3. Sleeping deeply in the moonlight

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"No one really understood how it had moved on so quickly. You… have a HIV infection", the doctor's words pierced Eric's and Hay Lin's hearts just like a spear. There was a harrowing silence. Hay Lin couldn't say anything. But she was so frightened that she nearly forgot how to breathe.

"No. No! That's not true! It's impossible!" Eric raised his voice. It vibrated. Just like the words would have gotten stuck in his throat. What could he say? The doctor looked at them really sadly.

"I'm really sorry but we're sure you were infected by the blood transfusion. And why can't you kiss… it's just because there is a wound on your lips after your falling into the table. HIV can be passed through the wound. That's why you can't kiss. I'm really sorry", she said with sad eyes. "But there's still the worst thing. HIV has never moved on so quickly and it's becoming aids."

"What! But… that's impossible! Because…", Eric started but the doctor went on.

"Yes, it normally takes few years but we really don't know why it was moving so quickly. I'm sorry to say that but… she won't live more than few weeks", the doctor was moving towards the door. Eric knew she wanted to let him and Hay Lin alone. Eric just stared at the doctor and couldn't say anything with normal voice. He took a glance at Hay Lin and saw the fear and sorrow in her eyes. He embraced her softly and after that he looked at the doctor.

"No. Are you really sure it's HIV?" Eric knew the doctor couldn't lie but he just didn't want to believe it was true.

"You know, I'm not lying things like that. I'll leave you alone now and contact your parents and friends", she said and left closing the door behind her.

Silence. The harrowing silence. Hay Lin was about to cry. But she had cried to much. She couldn't cry anymore. Eric looked at her like expecting words.

"I… I don't know what I should say. Why? Why this all happens? Why!" she cried with her hands on her face. Eric embraced her and tried to comfort her knowing it was impossible. She just wanted to cry and try not to think about the end that was coming towards her faster and faster. "How can I tell girls about this? Much less… Mum and Dad!" Hay Lin cried and couldn't stop it. She couldn't understand how she had been able to have an infection. Yan Lin, her grandmother had given the blood so how was it possible to have any disease? Besides, she was part of Kandrakar's members. And the Oracle. Did he know about this? Were these things a part of the agreement? Hay Lin had never wanted so hard to Kandrakar but she couldn't leave in front of Eric. Or what if she told everything about her magical powers? About Kandrakar and the tasks that were given to girls? No, she couldn't. Because she was so tired and afraid that Eric would leave her. Of course she trusted him but after the dream she had seen, she couldn't tell anything. And she loved him. More than anyone else! She promised herself to die loving only one so deeply, and that was Eric.

"Shhh… there's no cause for alarm", he wanted to say that "everything will be alright" but he couldn't and Hay Lin couldn't. Nothing would change better anymore. And when Hay Lin was dying, Eric was dying with her.

"Maybe there is… a way to become happy… again", she said and cried more quietly. But she didn't let go off him. She tried to kill the pain and tried to stop crying but she couldn't help them. She tried to heal the wound in her heart but her heart's wound couldn't be healed. It was very painful. So terribly painful! Why didn't the tears end? Why was there always coming more and more whatever she tried to stop them or not? It felt like she couldn't smile ever again. Smile. The thing that was her life and soul.

Later on the girls and Hay Lin's parents came to the hospital. Everybody were shocked at the news. Hay Lin's Mum nearly fainted but luckily Irma had got a chair under her.

"No… not my daughter! How is it possible?" Mum and Dad were shocking. Mum just cried and held her daughter's hands.

"I… don't know. And the doctors don't know, too. I mean how it moved on so quickly", Hay Lin's voice shook and she didn't know what to say to them.

"Is there any way to save you?" Dad finally opened his mouth. No one answered because the doctors had already answered to him. Just Hay Lin's tearing eyes told enough. "What about the Christmas?" Silence. No one said a word because didn't know. Hay Lin's heart was crying. The Christmas. The best celebration of the year was coming in two weeks and Hay Lin didn't know could she live until the Christmas. But she wouldn't give up! She would do her everything to live until the Christmas! She was sure she could fight until that day. She tried to smile but it wasn't easy.

"I promise to live until the Christmas. At least", Hay Lin swore and believedd her words. But they all looked at her very sadly. Just like they wouldn't have believed her at all. Hay Lin understood they were worried but she didn't want to say any word about she was dying.

"Hay Lin. Have you talked with Oracle yet?" it was Will who was talking to her on a telepathic way.

"Yes, but not about this", Hay Lin answered.

"What about then? We should talk to him! Maybe he knows what to do", Will and the other girls didn't know what really happened last night.

"I'm sure he doesn't. I have something to tell you, girls. But it's easier to talk on a right way", Hay Lin said and she went on talking to her parents:

"How is the clock?"

"Half four",

"Don't you have any work?"

"Oh, Dear! You are more important than any work",

"Okay. But I'd like to ask if we could have a talk alone with girls", Hay Lin said and pointed Eric, too.

"Of course we'll let you be alone for a moment. We go have a cup of tea", Dad said and went off the room with his wife and Eric with them. When they left and the door was closed, Hay Lin told the whole story from the beginning to the end.

"What! You mean you chose the normal life instead of you had got into Kandrakar! But how you could have HIV and so quickly! It can't be included to the agreement!" Irma yelled but Taranee was hushing her up.

"SHH! No one may hear us", Taranee hushed.

"I don't know what really happened. Besides the blood should be grandmother's. I mean, Oracle said she was giving her blood because our blood type is the same", Hay Lin went on.

"Maybe your grandmother had HIV", Irma said. Cornelia poked her and looked at her angrily.

"Of course she hadn't. But she's a ghost in a sense…", Hay Lin thought and she realized something.

"So if she is a ghost, she couldn't even have given blood to you", Cornelia said. Hay Lin nodded.

"No, she's not a ghost. She died in Heatherfield but she got her body back in Kandrakar", Will said and everyone looked at her. She was right but did Yan Lin really gave her blood to Hay Lin? Could Oracle lie?

"Maybe it is included to the agreement. There's no way to save me. The agreement is the agreement", that comment didn't make anyone feel better.

"STOP IT! You're saying it like you really want to die!" Irma yelled but it broke Hay Lin immediately. She embraced herself and cried. The pain in her hand had ended off.

"Congratulations! Do you think she feels fine right now?" Cornelia said angrily to Irma. Irma knew what she yelled but it didn't help anyone.

"Do you know what it feels like to survive from the accident that killed many others? First it felt great! But then I felt so sad about I was nearly the only one who survived. And then I was told I could see you all again and live like the others? Wonderful! Because I returned to be with my family, boyfriend and friends. And it's called love! What about then when I and Eric were told about my HIV- infection? What about then when I was told I'm not able to kiss Eric ever! I wanted to die already then but there were too many reasons to live these few weeks. I still wanted to fight! I thought that believe, hope and love will keep me alive but now I understand that the fate must take as such as it comes! I don't want to die but it's the made agreement that is irrevocable! The fate must not be changed. It only must be allowed!" Hay Lin's lips shook and her dark eyes were wet by the tears. The girls were silence and couldn't say anything. Hay Lin had experienced something horrible and wonderful at the same time and now her life was going towards the end that's day was unknown. In the end, everyone cried.

"Oh, Hay Lin!" the girls cried and hugged her together. They hugged long and tightly. Hay Lin loved her friends and she knew she was never going to say goodbye to them. She would move away, but she would never forget. But will be there W.I.T.C.H. anymore if Hay Lin passed away?

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Hay Lin got home after the week. The Christmas was coming and before the Eve girls were having fun at Orube's house. They watched TV, listened to music and told their stories from their years together. And there was always someone who didn't remember what happened then and then.

They looked back on the past; their fights between the other worlds, boys and some happy memories and every memory made everyone happy and no one thought anything about the sorrow.

"Hihi! I will never forget when we were on a picnic with boys. But I don't want to see Martin splashing the water again or he will become a frog", Irma said and everybody laughed. Though there really was nothing so funny. Only Hay Lin started to think sad things. "Next summer with same together!"

"At the same place! At the same time! W.I.T.C.H. is the best on summer!" girls, except Hay Lin, shouted and had so fan together. They didn't even notice how Hay Lin moved on to the window. She looked how it was snowing so quietly and peacefully. She loved winter and she was sure that this was her last one.

"I just think when the white snow will change to water again? When it will melt away, flowers will be out, birds will sing and They will be running along the beach? But I… shall I never be able to see how the spring and summer warms after the cold winter? Shall I never feel the cool wind blowing over me? Shall I never be able to walk along the coastline and admire the sunset?" Hay Lin look back on the past. "The last summer… was the best summer I never had!"

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On that last summer, Hay Lin had been spending her best time with her friends. They had been on the beach and they all had so funny and wonderful moments together. They had played volleyball, sunbathed, eaten, swum and done everything cool! Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin had even taken a part on the beauty contest.

"Wohooo! We won!" girls shouted gladly after the volleyball- game. Only Irma was thinking something and then she said:

"Nothing new. Of course we won", they all laughed quietly. After the volleyball they went swimming. And they still tossed the ball. Only Cornelia was afraid of water but with Peter she even loved to go swimming in the sea. They started tossing the ball. Hay Lin threw the ball to Joel that he could throw it to Irma and into Irma's face. The plan succeeded! Irma was standing when the ball hit her face and she fell into the sea.

"Can't you threw any better!" Irma asked after standing up and throw the ball back to Joel. And Joel throw back to her and this time it hit middle of her face. Well, after that Irma attacked Joel and they were "fighting". Everybody laughed and the game continued.

There was a beauty contest in the afternoon. W.I.T.C.H.- girls took a part in the contest and with a little magic they became so beautiful that judges nearly fainted when they saw girls. Cornelia and Hay Lin shared the first place and Will was second and Irma and Taranee shared the third place. Judges had had some problems when deciding the winners.

"Of course the judges nearly fainted when they saw you and your friends", Eric stated to Hay Lin when Hay Lin had returned to him and they had been laying next to each others.

"Help, I'm going to look like a red alien if you go on calling me beautiful", Hay Lin said and her cheeks were red. Eric looked at her smiling. Hay Lin was blushing more and more when she went on looking Eric's tender brown eyes. "Stop!"

"Eh… what? You don't look like an alien, and much less red. I think you're just like the one red rose middle of the flower field. And that rose is the most beautiful of all flowers", he smiled and Hay Lin got more nervous.

"Stop!" she laughed and turned her head somewhere else. "He's talking me just like he would be my boyfriend."

"Hay Lin, may I ask you something? And will you receive it with everything it includes?" Eric asked a strange question and Hay Lin turned her face to him. There was a shell in his hands. Hay Lin took it and looked at it just like waiting something.

"Open it", Eric said. And she opened the shell. There was a some kind of card in the shell. She looked at the photo on the card and she knew that place. Long and beautiful beach in the sunset and some stars were in the sky. Port Nelson. Hay Lin turned the card and read:

"Welcome to the Port Nelson! To the city of summer and stars. This is a place where you are able to share happy moments with your friends and family or maybe with your love. The trip will be made from 5th June to 21st June by the name Lyndon. This an invitation to lovely Hay Lin. Welcome to Port Nelson in next summer!" Hay Lin nearly forgot how to speak.

"W-what? You can't be serious!" she couldn't realize what was said in the card.

"Mum and Dad have been in the Port Nelson and they'd like to go there again. I asked if you could come with us and they were agreed. So, if you really want to leave, welcome. You know that place, don't you? And you're birthday will be a day before leaving so this is a one birthday present from me", Eric told happily and was waiting Hay Lin's reaction to his words. She was looking at the card and then Eric. She was so happy that she could even cry for it!

"Oh, Eric. You're lovely!" she yelled and jump to embrace Eric.

"Hello, doves!" Peter yelled. Hay Lin turned around and looked at Peter at the same time as he took a picture. Hay Lin had been so happy about the Eric's present that she couldn't stop smiling for many hours or many days. But still… in that day they were still friends.

Hay Lin and Eric would never forget that moment. Now she was holding this photo in her hands, in her room. Her lips shook again and she looked at the beautiful and big shell that was laying on the windowsill. But the content was more beautiful and bigger. Hay Lin took the shell in her hands and didn't open it immediately. She was prepared for crying. And by shaking hands she opened the shell and took the card in her hands. It was read beautiful text on the reverse side. The text that told too much. Too much about the things that had happened. The things that could had been happened but never happened. Things that Hay Lin had waited for so long. But believe, hope and love won't be able to save you always.

And before anyone said anything, Hay Lin started to cry and let the sad and horrible truth blow through her as the cold wind. And just like a wind she should carry on till the end.

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Hay Lin had been afraid she would have been killed in that night, already but she wasn't. It was a Christmas Eve morning and she went to eat breakfast with her parents. The atmosphere was much different than before. No one said anything.

"Thank you about the porridge, Mum. It was gorgeous!" Hay Lin said and smiled. Mum smiled but her eyes were sad. "Mum and Dad… may I go out with Eric in the evening?" Hay Lin asked when she was done. First her parents were against her going because this was their last Christmas together. But soon they realized how much they really loved each other and so they let her go.

"Okay, if you promise to be here until six. Are you going to your friends, too?" Mum asked. Hay Lin nodded and was really thankful.

"Yes! Thank you!" Hay Lin said and was so happy that she could see the girls and Eric today. And then after six she left to Orube's house.

"Take care, Dear! Have a great fun!" Mum shouted after her just like Hay Lin would have been still a little girl but who wouldn't be worried about her daughter who had a HIV- infection.

At Orube's house girls were having fun all the time. They baked some gingerbread, laughed at their jokes and did everything what just was fun until Hay Lin remembered she should meet Eric very soon at the Observatory.

"Well, what are you going to do?" Will asked her before her leaving.

"I don't know. Eric said he has some plans. Just walking around the city and so on. I promise to tell everything tomorrow", Hay Lin said and winked when she opened the door. She smiled and didn't even remember she was dying. She just wanted to enjoy every moment she had left.

"You had better tell! See you then. Remember us! Always remember W.I.T.C.H.!" Irma reminded winking and then hugged her. The other girls hugged her, too, and during the embrace Hay Lin felt so strange. Her heart was hurt and it was really painful to walk away from Orube's house. She turned around by the port. The house was so beautiful with the Christmas lights and snow. In the end, she turned around smiling and went on her journey to Eric.

And so they met at the Observatory. They smiled, Eric took her hand and they went for a walk on a snowy street. The Christmas songs were playing, people were going shopping and there were many Christmas decorations by the windows. They brought warm and light to the coldness and darkness of the winter.

"Let's go to that Chinese restaurant, okay?" Eric said and so they did. At the restaurant, they were sharing some happy memories and photos they had. From that day on the beach. So much happy memories about running along the coastline, playing volleyball and swimming in the sea. And the last days since they declared to each other. Their first kiss. Hay Lin wanted so much to see spring's flowers and hear singing birds and the roar of the sea again. And Hay Lin was still waiting them all.

Hay Lin took the shell that had been given by Eric and the photo inside of it. Eric stopped smiling.

"I will cancel that trip if you really… you know…", he didn't want to say about death. Not now. He didn't want to admit that terrible thing. Hay Lin shook her head but not for that she was dying.

"No, Eric. Don't cancel the one expensive trip because of me. It's not a reason for being unable to leave", Hay Lin said just like her dead wouldn't make any difference.

"Yes, it is the best reason for being unable to leave", Eric said and Hay Lin wasn't agree.

"No, it's not. You can't stay away from Port Nelson only because of me. Please, Eric, go there and have fun as far as I'm concerned", Hay Lin asked and looked at Eric who was thinking about answer. He was really sad but after the moment he nodded. "Thank you!" Hay Lin smiled.

After they had done, they went for a walk. They walked by the wedding- shop. Hay Lin stopped and looked at the white and beautiful wedding- dress. She felt some tear drops in her eyes. She could never wear that dress and step to the altar with a loyal husband next to her.

"I really would like to see you wearing that wedding- dress", Eric said and embraced her. Hay Lin could only nod. And so they went on. Why? Why everything was forbidden from her?

They didn't know where to go but they wanted to go inside. It was really cold and dark.

"Eh… do you have any plan?" Hay Lin asked him. They arrived to some kind of bar. Hay Lin looked at Eric just like he would have become mad. "Eh… Eric? That is a --",

"It's a karaoke- bar if you noticed", Eric pointed. Hay Lin said "oh"- voice and realized what he was meaning.

"Karaoke-bar? Do you mean that we will sing… or…?"

"Yep! Let's test our singing skills", Eric said and took tightly Hay Lin's hand.

"No, Eric. I can't sing and I can't appear---", but Eric stopped Hay Lin by laughing.

"Haha! There will be only me and you, silly. This is not a show", he said.

"What!" Hay Lin didn't understand what her boyfriend was meaning. They entered and went to the ticket office.

"One karaoke room for two, please", Eric asked and Hay Lin looked at him strangely. What was he doing? Just a moment she was still thinking what a hell was going on but then she got it. They entered to the small room where were two chairs, one table and the platform with a little television and four speakers.

"Do you really think we are going to sing?" she knew her question was stupid but she just wanted to ask something.

"No, we are going to make a little movie about the red alien", Eric answered and Hay Lin giggled a little. Then she walked to the platform to look song choices. There were too many. She laughed at some of them. She found some funny and sad songs.

"This will be very fun!" she thought when they started singing. First they sang some funny songs and love songs. Then they even tried to sing hard- rock but it didn't succeeded. Anyway they had really fun. And in the end Hay Lin loved singing. She noticed some new skills in herself. She was searching a new song and she found a sad and beautiful song that was Moonlight Lover by Coco Lee. It was a Chinese version and Eric let her sing alone and he sat on the chair listening her singing. The song began with a beautiful melody and when Hay Lin started singing, her voice was so different. More beautiful than ever.

"I'm waking up from sleeping in the moonlight, the waning crescent made me think of you. Don't want to wake up, who understands? Afraid that when my eyes open, you won't be here", Hay Lin stopped for a while during the intermezzo. During that she and Eric were looking each others. Eric even understood some of those Chinese words. And when he looked into Hay Lin's eyes, he saw how her eyes where bright but black like an ice. Then she went on. "My lover's heart has sunk into the sea, take me there to search it out. Please love me for 10,000 years, using your heart. Love is moonlight's present. I'll await an Angel's love letter. Saying you love me", she stopped during the intermezzo and then she went on: "For love, I'm willing to sleep deeply without waking. Is eternity here or not? Blame my heart for being unable to let go. North Star, take me away! Don't conceal yourself-- seek out that love… I love you, every night. I'm waiting", she stopped again. And now the tears came out. She couldn't help them at all but she was still going on. "For love, my heart is sleeping in the moon's ocean .This lonely me is missing whom? Who understands? I'm crying tears beneath this moon. (I'm also sleeping deeply in the moonlight). (Without regrets. Waiting for a true-hearted person to kiss me awake", now she started to shake. She felt weak and Eric noticed that. He was going to take her away but Hay Lin didn't let him do that. She really wanted to sing that song, whatever he wanted or not! "I'm in a sleeping… dream for a day… Also in recollection for a year…. Say you love me. For love… I'm willing to sleep deeply… until forever", when she was getting more silent she started to cry. She let the microphone to fall from her hands. Eric came to her and let her fall into his embrace. The silence. Only the ending vocals were playing on the background during their embrace.

"Hay Lin. I've never heard anyone singing any better than you."

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The evening was getting darker and darker. Though it was so dark and late, they was still walking from the place to the next one. They walked over the school that looked so empty and dead without its pupils and teachers. They went to the park. It was so beautiful and… sorrowful view. It was so cold.

They went to the cliffs. There where they declared weeks ago and now it was covered by the snow. And holding their hands they went to lay in the snow. Hay Lin made some snow angels and smiled. Eric looked at her smiling. She really still had reasons to live. "It's just… so wonderful! I will never want to leave away!" she had forgotten the reason to die. Why she really was dying? Just because of that stupid accident? But she left to see Eric. Scaring that she will never see him again. And somehow… now dead was pretending them to be together. Never. Was that really a reason for that? That she was dying instead of Eric would had been left away and just for a while. She was dying because of stupid sacrifice and love. Was she really that silly?

Her smile froze. An odd feeling blew through her body. It was cold and freezing but still she felt like her skin would have been burnt. She was in pain and tried not to think about it. But Eric already noticed that something was wrong with her.

"Are you alright?" he asked little worried. Hay Lin sighed and smiled just like everything would have been alright.

"I'm alright. I just to want be near of you", she said and went to Eric's embrace. It was calm and warm. Finally the pain went off and it was more peaceful to lay on there. She felt so fine. She just looked at the beautiful sky with its stars and moon. She wanted to sing so hard. That song she sang at the karaoke- bar. She started quietly and Eric nearly fell in sleep. Hay Lin stopped and turned to look at him.

"Sing", he smiled. Hay Lin was about to cry again.

"I just would like to kiss you but… why is it so rude? I can't do anything but be here and sing", she said sadly. Eric's eyes were just like frozen and Hay Lin didn't know what he was thinking. He smiled.

"Do you want to know a one thing? There's no wound anymore", he said smiling and Hay Lin could say only:

"What?"

"It's healed up", and then he kissed her tenderly. For a moment she kept her eyes opened. She had waited this for so long and now it happened. She wept and closed her eyes. And she felt so weak but she didn't care of it. She wanted to live here and right now. And after the kiss they embraced tenderly and never wanting to let go.

The silence. Not harrowing but still Hay Lin wasn't feeling well now. It was hard even to move her hand. And when she tried to open her mouth to sing it felt like the mouth was pushed by the heavy rock. But soon the bad feeling went off and she could sang.

"I'm waking up from the sleeping in the moonlight…the waning crescent made me think of you… Don't want to wake up, who understands? Afraid that when my eyes open, you won't be here", she sang after half an hour. It was still cold but Hay Lin didn't want to leave. Eric was holding and listening her. Her song was really beautiful and sad. Just never wanted to stop singing it even if she felt so weak and cold. But the song made her feel all better. But too… all sadder. Everything happened too fast. She wanted to be there forever but she couldn't because of the coldness and her disease. "My lover's heart has sunk into the sea, take me there to search it out. Please love me for 10,000 years, using your heart. Love is moonlight's present… I'll await an Angel's love letter…", she turned to Eric. As well as she could. "Eric?" He looked at her and saw the weakness on her face.

"Hay Lin? Are you okay? You look so pale", he saidHay Lin sighed and looked at him.

"Just fine. It's just a little cold… but I don't want to leave. I want to stay here with you. I just… wanted to say… I love you. I don't know why but somehow it just makes me feel better", she said smiling. Eric smiled back to her.

"I'll stay here as long as you want. I love you, too", he kissed her tenderly before she turned and… drop into his embrace. She was shaking. What could help here anymore? She was sharing the memories with herself. Maybe the memories, love, hope and believe could save her. She looked at the picture and went on singing:

"Saying you love me…For love, I'm willing to sleep deeply without wakingIs eternity here or not? Blame my heart for… being unable to let go. North Star, take me away! Don't conceal yourself-- seek out that love… I love you, every night. I'm waiting", the tears came. She looked at Eric's face. He was staring into the distance. There were sorrow and fear in his glistening eyes. As the tears came out from his eyes Hay Lin started to realize and know right answers to her questions. Whatever she tried to do anything to save herself nothing happened. She couldn't do anything, Eric couldn't do anything, parents and friends couldn't do anything, Kandrakar couldn't do anything, the doctors couldn't do anything and nothing could be happened by itself. She believed, hoped and loved but nothing really happened. It's just so that they can't save. Really… in her heart she knew there wasn't any way to save her. She didn't want to admit it. Didn't want to say she was leaving this place. Heatherfield. Its school, seasons, happy people and after all W.I.T.C.H., parents and Eric. And she was moving somewhere else. Some place, where from she could never return. Eric returned but she won't.

She cried silent tears. They froze on her cheek. She was frozen and she felt so weak that she could only move her mouth. Her skin was white and pale. And trying to get warm in herself she squeezed the photo and Eric's hands together. But the warm didn't come back anymore. She was afraid of forgetting W.I.T.C.H., her parents and Eric.

"For love, my heart is sleeping in the moon's ocean .This lonely me is missing whom? Who understands? I'm crying tears beneath this moon. (I'm also sleeping deeply in the moonlight). (Without regrets. Waiting for a true-hearted person to kiss me awake", she went on singing as well as she could. But it was too difficult. Too difficult to say those words that told too much. "I'm sorry, girls. I think I promised too much. I promised to tell you about everything what happened to me and Eric. I'm sorry…I can't. I just can't come back to you and share it all with you… again. I can't move anywhere. Mum and Dad… sorry, I couldn't take care. It really would have been too difficult to do that. And I'm sorry I will… never… be able to come… back home. Sorry! And Eric… this is my fault. Why I was so stupid and came to the airport? Though I knew you will return some day. And now… some of us… will never return. But you still love me. Please, don't let go. Never leave me! Please, stay here with me until… till…", she couldn't think it to the end. She cried silent and looked to the sky. There was a star shining just above her. It was that the brightest star she never had seen. It was calling her and she could even smile to it.

"I'm in a sleeping… dream for a day… Also in recollection for a year…. Say you love me. For love… I'm willing to sleep deeply…", and now she felt how the wind whispered: "Come with me… fly with me. Fly with me… so high. " And feeling how the pain and coldness were passing away from her. She was ready to say her last words… "… until forever", … and spread her wings to fly.

Eric sighed. He has been sleeping and when he woke he felt how cold it was. Now really should leave.

"Hay Lin, it's late and really cold. We should go. They must be worried about us", Eric said and expected the answer. But nothing was heard, only a silence. "Hay Lin? Are you sleeping?" Eric tried to take his hands off her hands. But they were so cold and soft that he couldn't let go off them. Just because of… the fear. He took a better hold and let Hay's body lay on his rest. Her face was white and pale as snow. It was really hard. Hard to tell himself the truth. That she really… was gone. But he couldn't admit it so quickly. He wanted still believe she was just sleeping and she was going to wake up from her sleep. "You're just sleeping, aren't you?" he tried but it was in vain. He stroked her face and couldn't stop any tear he got in his eyes. He wanted go on saying: "You're just sleeping. Just wake up… and smile at me." But he couldn't lie himself anymore. And he tighten his grab unable to let go off her. He felt the wind blowing over him and he heard beautiful singing. The wind, it sang and sang and Eric had to sing with it. He embraced Hay Lin's body, let his tears came out and… he sang:

"I'm waking up from sleeping in the moonlight, the waning crescent made me think of you. Don't want to wake up, who understands? Afraid that when my eyes open, you won't be here… Saying you love me…For love, I'm willing to sleep deeply without wakingIs eternity here or not? Blame my heart for… being unable to let go. North Star, take me away! Don't conceal yourself-- seek out that love… I love you, every night. I'm waiting…",

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The sad end. Yeah, and the song is for a memory of the boy who died four years ago on explosion of shopping center. He was an ice skater and was a part of skating team where my sister was skating, too. They were good friends and he was friend for me, too. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon- movie was a theme for their free program. They won some contests by that theme and while that time, the boy was killed by that explosion. And when we were in the hall, remembering him, this song was playing on a background. You cannot be crying when skaters are surrounding the ice with candles, in the dark hall. And I haven't stopped loving this song.

So, if you say this was sad, don't think it on bad way because the sorrow and dead have some kind of meaning in the story. I had made happy ending to this story but it wasn't so good as this was. And if saying it was sad, you make me happy. J

The lyrics during the story are translation from the Chinese version. There are two real versions of the song, English and Chinese but the lyrics are so different. And Chinese was so much better than English, so I put it in the story. And now, comments?