-Momiji-June 24-
o_e Elli is friends with Rei?!
"Rei-Chan was mean?!" Elli said animatedly. Rei smiled a warm smile and said
"Well duh!" while ruffling the raven haired girls' hair. They giggled, and after the initial shock wore off Elli lead me and Haru to our rooms
"A few months ago my parents died, and I inherited their house" she said wearily. I looked around the enormous room
"Wow, this is huge!" I said squeaking a bit. I may have grown up, but I still kept up a charade of happiness.
"Yup. So this will be your room" then she turned to face Haru and pointed to her left
"and the next room is yours Hatsuharu" she smiled
"and if you need any help I'll be in the kitchen" she said winking. When she left I had a strange hollow feeling deep inside me. I only recognized the feeling too clearly. After Izzy had died I felt like someone had ripped out part of my soul, for many months it hurt to even think about it, but now the jagged edges were starting to heal.
Right now I felt that strange hollowness I had from when I thought of Izzy, but I had strictly kept myself from thinking of her. I looked at the door, and plopped down on the king sized bed. It had yellow satin sheets and matching everything else. I sighed and started to unpack my bags… when I pricked my finger on the photo frame of the picture I had seen right before heading off to the airport with Haru.
I remembered I had taken so many pictures that day, but I had liked this one the best. I had seen a grey cat with a darker spot over one of its eyes, and when I asked her when she had gotten the cat she had replied
"he just keeps coming to me" then she had laughed and said his name was Arthur.
~*~
The stinging pain around the edges started burning so I just laid back down on the bed and rolled onto my side… then I fell asleep.
-next day-June 25-
I groaned and then I noticed that Haru was there. Shit I don't like it when people see me depressed. That's why I smile through it all. All the horrible things that have ever happened to me…
"you alright Miji?"
"huh?" I said trying to perk up
"you seem down… you getting homesick?"
"no… I'm fine… really" I said smiling
"hmm… well I'm hungry… and I think I'm going to get lost in this big house, so help me find the kitchen?" I laughed a bit and tried to retrace our steps back to the living room.
-an hour later-
Finally! We finally reached the living room! I plopped down on the couch, while Haru went into the kitchen in the next room.
"uh…" I opened my eyes a crack to see Elli staring at me. I straightened up quickly
"sorry, I guess that's not so courteous of me" I said nervously
"no, its fine. I was just wondering if you wanted to go out to lunch with me and Rei?"
"sure!"
"and Haru too…"
"Kay I'll get him" I said jumping off the couch to find Haru, who was eating cold pizza, by the time I got there.
"Haru, Elli-san and Rei-Chan, wanted us to go eat lunch with them" I said brightly. He barely registered I was there
"hmm… alright" he said in the usual monotone. I smiled and we went back to the kitchen. When I heard a flapping noise and then something white flapped onto my shoulder and squawked. I got shocked but then it said
"Looong time no see bunny" it was Kiko. I stared at it for a while
"hey… isn't that Izzy's bird?" Haru said after a long minute
'yeah. After the 'incident' happened, he came over to my house. Then I left for America." Rei said calmly
"and I brought my kitty too :3" she said like a child.
"j'ai faim, Rei!" Elli said tugging at Rei's arm.
"Oui, Oui, mademoiselle!" then Lelouch stepped in
"Je veux aller manger maintenant!" Elli laughed and then we all went to her black convertible. We wound around the colorful streets of los Angeles, until we came upon a fancy looking French restaurant.
-Elli-
We walked in and where the waiter asked my name
"Iromom, seats for 5?" the waiter nodded and led us to a booth. While Haru looked at the menu Rei-Chan and Lulou started talking, and I started talking to Momiji
"so have you even been to America before?" he shook his head
"I've lived in Japan all my life"
"really? I've only been to Japan once… I think I was 7" I dug in my wallet for a picture I had
He smiled and said
"aww! You look so cute!" I giggled and then I asked him
"I guess. We spent a week there, but even then I never knew I had a brother" I sighed as the food came. My English, German, and French (damn I forgot to mention it in the last chapter TnT) were impeccable… my Japanese, Irish, and Spanish… there was a lot to be desired…
"merci monsieur" during the meal there was a lot of odd things being said like
"once Lulou drank out of the toilet" and
"and another time, Elli got freaked out by a spider in a car and nearly ran me over" and
"once Hatsuharu was trying to find his way to the ice cream parlor, and he got lost for a week" but the thing that stunned me most was
"Momiji wore all girls clothing for the majority of his life" Momiji just laughed about it. I couldn't imagine him in woman's clothing no matter how hard I tried. Later when we were back at my home and Rei-Chan, Lulou and Haru went off to bed I asked Momiji if he had a picture of when he dressed like a girl. He laughed and handed me a photo
"that's so uber-cute!!!" I exclaimed
"you looks so adorable!!!" I said facing him. He just smiled
"and who'd the girl in the picture?" his smiled faded, and he looked down
"her name was Izzy" I felt bad seeing him sad
"are you two not friends anymore?"
"she… Izzy died last year" I instantly regretted what I had asked him. He looked down at the floor. I placed my hand on his
"oh, I'm so sorry… were you two close?" stupid, stupid, stupid! Stop asking him these questions!!! I scolded myself
"immensely so…" he was off staring into space and then closed his eyes. He had stayed like that for so long I thought he fell asleep. He did. My jaw dropped. He fell asleep?! What the hell?! I sighed and closed my eyes. That was a big mistake.
-Rei-June 26- (I think…)
I was at the end of the hall barely awake, when I heard a peircing scream. I rushed to the living room. Momiji had fallen off the couch, startled by Elli's frantic screams. She was in fetal position on the floor screaming. I gripped her shoulders and shook her trying to get her out of her hysteria. Tears were welling up in her eyes and she was trembling
"Elli! Calm down!"
" au feu! ça fait mal! Arrêtez l'alarme! il brûle! aidez-moi!" my eyes widened. Fire ! it hurts! make it stop! it burns! help me! … no… it couldn't be… I slapped her
"calm down! le feu est parti! rien ne va te faire de mal! Je suis ici! arrêter de pleurer!"(the fire is gone! nothing will hurt you! I'm here! stop crying!) she froze. I looked over to momiji. His eyes were widened
"don't worry. It happens from time to time…" but it hasn't happened in a while. Sometimes Elli would slip into fits of hysteria. Usually linked to my empress in some way or another. They share dreams from time to time. But this one... Izzy had had it a few months ago. She had woken up in the middle of the night screaming, and when she calmed down, she said that she felt as though her skin was being burned off… exactly like when her soul was accepeted into the underworld… she had had the Alice in Wonderland dream… I had seen it, and it reveals a fight taking place in the underworld shortly before she was named the new ruler. Who ever sees it feels what the original dreamer feels…
so I guess that's why Elli was scared. But it's a bad sign that she has these dreams. They lead her closer to finding out about the underworld. I told Elli that the fire was gone. When a soul first enters the underworld they are in 'limbo' as some people call it, while the soul is being ripped away from it's body in the mortal world, but normal souls are there for about a week or so, Izzy had to experience the burning all with in an hour. *envylamperouge- … ok so maybe you will not understand anything about what I'm typing until… next chapter?* and Elli had experienced that aweful pain…
-Momiji-
One second I'm in the middle of a good dream, the next, a piercing scream knocked me off the couch. Rei was there next to Elli, who was crying and screaming, like it was the end of the world. Rei slapped her then she said something. Elli froze
"ok. I'm fine now" she stood up, only to fall again
"are you alright Elli?" I asked her. My heart finally calming down
"yeah… my legs are asleep -_-'" she laughed then, ditzy like Tohru
"help me up Rei? I need to go TnT" Rei just laughed.
"Rei! Shut the fuck up! I'm serious! =(" I made my way off the couch and helped her up
"oh, look see, Momiji is nice XP" she said sticking ot her tounge at Rei, and leaning on me to keep from laughing. I smiled. Then a monotone voice said
"I heard screaming. It woke me up"
"don't worry Haru" I said
"mmm? K" then he layed down on the couch and started snoring. Elli laughed. I smiled.
"so why were you screaming?" I asked her
"…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………" it wasd a very long pause. Then she mumbled something that sounded like
"fur end allison wonderlen" then she nearly ran down the hall and far out of my line of sight o.o
"uhhh?"
"Elli is so exaggerated. I swear one day she's going to end up setting herself on fire, with a curling iron" then she stalked off to the kitchen. Lelouch came in with a frying pan looking like he was going to knock some's head off
"I heard a scream! Whats going on in here!?!!"
"youre a bit to late for that lelouch" I said playfully. He sighed and said
"I got lost! Its not my fault this house is so huge!!!" I laughed and went to the kitchen.
Meh… its weird… well…. Tell me in a review what you think of it!
Oh! And sorry I didn't update… in like two days… I totally forgot about my computer (I'm painting my room yellow!) and my iPod died T^T (ran out of battery) and then came back to life~! (recharged)
So… review~!
Q_Q even if you think it's weird T^T
Original post date: 10/01/2009