SuperNatural Paradox
Volume 1 Chapter 4: Summoning Something Dangerous
A girl sits quietly in Principal Kun's office along with Doctor Ross. She looks around nervously, as if she was the one in trouble. "You're saying she had no health issues?" Doctor Ross asks her. She looks into his eyes, tense and confused at the situation.
"I'm positive." She quietly answers. A minute passes before she finally said anymore. "She was extremely cheerful this morning. I couldn't imagine something could have been wrong. The last class that I saw her in," she takes a moment's pause. "She was giggling a lot for whatever reason when she was around-"
The sound of the door opening interrupts her. Sheriff Gordan walks in. He is a man around in his early forties. He keeps himself well cleaned, but a little over the chubby end. His pudgy cheeks stuck out and his face is completely shaved except for his mustache.
"There was no sign of struggle or anything on her body." He says. "She hasn't been dead for very long. Rigor mortis hasn't even started yet. Oh," he takes notice to the girl. She looks at the man tenser than what she did earlier. "I'm sorry. I didn't realize any students were in here."
"Sit down." Doctor Ross demanded. Without further hesitation, Gordan did what he was told.
"What were you saying?" Principal Kun asks. "You said something about her laughing more last period?"
"Oh yes." She looks at all three who were in the room. Nervous and scared, she took a large gulp before saying anymore. "She was giggling a lot when it came to Sheen and that knew girl, but that was only at the beginning of the class. The two don't have any connections with Adona at all and she left the room way before those two did."
"I still don't see a connection here." Doctor Ross twirls in his seat to the desk behind. He picks up the pen and plots something down. "How could someone just die without showing any symptoms of some kind of illness?"
"Are you sure that's all that you know?" Principal Kun asks again.
"Uh-huh," she nods.
"Ok then. You can go now. Thank you for your time." The girl stands up and slowly walks out of the principal's office. Still scared and tense about the whole situation.
"That can't be all." Gordan says. "She has to know more than what she's telling or someone else in this school knows something. A school this big is bound to have someone witness what happened."
"Drop it. This isn't the only death that has occurred like this." Ross says. He sticks the pen in his mouth as he looks over what he wrote. "I have seen these deaths happen around this town for years now. Not many, but it happens. I don't quite understand it but every lead that I obtain ends in a dead end."
"This isn't your first case?" Gordan angrily says. "Why haven't you filed a report about these to me!?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't know that it was my job to inform you on every detail that happens to my patients. It wasn't murder. There was no need to call the police."
"Murder my ass!" Gordan stands. His angry face turns completely red as if he were about to punch someone. "You can't be telling me right now that this is not a murder! There are no signs of a heart attack or any other kind of disease that she could have had that could cause this! There's only one option! She was murdered in some way! My guess is poison!"
"You don't think that I didn't try ruling that out!?" Ross twirls in his seat and the two angrily stare at each other. "I told you before, this has been happening for a long time. It's nothing new but it's something that is starting to worry me."
"Will you two stop?" Principal Kun yells. His annoyance level increased. "You two are not going to argue about this matter in here. Take it elsewhere. I don't want to hear any more news about these deaths right now. I have enough on my plate as it is with this one alone."
"Excuse us Mr. Kun." Doctor Ross says as he gathers his belongings and leaves the room.
"I'm sorry." Gordan says before following Ross out the door. Principal Kun could hear him grumble as he walked out.
"Adona…" the girl mumbles as she walks down the hall. Her eyes downcast while walking. "What happened to you?" She looks straight up and sees Kunai walk towards her with a few other girls surrounding him. She stops and stare.
Is it him? She thinks. Now that I think about it, he left the room around the same time as she did. She watches Kunai pass by her and as he did, he gives her a faint smile. Every muscle in her body took the indication that he has something to do with it. He continues on with his conversation with the few girls at his side. She watches as he walks down the hall and vanish. There is something about him. I know it. I never realized it before. I'm going to follow him and find out for myself. She took off towards the same direction as him.
"How long are you going to be following me?" I ask Surina. We turn the street corner. We're about a couple blocks away from where I live. She's been following me ever since leaving the school.
"I told you yesterday that I'm not following you." She giggles. I wish she would stop that giggling. It's getting very annoying. "This is the same direction to my house silly." She pats me hard on the back. I could feel it sting but the fear that she might kick me in the shin again prevented me from yelling at her. "Stop getting so worried about what I'm doing."
"I know that you're following me." I couldn't hold it back anymore. "Don't lie to me."
"And what makes you think that?" her eyes flutter at me. I can tell she's trying to look innocent, but it's not going to fool me one bit.
"Let's see…" I vision my trip to the gas station on my way back from school today:
"What should I buy?" I walked in alone. My stomach growled. There was no way that I could last till supper time without eating a little something. I glanced through the little Debbie section before I picked something out. The bell had rung and Surina entered.
"Oh, hi Sheen!" she excitedly said. "What a strange coincidence that the two of us would meet in here. Isn't it?" she leaned over my shoulder to get a look at the all Little Debbies. "Those look mighty good."
"Yes. It sure is a coincidence, isn't it?" I mumbled.
I stop thinking about the gas station. She follows me everywhere whether she denies it or not. I'm getting tired of it all. I wish she would leave me alone.
"You followed me into that gas station," I finally say. "I know you did!"
"Don't be stupid." Her lips pucker out. "It happened to be a coincidence." she giggles. That giggling just triggered me. I heard enough giggling this last month that could last me a life time. Hearing it randomly in my house, Midna, and now her. I take a deep breath to help calm down my nerves to prevent me from accidently do something stupid. After all, she has monstrous strength and I don't want her to attack me full on.
"Is that so?" I eyeball her. "Then why didn't you buy anything in there?" A nervous look comes across her face. "Instead, you hovered over me and shortly after hugged me to death to the point that I almost suffocated. And to top it off you made me buy you something too!"
"Well," she looks around her as if she was hoping to come up with an answer or as if she was trying to find a means to change the subject. "That's easy to answer." She quickly says. "When I saw you, I got so excited and distracted that I ended up forgetting the whole reason I was in there. It's too late now to go back to get what I wanted. And I was hungry. You wouldn't let a lady starve, now would you?"
"Uh-huh." I don't believe a single word she's saying. I see Surina's left eye twitch from that response, but she did nothing. "I'm sure that's the reason behind it all."
"You don't believe me?" she acts flabbergasted.
"Then how about what you told me earlier?"
"What did I tell you earlier?" she scratches her head. I can't believe she's acting stupid with me now. "I'm sorry, I don't quite remember it all."
"You said 'You are to not go home alone today. Your house is dangerous at the moment.'" I tried sounding like her as much as possible. I could sense that she was about to laugh but I ignore it. "So another words, you're following me right now for that same reason, isn't it?"
"I don't understand what you're talking about." I can see the sweat run down her face. I hit the jackpot. "Just because I said that doesn't mean anything right now. I think you're overreacting to the fact that I have close to the same schedule as you and makes it seem that I'm following you everywhere."
"No! I'm not overreacting! Grrr!" My hands fly to my head and I yank the hair as hard as possible. "I can't take this anymore! I'm out of here!" I take off running to my house. I cross the street, run up the porch and slam the door shut.
"Ok! See you later!" were the last words I could hear her say.
"What's wrong with this town!?" I mumble as I walk through the house. Without noticing, small amounts of blood drip down on a few of the walls. "That's funny." I stop in the kitchen. "Mom is usually in here at this time. I wonder if she went to the grocery store or something." I continue to the stairs and climb them to my room. "This town just keeps getting stranger to me. A stalker that won't leave me alone! People are dying in every corner! A crazy gypsy lady telling my future! A creepy girl that I met a few weeks ago! What's next?" I enter my room; still not noticing the blood dripping down from the walls. I drop back on my bed and sigh. "I'm so glad it's finally the weekend. I can finally have some more time to work on my vampire research." I shut my eyes for a little bit.
Surina continues to stare at my house. That idiot, she thinks. Of course I was following him. If I left him alone to his idiocy then he will die. I don't understand why he's so alluring to me. A small blue light floats out of Surina and drifts off unnoticeably. It's as if something was telling me that he needs protection. Am I to go in there now or wait? It does seem awfully quiet in there. She races to the door and tries to open it, but it wouldn't budge.
"What the hell?" she mumbles. She starts yanking away at the door knob but it wouldn't budge. "Did he lock it from the other side? That idiot!" she steps back and jump kicks the door, but nothing happens. "What is going on with this door? It should have broken."
I sit up from my bed after realizing that a half hour went by. I walk over and sit down at the computer chair. The computer wouldn't turn on. "What the hell?" I mumble. I flip on the room's light switch to help see what the matter is. The light wouldn't turn on. What's going on? Is the electricity within the room really not working? "Mom!" I yell, hoping for an answer. "Mom! Why isn't the electricity working?!" I grumble and head towards the door. "Mom!" I tried yelling down the stairs. Still no answer. Without noticing as I leave the room, blood starts oozing through all the electrical ports.
"Mom!" I yell as I walk through the house. "Mom! Mom! Where are you!?" The darkened house starts to give me an overall creepy feeling. The thoughts that my mom was concerned about dad turning missing starts racing around my mind. "Stop thinking like this Sheen," I slap my hands against my cheeks. "Mom didn't turn up missing either. She must still be at the grocery store. That's it." I make my way to the garage. I my heart starts racing a bit when I saw both cars here.
"Have you seen your father anywhere?" I remember her asking me this morning. The thoughts of her pacing back and forth and a worried expression keeps racing around in my mind. "He's been missing all night and I still haven't been able to see him anywhere this morning."
"That can't be." I walk back inside and close the garage door. I lean against it as if I were trying to keep something from coming in. "There's no way that both my parents turned up missing. That can't be. It all has to be a lie."
I take in a deep breath to help my nerves calm down. I walk into the kitchen. I see that supper was in the middle of being made. Red sauce spilled on the counters, the salad half made, and the meat soaking in warm water. There's no way that my mom went to the grocery store in the middle of doing all of this. What on earth is going on in this house?
I hear a giggling within the room. "Surina? Is that you?" I turn around. "This isn't funny." Then I realize that the giggling didn't sound quite like how she sounds. "Midna, are you stalking me too?" The giggling doesn't stop. Through panic, I race to the door and try to open it, but it wouldn't budge. "What the hell is going on in this house?"
"You are not to go home alone today. It's dangerous at your house." I vision what Surina had said earlier today. "Listen," she said angrily. "It's because of you that something evil has entered your home. If you've stopped those spells the minute I told you I would be leaving you alone right now."
"This is nonsense." I mumble. "There's possibly no way that something evil has entered this house. I'm sure of it. Surina was just telling me a bunch of lies to get me scared and an excuse to follow me around." I walk back into the kitchen. A drop falls from the ceiling and lands in front of me. I bend over to get a closer look. It looks as though it is red sauce. I dip my finger in it to sniff it. It doesn't smell like any sauce that I know of.
Drops drip everywhere from the ceiling. The liquid is even dripping down from the walls. The giggling continues to echo through the house. "What the hell is going on here?" a frantic look comes over me. An awful odor starts to take control of the house. I plug my nose and move my way out of the kitchen and into the dining room. Before I got the chance to go up the stairs, a downpour of blood drenches the entire wall as if it were a waterfall. The stairway is blocked and the only way to get through it was to run through it all.
"This can't be happening." I back up a bit. I stare at the bloody waterfall hesitantly. What would happen to me if I ran through there?
Bloody Walls! Madam's words echo through my head. The Undead Walk! Love with Fangs! Feelings of Abandonment! These are the four that you'll need to beat. I hold my breath and race through the waterfall of blood that seems to disappear when it reaches the floor. I get to the stairs and race to the top. Evil intertwined with each, forever changing your life and to teach! The end is near, you have much to fear! Demons! Fairies! Arachnids! And Trolls! These are a few, but there's much, much more. Many friends you will have, many friends you'll never keep. One walks the path of freedom, another walks the path of stone.
I slam the door shut and lock it. I back up and see the blood race down the door and the entire wall. My heart pounds faster and faster. Is this the end for me? A head sticks its way out from the waterfall. Every muscle in my body tenses. I want to run but I can't move a muscle. The eyes open wide and all thoughts of hope vanish without a trace.
And this is only the beginning… Madam's voice echoes through me one last time.
"How are you um… feeling, Toshio?" Sophia asks. She sits on the bed next to him in his hospital room. "Toshio? Please um… answer me." She drops to his chest and cries. "Why won't you wake up?!" Her fist raises in the air and lightly pounds his heart.
"Sophia…" Renge opens the door. "You need to understand that he's resting right now. He needs all the rest that he can get if he's to improve any." She moves over to the table and sets down her clip board. She starts flipping through her papers and examines them.
Sophia looks at her with her sobbing eyes. "I um… understand that. But he's been um… becoming less and less um… responsive today and um… yesterday. I'm so scared that I'm going to lose him!"
"Sophia!" Renge yells as she twists her body to face her. Sophia jumps up and runs out of the room. "Sophia! Wait, where are you going?" she drops everything in her hands onto the table and chases after her. Renge catches up to her and grabs ahold of her wrist. Sophia stops moving. "I understand what you're going through."
"No you um… don't!" Sophia turns around and Renge let's go of her wrist. "I can't stand the um… thought of losing my um… brother. If something happens to um… him then I wouldn't-"
"Sophia! Listen to yourself! You need to stay strong. For yourself, for Toshio, and for your other siblings. They're all counting on you to keep yourself together."
Sophia drops to her knees and cries into her hands. "I can't. I can't um… do all that my brother is um… capable of doing. If he's um… gone, then I don't know how to um… take care of the family."
"You pull through this, that's what you do." Renge holds out her hand for her to grab. "Even when everything gets tough we continue to fight. That's what makes us stronger. If you believe hard enough that Toshio will live then that belief might just turn into a miracle." Sophia looks up. "Believe me. I've seen it happen many times before."
"And what do I um… do if that doesn't um… happen?" she grabs ahold of the hand and gets lifted up.
"Then you live and work harder for your brother's will. Do what he wasn't able to finish. What is something that he's working hard at right now?"
"Supporting the um… family."
"That's right." Renge pulls Sophia into her arms to cry. "He needs someone to stay strong to be able to finish what he was not able to do. Now," Renge looks down the hall. "We should go back to your brother."
"Sheen! Sheen! Are you alright!?" Surina slams away at my house door. "Why won't this stupid door budge no matter what I do?" she mumbles. She pulls the door knob harder, hoping for it to work but it still wouldn't budge. "This isn't normal." She stops and stares at it. She steps back again and drops kick the door and still not a scratch. "Why?" She leans against the door and slides down. Feeling that it was all hopeless. "Why can't I even save my friend? I shouldn't have allowed him to walk in that house alone."
"Who might you be?"
Surina looks up and sees an old gypsy lady down on the porch steps, sitting down comfortably while smoking a cigar. She turns her head to Surina and puffs out some smoke and sticks the cigar back into her mouth. Her face is completely overdone with makeup and she wore an excessive amount of jewelry.
"I could be asking you the same thing." Surina stands up to get a closer look at the lady. "Who are you?" she squints her eyes. "When did you get over there? I never noticed and I usually notice."
"From what I have gathered, it seems that we're both here for the same reason." She gives out another puff of smoke. "I am the gypsy lady of this town. I gave Sheen his fortune and a warning to stay away from summoning spells, and it looks like he didn't follow through."
"You did too!?" Surina stomps her foot angrily and looks at the door. Her foot breaks through the wooden floor. She pulls it out and moves to the door slamming away again. "Damn it Sheen! Why the hell don't you ever think you idiot!?" She lifts up her foot and starts slamming down the door.
"I see that you're very strong for your age, but you're not going to be able to break down that door." She stands up and sways her way to the door. "You see, this spirit is very strong with lots of resentment. If it doesn't want someone in they're not going to get in. Especially banging away at the door." Smoke oozes out of her mouth with every word that she says.
"Then what do you suggest?" Surina gives the gypsy her full attention. The gypsy stares at her and puffs out more smoke. "How are you going to be able to bring down this door when I couldn't even budge or scratch the damn thing?"
"I told you before, didn't I? I am the gypsy lady of this town. My name…" she pulls a small bottle out from her leather bag. "…Is Madam Furon. I'm a psychic. I am here for one purpose and that purpose only."
"And what is that?"
"To help your friend, Sheen, to stay alive from his idiocy." She pulls the lid off the bottle and throws a clear liquid all over the door. The door starts to electrify in a blue color for several seconds. "There." She smiles. "The door is now capable of being opened." She walks over, grabs the door handle and cracks it open. "Do you care to go first?"
"A psychic?" Surina repeats as she is astonished by how easily Madam opened the door. "I'm sorry, my name is Surina Abigata. One of Sheen's new and closest friends."
"Glad to meet you Surina. At least you have more manners than what your friend does. He keeps calling me an old hag and I don't like it." She drops her cigar to the ground and stomps on it with one foot.
"That sounds like him."
"Come on Surina," Madam gestures her hand through the door. "We don't have time to lose. We are here to save Sheen, right?" Surina nods her head. "Then it's settled. We will both work together to reach a common goal."
"Uh… sure." Surina hesitantly walks through the door. "Since we're working together, do you have any idea on what Sheen could have summoned here?" She glances around the room and sees no trace of blood anywhere. The house is dark and the light switch would not turn on. The ground below her would creek on every step, she could sense that the house has changed.
"It's hard to say at this point, my dear." The two walk deeper into the house. "This demon isn't very active to us right now. It's trying to hide the fact that it's even here." Madam looks behind every piece of furniture she comes across.
"Why would it want to do that?" Surina looks aimlessly. She looks at the ceiling, the walls, the floor, even the furniture.
"It's because it feels an aura about us that it doesn't like. This is a smart one." Madam picks up a flower vase and looks inside it. Surina looks at her as if she was strange. "I like this vase." She dumps the dirt and flowers onto the floor and sticks it into her leather bag. "I'll consider this payment for my help."
But she didn't even help yet, Surina thinks. The only thing she's done was get us in here.
"This spirit is concealing all signs of evidence that it's here." She sticks her ear to the wall. "I can't even hear the screams of the residents that live here." She moves over to the next piece of furniture to examine.
"Does that mean it's too late?"
"Oh god no!" she lifts her head and twists it to look at Surina. "If Sheen just vanished not too long ago he shouldn't be dead yet." She moves her head back to examine the couch. She crouches to the ground to look underneath it. "This just means we're going to need to change tactics to find where they are."
"Why can't we just search the house?"
"This demon won't let us." She gets up and starts wandering around the room. "It will send illusions out to conceal their whereabouts. In the end, the search would be pointless." She stares at the walls for several seconds before resting her ear against one of them. Her fist raises and knocks gently.
What is she doing? Surina thinks. I understand what she's saying, but she only seems to be here to find things that she wants. She watches Madam carefully before noticing a faint smell.
"Can you smell that?" Surina tries covering her nose with her shirt. "This doesn't smell normal. It's like someone is dead."
"Smell what, my dear?" Madam stops knocking and looks at her. "I don't smell anything."
"Never mind then."
Madam continues to knock gently on the wall. Surina walks into the kitchen and notices that the smell has gotten stronger.
What is that smell coming from? It smells like someone died and is rotting. Could it be blood that I'm smelling? Surina turns to the fridge and stops. She opens it to find the food inside completely rotten. That can't be right. She steps back in horror and closes the door. That food shouldn't be this rotten. And that doesn't smell quite the same as what I was smelling earlier.
"Are you ready, Surina?" she hears Madam's scratchy voice yell. "It's about to begin. Things are about to get crazy here."
"What do you mean?" She pokes her head around the corner and sees her holding another bottle in her hand. She throws it at the wall and blood splatters out from it.
"Awake thou demon! Awake and show yourself to us!" she screams.
The house starts to tremble. The pictures on the walls all fall, the glasses from the cupboards fall through the doors and break when they land. Surina grabs ahold of the countertops to keep herself balanced. Furniture bounce around and eventually end up in new locations. Blood starts oozing out from the walls at random areas.
"What the hell did you do?" Surina panics.
"All I did was force it out of its shell." Madam comes swaying in like nothing is happening. "This is perfectly normal. All I did was make it angry at us."
She did what? Surina looks at her angrily. Isn't that exactly what we don't want to do? Far as I can tell making a demon angry is not the ideal way to do this.
"Believe me," she turns to her. "This is exactly what we want to do. Now that we've entered this demon's world our search for Sheen and his parents will go by a lot faster."
"I don't understand how that will work? Don't we have to worry about this demon attacking us now?" Surina holds tightly to the countertop. A few pans slide out from one of the cupboards. She lifts her leg forward to kick them away and flips all the way around. When done, she grabs ahold of the countertops. "This shaking is getting on my nerves!"
A loud laughter starts roaring through the house. The shaking stops, but the walls continue to ooze out blood. Surina's starts to take notice to the blood.
"Blood? Why is there so much blood?" Her mind becomes hazy from the overwhelming smell. "How is this happening? What kind of creature can cause blood to just appear like this? I saw blood drip down the walls earlier before, but nothing like this. This must be what I was smelling."
"Surina? Are you alright?" Madam snaps her out of her daze. "You said you saw it here before? When did you start seeing it?"
"I'm Sorry." Surina takes a deep breath. "I begin feeling nauseous at the sight of large amounts of blood. I'm extremely sensitive to the smell of it too." Madam looks at her curiously. Surina looks at the blood dripping down the walls. "I saw it yesterday after school when I dropped by his house."
"I see. I hate to say this, but do you think you can handle this? If this demon knows your weakness towards blood then it will use it against you and harm you in the process. It might even already know it by now."
"What do you take me as?" she says offensively. "Some hopeless girl that can't take care of herself? I'm a lot smarter and stronger than I look." she takes a few more deep breaths. "And besides, in order to save a friend I have no choice."
"Very well. Let's put your intelligence to the test then." Surina looks at the bloody spots at the walls. "We're first going to need to figure out a location where Sheen would-"
A loud witch's laughter rolls through their ears. Madam looks at the ceiling. Surina doesn't flinch and looks up. Nothing was on the ceiling, but the laughter could be heard coming from there.
"Are you the creature that was summoned here by Sheen?" Madam asks. The laughter continues. "Tell me now! Are you the one that Sheen summoned?" Blood rushes down all the walls until there was nothing left to see but endless red.
"This doesn't look good," Surina mumbles. Madam continues looking at the ceiling, the only place, besides the floor, that isn't covered in blood. Mirrors pop out from the blood until they were completely surrounded. Madam stays silent. The laughter wouldn't end.
What's going on? Surina thinks. I haven't felt this scared in ages. Her body trembles while looking around. Is this the power of a demon that Sheen has summoned?
"You seek answers from me?" Surina and Madam hear a voice once the laughter ends. "Look into the mirrors and the truth will be revealed. All that you want to know lies hidden here. With every glance comes a price. And that price is your life!" The voice storms out laughing again. Surina and Madam spin around looking at the mirrors. The blood continues washing down the walls endlessly.
"Blood and mirrors?" Madam mumbles. Surina looks at Madam and realizes that no shed of fear is shown on her face. "It seems that the demon has given us an option. It's very rare but I don't trust it in the least."
"What don't you trust?"
"Everything. I don't trust that a demon would give us an option to live. It will kill us no matter what, but I want to know why it's willingly showing us these mirrors to seek the truth? Is it perhaps a trap?" Madam walks up to one and puts her hand to it. She looks at her reflection and stares for several seconds.
"The truth that I seek?" Surina moves to a mirror. "There has been one thing that's been bothering me and that is Sheen. If no matter what we're going to die by this thing then I am at least willing to obtain what I can get."
"Is that so?" Madam turns to her. "What about him that has been bothering you?"
"It's his crazy obsession with vampires." A tear drops down her cheek. "I don't quite understand why he's obsessed with them. No matter what I say to him it doesn't seem to change his mind." The mirrors in the room turn black to where no reflection could be seen. "What's going on?"
"I think that it's responding to your wish."
"Look Madam!" Surina points at one of the black mirrors. "It's Sheen!" She steps into the middle with Madam to be able to watch all the mirrors at once. I am seen running through the mirrors endlessly, each one connected as if it were a separate puzzle piece. "What is he doing? Where is he? Why is he running?"
"Those are questions you should wait before asking. I feel that we're about to know the answer. Oh!" Madam screams.
"What is it?" Surina jumps a few inches away from her. "Did something happen?"
"I wish I brought some popcorn for this. If I knew we were going to be watching a short film before saving Sheen, I would have done so in the first place."
"Is that all?" Surina mumbles.
This lady is kind of crazy, she thinks.
"Enough chit chat." Madam grumbles. "The memory is about to begin. I wonder if this is going to be very long…" she hears Madam mumble to herself.
"Sheen's memories?" I am seen walking down the sidewalk coming home from middle school. "Am I really going to see them?"
"Sheen! Wait up!" A girl the same age waved her hand as she ran to me. Her hair was cut to her neck all around. Her bangs didn't reach past her for head. Her skin was silk white. My face couldn't help blushing.
"Naomi!? What are you doing here?" I stuttered. I wasn't used to her coming up to me randomly like this. Especially outside of school.
"You-haa-haa-haa…" she said as she tried catching her breath. She was bent over with her hand rested on her knees. "You forgot your-haa-haa… notebook." She lifts the notebook to my chest and shoves it into me. "You're going to need it to study for the big test tomorrow." Her smile glistened as the wind dragged her hair along.
"Oh, thanks Naomi!" I took the notebook from her. "You came all this way just to give it to me? You live on the other side of town."
"Don't worry about it." She turned from me and her skirt twirled along with her. "I would be happy to do it for you anytime."
"Do…" I stopped hesitantly. "Do you mind if I walk you home then?"
"Why certainly!" she giggled cheerfully. She walked off in the opposite direction from where I was originally going. I ran to her side. "So," she twiddled her thumbs. "Are you busy tomorrow?"
"Not really. Why do you ask?" I looked at her rosy cheeks. She looked hesitant to look at me in the eyes so she looked at the ground instead.
"Never mind." she stuttered. A long awkward silence followed the two of us for a while. "Hey! Look at that!" Naomi took off in a dead sprint. I haven't seen her run that fast before in my life.
"Naomi! Where are you going!?" I chased after her. She stops near a tree and bent over and picked something up. What is she getting? What seemed to be so important for her to have taken off so suddenly?
"Poor thing." I heard her say when I had caught up. She turned to me and a small bird rested in her hands. It wasn't a baby, but it was small. "Its wing is broken." She got out a handkerchief and wrapped it around its wing. "There. That should do it. Good as new."
"What are you going to do with it now?" I asked. "You can't keep it. Your parents won't allow it. And I don't know how to take care of a bird."
"I know that already." She looked around the street. "But we can't leave it around here. It'll fall out of the tree again and something might kill it. What should we do?" We thought for several seconds. "I know!" she grabbed my hand and pulled me along with her. She had lots of energy for running around that day. "Come with me!"
"Hey wait!? Where are we going?" I asked when I was dragged down the street. Soon she lets go and I followed along behind her freely. I can see her tuck the bird close to her chest so she wouldn't accidently let go of it.
"Hurry up!" she kept saying. We ran and ran. I didn't know how long we were going to run for. The only motivation I had was to be with her. To see where she was taking me. So I followed. "We're here." She stopped. I dropped to my knees to catch my breath.
"What are we doing here?" I asked without taking a glance to our surroundings.
"I used to come here all the time when I was a little girl with my parents. They would watch me as I would endlessly run through this field. I would fly kites, play tag, pick flowers, and even invited friends to play with me here." She vision all that she had done. I had finally looked up and saw, to my amazement, a field covered with endless flowers. It flowed like a vast see because of the wind. Trees surrounded them by all sides except from where we came in. "We couldn't just leave the bird on the streets so I thought we would take it here." She walked over to one of the trees and sat it in the branch. "There we go! Now nothing dangerous, such as a cat, could get you." she smiled. I stared at the field. I couldn't believe something like this was here this entire time and never knew of it.
"Is something the matter?" she asked when she came back.
"No." Her face was overshadowed by the sun above her. She extended her hand and I grabbed ahold of it. She lifted me up.
"Well then, let's get going."
"Uh, sure." I mumble.
The following day, the thoughts about that field wouldn't leave my mind. I never met such beauty before. A field of flowers fit Naomi's personality too much in my opinion. I hope that the two of us will go there again sometime. I barely remembered the directions to get there.
"I FAILED THAT TEST!" I raged later on that evening. I was walking out of school with Naomi by my side. I was too angry and upset to think about that field much.
"It's ok!" Naomi tried desperately to cheer me up. "There's always next time. I know, how about we study together? That way we both get good grades."
"Wait? What was your score? Did you get a bad grade too?" I asked curiously.
"No silly. I got a one-hundred percent!" She held the paper up to my face so I could get a good look at it. Tears had watered in my eyes from the embarrassment. There was no reason for her to have been bragging it in my face like that. "With my smarts I'm sure we'll get your grades in that class to a higher score." She laughs ferociously.
"Uh-huh. Thanks Naomi." I said.
"By the way, where's your friend Tykato at? He's usually swarming around you."
"Oh yea, he had to go home early today. I think he wasn't too happy about his grade on that test either."
"I see…"
"Naomi!" I said nervously. Every muscle in my body tenses up. "Do you want to go watch a movie with me sometime?"
A smile shined over her. "Of course I do!" she gave me a hug. I couldn't help to blush. "I know exactly what movie I want to go see."
"Really? What movie is that?" I tried to not look at her to hide my excitement.
"It's that new vampire movie that's coming out. I thought I would wait on watching it until I got the chance to watch it with you."
"Re-really? M-me?" My heart had pounded harder.
"Yup!" she giggled and came up close to me like she was about to kiss me. "Sheen, I'll be ready for you by 5 o' clock." she whispered into my ear. She backed off and walked down the sidewalk without looking back.
"Ok! It's a date then." I yelled. She glanced back and smiled. "I'll be there to pick you up at five." I couldn't help leaving without a smile. My heart wouldn't stop pounding and my face blushed for as long as it took to get home.
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