I feel the steady beat of my heart
Stop and shatter into tiny pieces
Fated to never be put back together again.
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Rima
Shatter – Chapter 6
The days after she avoided his company.
She stayed in her room, cuddled against the far wall, hidden in the shadows.
He knocked on her door but she didn't want to hear his voice. It hurt too much.
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She used her alone time to think. Somehow, someway she could never wrap her mind around that girl, Ki. There was something about that girl that unsettled her. The deranged look in her all-too dark eyes and the way she smiled, it was too unreal. But she couldn't do anything about it. Shiki chose Ki, a girl he had just met, over her, his life long friend. Rima dabbed away the tears that fell from her eyes but she couldn't stop the tears that ran down her heart.
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Groggily, Rima lifted her head off the top of her knees and cleared her throat a couple of times; feeling like somebody had stuffed sandpaper down her throat. Instinctively, Rima reached in front of her to grab her box of blood tablets, but remembering that she had finished it already, withdrew. Instead Rima opened her mouth, her fangs already engorged, and sank them down on her arm. She hissed but feeling her warm blood slowly roll down her throat was a relief in itself, although short-lived. As soon as the last essence of the sweet food source was gone, her throat resumed its raging fire that was slowly consuming her sanity. In a few minutes she would need to repeat the process, as she had done so for the past two or three days. Rima sighed. She knew she would soon have to go out to get more blood tablets if she wanted to stay alive but she was afraid. I'm afraid of my own best friend.
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Rima lifted her head up and hissed. Sunlight burned at her face, making the intensity down in her throat swell up more. Her mouth moved, but the sound was so foreign that she didn't know she had asked for blood until a glass was pressed against her outstretched hand. For a few second Rima just stared down at the glass full of the red liquid until it clicked in her mind. Blood. As soon as the synapse was made, Rima nearly pounced on the glass like a wild animal. She was fully aware that there was a person standing in front of her, but after such a long time alone, Rima had a hard time distinguishing between the different scents of her fellow classmates. She was certain however, and she could bet her own life on this, that the man standing in front of her was definitely not Shiki. Suddenly, without even realizing it, Rima felt slightly depressed that this wasn't Shiki. Somewhere in the back of her mind she had deep longing for him that would never go away. And somehow, Rima had hoped that Shiki had been the one to break down her door and come and offer her blood, but sadly her hopes were shattered. Maybe before Rido had attacked the academy Shiki would have if she had broken down like this, but of course, before the attack, Rima had always been the one taking care of him. All his life, she was the one that he had hung on to, and she had always protected him and made sure he was out of trouble. Rima laughed coldly. It seemed that the shoe was on the opposite foot now.
After a fourth glass of blood, Rima felt suddenly much, much better. Already, the faint traces of the bites on her arm were just that – faint. Her senses were alert, each heightened fully from her newly found strength. The aching throbbing Rima had experienced during her little break down was all gone, she felt like she had been reborn anew. Rima got up and stretched. She rubbed her eyes and waited a few seconds for them to adjust to the sunlight. In front of her was Ichijou, dazzling and smiling as always. But something about this picture was wrong, and it wasn't until Rima saw the look in Ichijou's eyes that she realized he wasn't smiling, in fact, Rima had never seen him so forlorn. Still, Rima convinced herself it was nothing and continued her stretching, feeling every stiff limb loosen. She rubbed her shoulder a few times, making sure that she had complete use of her left arm and hadn't completely damaged it from sitting on the floor so long. Rima repeated the process with all her sore spots, and watched Ichijou wait patiently for her to finish. When she was nearly done, Ichijou cleared his throat, indicating that he needed her attention. Rima stopped and peered at him questionly.
"What's up?" She patted his back and when he didn't return the gesture, Rima knew that something was definitely up.
"Ichijou, I've never seen you so dismayed. You look as if Rido had just reappeared on campus again." Obviously, Ichijou had to know she was only joking, but when his face darkened, Rima felt her blood freeze.
"Rima." He simply stated, "Both Shiki and Ki have been gone for 2 days now."
And just like that, Rima's world shattered. All this time, even in her week of insanity, Rima never thought once that Shiki would truly abandon her. She had firmly believed that he would come through and once again they would be together and happy, like old times. But he was gone, ran off with some girl that he didn't even know, that had once tried to kill him. Rima shook her head. No. Shiki wouldn't do something like this to me…he…can't. She felt the emptiness of her words as it made its way across her mind. But even so, Rima couldn't believe Shiki would do something like this to her. He may have turned cruel over the time they spent apart but even so, somewhere deep down, was the little chestnut-haired boy that she loved.
A tap on her shoulder brought her back into her room. "Rima there something else you should know. They were sent on a level E vampire extermination mission." Ichijou reached for something in his long trench coat. He pulled out a piece of neatly folded paper with Rima's name sprawled on the top. It was obviously a girl's handwriting, "And I found this taped to Ki's door a few hours after they had left."
He handed Rima the paper and carefully she unfolded it.
Rima darling,
So sorry it had to be this way dear but I warned you, Shiki is mine. Ta Ta darling.
Ki.
P.S. Hope you feel better!
Suddenly, a single blast of lightening shot from her hand, setting the note on fire. She dropped it on the floor, uncaring if it set her freakin room on fire with it. All she knew was that her best friend was in trouble and she had been to caught up trying to forget him to realize it. She brushed off her night class uniform and grabbed two satin black ribbons, securing them in her flaming orange hair.
Rima stormed out of her room with a force that Rido wouldn't be able to stop her. "That bitch."
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Gomen, gomen, gomen! (Sorry, sorry, sorry)
Sooo sorry guys about my incompetentness (A word?)! I really have been busy lately and unable to write like at all. I mean its freakin summer but I feel like I'm doing more work! So as an apology I got up late at night (again) to finish this chapter to get it out to you guys before you come at me with a full on mob .
I promise to work harder! I WILL get the next chapter out before the summer is over! I hope...
Actually I'm thinking of putting the story on hiatus (gasp! I know! What has Stephie-Chan been thinking?) because I'm really really busy. I promise however, to work on the next chapter as soon as I can! I'm thinking on the plane ride to NYC I can write a chapter and on the plane ride back I can write another but no guarentees! D: Gomen! Meanwhile, the story is offically on hiatus so I can't say I'll even be able to write again for the rest of the summer D: Stephie is sooooo very sorry and she hates to just leave this story hanging when its just getting good but she's afraid she has too. She also has no idea why she's speaking in third person xD
Anyway back to the chapter. Hehe this is starting to heat up :D Ik this is really dittering away from the actual plot of VK but who cares? VK is a freakin soap opera now anyway =.= And somehow Hino-Sempai is out of her right mind in not giving ANY page time (screen time, page time. Lol. That was a lame joke brought to you by me :D) to Shiki and Rima! DDD:
Questions? Comments? Feel free to click that green button! Please hit it D: Please? With a cherry on top? Oh and if any of you guys have ideas on the next chapter, it would help alot, cause I'm out of ideas at this point, I'm completely winging it if you haven't noticed xDD
Till next time! Ta Ta Darlings :P
