Chapter 2: It was fate
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Syaoran still couldn't believe what had happened.She had saved his life.Sakura.Why??This wasn't meant to happen.Syaoran wondered how in the world someone so gentle and kind as Sakura could get killed by her own compassion.Sakura was innocent.But why to save his life?Syaoran's head was swirling with questions and doubts.Tired,sweating and still terminally confused,Syaoran fell asleep.
Later that night,Syaoran searched for meaning as he tossed and turned in his own bed.He broke out in cold sweat that trickled slowly down his forehead.Guilt was the only word to describe what Syaoran felt.He couldn't sleep ,he couldn't think.Even hearing his own voice sent shivers down his spine.All he could think of was Sakura,and how he had failed to save her-instead,he had hurt her with his carelessness.He kept blaming himself.Time and again,he had tried to protect all the people who were close to him.Time and again,he had brought death,misfortunes and sadness.
Sakura dreamt that she was in another world and that Syaoran was waiting there for her.But everytime he reached out to hold her hand,her own slipped.Whenever she tried to run toward him,she was on a never-ending run.She was forever running but slipping away,further into sleep.The angel of death had come.
The funeral bells rung,filling the hollow church halls with an empty,melancholic sound that echoed endlessly.Syaoran couldn't believe it.
Sakura had died.
The doctor had told him that she had tried her best to fight until the very end.But still,it was a losing battle.Syaoran fought back tears when the doctor had told him how she talked of him or called out to him in her coma.He promised that he had tried his best.Syaoran hung his head after that.I'm worse that an animal,thought Syaoran.I can't even look straight at any of Sakura's relatives,or....or........her coffin.He choked back tears.
He had refused to go to the funeral.But he knew,even when she wasn't there,that she was with him in the silence,quietly watching over him. |
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