Okay, here it finally is. It looks a lot smaller on here, like always. I have no excuses. Well, I do, but you probably don't want to hear them. Just know that I probably should have been studying while I was writing this. I hope things will calm down when my summer comes (next week), and I'll have more time to write. This part of the story is very crucial to the storyline and this fanfiction will be over in about maybe 4 more chapters max. If you have any suggestions of what I should write next, just pm me or comment. As always, reviews are always helpful. So in other words: REVIEW!!!

Overwhelming emotions ran deep throughout every vein in Kyoko's body. The range of her feelings were beyond even her own comprehension, threatening to break her into millions of tiny pieces. Her body shivered with anger, outrage, loneliness, hurt…and even sheer madness. His face reappeared in her thoughts and she fell to her knees, not able to move even a muscle of her body. Tears fell down her face, unlike the time when he had first left her alone and by herself.

Why? Why would this time be different from all of the rest? What was causing these emotions to run deep and hurt her beyond what she had felt before? Shouldn't the shock have subsided by now….but why was did it still hurt so much?

Kyoko stared at the dressing room mirror before her, looking at herself in this horrible state. She wanted to smash the mirror and make it feel what she was feeling at this moment. No, she wanted him to see what he had done to her. She wanted to cry in front of him and let him see what she had become, because of him and his malicious words.

Her chest felt a deep, throbbing pain as if someone had punched a whole right there. She knew immediately that she had never forgotten Sho, never stopped loving him. Unrequited love…was very painful.

Kyoko got to her feet and let them take her to where she would meet him. Where he would be cruel to her, patronize her, and hate her. But she knew that if she could just see him one more time with these feelings…she could forget him.

It had hurt her, the words that he had said. He knew that it would hurt her, yet he had not known what it would do to him. The guilt weighed him down as he sat with his back facing the door, outside of her dressing room. He heard her cry. Kyoko, one of the strongest people he had ever known, was crying again. Not because of her mother, but because of him.

He walked away from the dressing room and hit a nearby wall in frustration. Why was he feeling these feelings? Suddenly, he just wanted her to smile…he didn't want her to be in pain any longer. And if he was her pain, well then he would just have to do something about that.

Sho ran to find Shoko. She was sitting, shocked beside Tsuruga who glared at him with intensity as he stopped before him.

"I quit, Shoko. I'm leaving."

Shoko looked up at him, puzzled and shocked by his statement. Tsuruga shared her amazement enough that his glare lessened. He felt hatred toward Tsuruga so much…but that would have to be forgotten. He turned toward him and got down on his knees. Something he would not have done in his right mind, if he was thinking clearly. And he wasn't. Thinking clearly that is.

"She's crying. Go."

He got up and ran, ran to the front door and kept running toward his car. The rain poured down on top of him. The door slammed behind him as he scrambled for his car keys. His head was blurred. He wasn't thinking clearly. He needed to drive. Drive so far away that Kyoko would not see his face again. Never again. That was how it should be. No, that was how it had to be.

All he knew was that he was driving with his feet on the pedals. The sounds of horns blaring beside him did not register. Something in the back of his brain urged him to turn around but he continued, determined to continue. He knew that if he went back, nothing would be waiting for him. It was really amusing wasn't it, that even though he had treated Kyoko horribly, he loved her. Sho laughed until it became too awkward for no one was there. Pure silence resonated throughout the car.

Two bright white lights appeared before him, moving closer and closer. He felt sort of an inner peace and he closed his eyes. Kyoko was with him smiling, holding out her hands for him to come closer. So he reached and everything went black.