Chapter 3
...:1 week later:...
Rehabilitation sucks, again I was bored out of my mind, I had already seen all the movies that were on the tv at the moment so I had nothing to do. The snow and frost had half cleared up because of Spring approaching, I looked out the window sighing, the tree outside still had leaves even though it was Winter. This week had to be the fastest week of my life, all I practically did was watch tv and sleep on top of the other normal 'need to do to live things' like eating for example...
Then Ulqui's sister would come round every so often to try to ask me something and Ulqui would weirdly show up out of no where and tell her to leave. Whatever she wanted to tell me Ulqui didn't want me to know, which sucked, big time. I hated being out of the loop. I had formed some sort of plan in my head to get him to talk, but he didn't really show up for more than a few minutes at a time.
I looked around the room boredly and turned on the tv, when your bored you'll do anything to break the chain of silence around you... or something...
Just as I began flipping through the channels Tarané reappeared, I looked over at the alarm clock, yup, this was about the time she usually snuck in here.
"Nii-san had to go and run some errands so he's not gonna stop me this time from talking to you" she muttered as she ran and jumped on the couch. I looked over at her curiously this will do, I'm bored so anything she says will probably seem interesting to me.
"Ok, so while you still have the chance, what is it you want to say?" I asked her.
"I want to know what you did to nii-san" she muttered staring straight at me.
"Did to him, what do you mean?" I asked confused, something I had been allot lately.
"Nii-san talks more and he even laughed the other day, he never did any of that stuff before he met you. What did you do to make him open up more?" she asked me acting just as stoic as Ulqui. Now I get how alike those two were.
"I dunno, I don't remember doing anything to make him change" I told her. I actually didn't know what I did, did I really make him change so much that his own sister thinks he's different?
"You know nii-san watches you when you sleep" she whispered over to me smiling. Whoa, did I hear that right... or is my hearing screwed? He watches me when I sleep, thats sort of... creepy, not to mention perverted, something I didn't think Ulqui was.
"I think he likes you" I heard Tarané mutter. My head turned fast over to her direction, she was smirking, just like the way Ulqui does.
"W-what" I asked abruptly. She started laughing in a way that I found sort of scary, she was a weird little girl. She got up off the couch and walked towards my direction, her face looming over me.
"Now it all makes sense, that must be why..." she whispered slowly and moved away, not finishing her sentence. My mind was so messed up right now, I couldn't think straight...
"Anyway, whatever your doing to make him less depressed keep doing it..." she said smiling as she sat back on the couch. My mind caught up...
"Ulqui's depressed?" I asked her. She looked over at the window with her eyes wide.
"Yeah, he's been really depressed since our parents died," she sighed and looked over to me sadly, "didn't he tell you?"
"He didn't tell me anything, he never does" I said boredly as I looked away. I heard the leather squeak as she straightened up on the couch.
"They were in a car accident, nii-san was in the back seat when it happened, he was the only one who survived. That was nearly 4 months ago" she said sadly, staring out the window.
"What about you?" I asked her, she seemed okay for someone her age.
"I'm better than he is, he was really attached to our parents, I wasn't" she muttered. It was really silent for a couple of minutes before there was a soft knock at the door, it was Ulqui. Tarané stood up and walked out the door without saying a word. I watched as Ulqui strode over to the couch and sat in the same place his sister was moments earlier.
"So now you know, Grimmjow..." Ulqui said sadly.
"So thats why I haven't seen your parents around anywhere" I said quietly. I looked over at Ulqui he was staring at the ground painfully, I knew how he felt.
"I'm sorry, about your parents..." I muttered. He looked up at me sort of angry?
"No your not, people say that all the time but they don't know how I feel" Ulqui said quietly to himself. I felt hurt, or something like that, did he forget about my parents?
"Ulqui, I'm an orphan, remember... I know how you feel, about not having parents..." I said softly and smiled, "your not alone..." I sighed and looked over at him, seeing something that I never thought I would ever see from him...
He had tears running down his face and his emerald eyes were wide with surprise.
"D-did I say something wrong?" I stuttered out quickly. His eyes widened further.
"H-huh?" he questioned, his voice broken. He touched his wettened face, it seems he had just noticed that he was crying, he wiped at his eyes with the edge of his sleeve and looked away from me embarrassed.
"S-sorry" he mumbled glancing over at me slightly and then focusing his eyes on the floor. I sort of half smiled at him watching as he kept wiping at his eyes, I didn't think I would ever see him like this again, after all this is over he'll probably be back to his old stoic self. He lifted his legs up to the couch and pulled them close, placing his head on them. It was pretty quiet for a few minutes after that, all I could hear was a few sniffs that made me want to go over there and wrap my arms around him, but I couldn't, for obvious reasons...
He half sat up and and lifted his head towards me, smiling the most adorable smile. I can't believe I never noticed how cute Ulqui was. Wait did I just think that?
"Thanks, Grimmjow..." he muttered to me. I looked at him confused.
"What are you thanking me for?" I asked him, still confused.
"For telling me that stuff, something about it made me feel better..." he said still smiling.
"No problemo, haha, oh and don't watch me when I sleep" I said deadpanned at the last part. Ulqui blushed and stood up, walking towards the door, he stopped before he left.
"Who told you that?" he muttered still not facing me. I almost laughed.
"Your sister told me all sorts of stuff..." I said slyly. He shoved his hands in his pockets.
"I see" he muttered as he walked down the hall. Oh that kid was gonna get it...
Over the next few days Ulqui talked to me more often, he asked me about my past and I asked him about the rest of his. It was the sort of thing that we should of done at the start, you know, the getting to know each other thing. I was actually starting to recover quicker than normal, the doctor guy was surprised when he checked over my legs to find that they were healing in half the time they should've taken. Naturally I found that awesome and Ulqui found that disturbing, but who cares the faster I can walk the better. I was not the type of person to find sitting still and being bored fun. There was practically no pain and I didn't feel sick at all anymore, time flies.
"Don't touch anything until I get back," I heard Ulqui mutter as he walked out the door. I ignored him completely, staring at the Nintendo Wii sitting in front of me, its shiny black exterior, begging to be picked up. I leaned forward slightly to turn it on when a pale hand shot out to stop me, I looked up to see the newly deemed 'most annoying kid in the world'.
"Nii-san said not to touch it 'till he gets back" Tarané said as she moved the gaming system away from my reach. She glared down at me as I reached forward to grab it again but stopped as Ulqui walked through the door holding the Wii remotes.
"I knew I couldn't trust you two" he said smirking. Tarané protested with Ulqui and I took that opportunity to grab the Wii, only to be stopped by Ulqui. I felt like everything was against me today...
"Leave it alone" Ulqui glared at me in a kind of way that made me feel like he was staring straight into my soul, damn he was scary...
He grabbed the Wii and placed it in front of the Plasma, plugging it in. It was a present he had received earlier this afternoon, I found out that his birthday was in 2 days only this morning, I was told by Tarané. He neatly placed the black slim Wii on its side and walked over to me, handing me a remote. I had learnt that his entire family were millionaires because they owned entire towns, and had finance in other things like oil. His aunt and Uncle were giving him money and other stuff because he lost his parents, they never payed any attention to him before they died. But then again he didn't complain when he got the brand new black Wii in the mail, now did he?
While he set the system up I read the instructions, trying to figure out how to work this controller thing. In the end Ulqui ended up showing me everything, he was back to his annoying self alright. Tarané had already figured out everything by the time Ulqui finished telling me, was it in their family to be insanely smart or something...?
"What game are we playing?" I asked, twirling the Wii remote around my finger.
"It's called Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and don't do that you'll break it" He muttered. I twirled the remote in front of his face just to annoy him, he went to grab it but I moved it over to the other side of the bed where he couldn't reach. He sighed angrily.
"Grimmjow, do you want to play?" he asked me through gritted teeth. I stopped twirling the remote.
"Yeah..." I muttered, sort of replying. He smirked and held out his hand.
"Then give me the remote and don't twirl it" he said going back to his stoic expression. I handed over the remote angrily and folded my arms, watching Ulqui as he put the remote on the table next to the tv.
"You can play next round, it's only a 2 player and Tarané already set up her character" Ulqui told me as he set up his profile on the game. He was playing as Link from Legend of Zelda and Tarané was playing as Princess Peach, It was clear who was gonna win this round.
After 7 matches Ulqui finally beat his sister, which in my opinion, was pathetic, he was getting beaten by a little girl. Every time he lost I would start laughing and he would hit me in the back of the head, hard, after 6 times I got the point, and a headache. I waited patiently for my turn and after an hour and a half of getting clobbered by his sister he gave up, the quitter, he stormed out of the room muttering something about cheating. Tarané handed me the black remote and started laughing.
"How did you beat him so many times?" I asked laughing slightly. She got out of the game and went into the main menu.
"I changed the statistics, I made it so I was 10 times stronger than him" she started laughing harder. I adjusted the settings until she was back to normal.
"Ok lets have a fair fight" I told her as I chose my character, I was some sort of Pokémon guy. Over the next hour I beat her countless times and she never beat me once, Ulqui made his way back into the room gawking at how easily I was beating her. Tarané decided to keep quiet about the cheating thing, so I did too, after all it was fun watching him being all amazed at my skill...
