Why does the sun keep on shining...
Took so long... Am I still alive?
Kidding., Yes., I'm alive., Run out of idea... run out of beta..
sorry if there's a lot of errors...
Sorry if I took so long...
For months.. I leave in mountain... Kidding...
Just too busy... and run out of idea...
kakakaka
maybe a week I'll repose another one.?
Kakakaka only after I came back from the civilization...
tommorrow morning when you wake up I'll come back to the mountains...
kakakaka just kidding..
Chapter Four
Under a clear blue sky, two innocent childhood friends make a promise.
"I... I... I l-like yo-"
"Hmmm?" The young girl tilted his head to looked at the young boy whose looking at his own feet.
"-your eyes!"
A young boy nervously shouted. He then realize what he just said. He bow his head from embarrassment and turned his back from her.
'I'm an idiot!'
The young girl pouted and crossed her hand in her chest. He looked at the back of the young boy.
"You really don't have a backbone. Hmmp."
"She's angry with me." The young man silently cried.
"When you grow up make me your wife!"
The girl smiled at the young boy.
The boy wide-eyed turned around and looked at the girl. When he saw that the young where serious. He smiled widely.
"Yes! You will be my queen!"
For that young girl, that smile was as beautiful as the sky.
"That's a promise!"
A promise by the two kids. Where could they lead them?
"An innocent promise from a childhood. I wonder if you still remember it."
The brown haired man, sitting at the hood of a car open his eyes as he stared at the clear blue sky.
"Too bright. Will I ever get to see you again?" He closed his eyes again.
I wonder why did I dream that?...
That's the only memory he regain after all this year. His childhood...
Red cross his arms as he looked at where the pink-haired girl entered.
So, she's the one leaving there? A neighbor, huh? Hmmm... What it is?
He was still standing in the entry way while thinking something. An idea came up. Then, out of the blue someone tap his shoulder. He startled. He glanced at his side.
Where did you appear from?
He saw Kira standing next to him. He put both his hand in his pocket.
"Who is it?"
Kira hold at the door's frame as he looked outside but can't see anyone. He then looked again at Red. Kira caught a glimpse of Red's scar near his forehead. He ignored it and looked at the ocean.
"No one." Red looked outside too. How did you know that I was looking at a human being?" Red frowned.
"I heard you talking to someone."
"Is that so..."
You had a sharp ears. You were just up stair a minute ago.
Red looked at the house next to them. "It's a girl."
"A girl...?" Kira frowned and tried to looked where Red is looking. He saw their neighbor's house. Then, she remember Lacus. "What does she need? Did she tell?"
"One of your fans, maybe. There's a lot of young girls who comes and goes here."
"Well, that's true. There's a lot of of women went here before for an unknown reason."
Red sighed. Kira is that kind of person. What they said about that person. What it is? Stupid? Idiot? No. Maybe... What it is? Can't remember. It was on the tip of my tongue. Ah!...
"You really are popular with girls, don't you?"
"Says who?" Kira whisper. Red heard him but didn't comment. Hiss face brightened up.
"Why don't you try becoming our new image model? It seems that girls swoons over you. And not just some small fish, a big one, too."
Kira frowned and walked towards the kitchen.
"Ha, ha, sounds funny. Not interested."
"No kidding. You should." Red followed him.
Kira glaze at Red.
I had a feeling that Red was plotting something again. I feel uneasy. I think it's better to run away from here. But... this is my house.
"You're plotting something again?"
Red fetch some water and he looks at what's Mayura cooking.
"Nothing. By the way, that girl's seems interesting. You manage to catch some good fish."
"Who?" Kira frowned.
"Pink haired princess."
Red saw Asagi's peeling off some potatoes. He drank water while looking at Asagi.
"Will you teach these kids some manners?"
Red saw how Asagi's shoulder twitched. Red tap Kira's shoulder as he leave the kitchen. Leaving Kira who got curious and confused. Asagi's hands started shaking as she peel off the potatoes. Kira followed Red.
"They always ruined my plans." Red murmur.
The last time he tried to set a blind date for Kira, Audrey ruined it. In revenge, he gave the exact address to all of the girls that he found out that had a big crush on Kira. Maybe, that's one of the reason Kira leave the house.
"Hey, what do you mean?"
"Forget it." Red wave his hand as he walked.
Kira stand there looking more and more confused and curious.
"I can't understand you." Kira sighed and walked outside to take a fresh air. "Better not involved me in that silly ideas of yours."
"Hey, want to go on a date?"
"I'm not into men." Kira answered to stop Red from setting up a date to someone again.
"Then, you're lolicon?" Red answered back with joked and a matching serious tone.
Kira halted. "What!?" Kira slowly turned around to looked at him, confused and shocked.
"What?" Red said playing innocent.
"What is lolicon?"
"Did I said that? I think you're hearing things."
Red walked away and leave the confused Kira behind. He turned his head around to look at Kira once more. Kira's now looking at the sky with a serious looked. Maybe, still thinking what he just said now.
Well, I didn't know that what that means too. I happen to heard it from Audrey when they bickered before. I got curious about that alien word that I dare to search it on internet.
Speaking of her. He doesn't know what to do with Audrey, too.
He looked at their neighbor's house. The pink princess was no where in sight anymore. Looking at Kira's back, an idea came.
I have to device a new plan and better yet found everything about that Lacus. Maybe this time I can finally take my revenge.
He silently laughed as he continued to walked away.
At the same time Kira and Lacus felt a chill go down they their spine. They both looked around them, scared.
Scary...
"Whenever you look at me. Who do you saw? Was it me or him? Or your hoping that he is me?"
A long silence. She can't answer him. What he said is right. She was hoping that he is the one I lost before. I believe...
"You know he's lucky. He has everything I wanted. I'm telling you. He's not me. Better wake up from dreaming. This is reality."
He walked away. She ran for him. But, she didn't catch up on him. He suddenly vanished. She looked around her. No ones there. She's alone again. In that pitch dark place.
She stand still there. She embraced herself. A tear escaped from his eyes. She felt lonely... Scared...
"No... Don't leave me... Please... I can't let you get away again. I won't let you leave me again... Please.. Believe me... Kira..."
"Kira, wait!"
Lacus was breathing hard. She woke up from that nightmare. She felt her heart were being squeeze. She looked at the alarm clock in the table.
3am. She remember something. Someone told her when you had a dream and woke up at three o'clock in the morning what you just dream will come true.
"A dream..."
Just a bad dream...
"What was that dream? What was it? I can't remember."
She's soaked with sweat. She felt her cheeks wet. She wipe it with the sleeve of her nightgown. She lie down again in the bed. She close her eyes and wish she can sleep again. But as she close her eyes she can see herself alone in that pitch dark place. She forced herself to sleep.
After a few minutes, she opened her eyes.
"I can't sleep!" She mumbled. "It's no good."
Now, that Kira is within her reach, she can't sleep properly since that day. She's been sleep deprived. She would wake up in the middle of the night just because of those dream that she can't seem to remember. She was too excited and then she would feel that someone was crushing her heart. It happen to her a long time ago. Before and after Kira vanished.
She can still remember that feeling. The feeling of being abandoned. What really happen in their relationship, they kept it a secret. Before Kira disappear their relationship wasn't going well. They always have a petty fight which she was the one who initiate and Kira sometimes ignored it to the point he will just smile at her. She became a brat that would get mad at even a single and simple thing. Their relationship were starting to crumble. No ones know that. Only them.
Their relationship wasn't moving forward. They kept on standing still. Nothing change. No improvement at all. It's just like that person said. She long forgotten about it. She just realize it now. That time what she said affected us greatly.
No matter how much you love each other. If you're too close to each other and won't leave any space there will be a time that the love you felt for each other would turned to a friendly love. If you don't want that to happen leave a space, learn to know your place and stop...
That day, she felt it. Something bad is going to happened but she didn't stop him. She trust him. She trust his words. No, it was because she love him still.
The news of Kira disappearance was a wake up call to her and her heart shattered when the next news about him is his death.
"Wait, what did she said after that? I've forgot already. And who was that again?"
She stayed laying down and hoping that she can sleep again. She startled when her phone ring. She looked at her table beside where she put her phone and pick it up.
"Hmmm? Who would call at a time like this?"
She looked at the screen of his phone.
An unknown number.
She hit the answer button.
I think I'm hearing strange noises over the phone.
"Hello!?"
No one answer. She can hear that someone is sniffing.
"Hello!? Who is it?"
"Ah.!"
A shriek. She heard a voice. It was a voice of a girl. Her voice seems familiar. She looks at the screen once again. This number was somehow familiar. But, she can't remember whose number it is.
"Hello!?"
Suddenly, the line cut off. Her eyebrow twitched.
I can't believe someone dare to call at this time and hung up on me.
That it's! She can't really sleep now. Her body wants to sleep but her mind won't let her.
I want to go back to sleep. Please... Let me... Go back to sleep...
Lacus straighten her back and looked around her but she's alone. She's at the living room talking to Maya, her new personal assistant, over the phone. Then, she heard something out of place.
Was someone crying? Who could it be?
She heard it again and this time, she notice that it was coming from her neighbor's. She looked at the window.
"Thanks, Maya. Okay, bye."
She turned off the phone and stand up. She opened the window. The sunlight blinded her. It takes seconds before she can see what was outside.
"The weather so nice today."
She heard someone singing, well, supposedly singing but it feels like that someone was just reading aloud. When she looked around, she saw her neighbor's holding a bucket, a rag, a flute and a paper.
What are they doing? Wait, there is no one crying but singing...?
She observed them. She now notice that everyone's dress looks funny.
Gerard had a red cape and a bucket on the head. Aisha had a blue cape and holding a toy wand. Frederick holding a red cushion. Asagi holding a rug and a broom. Auel holding a monocle. And she saw a red-haired girl. She's older than the rest of the looks twenty.
I didn't know her. Who could she be?
She stayed and watched as Asagi sing. Well, it feels like Asagi's not singing more or like she just read whats written on the paper she's holding. After Asagi sing they started bickering to each other. She laugh when she heard what they says. She continue to listened to them.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale,
ha ha ha ha high above me
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
ha ha ha ha high above
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha high
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
Oh, sing sweet nightingale sing
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Oh sing sweet
Oh sing
"What's funny, Gerard?"
Asagi says after she's done singing or more reading her lines. She frowned at Gerard. Gerard kept on laughing while the bucket is still on his head. Gerard kept on insisting that it was a crown because he was the king.
"I didn't know that big sister Asagi is tone deaf. You didn't sound like Cinderella at all. You more look like the step sister."
"You were the one who ask for my help. I didn't volunteer."
Asagi said then she walked out.
"You make her mad." Frederick looked at Gerard.
"I'm just telling the truth. Her voice hurts my ears. Was sister even singing?" Gerard pout at Frederick.
"Yeah, it's bad for our health." Auel agree at Gerard.
"You should just cover your ear. Now, no ones gonna play Cinderella." Frederick said as he cross his arms.
Their school were having a program and each
"Even you agree to us." Auel murmur.
"Just let Aisha play Cinderella." Gerard suggested.
"She's the fairy godmother."
"She's small. How did she become fairy godmother?" Gerard frowned and looked at Aisha.
"You talk man. Your much smaller and younger. How did you become the king?" Frederick asked back at Gerard.
"How about you, Frederick? Your human. How did you become the door?" Auel asked innocently.
"I'm doorman not a door." Frederick correct Auel
"Door.. man..? Is there such thing?" Auel frowned.
"Are you making fun of me?" Frederick place both his hand on his hip.
"No, I'm confused."
"Yeah, yeah."
"By the way, sister Mayura. Your voice was perfect." Gerard said mischievously.
"Thank you..." Mayura, their female helper blushed, who just listened to their bickering.
"For the character of Drizella!" They all chorused and run away.
"You brat!" Mayura shake her head. She turned around when she felt that someone was watching them.
A pink-haired girl were looking at her thru the window in their neighbor's house. She smiled and vow at her before she live as she picks up the things that the children used in their role playing. Mayura looked again at the pink-haired girl when she remember something but she's not there anymore.
"What's the fuss?"
Kira turned around to looked at Red. He notice the kids were about to enter. He cover his face to stop himself from laughing when they saw what they wearing. He then notice that the kids looks gloom.
"We don't have someone who will play the prince charming and now... no ones gonna play the Cinderella."
It was Gerard who speak, he was looking at the floor.
"It looks like the world is in your shoulder." Red commented then continue walking towards the stairs.
All of them looked at Red as he ascend at the stairs. When his long gone all of them looked at him. He smiled at them. He ask them to come closer and then he turned off the tv.
"How long uncle Red will be here?" Auel ask him as he sit beside him at the sofa.
He notice that the kid is always so stiff when either Audrey or Red were here. Take for example, when they were eating. The usual noisy lunch became the awkward lunch. The kids were too nervous to even make a sound when they eat.
Well, Red were too intimidating.
He doesn't know how to smile. Well, he smile but not the pure one with the meaning of he is happy or something funny. It was scary being with him. He also feel that way at first when Audrey introduced him again to me a few years ago. He was scary when he glared at me that day back in the hospital.
People ask him even Red why he's been taking in orphaned children. The only thing that came up on his mind was it makes the void in his heart disappear and it feels natural for me to take in child.
"Dunno." He shrugged his shoulder. "So, what's the problem?"
"We don't have a prince charming." Auel said.
"And now we don't have a Cinderella." Gerard gloomy said.
"Your one to talk when it's your fault that we don't have someone to play Cinderella." Frederick accused Gerard
"Wah.. Scary! Frederick looks scary!" Gerard pointed at Frederick. "You should thank me. If we listened to that horrible voice any longer we'll be dead. Just thinking that I'll hear that horrible voice every time we practice looses my energy."
Kira shocked, stared at Gerard.
Is he really a four year old kid?
"Now, what should we do about the play? I wanna perform the play." Aisha mumble.
All of them looked at Aisha. Aisha looked at him. Then, suddenly all of them stare back at her.
"You could be our prince charming!"
Yeah, right! Please... Don't involve me!
"I think that's a bad idea..." He smile pitifully. He felt that his been cornered and escaped.
"I agree to them." All of them looked at from where the voice came from. In the stair, Red standing there. He looks having a good time. "Then, let's make the pink-haired princess the Cinderella. I heard she had a good voice."
The kids frowned and stared to each other. They looked again at Red then to him. Mayura heard it as she entered the house.
"You mean Miss Lacus? That's great!" Mayura looks happy as she heard that name. "Lacus is me and my sister's favorite singer. How I wish that you could encourage her to play Cinderella. Then, I can invite my sister and we can ask for autographed. Oh my gosh! I can't believe she live beside us. What a dream come true."
Looks like Mayura got to the dream world as she kept on mumbling. She almost didn't listen to them. Just keep on talking about Lacus.
"Is Aunt Lacus that popular?" Gerard looked at him and asked innocently.
"Yes, she is! You want to know more about her? Want to watch one of her live concert? I still have it. I still even have the magazine which her picture was the cover." Mayura suggest.
"Alele... We didn't know that Mayura was a hard core fanatic." Frederick commented.
"You bet! I can't believe it! I saw her a while ago and oh my gosh! I'm not dreaming! I really saw her in person! She even look at me and smile!" Mayura added excitedly.
"She always smile at us. She even bake cookies for us." Aisha said.
"Don't bother, Aisha. She's in her dreamland." Frederick sigh.
"Guys! Let's leave sister Mayura here. Let's go to aunt Lacus." Auel suggested.
"Is that really a good idea? Asking her? Kids, I think she's busy."
"'No, she's not. She got plenty of time."
"You don't understand what I mean. I think your imposing on her too much." Kira complained.
"Don't worry, everything is under control." Gerard stand up at the sofa. "I wanna eat cookies!"
"Hey! Don't stand at the sofa." Aisha warned Gerard.
Gerard jump to the floor and run towards the door. And shout, "It's a race! To aunt Lacus!"
"Hey, wait up!"
"You cheater!"
All of then run towards the door and started their competition.
When the kids gone. Only him and Mayura who where still mumbling left. Even Red joined the kids and gone to their neighbor's.
He stand up and walk towards the window to looked at their neighbor's. He saw the kids were being lead inside by Lacus. He move to curtain to hide when Lacus looked at his way. Then, they were nowhere in sight anymore. He sighed and walked upstairs. He still had a lot of thing he need to finish.
But, he still think about Lacus. Something familiar with her that I can't seem to point out. He was been curious about her after I saw her once in her interview. Even my sister teased him. He was always too caught up when he always saw her in the news.
Now, they saw her in person, one thing came in her mind. She's weird. That's and that's. But, she's really curious about her. He can't forget her.
And that day... That supposedly called fateful encounter... That happened...
I noticed her longing gaze and the feelings reflected in her eyes. But soon I was enthralled by her.
"I really like her smiled. How I wish she smiled for me... I want know more about her..."
He almost slipped when he just realized what he just said.
"What the heck I'm saying?"
He whacked himself.
"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Lacus didn't know whether she was still sleepy or she heard it right. Telling that as soon as she opened the door only weirdos do. She closed the door believing what she heard was nothing but an illusions. Because if it wasn't illusion then that person in front of the door were a weirdo.
Weirdo. There's a weirdo outside. But somehow, he looks familiar.
She turned around and walked away. She halted. Someone knock again. She's having doubt whether to open the door or not. She hold the knob and sighed. When she opened the door again, she saw that weirdo with a serious looking face without a single hint that he was just joking.
"How about in second sight?"
She closed it again. This time with a loud BANG!
"There was nothing there. I'm just sleep deprived."
She heard someone talking stifly while knocking at the door.
"Hello! I'm not some suspicious person." Lacus heard him sighed. "Okay! I admit that was a lame joke. I know."
She opened the door again and saw that man she met that night in Kira's house. She heard someone snickering. She looked down and saw the kids smiling at her.
"Hello, princess!" It was Frederick hiding at Red while waving at her.
"Sorry, sorry. That was a bad joke it seems."
Lacus felt that this guy doesn't seem apologizing. His facial expression doesn't change and his tone too. But she feels that he's really apologetic even though he doesn't look like one. It seems this person was a type of person who looks serious even though he's trying to be apologetic or when trying to make a joke.
"Did you need anything?" Lacus turned her attention at the kids.
"This kids wants to ask you a small favor." Red answered which she just simply smile.
Is there any reason you have to come with them?
Red looked her eyes and she avoided it by looking at the kids, well, still wearing that props, maybe?
"Hmmm... Come in." She wants to hesitate because she's leaving alone and she doesn't know much about this man. But, she let them in because of the kids.
She opened the door widely. She looked at her neighbor's house and felt that someone were standing, looking at her thru that window.
"So, what do you want with me?"
"We want you to be our Cinderella!"
"Huh!?"
"There's a program at our school. And we need to have a play. And we decide that it was Cinderella."
"We have everything. Script, props but we don't have Cinderella."
"Wait! Wait ! Wait!"
"We want you to play Cinderella."
"I'll prepare something for you. You like cookies?"
"Yes!"
"Yehey! Cookies!"
She let them in the living room while she got in the kitchen. She was putting the plates of cookies in the tray when someone talk behind her. She almost drop the plates of cookies she's holding.
"What is relationship with Kira? Aside from being a neighbor?"
Lacus shocked, slowly turned around.
"Kira is my brother-in-law. Did you know that?..."
She saw how Red slowly walked towards her. She felt her heart pounding nonstop. Just hearing that name makes her nervous. The pounding of her heart double that it feels that it was the only thing she can hear right now when Red's face got closer to her face.
"... You can ask me anything but you have to answer my question..."
Lacus gulped and turned her away her attention.
"...What is your connection with Kira?"
I only have to answer that question and it was too simple...
But... she hadn't gotten have the chance to answer that after what she just heard.
My eyes have swollen so much from crying so much. My brain hurts when thinking too much. I really can't take it anymore.
Now that I had the time to think... I'm starting to regret what I did...
Why did I said those words? Why did I break our relationship? He's my most important person in the world.
I confined myself to my own world. Never bothering to look around me. So I thought that I was the only who was suffering.
I thought that once I crossed that line. Everything I had would change. That's why I was so afraid. But it seems like nothing has changed.
There was nothing for me to be afraid of since I have you by my side. But... that was just a wishful thinking...
I didn't do anything wrong. Since I'm the one who feels this stabbing pain. I'm not the one at fault. What should I do? What if he hates me now?
That's what I've been asking myself since then.
Don't go. Don't leave me here on my own. Please, stay with me. A silent wishes of mine... A feeling of regret...
Now... Was it really my fault that it comes to this? Everything? No! I don't have to apologize because I didn't do anything except fall in love with him.
Is this my punishment? You hating me... Isn't this worse than death?
I had long forgotten how to breathe deeply... What is this red blood? I can't... breathe... Fate is always laughing at me... I wish I could turn back time. If I can't do that, I wish I could hurry up and disappear.
So... Please... Kira... Forgive me...
Thanks for waiting... If there someone bother to wait..?
kakakaka :)