Secrets Kept Hidden

Chapter 2

Chihiro got up and steady herself, she used Lea's arm to support herself. All the while Lea was chewing her out for falling, how clumsy she was, etc all the things Lea normally did.

Lea again voiced her 'concerns', well that was what she called them, no one else would think of them that way but her. Everyone else just guessed that she was to do some good, or act like it. Since she was always doing something that wasn't good.

"Hey you really are a dumbass Chihiro, giggle. You fall on flat ground, you are so clumsy. I remember it was just last week or was it the week before? Anyway you were at my house and you feel up my stairs! Though I really can't say anything," she looked around and whispered, "I did too, my mom thought I was stupid.

Anyway stop getting of subject Chihiro I can't keep getting you back on topic here. Sigh, I just wished you would stop making me worried all of the time. I mean one of these days you are going to kill yourself. I think you should be considerate of my feelings, at least let me be there and help the carpet or floor or even the stairs kill you. I really don't think I could handle it if they beat me to it."

She laughed, Chihiro looked at her and sighed, Lea was going to be the end of her. Both mentally and physically, well either both or which ever came first.

Sigh, Chihiro just hoped she would be too out of it to notice Lea do anything that bad to her, but wait hasn't she already done some stuff?

She shook her head and tried to block it all out, she did not want to remember the things Lea did or said she would do, that was the most important one to consider.

Chihiro looked at her friend and said with a tried but serious face, "You know friends aren't supposed to be mean or hurt friends. I mean emotionally and putting them down or trying to think of ways to kill them if they get on your 'list'.

Or anything you and your little twisted but curious mind can think of. Lea you aren't supposed to hurt them physically, or mentally. Though you do work better with the mentally part that I can give to you, but please stop doing this, you confuse me to much. One minute you are understanding, and serious the next you go all psycho on me."

Chihiro took a breath; again she heard that chuckle, where was it coming from? She could see the woods perfectly; Lea was the one with her back to it. She couldn't see that boy anymore, where did he go? Why did she care so much?

Lea looked at her all serious, Chihiro thought, oh fuck, here comes her speeches, I just know it. Watch after I finish thinking this she will start. And damnit she is.

Lea sighed and said, "Do you remember what I told you before? The saying that involved the two types of friends?"

Chihiro stopped moving and thought about what she said. About a minute later her head went down and she shook it, "I can't remember."

Lea looked at her all serious like again and said, "Fine you idiot, I will retell it. A good friend shares their umbrella with you while it's raining. A true friend takes yours and running away yelling run bitch run."

Again while the girls laughed, she heard laughing, she heard the laughing of the other one again. She knew this time that she heard it; out of three times she knew what it sounded like. But again there was this feeling she had saying she knew it from long ago, like she would know it from anywhere. The weirdest thing about it was that she seemed to waiting for it, wanting to hear it.

Wait what was he laughing at in the first place? Why when she thought of him laughing at her it hurt deeply, more then she could ever dream.

She shook her head and looked at Lea, and said, "It happened again last night, I woke up so scared that I didn't go back to sleep for the rest of the night. I am so tried." Chihiro leaned back against the fence, indicating she was tried.

Lea nodded too, "I had those dreams I told you about before," she looked around to see if anyone was there, "My mom and dad always told me they were not real just some stupid shit I made up. But when I dream I feel as if they are so real, like I was actually there you know."

Chihiro nodded that was how it was with her, let even though she was so scared, she still had courage somehow, she laughed at herself, how different these two versions of her were. How she wished to be the other one.

Lea looked at the sky and said, "That world felt so unreal, with all the spirits running around, there was even talking animals! I thought I saw a frog a couple of months ago.'

Out of nowhere Chihiro asked her, "Did you see a dragon, a blue one?" She stopped breathing and she could tell that they all did her, Lea and that boy hiding in the woods.

Lea looked at her and said, "I have never told anyone about that, they would think I was crazier then I already am." Then she shook her head as she finally realized the entire question, "I didn't see a blue one but I saw a black one that had some gold in it."

Now Chihiro really knew that the boy had stopped breathing, and then Lea continued on as if she didn't know there was a boy, a hot one mind you in the forest not a little way away listening to them, as if he had a mission to fulfill. In fact Lea didn't know and wouldn't ever know that there was a boy in the woods, watching and listening to them.

"So tell me my little friend, was that dream you had last night. Was it one of those dreams? The ones you wake one at the last moment? The ones that have you waking up so hot and unsatisfied and dare I continue?"

Chihiro had jumped at Lea just as she was finishing that sentence. They were laughing as they rolled down the hill together. When they got up and dusted themselves off the bus was there to pick them up.

Chihiro was getting on the bus and was looking out the window from the bus was looking at the spot she had seen him. To her amazement she saw his face come out from behind the tree, he smiled at her but she could tell the way something behind that smile he was hiding. She knew this because of his eyes, they were sad at the same time as happy.

She knew what he saw had made him happy, but more then that he was sad, something that he didn't plan had some up and whatever that was it hurt him. And if it hurt him, it hurt her.

She watched him disappear, and go down that trail that she had seen and been on so long ago it seemed, from another life. She knew deep inside of her that she would walk down that road again and it would be worse, way worse then the first time.

Someone neither of them saw had just jumped down from the tree as the bus went out of sight, there was a giggle. There were footsteps and a pair of black boots with heels on them came into the opening, looked around then stepped back into the woods.

The figure walked down the trail, and came up into an old train station. The person walked out of it and went onto the grass, and said, "I so do love this place at night, and then there would be water, not grass, sigh, me does like water.

She pushed her long blonde hair past her ear, her hair was down past her feet, she had to have it pulled back into a ponytail to keep it off the ground, but it was still like a centimeter from it anyway. She was pale white, but still not albino, not even close enough.

Her eyes were blue, pure blue like the ocean; she wore a black halter top and a pair of black pants with a mini skirt over it. Add the boots and every guy in the spirit world wanted a date or even a minute of her time focused on him, not only in the Sprit World, but in the Human World also.

Hopefully she like the dude or he would be dead someone in that minute, though anyone who knew her would bet that that minute would turn to three seconds.

She sighed and said, "This is such hard work, but hey someone has to do it. Someone has to set everything in motion, if I didn't who the hell would?"

With that she walked off and disappeared into the daylight which she did not like. The girl always did like the night better.