AMBER & EMERALD
Author's Note:
Yosha! Burning! Welcome back to Amber & Emerald! Forgive me, my dear readers, but I just read the Prince of Tennis and quickly I found myself being addicted to it! (I mean, Ryoma-kun is so cool!)
I'm kind of having a writer block here (curses the Prince of Tennis fanfics). I just read around 42 Prince of Tennis fanfics and all the ideas, which popped into my mind, contained it! Yet, I didn't know why, I felt such a great need to continue this story. So here it is…
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Esca. If you know about Prince of Tennis and Escaflowne, could you tell me who is cooler: Van or Ryoma?
CHAPTER 12: TRUST
Hitomi found herself lying on a luxurious king-sized bed in a room she did not recognize. Shelves of books lined the walls of the room, and an antique-looking desk stood in a corner. There were four doors in that room. One, she assumed, led t outside. The second perhaps led to the private bathroom. The third was a little different, and she guessed that it had to be a walking closet. The fourth door was a glass door, which led to the balcony.
Hitomi got up, only to find that her wounds had been cleaned and bandaged. 'Did Van do this?' she thought, slightly surprised. 'If he did, where s he?'
She found her boots sitting next to the bed, side by side with a pair of bedroom slippers. She put on the slippers, walked towards a door, and tried to open it. It was locked. She tried another door. 'Only bathroom,' she thought, a little disappointed. She was locked inside the room. How great was it?
She sighed heavily. 'He doesn't trust me,' she thought grimly. 'And he asked me to trust him!'
She walked towards the balcony and found that she was in the second floor (Just to remind you, I use the grand floor here). 'I must be in the Fanel Mansion,' she thought. The balcony gave her the scene of the back garden. It was huge, with several greenhouses and many tall trees. There was a small path that led to a cluster of trees that resembled like a small wood and a small lake with swans paddling in it.
'How beautiful,' she thought, amused. She leaned over the railing and started to sing.
We began everything without anything extraordinary
We met, talked, and soon we became friends
Although we keep insulting each other, even until now
I know, deep inside my heart, that you don't mean it all
And I know that I don't either
There are some moments when we laughed together
Yet also, there are some when we could not even look at each other
There are moments when we felt as if we had been total strangers
Moments when suddenly secrets seemed too hard to keep
Sometimes I feel as if I don't know you at all
I don't know you, you don't know me
Why? Aren't we friends? How could it be?
I want to trust you, to believe in you, yet I can't
Where is my strength when I need it? Where has it gone?
I don't trust you, you don't trust me
It hurts me so much, facing the reality like that
But there is nothing I can do, isn't it?
I never knew that trusting someone…
Could be this hard
It feels as if I'm wearing a mask in front of you
'Cause I don't want you to know how vulnerable I am
I don't have the courage to reveal my true self beneath my mask
'Cause although I look strong, actually I'm weak
Are you feeling the same way?
Actually, what's the point of us, hiding like this?
I am hiding my weak self. But why? What am I afraid of?
Then again, how about you?
What are you hiding beneath your mask?
What are we afraid of?
I don't know you, you don't know me
Why? Aren't we friends? How could it be?
I want to trust you, to believe in you, yet I can't
Where is my strength when I need it? Where has it gone?
I don't trust you, you don't trust me
It hurts me so much, facing the reality like that
But there is nothing I can do, isn't it?
I never knew that trusting someone…
Could be this hard
I never knew that trusting someone…
Could be this hard
Actually, what are we afraid of?
As the song ended, Hitomi let out a deep sigh. 'What are we fearing of?'
Unknown to Hitomi, Van was just going to open the door of the walking closet when he heard her singing. He was in his headquarter and had decided to go into the room though the trap door instead of the normal door. To be honest, his main reason was that he had locked the normal door and accidentally had forgotten where he had put it. He did not truly mind. He rarely used it anyway. He had trusted the spare key to the servant who cleaned his room everyday, and the servant proved not to be disappointing. Therefore, he had nothing to panic at all.
His hand was ready to push the door of the closet open when Hitomi's soft singing voice reached his ears. He stood frozen on his spot in the darkness of the closet. For the very first time in his life, he questioned himself, "How hard is it to trust a girl like Hitomi? Or anybody?" He felt a wave of unfamiliar pain creeping into his heart. 'Hitomi…'
TO BE CONTINUED TO CHAPTER 13
This chapter nearly has no plot. I want to make the emotions of the two characters clear, that's all. The song that Hitomi sings is called 'Trust', and it is mine ;; Is it good? I can't make the tune, however. R&R!
