Itwas always crowed in the evening. Teenagers on a date. Mothers buying clothes for their children. Little children buying ice cream. People trying to sell off their products. That was the mall for you!
"Can we get some ice cream?"
"Sure, Lucy. What flavors do want?"
"What flavors are there?"
Meanwhile, Yuka watched with a malicious grin, while Nana and Maya watched with concerned hearts.
"I do not like that look on her face!" Maya whispered to her counterpart.
"You can say that again!"
After a long time of window shopping, Lucy noticed a picture both. She eyed the machine with excited anticipation. Lucy dug into her purse and found her change money.
"Kouta, let's take a picture!"
Lucy grabbed Kouta's arm and pulled him towards the picture both. As Yuka watched, her eyes began to fill with tears. She had always wanted to take a romantic picture with Kouta. She always wanted to take a picture, hugging Kouta tightly, standing cheek to cheek with him, and smiling for pure joy. But, that dream was gone.
"Are all of my chances gone? Are they really, really gone?"
Angry tears streamed down her face.
"I hate you, Lucy! You took him away from me. I'll mess up your relationship with him so badly, you'll fell as badly as I do!"
Lucy marveled at the pictures of her and Kouta. A joyful smile appeared on her lips. All of the pictures were cute, but the one she loved the most was one of her and Kouta holding and side glancing each other.
"I like this one!" Lucy declared.
She pointed out her favorite picture to her boyfriend.
"I like it too."
They looked at their new, priceless treasures. As Kouta studied the pictures, Lucy turned her head and stared at him with loving eyes.
"Lucy?"
"Yes, Kouta?"
"Can we sit down? I need to ask you something…"
Nana and Maya look straight at each other.
"OOOOOOOOOO!"
Yuka also watched in the distance. Her eyes widened as Kouta took a small box out of his pocket. He kneeled on the ground, opened the box, and Lucy gasped. She looked into his eyes, surprised and confused. Kouta began to say something. As Maya, Nana, and Yuka leaned closer to hear what he was saying, Lucy's eyes filled with tears of joy. Without warning, she tackled him to the ground, laughing hysterically.
Nana looked over to Maya and said "I get to be the flower girl!"
Yuka was crushed. She left her hiding place and began to walk aimlessly around the mall.
Two hours later…
"I have to go to the ladies' room, Kouta."
"Take your time, Lucy."
The cherry haired woman kissed Kouta on the cheek and walked off.
Kouta looked around at all of the nearby stores and eyed a beautiful hat.
"Lucy would love that…"
Kouta walked into the store and purchased the hat. As he walked out, he nearly ran into Yuka.
"What are you doing here, Yuka?"
"I'm doing some shopping…" she lied. "What are you doing?"
"I'm waiting for Lucy to get out of the bathroom. But you will never guess the great news: Lucy and I are getting married!"
"Oh…yeah…right…"
"What's wrong, Yuka."
"It's nothing…but, Kouta?"
"Yeah?"
"Why do you love Lucy so much?"
A few moments passed before Kouta answered.
"When… when I was a child, she gave me some of the happiest moments of my life, along with the terrible ones. Even now, I'm drawn to her sadness, her loneliness, her kindness… She is my other half."
"Hmmmmmmm…"
"I better get back to where I was waiting for her," Kouta suddenly replied. "See you at home."
"Bye Kouta…"
As Kouta walked away, Yuka noticed something on the floor. She picked the item up, and it turned out to be Kouta's wallet. Yuka opened the wallet and saw something in it that upset her. She walked away with another evil grin on her face.
"Oh no, my wallet's gone!" Kouta cried in despair.
"May be you dropped it somewhere," Lucy implied.
"That would be awful! I left our pictures in their…"
"Let's split, up," Lucy suggested. "I'll go to the lost and found on the other side of the mall and you'll go to the second one, OK."
Thus the search began. As Lucy walked alone through the mall, something caught her eye. Yuka was walking outside the mall, with what appeared to be Kouta's wallet. Yuka seemed to be walking away from an incinerator. Because of curiosity, Lucy went outside of the mall to see what she was doing.
"No," Lucy thought to herself. "Yuka wouldn't do such a thing, even if she doesn't like me…"
Lucy was now at the incinerator. She grabbed the handle and opened the incinerator, only to see a shocking sight. On top of all of the burnable trash were all of the photos that she and Kouta had taken. A vein popped in Lucy's neck.
"May be if we're lucky, Lucy will take care of this herself," Nana whispered to Maya.