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Chapter 6: Visible
The brown-haired girl leaned over the sink and retched for the fifth time. Wiping the red liquid from her mouth, she proceeded to washing her face and swallowing the tiny white painkillers. Breathing heavily, she walked back out of the bathroom and back into the studio. A brown-haired boy walked up to her. "Are you okay, Mikan?" he asked worridly.
She smiled. "I'm fine, Mochiage. It was just a little coughing. After all, the Devil's Charm can take more than this!" She raised and shook her small fist into the air dramatically, but in the back of her mind was thinking, -, its getting worse...and visible. The others in the studio chuckled and they proceeded to practicing Mikan's new song.
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The brown-haired woman hurried down the street and turned around a corner, her heart beating quickly. About 20 meters away, three men wearing security suits followed her, whispering among themselves. The brown-haired woman broke into a sprnt as soon as she made it into the very crowded shopping center.
Calm down and run faster, Yuka. The told herself, over and over again. She stopped in an alleyway to rest. Her breathing quieted and she continued to walk down into the darkness. But exactly which darkness was she sinking in...?
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Mikan walked down the road through the crowded streets of Times Square. She was in her ripped jeans, cap, t-shirt, and her guitar was slung over her shoulder. People hurried past her in couples. Boyfriend and girlfriend. Friend and friend. Husband and wife. And, as a little girl bumped into her legs, she saw a mother and her shild.
"This is a good spot." She leaned against a light pole in front of the W Hotel. Opening her guitar case, the brown-haired girl smiled. "Haven't done this since I was six." She strummed and began to sing:
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths Jobby that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
She stopped singing to see a crowd of little boys and girls sitting in a semi-circle around her, their parents somewhere farther away but watching. Her open guitar case, now full of coins and crumpled dollar bills, had little space for her guitar as she waved to everyone, she picked it up and started to walk away. But was stopped by a little girl in a pink dress.
"Umm...big sis...I have...umm...here." She handed the brown-haired girl a ten dollar bill. Mikan smiled and bent down to pat the girl's head.
"Little girl, what's your name?"
"Maya..."
"Thank you so much, Maya." The little girl smiled widely. She nodded and ran back to her parents, waving as she ran. Mikan smiled and started to walk back down the street. She turned down an alleyway but just as she got past a dumpster, leaned over into it and coughed heavily. She was hidden, so wasn't afraid of being found.
After being sure about the stopped coughing, she walked down into the darkness. But in that darkness was a little light; it would call itself the Devil's Charm, but was also the Angel's Light. And in the darkness was a voice in front of the brown-haired girl, which she started to follow, "I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground and I..."
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And in the darkness was a voice in front of the brown-haired woman, which she started to follow, "I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground and I..."
I find the map and draw a straight line...I love that song! And, in case you didn't know, they were in New York and went to Japan for the Gakuen, then returned to New York. It's Christmas Eve...
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-animeoh
P.S. Sorry for being so late with such a short chapter!