been crying for quite a time..

Her hoarse sobs mixed with slight whimpers as her body shook from her emotional outpour..

Why can't I tell him?

I managed to write the first letter..

I managed to invite him to where I could have confessed to him..

But I was too much of a coward..

I couldn't even face him..

I wrote another letter, but it was the coward's way out..

I want to tell him how I feel..

I want to show him how much I love him..

I want to than him for saving all our lives countless of times..

I want to be with him..

To be beside him..

My heart scream in pain whenever he gets injured protecting all of us..

I rejoice whenever he is victorious..

But up till now I've done all of it from afar..

Whenever I see him at Nerv, walking down those cold, empty corridors, I can't help but follow him with my eyes after he has gone past..

I may not be able to fight but I still can support him..

If only I could tell him face to face..

If only I can reveal myself to him..

But I can't..

People might think it odd..

They might poke fun at me, a grown woman, who has fallen madly in love with a boy that's just in his teens..

And what if I do tell him face to face how I feel..?

What if I manage to gather enough courage to tell him?

Would he accept me?

Would he shun me?

What if he already has someone..?

Those two girls.. They're awfully close to him..

And the Section2 reports I've read show that he's also pretty popular with the girls at his school..

What if he already has one of them in his heart?

What would happen to me then..?

I guess I'll just have to settle with loving him from afar..

Ill have to keep my love in the darkness..

But for how long can I keep it hidden?

How long can I keep it up this way?

Her tears and thoughts were suddenly interrupted when her phone rang..

She did not pick it up.. She let the machine get it..

Hello, I'm not in right now or I might not be able to answer the phone at the moment..

Please leave a message after the beep..

BEEEP

Suddenly the darkness was filled by the voice of doctor Akagi coming from the machine..

"Hello, I know you weren't able to tell him today.. I saw you leave Geofront right before the appointed time.." She said over the phone, "I hope you're alright.. I know it may seem hard now to confess to him, And I wish you would have taken my advice to wait a bit more before making a move.. But never the less it is a step forward.. Do your best..

What ever happens, happens.. I know someday you would be able to tell him.. Today just was'nt that day.. I'll talk to you tomorrow at Geofront."

With that silence once again took over..

The lone occupant of the darkness finally stopped her crying..

Her mind and soul at ease..

She began to drift off into sleep..

As she closed her bloodshot, tear soaked eyes, she softly said, "Thank you Ritsuko-sempai."

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There it is! The latest chapter in my first Romance fic ever..!

The mystery woman finally reveals herself!

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