When a lovebird dies
Warning: This might spoil the story of 'Love anonymous'.
The repetitive shrill of alarm bells rang loudly and painfully in Mizuki's ears. She slowly opened her eyes in response. Her head felt heavy, and she felt slightly groggy.
What's going on? What's that terrible sound?
She subconsciously touched her head, her fingers grasping a warm and wet sticky substance that clung to her hair and scalp. Alarmed, she brought her fingers in front of her face, identifying the matter as blood.
My blood, her brain registered.
Horrified she quickly tried to sit up. Throbbing pain shot through her skull, gasping sharply, she quickly lied back down again. She gritted her teeth, her head pounding with pain and the incredibly irritating alarm that sounded throughout the dorms.
What now?
Frustrated and scared she clenched her hands, her fingers sliding over the smooth cold tile. Fear gripping her, she started to panic, running the worst case scenarios through her mind. Gunman? …Fire? - Fire!?
She looked to the ceiling, noticing smoke pouring from the main room and through the small window that the steam from the showers usually exited through. She could feel the burning heat of a nearby fire, no doubt it would spread to her room soon. Distressed she inhaled deeply, choking on and tasting bitter smoke. Eyes starting to water as the smoke continued to pour in. Her heart rate quickened, and her breaths now came in quick gasps. She rolled over onto her stomach gritting her teeth as she triggered more stabs of pain. She hesitated, laying in that position for a few moments, until the heat intensified and she was motivated to move. Pain wasn't her main concern anymore - it was survival.
Got to move…
As Mizuki started to crawl forwards, she attempted to put weight on her left arm but pain shot through her and she collapsed, letting out a short scream. No doubt about it now; her arm was broken. A dry sob escaped her, her vision blurred further as she tried to get away, one inch at a time. Her arm grew tired as she pulled herself along, but stopping wasn't an acceptable option. She could hear the faint crackle of the fire as it ate away at anything in its path. Just keep crawling, just keep moving, just keep living….
She made it into the main area of the dorm, smoke now cascading in quicker and more heavily. She was quickly losing the ability to breath, her arm trembled with fatigue and she let herself fall to the ground in a pathetic heap. Every part of her shook violently. She didn't have the strength to crawl anymore.
"Sano…" Mizuki called out weakly, the word burning her dry throat. She stared ahead desperately at the dorm door, vision being shrouded by tears and smoke.
Her last thoughts were that she was glad that at least Sano was safe. Although she was sad that she could never tell him that she loved him.
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Sano suddenly stopped running, standing completely still in shock on the pavement. He could've sworn he just heard Mizuki call his name.
He looked around feverishly, but there was no-one there, all he could hear were the alarms and sounds of the approaching fire truck. Other than those, the area was eerily peaceful. He urgently listened for his name again, but to no avail.
I'm going mad…Mizuki please be safe…
He resumed running, the alarms that rang loudly urging him to run faster. It was as if they represented imminent death.
Mizuki…
The sound echoed loudly in his ears, Sano's eyes never leaving the thick smoke that billowed up from the site.
Mizuki…
As he closed in on the burning building his eye's started to water, and his skin perspired, fear beginning to take hold. Sano stopped in front of the burning building, hesitating slightly. There were huge clouds of black smoke pouring out of the windows. He couldn't see any fire; however he felt the intense heat that emanated from the unseen flames. He could almost feel the fierce heat of the burning flames as they licked at his bare skin-
He shook himself of the thoughts and rushed in, heading through the flaming corridor. He attempted to dodge the area's set aflame, following his usual route to the dorm he and Mizuki shared. The once familiar area was now burning and melting before his eyes. The fire easily consuming the hallways: crackling as they ate through, creating a hellish atmosphere. He decided he wouldn't think about it anymore. All there was was Mizuki. The fire singed his clothes as he passed, but he had no hesitations anymore.
Reaching the door of his room, Sano threw himself at it, despite the flames that were quickly surrounding the wooden frame. The door was locked, or stuck. He looked through the keyhole, identifying a motionless silhouette partially shrouded by smoke.
"Mizuki!" He shouted urgently.
He threw himself at the door a second time - more forcefully than the first. The door fell through, and Sano with it; landing roughly and painfully on the shattered wood. Ignoring the stabs of pain from the awkward landing, he quickly sat up and searched the thickening room.
"Mizuki?" He shouted, spluttering and coughing on the thick smoke that thickly circulated the room, attempting to see through the haze.
A heavy noise sounded from behind him. Panicked he looked behind to find that the door frame had crashed behind him in a burning heap. The fire was feeding on the wooden frame and quickly catching onto the splintered door. Fear struck him again; he needed to find Mizuki and get out of here - quickly. Sano crawled forward towards the still silhouette…
"Mizuki!" He recognized the unmoving form on the floor, and his heart lodged in his throat.
She's not moving. She's not moving…
He moved closer to her still figure and shook her violently in vain effort to revive her.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
"Mizuki!" He pressed his lips over hers and forced air into her lungs, in a futile attempt to revive her. Her lips were still warm under his, but they showed no reaction of life…
-Their first kiss would also be their last-
Pushing the last stores of his oxygen into her lifeless body, he collapsed next to her breathless; inhaling the dangerous fumes that clouded the burning room.
"No! Mizuki I lov-" as he choked those last words, his eyes clouded over with a hazy blanket of grey. He was sorry that he wasn't able to save Mizuki, that he never told her he loved her. But, then he thought, at least this way, he would be forever by her side.
And then, he thought no more.
When a lovebird dies, it's not long until its companion follows…
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Where is the one who will stay by my side forever?
Why ….is it so dark in here?, I can't see a thing. It's kind of scary…
I look around anxiously, unsure of what to do next. It's like I suddenly regained conscious here… wherever here is. I grasp helplessly at the blackness that envelops me, catching only thin air in my hands. Where am I?, and why do I feel so sad?
Me… who is 'me'? Who am I? I… I can't remember…
What's you name? my conscience questions me
My name? I … can't remember….
I struggle to find an answer for the question, but I can't seem to remember anything…
"Mizuki?"
Mizuki?
"Miuzki!"
Is that my name?
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Well I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you thought. Thank you to the readers who reviewed this fiction and/or the sequel and encouraged me to continue to write. Those readers who have read the 'Love Anonymous' know that the last block of text is from the sequel.
Yay! This has got to be the longest fictions I have ever written so far. But I've got to stop writing bittersweet fictions. Most of my stories are tragedies - it's sort of depressing…awww… I think I might go and write another bittersweet to cheer myself up
Thanks again to my incredibly demanding and impatient beta, Adelle
