I knocked on the door. No answer.
Let's see if there's another entrance. Yes! The window is open! Now if I can just get inside of it. Ah that's better…Oh. My. God. Oh-my-god-oh-my-god-oh-my-god x 3000.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed. And I kept screaming and screaming that. Then I screamed again. How could I not? What I saw in front of me was Tei and Neru dead. I though Neru would be panting hard after the surprise but now dead! Honestly!
And why is Tei dead? She's not the suicidal type!
I fell on my knees.
I don't know how long I kept on screaming, but somebody finally came. No, it's wasn't one of Neru's parent's, but Len.
"Neru, you hear?" he called from below. Then he heard my screaming. I heard fast footsteps go up the stairs. Len hastily stopped at Neru's door.
"Rin! Are you okay? What happened? RIN!"
I put my hands to my face and started crying. How could this happen? Did Tei finally snap and killed somebody? But what happened to her? I'm still wondering about that.
But the bottom line was that Tei was dead. My best friend. Dead. I spent a big part of my life with her. When Len was busy (which he was always ever since middle school), I was always with Tei. She told me everything. She was with me through a lot of stuff. And she always protected me from those bitches. She can't be gone. She can't!
I didn't think it was possible, but I sobbed harder after thinking about what Tei was too me.
"Rin, snap out of it! Rin, answer me! ANSWER ME!" But it was no use. I just continued sobbing.
"Rin," he called, miserably. "If you can hear me, stop crying. Please!"
And I did. Gradually. But quickly. Though, of course, there was the occasional sniffle.
"Good. Now, let's get you home first. You can tell me everything later."
"But," sniff, "What about," sniff, "Tei and Neru?" sniff.
"I'll call their parents when we get home," he answered.
"Yes, Mrs. Akita. Yes. Okay. Yes. I get it. Bye."
Len ended the phone call with Neru's mom. He came back and sat down nest to me on my orange bed.
"Are you okay?" he asked. I nodded. "Good. Now, can you tell me what happened?" I nodded again.
"Well," I started. How was I going to put this? "I, umm. I-"
"It's okay if you still don't want to talk about it," he interrupted. "It must have been very traumatizing. Take all the time you need." He said it in such a soothing tone, that it helped a little. Just a little though.
"You need anything?" he asked. I just shook my head. "Okay."
He exited the room.
How could this have happened? Maybe I should play something on my phone to distract me.
I reached for the phone in my pocket and opened it, finding that I had two new messages. How come it didn't make any noise?
Silent. I should have known.
So, what is it? If it's spam I-
It's from Tei. What did she say?
To: Rin
From Tei
Subject: HELP!
Rin, I just killed Neru! I couldn't help my self! I just sort of lost it. But this wasn't the plan! A prank turning into a murder? This is just ridiculous! Help me! I don't know what I should do. Please answer this message!
That one was sent at 9:35 pm. That was 20 after she left.
Now I'm scared to read the next one.
Come on Rin! It was your best friend's last text message!
Okay. Here I go.
To: Rin
From: Tei
Subject: I can't take it any longer!
Rin, Please answer!
If you're ashamed of me, I get it. You should be. I'm ashamed of myself!
You know what, I'm going to end it. I'm going to end it all.
I'm so sorry Rin, but I just can't take it any longer!
So this is goodbye. C ya.
My eyes widened. That was sent at 9:40. Just 5 minutes after the first one.
Man, this is all my fault. I shouldn't have told her about Len and Neru. But she was my friend and I had too.
Ha, Like that's true. You just wanted her to think of a way to get rid of Neru. You got what you wanted. Why aren't you happy? Neru's gone, and now you won't have to deal with Tei.
Quiet! Maybe so, but how could I be happy? My best friend is gone. And so it Neru. We all hated Miku, so we were sort of like friends.
Sort of like friends? You hated her. You know what, you're just saying that because she's dead. I bet if she was still alive, you would've cracked and killed her yourself.
No! And we were friends until she dated Len.
Yeah, but it still was your fault that you didn't read the test messages she sent you in her final hour. You could have stopped her. Tsk, tsk.
No! None of it was my fault!
But you were just saying it was your fault!
Just who the heck are you?
I'm you! The you that speaks the truth!
Well, why don't you just shut up!
Yeah, why? You're me! You should know.
I thought for a moment, then finally came up with the best answer I ever created.
Shut up!
Well, why don't you make me?
I am losing my mind!
She shut up. Finally. But too bad I said the last part of the conversation out loud.
Footsteps came up the stairs and Len's face popped inside the room.
"You okay there, Rinny?" he asked suspiciously.
"Yes," I answered back, wrapping my blanket around me even tighter.
"Well, good." Len said. I noticed that he says "good" a lot. Usually he never does. I wonder why.
"Um," He said. "I got hot chocolate." And in come two blue mugs of hot chocolate with a little bit of cream so that way there's a cute little picture(1). The marshmallows were probably at the bottom. He always makes it like that. And there was a candy cane in it to stir it(2). But I would only stir after the pattern is messed up.
"Thanks Len." I took of the the mugs and sipped it carefully. Mmm. I love how Len makes it.
"So...You feeling better?" He asked.
"Yep!" I replied with a big smile. "I feel much better because of you!" Though, I still missed Neru and Tei. I though i saw something red on his face,but my eyes must have been wrong. I did kind of cry out a lot of the moisture in them.
"Tei was important to you, sorry." He looked down apologetically.
"Yeah," I agreed with a sad smile."I'm sorry too." Then it hit me. Neru died too. My brother's girlfriend. Or, former girlfriend actually.
"I'm sorry about Neru," I said.
"It's okay," he said with a smile. Is he joking? I mean, maybe it's to reassure me that everything's going to be alright, but, didn't he like her? Should he be crying too?
"You should get so
me sleep," he suggested. "Maybe it's calm your nerves."
"Yeah." I had an idea, but it was dumb. "Um...Can you sleep with me?" I stupidly asked. I can just feel the blush tinting my cheeks.
"But we already sleep with each other. I mean, we sleep in the same room."
"No." I struggled with the words. "I mean, in the...um...same...bed." I felt more heat on my cheeks.
"Oh, Oh! Um..." What was this? Him blushing? No. that couldn't be possible. Just my eyes again. Probably. "Well, okay," he said in an unsure tone. Wait, did he just say yes?
"Really?" I had to be sure.
"Yeah. Imean, you went through a lot today, so..." he trailed off, but I knew what he meant.
So, after I go done changing into my lacy top and pj bottoms and him in just his boxers, and brushed out teeth, we got into my bed, and we sorta, awkwardly, lied there. He put our arms around each other. I put my head on his (BARE) chest and he put his chin over my head.
"Hey Len."
"Yeah?" He looked down.
"I love you." I really meant it too. Btu he probably just thinks it's the twin way.
"I love you too." Correctomundo.
Anyway, I snuggled up to Len and slept really great.
A/n: I hoped you liked it! ^^
(1): I watched this drama called "Coffee Prince" and they did this thing called "Latte Art." So I decided to include that in this story.
(2): This happened at school when all the custodian helpers got to have hot chocolate! But, everybody got one except for me and my friend (you know who you are), so we're getting them next year.
This is like, 2-3 chapters in one, so that's why it's longer that the others. I'm gonna try to make my chapters longer! (Though, not drag it out like soap operas)
Review please~! orz
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