Chapter 2 Fate has Another Plan

Chapter 2

She leaned at the bark of the tree. Looking at the moon, that bathes its light at them. She sighs. It's really hard for her of not thinking of the hurt she felt in her past especially that the people caused it are around.

"Have you heard?" Touya ask suddenly.

"Heard what?" she ask back.

"That Eriol and Tomoyo will go back to England tomorrow." he replied. He looks at her intently.

"No. I just got back here yesterday and I haven't heard anything about them. Not until now that you mention it." she said with her face void of any emotion.

"Ah okay." he said looking away from her and fixing his gaze ahead. "In any chance haven't you encountered them in England?" he asks again.

Silence passes between them for a minute before she answered.

"No. It's impossible that it would have happened." she said as she stared at the crowd not too far away from them.

"Why?" he ask her immediately that made her attention focus on him.

"Because I moved from England to New York." she said.

"How come I didn't know that you moved?" Touya said furrowing his eyebrow.

"Maybe because I haven't contacted you for three years?" she replied suggestively.

Touya turns to her and exclaimed.

"Oh. Now I remember. You have to explain yourself."

His eyes were now staring at her completely.

She had no choice but to tell him what he wants to know.

She takes a long sigh and fixes her gaze directly at him. She made her face neutral as she always did.

"Well to make my explanation short, I moved to New York three weeks after I left Japan." she finally said and turns her gaze again towards the people in the festivities.

"How long have you been in England then? And why do you have to move in New York in the first place."

"For about a week and a half, I'm in England. I moved because my work is now based on New York."

"So now you were teaching in New York." Touya concluded.

"No." she replied silently and turns to him.

Touya looks at her, his eyebrows knitting. His face looks confuse.

If it weren't for a fact that their talking about her, she might be laughing at his look.

He looks as if he is burdened to solve an unsolvable puzzle. Looking for a piece that will fit it, to make the picture clear. His brows are creasing to think of how to solve it. In short he's making a funny face. That's what it looks for her.

She shook her head disbelievingly, suppressing her smile and clears her throat to get his attention.

He looks startle as he heard her, his brow furrowing.

"Okay." she started. "To clear you out of your confusion, I am no longer teaching." she said. "I mean, I stopped teaching since I get back to England and think of something else to do."

"Okay. Will you elaborate what you just said?" he inquired.

"Well, it started a week after I came in England and I meet this guy who asked me to work for him. After he tell me what will I do I started thinking if it will be a good thing to do. After a day, I meet him again and accepted his offer to work with him. His offer was to work for him for a pictorial where I'll be his model, he said that his model was sick and he needs an immediate replacement. He asked me to do the job because I perfectly fit in his current dress collection and theme. After the pictorial was done we became friends and he asked me if I like to continue modelling and I said'yes'. The main office of his fashion gallery was at New York. I accompany him in his return. That's where I began to draw dresses and create my own line together with him. That's how my fashion career started and I really love this field."

When she finished her tale she looks at Touya and found him staring at her as if he were seeing a ghost.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

Touya shook his head. He can't believe of what he heard. He doesn't know if he shall be jealous of this man she's talking about or to react that she was now a model and designer.

She furrows her eyebrows trying to decipher Touya's expression.

"Okay. There's no need to look like that. It's just a change of career and nothing more. Come on, get over it." she said as she playfully slaps his face to get him out of his reverie.

Touya blinks and speaks.

"So you're a model now? And a designer?" he ask dumbly.

"Yes." she simply said.

"Oh that's great." he blurts out. "I can't believe you'd become a model and a designer. It's just...It's just wow." he said stammering. "I can't believe you left me not updated about these changes in your life while I have tried every possible thing to reach you." he said with bitterness in his voice. He looks at her.

"I'm really sorry Touya, please forgive me." she said as she reaches for his hand.

He tightens his hold to her hand and look into her eyes.

"You know I'll forgive you. But you have to promise never to leave me out of your life?"

"Okay."

"I think we should call this a night." he said.

"I think so too."

He stands up not unclasping his hand from hers and pulled her up.

They walk together to her cottage, holding hands.

"Good night." she said as they reach her door.

"Good night indeed. Sweet dreams." he said and leans towards her and kisses her on her cheeks. She blush at his action and was thankful that the light is dim at her place that he couldn't see her reaction.

"Sweet dreams." she said.

Touya started to walk home. She watches him disappear in her view before she entered into her cottage.

After Touya left, she change into her night gown. As she lay on her bed she can't help but think of the past hours. What does she needs to do?

I was waiting for so long

For a miracle to come

Everyone told me to be strong

Hold on and don't shed a tear

Through the darkness and good times

I knew I'd make it through

And the world thought I had it all

But I was waiting for you

Kaho met Touya and the others yesterday at the festival. She felt really awkward that time. She doesn't want to feel the pain again, all she wants is to be happy again and forget the misery of her past. But how can she do that if the people around her were part of her misery.

She can't tell everyone especially her parents and Touya, the people who's always behind her to support her. She can't tell them that she wants to leave Japan not because her work is in New York but because she wants to live there for good. There's no returning home in her plan. But she can't afford hurting those special persons for her, especially Touya that she had hurt before because of her departure.

"What should I do?"she asked herself."I can't stand the situation here if I'm still bitter with my past. Everyone expects that I will be staying here for good. I have so many questions and still there are no clear answers in my mind.

"I think I have to make my own fate and don't let fate control over Me."she thought."I'll go insane if I will think of this too much."

She walk to her car with confusion and drive away, not knowing where to only thing she knows is that she needs to think things over and move on. She drives in high speed and came to a road with only few cars.

"How I wish to forget everything that had happened."she thought.

In a curve road she didn't see the truck coming too fast in her way. Her car collides with it and darkness enveloped her.

Touya is still in his bed staring at the ceiling. He supposed to be out in the kitchen preparing for their breakfast. But he feels something is different. Something was about to change. And he's worried, the last time he felt this way was when his mother died and the other one was Kaho's departure. He pulled himself out of bed to prepare their breakfast. He needs to go back in Tokyo before lunch.

Sakura is already preparing the food when he got down in the kitchen.

"Good morning onii-chan," Sakura greeted.

"Good morning." he greeted. "Why so early? I should be the one doing that." he ask.

"I got up early and since you're not preparing the food yet, I decided to do it since this will be your last day here."

"Where's dad?" his eyes wandering.

"Daddy was still sleeping; I think he'd gone to bed, late."

"Uhmmm..." he nod and go in the refrigerator to get some water. The phone rings.

"I'll have it." he said as he see Sakura trying to move fast the telephone.

"Ok."

"Hello. Kinomoto residence." he said. As the person in the other line spoke, the glass of water he was holding fell on the floor.

Sakura who was on the kitchen run pass to the living room as she heard a glass that breaks. She saw her brother's shocked face, his eyes threatened with tears. The broken glass and water are scattered on the floor. This is the first time she saw her brother show this kind of emotion.

"What's wrong onii-chan?" she asked in a worried tone.

"No." he said in shivered tone. "She can't be." he continued looking through her but he seems not to see nor hear anything. He looked like as if a bomb was thrown to him. His knees were shaking and for a second gave way to fall onto the floor. His tears fell from his eyes.

"Onii-chan, are you alright?" she asked as she walk towards his brother.

He just shakes his head.

Seeing his brother this way means something really bad had happened and it make her nervous even though she haven't learned what is this all about.

"Why the tears? Why are you looking like that? Is something bad really happened? Who called?" she asks intently as she felt really nervous.

"I-I- can't help but cry." he stammered as he started talking. "It's Kaho's mother. She's hysterical while telling me that-" he sobs "-that Kaho was in danger. She's in the hospital, with half chance of survival." he said.

"How?" Sakura asked as her tears began to fall upon hearing what happened to Kaho.

"The car she was driving collides with a truck. She was severely injured." he said as he wiped his tears away. He quickly stand up and gone to his room to change his clothes.

"He needs to see her. She can't leave me this way." he thought as he quickly manages to change his clothes and step out in his room. Running through the front door and making way to the hospital.

Sakura watched his brother leave as he faded in her sight. She had finished preparing food even though she was preoccupied with her thought and hadn't notice as her father shown in the kitchen.

"Good morning sweetie." Fujitaka greeted.

"Good morning daddy." Sakura greeted in low tone voice.

Fujitaka notice that his daughter isn't lively and its very unlikely of her. He notice that her eyes were red, indicating she had cried. He was wondering why Sakura would have cried. He can't think of any reason.

"Sakura is there something wrong with you?" he asks.

"None. Why?"

"You looked as if you cried."

Sakura's tears fell again. Fujitaka, tense to his daughter's reaction.

"Why? What's happening? Why are you crying? He asks as he go towards Sakura to comfort.

"Kaho onee-chan is in danger. She met an accident and I don't know if she will survive. Onii-chan seems really upset upon hearing the news through Onee-chan's mom. He quickly went away without a word." Sakura said as she wiped her tears.

Fujitaka was silent and thinks of what he should do. He knows that his son was still in love with Kaho. If something bad happened to Kaho, Touya might suffer again, like he did when Nadeshiko died."I should pray for her safety."he thought. It's the only thing he could do and hope that everything could turn out fine.