I realized that Sora calls Shizuo "Jidouhambaiki-san" a lot. It just means "Mr. Vending Machine." yeah... c:
"Hey! Are you okay?" Shizuo yelled. "Sora!" I didn't know what was wrong. Why was he screaming his head off, I hadn't even done anything.
"Wh...what? What did I do?" I said. Why was I in the kitchen?
"What the hell do you mean? After you saw that guy's face you went into the kitchen and almost burned yourself! You were saying all this crap about-" he must have realized that I had no idea what he was saying, because Shizuo suddenly stopped talking. "You don't...remember it...?" I shook my head.
"I don't really remember anything, I'm sorry..." I looked down at my wrist. It was covered with a bandage. I looked at the clock. It was seven fifteen. Had he been trying to wake me up for that long? "What did I...?" Shizuo was already standing up. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. I stood up to open it before Shizuo tried to stop me. I heard the door click as I opened it. "Hello?"
"Oh! Um...is Shizuo here?" it was Vorona, Tom's second body guard. I nodded and Shizuo came over and the two talked outside for a bit. When Shizuo came back inside he looked serious. Vorona stood behind him with a man that I took awhile to identify. It was Vorona's partner, Slon. We stared at each other for awhile, then Vorona spoke, "well, Shizuo, we have to go. See you." Was there something she suspected me of? She kept glaring at me like I was hiding something. Maybe I was...
"Yeah, see you tomorrow," he said, waving them goodbye. I added a quick, "be safe," and watched their backs disappear. Shizuo entered the kitchen and started scooping rice into the bowls. The soumen noodles were untouched where I left them. I hadn't been able to make dinner after all. I was getting up from the couch but Shizuo held up his hand. "Just rest, okay?" I nodded, then sat down. I knew that Shizuo had been more distant than this, but it still caught me off guard. While he was scooping out rice I heard him say, "Do you remember anything before falling off of that building?"
Of course I did.
• • •
I remember there was a little girl. Her short black hair covered her right eye, and she was a small, pale thing. She was visiting that lady in the hospital bed. The woman talked to the girl a lot, apparently, because the girl seemed to sit in that little plastic chair without any hesitation. The woman smiled as the girl sat down.
"My child," she said, "I have no more stories to tell you, don't you know that?" The child obviously heard this before because she didn't seem sad.
"Tell me about the sky," the girl said. The woman smiled, then sighed.
"Okay," the woman said. "Open the window." The girl obeyed at the woman began: "Once, when this town wasn't so crowded, there was a girl who's name meant 'sky.' She was always smiling and she had many who called her 'friend.' But despite all this, the girl could sense the treacherous truths that those around her hid. One day, the girl saw her friends arguing among themselves, and her best friend was killed. The girl was angry that her friend had been killed by such a small thing and so...she left. She became a new person who-"
"I don't understand," the child said as if on cue. "Why didn't the girl reprimand them? It isn't fair to her! And...why didn't she stop them from taking her friend?"
"Ah, but...you already know why, don't you?" the woman smiled and the scene dissolved.
• • •
"No," I replied, "I don't remember a thing..." Shizuo handed me a plate and disposable chopsticks. He lit his cigar and took a drag.
"I see," he said, staring at the tv. It was this stupid movie about online gaming and what it does to relationships. "I'm sorry, but you just seem kind of out of it." I nodded. Recently I've been kind of weird after all...
"It's fine," I smiled, "I'm okay now!"
"That's better," Shizuo said suddenly.
"Hm?"
"Your smile. It's better when you smile like that. If you smirk all the time like that flea, it pisses people off!" Why was he so serious? Unless his hatred for the 'flea' really ran as deep as everyone said. I grinned, then, realizing that I would soon be "smirking like that stupid flea," covered my mouth with my hand. "Why are you doing that?"
"What thing? It's nothing, Jidouhambaiki-san!" I said, trying to get my poker face back. "It's fine~!" Shizuo took another drag then stood up. He took out the futon like the night before. I decided that I should help him, seeing as I nearly gave the guy a heart attack because of my spacing out. "I want you to sleep early today. Get lots of rest because I don't want to deal with all this shit tomorrow." For some reason, that last part annoyed me a bit.
"Fine," I said, "I'm going to shower." I turned and walked into the bathroom. I turned the shower to the hottest water temperature it would go to and waited for it to warm up. I was loosening my ribbon when I heard a knock.
"Sora? I'm leaving your clothes outside," I heard Shizuo walk away then opened the door, taking the sweater and shorts. I closed the door again. The shower was warm already. I took off my glasses; the ones I wore because my contacts weren't enough for my horrible eyesight. I was about to undress when that stupid little alarm went off. beep beep beep! danger danger danger!
The sound came from behind the door.
Short chapter but that's only because it's the second one today ; uuu; I'm sorry, forgive me...
