"Kai!"
Ow.
"KAI!… Is she awake? God Jay, how much did they let her drink?"
My sister, Sarah, what the hell is she doing here? Here? Here where? I'm at home. With my family, I've been ill but now I'm better and they let me go home.
Opening sore eyes, Kai looked up at the rough worried features of her youngest brother, "what do you want Jay?" She croaked threw her dry throat, looking around for a glass of water as she sat up, the pounding in her head making her wince in pain, the light from the window making her eyes hurt and her head worse.
"Oh good, your awake," said another voice. Oh yeah, Sarah. "Here you go," she said and held out a glass of water to the sleepy figure, who took it with a grateful smile. "How much did you all drink last night? Mom and Dad are still asleep, but I heard them being sick this morning so they'll be awake soon."
Kai smiled, she couldn't remember last night. Just her dream, the dream of all those colours and the noise, of the strange girl with the purple eyes and the black moon… and… her eyes fell on the large pile of manga and anime DVD's that were laying next to her bed and scattered all over the shelves of the room as usual. The dream seemed to make a little more sense now, she had gotten drunk at the family party and watched some anime before passing out asleep.
"You should have stayed last night, instead of running off after that weirdo boyfriend" she said while slowly sipping the water into her abused stomach, wincing at the pain and worrying if she was going to be sick at some point. "And what do you want Jay?"
"Can I watch it? Please? You said you'd let me watch Man with you!" Begged the boy as he bounced his long frame on her small bed, his own was wedged in the room next to hers but still he bounced on her bed! He was six foot six and still growing at the age of fifteen, she was…was… short for being the oldest of them all, oldest of three brothers and three sisters.
"What time is it?" She asked the room in general as she kicked the youngest and tallest of the boys off of her bed only for him to be replaced by the middle sister Sarah as she fiddled with her phone, sulking over the boyfriend comment.
"Its eleven." She answered and continued to fiddle with the phone.
"Jay, I've told you, there's not been any new anime for over a month now." She tried to stop the boy from talking continuously and shifted towards the side of the bed, realising that she had slept in her clothes. "The author is sick. She can't work but I've got work in two hours!"
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Fighting for the bathroom as usual took up another half hour, then the twenty minuets to run and use the bath tub were interrupted for another ten minuets as her first younger sister burst in to be sick in the toilet. Nine people, one bathroom! She cursed as she rubbed the blond girls back, holding her hair out of her face.
"You better now Kira?" Passing some her some tissue, she walked her back to bed and opened the small window in the bathroom before stripping off and climbing into the lukewarm bathtub. Once she was out, dried and dressed, wet hair falling loose around her shoulders, it was downstairs to see the rest of the family in the kitchen, turning a simple Saturday morning into world war four. Managing to salvage a piece of toast, forcing it down her throat even if she didn't want it, she had time to kiss her Mom goodbye before she left to catch the bus for work.
After spending another half an hour, crammed on the packed bus, it was into the hell hole called work. Stupid work shirt, check. Name badge on, check. Watch, check. Medication, check. Down to the till that would be her personal torture for the next six hours…
Her mind wandered as she worked, the constant beeping of the machines around her and her hang over helping to lull her mind until she saw them again. Those eyes. Large purple eyes in an almost angelic face belonging to a small girl with dark purple hair. The world seemed to slip again as her body froze up! The beeps around her became too loud!
"So I guess I did a good job if your back here," laughed the girl as she walked towards Kai threw the crowd that seemed not to notice that they had both stopped. "You know who I am. I made sure you knew everything."
"No… that's… that's just a story." Kai said, her throat going dry as her mind all too easily named the face before her.
"I know. I made sure of that too." Laughed the girl but Kai' vision was tunnelling again until she felt a sharp pain in her hands and the girl jumped back suddenly. "Seems they're going to try wake you up, I wander if your mind can accept reality? Can you figure out which is real?"
"R…Road?" Kai gasped but as her vision darkened the pain in her hands increased, flowing up her arms as if flowing her veins until she felt her whole body was on fire! She screamed, she knew she did but she couldn't hear the it until at last, with a shattering sound everything went silent.
The new silence felt like an oppressive blanket being rolled over her until at last she could hear the faint tinkling sounds of something close by. They were delicate little sounds, like music almost and she moved towards them in the blackness, desperate for something to latch on to…
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"And in latest news, it seem' that the new virus, Euphoria, has clamed another victim. Christine Joleson, is the latest victim in the growing crisis, having passing out while at work, when it was believe she had managed to survive the horrible diseases. Her family has been informed and is withdrawing to mourn her de-"
Silence… The a giggle from a young throat.