Late, late, late; why can't anyone wake me up huh? Damn it!

I thought as I ran threw a busy intersection, the horns blasted and I said while bowing;

"Sumimasen," and grabbing my bag and running around another corner. The school was just ahead and I sped up, knowing I'm in the middle of the street and possibly could get run over by a bike or a small car. My black hair hugged and swerved around my face and then I hers the bell ring as I was stepping into the school property. The steps to the grand doors seemed to be a forever climb with my aching legs.

The tile was shining as always, the walls and lockers were scrubbed clean and the class rooms were already starting. The first day of school and I am late. I wonder how the senpi will like me now. I opened my assigned locker and looked at the piece of paper I got from the school with all the information on it. In the locker there was a mirror, I fixed my uniform: white button up short sleeve shirt, black skirt, and black flats and a white beret to keep things fresh.

The class room door opened with a slight creek and all heads turned and looked at me. I could feel my cheeks get hot.

"Suki Mizumi?" the senpi looked above his glasses.

"Hi," I nodded and found a front row seat.

"You're late Miss Suki," the senpi slammed me a look.

"Sumimasen," I nodded.

"Humph, alright pull out your text books to page 107."

The rest of the day was a blur; but this had to be better then the orphanage. I ran to every class and darted to the grand doors at the end of the day. The walk was cool, and refreshing. The sun was just setting and then I remembered that today my aunt was coming to visit me. She's been trying to get the government to let me live with her but the court house always said no.

I saw the orphanage and started running knowing my aunt should be there. The cracked parking lot was like an obstacle coarse to slow me down. I opened the very old doors and put my stuff on the couch looking at the walls seeing the posters of one piece and more type of Manga. I only knew two people of the show, and they were Lufy and Songie. I was a huge Songie fan that's all. Anything else of the show is a blur with the newer episodes. I only watched the olds ones. I loved the show at all other cost though and waited for my aunt, while all the other girls were at the school pep-rally.

It was almost 9 o'clock, and I was in the kitchen pouring myself a glass or milk hopping that this would clam my nerves. Then my cell phone rang with one of "Morning musumes'" songs.

""Hello, aunt?" I hoped.

"Ma'am this is the downtown hospital, do you know Suki Lire?" a woman's voice said.

"Hi, she's my Aunt." I put the glass down.

"I'm sorry to say that your Aunt has died in a tragic subway highjack."

My heart stopped, I almost threw up. I herd the nurse asking if I was okay and I said yes. I blinked away burning tears.

"What, what the hell are you saying?" I yelled.

"I'm very sorry but you must come down ma'am she said before she died she wanted to give you something,"

"I'll be there," I hung up the phone and dropped it. I feel on the kitchen floor and hugged myself knowing now I was truly alone

I called a cab and was picked up shortly after. The ride seemed as I was dead, I might as well be. Every one else is. I sat back as the driving smiled at me threw the mirror. A tear rolled down my face. I buried my face into my long brown coat and tan scarf. I tightened the laces on my ankle high brown boots.

The cabs stopped in front of the hospital and I got out and walked in.

"I'm Suki Mizumi; I am here for my aunt," I sighed in my name.

"Right, follow me please." The nurse lead me threw the maze of hallways. I saw people in wheel chairs and children with the mother or father waiting for their partner. Then I herd screaming and loud shouts. The nurse pressed his hand on my chest and pushed me to the wall along with him self. A stretcher with a bleeding somebody was raced by doctors to a room. I saw the doctor pull out these to things hooked up to cords and her yelled, "Clear!" the line of the heart beat on the monitor was flat.

"Come now please. This way threw here."

I slung around came to a door with my Aunts name on it and a clipboard next to it with the word "deceased," I covered my mouth and started to cry. He opened the door and there she was, peacefully lying. Everyone says people look peaceful when they're asleep. But she wasn't asleep, she was dead. She was cold dead, and not waking up. I sat on her bead and the nurse left.

I moved the hair out of her face and saw she was still smiling. I took her hand and shook it lightly.

"Wake up, wake up please." I knew she wasn't going to. I cried harder.

"Wake up, for me. I love you, please!" I rested my head on her stomach and cried for hours I lost count of. The nurse walked in and laid a chain on bed with a note. I nodded and grabbed the note; only then realizing that there was blood on it. She wrote this while she was dying! I thought. I opened it, and it read:

Mizumi,

My niece, I want to say so much in this one note but knowing my time is short. I love you and don't ever say you mother or father ever didn't. They loved you so much but wanted a brighter future for you. This necklace was mine and I want you to have it. Tonight at midnight, only then put it on and think of your sister and only her. Your parents' say she died after she was born, she did not. With my dying wish always wear this necklace and I will be with you.

Aunty, Lire.

I looked up from the paper and picked up the necklace. There was no clasp, I separated the two chains and ran it underneath my hair, it would connect or something. I was too tired to worry. I slipped it into my pocket and kissed Aunty on the forehead and left the room with the note crumbled in my hand.

When I was looking at the note again in the car I saw something on the back of the note. I said:

Drop one drop of your blood on the moon before you wear it.

I pulled out the pendent, and it was a perfect silver crescent moon. A diamond rested in the middle of it. The chain looked like strings of silver and diamond intertwined. The cab stopped and I paid the driver and walked into the orphanage.

It was about eleven-forty-seven at night and most of the girls were asleep and the ones that weren't were at the boys part of the orphanage and doing god only knows. I stepped into the kitchen looking at the clock. There was exactly ten minutes till twelve o'clock. I climbed the tree just off the deck and jumped to the roof and down some vines to be able to stand on the wall to get out of the orphanage. At night the aids would lock the tree hidden gates to lock us in like animals. But after all those years on the Mary Lu, one of the many foster fathers ship, climbing the mast and all along the boat this was plain easy to do.

The landing was not that bad, I ran threw the woods behind the elementary school across the street and came to the river my old best friend and I called Petal River. My old friend Hasuki, he was the only person who ever talked to me, then he got him self adopted and I never saw him again.

I put my feet in the water and looked at the time, 12:57 pm. I took out the steak knife I brought and cut deep into the skin between my thumb and pointer finger. The gushes of blood spewed out and I took the blood soaked knife and let a drop of blood come down and fell on the diamond and it started to glow. I put it on and thought of how it would be like to have a sister, how I thought she would look, and love of her company. Then the river seemed brighter and then it seemed there were no sounds and no light, then a huge white light washed over me and I saw flashes of my sister and I hear the slashing of water, the cracking of my skull, and the cold water surrounding me.

Then ………nothing, I was floating.