A/N: Again, I apologise for the short, chapters. Really I do. But it gets bettter, I promise :)

Tonight is a story of love
And two broken hearts set by one
All he wants is a sign
Of how she's making her mind
All we ever wanted was

Love and love and happy afternoons

Tonight I will sit next to you
To see if you act like we're through
To make you laugh is all I want
I'll hold you while tears fill our eyes

All We Ever Needed, The Early November

Kel covered the distance from Neal’s room in the Healer’s building to Yuki’s guest quarters in a number of long, quick strides. She didn’t know what had happened to make Neal like this. She only knew that it was terribly wrong.

Not bothering with courtesy, or the fact that most people would be readying themselves for bed, she rapped briskly on her friend’s door. There was muffled noise from inside, but no one answered.

She rapped again, hard this time. When still no one answered, she pounded the door with her fist, shaking it on its hinges. “Yuki,” she called, “Yuki, open the door.” She shouted it first in common, then Yamani.

Finally the door opened a crack. ‘Yukimi noh Dia--“Kel stopped. It was not Yuki who stood in the doorway, but her close Yamani friend, Lady Haname.

“Lady Yukimi does not desire to speak with you--” she said flatly, trying to shut the door, but Kel stuck her foot in the frame, then pressed her whole shoulder into the crack to shove the door open.

With her shoulder still in the doorway, she gave a half-bow in Yamani fashion, Lady Haname’s body still preventing her from seeing-or entering- into Yuki’s rooms. “Forgive me, Lady,” Kel begged in quiet Yamani, “but this does not concern you.”

Haname’s voice was strained, especially so for a Yamani, as she spoke through gritted teeth, trying to force Kel back through the door. Her light frame could not budge Kel’s much larger one. “Yuki does not want--”

“Let her in, Haname,” Yuki called tiredly from somewhere inside the room. “I may as well explain things. Alone,” she added softly, her voice hoarse. The other Yamani cast her friend an exasperated look and retreated.

Kel stepped further into the room as Haname left, only to see that Yuki’s eyes were red-rimmed and swollen. Her clothes were mussed, and her small hands were clenched into fists.

“Yuki, what’s going on? I found Neal--”

“Kel, I'm ending it. I'm ending everything. I'm going back to Yaman. I'm leaving tomorrow.”

A/N: Okay, there you go. I hope you like it, for all these past chapters have been pretty uneventful. Review, please?