Previously…>
As she stood onstage as if petrified…only a murmur of one name escaped her soft, pink lips…
"Eriol…"
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: I did shifting scenes on the previous chapter… like watching a movie…I hope y'all aren't too confused… )
This chapter is mainly about Eriol and Tomoyo…what happened to Touya/Tomoyo? Just read. Don't worry im still sticking to Touya/Tomoyo…I figured that Eriol and Tomoyo having a past together could help character building…All will unravel in the next chapters, so please be patient with me…minna-san arigatou!
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A sad song
At penguin park, a certain young woman sat on one of the swings…her long lavender hair swayed gently with the wind as she swung herself in solitude…>
Her eyes scanned the magical heavens…The night sky was clear, although strips of thin clouds were existing…and she saw thousands of stars twinkling faintly…She smiled minutely as she wondered whether she was like one of those stars…Beautiful, unique, and able to bring smiles and hope to other people through its single brilliance…But like a star, it was always alone…Imagine a neighbor to be billions of miles away from you…One star, only able to communicate with just its light…So near, yet so far…that clichéd saying that people use…so worn-out…yet…it seemed appropriate, for her at least…
She never really wanted to feel these kinds of emotions…sadness, confusion, pain, anger, loneliness…most especially hate…But somehow, she couldn't find any way on how to just erase those emotions from her being…Could that even be possible? That was what made her human after all…
She lifted her head to look at the night sky once again…Each time she tried to look on the bright side of everything, there was always one thing that kept dragging her back to darkness…She huffed in repugnance…She detested being melancholy and unable to withstand this type of feeling…depression and frustration…
"Get a grip of yourself, Tomoyo-chan. You are the heiress to the Daidouji Enterprises…President of the Daidouji Toy Industry…yet you let this tiny feeling drag you down…That's not how Okaa-san taught you to handle yourself…She would probably rise from the grave and give you a good scolding for that…" she murmured to herself…She suddenly realized that she was acting like a total idiot…She chuckled quietly…"Yeah, okaa-san was that sort of person…but I know that she always thought of what was best for me…I really miss her…" she murmured more…
Her amethyst eyes continued to stare at the horizon…"They say that stars are loved ones who left the living to be guiders of lost souls…If that were true, could you be up there, Okaa-san?...watching over me from that magnificent heaven?" she whispered to the wind…She bowed her head and closed her eyes…"I am lost, Okaa-san…" she uttered sadly…Tears threatened to spill from her eyes, but she held them back…No…she wouldn't cry anymore…She had to be strong…"Okaa-san…please help me find my way." She beseeched to the heavens…
She slowly stood up from the swing, and turning towards the sky a last time, she smiled softly towards the stars that shined so brightly from the night sky…then she left the park…
Only the whisper of the cool breeze was heard…and the faint caress of the stars' light upon the park…
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She treaded back towards the Daidouji Manor…She stopped and looked at the great structure through the great gates of the estate…So gloomy and lonely…like her…
She sighed and took out her cell phone…she dialed a number and waited for someone to answer…"Daidouji residence…"
"Mi-san? This is Tomoyo…I'm at the gate right now…could you open it up for me please?" Tomoyo said…
"Oh, Daidouji-sama…I'll open it right away. Please wait a moment…"
Tomoyo turned her cell phone off and waited for the gate to be opened…thumping her foot to a rhythm she knew while humming to that familiar song, patiently waiting…
"Good evening, Tomoyo." Someone said from the dark…
Tomoyo stopped humming…she knew that voice…too well…she scowled to herself…
"What are you doing here, Hiiragizawa?" she uttered rather in apathy…
"I came to see you…" he said in a manner of a fact, giving her one of his charming smiles…Still, Tomoyo had her back to him…not really wanting to see his smug of a face…She could feel him smirking…which she would've loved slapping it off that darn boyish face of his…
"Truly…" she muttered indifferently…she turned towards him to acknowledge him with her blank facial expression…her eyes narrowing to slits towards a dark corner…
Eriol appeared out from the shadows…tall, pale complexion, midnight blue hair, slim built…the Englishman never ceased to overwhelm her with his charms…and still, that infamous smirk…which, up to this time, seemed has its hidden secrets which no one could decipher…
Tomoyo couldn't think of what to say next…She was both irritated and furious at this man…yet…she also tensed…for there was something different about Hiiragizawa Eriol at that moment…
"You left the bar so suddenly…I was hoping we could have tea and have a little chat…" he told her…he was in front of her in seconds, mere inches apart…Tomoyo blinked at his sudden movement…then she glared at him…Why does he always do that…
If looks could kill, perhaps she could've killed him on the spot…
"There is nothing to talk about, Hiiragizawa." She finalized…trying to sound nonchalant as possible…Incredible!Seven years of no communication, and here he suddenly appears just to drink tea and have a chat!
She raised her chin deliberately…amethysts clashed with midnight blues…But Eriol didn't move…he stood firm and determined…
"You truly are a beautiful woman, Tomoyo…not even a frown could hide your beauty from anyone else…" he murmured, lifting his pale hand to caress her porcelain cheek…
"Shut up, Hiiragizawa. I won't fall for those words again." She muttered…geez! This man is getting on her nerves…
"Now, Tomoyo…it's unlikely of you to swear. Swearing doesn't suit you." He informed her affectionately, giving her a smile that could brighten the whole evening…to Tomoyo's utter dismay, she found that she had missed that…Ok, get away from him…gotta get away…
"I'll swear whenever I want, wherever I want, to whoever deserves it." She said in absolute and turned her back towards him…I'm never gonna hear the end of anything, coming from him…why me…she sighed in frustration as she walked towards the manor gates…
"Wait…" he called out…
An eerie silence suddenly surrounded the whole atmosphere…Tomoyo stopped on her tracks; feeling a chill ran down her spine…She turned back towards Eriol who stood rooted on his spot…His expression suddenly showed pain, to which it bothered her…An Eriol in pain, especially when he reveals it…meant that something was definitely wrong with him…
"Tomoyo…" he whispered softly, but loud enough for her to hear…Tomoyo's heart ceased beating briefly…What is wrong with him…why does his voice sound like he-…"E-riol…?"
"Gomenasai, Tomoyo…for leaving…for hurting you…" he murmured sadly…his eyes were overshadowed by his glasses…Tomoyo couldn't think of anything to answer to that…part of her wanted to scold him, to shout at him, to spill all her frustrations and hatred that had been cooped up for so long within her…but she couldn't…its as if something was holding her back…and another was nagging her to listen to him…
The both of them just stood rooted to their spot…just staring at one another, waiting…waiting for one of them to break the silence…A cold breeze blew around them, which made Tomoyo shiver…odd…
"Tomoyo…" he called out to her in a soft murmur…snapping her out of her thoughts…She blinked and saw that Eriol was in front of her again…now mere centimeters apart…He bowed his head towards her until his nose was millimeters away from hers…Her eyes widened and she gasped unconsciously…
"Onegai…Tomoyo…onegai…" he whispered over and over…what is the matter with him?
She stared deep within those midnight blue depths…They were dull, almost lifeless…almost surreal…She felt something warm run down her cheeks…Was she crying?
She felt two hands cup her face…her visions were blurred by the tears that didn't seem to want to stop coming…She blinked her eyes hard, trying to clear her vision…Eriol was smiling blankly at her…"Eriol, what has happened to you?" she whispered in horror and pain…unable to take her eyes off his face…
"Onegai…I want to be with you…even for just a while…" he pleaded to her…
"Why…?"
"Kaho…she has left me, Tomoyo…" that name…every word he said, hearing his voice like it was pleading for release…it crushed her heart…it was like listening to a sorrowful song…
So she has left you…Oh, Eriol…you and your naïve heart…she thought to herself…
Without knowing, she lifted her hands to his waist and drew him close to her…She buried her face in his shirt, inhaled deeply his scent of mint…She held him...he tensed...she held him, comforting him…until she felt him sag in her embrace…His face was buried within her soft lavender locks…Faintly, she could hear a song…a very sad song, sung by a sorrowed heart…she knew then…
…the calm Hiiragizawa Eriol, the great reincarnation of Clow Reed, cried in her embrace for the first time…
We never see Eriol cry, do we? I made his character broken here…No, It's not Eriol/Tomoyo ok? I just made it looked like they had a thing going on…In this story of mine, they had a past, but it doesn't mean they're going to be together…Touya/Tomoyo people! There will just be transitions going to occur…and you'll witness how two lost souls will find their way to each other…I think I need to give Kaho a little more credit…hehehe…don't worry, the next chapterS will have more revelations of Kaho's involvement in the story…NOTE: Kaho is not evil here.