A Billion Starry Nights

I. "Runaway" - Charlotte ruturns home from a night out with her only friend, Gwen, she's talking to Gwen about how she wants to just fly away and Gwen brushes her off as "weird " and "a freak" this leaves Chara sad. She ponders the nights events as she makes her way to her room, and then she hears it, her father calling her. She tries to ignore it, but can't he verbally abuses her and then attacks her when she breaks a beer bottle, he makes her clean it with her bare hands and stomps her into the glass fragments, she freaks out because of the blood and he yells as her more, however now he's kicking her everywhere he can, it happens so fast Chara becomes numb and feeling her teeth against her tounge try to call out for help only to find that she's gagging on her blood, that's when the hitting stops, her brother and mother are restraining her dad, she crawls out of the kitchen, as her mther tells her to "run." Chara manages to ...

The crashing waves must've woken me up, and there I saw that I had slept on the beach, a blanket wrapped around me, and something warm beside me, but it wasn't something it was a person. I looked up to see them, awake , looking out to the sea, the morning light behind the clouds and amber colours shown into his retinas, and I saw the colour I never thought I'd see again. Hazel eyes, looked out from those milky eyelids, his coarse hair now greying in some areas, and subtle stubble that had been recently shaved, he looked thinner, and a little bigger yet, and still his scent was the same as last night, and I thought I might have died, but surely, I anxious took his hand and held it with mine, and it was there, the ring. "H-H-..?" He looked down to me and grinned, "You thirsty?" I shook my head and it hit me there in my heart that warm luaghter, "Haruka?" He leaned over and kissed my hair, "You're just like you used to be, I thought that ...

They sparkled in the sky, the lights, the stars, and I chased after you but their sparkle distracted me. The cold sand rustled against the coming tide and I stopped there staring up at them, the meteor showers, coming down like some kind of magical illusion made to keep my eye on the sky unaware of anything else. That's how I feel about you, so my eye dropped and there you were, that beautiful girl with the fiery eyes, and the eyes glimmered as you looked up at the same skies, but to me, you looked like you were sparkling too, the shower was everywhere and on this beach coming out of the very horizon. That's when I knew that we've met before, that's why it had to be you, and it's always been you.  What lives have we lived before, and what trials had we faced? Did you love me as much as you do now, or was your love surpassing mine in another life? What color were your eyes? Surely aquamarine, they must have been, and what of your life, did you suffer too? even worse?...