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I'm insane.
Well there's a happy thought.
"Come on! Clara we gotta get out of here!" yells my friend Aurelia.
I look up at her. She's alive. Covered in blood but alive. There's holes in our clothes, but we don't seem to be injured. I glance around. We're in a tiny locked room with no windows. Well that's new. I guess we must be inside the janitor's closet in some kind of school or office because there's some cleaning supplies pushed up against the walls. Yayyy for cleaning supplies! This is actually really nice and spacious for a closet. I could quite happily just stay inside here forever and ever with my friend and some handy dandy cleaning supplies. Wait, did I just call Aurelia my friend?
Well, she's sorta my friend. Kinda. See, we were both going to be freshmen next school year, and we were partners in gym class last year. She was okay. She likes weird animes that I've never heard of. I mean, she likes Sword Art Online and Attack on Titan, but she'd never even seen Spirited Away, Code Geass, or finished Death Note. I know. She started it, but didn't finish.
She was creeped out by L as a character and Naomi Misora's death, so brilliant me decided to tell her about the serial killer that had brought the two characters together. What! Don't give me that look! I knew she wouldn't ever read the book. She hates reading. I can't even get her to read any manga, much less Death Note. But anyway, when I told her about BB and his strawberry jam, Shinigami eyes, and how he lopped off his victim's limbs and stuck them in the bathtub, she was all like, "Nope, not gonna ever watch that again," for some strange reason.
Maybe it was my fault. It was my fault that my only friend from any gym class ever was a weirdo hipster anime fan girl.
She's starting to yell at me again: "Yeah! It is your fault!"
I guess I've been mumbling my thoughts. Anyway, she won't even be my kinda friend after today.
"What did you do? Where are we? Help me find a way out of here!"
I sigh.
"I have something to tell you, Aurelia, and you're not gonna like it."
How did I end up here?
It started with a movie. I just wanted to see a movie about the greatest superheroes on earth, but my parents didn't. My brother couldn't take me because he was studying for the ACT or something. It was also my birthday. I know. My parents wouldn't take me to a movie on my birthday because they wouldn't sacrifice any more of their hearing to the silver screen. They also wouldn't let me go by myself because it was unsafe for a teenager to go see a movie on their only fifteenth birthday ever. Now I'm not the most social person, and normally I wouldn't ask my friends from school to hang out with me, but I decided to make an exception. It was my birthday for Pete's sake! I decided to text my friends, but most of them were on vacations because it was Memorial Day. Aurelia was the only one who could go. She had already seen it, which is kind of ironic because she knows nothing about the universe or what the next eight movies were gonna be about. I begged her and she finally agreed to go, if I bought her a large popcorn and about a gallon of Pepsi.
We got good seats, and soon I was happily watching a trailer about a man who could shrink to the size of an ant.
"Do you think that the Wasp will join up or be in any movie ever?" I whispered quietly.
"Whoos thrat?" She spoke through a mouthful of popcorn dripping in butter flavoring.
I sighed and glanced down to the popcorn.
"No way sista. This popcorn is mine." She laughed evilly.
"Not even a little?" I whined.
She just looked down her nose at me. I forgot to mention that she is about 6 feet tall. I'm like 5 foot 7, which is normally pretty tall for a girl, but I can't hold a candle to her. I'm 15 today, but she's still 14 until next week. Yep, we were born a week apart. She actually looks a lot older than me. She's super tall, and has a really pretty face with a pointed chin. Her eyes are a really pale blue, and her golden blonde hair falls about half way down her back. She parts her hair on the right side, but her the hair on the left side of her part kinda poofs up. She honestly looks a bit like Rapunzel from Tangled, except their personalities are complete opposites. She usually wears dark clothes with black sweaters.
On the other hand, I have hair that looks like a beam of sun light barely brushing a lovely pool of mud. Or maybe like some dog pissed in a pile of crap. The yellow in my hair kinda gives it a green tint. Well, I always say that when I'm in college, I'm going to dye my hair green, so at least I know that it won't look too unnatural. I wear it with a part on my left with a Barrett on my right. It's also kinda frizzy and wavy; it stops at my shoulders. I have gross mud brown eyes too, but they have a weird green ring around the brown, and I always have to wear a clunky pair of glasses with the strongest prescription on the planet. My chin is pointed like Aurelia's, but somehow it still manages to look masculine. I wear whatever is comfy; although, I do love the color pink. But anyway, back then I wasn't dwelling on the beautifulness of myself; I was focused on getting some popcorn.
I made a snatch for some popcorn, but didn't succeed in getting any.
"Hey! Keep it down punks!" yelled a man who was sitting behind us.
"I'm sorry," I said quietly, but Aurelia just snorted.
She pulled out her phone and started to text her friend Olive.
"Hey! Put the phone away now!" the man yelled.
Whoa bro! He looks really angry. I don't want to fight with some random creepy dude on my birthday. "You should listen to him," I whispered as I tugged on her sleeve.
"I do what I want asshole!" she screamed at the man. Yep that's Aurelia for you. Crazy and never goes back against a decision. She appears to have decided that I'm too much of a scaredy cat to stand up to this psycho. She's probably right.
"I'm gonna go complain and get you kicked out!" he called with his face red.
I snapped. Why can't I just have a normal birthday? "Hey leave my friend alone! It's just the previews!" I screamed.
"Are you smart mouthing me kid?" He pulled something from his jacket.
"Aurelia, get down!" I yelled as I tried to stretch myself over her.
Suddenly she jumped in front of me.
BANG!
I think I screamed as she crumpled to the ground like an ant getting stepped on, but my ears were ringing.
I didn't hear the shot that would change everything I knew, I saw it, just a FLASH!, then numbness.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
After the last burst of light came the pain. I couldn't see anything. I could barely feel the cold floor beneath me. Then, I could barely feel her beneath me. The pain took over everything before I felt the numbness return. Then there was nothing.
What the heck?! Did I just get murdered by some freak who really wanted to see the preview for Tomorrowland? Am I in heaven or hell? No seriously where am I?
I groaned and sat up. I looked around. I was sitting in a gray wasteland covered in bones. It actually looks like the elephant graveyard from The Lion King. My eyes focused on a bright spot in front of me. I blinked. I was staring at a pink Shinigami covered in gold and jewels.
"So tell me, kid, what's your birthday wish?"
I'm afraid I said something rather rude.
It gave me a funny look; "Are you sure you want godly poop for your birthday?"
"Huh? No I don't want that. It's just, who are you?"
"I guess I'll have to explain everything. I am the stunningly beautiful Shinigami Akane." I'm here becau-"
"Are you male or female?" I butted in.
"Very funny, I am obviously a female. I am here because you tried to die to save your friend, but your friend decided to die to save you, and you were both murdered, all on your birthday. That usually only happens once in a millenia. Because of this the Shinigami King has allowed the human who this happens to travel between worlds for eternity. You can't return to your old world, but you can go to any parallel universe you can think of."
I thought to myself: Well, she seems more intelligent than I first thought. Hmm... This will be a tough call; should I go to Death Note's world first or maybe I could be Wasp and join... Oh wait, she's still talking.
"He will occasionally have me offer you gifts that will give you an advantage above the occupants of that world. You also must decide where your friend will go. She can either return back to her world and carry on with her life as if you had died. Or she can come with you. You can't have her decide though."
I know Aurelia. She gets panic attacks. She will blame herself for my death, she will probably commit suicide. I shuddered. But she will blame me for her death if I take her with me. She has so much to live for. Doesn't she?
"If I take her with me, will we be able to watch over our families and friends?" I asked as I realized that I will never be able to tell my family that I love them ever again.
"Yes; you can follow them around, but you won't be able to ever take physical form in that world again."
"What are the gifts the Shinigami King will give me?"
"He will give you options, and you will have to decide which to take. If you bring your friend with you, you can't choose the same gift as her."
"Does she have to know she could have gone back if I take her? Can I talk to her before I send her back?"
Akane looked at me in pity. "If you take her with you, then yes she has to know. You will be locked in a room with her until you tell her the truth. If you send her back you can't talk to her before you send her away because she is not allowed to have any memories of this place."
I lost myself in thought: Aurelia is going to hate me for eternity if I take her with me. I want to bring her with me, but I know that is so selfish. I don't want her to live a life of misery either. I will be responsible for her unhappiness either way.
"Akane will you follow me around all the time?"
"Not all the time, but you seem interesting, so I'll tag along."
"So tell me, Clara what's your birthday wish?"
I sat in silence.
I'm so sorry, Aurelia, I thought to myself.
"I have made a decision. She will come with me, and I want to go to the world of Death Note."
"Well as long as you're sure you don't want holy poop."
I remember wondering if I was delusional. A Shinigami just told me a bathroom joke. I think I like being dead. I wonder if I can see that movie here, or if it doesn't exist. I just exiled my kinda friend from ever living in her home again. I saw a shiny pink Shinigami. I just might be going insane. Wait. I know I'm insane.
I'm insane.
Well there's a happy thought.
Author's Note: So, I've been playing favorites. My other story is currently longer and better written. I know, I'm a bad person. But I'm going to fix up this story, and switch between the two of them.
I'm going to delete the old chapters and redo them with less grammar errors. Hopefully that won't take too long. Then I'll work on the newer ones.
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