heard sobbing softly. But she held her hands over her mouth so that no one could hear her, no one noticed that she had become weak.

Now that she had opened up, what she wanted to suppress came back. Her eyes blurred, her memories came back to that day.

It was a warm, sunny March morning. The birds chirped in the trees and the crickets chirped in competition in the grass. Akane opened his eyes sleepily. She tossed the covers aside, got up and went to the open window. She looked slightly dreamily at the blooming garden.
"You miserable bastard, do that again and you will experience your blue miracle. I'll kill you!"
Akane was suddenly wide awake.
Down in the garden, a slim, red-haired girl was running after a man in his 40s with a bucket of cold water. This was (of course) Ranma and his father Genma."Well wait, I'll get you!"
The girl with the full pail deftly threw it at the bald man. This repelled him, however, so that he reached another goal; he flew towards the open window. The water caught Akane fairly accurately; her face and pajamas were soaking wet. The red-haired girl had meanwhile stopped and was horrified to see the path the bucket had taken. She started to stutter.
"Uh ..... Akane ... he was ..... well ..... I didn't mean ....."
But she was interrupted by a very angry sounding voice.
"R-A-N-M-A ??? !!! ???" shouted the blue-haired girl down. The veins began to pulsate on her hands. With incredible grace she reached for the desk that had been under the window and threw it down with full force.
BANG did it, followed by a splash. The red-haired girl named Ranma had fallen into the little pond with the table on her head, where a big bump was already spreading.Angry, Akane closed the window and began to get dressed.
/ That he can't let it go ..... and that early in the morning ..... /
She took the wet clothes and went downstairs. There she met her sister Kasumi.
"Akane, breakfast will be served soon. Would you please let Ranma and Mr. Saotome know?"
This was more of a request than a question. Akane hung up her wet pajamas on the clothesline before heading out into the garden.
There was now a panda sitting in the pond and the young girl had turned into a boy with jet-black hair who was standing next to her.
With a "There is breakfast!" She immediately turned around and went back into the house. Her anger still hadn't quite fizzled out.
After a few minutes, the entire Tendo family, as well as Ranma and his father, were sitting together at the table and eating their breakfast.
"Oh Akane ..."
Kasumi spoke up
"Could you go straight into town to buy something for dinner?""why me?"
came her answer
"Nabiki is not there, father and Mr. Saotome have to stay in the dojo because of the new students and I have to see Doctor Tofu!"
"Well, I'm going!"
"Thank you, that's nice of you! I'll give you the shopping list then"
with these words she got up and disappeared into the kitchen.

After fifteen minutes, Akane was on his way into town. Ranma walked a bit sullenly next to her, having been forced to accompany Akane to carry the shopping bags in case of doubt. Outwardly he complained, but inside he was happy about it. The two weren't often alone. But he would probably never admit that.

After leaving the fifth store, all they had to do was buy some tofu. To do this, they turned into a small side street. Suddenly Akane was pushed aside. When she pulled herself up again, she heard a long drawn out.
- "Woda Airen!" -
and shortly afterwards the sound of a bicycle hitting the ground and a choke sound.When she looked back at Ranma, he was pressed against the wall by a shampoo that was hugging him stormily.
"You came to go out with shampoo?"
she just asked him.
"Ranma?!?"
Anger sparkled again in Akane's eyes that day.
"Um ... Ak ... Akane ... it's not what it looks like!"
he stammered gasping for air. On the one hand because shampoo constricted his windpipe with her hug, on the other hand because of Akane's bad mood.
"Oh, no? Ranma you are so disgusting!"
Now defiance awoke in him and he answered quick-witted.
"Just because nobody wants to hug you doesn't mean that is exactly the case with me!"
"I do something like that, contrary to you, not in public.!"
And with one:
"Why don't you pull your pants down in the street!"
she stomped away, snorting in anger. He had overflowed the barrel. She was incredibly angry, but also a little hurt. Actually, quite a lot.Ranma, who watched her go around the corner and disappeared, sighed deeply. Why did it always have to be that way? He freed himself of shampoo, left her standing a bit puzzled and ran after Akane. He had seen the hurt look in her eyes very well.

This was meanwhile, without knowing exactly where it was, in the middle of the street. Just when she was thinking about whether she had been a little tough on Ranma after all, she heard her name being called.
"Nooooo ..... Akane !!!"
Something pushed her aside and fell to the floor. All she could hear was the braking of screeching tires and a rumble when her eyes went black.
After a few minutes she came to. Before she was pushed, all she saw was the approaching car. Otherwise she didn't know anything. She looked up and looked back at the street. What she saw there made her blood run cold. Ranma was surrounded by a red puddle where she had previously stood.// When he finally saw her again, his heart almost stopped. She was standing in the middle of the street. A car that was only six meters from Akane sped towards them at extreme speed. He screamed something before pushing her on the side. But it was too late for him. He was hit by a car, overturned once and then lay there. //

Akane got up and fell onto the one lying on the floor. She knew that his end had come. Just as she knew he knew too.

"Why? Why did you save me?"
she asked him in a trembling voice. She was in shock.
"I wanted you to live!"
"How am I supposed to live when you die?"
She smiled at him. Tears ran down her cheeks. Tenderly she brushed his hair back from his face.
"If I ..... my soul in heaven would smile if it was you ..." He coughed, spat blood
"if she saw you happy ....."
"But you ... you can't just go now ... I ... I love you!"she whispered now in a choked voice.
An astonished expression appeared on his face, but changed places with a smile. Then he pulled her face down to him with the help of one of his hands and kissed her tenderly. When they parted again, he carefully wiped the tears from her cheek.
"You have to promise me ....."
He coughed again
"..... that you will be happy ...!"
Then he closed his eyes, his hand fell limply and his heart stopped beating. He was dead.

"Why did you save me?"
She asked again.
"Why?"
She almost whispered.
"Tell me why?"
She screamed desperately and hit him.
"Why?"
She didn't have the strength to say it out loud. Her body was shaking with twitches. In a hunched position, she was bent over him.
"Why?"
she whimpered now only softly.

Yes, she remembered that well, far too well, she realized in a terrifying way.Soul? What does that mean anyway?
A soul ..... every human being ..... every living being has one. It is not the heart, not an organ, not in, on and around the body ..... but where or what is it then?
Does it even exist?
It is said that a person's soul ascends to heaven or falls to hell after death. Is that reality or just the story that is in the Bible?
Soul ..... a word that encompasses so much and yet again nothing.
Is it our feelings, our thoughts, our knowledge?
Yes, all of this may be real.
Should that be the whole thing?
Maybe, maybe it's just a part, a half to which another belongs. Ignorant of their partner, the little half is happy the way they are, they feel strong. And yet, when she meets her soul mate, she realizes that she is imperfect on her own. Because both together feel complete harmony. They connect and become one, they become SOUL.Because only together do they recognize what it means; to feel real happiness. However, if one of the two should go out, the other half can never be happy again and at some point it will perish.

From far away I watched you die, how you walked away from me.
I wasn't fast enough .....
In my mind I was standing next to you ..... but my body was watching from the other side of the street .....

The young woman had in the meantime got up again and walked on. Now she was standing on the edge of a cliff and looking down into the abyss. His death was now a little over six months ago.

After she collapsed over his lifeless body, the people around him were also loosened from an invisible rigidity. Someone had called an ambulance, but by the time it got there it was too late. They had to be dragged away from him by force.

It is said that killing oneself is cowardly: only cowards are capable of doing this.To escape your problems, to leave cruel experiences behind you, to forget the past and to fly towards death?
It is an easy step to cut your wrists with a knife, to put a bullet in your head, to jump from the roof of a house or to hold your breath until the breath of life leaves you. But it is really difficult to face one's problems, to accept the past and to see life for what it is; As the most precious thing a person possesses!
But is that really true?
Would you also say that if you were "knowledgeable", if you had made your own experiences?

People spoke to her, but you only vaguely saw everything. Someone wrapped a blanket around her. As I said, she was in shock. At some point someone brought her home. Maybe it was some from the rescue team or maybe the police. She didn't know then or now. These people then definitely told their family and Ranma 's father about the gruesome accident that had happened just a few hours earlier.They all took the story very depressed and mourned for a long time. But after a few weeks they had