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Those Words
When my master came back, tired, but deliriously happy he sat down and embraced me with his warm arms, cooing compliments into my sensitive ears.
But when he saw that teddy bear, he stood up stiffly.
He gently pushed his childhood toy off the note and with his long, elegant fingers, picked up that note filled with sorrows.
With a sad smile, a smile of one remembering sorrowful memories, on his face my master read it again and slowly tore it up.
Then he tossed the pieces into the burning fire.
I padded over the look into the crimson flames and he wrapped a protective arm around me.
And together we watched the pieces of sorrow burn away into ashes.
Soon there was nothing left.
But I had been watching one piece.
It was a large chunk of the biggest paragraph, the part that my master had been the most hesitant to tear apart.
I watched it slowly burn to ashes.
But at the very end, just before it all would crumble apart, I read those sincere and heartfelt words.
There might have been only four, they might have only made a short and simple sentence, and they might have sounded clumsy from master's lips, but they would have changed everything.
And I wondered, would master really have destroyed those words if he knew the true meaning behind them?
Those words.
I love you, Haruhi.
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Argh. I wrote this chapter AGES ago, but seemed to just forget about it. It was meant to be posted after the teddy-bear one I think, as the third part. I still can't believe I forgot about it. Although, I might have written it at 11:30 in the morning, gone to bed, and woken up with my memory completely wiped. Anyway, hope you enjoy it! Thanks to Kaiyt for telling me about the author reviews limited thing. I never heard of it before … I'm not exactly a computer person, lets just leave it at that. Please keep reading and review!