As I stepped off the curb, I got a phone call from my dad. I answered it and walked across the road. I stopped of at the dry cleaners to drop off my tux for my date tonight.
"Hey dad. How's mom?"
"Your mother is doing fine. Still a bit shaken up from your sister's death."
"Yeah. We all are." My sister died almost a month ago. She died in a car crash. "Let's not wander in the past. I've heard you date tonight. Still going steady?"
I laughed. "Yep. Taking her to Petite Louis tonight."
I heard my dad let out a whistle. "That's high end my boy. How on earth can you afford that?"
"I sold my CD collection."
"But they were your most prized position! You must really love her."
"Yeah. I do."
"Still a virgin?"
"DAD!!" I heard him laugh. "I'm just joking."
"Yeah right." I had stopped at the curb, for on the other side of the street was a stall that sold flowers.
"You going to pick up roses for her?"
"Yes dad." The crosswalk light turned green. I stepped off the curb. In the middle of the street I heard tires screeching. I looked to my right. A silver Toyota truck came screeching down the road. I couldn't move. The car ran straight at me. Next thing I knew, I was on my back, hurting.
"Hello? Hello? Jaden? JADEN!!" my dad was screaming through the phone. I knew what had happened. The car had hit me. I felt something sticky and wet on my hand. I raised it up to look. It was covered with a deep crimson liquid. Blood. My blood. I dropped my hand. The driver of the truck ran over.
"Oh god. I'm so sorry!" a crowd had gathered around me. They whispered among themselves, not tying to help me. I coughed and they backed up.
"Let me through. Let me through!!" I saw someone with silver hair and ocean blue eyes.
"Aster…" I coughed some more. Aster whipped out his cell phone and called the emergency number.
"There's been a car crash. Sakura Street and West Avenue. Hurry!" he put the phone down and took one of my hands.
"Stay with me Jaden! Don't you dare go into a coma! Not yet!" I coughed some more. I heard the sirens and strong arms picked me up. I was placed on a stretcher and had a breath mask placed over my mouth and nose. I was on the brink of unconscious through out the trip. They took me into an Emergency room. I blacked out then.
Beep..........beep..........beep.........beep.......beep beep beep.
"Is he O.K.?"
"He looks like shit."
"Thank god you found him."
" No, thank the gods that I saw it happen."
"He's alive, that's all that matters."
"Good point, mate. Lucky, that you found 'im before it was to late."
"Guys, shush! He waking up!" the room went quiet as I slowly opened my eyes. It took several tries because of the bright lights. When I got them open, everything was white. Then things got clearer and my closest friends were there. Going clockwise from the left was Syrus, Hasselberry, Chazz, Alexis, Jim, and Jesse. Axel was on the couch, Aster was leaning against the wall and Atticus was in the chair by the corner. I smiled weakly and all of them, except Axel, Jim, and Aster, burst into tears. I rolled my eyes.
"You guys! Knock it off!!" The others stopped crying. I collapsed on the bed. "Look I was just in a car crash and not to mention that I have a date who probably thinks I stood her up, so she be pissed as hell." They all looked at me.
"Who are you and what the hell did you do to the real Jaden Yuki?" Asked Chazz.
"I'm his identical twin and the real Jaden is bound, gagged and locked in the twelfth floor janitor's closet nearest to the broken fire alarm that goes of every week in his hotel." I shot back. All of a sudden there was a fit a giggles in the door. All the boys looked while Alexis fumed.
"Jadey-poo!"
"Whoa!" Blair had come in and wrapped her arms around my neck.
"OW!!" A nurse had come up behind her and smacked the back of her head.
"You almost killed him!" Blair gasped. I felt my vision going and my head felt like it was going to explode. My vision got clearer and I got a good look at the nurse who saved my life. The nurse had short curly platinum blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Chazz, Atticus, Hasselberry, and Syrus were looking at her, the first two were drooling. I looked at the nurse and took a really good look at her face. She leaned in closer, allowing me to get a good look.
Her eye shape, the way her eyes sparkled, the shape of her nose, and the way she pursed her lips, all familiar. My eyes traced her face. For so long she stood there. Then, she walked over to Atticus and kicked him out of the chair. She dragged it over and sat in front of me. For a very long time I looked at her face. My eyes widened and my mouth opened slightly. She smiled, warm and friendly.
That smile rang a bell. My mouth opened and closed like a dying fish's. She placed a hand under my china and closed my mouth. She took her left ear and pulled it across her face. The skin came off as well as the hair. Standing in front of me was a woman who had the same color hair and eyes as me. My mouth dropped and hit the floor, my eyes went as wide as saucers. She laughed and smiled, placing her hand under my chin and closing my mouth.
"SOLARIS!!!?" I screamed. Solaris looked at me and brushed one of the front tendrils out of my face.
"Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-but y-y-y-y-you're-you're-you're-you're su-su-su-suppose to be de-de-de-de-de...." I took several deep breaths and screeched
"BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO BE IN THE FUCKING GROUND!!! I SAW YOU GET KILLED IN THAT FUCKING GODDAMN CAR CRASH!!! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE!!!!?" I screeched at her. I was sitting up right, looking as pissed as hell, problem worse.
After I finished screeching, I glared at her. My throat was constricted, showing the muscles in my throat. My eyes were wide with feral fury. My teeth were clenched so tight I could feel them cracking, if I added any more pressure, they would. I gripped the sheets, nails digging into my palms, cutting them open, bleeding into the sheets. My nostrils were flaring. She looked unfazed by the screaming. She looked at me bored. She pinched the bridge of her nose and looked down, hair hiding her face. Her body started shaking and then she threw back her head and laughed. My body relaxed and I cocked my head. She looked at me in the eyes and I gasped. Her eyes were entirely pitch black and her face was wolfish. Her canines were longer and curved. I looked at the others. They looked like this too. I looked back at Solaris. "Sweet dreams, Judai-Chan..."
I sat up in bed, breathing hard. I looked around the room. I was still in the Osiris dorm. I was in my standard attire, minus the jacket. I fell back on the bed, relived.
"Another bad dream..."
"More like a nightmare."
"Shut up Haou." I snarled. Ever since I had defeated Darkness, he hasn't shut up.
"You should have let me ripped him apart." he said, amused. He had decided to take a semi-solid form of my younger self. His golden eyes looked at me, dark thoughts running through his head. He leaned back on the chair, hands clasped behind his head. He watched me struggle with the sheets. I stopped immediately and glared at him. He had sent me a nasty image of us naked, in a bed...
"I am just waiting for the day you fall off that chair and crack open your head." I spat, detangling my self from those cursed sheets. I grabbed my jacket and watched him go threw the door to outside.
"Phh. Showoff." I mumbled. Greeeat. I was in a pissy mood, thank you very much. Haou popped his head in.
"Check the calendar." then popped out. I looked at it, checking out today's day.
"Goddamn it." I cursed, let out a few other nasty words. Today was my eighteenth birthday. And boy. Let me tell you on everyone of my birthdays, my life was shit. My foster parents gave me socks and that was it. I never knew my real parents. And these socks were ones that smelled like three-month-old dead fish that was left out to the elements. They had no bottoms and you couldn't tell that they were socks. I left my room fuming. I went into the dining hall and turned on the light. All my friends yelled "Happy birthday" but I ignored them, walking past my friends, fuming. I walked away into the woods not caring were I was going. I looked up. I had found my self at the ruins were I had gone into the Gravekeeper's realm and the Dark World. I sat down on one of the jutting rocks out side a building and sighed. My elbows rested on my knees, supporting my head.
"Happy eighteenth birthday, Jay." I whispered to my self.