Chapter 1: The Beginning … Again
A hand was held out for her, beckoning. She felt herself gravitating to it, maybe it was thrill or maybe... it was that she had always belonged there to begin with. The hand laid out in the void, nothing visible to be seen past it. As her foot stepped forward, it touched nothing but air. And she fell.
Her face greeted the cold floor as she slipped from her bed. A loud thud echoed through her bedroom as a groan escaped her mouth. Well, that was one way to wake up. She rubbed her head, with her vision still slightly fuzzy and the sensation of falling still wrecking her body, she glanced up at the gleaming light from her clock on the bed stand. 2:00am.
"Duck with an F." She found herself mumbling to the eerily quiet night, er, morning. She picked herself from the floor and sat upon the edge of her bed. "That was...weird..." The events that had played in her mind had slipped from it, though she was used to that by now.
Stretching, she lifted herself from the side of her bed, her eyes adjusting to the dark. No use in trying to fall back asleep, her brain had pulled the cord to start its engine for the day. Sleep usually didn't find her after those types of dreams, they always pumped her full of adrenaline. She let out a heavy yawn and quietly as she could slipped out of her room, her eyes crusted with sleep that she impatiently whipped away.
As she assumed, the small house laid still except for her. She found her feet moving to the kitchen, her arms pulling open a cabinet and retrieving a cup for herself. She filled it with water and sat at the marble counter taking small sips. Refreshed, and hydrated, she took a long sip, closing her eyes and focusing.
When her eyes drifted open again, the world was painted in black and white. A ever present warmth in her eyes. Through the monotone was a girl in faded colors, a brunette using the toaster. The floor around her was littered with shattered glassware. As the toaster popped up, the girl pushed her finger into the machine trying to retrieve the food, only for her finger to burn. The grayed world shifted, color bleeding in through the edges of her vision as the room returned to its normal state.
She blinked a couple of times trying to rid herself of the sensation of using her ability. Her small test in the night proved that she still couldn't hold it for long before it slipped back. She finished off her water as a throbbing pain pulsated in her head. Maybe she would be able to find sleep after all.
She got up to stand, but quickly grabbed the counter as a spike of pain shot through her already aching head. Ok, maybe she should take it a little slower. At a snail's pace, she made her way back to her room to flop back down on her bed. Sleep solved all problems, so it should solve the headache she was experiencing. Hopefully.
She must have blacked out, because she was awoken by a loud crash from the kitchen followed by a series of cursing. She buried her face in her pillow, hoping to catch more much needed sleep.
"MA-" another crash, "RU!" Came a high pitched voice from the kitchen.
It appeared the Gods weren't so kind. Begrudgingly, she pulled herself from her bed to investigate what the voice could possibly want, and the mass amount of crashing. She exited her room to see utter chaos. "Saku, what that actual hell."
There was no way any living being could cause this much damage in that amount of time. Maru glanced around the destroyed kitchen trying to piece together 'How?'
"Girl," She walked around the island to where Saku was scrambling with dishes, glassware pieces coating the floor. "First off, how? Secondly, how? Thirdly...how?" A slight flush covered her sisters cheeks.
"W-well, you see, it was an accident. It all started with me waking up, and you know I'm not a morning person, so I was groggy, and I walked into the kitchen and grabbed for the counter but instead of counter my hand hit a cup, and then I slipped cause I didn't have any support, and then the water from the cup got on the floor-"
Maru quickly glanced to the side before returning her gaze back to Saku."So were you groggy like you were that day in the hall and full body slammed a kid, or like when you were tripping over your own feet?" Maru had to distract the conversation from her slip up.
The brunette stopped her rambling and furrowed her brow. "More like lead-in-feet kind of groggy while running into blind traffic."
"Ah," Maru nodded in realization. "So you were a drunk type of groggy, gotcha." She sidestepped the girl to inspect the mess she created. There was still water on the floor with shards of the glass cup mixed within. She recognized it as her cup from earlier. "Wait, there's more than just glass on the floor… what else did you knock to the ground?!"
"Well, I was getting to that, you s-see, in my slip, my whole body flew forward and my foot slammed into a cabinet on the floor, causing it to shake, so then a dish fell from one of the upper cabinets, then another and another, it's a miracle I survived", She gesture to the mass of massacred dishes behind her. RIP.
Maru hid her wide grin behind her fist, trying her not to laugh at the thought of a dish instead flattening Saku's face. When she regained her composure enough she spoke. "It doesn't matter now, just clean up this mess and I'll make waffles." She immediately moved to the freeze to retrieve the box of egos.
Saku threw a suspicious glance at Maru as she grabbed the broom and dust pan. "Y-you don't happen to know how that cup got there...do you? Cause it wasn't there when I went to bed."
"Nah fam, I'm just as confused as you are." Maru said calmly, though she was thinking up thousands of excuses. She slid a waffle into each slot in the toaster before pushing down the lever.
"Hm, ok then." She drawled out as she swept up the shattered glass, and cautiously wiped up the water from the wooden floors.
Maru threw a surprise glance at the other girl, 'can't believe she actually believed me… she knows something.' She narrowed her eyes returning them to the toaster.
"Oh by the way, next time don't use the good cups, we only have a few that match." SHE KNOWS. Saku dumped the contents of the dustpan into the trash.
Maru gave a small smirk, it takes two to tango Saku. "Well, I still don't know what you're implying. But next time, you should watch where you place your hand, we can't have you taking down more plates. We only have a few."
Saku sent her a teasing smile, and stuck out her tongue. "Lucky Miss Ann didn't hear you last night, she would have had a fit."
"Lucky Miss Ann isn't here to see the mess you made of her kitchen, you would have been nailed to the wall."
"A-at least I cleaned it up." Saku shot back and wiggled her eyebrows as she set down the broom and empty dust pan.
"At least I didn't make the mess to begin with."
"You-" There was a pop from the toaster signalling that the waffles were finished. Nothing like food to break up a standoff.
Saku reached over to pick one out of the toaster with her naked hand. Maru was quick on the scene to catch her hand before it plunged into the heat box. Saku's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "S-someone's been practicing."
"Nah, I just have amazing reflexes… and you do this almost every time we make waffles." Maru let her sister's hand go.
"Hehe, sorry I-I forget sometimes…" The brunette flexed her fingers, that had calluses on them.
"Ironic isn't it." Without another word, the raven haired girl reached into the cabinet to retrieve two of the remaining plates. She took the liberty of pulling the waffles from the toaster and placing them on the plates. She shoved the food into her mouth as she noticed the clock on the stove. "Sheep, we're already running late!"
"Awe snap!" Saku yipped and ran off in the direction of her room leaving her waffle. With a still unchewed waffle in her mouth, Maru had rushed to her room to actually get dressed in her uniform. It was an ugly thing. She had to wear a -barf- skirt. She had no time to complain, cause god be danged if she were late again.
Maru threw on her backpack, hoping everything she needed was inside. When she made it back into the kitchen, Saku was ready as well, though her hair was all over her head. "Uh, no. Brush that."
The brunette lifted a brow, and ran her fingers through her hair as if they were a brush. "Done. Lets go."
Maru rolled her eyes, they got enough crap at school and didn't want them to have more. But she was just gonna have to deal with it. "Fine, do you have your phone?"
"O-of course. Now let's go, we can't be late again." She started out the door at a breakneck pace, well as break neck as someone with stubs for legs could go.
"Right." Maru followed after, actually going fast enough to rival the speed of light. Though there was a nagging feeling she had left something…