Author's Note: This is my first time doing it with double original characters, rather than having the OC liking a manga character, so enjoy while it lasts. Siren came to me when I got bored, nothing to it. Warning: There'll be a bit of mischief in the later chapters.
After a few days of hanging out together, Senri was becoming Siren's best friend. His laughter was the thing that got her so ruffled and happy. It was the type of laughter that would make anyone laugh with him, no matter the cause. And she liked that because she always smiled with him - something that she used to never do that often; but now, it was an everyday thing. Siren thought it was great, and was always comfortable around him just for that reason.
With Senri, the girls followed them around even more so; like little birds, and at times, they had to even ditch school to get away from their proclaiming love. Obviously, they were popular among the feminine crowd… However, it wasn't until Siren got home late one night, that the mayhem really began. It was nothing near as annoying as high school girls following her around. No… In fact, it wasn't annoying at all. It was shocking. Uncalled for. Indifferent. Something she wouldn't have dreamed of happening at the moment because she was having so much fun at school with everyone.
School had ended for that day, and so had her fun with the guys she hung out with. Just another late night at the park, humoring one another with impractical jokes and obscene laughter. Siren was so used to it, she didn't bother leaving their company. Being a guy wasn't that hard, but it wasn't super easy hiding everything you had. Especially when it lead to this certain mishap.
Under her own, familiar roof, after laying down on the couch, having left the door unlocked for Senri (because he usually came over "after-hours" to have a soda and goof off), there was a wide creak. Siren's unknowing face lit up, for she was always happy to have him over even when it was late, and she sat up, beaming. "You should at least knock, you know, ?" she grinned at the unmoving shadow.
"Oh, sorry.. Serenity. Just thought that I should drop in and say 'hello'… " Her smile dropped right off her face, for the voice was so familiar, she could've picked it out of a thousand noises and voices in one room.
"Bastard…"
"Excuse me?" He was just beginning to walk out of the shadows and into the light the kitchen beheld. His voice was more chilling than she expected, even though she always talked to him like this, no matter where they were. His body was coming closer and closer to her, so that Siren could see his full face, and not just the outlines of his shadow. Swampy, green eyes. Chilly, blonde hair in which some covered his right eye. And a looming smile that could break you up into pieces. A beautiful, but villainous face. This was Orochi Orihime, Siren's father's twisted, younger brother. This was the man that had been giving her hell for the past few years. He seduced her mother into loving him, but this was quite enough. She had, had it with him and so she had deserted the two of them long ago, but what did he want? Chasing her? He always did it and it led Siren to think he was a pedophile, perhaps. But he inflicted physical pain too, not just mental.
"Get out." she growled.
"Why should I, you insolent, little brat?" he crooned, snatching her wrist, and digging his fingernails into it like a gremlin.
"Now, or so help me, I'll bite your mother-fucking hand off, so get, you damned asshole. I moved away from mom to get away from you, so get your paws off me!" Serenity snarled.
But then he hit her, smacked across the room in one blow. Siren was tough, but not tough enough to withstand a blow like that. She moaned quietly, rubbing her face angrily. Up again, she stormed towards him, fists clenched, and so she threw an dignified punch, but it missed sadly. Instead, after trying to deliver the blow, he pushed her towards the door that led outside and outwards - not to the hallway where they'd find other apartments. No. To the balcony.
Her eyes widened.
It couldn't be happening…
Not like this!
Serenity was falling, plunging down off her own balcony. A move uncalled for. The sinister beast threw her off in one push, and she was done for. Mom wasn't there... Senri wasn't there… None of her unsuspecting fan-girls were there… Not her father, either… But no one could help the fact that she was probably falling to her own death and the once quiet, perfect, little neighborhood she once lived in would now harbor a crime scene. And light turned to darkness.
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