Chapter 3
"Ashley, Ashley, Ashley.....Are you OK?" I heard someone's voice say while I felt someone shaking me. I groaned as I opened my eyes. The teacher from the front office was kneeling over me with a worried look in her eye. She looked relived once I sat up, still groaning. "Oh thank god you are OK." She said then held out her hand to help me stand up. "What happened?" I asked, remembering but hoping it was nothing but a dream. "Well, from what I saw, you looked over to the wall by the trophy case. I saw that you looked shocked, and maybe even scared, about something that I couldn't see. The next thing I know, you fainted. It's been 15 minutes now." She explained and I sighed. My mind must have just been playing tricks after all.
I then heard a snicker and turned my head to see that Aido was still there and he was laughing about something. "Y...you...you're no...not re...rea...real. You...you're no...not so po...post t...to be he...here." I stammered as I couldn't stop staring at him. Aido gave me a smirk and gave me his cute look, not to mention that he had his anime/manga look to him. "Aw and I thought that you liked me." He said in whiny toned voice. "Ashley, who are you talking to?" The teacher asked me slowly. I turned and stared at her like she was weird. I mean didn't she see the 17 year old, anime, boy standing there? Aido chuckled then stepped up until he was right beside the teacher. "She can't see nor hear me." He said and waved his hand over her face. The teacher just kept looking at me. "See?" He said with a small grin.
I was on the verge of fainting again, but the teacher (sorry, don't know her name) took a hold of my arms to stop me. "Wow, Ashley, you don't look to good. You look a little pale and like you have seen a ghost. Want me to call your parents so you can go home early?" She asked, looking a bit worried. There was only about 45 minutes of school left, for me and the other handicapped kids anyways, but I still nodded after thinking about it after a short bit. I walked into the office with the teacher and sat on one of the sets, putting my crutch on the wall to the side.
"So, what's the crutch for?" I heard Aido asked and I turned to see that he had followed the two of us in the office. I turned my gaze away from him, still freaking out since this wasn't normal. Although I still answered since I wasn't the type of person that didn't unless I didn't like that person or if I was in a really bad mood. "Prosthetic leg." I said in a whisper, so that the others wouldn't notice that I was talking to "no one". "Uh? What happened?" He asked, sounding surprised. "Cancer. I would have died if I didn't have my leg off." I answered in another whisper. "OK, your father is on his way here. He said he'll pick you up where the bus drops you up. You can go get your stuff." She said and I nodded, getting up slowly to steady the knee of my fake leg.
I went back to my class to get my stuff and told the teacher I was going home before I walked to my locker. All the way there I could feel Aido following behind me, even though I didn't look back. I then realized that it was him that had been following me since this morning, so that meant he was also the one that stopped me from falling. I got to my locker and I put my cruch on the wall on the side ad I took my locker key off my key chain and unlocked my then reattached it to the key chain. I put the lock in my pocket as I took out my jacket, backpack and other crutch before re locking my locker.
After I got all of my stuff I would to the door that lead to the side of the school, also the to where my dad was picking me up. Once I got to the stairs and I hesitated. I could only walk down the stairs with one of the cruches. As if he read my mind, Aido took the crutch closet to the stair railing and walked down the stairs and waited for me at the door to the outside. I walked down slowly then taking my other crutch back before he opened the door to let me out. If he was tring to make me feel better about having him somehow real, it did little help. I was still kind of freaked and I was tempted to faint again.
I had a few more minutes until my dad got there so I leaned against the wall, ignoring Aido, who was staring at me with a slight pout. "You know you could talk to me a little, right, Ashley?" I heard him say and I finally looked at him fully before looking down again. I couldn't look at him without it freaking me out that he was really standing there. "Why are you here?" I asked in a weak whisper since it felt weird talking to him. "Simple, you made a wish, did you not?" He asked, his voice right beside me. I jerked my head up to see that he was standing right there, beside me. On instinct I jumped back a little, my fake leg buckling a bit, but I kept myself from falling. He then sighed, rolling his eyes and leaned against the school wall, staring at what seemed to be nothing.
Even though I was freaked that Aido, an anime/manga 'vampire', was standing no less then four feet (human feet) away from me, I knew that he was right. I had made a wish that he could become real, even if it was only to my eyes. I just didn't expect my wish to come true, no matter how much I wanted it to. Although, somehow, my wish did come ture and I was freaking out a bit.
Finally my dad pulled up in the van, so I knew that my mom must have had the car. "Wow, you do look a little pale, Ash." My dad said, calling me by my nick name. I say Aido raise a eyebrow in question to the name but I ignored him and got in the front set. My dad opened the side door and put my crutches in, along with my backpack since it was too big to keep in the front with me. Before my dad closed the door, Aido jumped in the back and sat in the on the only free set. "You'll have to clean the van soon, dad." I said looking behind me at the mess, and advoding Aido's blue eyed stare. "Yeah, I know. So are you going to help me?" He asked and I gave him something between a scoff and a laugh. "Yeah, like that will ever happen." I said then heard something I call a closed mouth laugh. I turned and saw that Aido was smirking. I'm guessing he thought what I said was funny.
I then turned back around and thought of ways that Aido, my anime crush, could really be here in my world and that only I could see, and hear him. This could just be one of those realistic dreams, as I called them. One of those dreams that seem so real they might as well be real. 2. I really could have been going crazy. 3. Aido could have been right and my wish came ture, but since when wishes like this come true? There was one more possiblity. Aido, or whoever he really was, was a ghost in the form of Hanabusa Aido. Although something told me that wasn't it. He was way to solid. But then how do you explain the times I couldn't see Aido but felt him instead? Ack, all of this was giving me a headack. I guessed I'll wait till I'm home to try and figure all this out.