Well, her is another attemp to a Ranma Fic.  Help is really 
needed.

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Lonely Christmas
By:  GiGi
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	The streets were covered with with ice.  Christmas songs were 
heard and kids were running up and down the street, some were laughing 
and some were yelling.  Christmas light shinned outside the streets, 
people carrying gifts, and young lovers walking side by side.
	Shampoo sighed.  She stared at the scenes in front of her.  Ten 
years, it have been ten Christmas which she had celebrated all by 
herself.   She regreted she let him go.  He went away, and for these long 
ten years, she hadn't been able to find him.
	Shampoo was loonely.  After she told Colonge that she didn't want 
to marry Ranma nor become the next leader of the Amazons, Colonge left 
Japan.  She knew she made the right decision about leting Ranma go.  But 
the desicion was too late.  He had gone.
	Seven years ago, Ranma married Akane.  There was no destruction 
this time because everyone had found new love.  Ukyou with Ryoga, 
Koodachi with Mikado, Tsubasa with Akari, and Kuno with Nabiki.  She was 
the only one without love.
	Why did I let him go? Shampoo asked herself.  Now it is too late.
	Shampoo glanced at the clock.  It was already seven.  She figured 
out that there wasn't going to be more costumers.  She decided to close 
the Neotaken and go for a walk.

	The streets were full of shoppers and the aroma of turkey and 
bread made everyone feel hungry, except Shampoo.  She came to a 
cross-road.  If she goes to the left, she was going to end up in the 
mall, and if she went to the right, she was going to end up in the park.
She took the right.

	Once at the park, Shampoo sat down on a bench.  She looked around 
her, that's when she spoted two teenagers arguing.
	"I don't want you stupid gifts!!  Can you get the point that I 
don't love you, Ivan?  I told you a million times that I only love 
Carl!!!"
	"But Yuki, if you will give just one chance you will change your 
mind!"
	"That's it!  I'm going!  And don't you dare to follow me!"  and 
the girl stomped away.
	The scene thigered Shampoo's mind.  She remembered the times she 
had wiht Mousse.  She didn't want the girl to made the same mistake she 
did.  With a leap, Shampoo apeared in front to Yuki.
	"Hi!"  Shampoo said cheerfully.
	"Umm...hi!"  Yuki said nervously. She never saw anyone jump like 
that.  "How you did that??"
	"I'll tell you soon."  during the last ten years, Shampoo has 
perfected her Jappanese.  "Is that boy your boyfriend?"
	"Heck no!  But why do you care??"
	"I'm going to tell you a story.  Come and sit."  Shampoo gesture 
the girl to sit in one of the nearby benches.
	"Long time ago, there was a boy who was totally in love with a 
girl."  Shampoo began slowly, so Yuki could get all the details.  "But 
according to the rules of the village where they lived, a boy had to beat 
a girl in order to make her his wife.
	"The boy didn't want to get the girl like that.  He wanted to win 
her with love and not with violence.  So day and night, he would tell her 
how much he loved her, but the girl refused him.  She refused him over 
and over again, but he came back over and over agian.  He never gave up.
	"Then one day, a boy beat the girl in combat by accident.  After 
that, the girl became obssesed about him.  She told herself every night 
that that boy loved her.  But he didn't becaused he loved another girl.
	"Mean wihile, the other boy still woed her over and over, but she 
refused him.  She told him that she didn't love him.  She told him that 
she hated him.  
	"One day, the girl finally understood that she didn't love that 
guy who beated her in combat.  She discovered that she loved the other 
guy, but it was too late.  The guy already left.  He left without a word. 
 The girl knew that she was never going to find love.  
	"As the days passed, a lot of men came to woe the girl, but she 
refused them all.  The girl saw the shadow of the boy every time she saw 
a man.  His smile, his face, and his voice."
	"Why do you tell me this story??"  Yuki asked.
	"Beacause that girl is me.  Ten years has passed, and for ten 
years I have live in total sadness.  Give that boy a chance.  I don't 
want you to end up like me."
	"But I love Carl!"  Yuki protested.
	"But are you sure that Carl loves you??  Yuki, I was once a 
teenager like you. My only mistake was to refuse that boy.  Give Ivan a 
chance.  Maybe he is right.  If you don't try it, how would you know 
he is not for you?  Don't make the same mistake I did."  with that, 
Shampoo left.  
	As she walked back to her appartment, two tears rolled down her 
cheek.  She asked herself why did she refused Mousse. She wished she 
could go back, but that was impossible.
	God, she thought.  How many more Christmas do I have to spent by 
myself??  How many more??