Chapter 8

`Lavi

I learned that Lenalee and I are the same age and in the same grade but she studies in a different school. I also learned that she's Chinese but transferred here with her brother since his work is in this area.

She had told me that Daisya is her next door neighbor who is staying with other kids. Before leaving the park, we made a promise to each other that we'll meet up once in a while in the park again to play. She often comes there every weekend with her brother. We'll play if Tyki-nii has time to bring me there.

And I'm really thankful to Tyki-nii for that. If he hadn't offered to bring me there once in awhile when he has time, I won't be able to see Lenalee at all.

He really has become much kinder. I'm so happy that it's like before and even better although there are still time that I would miss auntie and uncle. I do my best not to mention them since I know Tyki-nii gets sad when he remembers. I don't want to see him sad. I don't want to see a frown on his face.

I want to see Tyki-nii smiling most of the time. Seeing him happy makes the lonely feeling go away. The pain of being left out in school is gone as long as Tyki-nii is happy.

It really hurt back then when he was feeling down, much worse than what I experienced in school. I guess it's because Tyki-nii is so important to me while those other children don't mean anything at all which is why I easily forget.

Lenalee though isn't like those children which is what makes me so happy that she has become my friend.

`Tyki

Lavi has gotten really cheerful lately after making friends with the Chinese girl. I feel happy for him yet... there's this weird feeling.

I guess I feel a bit envious that she can make him smile like that, the smile I hadn't seen for a long time since I've often hurt him in the past. He did try repeatedly to smile but I know there was a mixture of sadness when he did so.

I may feel envious but I wouldn't want to do anything that will make him sad. I try to do my best and be the best older brother for him.

It is really nice seeing his smile, so innocent and sweet, so honest and pure. I will do my best to keep that on his face.

Days, weeks and then a month has passed by. Even if they only meet in the weekend, Lavi and Lenalee are the best of friends. At times he comes up with the most peculiar things but Lenalee would often smile and join him.

Everything is like a dream so wondrous, beautiful but then dreams are like ephemeral angels. They are short-lived. They don't last long.

They are only real when you're asleep. The moment you wake up, it shatters and fades away like as if nothing happened.

He had only come too early before the usual time and heard her conversation with her brother. He didn't mean to eavesdrop but he had clearly heard them despite trying to keep a distance.

"Lenalee, why are you playing with that child? No wonder you had been acting so strangely and doing such unusual things."

"Brother, I'm not really going to play with him long. It's just that, I felt sorry for him. Daisya was really mean to him so in the spur of the moment, I made friends with him like I did with the other kids. I don't really like him much with that weird eye patch. His eye was so creepy and scary. I don't want to play with him anymore."

`Lavi

'I'm not really going to play with him long.'

Why?

'I don't really like him much with that weird eye patch.'

But I thought you said that didn't matter.

'His eye was so creepy and scary.'

When you asked me to let you see, didn't you say you wouldn't change your attitude towards me?

'I don't want to play with him anymore.'

You did though.

You said that being friends doesn't have anything to do with my eye patch.

You said that you won't feel scared or freaked out by it when I show you.

You said you wouldn't change...

But then again, I guess maybe you didn't.

All of those time might have all been a pretense. All of those times, you may have had only lied to me with those sweet lies and smiles, making me believe they were real.

You made me believe that I finally had a friend I can trust but all of those were really just sweet lies uttered by your lips. All of those smiles you showed me weren't real.

They were never real.

They may have been sweet at a certain point but now, they are just so bitter, painful.

The first friend I finally had wasn't real but merely an illusion shattered by reality.

It can never be real.

`little bunny: Thanks for reading ^_^ I hope you like this chapter.

*And thanks to 'lal' and 'L4DRULEZ900' for reviewing in the previous chapter.

10/18/2011