Hello
By Alicia Maxwell
Song By Evanescence
"Miss Honda! Come here, please!" a teacher raced to the door of the classroom.
Tohru, wondering what was wrong, began to get a sinking feeling in her stomach as she got us and advanced toward the door. "W-what is it?" she asked, trembling.
"It's your mother.... There's been an accident," he whispered.
Saki and Arisa jumped at the words "it's your mother."
"No, nothing could possibly have happened to Kyoko!" Arisa assured herself mentally. "Living legends can't be hurt."
"Your mother was involved in a car crash--," the teacher started to explain, interrupted by the bell to go to lunch. "She's in a very unstable critical condition Tohru. Come with me."
The teacher took Tohru and began to race down the hall. Saki and Arisa instantly followed in a panic. Arisa was wrong. Living legends can be hurt…. Living legends… can die.
Rain began to fall as the four piled into a very old beat-up Hyundai. The teacher turned the ignition and started off at top legal speed. Little did he know he was too late to get the girls to Kyoko before she died… She had stopped breathing the very instant he had come to the doorway of class 1-D.
Tohru clung on to what little hope she had that her mother was going to make it. She didn't want it to happen; she refused to let it happen. She heard nothing of the real world anymore. She had forced herself into the world inside her head where she was curled up in her mother's arms. Repeatedly, Kyoko echoed the words to her softly- "It's going to be all right."
No, it was not.
Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello
Tohru rushed ahead of the others and found her mother's room. As she threw open the door, she found her mother lying limp in the bed and a doctor with a clipboard standing above her. "I'm… sorry," he said.
She cracked a smile, completely unwilling to believe. "No… no… none of this happened. This is all just a bad dream. I'm still at home, in bed. Mom's still downstairs making her morning coffee. None of this happened! It's all a dream!"
Saki and Arisa both ran in together. Neither of them could deny herself the truth. Kyoko was dead. A tear slid down Arisa's cheek. Yes, Tohru had lost her mother, but Arisa too had lost the only mother figure she had ever known. She had lost her only role model too.
"Don't cry," Arisa thought to herself.
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry
Tohru walked to her mother's bedside and gazed down at the broken bandaged vision. She collapsed, her head falling on the bed, sobbing uncontrollably.
"It's not a dream, is it?" she asked aloud. "I'm not sleeping! Last night is over! This is all real!"
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday