Someone Speaking Through Me

Rich, yet reclusive Yuna is schizophrenic. Her other self, Lenne, is constantly annoying her with random rambling, until one day, when a young man enters her school, the random ramblings become not so random… they tell a story.

Chapter One- Take Me to the Brink

Wake up, my friend, an annoying plague of a voice goaded Yuna on the Monday of the last week of school.

"You're aggravating. That's what you are. Can't you just be quiet today?" Yuna hissed to herself before popping a few pills.

"Lady Yuna, I have breakfast made and ready. When you are done, I will have your shower ready as well," said Yuna's personal maid, Shelinda, the same speech she spoke every morning.

"You always do, Shel," Yuna replied tonelessly in her rather hazed state.

"Yes, mistress," was all she could say.

"Morning, father," Yuna greeted her already dressed and ready father as she descended the stairs as gracefully as her fogged brain would allow.

"Good morning, Yuna," Braska responded happily "…How's Lenne?"

Yuna winced, as she always did when someone else mentioned the other person in her brain. "She's fine…" Thank you for asking, Maechen, Lenne spoke. Her annoying habit of popping into consciousness was tiring, and often what she said made no sense, like now. Yuna just supposed that Lenne got confused. "I just wish there was a way to shut her up." What? Why? You always liked my singing before, what's happened? "Oh, please, just be quiet for once?" Yuna screeched, short brown hair flying as she shook her head like a crazy person. Well, medically she was actually crazy, but Lenne had no control over her, which allowed her to attend school. Now.

Yuna had only begun at her school last year because her father had not previously thought her ready for such an emotional stress, seeing as she already was emotionally stressed. Braska looked up at his daughter in concern, just as he had then. "Are you sure you'll be able to handle her today? She seems to be more active than usual. I take it you already took your pills?"

"Yes, father. I was just thinking of finding a way to have her surgically removed," Yuna joked, finally sitting down to her eggs and bacon.

He didn't laugh with her, but stared her down. "You are not going to school today."

"But…!"

"No."

"It's exams today, dad, and I have to be there in order to perform Friday. It's very important to me!" he glared into her mismatched eyes across the table, and when she glared back in equal ferocity, he was satisfied.

"Alright, fine, but just see to it that Lenne doesn't make you scream again."

"Oh come on dad. You and I both know that everyone will just think I made a stupid mistake on my test again. It's the only reason I like test day," Yuna laughed before finishing her breakfast and bounding back upstairs.

"You and I both know you don't make mistakes…" Braska muttered with concern, and he couldn't help but wonder at what actually happened at school…

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Yuna showered, put on her make up (or lack thereof), brushed her hair, and stood in front of the plethora of clothes in her enormous walk-in closet. She picked out a pair of beige Malibu shorts, a sparkly white halter a white belt and white flip-flops. She pulled out her favorite silver heart locket and automatically looked at the pictures inside as she did everyday. One was of her mother and the other was of her father, both smiling. She clasped it around her neck with delicate fingers, and smiled at her reflection in the mirror. Only the 30th of April and she already had a gorgeous tan, only emphasized by the white of her clothes.

She grabbed her white purse and sunglasses and flounced out of her room. She kissed her father briefly on the cheek and said a hasty goodbye over her shoulder before entering their monster garage. She quickly found her shining black Mercedes-Benz convertible, waved a goodbye to Shelinda as the maid opened the door, and backed out.

She stopped by the houses of her three best friends as Rikku, Lulu, and Paine hopped in. every time she saw them, she felt a twinge of guilt: they didn't know about Lenne. She had decided not to mention her as soon as the four of them became friends. She didn't want to lose a life she had so newly gotten.

As she neared the end of her second year with them, she began to consider taking back that oath she swore to herself. Yuna didn't like keeping things from her friends, but it was the last week of Junior year, and she questioned herself. I think you should tell them, my love. They won't be very happy. Better to get it out in the open before they can accuse you of keeping it from them.

But I've already kept it from them, Lenne, Yuna thought, hopelessly. I've kept it from them for two years!

Well, Shuyin, don't say I didn't warn you. That confused her. Lenne had never mentioned him before.

"Yunie," Rikku began to whine from the passenger's seat, staring at her cousin in concern. "What's wrong? Is Seymour being abig bully again?"

Yuna looked at her sharply. "What do you mean?"

"Oh come on, Yuna," spoke up Paine from behind the blonde. "Don't tell us those welts on your arms didn't exist." Yuna's right arm visibly twitched at the comment.

"They aren't from him," she tried to persuade, knowing it was hopeless. "They're from the neighbor's dog…"

"Liar, liar pants on fire!" Rikku exclaimed, eyes wide, and nearly standing up.

"Rikku, sit down and put that damn seat belt on will you? Yevon! If we crash I don't want you to die!" Yuna tried, fruitlessly, to change the subject.

"No! I will not put this belt on until you tell me that Seymour is a big fat meanie and he's beating you!" she screamed, causing some passersby to stare at the car in consternation.

"Rikku, shush," Lulu warned. That shut her up. Of all of them, Lulu was the most sinister. Those two words (with a slight change in name, of course) could shut anybody up. Even the infamous Rikku Dahleb.

"Lulu, no one hurts my cousin. I won't put up with it," Rikku snapped. "By the way, why do you put up with it?"

Yuna sighed. "Because I love him and I know he doesn't mean it. He only does it when he's drunk or stoned. I can't leave him. I—I wouldn't be able to survive," Yuna's voice cracked a bit.

"Stop the car," Rikku whispered, looking sightlessly at the dashboard. Yuna risked a glance at her friend, and that glance was enough to see annoyance threatening to burn into anger behind the normally bubbly Rikku's swirly eyes. "Damn it Yuna. I said stop the car."

Having never heard Rikku take on this tone, Yuna stopped the car. She stopped in a gas station parking lot and looked back at Lulu and Paine. Even the normally emotionless twins looked apprehensive. Rikku never used Yuna's actual name.

"Yuna, listen to me," she whispered, still staring at the dashboard as if afraid her friends would see something in her that she did not wish them to see. "I will kill him myself if you don't break up with him. I won't have you coming to my house crying every night after visiting him because you can't go home. Uncle Braska doesn't know that you don't come home because you don't want him to see you, does he? Of course not. If he knew, that would defeat the whole purpose. Listen to me Yuna. We can protect you, we can keep you safe. We can make you able to go home every night, but you need to be able to let him go. There's no way we'll let you marry that bastard." Yuna gasped. She hadn't told them that Seymour had proposed to her on Friday night. She'd been so happy, but she hadn't breathed a word to her friends.

"Yes, Yuna. We know."

"H-How?" Yuna choked. She was at a loss for words.

Her three friends exchanged a glance. "You won't like this."

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Ha. How was it? I thought I'd take a new angle at the Life of Yuna. I think this is different, am I right?

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