A/N: Chapter 8. Chihiro seems to be getting awfully close to Izumo...
"Dear Diary"
(life after the bathhouse)
by:
ViolinTides
Dear Diary,
I've never been one to be particularly happy ever since leaving the bathhouse of the spirit world on that fateful day. I've always longed to have Haku back in my life. I wonder though, will he keep his promise? Will he ever show? If he does show, will he be a little boy still, or will he have aged? I think I remember hearing someone say that spirits can choose any form they like, but is Haku the same? If it IS true, why in the world would Yubaba and Zeniba choose to still look the same?...
Well, since I don't know the answers to any of these questions, I'll stop my ramblings and simply tell you what's new:
Izzy (Izumo) and I went to Homecoming together. We didn't exactly get Homecoming King and Queen or anything, but I sure felt like a princess tonight. Not because he blew a ton of money on a limo or anything, but... well, let me just tell you how it happened:
He came to my house with, of course, a corsage for me and also a pair of roses wrapped in plastic with a tag on them called 'sweetheart roses'. He said I was too wonderful to deserve anything less than roses. I was excited because the dress I chose was black velvet with roses imprinted on it (not sticking out like a sore thumb type of red, they were a dull red to blend in with the black of the dress). My shoes were strappy black ones, of course pantyhose, and my hair was in this lovely bun with little pieces curled around my face. My mother even put little tiny flower pins in my hair to hold the bun. It looked so great!
So we went to the dance (my mother drove us, but we sat in the back together), we talked a lot of the night, but also some of the night was spent with slow movements to the music. My head on his shoulder, his arms around me, and us dancing the night away. When his mother dropped me off at my house, he gave me a kiss on the cheek goodnight. He didn't try anything further.
I'm not sure if I would have let him try anything more, but I kind of liked the kiss.
Oh Haku, where are you? I loved you but you abandoned me. How could you do this to me? And now here I am, with a perfectly good guy who likes me, about to turn 17 soon, and you're nowhere in sight and you STILL have not contacted me at all...
God I'd better stop before I start crying. I'd hate to ruin my wonderful night. I'm just going to bask in the glow and lay here in my dress with my hair still all done up, thinking about the terrific night.
Love,
Chihomi.
Thank you so much to my reviewers so far! (Kamu-san & -Catgirl-of-Bavaria-)
I hope you like the direction I'm taking in the story, but you never know what might happen in future chapters!