A/N: Hello everyone! I've decided to rewrite this story, I feel like I jumped the gun and went way off from the actual plot. Anyway I've fixed some spelling and grammar mistakes. Please enjoy and thank you all for support!
Two Breaths Walking; Chapter 1: The One I Meet In the Dark
"Ah damn it" a voice groaned, inside an apartment, a figure had just exited the bathroom. Hair as dark as the darkest abyss, eyes a shade of red that would make roses envy, porcelain white skin like snow.
Walking into the kitchen the figure was met with a cheery, "Good morning!" a chipper voice said, the smell of breakfast met the figures noise,w
"Something smells good" the figured yawned before picking up a piece of toast taking a bite out of the toasted bread,
"Yep I decided to make breakfast this morning" the other figure spoke, they were short, looking about 9 or 10 years of age, with long jet black hair and ruby red eyes.
"Hn, it tastes good" the taller male said continuing to eat the toast, finishing off the first to grab a pancake, "Nice job" the smaller figure smiled before jumping on the other, "Thank you big brother!" they squealed
"Hey calm down Alex, you're gonna mess up my clothes" the brother said as their sibling latched onto to them in a sudden hug, "Any way I need to get to work" they said, their sibling looked up to him with large red eyes,
"I wish big brother didn't have to leave all the time" they pouted, only to receive a pat on the head, "Sorry sis, but if I don't work, I can't get paid" he said, "You do like to eat and live in an apartment right"
"I know" they pouted, "But I still miss you!" she exclaimed
"Ah don't look so sad" they chuckled, "Listen I'm getting off early today, then we can spend the day together"
"You promise?"
"Yeah, of course!" he'd never break a promise, especially to his sister
"Pinky promise" they said holding up their tiny pinky, with a sigh the brother moved his pinky to wrap around the others.
"Yeah!" they cheered
"Oh brother…" he sighed, "Damn it I'm gonna be late" they looked at the time and began running all over the house to get ready.
"I'll be off around 6:00 p.m, you got my number" they said going toward the door, "See ya sis!"
"Have a good day!" they called from the door as she watched her brother run down the hall and down the stairs.
The young male ran down the sidewalks streets, moving passed other pedestrians on the sidewalks.
"Excuse me, sorry, outta my way buddy" turning the corner, he sprinted down a few more blocks before stopping in front of a store.
"Just made it" he said catching his breath, opening the door he went inside and was met with the strong smell of caffeine and coffee beans.
"Sorry I'm late" he said moving passed others and went to the back
"You're always late Ai" another worker said, it was a male with light brown hair and emerald green, "It's a wonder you haven't been fired yet" he joked, Ai was tying the blue apron around his waist, once it was tight enough he place his cap and name tag on.
"Yeah, Yeah you say that every time" he replied, "Any way let's make some coffee!" he said trying to pep himself up
"You seem to be in a good mood" the male said, "Hey it's Friday!" he replied, "That means I can take a break, I swear I need a break from coffee" he sighed
"Yeah I guess" he chuckled, "Anyway let's get ready it's almost time for the lunch rush" he said as people began to file into the coffee shop,
"Great…" he groaned,
'Deep breathes, deep breath' after a few breathes he dove into the crowd of people
It was finally time to close, Ai gave a relieved exhale
"Man what is it about coffee that makes people crazy?" he groaned rotating his arm, today was tiring, but it was finally time to close and go home, locking door and giving it one more check he turned on his heels and began walking down the street.
"Man I can't wait to get home, though sis will probably ambush me when I open the door" he said, she always did, but she had a good heart, annoying, but a good heart.
It was relatively dark by the time he got off of work, with fall coming the mornings were becoming rather short. Though it didn't matter to him, he rather liked the night, people were pretty much either inside their houses or off doing whatever.
As he turned the corner he walked up the street and stopped,
"What the hell…" a few feet before him was a figure, hidden in the shadows, "I've been sniffing way to much coffee" he groaned obviously this was a caffeinated hallucination, it had to be, suddenly the street lights flickered before being on revealing the true figure hidden under the shadows.
'Eh…it's a…girl' yes it was a girl, she looked fairly young, with curly blonde hair that fell down to her shoulders and her lidded eyes held glistening pink color hues. There was also a little flower clip pinned to the left side of her hair.
"Hey are you okay?" he questioned, the girl didn't look well, her cheeks were flushed and her arms were wrapped around herself rather closely.
"Um, hello?" he called again walking a little closer, carefully not to scare her, "Hey are you…" the girls body began to sway as words, indistinguishable began to mutter from her lips,
'She's gonna…" rushing over quickly caught the girl before she hit the ground, "Hey! Can you hear me?" he called, moving his hand he placed it on the girl forehead,
"She's burning up!" looking around the street was pretty much empty and the hospital was all the way down town, 'Okay don't panic! Do not panic!" he told himself and began to think,
"Okay, deep breaths" he took in a few calming breaths, picking her up he carefully cradled he in his arms and made a dash down the street.
Back at Aki's house,
"La la lallala~" Alex hummed as she dusted the bookshelf with a feather duster, "Big brother should be home by now" she smiled looking at the clock it was almost seven, "Wonder what's taking brother so long?" she wondered,
"Maybe he stopped to get a pizza, oh or maybe sushi! I always wanted to try some authentic sushi!" she giggled before jumping off the stepping ladder.
"Alex!" a voice called
"Big brothers home!" she cheered and began running to the front to greet him, "Welcome home!...huh?" her smile quickly fell as she saw her brother carrying something or rather someone in his arms.
"Big brother?" her brother raced passed his sister who quickly turned and followed,
"Brother who is she?" she asked watching as the older boy placed the girl on the couch, feeling her forehead again,
'She still has a fever damn it'
"Alex go and get me some water and a towel" she ordered the girl who stood there looking at him and a girl, "Don't just stand there, hurry she's got a high fever!" his sister nodded and went to go get what she asked for.
'I need to get her clothes off' moving quickly he took off the light brown jacket she had been wearing and then he noticed her clothes, they were wrinkled, her shirt was barely buttoned like they had been pulled or been in a scuffle and there was…a stain, red,
"Crap is she bleeding?" moving the shirt open his eyes noted some marks, like puncture holes on various places on her body. It looked like she had been bitten,
'What the hell happened to this girl?" he thought still seeing the mysterious marks and began thinking of worse case scenarios.
"Big brother I got the water you asked for" Alex said setting the water on the floor, "Good job, now I need some bandages and disinfectant" he said dunking the towel in the water.
"Right!" and she was off again, wringing the towel out, he began carefully applying it to the girl's head; her breath was labored and her face was flushed.
'Come on, deep breathes, deep breathe'
Suddenly the girl eyes began to strain opening, hazy pink meeting rosy red,
"Wha…wha…?" her voice was strained as she tried to speak
"Sh, it's okay, you need to save your strength" Ai said as he continued to apply the cool water on her forehead,
Her eyes again began to slip close,
"Big brother I got the things you wanted!" a voice called, it was smaller
"Hey hold on you're going to be okay" the man's voice said, the sounds were becoming further and further until,
"Ai…Ai…"
'I feel…so tired…'
Morning came and went and soon night returned, once again pink hues opened slowly straining to find focus in sight.
'Wha…what happened?' the girl looked around, turning her head she saw she was in a bedroom, though it looked so unfamiliar. Suddenly the door opened revealing two figures, one was a child with long black hair and ruby red eyes,
"You're awake!" she said happily, "Look big brother she finally woke up!" she said
'Big…brother…?' hazy pink looked to the side of the girl, and her eyes stopped to look at the figure beside her.
"Alex you're being too loud" the male seemed to scold the little girl, walking further inside the male stood at the side of the bed, the girl tried to sit, struggling a bit,
"Hey don't push yourself" he said trying to steady her,
"Um, thanks…" she said weakly as the other held her sit up,
"You shouldn't try to strain yourself" he repeated
"Where…am I?" she asked confused and rather worried
"Um, well you're at my…our apartment" he corrected, "I found nearly passed out while I was heading home. You had a pretty bad fever and some nasty wounds on you" he explained
"Yeah, but don't worry big brother Aki and I took watched over you until you got better!" the small girl said surprising the girl on the bed, her eyes went from the little girl to the male who she called big brother.
"You…took care of me?"
"Um, yeah it was no problem" he said, "It's not like I was going to leave you out in the street" he said
"Thank you, so much" she said carefully her voice still feeling weak
"I'm Alex by the way!" the girl introduced herself
"Alex?"
"Yeah it's short for Alexandria!" she said with a smile
"That's a lovely name" the girl smiled, her eyes finding the male again
"And this is my big brother Ai, he's the best big brother ever!" she exclaimed, "He watched over you until you woke up"
"Sis be quiet you're making me sound like some perverted creep when you say it like that" Ai scolded his sister who quickly giggled, but apologized
"Anyway, what were you doing out there?" he asked looking at the girl who looked confused
"Um, can you at least tell us your name?" he asked, the girl's head looked down at her hands, as though she was thinking, before she shook her head.
"I…I don't know…"
'She doesn't remember, great…' he sighed
"Well this is a twist, I've got a girl in my room, who can't remember her name, great" he groaned
"I know!" the girl piped up, "Breakfast"
"Uh, breakfast?"
"Yeah, she's probably starving from being asleep all this time, her brain cells must be starving without proper nutrients!" she exclaimed conclusively, "I'll go fix a big breakfast for all of us!" with a cheer she ran out the room leaving the two very confused teens.
"Let me be the first to apologize for my little sis" he sighed, "She tends to jump the gun a lot"
The girl giggled at his comment, "It's okay, she's cute" she said, "She's lucky to have a kind big brother like you" she giggled, the male looked over to her, as a small blush tried to creep on his face.
"Yeah well…" as the girl giggled, the laughs became coughs, "Hey are you okay?" he said patting her back to help her cough.
"I'm fine…" she smiled softly,
"Listen you're still sick, I'm gonna call a doctor to come look at you, but for right now you need to rest" he said helping her lay down, placing the covers.
"Comfortable?" the girl nodded
"Good, I'll go get you some water to help with the cough" he said, "Just lay down and rest"
"O-Okay…" she said quietly watching the male leave, closing the door. Outside the door the Ai leaned against it,
'Man this is weird' he thought, 'One minute I'm heading home for the weekend, the next I'm playing doctor to a cute girl in my room' he stopped for a second, 'cute' where did that come from, he would admit she was rather cute…for a girl…he shook his head.
'Deep breathes' he told himself, he need to be thinking of her health, leaning off the door he went to go to the kitchen. Alex was busy at the stove preparing breakfast for their 'guest'. Grabbing a glass from the cabinet, he went to the fridge and began filling the glass when…
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What the hell!?" the sudden caused him to drop the glass cup, with a crash fragments of glass and water scattered to the floor.
"Big brother?"
"Stay here Alex!" he said and moved to the back rooms, quickly opening the door, he saw the girl on the bed, head bowed, hands firmly in her hair as she continued to scream.
"Hey what's wrong?" he questioned running to her, the girl was practically frantic, screaming and shaking her head,
"Get away, GET AWAY!" she screamed
"What's wrong? Hey can you hear me!?" Reaching for her, the girl saw this and quickly backed away to the wall holding her hand out as if to keep him back.
"Stay away from me!" she seemed to cry clutching her pajamas
"What's up with?" he said calmly holding his hands up, "Listen I'm not trying to hurt you I just want to talk" he said moving closer
"No you want to hurt me" she shook her head, "You want my blood…"
'Blood?' okay this girl just went from cute, to crazy, maybe bringing her home was a bad idea, "Listen I don't know what you think, but I don't want your blood" he said, "So why don't we just remain calm and just talk to me" the girl look at him, her eyes darting back in forth like a people he got at work, hyped up on caffeine.
Slowly the girls arms began to lower her hand, "See everythings okay" he said reassuringly, "I won't hurt you, I promise" he said holding his hand out, "But you have to trust me, okay?" he watched the girls eyes go from him to his hand, slowly her hand found his,
"See your gonna be fine" he said giving him a small smile, slowly tears began to well up with tears, she didn't know why, but the way the other smiled so warmly at her, the reassurance he spoke to her…it was…foreign in feeling…
"Hey!" he gasped as the girl launched herself into him, the sound of screams gone and replaced with weeps of crying as she rested her head into his chest gripping tightly as she could on her shirt.
"O-Okay…this is weird…" he said still abit shocked, "It's okay…no need to cry…" he said slowly running his hands through her hair.
"Um brother…?" a voice from the door watched scene, "Um Alex, now's not a good time…"
"So then no breakfast…?" it was a random question, but Alex was a random person
"Not right now" he sighed as he continued to let the girl cry into his chest, "Just warm up some tea"
"Okay" she nodded and was back off to the kitchen, as he sat there listening to the girl cry into him, he had to wonder,
'What the hell has this girl been through?'
….To Be Continued…..
Next Time; The Second I Remember your Name?
'I can't remember…'
'Or maybe you just don't want to remember…'
