unfortunately, a lot of people see in black and white. aoko, however, was different. she saw in shades of blue. everything was blue to her, like the ocean, and she was fine with that. she wasn't like her dad, who saw only gray. gray, grey, greigh, however you serve it.

NOTICE: BLUE WAS NOT AOKO'S FAVORITE COLOR. it was far from it.

since she saw blue all the time, she began to despise it. all she really cared for, after some time, was the color white. white was pure, white was good, and white was safe. white had no limits, and white was always right. white wasn't blue, white wasn't black, white wasn't gray, and white wasn't anything but white. white was good.

ʇɥƃ!u ʇsɐן oʞoɐ ɹoɟ pǝƃuɐɥɔ ןןɐ ʇɐɥʇ 'ǝsɹnoɔ ɟo

she was fuming, the type of fuming a person does when they're downright furious. doors were slamming themselves off their hinges, screaming and squealing from fear as she came pounding the drums of the staircase and the hallway floorboards. pictures rattled in their frames on the walls and her father shut himself up in his office and didn't come back. it wasn't like he wanted to be near her when she was on her period. that's, of course, all he assumed it was.

IT WASN'T, AOKO KNEW IT WASN'T. SHE HAD A THOUSAND REASONS TO BE MAD, AND SHE WAS MAD FOR A THOUSAND MORE THAN THAT. kaitotoldher HE ONLY TOLD HER NOW AND sonowshewaspissed AND SO NOW SHE WAS PISSED

it wasn't like they were friends since kindergarten

yes it was

yes it was

who did that kaito think he was

SHE WAS AOKO AND SHE COULD BITE HIS HEAD OFF

SHE HAD A MOP

SHE HAD A MOP AND SHE WASN'T AFRAID TO USE IT. MARK HER WORDS, KAITO, SHE WAS COMING FOR HIM

she had all types of reasons to be mad after all

1. he was kid

2. he was freaking kid

3. there was only one freaking kid in the whole entire universe

4. yup and it just had to be him

SHE WAS FURIOUS

TOO FURIOUS TO CARE THAT SHE WAS BUMPING AND BARGING AND SHOVING HERSELF INTO LOCKED DOORS AROUND HER HOUSE AND BATTERING HER FISTS AGAINST THE WALLS UNTIL THEY STARTED BLEEDING BECAUSE AT LEAST SHE WAS SEEING SOMETHING OTHER THAN BLUE

FINALLY SHE WAS SEEING RED

at least it was something different she kept telling herself

and then hours later when she had calmed herself down enough to think past the rage and the lies and the deceitful guy who she had thought was her FRIEND did she look at the walls and look at her house and see all the blood and then look at herself and see all the black and blue bruises and realize that hey she wasn't seeing only blue anymore so of course that had to be a relief for her right? and that now she could think clearly now that everything wasn't just one big blue lie in front of her face and that

maybe red and black are just two more shades of blue, and that blue isn't anything like what she had thought it was

maybe she was just lying to herself this whole time

maybe she was the liar