A/N: Based on a small omitted section of my Aria/Sylvette one-shot "Promises". I couldn't find a place for this in the one-shot, so I had to leave it out.
Tegami Bachi is... not owned by me.
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A Story Saved for a Rainy Day (Aria/Sylvette)
Pressing doubts she could no longer hide
Her kind friend never more to walk by her side
The remnants of their bonds she desired to protect
But her confidence shaken, this vow not seemed kept
The girl, the sister, the one they held dear
Grew ever kind and lovely, year after year
Each passed so quietly without fanfare in the way
Saving stories and matters told for this rainy day
She mentioned the story from the past with her lover
Precious words spent together, one with the other
While the story hardly proved memorable itself
One verse etched in memory, such feelings she'd tell:
A gentle breeze could make the grasses sway
Never rendered frail, or faded away
Twisted the light blanketing flowers halfway grown
But the trees didn't even know the wind had blown
Lamented she did as she conveyed the rhyme
Those emotions inside, present all of this time
Her desire to be strong as the trees for this girl
Left her withered inside, a blade of grass that had curled
"I'm sorry for everything, disappointing you so
I want to stand tall and solid so you'd grow
Grow into a woman that good would surely seek
I just wanted to be your strength when you were weak."
Looking up with a smile, the girl took her hand
With that innocent warmth, and a response so unplanned
She tenderly said, "The grass has much power
It stands tall like the trees among each pretty flower
"When the warmth of spring dawns and the snow disappears
The grass returns green as it was the last year
It's impossible to stand unwavering as the trees
In our fragile grass-like lives, we must feel the breeze."
Her tears dried away in the sun of true words
The wisdom of a child expressed and now heard
In her moment of comfort, the woman smiled and sighed
"Thank you, Sylvette, for this strength now inside."