Ranma 1/2: A moment in time
1: Your Smile
By Cheel

This the first story of a young man struggling for some kind of answer.

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This is just one moment in my life. Pain is all I really feel now; now
that her smile is gone, now that her efforts to help me are missing out
of my life. I miss her more than anything. Why did she have to die?

I look into the sky and pray for her return every day, yet there is
nothing I can do. I lost her. A second faster I could have restored
her to health. I could be with her now and forever. Why, oh why
couldn’t I be faster?

I push my self harder now, harder than ever. I am the best. Heh, yea
I’m still the best and I still don’t have her. Yet I still train and
I’m not really sure why. That’s not true, I know why. I train to
forget.

I never want to forget her, yet the memories become vague sometimes.
I will never forget that smile though. Never! I hope she remembers me
where ever she is. I hope she still has that same beautiful smile.
I really hope she still smiles at me when I join her.

I don’t plan on joining her soon. I know she wouldn’t like that at
all. Damn that mallet anyway. Yet I still miss that all the same.
I just wish I wasn’t so foolish in my youth.

I wish I had held her and told her the truth. I wish I hold told the
other girls I only wanted to be friends with them. I wish... Yet all
the wishing I do will not bring her back. It will not change a thing
in the past or the future. I must move on some how.

I will never forget my un-cute tomboy. I loved her more than life.
I hope you hear my prayers. I hope you have that smile waiting
for me, my love. Please smile for me. Akane.