Chapter 18 (alternate ending)
Everyone stared at the man in the open gates. Toma's eyes widened when he saw him.
He was breathing heavily and looking down to the ground.
Toma wanted to say something but then the young man spoke up.
„I... Please don't... don't marry her.”
Pi looked at the couple in front of him. They were quite far away, but Pi was sure they heard him since everyone was staring at him quietly.
“I... I love you, so please don't. She's the wrong one, and you know it.”
As Toma heard his words, he was speechless. Soon enough tears were tingling in his eyes. Could it really be...? He looked at Maki and back to the panting man at the door.
“You know, it was hard for me... to let you go. And now, to see you with her like that, is even harder. Please... forgive me for what I did to you. I'll make it up to you... if you'll let me.”
Pi was desperate. There was so much he wanted to say but his brain was a total mess and so the words came out, totally uncoordinated.
Tears were flowing down Toma's cheeks already. How could he make him feel all that? His words were so ... sincere. Was he really telling the truth? Toma wanted to believe in them... if it really was what he wanted, how could he not agree?
Pi moved towards the groom and suddenly there were people trying to hinder him from getting closer. But Pi didn't look at them. He looked at the young man in he front and tried to fight his way through the crowd. “Please!”, he cried out. “Please don't! I love you!”
Suddenly the guards came from the sides and tried to capture the young man. He tried to fight them but they were stronger. Toma stepped away from the altar.
“STOP. Let him free, thats a command!”, he shouted angrily and stepped closer.
Pi's body froze as the young man ran towards him. The crowd had stopped their attack already and Pi was watching closely at the young man in the black suit.
Toma faced the young man and lay his hands on his shoulders. “If you ´really mean it...”, he said. “Then how could I be the one who's against it? Do you love Maki that much?”
The man looked at him confused. “Maki? I don't want Maki!”, he answered furiously.
Pi couldn't believe his eyes. Who was this guy standing right in front of him?
“Who are you?”, the man asked.
“I... actually wanted to ask the same.” Pi was so confused.
The man still looked at the prince confused. “I... I wanted to stop someone else... I want Keiko! Damn it!”
And so he rushed out of the church without another word. Toma stood there wordlessly for some seconds. Then remembered what he was about to do when the wedding was disturbed,
He got back at his place in front of the altar and looked at Maki.
Then finally they proceeded with the marriage.
“Isn't this... the wedding of the prince?”
“No, it's not. Now get out of here!”
Pi was so shocked that he couldn't move. The people around him pushed him outside and closed the gates again.
And so he stood outside until the bell rang and then he went to his tent crying, packed his things up and went away without ever returning again.
And so Toma and Maki got married and lived quite happily ever after.
A/N: Actually this chapter wa sjust a joke, but you can see it as an alternate ending
