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Chapter 2

Blurry times

And they are so clearer now for me to see.

The nurse was still sitting on the edge of my bed, but she had been silent for a while then. I was grateful for that small comfort. I wanted to be alone, though. "Ms. Dara? Could I be alone now? I promise not to hurt myself."

She looked at me doubtfully, but conceded to my request. "Of course, Sakura. Just be careful, okay? We care about you."

I shook my head dutifully, even though I didn't believe her. She smiled at me softly and stepped out of my room quietly. I lay back on my bed, letting my thoughts drift. I was alone in this place. So completely and utterly alone. I could hear Sasuke speaking in my head.

"I know you love me, you little pink thing."

"You know I do." I answered him aloud, but quietly, so that the overly curious nurse couldn't hear me talking to him.

"Then come to me. We can be together forever here. Yes, you miss me. Like any girl would do."

I closed my eyes tightly against the ache in my chest.

I moaned. "Sasuke..."

He didn't answer. I remembered summer nights with him, spent running through fields in the twilight, catching fireflies like carefree children. I held his hand and ran through the daffodils, more in love than anyone else in the world.

And suddenly memories again came back to me.

The day after I first saw him, he was walking home alone, which was unusual for him. He was usually surrounded by a group of giggling girls, his normal entourage of friends. Or sometimes his boyfriends from class.

I was sitting under my favorite tree, reading a novel, as I did everyday in the summer. He stopped on the edge of the sidewalk to stare at me. I looked up from my book.

He spoke my name quietly. "You're that Haruno Sakura?"

I was surprised he knew my name. "Oh yes. Glad to meet you. You can sit with me."

I knew I had gone a little too far with nervousness, but he took his hands out of his pockets. "If you like."

I smiled, quite pleased the someone like him would give me the time of day. "Cool."

I made room for him under the shade of the tree, and he sat down beside me. "I've heard a lot about you," he said charmingly.

"Oh?" I said, not so surprised this time. Most everyone had. Of course, ms. pink hair, I was.

"Haruno Sakura, artist and the intelligent little girl of junior year, famous loner…" He looked into the distance wistfully. "But I think they exaggerate a bit. It's not really true that you can't feel anything, is it?"

He looked sideways at me, with his deep onyx eyes. There was a bit of sarcasm in his tone.

I was thoughtful for a moment. "Maybe not…but why would they say it if it weren't true?" I asked him.

"You know how people are, especially in small towns like this one. They have nothing better to do than gossip."

I laughed quietly. "Yes, I suppose you're right. But no, it isn't true. I certainly feel things."

"That's good. I would hate to think that you could never fall in love with someone." He smirked, crossing his legs beneath.

I got the distinct impression that he was hitting on me. I liked this more by the moment. "Someone like yourself?"

He laughed, a throaty and sexy laugh. I knew that he knew he was famous. "What ever makes you think that you would fall in love with me?"

"I don't know. You just seem like a very charming guy. The type of guy I could fall in love with."

"Well..." he looked into space. I was a bit hopeful. "I'd better go home now."

I had felt disappointed. But I wouldn't show. So I just shrugged it off and told him, "Okay. Alright then. I guess you'd better be heading home."

He got up and beginning to walk away slowly.

"Wait."

He didn't look back at me, but stopped. "Yes?"

"You're Sasuke Uchiha, right?"

"Everyone knows that," he said. "Or maybe you think I'm disguised?"

I smiled. " No, I didn't have that thought. Well, Sasuke, you feel free to come sit with me any day you like, alright? I mean, if you ever want...and...uh, no exaggeration 'cause you know how small town folks like to gossip."

He smirked a bit, before turning around and heading home.

That was the first time I actually spoke to him. After that we had many conversations under that old birch tree, getting to know each other better every day. Eventually my words came true, and we fell in love with each other. The townspeople disapproved of his being with me, the horrid pink hair freak, but he didn't care. He loved me, and that was all that mattered.

I opened my eyes to see a nurse standing in my doorway. She wasn't the same one as before. This one was older, and she looked less patient.

"Time for your meds."

She brought in a handful of pills and a small cup of water, which I took without any fight. I didn't remember what all the pills were for, but what did that matter? A nurse brought them to me daily, so I didn't have to keep up with them.

"How are you doing tonight, Sakura?" She was looking down at her clipboard, distracted.

I wondered if I should tell her the truth. If I should tell her that I was having trouble remembering what was real again. Sasuke kept talking to me, but wasn't there someone just about an hour ago saying he wasn't real? He was real, of course. They just couldn't see him like I could. But they seemed to get upset when I told them that, so I didn't bother.

Instead, I smiled at the nurse still waiting on my response.

"I'm doing well, actually. I'm a bit tired. I think I want to go to sleep early, and try to get some rest."

"Good!" She seemed pleased with my response, and scribbled something on her clipboard. "Get some sleep, then. I'll be back by to check on you in a few hours. Goodnight." With that, she left the room, leaving me to the quiet again.

I settled back on my bed, pulling the covers all the way up to my chin. I was not really going to sleep, but they didn't need to know that. It was best if they thought everything in the world was just as they saw it.

They didn't know how to know about Sasuke and I. But I knew, of course.

And for tonight, I was going to lie in bed and talk with him for a while. In the morning, I would see what he wanted me to do about this place and these people who just didn't understand.

Someday this silence would take up an explosion.

And that day I would see what I could do about them.

Sakura's hallucinating. O_O But anyway, I think something's in my mind about it. I'm real tired now. O:

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