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"Tamaki may I come in?"

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"Tamaki may I come in?"

The young girl stood outside her friends door and held the teddy he had given her close to her chest. She sniffed and tried to hold back the tears that threatened to spill down her pale cheeks. When she heard a muffled 'come in', she opened the door and shuffled over the threshold.

Once Tamaki saw the tears in her eyes and her sad expression, he ran over to her and gently took her arm, pulling her over to his bed and sitting her down on the edge. He knelt down before her and asked, "what's wrong Aya? Please don't look so sad."

Tamaki had known Aya since they were babies and unbeknownst to her, she was his first love. He might have been young, but he was old enough to know what it meant to like someone.

Aya had her head burrowed in her teddies fur so it muffled her reply, "I'm moving."

Tamaki had to strain his ears to hear her, and all he understood was 'moving.' He blinked at her and put his hands on her trembling knees. "Moving? Who's moving?!"

That was when Aya lifted her head up and wailed, "I am! We're moving to England in a few days." Her tears were now like a never-ending stream and it broke Tamaki's tiny heart.

He got up off his knees, moved the teddy out of the way, and hugged her to him. "Don't cry Aya. No matter how far you are I'll always be there for you. We'll meet again someday."

"Y-y-you promise?" She hiccuped and lifted her face, so teary hazel eyes met smiling amethyst ones.

He grinned at her broadly and said, "I promise!"

Aya remembered that her parents collected her, and then they had to get everything ready for their departure the next day. With one last goodbye to Tamaki and a kiss on the cheek, she left and didn't see him for ten years.

After the first two years, they lost contact: due to them being in different countries, the differing time-zones and their extremely hectic lives. They were both heirs to their parents' companies after all.

It was said that Aya was young, beautiful and wealthy. She didn't have a care in the world, not for money or anything. Money was just always there when she needed or wanted it. Aya could be seen as another rich, spoiled brat, and during this period she was just that. She didn't have to worry about anything.

And then one of the harshest things that could happen to her family happened... Her father's company went bankrupt, and it left them with practically nothing.

That was when she had to learn to do things by herself and she left her private school and entered a public school, leaving her old friends behind. Luckily, she made some friends at her new school.

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