An: It's finally the last chapter! Hope you like it and review...

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(C.C.'s P.O.V.)

"Are you alright C.C.?" I heard Anya asked me as she set my pizza box in front of me. I guess she was surprise I was not eating it.

"Of course," I told her plainly and opened the box and instantly it delightful scent lingered in her nose, but sadly she did not have the appetite to eat it. But she ate it anyways.

"Where's my waffles Anya?"

"Like I care V.V.," I heard Anya spat back.

"Uncle Jeremiah's ganna hear about this..." V.V. exclaimed and I watched as they're talk backs progressed into heavy bickering. I know that by now I should keep all the knives but technically I felt otherwise. I realized why I did not have the appetite to eat my favourite pizza, it is because I missed the sweet and salty pizza that that antique pastry and cafe shop offered.

I guess I am at fault at this. For weeks I had grown accustomed to taking my lunch at that shop and ordering the said pizza, for weeks it had been my routine. Sadly, I broke that routine today. I disliked the fact that losing my beloved cheese-kun things came so natural for me and the fact that it seemed like I was attach to the certain nameless boy who always returns my things.

I have unconsciously named him zero. Somehow it fits him. I avoided that shop today for I was afraid that I might truly loose something that I treasured. But as I sat at pizza hut this afternoon all I felt was this certain uneasiness that I've lost something. As I contemplate on this senseless reverie, I begin to doubt myself, was it truly the pizza that I missed?

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(Lelouch's P.O.V.)

I watched as the digital alarm clock on my study table switch from 7:29p.m. to 7:30pm. Not awhile ago Sayako had asked me to come down for dinner. I told her I've eaten out with Suzaku and Rivalz; it was a lie.

I stay here in my room with a calculus book wide open, my homework sheet, a blank sheet of paper and a perfectly sharpened pencil held between my fingers. This annoyed me more and I began to toss the pencil towards my trash bin and as expected I did not get a bull's eye on that one.

Why you might ask, was I annoyed? It's simple really, I hate sharpened pencils, especially when I own it, for it means only one thing... there was no work that had been done. That is what makes it so depressing. Secondly, my head is aching with an unbearable throbbing pain since it contains nothing but a trail of ostensible, senseless, thoughts.

I am used to thinking too many things at the same time and so I am thoroughly depressed with my mental state of thinking for all I can think of was one thing and one thing only...why hadn't she come?

Before I can further debate with myself, I felt my stomach rumble as starvation finally caught up with me. Maybe, I was only hungry and stressed that's why I'm thinking nonsense. I opened my black leather sling bag that sat by the foot of a table and pulled out a small red, square box with a green ribbon that held it bound.

I untangled the thin ribbons and gazed into its contents. I peered down at the mini cherry-cheesy pizza that C.C. always eats. I almost laughed at my stupid actions earlier this day.

There I was on that familiar shop. After surveying it for a week I found out that she only comes on Fridays. It was the usual hot afternoon and I sat at my usual chair; right where I can see her. As usual, she was late, but I started to worry when she did not show up and annoyed when other people occupies her chair.

I waited the whole afternoon for her and I was grossed out by the fact that I seemed 'stalkish'. But I did not dare move and continued reading my favourite book; 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli. She did not arrive.

I tried to leave for I still had school and Suzaku and Rivalz kept on bugging my cell phone that I can hear the stupid gadget reprimanding me to answer their calls. I could not leave the place though.

I convinced myself that I felt lazy to go to school since it was gym class, but I knew it was a lie.

Truth was, I waited for her, but she did not come.

I picked up the pizza and began to take a bite of it. It was an odd mix of sweet, and salty, and surprisingly delicious.

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(Normal P.O.V.)

-The next Day

C.C. once again visited the shop. She sat at her usual sit and ordered her usual meal, but somehow she could not stay put. She was looking everywhere, searching, and waiting rather impatiently and this caught her off guard. She was never an impatient person. She was also always double-checking her things clearly afraid of leaving another thing in the shop. Finally she finished eating her meal and decided there was no reason for her to linger in the said shop.

C.C. stood by the bus stop and several times her bus had come and had gone and not once did she bother getting in it.

She felt something was missing and she was afraid of leaving without it. She was waiting for it to be returned. She was waiting for him to return it, even if she knew she left nothing, even if she knew he wasn't there.

She should have gone a long time ago, but she waited for him to return whatever it was that she lost...

"Watch out!" C.C. heard someone scream at her, but it was already too late...

C.C. felt cold as if everything was ice and she was numb, then it was pitch black

(Meanwhile)

"Lulu, I'm so sorry for calling you out of plan..." Marianne kissed her son's cheek.

"It's okay mom, I'm glad dad and you returned safely from the trip." Lelouch replied with a half-hearted smile. Ohgi; their driver carried their luggage and placed it at the car's trunk.

"Oh, but Nunally told me that you were in a hurry to go somewhere. Had you made other plans?" Marianne gazed at her son apologetically and Lelouch shook his head...

"No, that was nothing." 'she would not have come anyway' Lelouch thought as they proceeded into the car.

"We're leaving for the countryside tomorrow." Lelouch's mother told him and the engine started and they were off.

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(Lelouch's P.O.V.)

The next day—

I was double checking my luggage and made sure that I did not forget a thing, as I was finally satisfied I grabbed the coffee on the table and began to sit on my leather couch. I reached out for the newspaper on the table and began reading its contents. I found out that there was an accident that happened yesterday and a girl named Cera died. I flipped through it pages, utterly bored with the news, until my eyes fell on an obituary page. It was an obituary dedicated for Cera. What surprised me was Cera's indifferent stolen picture of her eating pizza... long emerald locks and piercing golden orbs...

C.C. did come after all...

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C.C.'s P.O.V.

I continue to walk upon this world, to which I no longer belong... I was meant to be in heaven but they've told me that I had forty days to say goodbye to this world.

I saw V.V., Anya and Jeremiah, they were a lot quieter that usual. Of course I'd often visit pizza hut and smell the sweet scent of pizza. I hope heaven serves pizza, especially those served in a silver platter.

But there was one place I kept coming back to...

My grave...I see my name written on top the marble pedestal right next to mine is my parents' graves. Every Friday, my pedestal would have a red box on top of it. I knew exactly what was in it. After sometime though, a cat comes and steals it away. But I didn't care anymore.

I often see him during Fridays; he'll always be bringing me a box and would just sit on the ground staring at my grave and he never knew that all along I was sitting beside him.

Whenever I see him, somehow it brings me comfort, but I knew that someday his visits will cease. He was still alive, and I... I needed to move on.

After all this time I had finally known his name...Lelouch.

Do you know what I lost on the day that I died Lelouch? Being dead made me realize what it was, and ironically it was not my life.

Since that day that you returned my pen to me I had already lost it and until now it was only the thing that you failed to return to me...

Do you know what it is?

I leaned in and whispered to your ear...

My heart...

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(Lelouch's P.O.V.)

I stay often at your grave and I liked to imagine that you were eating the pizza I brought you. I stay at your grave ever Friday thinking how I wish I could have told you that I slipped a note in between the pages where you wrote 'C.C. loves C.K.', but it seemed you did not do so...

For if you did, you did not have to keep on waiting for me, but I guess I was a coward as well.

I wrote; 'C.C._L.L' hoping that you'd somehow fill the thread between us, and somehow I hoped that you were using your cheese-kun platinum pen while filling the blank space...

Fin.

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An: I hope I did not confuse anyone though and I hope you like it although it kinda seems pointless. Anyway. Please review and let us all pray for the world even if you don't believe in God or don't have a God, that's all we can do for Libya, Japan and the other countries...

So the original ending of the story was that the girl got hit by a car and she died . The boy was so depressed because all that time he slipped his name between the pages of her book, inside her cds and other things that she left that he returned. He was just so sad that she died without even knowing his name and that he thought that maybe somehow they were meant to be.