"I'm sorry but; I can't help you. After you left for London-" "England" "Sorry- England, all of our powers went away. Mint, Lettuce- everyone." I sighed. Frustrated, I put my head in my hands. I'd told her about the alien attack… But I really didn't wanna talk about why it mattered so much.
"Look, It was after me. There'll probably be more. And if they were after me, they're gunna go after you too. And everyone else."
"So you're saying, we're getting the mew mew's back together?" She sort of smiled. It was good to see her smile, even if it was just a little bit.
"Just until we figure out why Kish and his brothers are attacking us and end it."
"Well yeah but, how are we gunna do that? None of us have our old powers. Besides, we've all moved on. We all have different lives now. I have a movie I have to shoot. And last I heard Pudding changed her name, Mint got married, and I saw Lettuce the other day on t.v. doing some orphanage thing."
"Mint got married? How come she didn't invite us to her wedding?"
"Apparently it was a 'I'm drunk and in Los Vegas' thing."
"Ohhh," I laughed. Then stopped. I couldn't picture Mint getting drunk for my life.
"Alright well, I had a different life to. But, it was ruined when the aliens attacked me and my-" I cut myself off. O, I couldn't talk about this. Not now.
"Your, what?" Zakuro asked.
"My…" I looked up at her, my throat slowly twisting into a giant knot. It began to choke me.
"I was gunna get married- Zee." I said using her old nickname. My tears started to fall, one by one. Then soon they were all coming down at once.
"What? What do you mean? You and Masaya were finally gunna get married? For real?" My eyes hurt, I couldn't see. My throat twisted so badly when she said that name, I felt like I was going to die…
*Flash back *
"Oh Masaya stop it." I laughed whacking him on the arm. He laughed.
"Ouch! Ouch, that hurt."
"Oh my god, really?"
"No!" He laughed. I smiled looking up at him. He looked down at me, straight in the eyes.
"Ichigo, you know I'll love you forever."
"I know, Masaya, I know." I leaned up and kissed him passionately; my heart fluttered inside my chest.
"Hay, I wanna show you something…"
" Biggest mistake I ever made…" I whispered through my tears.
"What?" Zakuro had her arms around me trying to make me feel better. I just shook my head and let more tears flow.
"It wasn't M-" I cut myself off, then started over.
"It wasn't… Him." I said sniffing, then I sat up.
"It was Jake; a kid I met in college… The alien killed him; he was only trying to protect me… I was going to take a job at The Pierre Gagnaire Restaurant in Paris. We were gunna get married, have kids. We even talked about some names." I laughed threw the last off my tears. Jake wouldn't want me to be like this all the time…
"Oh my god, I don't know what to say… I'm so sorry." Zakuro said.
"It's okay, it's not your fault." I said.
"So please, at least come by Ryou's house later. I don't know if we can do anything about the aliens with out our powers but- Ryou, Ryou will know."
"Alright, I'll stop by." I gave her a week smile; she returned it.