Leilanie, I'm...sorry.

It was in a whisper barely audible, he looked ashamed and his eyes where watery. He looked like he really wanted to cry. It looked like he was remembering something, something painful like a tragedy or something awful like that.

Cliff, are you ok? I'm not really mad, I was just kidding. I'm sorry for yelling at you, the doctor said that I'll be ok so don't worry.

How do you feel? Are you ok? Are you going to get better soon? Please tell me you are! Are you still feeling dizzy? Does your head still hurt? This is my fault... Are you-?

Cliff I'm ok! Really! Stop all those questions and tell me, what is wrong with you!? You're starting to scare me Cliff, spit it out, I'm worried here! Why do you say this is your fault?

You're ok? Oh thank God, I was sure you were seriously hurt! Oh, what a relief... How long are you going to stay here? Ummm… Leilanie, your leg isn't infected… is it?

Don't change the subject! Now please tell me Cliff, why are you so worried and why are you crying?

Leilanie sigh I was so worried because I thought that you were going to have the same fate of May... It was terrible.

What happened? Who's May? Stop crying Cliff; I'm starting to get worried about you...

He closed his eyes and he sat next to me. He looked like there was something inside of him that was destroying his existence. He looked at me; his eyes were red and bloodshot. He was shaking with no control. He had many tears running down his face. He hugged me and cried harder. Something had happened to him, but what?

You don't have to tell me if you don't want to Cliff, I guess you can tell me when you're ready, if you want to.

No, I have to tell you about my sister now or else I'll never will and this is just too sniff painful for me to keep to myself.

Ok... What happened? Why are you crying? Come on tell me, maybe I can help...

There was an uncomfortable silence. He was trying to get control over himself. I never saw him like this; he was always the strong guy that never showed his weak emotions. He never looked like what he looks like now. It must have been something really strong to make him feel like this. I started to feel the air heavy and cold, this was the feeling I always felt when something was bad. I only felt that way when there was going to be trouble or something tragic. It was some kind of psychic power that I had since I was a child. I just wanted to tell him that everything would be ok, but if only I knew what was wrong, things would have been much more easier.

Cliff, can I help you with whatever is going on!

No Leilanie, you can't help, no one can because... because she's gone!

Gone? Oh!...Cliff...how?

When I was 16 we had a fight and I told her that I wished that she didn't exist. After I said that I felt really bad. She had ran away when I went looking for her. I had to go and tell mom what happened. She blamed me for what happened and kicked me out of the house. I went to a nearby city to look for May, but there was no sign of her. I rented an apartment and then for the next few weeks I kept looking for her. The days became months and the months became years. I was already 19 and I had found a job and I had finally earned enough money for decent furniture at my house. A week later some one stole it though…

One day I was at home making a phone call to my friend that lived on the other side of town. He once told me that he saw my sister and that she was doing fine. That calmed me down a little but I still felt guilty, after all, it was my fault. I had just hung up the phone and I heard a knock on the door. It was my mother. She apologized for what she did to me and said that she couldn't continue living without us. When I told her that Mike saw May, she almost had a heart attack. Her heart has always been unhealthy, so that worried me. We looked for May day and night with no luck. My mom became even sicker and then she couldn't continue walking at night. It was up to me to find May and bring her home, I had a feeling that Mike was hiding something, he was lying I had to find her before it was too late.

I went to the park one night thinking why would Mike lie to me and I found her she had collapsed under a bush and she had a serious cut on her leg. It was bleeding, it made a poodle of blood and her leg was swollen. I grabbed her shoulders trying to wake her up but she didn't, sniff so I picked her up and brought her to the nearest clinic. The hours passed by and when the doctor came out he told me that she had a small chance of living in one condition, he had to amput her leg because it was infected by a deadly bacteria.

He operated the next day and when she woke up I was with my mother beside her. She looked scared and I felt sorry for her. She asked why she couldn't feel her legs and we lied to her by telling her that the doctor had putted an injection that made her leg pain stop, but that maybe it was too strong and that she couldn't felt them because of it. A few weeks passed and she still had to stay there. When she figured out about her leg she got depressed and stop eating.

She was weak from the operation and refused to cooperate when the doctors came to do some test on her to make sure that the bacteria hadn't made a way through her whole body. The days passed and my mom and me were worried about her. She still didn't eat and she was very sick. One day a nurse called and told us that we should hurry to the hospital. The bacteria had infected her seriously and she suffered from brain damage. She still knew what she was going through and that made it worse. Her whole body was paralyzed except for her head. She shouldn't talk but she insisted that she had something to tell me. Mom went to the doctor's office to find out more about her disease and I went to her room. She told me that she was glad to have a brother like me even though I hated her. When I was going to reply that I didn't, that she was the most important thing in my world, the machines made the sound that I feared the most, the sound that hunted me at night in my dreams. She… died.

Oh Cliffy sniff I'm so sorry... I didn't know you had such a horrible experience!

That's not all. After her death sniff my mom moved to my house and I moved to a different city because I couldn't stand living in the city my sister died. Two years later I fount out that my mom was murdered by a man that used to be my best friend. Yeah, it was Mike. Apparently he was May's ex boyfriend and he had heard rumors that she was dating someone else and he tried to kill her but when he drew the knife at her, it hit her leg. She didn't go to the hospital because she was afraid that they would put up Mike in jail. He was afraid that I would find out about it and turned him in that he went to my apartment to kill me, but he accidentally killed my mom instead. I swear, I will go back to the city one day and I'll make him pay, that little-

Cliff, please! Stop! You're only hurting yourself!

He looked devastated. The pain could be seen through his eyes. Seen him like that gave me goose-bumps, I don't think I could handle that much pain and didn't permanently do something to someone like Mike. He tried to calm down, but he only got worse. I let him cry as much as he wanted, After all, I was holding off tears myself, but I tried to be strong, for both of us.

If only I never had fought with May sniff If only I stayed with mom none of this would have happened!

He cried beside me and I couldn't help but to cry with him too. I hugged him and I knew that he needed that hug. It was obvious that he never got over this and he was afraid that the same thing would happen to me.

Cliff… stop crying, I... I can't take it

I'm so sorry, I sniff didn't mean to upset you, is just that you're my only real friend and I needed to get it out of my chest. You're the only one that knows this so please keep it our secret... just, promise that you'll never die, Please!

I promise. Just stop thinking about it and everything will be ok. You can't change the past, but you won't have any future if you're stuck in memories, so please, just remember the good times.

"Thanks Leily, you're my life saving friend... you always are cheering me up." He whispered.

Look, let's just change the subject, ok?

"Sure, that's enough crying for today, maybe for a whole week!" he joked.

It's good that you're my best friend Cliff, I don't know what I would do without your fabulous sense of humor!

"Thank you miss sarcastic, although, it would be better if we would be more…" he said with hope clearly in his eyes, although I didn't understand what he was saying.

More what? I asked confused

Never mind…

We talked a little while and it was getting dark. He had to leave since he wanted to take care of my farm tomorrow. He was the sweetest guy you could imagine. Wait, what am I saying? He left feeling a lot better and a bit happy after we changed the subject.

The next morning, Elli came with a silver plate with some food and my pills. We talked for a while and suddenly she asked how Cliff was feeling. I told her that he was fine, just a little worried. There was a knock on the door and Dr. Alex came in with some great news, I could go home since I had a fast recovery. I got out of the clinic to the right and passed the supermarket.

They were a bunch of houses with new the same color and a library. I didn't noticed this when I got here. Then I went left all the way until I saw my own farm. When I saw it I was shocked to see that it was in an awesome condition. They were even some new seeds planted and watered. The shipment box was full of different colored grasses, honey jars, fish, bamboo shots and other stuff. He did an incredible job on the field. There wasn't even a weed in sight and the grass was cut leaving some fodder for my future cows. I realized that Cliff was no were to be seen. I went to my house but he wasn't there. I stayed there and watched some TV. It wasn't very interesting since there was only for channels.

"Great! The horse races are on the 18th and the cooking festival on the 22nd. I hope that Cliff doesn't try entering in the cooking festival!" I joked to myself

I got bored of being by myself. I tried to go to sleep, but it was hard with out being tired and being 10am. Just as I got up from my bed, I heard a knock on the door. Since I didn't want to get up, I told whoever it was to come in. It was Elli. I didn't want any company right now even though I was lonely, my head, leg and stomach hurt.

Umm… you left your medicine at the clinic

Thanks Elli, is it time for me to drink them now?

Unfortunately, yes!

Ha-ha (was that supposed to be funny?!) Ok thanks again!

She told me that she had to go back to the clinic. Man she worked a lot for being a nurse in such a peaceful town… I think that even more than the doctor. I lied on my bed trying to sleep and remembering the moment when Cliff carried me to the clinic. He was a great guy, but then I thought about Alex and I suddenly blushed. I remembered him putting a band aid on my cut and he was so worried about me! But… so was Cliff and it was Cliff that saved me from that man from the lake nightmare! Just thinking about them was so relaxing but strange. I fell asleep for at least two hours, I needed that rest. I saw my leg, it was better already! I could even walk faster although it hurt a little bit. I felt an urge to find Cliff and see him, hear him and "accidentally" touch his hands as I did at the clinic. I think he didn't get the message, he was so clueless. I needed to see him badly so I got up and wanted to go to the inn to hopefully find him.

I went pass the poultry farm and I realized I needed a chicken to own a real farm. When I got there, there was this weird nerd guy coming out of the house. He was blonde and wore these huge glasses that made his eyes look ten times bigger. The only good thing about it was that he had sea blue eyes, the most beautiful eyes ever. "Well, I guess he couldn't be worse looking so he at least have some pretty eyes." I told to myself. I went toward him to ask how much a chicken cost.

How much is a chicken?

I'm not sure; my mom is the one in charge of the store.

Wait, you live here at the poultry farm and you don't know how much it costs?

Well, guess not! I'm in charge of taking care of the chickens, not sell them. If you want you could go inside the house and talk to my mom.

Ok then, erm,,,

Rick, my mother is Lillia and my sister is Popuri. Look I've got to go and find some big and juicy worms under rocks in the river for my chickens so, bye!

Nice to meet you, I guess…

I went inside the chicken coop and saw a pink headed woman behind a counter. We talked for a while, she was sick and her husband left her so he could find a cure on a desert or something like that. She was a nice person, sweet and understanding. Not like those other women who were always in the square gossiping. I bought the chicken and named it Nina. Then there was a girl who also had long and wavy pink hair sitting in the couch. Lillia nodded in sign that I could go and talk to her.

Hi, my name's Leilanie. You're Popuri right?

Leilanie? The new farmer girl? Cool, another person in the town, means another smile to bring around!

Okay… So, do you wanna hang out later?

"Sure!" she squealed as she got up and jumped like a little girl. I guess she was a little childish, but she sure was friendly.

We talked for a while but it was getting boring since she only talked about chickens so I said goodbye to everyone and left. Later that day I went to the inn to look for Cliff, but he wasn't there. I turned the tables of the inn upside down for no particular reason; I guess I really wanted to see him! I can't believe I missed him already, this was a feeling that I've never felt before, but what about Alex? I couldn't like them both at the same time, could I? Of course Alex was cute, but I felt something stronger toward Cliff. I felt dizzy and I had a giggly feeling. Strangely I liked that feeling.