《The One and Only》Chapter 42 – The Missing Piece
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The suspension bridge effect occurs when you cross a suspension bridge and you see someone of the opposite sex on the other side, you heart is beating fast and you mistake that feeling for love when in reality the heart is beating fast because you are afraid to fall from the bridge, Anne felt the same when she jumped from the helicopter and saw Harima coming for her
Flight to Tokyo
Anne was sitting next to Harima who was asleep, she started to feel this “love” for him after the helicopter chapter
“why are you red Anne?”
“is nothing”
Yamiko then started to tease her
“did you fall in love with your hero?”
Anne turned red and could not control it
“I still can’t believe that he saved you twice in less than 24 hours, he may be in love with you”
“but I’m only fifteen”
“stop it Yamiko”
Shirayuki didn’t like the idea that Harima saved Anne twice and that she was not the one who saved him this time, Yamiko was the savior this time, then Yamiko made a serious face
“did you tell him who you really are yet?”
“not yet”
“it will be better if he knows by now, he saved your life twice and it might hurt him to know the truth later”
“or it could be worse and he can find out by himself”
“I know, and I plan to tell him at Hiratsuka, it might be our goodbye then”
“……………. are you ready to pay for his happiness?...........................................”
“……………………………………………….my wish come first……………………………………………………….”
“…………………………………. but your wish has changed isn’t?......................................................................”
“……………………………...no, it has not changed, the way to achieve has changed though…………………………”
“……………………well said…………………….”
Hiratsuka station 5pm
“Harima”
“yeah?”
“do you have your bank account?”
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“yea”
“could you please check something?”
He then went to ATM
“JESUS CHRIST”
“My sister wanted to give you her thanks for taking care of me but since we left the way we did, she didn’t have the time to thank you properly, she said that she hopes this makes you happy and forgive her for the treatment when we took you to Luxemburg”
“are you sure you want me to have this much money?”
“yea Harima, and as I promised I reveal who I’m”
“look you don’t have to”
“but I want to, I don’t know if this will affect you if you know the truth from other people, I’m Anne Nassau Weilburg”
“yes, I know that part”
“let me finish, the reason why I’m not in the heirs list for the Duchy is because I’m the result of a love affair of the Duke so I’m not one hundred percent a princess”
She was kind of sad because she felt she was not worth the throne for being born the way she was
“look Anne, you dress like a princess, you act like a princess and you care for the royal family, otherwise you won’t be here”
“but you don’t know why we are here”
“but I believe you and that is enough”
She looked at him, he was someone that has already won her heart, and then she put something out of her bag and gave it to him, it was something like a talisman
“Harima, I want you to have this, keep it as a memento of our short meeting”
Harima then kneel and said
“I will gladly remember these days with you, my lady”
It was a really nice scene where Anna had tears on her eyes while saying goodbye to the man who saved her twice
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“if I could make you my knight I would”
“I will be your knight here and in the afterlife so don’t cry, it doesn’t suit you”
He tried to clean Anne tears but she grabbed his hand, the one that she had on her cheek
It was Shirayuki turn
“Harima”
“Shirayuki”
“don’t risk your life anymore please”
“I think my days of hero ends here”
“I have sent a gift to your home at Sendai as thanks for saving me”
“please take care, if something happens to you I will feel guilty because you got shot because of me”
“I will and I will never forget what you did for me”
She looked at him, he smiled to her, and Yamiko called him so he looked away and felt Shirayuki lips on his cheek
“YAMIKO, YOU RUINED MY CHANCE!!!!”
Harima was surprised, it was the first time that Shirayuki acted the way she did, she usually is a calm person but she wanted to kiss Harima
“yo Harima”
“Yamiko, I haven’t say thank you for saving us when we jumped the helicopter”
“I’m your raid leader, I can’t let our healer die”
Harima hugged her
“look, are you not mistaken me with Shirayuki? Look, she seems jealous”
“everything started with you and is going to end with you”
“don’t say it like if we are not going to see each other”
“thank you for taking care of me”
“you are welcome”
Anne, Yamiko and Shirayuki
“so, what now?”
“we have to go to the temple close to Kaname Water Park”
“do you think we will see Harima again?”
“well, I will, I use to play with him in Final Fantasy”
“how did you manage to play while being Anne bodyguard?”
“well, that’s exactly why I was able to play, she takes me to these boring places for research, so when she is busy I play”
“I would have imagined”
“but Shirayuki, you don’t have to worry”
“why?”
“we are twins, you can go to see Harima saying that You are I”
Shirayuki turned red
“but how come he hugged you and didn’t huge me?’
“I think he likes my boobs over yours”
“MY BREAST ARE SOFTER THAN YOURS!!!!!”
Back at Hiratsuka Station
“Well I guess I can go to Tokyo and stay the night there”
Harima was waiting the train at Hiratsuka station and was looking for his phone
“I forgot I lost it” |sigh|
It was the phone that he bought back in school, it was a signal that he should forget his past
The train from Tokyo came and Harima was about to get in when time started to go slower, then his eyes were playing with him because what he was looking at was someone that he has meet before, she extended her hand with a cell phone
“I believe this is yours Harima”
“Reina…….”
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