Corpse Party
Memory Loss And Blood Spill
Chapter 4 – The Day After
~ The following morning of the sleepover ~
I twitched a bit and groaned sleepily as I slowly opened my eyes. The sunrays that shined through the curtains of Mayu´s room was hitting me straight in the face, and they were bringing forth a pounding headache.
"Mmff… someone turn off the lights…" I mumbled as I pulled the sleeping bag up over my face, groaning like a sick animal.
I heard an annoyed growl beside me.
"Shut up… and stop whining…" The female voice said, and I felt movement beside me. I looked over at Seiko, who was looking at me with a pout.
I pouted back at her, but changed the pout into a smirk.
"Hey don´t tell me you don´t want to whine either "I said as I smirked at her, she rolled her eyes and smiled back at me.
"True. You want to get up or just stay here and cuddle?" She said with a pained groan and a cute smile.
I smirked at her and held her in my arms. She looked up at me with big eyes and a tired sigh.
"You already know the answer silly…" I answered her as I hugged her closer and closer. I closed my eyes and exhaled tiredly, rubbing my eyes in an attempt to make the sickening feeling in my gut go away.
"Do you feel like you have been hit by a train too?" I asked sarcastically as I looked over at Seiko with a smile. She giggled back at me and rubbed her forehead a little, before nodding softly.
"Yeah… It was one hell of a night last night huh?" She asked softly as she cuddled up to me, absorbed my warmth. I nodded slowly, as not to make the headache worse, and looked at her with a smile.
"Tell me about it. I can´t remember half that happened…" I mumbled as I turned to stare up at Mayu´s ceiling. I then turned my head to look at Seiko again.
"But I'm pretty sure I recall you and I, Naomi and Satoshi, Ayumi and Yoshiki and Morishige and Mayu being together a lot yesterday" I said with a smile. She nodded a bit and kissed my cheek.
"I wouldn´t be surprised if some feelings have been confessed" She said with a chuckle as she looked at our friends, who were either waking up or snoring loudly in their beds or futons.
"I know what you mean… Basically everyone here has a crush on someone… It´s so easy to see from the outside…" I mumbled as I smiled at Satoshi and Naomi, who was currently cuddling up to one another on a futon sprawled out on the ground.
"There will surely be much more to talk about when we get to school next Monday." Seiko added as she smiled and sighed. I nodded a bit and smiled as I looked back into the ceiling.
"Yeah I'm sure there will." I said as I kissed Seiko´s cheek, and sat up under my cover, looking around the dimly lit room to find out where I had put my clothes from yesterday.
My clothes was sprawled out unceremoniously around the futon me and Seiko shared, along with Seiko´s clothes, including her bra and panties… Wait, bra and panties!?
I looked over at Seiko with a shocked expression, but she simply smirked at me innocently and covered, what I suspected was her naked body with the cover of the futon.
"What is it?" She asked innocently as she smiled at me with a tilt of her head.
I sighed and shook my head as I gave up the thought, and put on my shirt and jeans before walking out to the small bathroom in the hall.
I yawned a bit before looking at the small bathroom mirror. I looked like a mess.
My shirt was all messed up, I had dark shades around my eyes, the same eyes had a resemblance to glass, and my hair was messed up and pointed in all directions, as if I had put a blonde hedgehog on my head.
I chuckled a bit at my own appearance and set about to tidy my hair. When I had wasted about 5 minutes and not had any progress on my hair whatsoever, I gave up and put the hairbrush away again. I brushed my teeth and set off towards the kitchen, which was at the bottom floor.
I groaned tiredly as I sat down at the dining table. My head was throbbing more and more violently, and the fact that the sun was shining so greatly sure didn´t help on the problem.
"how much of the night did we spend awake anyway?" I asked no one in particular as I looked around in the, what I thought, empty room. I was startled and jumped in my seat when Ayumi and Yoshiki suddenly rounded a corner and approached me.
"I don´t think we were in bed before 5 in the morning Yosuhei" Yoshiki said as he smirked and bumped fists with me. I don´t know how but that had somehow turned into a routine with all of my male friends from Kisaragi. To bump fists each time we would meet. It was a nice little ritual.
Ayumi smiled a bit and hugged me from behind as they both sat down beside me by the dinner table. I was a bit surprised by her actions. I was really surprised how much I had bonded with all of my friends from Kisaragi Academy, and in just a couple of days too.
I smiled at them both and sighed a bit as everyone else began joining us, including Seiko who was just wearing her tank top and short shorts. She smiled at me and sat beside me, snaking her hand into mine under the table. I smiled a bit and immediately grabbed her hand in mine, squeezing it tightly as our small group of friends began chatting about this and that.
Mayu´s parents woke up and her mother immediately made breakfast for all of us. As she stood in the kitchen with a pan full of bacon and eggs, Mayu´s dad began chatting with the rest of us.
"So, Yosuhei-kun… When did you get to town?" He suddenly asked me, as his wife and daughter began putting plates, and food on the table.
I looked over at her with a smile and a sigh.
"Well sir, it´s kind of hard to explain. I got here about two weeks ago, but not the way you think" I said as I looked over at him, and he smiled as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Try to explain. I´m listening" He said as he put down his mug of coffee and his newspaper. Everyone at the table turned their head at me.
"I'm pretty curious too Yosuhei… How DID you show up at our classroom all of a sudden?" Satoshi asked as Naomi looked at him with a small smile.
I sighed and shrugged a little.
"I'm not sure… "I said as I looked down at the breakfast that was put in front of me by Mayu´s mother. "
All I can remember is that I was sitting in some kind of living room… And all of a sudden the ground began trembling… I was hit in the head and passed out… And when I woke up I was in you guys classroom" I finished as I looked around at everyone.
"Wait you´re saying the ground trembled right?" Ayumi ended the silence that had fallen over the group. I nodded to answer her, and she closed her eyes and pinched her jaw, deep in thought.
"That sounds a lot like what happened to us before we found you Yosuhei." She said and I looked at her surprised.
"You´re saying you guys experienced an earthquake too?" I asked and everyone nodded in response.
"hmm… That DOES sound sketchy…" Yoshiki added.
"And everything happened right before we were going to finish the Sachiko Ever After charm" Morishige added as he chewed through his bacon and eggs.
"Wait, Sachiko Ever After Charm?" I asked, not really knowing what he was talking about.
"Oh yeah! I was actually going to mention that for you Yosuhei" Ayumi said as she produced a small and simple, human formed paper doll from the bag she had brought with her.
"I was planning on doing the charm with everyone yesterday, but since we became so drunk I guess I forgot it." She said as she put the paper doll at the middle of the table.
"This is the Sachiko Ever After charm. " She began explaining.
"If we do it right, we will always be together forever. Or at least stay friends that is"
I raised a brow and carefully picked up the doll, as to not break it. I studied it a bit more closely.
There was nothing odd about it. It was a hundred procent normal doll, made out of plain paper. Nothing was extraordinary about it. No special letters or anything. There was not even Japanese on it.
Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and I clenched my eyes shut to try to block out the pain. My skin went cold, and I began to freeze, like I had just traveled to the northpole in an instant. My head felt like it was about to explode, and splatter all over the place.
I began to see things. Many pictures of a little girl in a red dress I didn´t know, a huge man with a hammer, and a big abandoned building that seemed to be a school ran through my head like a slideshow. I could hear a soft voice call out to me.
"Come to me Yosuhei… I have the answers you´re looking for… I´m waiting for you at Heavenly Host…" I could hear a soft child voice calling out to me, from somewhere I couldn´t see. Every word the voice said though made my headache even worse.
All of a sudden the pictures stopped switching, and was settled on one particular picture. It was one of a woman, maybe in her thirties, and a man who also looked like he was in his thirties. In-between them stood the little girl, now in a white dress, holding a big black plush kitty in her arms. My head felt like it was about to burst open when…
"Yosuhei! Yosuhei!" All of a sudden I could hear another female voice. My headache and the cold slowly began to subside, and was replaced by a warmth that spread from my feet and to the rest of my body.
I opened my eyes, and found myself sprawled out onto Mayu´s dinner table. I blinked a couple of times and looked up to find Seiko, worriedly shaking me while calling my name.
"Yosuhei wake up!" She yelled as I yanked my head off from the table and looked at her.
"Huh…. S-Seiko?" I looked up at her confused as she looked at me with tears in her eyes.
"W-What happened?" she asked as she wrapped her arms around my neck, silently sobbing.
"I-I don´t know… I had a vision of some kind… Something about Heavenly Host Elementary…" I said as I rubbed my forehead a little, and sat up completely. Ayumi gasped a little at the end of my sentence.
"Wait… Did you just say Heavenly Host Elementary?" She asked softly as she looked at me with a worried expression. I nodded a bit and looked back at her.
"That´s the school that was standing before Kisaragi Academy right?" I asked as everyone nodded.
"Hmm… That sure is weird…" Naomi said as she looked down at the table thoughtfully. I nodded a bit and sighed "Well… Do you guys think this has something to do with my memory loss?" I asked everyone, but Ayumi shook her head.
"I don´t think so. Why would heavenly Host have anything to do with the fact that you don´t remember anything?" She said as she looked at me with a serious expression.
I nodded a bit and sighed "Yeah I see what you mean…" I mumbled as I crossed my arms and sighed
"But there was also a little girl in a red dress... And a voice telling me she had the answers I was looking for…" I said worried as I looked up at the others.
"Do you guys think this vision has something to do with my memory loss?" I asked as I looked around at the concerned or serious expressions everyone was showing.
"I´m not completely sure but it sounds possible" Ayumi mumbled as she nodded a bit.
"Well let´s not dwell at it anymore. I don´t want an even bigger headache" I mumbled as I rubbed my forehead.
"Yeah let´s just call it a day and speak of it some other time" Ayumi said and everyone hummed or nodded in agreement.
"Well, we were speaking about the Sachiko Ever After Charm right?" Mayu suddenly chimed
"Well as I said I planned to do it yesterday but Ms. Yui and Yuka isn´t here yet right? " Ayumi mumbled "So how about we wait until Monday so we can meet up and perform it there?"
I nodded a bit and smiled and everyone else cheered in agreement "Yeah!"
~ Later That Day ~
It was way into the afternoon already, and Mayu´s parents had both left for work hours ago after saying goodbye to everyone. Currently I was sitting with everyone in the living room, beside Seiko, who was currently busy snuggling up to me and putting her head on my shoulder.
Everyone had massive hangovers and no one really was up for anything. Even the most common thing was more than what any of us could handle. We almost had a huge argument about who was going to take out the trash of all things.
So currently, everyone just tried to relax as much as possible. Sagutaro had gone home. He had complained a bit about having intense nausea so he had decided to go home and sleep his hangover away. His excuse for going had been `To not bother everyone` but everyone could both feel and see that he really were not well, so we had all been agreeing when he said goodbye.
Mayu had followed him home since she hadn´t drank as much as everyone else, and had soon com back. She was much more cheery than usual, even though I still knew she was not feeling well. That was kind of what I admired her for. Always cheerful and happy, even if she was sick. I believe that is an incredible ability.
Seiko looked up at me with tired eyes as I zoned out on the couch.
"Yosuhei… You seem tired… Should we go home?" She asked softly as she looked up at me. I looked at her with a tired and pained smile.
"I-It´s ok if you want to stay here with our friends…" I mumbled as I scratched my cheek shyly.
She simply smiled and shook her head.
"I want you to get better and I want to be with you so if you´re going, so am I " She said happily as she beamed with happiness. I nodded a bit and chuckled at her excitement, ruffling her hair a little as I kissed her cheek.
"Ok then. Let´s go. Bye everyone" I said to my friends as me and Seiko stood up, and walked out to get our shoes by the front entrance. I put on my own and sighed from exhaustion, smiling at Seiko who was sitting opposite me in the hallway.
"It´s been a hell of a weekend huh?" I mumbled as she smiled at me and nodded. She put on my shoes and took my hand as we both stood up, and exited into the bright day, hand in hand.
"Yeah it really has… But a fun one too" She said as we walked down the buzzing street, the loud noises of the city only triggering my headache even more.
"Well, having nausea and a headache is worth it as long as you have a good time right?" I said cheerfully as I smiled at my girlfriend brightly.
"Hey! That´s my motto!" She yelled excitedly and I laughed a bit.
"How would I know!?" I asked in defense and pouted a bit, childishly.
She pouted back but couldn´t keep it as her face soon shifted into laughter. I pouted even more and looked at her.
"What´s so funny?!" I asked as I glared at her childishly. She giggled a little and clenched her stomach with both her arms.
"You just look so adorable when you pout!" She yelled as she laughed harder and harder, practically rolling on the ground. I pouted a bit and sighed as I looked downwards.
And that was when I saw it. A pinkish bruise-like mark all the way around my left wrist. It mostly looked like I had rubbed my wrist against something but I didn´t remember hurting myself or anything. The bruise ran all the way around my wrist, right under where my thumb connected to the rest of my hand. It kind of worried me to say the least.
"Yosuhei? You ok?" I heard beside me, and I quickly hid my left hand.
I suddenly realized Seiko had stopped laughing and stood there, looking at me worriedly.
"Y-Yeah everything is fine don´t worry!" I said with the best smile I could muster.
She put her hands on her hips and stared at me suspiciously before shrugging and taking my hand again.
"Ok if you say so…" She said as she smiled and tugged at my arm. "Come on! I want to go home and cuddle!" She yelled happily as she pulled me down the streets.
Honestly I didn´t know why I didn´t want her to see this bruise. I mean it was just a bruise right? No reason to hide it. But somehow I knew that I would worry her and she would begin obsessing about it, and I really didn´t want her to worry. So when I was convinced that she was no longer suspicious with me, I sighed and let her yank me down the street, towards her home.
What a weird day this has been…