So what I am doing differently about this chapter is that I am experimenting with short chapters. I don't want to make this very long, but I do want to keep the ideas separate for what happens in each scene so it will be split into different chapters. Plus, it gives a greater sense of accomplishment, haha. Enjoy :)
Everything instantly felt as if there was a calm aura around it. Hikaru stood in her own silence, the only thing she could hear was the music that was faintly emitting itself from her headphones. She looked at the ground, staring at them in disbelief. She felt as if for the first time, she knew what it meant to be free.
The girl leaned back so that she could look at the ceiling, whispering to herself, "Am I actually free? Is he gone?" then reality hit her.
She frowned and crossed her arms, looking ahead of her and speaking abruptly, "Alright Horizon, don't play any tricks on me."
The only thing she heard in reply was a silence.
Hikaru smiled, then tried to shake it out of her mind, "No! I know you. You are just waiting for me to slip up...yeah...that's it!" She laughed to herself and stripped, getting into the tub.
"Well if you aren't going to talk..." she joked, lowering herself into the bath, "Then I am just going to take this opportunity to relax!"
She paused. The silence was nice, but it almost felt awkward. She leaned forward slightly, the water rippling around her as she touched her arm. She flinched slightly, then remembered that it was still there. For some reason, she still was having issues remembering that Horizon was the one keeping it attached. If it wasn't for him, she could have bled to death that one day.
But if it wasn't for him, she wouldn't have had to worry about her arm being chopped off in the first place. She cringed at the thought, the pain from that time was so immense, and she felt as if she didn't have Horizon, she would have easily fell into shock.
"My arm...My arm!" She recalled herself screaming. A cold sweat overcame her body and made her feel uncomfortable, she shifted in place, clutching her arm tighter. It was almost unbelievable that anything like this had happened to her in the first place.
"Maybe I am going crazy..." she murmured, looking up to the ceiling again. "Next thing I know, they are going to be sending me off to some room with padded walls." Hikaru laughed at herself.
BRR BRR DEE
When Hikaru got out of the tub, she put her headphones back on her head. The music pumping through to her ears was nice, it gave her the sensation that she never again had to listen to the words people spill out of their mouth. It made her feel detached from the world, but it was a good sort of detachment. She didn't like feeling as though she was just like the others. It was awkward an felt weird.
She plopped onto her futon and rolled over onto her side. The girl stared at her arm from a moment before she shut her eyes. "Horizon..." she murmured silently to herself.
"Stop playing games with me." she added, opening her eyes for a short moment, as if she was expecting to see the creature manifested before her.
There was nothing but an empty room before her eyes, almost as if it were her heart, rid of all emotion that was free.