This is a Ranma-Akane sort of thing... so If you don't like them don't read any further. This turned out a little corny and I'm sorry. I hate that sort of thing... but I wanted this published anyway, so I dealt with it... you should do it too.

Oh... and I'm not a native English speaker... so please be kind. I'm trying my best here.

Oh and of course I don't own Ranma ½ . Really, why would you think I do?

THIS IS JUST A PROLOGUE...

From the Heart

Gone

Maybe someday you'll look at me

and find what I found in you.

It's just a fool's dream... I know.

But I can't help being a fool for you.

Never quite managed to say I love you

I regret that, I do...

Time slipped away from us

It left us cold without knowing what to do...

The next step became a doubt...

something that couldn't be truth

and I found myself longing to love

someone who wasn't you.

So I turned around and shut my feelings out...

Wore my mask and told truthful lies...

it was the only way I found to run.

When I decided this time around love just wouldn't do.

So I left you... and with that I left myself too.

And now I'm here, standing alone.

thinking on the possibility of a dream that didn't come true

saying goodbye just as every night...

oh... it hurts so much to say goodbye to you.

And I can't stop dreaming that

Maybe someday you'll look at me

and find what I found in you.

It's just a fool's dream... I know.

But I can't help being a fool for you.

She was gone...

Well not really gone... she was standing in front of him, actually. So near that he could hear her breathing.

"So what do you think?"

Akane asked him.

"Do you mean it?"

Was the only thing Ranma could say.

She looked at him, and was silent for a moment. Ranma waited for her answer... hoping.

"Of course I am"

Well... that was enough to break any hope he had left. His expression turned serious, he wouldn't let her know how bad he was hurting.

"We'll tell them tomorrow, they have to call off the wedding"

She studied his expression and reached to the conclusion that for once, she had done the right thing. It didn't matter if it hurt her... she wanted him to be happy, and his freedom made him happy... or as happy as he could be with all the craziness in his life.

"All right"

"Pops and I will leave as soon as we can, don't worry about it"

With that she felt her heart shrinking. She didn't wanted him to leave... not now... not ever. She knew that after breaking the engagement he will have to leave and marry one of his pretty fiancées, but that would be someday... not now. Now she wanted him near.

"You know... you don't have to leave. I'm sure my dad wouldn't mind you staying. We're all friends right? We're friends Ranma"

"Yeah..."

Ranma said, not really looking at her.

"Well..." There was nothing left to say... she realized. "Goodnight"

And then she left.

Ranma saw her slowly walking away... leaving him alone in the roof. The place he knew it was meant just for the two of them, and no one else.

She was gone...

The thought hit him like a ton of bricks.

This time she was really gone... And no one has taken her away. Not a prince, nor an enemy, nor death... she was gone... she had left him.

She wouldn't be a part of his life anymore, she didn't want to. Why did he think she would want to marry him anyway?

God, she was gone.

And it hurt too much.

Night you're a dreamer

Always chasing for the sun

Night I can't be like you

If love wants to...

I'll just let it go.

Pretty short huh???

Please read the first chapter!! It's better than this... um sorry about the poems if you didn't like them. I just couldn't help myself.