Letters of my Life. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

Chapter 2

The stationery was the same as the first letter.

"Dear Kyoko-chan" written in the same handwriting as the first letter. Slowly opening the envelope and pulling out the letter, Kyoko tried to steady her mind. Her need to read the letter was immense as she tried to stop the shaking in her hands, slowly unfolding the letter she noticed the writing was a little more readable and a little more correct.

Dear Kyoko-chan,

So it has come to this time of year again. The family is all together and there are five stones this year and two introductions. But as ever, I am the black sheep as Aunt Toshi likes to whisper out loud so Mom hears her. I was worried that Mom would cry again and Dad would be mad, but this year they seem a little different. They both smile at me and tell me to go and report to my grandfather so here I am again in his study writing you my second letter.

I sit here wondering what I would say to you if you were here in person and I had introduced you to my family, though at just seven, I suppose you wouldn't understand the deeper meaning of it. I hope you still cherish my sapphire as you said you would and that you haven't lost it. Most of all I hope it makes you smile when you are sad and that it takes away all the worry and fears and makes you feel better. That's my only wish.

Well let me think this year has been a busy year. I will be 12 soon and on my way to junior high school which I'm really excited about. Me and my best friend Mark are going to the same school specially made for people wanting to be performers. Of course, we have to do all the normal subjects like maths and English and boring stuff like that, but we also get to do drama, stage work and other really amazing things. I'm really looking forward to it. Though speaking of school I wonder how you are doing? I wonder did you ever get 100% on that English test you told me about before I left? You looked so determined I'm sure you did well and for once you mom would praise you, how could she not? You try so hard at everything you do.

Dad and Mom have had really busy years too. Dad got a really big part in a big action movie and he was amazing! Kyoko-chan you would've loved it! He played a kind of prince role rescuing the princess from the evil wizard, saving the day and making the princess fall in love with him. Mom has also expanded on her own dream. She has always been a model, I told you how beautiful she was and still is. She has done a bit of acting and she was good at that too. It seems she is amazing at everything but cooking. She tried to cook a roast chicken the other day. I don't know what she put on it, but I think that might be the first time I've ever seen my dad nearly turn down food! But he ate it in the end after she looked like she was about to cry I think he must have an iron stomach or something as the tiny piece I had almost made me sick.

Well I was telling you the good news mom has finally started up her own range of clothing! She has always loved clothes and wearing them, but since her clothes line 'Little Sweethearts' hit the stores she has been thrown into the fashion world in a really big way and she loves it. She still does a little modelling and acting, but Dad says she has found her true vocation in life. I asked him what that meant and he told me it means she has found the job she was born to do and I made him laugh saying that I was born to act just like him. But I really think that's true Kyoko-chan, I really do want to be just like my father.

Even if it will be hard to get out from his shadow since I have my friends like Mark to help me I'm sure I will do it just like you told me I could. I've been more positive about this since I met you and you told me one day I would fly so high no one would catch me and I'm aiming for the sky Kyoko-chan. I don't how I would ever be able to find you and bring you to meet my family? Well I better go I can hear them starting to get ready for dinner and I still need to present grandfather with this letter before I will be allowed to attend the meal. Though saying that, I think I would rather eat in the kitchen than have to sit by listening to Aunt Toshi telling everyone I'm going to be a failure in love.

I hope you're happy and well,

Kuon Hizuri

Kyoko's heart was pounding it was so clear with this letter that her friend Corn whom she had loved, adored and admired so much for being her fairy prince was in fact the real son of the people she called Mom and Dad. Her heart clenched remembering her father's words,

"Kuon is gone from this world." and she dreaded reading on would she find in these letters the truth of her friend's demise? Would at one point the letters just stop? There were 11 letters, she could see that so if there were 11 letters...

She just had to know.