Path of Tears part 3

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"What?" Tart asked steadily. 'Purin's mom is dead. I must not have heard her right. She probably said some thing like her moms plant is dead and she's getting a new one...right?' Tart knew that he heard her correctly because Purin's eyes started to fill up with water. Slowly the salty drops of water began to fall.

"Tar-Tar" was all Purin managed to say. She thrust her self onto Tart, almost knocking him over. She just stood there, her face buried into his shirt, sobbing. Not just crying but sobbing. 'Wait, am I missing something?' Tart thought, ' since when Purin cry? I have been trying and trying to make her cry since I started to fight her!' he looked down slowly to find Purin's head tilted up wards a bit. Just enough to have there eyes meet. In her eyes were so many different emotions. Sad (duh), tense, broken, afraid, and even...HAPPY!

"Purin, why do you look...well...happy?"

"Because ,Tar-Tar, now Purin has a friend to talk to." Purin clearly needed some one to talk to right now and her sib's weren't much help. They just stood there. Bother of them, together. Purin had a tiny smile on her face, arms still leaned against Tart's body, as if to tired to lift them up. It took Tart a few seconds to realize how close they were to each other. He could feel Purin breathing on his neck. It felt so warm... ' what am I thinking? I can't get this close to a mew mew! If the others find out they will kill me! Not like they already want to cuz of that stupid fight...' Just the thought of so called 'friends' made him look around. He didn't want them finding him in this way with Purin. As he looked around, he noticed he was still in the hall! And to make matters worse, he wanted to talk to Purin! After all of this time of trying to make her cry, when he saw this way, it kinda hurt him. He wanted to make it better.

"Hey, Purin, want to go up to your room and talk?"

"Sure." Purin squeaked in a shaky voice.

A couple minutes later they were on Purin's yellow and orange bed. Purin started spilling out the story of her life.

"When I was really little, me and my dad would train for hours. He was really into the Chinese marshal arts. Purin and mama always took pictures of each other and made a book out of it. One day my brothers and sister woke her up to tell her that mama wasn't moving in her bed. When they told me I was so scared I screamed and jumped up and went to dad's room and woke him up and took him to mama and we took her to the hospital and she was really sick and..."

Purin was talking so fast Tart couldn't understand what she was saying. He picked up the most part. Now Purin was sobbing so hard it was impossible to hear her.

"Wand thum thay sauid sniff dat shwe notwa goinna mawke wit."

translation through the cries "and then they said that she not going to make it"

"Purin, breath. It's ok. Just breath for a second" Tart was really worried. So than were was her father? Way did Purin do all of the work? And why didn't she tell anyone? 'Wait, I can't be thinking this! It looks like I want her to live. I hate her! No wait, do I hate her? Now that I see her cry, it's all different. It's a different Purin. A Purin I didn't like. Why is this different though? Shouldn't I like to my enemy cry?' he looked into her face. Purin was breathing slowly and deeply, looking like she was in a lot of pain.

"Ok. I think I can tell the rest." she said in a shaky voice. This wasn't like her at all! "I went in my mama's room in the doctors office. She was laying on a cot bed thing. She looked weak. Mama was never weak. It really scared me. I could here my little siblings out in the lobby asking my dad what the man meant by 'not going make it'.I looked at mama for a long time until she woke up.

flash back (Purin is telling Tart this)

"So sweet heart, are you going to be all right?"

"Were are you going mama? Why can't you come back?"

"Purin, you have to be strong because I'm not going to be around anymore."

"Were are you going! I want mama to stay here! Right here! Back in the house!"

"Purin, after I'm gone, you have to promise me that you will leave all of your tears on the path behind you, in order to not flood and lose your way. Dry your eyes in order to see the way." Purins mom put her ha on her cheek.

"But mama, I don't want to stop crying! I will always cry if you not here with me and dad so you have to stay here!"

"The only way to feel joy is to give up something you love or care about."

"But I have been feeling joy all of my life! I have never given up any thing!" everything was silent. Mama wasn't moving. "Mama? Mama? Ma answer me!" crying, I threw my self on the bed. Suddenlly 10 men in white coats came in and pulled me off the bed and started doing something on Mama. "MAMA!" a man was pulling me out of the room now, me kicking and screaming, yelling her name...

end flashback

"So far, I haven't been able to put the tears on the path behind me. I still cry at night. I haven't really felt real joy either since that day. I think I disappointed my mama. I feel so bad that I can't do what she says. It's like I can't see anything good in my future, or my past. I guess the path really is flooded." Tart thought he heard something as she said this, but than he heard a cry from Purin again.

"Don't feel bad!" Tart blurted out, " you just haven't been...um...able to yet but you will. Just wait." Purin looked at him with a strange look.

"I guess your right Tar-Tar"

"Don't call me that." Purin looked at him with her big eyes. 'Oh no. don't start crying again! Please, oh please, don't start again' "what about your dad? I mean, were did he go?"

"He is in China- "

"Why, the chinida, is he there!"

"The what?"

"I have no clue really. It's something Pie says when he gets mad but he never lets me say it. Answer me!"

"He went there because he had to train in the mountains to pay for his family because he couldn't find work here. He send us money every month but mostly it's not enough."

"Well what type of father is that? he just leaves you here!" for some reason he felt mad. 'Why am I mad at her father for, like, abandoning her?'

"He didn't want to go Tar-Tar! Don't EVER make fun of my father! He didn't want to leave us! He had to!" 'Wow, she clearly really likes her father.'

"Sorry" Tart huffed.

"Tar-Tar? Can you be my best friend for ever?" ask Purin. Then, she looked up at him and gave her a puppy dog face. 'I can't be her friend. Pai and Kish would totally kill me. But Purin had such a hard life! I never thought anyone's life could that hard. They told me not to fall in love. Kish stopped loving Ichigo as far as he says...' suddenly, Purin leaned a bit closer to him. She brought her face closer to his. 'What is she doing?' Purin closed her eyes slowly, leaning still closer. In a matter of seconds, Tart could feel her breathing heavily on his face. There lips were inches, no more like centimeters apart. 'Holy chinida! This monkey is trying to kiss me! What should I do? I do like her, but just a little bit, you no, just friends. Should I go along with it? Or should I pull away? I kinda do want ot kiss her...no no no!' the more he thought, the faster Purins lips were closing in. He started to lean forward to when they heard a little cry. Both of them whipped there heads around at the same time. All 5 of Purins siblings were lined up, one on top of each other, at the door, all of them fighting to hold back laughter that instead came out as little squeaks and crys.

"Heicha! Chancha! Hanacha! Lucha! Honcha! How long have you been there?" Purin asked, more surprised than mad.

"Yeah, you little spying TWERPS!" yeah, I was mad. Her siblings bounced out of the room quickly, running down the hall yelling something how about Tart going to kill them.

"Tar-Tar, can Pudding show you something?"

"Um...sure, why not?"With that, Purin leaped up from her bed and ran over to her dresser. She pulled a little wooden box out from under a pile of ponytails. When she opened it, she paused, than put her small, pale, hand in and pulled out a golden chain. Purin ran to the bed.

"Close your eyes." she said with a little look on her face that did really make her look like a monkey.

"Fine." I said as I shut my eyes hurriedly, wondering what it was. He felt a cold chain around his neck and something dangling from his neck.

"Open!" Tart looked down and gasped. It was a little golden star locket.

"Wah...oh Purin..." was all he could say as he opened the locket. Inside there was a picture of Purin and her mother. On the other there was a picture of her father and her sister together. Her sister looked about 3 years old.

"One day will be the day that all of my dreams come true. Until then, keep it safe. I trust you. Before my Mama died, it was my birthday. She gave me it. 'Don't put it on till the day all of your dreams come true, than they will stay forever.' I never put it on yet. So if I give it to you, than I no it will be safe till that day."

"I can't take this! What if I lose it? Or scratch it? I mean, shouldn't you be the first 1 to were it? Wait one second...are you trying to give up something so you can be happy?"

"No Tar-Tar. You must have it. It's always funnier to share your things with friends. I would give it to Retusa (A/N: I didn't spell her name right did I?) But...um...well...they don't know about it."

I decided to be stupid. "What do you mean no one no's?"

"I haven't told them about my family yet! As far as they no, my father is hear right now and my mama is at work because it's my day off!"

"Well, they are your best friends, and what am I? Some one who is going to kill you in the end?"

"No, your not. Your Purin's friend. And when I'm here with you, I feel different. Like, you're the only one that matters right now. You're the only one who will listen, and understand." I couldn't stand it any more. 'Why do I love this monkey like girl who annoys me to death! I hat her! I hate everything about her! Why do I feel this feeling of love? That's weak! Only humans think that! I..I ...want her...no! No! Stop it!'

"I'm your enemy! Not your friend! I hate you! You need to hate me! So just STOP IT ALL READY!"

"Not true." Purin said softly. She took Tarts hand and pulled him off the bed. They were standing there, looking into each others eyes. Then it happened. Just lightly. It was his first. It was her first. But never the less they did it. And, to his surprise, he didn't try to push her away, he just let it come. She never new she would be doing it. Every thing was hazey. It seemed like they were the only ones in the world. The only people that mattered. Even if it was just a few seconds, it didn't feel that way. It was more like hours. There was a sudden flash of light. They thought it was just a head light from a car.

That night, he and she shared there first kiss.