Story – Chapter 4

Yoshiki P.O.V

I feel like I'm floating

Im being pulled down…

I don't want to leave…

I open my eyes ever so slightly, only to be greeted with blinding white lights. I look around and see white everywhere. White bed sheets, window curtains, walls. There is also blue in some places. My vision is blurry, so I rub my eyes to adjust them to the room. When I open them again, the room is much clearer.

'Im in a… Hospital?' I think sitting up but my chest has a sharp, long, excruciatingly painful tear in it. I try to look more thoroughly around. There are pictures of flowers on the walls, and monitors beside my bed. I see there is some water on my bedside table, and I immediately reach for it. I drink most of the water before sighing in relief. I cant remember all that happened. I remember being on the roof, then leaving school early…

"Shit!" I say out loud, remembering I had to meet Satoshi at my apartment at 5.

"Well well, someone finally woke up" I hear a woman's voice come from the doorway.

I look up, and see a tall woman dressed in nurse scrubs walking over to my bed with a clipboard in hand.

"Its good to see you awake, but I should let you know that you have broken many of your ribs, and your wound on your chest has gotten infected, so you have been asleep for 2 days," I nod, understanding this information since I had just felt extreme pain trying to sit up…

"You have had three visitors these last couple days, and they all said they will be returning at some point today"

"Thank you very much" I say taking in this information. After nodding, the nurse left my room. I could only think of two people visiting me, who are Satoshi and my little sister Miki, but I cant put my finger on the third person. Then I heard a knock at the door, and I saw my younger sister standing there in the doorway before making her way over to me and hugging me cautiously.

"Onii-chan! Your awake!" She exclaimed while hugging me tighter. I take a sharp breath and flinch, giving her an indication it was hurting him.

"Hah its good to see you Miki" I say while looking at her bring her head up to look at me. "Hehe sorry about that..," She mumbled

"Im just really glad you woke up" she said quietly looking at me with some tears forming in the corners of her eyes.

"Hey its okay because I'm up now," I say with a small smile

"Are you sure your mom and dad are ok with you being here?" I ask with an uneasy tone.

She wiped the remaining tears from her eyes before answering, "dad didn't like it but mom drove me here and shes waiting outside in the car".

"Is that so…" I said unsure of how to feel about that statement, that means my mom wasn't the third visitor.

"I actually have to go now. Im so glad you are okay, and I know mom will be relieved to hear you are ok too" She said with a small smile.

"Ok Miki, I hope we can hang out under less stressful circumstances next time" I say watching her leave my bedside.

"I would love that, Yoshiki" she says leaving my room.

~2 hour time skip~

Satoshi is in my doorway, leaning against its frame, looking at me with a concerned face while watching me attempt to get up but fail miserably.

"I never thought the day I would see you like.. This..," He joked with a small smile

"its good to see you're ok bro".

"Don't go mushy on me dude, you know I hate pity," I joked then looked at him with a smile "and thanks, I feel a little better now"

"Do you remember what happened?" He asked with a small frown, the smile erased off his face.

"Yeah I do actually, I was gagged and dragged into an alleyway," I pause to see him looking at me with a face full of concern and sympathy "then beat, and my head was smashed against something really REALLY hard"

"Wow I'm really sorry I couldn't do anything," he looked down with a sad face, then looked up "by the way, another person will be coming by today. When I was talking to the cops they said they saw someone at the site and apparently they called the ambulance at last minute, so I guess you could call them your savior" he said with a small chuckle.

I acknowledged his chuckle to be lifting the spirits in the room. "I cant wait to meet them" I say, chuckling along with him.

"Well I have to get back to school, because I'm sort of skipping right now," he said while rubbing the back of his head

"I'm really glad you are ok Yoshiki, I'll come back later I promise"

I gasped In mock of him skipping, then gave him a wave gesturing him out of the room

"Yeah yeah, get out of here before you miss more than you need to," I said with a smirk

"you better not leave me hanging".

"Haha I wont, see you later" he said as he left the room with his schoolbag carelessly slung on his shoulder.

4 hour time skip

'Ugh its been 4 hours and all I have been doing is watching TV and staring out the window'

The TV was currently off, and I am lying down, staring at the ceiling. I moved to sit up, and successfully did so without igniting pain throughout my entire body.

I heard people talking in the hallway. 'I think my last visitor has arrived… I wonder what they are like?' I think looking out the window for a couple minutes, not knowing she was there, in the doorway looking at me gaze out the window. I turn around,

"Hi, my name is Ayumi Shinozaki. Im the one who found you..."