a.n.
a couple of notes...first Im SoO sorry for the wait and I put this story on a hiatus because, well...its a complicated matter which needs no discussing. Second I would like to give this a special dedication to "imadeadlyfan" and to my "close friends" for sticking by me and staying strong through rough patches. Thank you. Heres the next chapter hope u enjoy it.
"Always and forever..." I wish it were true.
Always and forever, yours
Chapter 8
Two hearts
by animeang3l7
Rai's POV
"Catch me if you you can."
"Okay, be prepared. For I Raimundo..." just a split second later I see smoke. And the next thing I know, I see a little asian girl run around so fast that it could beat the road runner.
"-cough-Girl, why is everythang you do so much better.-cough-" I said trying to stop myself from a fit of coughs. I put up my hand and blew the smoke away with a gust of wind. I look to the ground and you could now see the ground and the snow parted in a small path just the right size for a small japanese girl called Kimiko Toho. "Hey Kimiko, you burnt away the snow mans."
"Hahahahaha...Come on Rai get it in gear!" she yelled at me, whilst I just put my hands in my pockets and stood there tall and cool, literally. I noticed she stopped melting away the snow as her pace slowed until a halt.
"Come on! I thought you wanted those pictures?" she said eyeing me as the breeze passed by.
"Eh.." I shrugged it off. She turned her whole body and started to walk to me the hard way without her fire powers.
"Rai?" she took a step, then another step until..."Rai?"
"AH," I pushed myself forward and tried to grab her, but she swiftly moved, "AHH" I came in contact with her hair, and then next I'm in contact with the snow. I lift my head up and spit out all the snow.
"Blah, ewh AHH."
"Hehe" she giggled in that high pitched laugh. I got up while she continued to laugh it up and crack into tears.
"That's it! You better run." I stood up and started to chase her full speed. She was fast, I have to admit. But I'm faster.
'Haha' and 'hehe' and 'hey!' were sounds made and echoed through the valley. Finally i caught up with her and we were now running side by side - but unknown to her.
"Wazup?" she turned around in shock, and fell backwards in surprise. "Ah," She landed in the snow bottom first. "God you scared me!" Her hands were now by her side supporting her. I looked on in triumph and with an added effect, a smirk.
"Need a hand?" I asked offering her some help, by outstretching my hand and leaning in.
"Okay" she reached my hand, as the seconds went by I thought about this opportunity.
I could grab her hand, then pull her towards me. Then do that salsa ending by dipping her and lipping her. Ooh, nah she wouldn't fall for that corny stuff. What the heck am I thinking? God...
I grabbed her hand, but instead of her coming to me she pulled my down and I ended up in the snow, again.
"Berry, punny." I said with my face still buried in the snow. I sat down on my butt properly on the soft white snow.
"Actually it is,"
"Shut up."
"Why should I?" she said acting feisty yet it sounded more childish and playful.
"Because," I toppled over her and wrestled her to the ground. She fought back though and we started to roll hand gripped on arm and side to side.
"You're sucha freak!"
"Me? The freak? More like you."
"ME?"
"L.o.L.!" we started to laugh and laugh in hysterics unaware that she was on me pinning me down until I broke the crazy fit of laughter.
"Your kinda on me Kim,"
"Ooh um..." I blushed bright red, but smirked. I eyed her and saw her flush just before she looked away.
She got off me and we sat side by side with a couple of inches away from contact.
"So...hows life?" she asked randomly, it took about five seconds for me to get that it was directed to me.
"Uh, not bad. Not good either." I mumbled the last bit, hoping she didn't hear.
"Rai? I know..." Damn.
I sighed deeply. Things went through my mind, the past the present and the future. Questions and doubts flashed and returned over and over.
"You know nothing..." I whispered quietly under my breath. Its not like we weren't close, don't get me wrong people would say we were more like siamese than two people. (a.n. im not disrespecting or making fun of people like this. honestly) - but even though, there were times when I couldn't look at her let alone be with her and I guess it caused distance.
"I know, and that's what scares me." she said so seriously it shocked me.
"We're drifting apart." she continued. I instantly hugged her.
"Kim, no matter the distance, the contact, the differences. I'll always be here with you, in your heart and in spirit." I looked at her as I let go. She seemed delighted with what I had said and her confidence came back - so did her cockiness.
"Yeah" she smirked.
"Okay, how life for you?" If she could ask me that painful question then so could I.
"Its, the same." she said with slight pause then carried on the rest with a dead tone.
"Come on, sumfin's up. Its bait enough for the fishes to see." she didn't giggle at my lame joke, it was obvious it was something big.
"Somethings wrong, you know it would be better if you told me, maybe I could make it better." I gestured as she looked away and stared at the lake. I gave up on the head on approach and let it go for a while. I looked to the scene, mountains, a lake and the blank sky. It was still and quiet apart from those occasionally weird sounds of dripping.
"If I tell you whats going on then you have to as well. Deal?" She hesitated as much, and gave a saddened look. Yet hope and beauty shone through.
"Deal," she was now looking straight at me with those azure eyes. Reflection. "What's wrong?" she asked with uncertainty however still looking dead serious.
"Azure."
Always and forever. Those were the last things spoken from her lips to me. After I left her side, things began to show. But truthfully, things began to show and break down before it all happened.
Flashback
"Why can't you trust me?"
"Because after you betrayed us, things changed."
"Why cant you get over it, I have!"
"Because, it too deep to forgive."
"I said I was sorry!"
"Yeah and you expect me to forgive and forget. I can understand just a tiny spec why you hurt Ray-ul, but us your own family. You're too cold to be associated with me. Goodbye." the short slim figure walked away in tears strolling slowly down her tanned skin. He grabbed her hand.
"Why can't you understand Raimundo, we don't want you back." she looked down as Raimundo stared on trying to convince her with his words he was sorry.
"But-"
"But nothing, I said goodbye. I will never forgive you for this, and my mind is made up I will never change. Always and forever."
she was now looking at him with her dark maroon eyes.
Suddenly,
Gunshot.
She collapsed in his arms, he supported her but no use. He fell down on his knees with her. He looked at his hand it was smothered with blood. She had been shot in the stomach and was now bleeding heavily. He applied pressure, but red still leaked out. He was in shock but had to act quickly. They were in the middle of the Amazon forest and there was hospital for miles.
She spit out her last words to him, "Always and forever, Raimundo. Always and forever."
She went cold and still. He put his hand across her face and closed her eyes.
End of Flashback
Present
"Azure. Her azure eyes haunt me" I said in reply to her question.
"Who's eyes?" she said. I looked at her from the corner of my eye and noticed she was not facing me anymore, but in the same direction as me. To the mountain range.
"It was about 5 years ago. This day, this hour, this minute." although we were in a different time zone and place. The memory was still haunting upon this feeling of time.
"Yeah,"
"I had a complicated relationship with my friends. It was more of business and gangster between us than friendship. I was known as the 'good one'. I didn't deal in any of this kind of business, but I was connected as far as I could say. For about a decade I lived with this, but still I kept living a normal life of a teenager. Girlfriends, school, friends and football. I thought it nothing but a normal. But after the second year of high school, things began to change far more. Especially in school. After Celine, relationships turned disgusting. Both friends and girls."
"It was a winter day when I decided to end it, let go of my past and walk away."
"Rai, I'm not one to deal with these things. But you can't just walk away from these things." she said cautiously.
"I know. I wish I hadn't." I shook off the sad pathetic tone and resumed the story. "One day, the leader and also my best friend Ray-ul confronted me. He was older than me about 2 years I suppose. He said that it was disrespectful to leave without a goodbye. I thought he understood but it was just a joke. I discovered that money and links meant more to him than 11 years of friendship."
"I, well...I guess..." She and I both knew there was nothing to say to this.
"We got into a fight soon after, fist, punches and kicks. I don't know what happened, I just say him there unconscious and fled. He wasn't dead though, he was surely alive. Alive enough to tell everyone."
"Rai, this is too much."
"You said you wanted to know so I'm telling you."
"I know, but this is too much for you."
"Sometimes I just don't get YOU!" I bellowed. Seconds passed as I stood there towering over her and my voice echoed. You could see the fear in her eyes.
"I'm sorry." I sat back down, and sighed. But she stood up and walked away in the direction of the lake.
"Kimiko, I whispered." i ran after her, as I caught up to her she simply said to me, "I'm sorry," she hugged me tightly and I returned it to her as well. I felt comfort in the motion of swaying and relief.
"You don't have to say anything, I get it." she said sweetly.
"No. I should, I owe it to you and me both."
"If you're sure." we continued standing but now apart. I put my hands in my baggy jeans pocket. And kicked a stone out to the lake.
"One of them, Anya. She was my older sister. We were in hard times and she couldn't afford to let us down, so she got associated with all of this. In the end she was assassinated for my mistake. We were young, but not that young to understand everything. The world of the street."
I didn't cry because what was the point. And because I didn't want to see the point.
"Its okay,"
I looked down on her, we were close but there was still space and gaps. I felt warmth in the breeze, yet coldness in the touch. My heart beat slowly and in a steady pace. She reached up. I leaned in and...
"Hey look at us getting all serious. Come on the past is the past. Lets live life."
I looked at her slightly shocked, I should have guessed that she would do this. But I still couldn't shake of that sad feeling. I felt breeze. It wasn't of my elemental emotion problem when I feel something strong and it triggers my element. It was much more. It was the breeze you get when you feel those paining emotions sadness, hurt, guilt and anger. It pained me.I looked away from her and to the ground, but what I saw was not what I imagined.
"The past is behind us. We stop looking back and continue to walk on, through the darkness the pain the lies. Everything."
Pause.
"I know it takes time to get through this but you are not in it alone. You have me..."
She grabbed my hand and pulled me off and we headed down the path on the side of the lake. I had no idea where we were going, but I was thankful. I was thankful, I had her.
a.n.
u happi now imad? LoL