I watched his back in pure terror as he walked away; I clenched my chest tightly to stop aching pain and discomfort that was slowly spreading in a very deadly manner. Instantly I dropped down to my knees, feeling something wet roll down my face, they were tears.
There was bright white light surrounding us, which I just came to notice.
I stretched my arm in front of me spreading my fingers in the air in order to stop him. I opened my mouth to shout but nothing came out.
But somehow it did the work or at least I though it did, because he stopped.
He was just turning around to face me, but the light just got so stronger I couldn't see anything, my eyes were burning and that was the exact sensation that brought me to reality.
I was panting way too hard, every intake of breath made sound with a slight hint of pain in my chest.
I turned right to found digital clock reading 6:00 am. "Great now What! Going around whole school just for a time pass!"
I yelled at the clock that had no affection of my words what so ever.
I got up and changed into something comfortable for jogging, and got out.
It was dangerous to be outside this early in the morning and besides everything was covered in mist fog, making it very hard to see.
"Well here goes nothing!" I shouted and started jogging, as I made my way out of the fog I could, see surrounding get a bit clearer.
I jogged until my watch read 7:30 am!
"I should go and wake everyone else know"
I though dragging my feet back to school, god this school was turned into a mansion and was getting bigger and bigger every day. Apart from our actual school there was another area where we actually live.
Since this school was made out of city in pure wilderness, nobody have time to spend travelling half of their day, and the reason is pretty simple. Normal people don't think of us as human being and tend to harm us or use us in the name of experiments.
So we actually made something we can call home, sleep there, and eat there, study there and basically everything.
Now I was about enter Henry room, which he shared with two juniors. Sneaking my way in I stood in the middle of the room.
I exactly knew how to wake them.
"WAKE UP YOU BRATS DON'T YOU KNOW ITS 7:20 ALREADY!"
I shouted leaving all the air present in my lungs, my voice was high and there was a pitch to it. All three of them woke in pure bliss of horror with drops of sweat hanging to their forehead.
Now in life this was one of those moments where you cannot keep your amusement to yourself so I laughed pretty hard and by the time I stopped I was a hot mess. Not to mention everyone in the room was glaring at me or rather poking their eyes at me, but it did not made me sink to the floor like a poodle of water and die; instead there was wide grin on my face.
"What the heck are you trying to kill us!?"Henry shouted wiping his sweat, not to mention he threw a pillow at me. Yeah I know, very mature.
"No, I was just doing my job" and with that I left the room.
"Now that was fun!" I exclaimed mentally to myself.
Next was kesay. It was not really hard to wake her up.
I just sneak into her room like I did before, and stood right beside her sleeping figure, bringing my face next to her ear I gave it a loud shriek. She gave out a scream and pushed me down the floor, with that she jumped on me pining me further to the ground.
"Calm down, it's me" I yelled talked her and she quickly moved away, once she realized what happened.
"Jesus Christ, you scared the shit out of me" she stated while helping me get up.
"Oh really?"I questioned just after her statement.
"yes!" she answered as if it was matter of fact.
"well then you scared me to death when you pushed me and then jumped on me, besides its easy to shit out of yourself you can always clean it later, but when you scare someone to death, it basically means you killed them, and you know funerals take very long time" I smirked at very long clever statement.
At first Kasey had this very bored "you know that's very stupid" look on her face, with her left eyebrow up high to her forehead for almost two minutes now, which for was starting to get awkward, soon my long held smirk died down and was buried to the ground. To break the silence I uttered some few words.
"Aren't you gonna say something?"
In that instant her bored expression turned into very ghostly smile.
"You know what?" her voice strangely creepy like that creep ghost girl in that "Grudge" movie.
"I rather kill you on a lonely dark night, then hide you in my closet, and when there is no one in the school I will sneak out and will bury you in a barren place, you will never be found again" by the time she ended her creepy speech chills were running down my spine, I was literally shivering in every way.
The thought of my best friend killing me, hiding me in her closet and then finally burying was way too much, I know she was kidding but still!
She somehow noticed my reaction, and replied;
"You know I was just joking about that killing thing"
"Eh, huh- yeah, well what's the time, anyway?" Believing I dragged my gaze to my wrist watch.
"WHAT!? ITS 8 ALREADY!" a shocking gasp came out of my mouth.
"Whoa, whoa why in such a rush? Besides daily classes are starting at 9:00 am , every day" she said as stretched her arms up high.
"Considering the time you will take while getting ready, I don't think you will make it even if it's at 9" I replied.
"Then I will make it 5 minutes before you" she said casually.
Smirks replace itself on my lips again at her 'so casual reply'
Why?
Let me tell ya, she was never early, in those whole six years I have got to know her she was never early even once in her life.
"Well little missy, it's not going to happen in million years"
"Whatever sees ya at breakfast" she sang it like a song and rushed to the bathroom.
"I might get ready as well" I thought as I got out of there too.
*After 20 minutes*I was full flushed ready to go out, but damn insecure self of mine thought it was a good idea to take look in mirror for the last 30th time. Looking at myself all over again, I pointed my hair that they needed to be combed again, but honestly they were perfectly fine. They were all grown now, probably till my mid waist or maybe a bit longer than that. They are silky straight and never stay still in any hair accessories, so I always let them down.
After five minutes I was heading to the hall, where we all eat on our prospective timings and still no signs of Kasey and Henry.
I waited five more minutes in the last corridor, at last all my patience ran out and I went straight to the hall, to third year senior table and sat down.
I was just about to eat first bite of my breakfast all alone. YES ALL ALONE! When my gaze dropped down to Kasey and Henry, they were walking through last corridor screaming their lungs out at each other. By the looks of it I knew it was something stupid, it always been.
They looked so much like Bou san and Ayako.
Wait Ayako and Bou san?
And with that a scene replayed itself back in my mind.
Flash back; six years ago
It was almost time for Naru to leave. I really didn't want to say goodbye but it was all over now, there was no reason for him to stay, he got what he wanted, his brother gene.
Before leaving he handed me picture of both him and gene and left me without saying a word. First he rejected me and then left me alone, I cried, and cried a lot. I never had been so sad even when my mother left me. Two days later after Naru and Lin left us, we all hang out in a nearby cafeteria, I hated the fact that it was raining really heavily.
We all had a nice cup of coffee some chatting and then it was really big shock to me when John told us he going back to Australia for an important work and Masako was leaving to another city for her career.
Ayako and Monk also told me that they really wanted to focus on their works for now but they said they will keep in touch with me and yusu he really wanted to focus on his studies, as his graduation was coming soon, they all left me speechless, they had so many things to do in future and I had nothing.
After a while we all started to leave for our destinations, it was still raining pretty hard, bou san offered me and Ayako a ride.
I knew there is something going between them and that made smile like they were really my father and mother. We started to move to the parking area which was a road ahead
"ai,….m…ai…Mai" I was so in my thoughts that I completely unnoticed Ayako calling me she had a horrified expression telling me something was wrong.
I was in middle of the street soaking wet and the rain, heavier than before.
There was one thing that went so far unexplained, how a full loaded truck was just five feet's away from me, I wanted to run, scream, yell for help but nothing came out of my mouth! I was stuck, don't know why there was nothing holding yet I was unable to move.
And then it happened that truck came with full force and passed over me.
"Mai….. every…will…alright…ambulance…way" I heard so many voices telling me to stay awake and everything will be all right.
Everything was so blur and rain was making it worst, pain enveloped my body in such a terrible way that even a slight intake of breath caused me to whine and groan in pain.
I felt something coming up my esophagus to throat causing a very heart aching pain and burning sensation to erupt. A gush of liquid came out of my mouth, which I assume was blood, because some of the drops landed on Ayako's face.
Last thing I saw was Ayako's blurry face. Even though it was blurred I could make out deadly terrified and very torn up expression. She was crying non-stop and some of her tear drops landed on my face.
For the last time I closed my eyes and I blacked out.
One month later,
"ep…..eep…..beep…beep, I fluttered my eyes open for a while everything was bright that made my eyes hurt so, I closed them again. After a while I open them again this time they weren't hurting that much.
I realized, there were beige white walls, it was a hospital.
I tried to sit but a sharp pain creped from my abdomen area, I allowed a low hiss to escape my lips and fallback to the bed.
"I see, so you are awake now" very unfamiliar old voice made its way to my ears.
I almost jumped but again pain made fell on the bed. I scanned the whole room only to find a weird person standing beside a window.
"How are you feeling?" he asked me.
"Painful" I replied with a small smile.
This guy was totally out of world with no sense of dressing. He was wearing light grey hood like gown, his had silver white hair, same goes for moustache and beard probably he was too tall few inches more taller than Lin, he looked old too,
"Everyone feels it sometime it will go away soon" he said it with a kind smile.
"So you work here or something?"I asked.
"No I came here to see you".
"See me? Have we met before somewhere?"
"I believe we didn't, I only came here to visit you".
This guy was totally creeping me out now, "Mai you don't belong here, after few days I will come visit you again".
Suddenly the door opened revealing a nurse she was a bit shocked to see me at first but then she gave me a kind smile and dashed out of the room.
I looked around the room, that man was gone, it was totally impossible there was no way he could go anywhere except the window but it was locked from the inside. After a while that nurse came with a doctor.
The nurse came and opened the window wide and started to check my blood pressure. The doctor only said good morning to me and asked how I was feeling, which I replied as it was and then started to tell me how many ribs veins and bones were broken and damaged which was not a pleasant thing to me.
Apparently my left leg was fractured and same went from right upper arm, right side of my head was bruised which they thought was really serious but to their surprise it was healing faster than they imagined because I was already out of coma, after only a month.
My right eye was badly bruised too, that's why it was heavily bandaged.
To them it was a miracle that I survived a horrible incident like this and was out of coma already. Many people die after an accident like this and if they don't they went straight into a coma, and after that they eventually die.
he also told me I could not walk right now I needed some weeks to get back to routine while this conversation was going with us, that nurse called someone and told them that I was awake and they can meet me, I knew it, it could be Ayako or Bou san.
HALF HOUR LATER,
Bou san and Ayako came running in the room, and hugged me Ayako was crying and Bou san had that worried look on his face that made think if I am at the fault.
"Come on guys I am totally fine there are just little bruises otherwise everything's okay" I said that with a cheerful voice.
"Everything's alright? You were almost in a coma for a month besides your lies doctor already told me in which condition you are" Ayako said while wiping her tears off her face.
"You didn't tell anything to anyone right especially Naru and Lin" I asked them worriedly of course I didn't wanted anyone to know about this.
"Relax Mai no one knows about this we talked to your principal about this and two of your close friends were asking about you so we just told them, they are also making some notes for you so you don't need to worry about anything" bou san said that which made me a bit relaxed but somewhere deep down in my heart I knew it was more than he said.
We chatted for a while they gave me some medicine and I took it after a while they brought me launch too and we happily had that.
Until Ayako cleared her throat to speak
"Mai we need to tell you something really important ….. It's not something not to really worry about… I am getting shifted to another city, for a while may be for 2 months or more than that but …hmmm… I will be often in touch with you and maybe Hojo … he will be having some shifts to other cities too in case of his career sooo…. Can you take care of yourself when we left?"
this statement and question almost made my ears numb, its not like they did not told me before yet still it felt strange to me, I really didn't wanted to make them worried about me so I said yes "Of course I can I am not a child anymore you know that" I replied them cheerfully.
With this Ayako and Bou san hugged me.
Somewhere in my mind I was thinking about that man who he was? What actually he wanted? Will he come back again? But I chose not to tell anyone.
END OF FLASH BACK.I waited for them I always did, also do now. At first they used to call me every day, me too. And then they turned into voice mall, then missed calls, text messages and then silence nothing at all.
And now here I am, waiting for those stupid mutts to come. They were in the hallway, about to enter the dining hall.
After first bite, my eyes landed on Kennedy aka my manager and hers on mine. She was sitting on fourth year senior table, yup she was one year senior than me.
She waved at me and I happily did the same.
I took the second bite of my breakfast and two hand landed on both sides of my shoulder.
Guess who is it, bitches!
Kesay and Henry sat on each side of my chair.
And I placed my hands on each side, while I did 'come here' motion through my fingers. They placed 15 dollar each on palm of my hands.
"yup, yup that's what you get for being late" I said, sarcastically as I dig in my breakfast, without sparing another glance my way they did the same.
So here's the rule, you come 5 minutes late, 5 dollar my way.
Depends upon how much late you are.
You might be thinking, ho, look at you how happy you are now!
Well, I am not. I hate how I am the center of attention now!
I hate how some teachers and people are rude to me!
I hate how I don't have much freedom anymore!
I hate how the people I loved left me all alone!
Who am I!?
I am faith aka Mai Taniyama! Now get the fuck out of my face!
Ya! First chapter done! As promised.
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Until next time!