Path of Tears part 4

I would, again like to thank my reviewers. I had so many more! Thanks so much you guys! I no in the last chapter Purin wouldn't be that hastey, but I was in a road block so I just put it in there. I think it gives it a romantic touch. Now on with the story!

"Lets go Tar-Tar! We are going to be late!"

"Coming Purin!" Tart yelled with a smile on his face as they played and tumbled through the flower field.

"Hahaha! True happiness can't be found!" shouted Kish from across the way. Pie suddenly blocked the sun with some black smoke thing. Purin knelt down on the ground and started to cough. She felt the ground under her give way. She was falling, fighting to stay awake.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Purin woke with a start. 'Why am I on the floor? Why is Tar-Tar on my bed? And how did I get here? Wasn't I just ...with Tar-Tar...' suddenly her whole mind filled up of what had happened after the kiss. Her sib's started complaining down stairs about being hungry. Purin ran downstairs to help make lunch. Tart just stood there, with a stupid look on his face, not moving. 'But didn't he kiss me back to?'a little later, her sib's were restless so she took them all to the park, with Tart hovering at a distance. When her and her sib's were playing on some flowers, Tart had yelled "hey, look over here Monkey Girl!" just as Purin turned around, Tart dropped a huge pile of leafs on her head and they, all of Purins new family (including 'Tar-Tar' ;- ) played together, and not once did Tart complain or say he hated her. After a memory recall, Purin tried to go back to sleep. Not happening. She was so scared. Every time she closed her eyes she saw herself, being dragged into that black hole by something. 'I really don't want to be on the floor. The dark under my bed looks more dark than usual. I wonder if Tar-Tar would mind...' Purin slowly and quietly tip toed over to Tarts sleeping body and nudged him over. The little Banana Girl wiggled her self under the covers and fell into a deep sleep, this time filled with thoughts of her dad, mama, and of course Tart all in the park together an laughing.

"Tar-Tar? Tary wake up! Your gonna make Purin late!" Tart woke up with a start. Purin was looking at him, her nose so close to his forehead he could have counted how many freckles she had if she had any. Purin shoved a tray on Tarts lap. There it was again, those menacing chop sticks. Other than that there was some rice and this yellow and white thing, that for the life of him, could not identify.

"Late for what?"

"I still work at the Café, silly! Now hurry up and eat, then put your dishes in the sink. Purin has to go walk her brothers to school and her sister to day care, so give me 15 minutes." and with that she marched out the door, grabbing her jacket out of the closet. "Oh wait! I all most for got!" the blonde haired girl quickly turned around and headed for the bed.

"What is it? What did you forget?" asked Tart.

"This, Tar-Tar." Purin gave him a quick kiss on the nose, making Tart blush redder then a rose.

"B-b-bye Purin"

"Cya, Tary" Purin said as she skipped out of he room. 'Oh great. Looks like I have a new nickname...Tary...' Tart thought as he stuffed the rice in his mouth, using his hands because he still has a grudge against the chop sticks. After he ate, he went down stairs to put the tray in the kitchen.

"It has only been 2 minutes? Man, I'm going to be really board at this rate." Tart exclaimed to no one in particular. 'I think I will rooming with Purin for a bit so...why not go explore!' Tart looked around 'but pretty much I no this place by heart. Purin only gave me 10 tours. Lets peek up stairs a bit.'

Tart, feeling very lazy, transported himself in front of Purins room. 'Saw it, don't really want to go to her sib's room, I think that's a closet' Tart thought, checking off the doors in his mind one by one. Suddenly, in front of him he say a door he never saw before. There was a little piece of paper taped to the door. Tart ripped it off and read it out loud.

"I saw your last breath,

I saw your last blink,

I saw it in your eyes,

Starring into mine.

I saw your pain,

I saw your hope,

I saw it shining bright,

Telling me to not give up.

Now that your not here,

Now that you can't protect us,

I trying to finish what you started,

loving and forgiving.

Fon family 8/6/99"

"Hey! That's the day before her Birthday!"

flash back

"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."

end flash back

"She died right after Purin's birthday..." his hand touch the golden star around his neck. Now, dying of curiosity, he looked up at the door 'why was this thing taped to it? What's in there anyway?'

Tart opened the door a crack and peeked in. It was just a normal room! 'Ah, man! I thought it was some big secret or something!' he shoved the door open all the way until it made a little "clunk" against the wall.

The room had a large bed in the middle of the floor. It looked like it was from China, with it's dark red silk sheets. It had a desk and a closet. Some adult sized clothes were laid out on a chair. 'This is just a normal room! Darn it...wait one moment! I thought that no grown-up lived here! Could this have been her...mothers room?' he walked slowly over to the desk and saw a picture album. On the cover was a photo, it was of Purin and some purple haired lady laughing, playing some clap game. The words above the picture read "Purin and Mama's album!" 'Oh my god! I was right!' as Tart flipped through the book, he saw that purple haired lady, Purin, and sometimes her father or sib's. 'ok...I will make a safe guess and say the woman with the plum like hair was her mama." her and her mom were clearly very close. He put the book down and looked threw the draws around the desk. There was a few hair clips, books, boring stuff like that. Than there was something that he saw out of the corner of his eye. It was a folded piece of paper, that said is REALLY little kidish hand writing "to mama 3 luv luv luv, purin (a/n: that's how I spelled "love" when I was little...)." Tart slowly unfolded it. I side there was a picture of Purin and her mama. It was drawn by her, clearly, and it said under neither it, "Hope, Mama, you give me hope!" it slipped through his fingers, on to the floor.

flash back to the last thing Tarts mom said to him before leaving

"Be good, my little angel, and bring hope to are people."

end flash back

As a tear slid down his face, he felt a growing urge to be next to her...

"No! No! Why do I like this puny little human! She is my enemy! I will have to kill her soon!" he yelled, shaking his head back and forth. As doing so, visions of his mother can into his head.

the last flash back, promise

"Be strong, my little Tart, and remember, we all are count the moments until you come back. I love you Tart, don't you ever forget that. And don't be afraid of anything. I know you can do it."

"Don't be silly mom! I'm never afraid of any thing!"

"It's not anything I'm worried about. It's anyone."

end flash back

now he knew what his mother meant by that. He was afraid of Purin's... hyperness? Friendliness? Love? 'To many things are going on! I can't... I can't...control it. Any of it. That... bothers me. I want to be strong. Every one back home is counting on. What about Kerein?' Kerein was his friend since his childhood. He thought he had a crush on her. Until now that is. Tears started to well up in his eyes. 'I thought I had such a bad life! Back home, every thing was so bad. But now, on this beautiful planet, there still can be such sorrow...Purin has had a harder life than me, but yet she still doesn't complain. She holds strong her family, her friends, her self. Friends...I had some at one time...I still do...I have Purin.' by now, tears were coming down in buckets. 'Purin mother was right, you have to leave your tears behind you. But like Purin said, it's really hard. Even she cries every once in a while, too.'

"Tar-Tar? Tary? Tart? Were are you?" Purin was back. Chances are he isn't suppose to be in here. 'How can she sound so happy? Her father is gone, her mom dead, and still so hyper? She like an...angel' when he thought that word, angel, it was like his heart stopped. 'Her mom is an angel. Purin is like an angel on earth.' he opened the window. He didn't no why, but this sadness, in his life, in this house, was to much.

"TART?"

Purin ran up the stairs. 'Were could he be? I need to tell him some thing be for I leave to the café!' she rushed down the hall way. Soon she came to a door. A door that was closed. A door that had a poem on it. A door that should have been closed. A door that should have a poem on it. 'Oh, please, please no.' now, it was Purins turn to cry. Her perky hyperness was swept out of her body. She didn't no if she could go in there. 'I haven't been in there since it happened' she stood out side the door, frozen. It felt like hours, but only it was moments, before she had enough strength to open the door.

"Tart?" Purin whispered, hoping with all of her might that he wasn't int here, that it was just the wind that blew it open. "Oh no!" She slowly walked up to the desk. She bent down and picked up a piece of paper that was on the floor. "To mama 3 luv luv luv Purin" she said out loud. Teats started to roll down her face, when she caught herself. 'I can't let mama down, must not cry!' she looked up and lightly re-folded the card and put it back into the open desk. Suddenly, there was a blast of wind. Than she noticed the window a little to the side of the desk. It was open, with the yellow curtains with little orange monkeys on it, was blowing in the wind. 'How opened the-' she stopped short when she went over to close it. She saw a little alien flying away from the house at top speed.

"TART! TART!" she yelled. 'No, please no! I thought I had a friend, I needed some one how know's about every thing around me. I need him!'

As Tart flew away, he heard a little, faint, some one scream his name over and over again. 'I must be causing her even more pain. But I can't turn back. I just can't.'

As he thought this, his tears were left on the path behind him as he flew away from was his one true friend, out of fear or what was going to come next. He didn't want to hurt her. Pie and Kish were going to find out were he was. He new it.