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Chapter Seven~The Dangerous Journey Ahead Of Us
Wednesday
Day Two
7:21 am
Ethan's Mars' House
Ethan and Harumi Mars never felt this much pain in their lives. The thought of losing another loved ones could cause them to be suicidal due to their psychologic disorders. Shaun Mars was taken by the Origami Killer, while under this roof. Harumi could have been the hero and take her brother far away from him, but instead she was unconscious while the killer place her in the bathtub to make her drown. To make it look like she was committing suicide.
Ethan was sitting at the kitchen table as he lay his head down. Harumi on the other hand was in front of him still in her pyjamas slowly eating her brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts that she place in the microwave for a few seconds. As soon as she finish her first one, she lose her interest of eating the other one. She pushed her plate towards her father, as he heard the plate making noise on the table, before he looked up to see his daughter not eating anymore.
"Harumi, sweetie," Ethan called her name as she looked up at him. "You have to eat more. I can't bare to see you like this."
Even though his daughter wasn't eating much during her depression. He couldn't bare to see Harumi like this. Harumi crossed her arms and lean against her chair.
She sighed before answering. "I'm not hungry now, Ethan," She started saying his first name once again. "Plus I had a bad night,"
He remembered that Harumi had a night terror and she immediately ran towards her father's door. He immediately ran towards and opened the door. He carried her into the bedroom and laid her down on the right side of the bed as she was crying softly in her sleep. Ethan couldn't fall asleep as well, since he was thinking about his son being out there in the city kidnapped by the killer himself.
Ethan stood up, before he walked towards the refrigerator to grabbed Harumi's antidepressants pills from the top of the kitchen appliance. "Maybe it's because you haven't taken your pills," Ethan had the pill bottle in front of her as she stares at it. She grabbed them and open the bottle as she taken two pills into her hand.
Her head started hurt as she heard voices.
"Give me back my brother!"
"Harumi, no!"
"Stay down, bitch!"
Three voice was echoing in her mind. That night was slowly coming back.
"Harumi, you need to take them," Ethan reminded her. "Doctors orders,"
"Could you give me some water?"
Ethan nodded before he walked towards the sink to give her glass of water. She immediately thrown the pills that she was supposed to take for the day, towards the TV as it hit the plastic top of it. Ethan turned around to see Harumi pretending to have the pills in her mouth. He gave the glass of water as she drank the water slowly, before giving the glass back to him.
"Thanks," Harumi complemented, before she stood up from the chair and walked towards the stairs.
If Harumi didn't take the pills, she will be able to see what happened that night. It could be a better chance to remember what the killer look like. But the emotional teenager will have a consequence if she didn't take her pills.
Harumi was upstairs in the bathroom as she was putting on her school uniform. Her Seiko High School uniform was most likely a sailor uniform. It was a short sleeve white blouse and she had a lonf sleeve black shirt underneath. The sleeves were to her elbows with navy blue and two white stripes on the cuffs of her elbows. She has a red tie and a navy blue skirt that to mid thigh and black leggings. Her school shoes are her black combat boots. Her long brown hair was still messy, but she decided to comb in a little bit to not have that bed hair look.
As she looked into the mirror, she noticed a pair of hands appearing out of nowhere, until she gave a frightening scream, while turning around, making her hair curly iron and herself onto the floor. She slowly open her blue eyes to see that there was nothing. It was just only her and her imagination fooling her. If she would have taken those pills, nothing like that wouldn't happen. But she must not take them, in order for her to a positive identity of the person who kidnapped her brother.
As Harumi climbed down the stairs with her black backpack over one shoulder, she looked to see her father, Ethan who was reading something. She decided to investigate what her father was reading.
"What are you doing?" Harumi asked, until she suddenly scared her father, when he looked up with shocked blue eyes.
"Uh, nothing,"
"Oh, let me read this 'nothing'," Harumi walked towards him as he lifted the paper up in the air, until she jumped once and she finally has it in her hands.
"When the parents came home from church," Harumi read the first sentence before she balled it up and threw it on the floor. "Stupid James-senpai's ex-girlfriend. I fucking hate her!"
"What?"
"James-sempai ex-girlfriend put that same letter in my locker last week and now she sent it to you to scare me," Harumi said crossing her arms.
"Harumi, I don't think that his ex-girlfriend has nothing to do with this," Ethan said holding up a ticket, as the emo teenager looked at it.
"What is that?" Harumi asked. "Another clue?"
"Harumi, I think this might help us into finding Shaun," Ethan said before placing the ticket in his back pocket. "We have to go somewhere."
"Where, Ethan?" Harumi asked walking towards him. "I can't just leave everything to go on a dangerous journey to search for him. Mom told me that I'm just a kid who has low self-esteem."
"Harumi," Ethan said. "Sometimes, I don't believe what your mother says about you. You and Shaun are both special to me. I love you and him more than anything in the word."
That was Ethan's true heart telling her to listen to him.
Harumi sighed. "OK, I'll pack my things and then we can go find him. But one question though," Harumi walked over to the front door and opened the door.
"Mr. Mars!"
"Harumi Mars!"
"A few words!"
"Mr. And Miss. Mars,"
"How in hell are we supposed to get pass them?!" Harumi hissed. "All they want to do is pull my hair,"
"We could through the neighbor's garden and avoid the press,"
"Wait, I have a better idea," Harumi climbed up the stairs until she reaches the top of the stairs, before turning to look at her father at the bottom of the stairs. "Stay down here,"
"Harumi, what are you?"
Ethan walked towards the window to see that the press was still here, until he heard something that startled him and also the press outside.
Everyone heard three gunshots shot in the air.
"What the hell?" Ethan said confused before looking through the window.
"Oh shit!"
"Come on,"
"Let's get out of here,"
The press immediately ran into their cars and vans as they drove down the street away from crowding the house.
Harumi climbed down the stairs. "What happened?!" She asked with shocked blue eyes, before dropping her backpack on the floor. "I heard gunshots,"
"Oh, god, Harumi," Ethan ran towards her as he hugged her. "You're safe."
"Yeah, I'm glad I'm safe," Harumi looked down at her backpack to see that her black gun was almost out in the open and she zipped it up, before completely annoyed by the hug from her father.
Lexington Station
8:05 am
Ethan and Harumi were looking at this angel holding its child in his hands. It matches the same angel on the ticket.
"So, why are we here?" Harumi asked, holding onto her backpack straps.
"Harumi, I want you to stay with me,"
"Why, I can go ahead of you,"
"Just stay where I can see you," Ethan said before Harumi started looking around for the luggage lockers, until she pointed it out to her father. "Stay close,"
Harumi understand her father's condition. Her couldn't stand crowds. She remembers last year that she invited him to the last talent show that she was going to perform, but he couldn't manage the crowd and he didn't show up. Leaving a heartbroken Harumi backstage with her mother Grace and her brother Shaun.
Harumi walked slowly as she watched as her father follow her footsteps. She noticed the crowd was getting bigger by the minute as she was walked slow.
"Haru… Harumi…" she heard her father's voice as he was slowly breathing in and out.
"Stay there, Dad," Harumi said walking backwards slowly towards the luggage lockers. "I'll be back. I promise,"
With that, Harumi immediately ran towards the luggage lockers leaving her father behind in the crowd. It was the most horrible mistake that Harumi had ever made, but she will be back from him like she promised. It didn't last long until…
Ethan was looking around the train station. Everything was in black and white. Everything was frozen. Time was frozen. The people walking around were frozen as well. He was the only one moving around. He reached out to touch this nearby person as he fallen to the ground, when the architect father touched him. Two more fallen around him when he touched him. Where was Ethan at? Is this his mind playing a trick on him? Or was it true to him?
But his main concern is where's daughter, Harumi?
"Harumi?" He called out once, until her heard a familiar voice that recognized.
"Dad?"
"Dad, where are you?"
It was him. His first son. His second child. Jason Mars. He was right in front of him. He was holding a red balloon in his hand as he started looking around the train station, just like at the mall two years ago.
Ethan started chasing after him. "Jason!"
"Daddy!"
Another familiar voice echoed through the train station. It was a sweet but girly voice. Was it? No, it can't be…
Ethan turned to his right to a girl with long brown hair up in a high ponytail wearing a purple shirt with a denim skirt and black high tops. It was her. Harumi Mars from two years ago before the dark colors.
"Daddy, come play with me!"
"Harumi, you are such a silly girl!" Ethan heard his younger self echoed through the building as he looked up at the ceiling. He looked back at younger Harumi waving at him happily before she disappeared.
"Come on, Dad, make me fly!"
Now, he heard Shaun's voice. He looked to see him to his left as he was dressed in the same clothes he was wearing yesterday at the park.
He can also her Shaun's giggling happily. He remembered that he and Shaun were having the time of their lives, until everything changed. With that Shaun disappeared, until he appeared with Jason and Harumi in front of the architect father.
Harumi was in the middle. Shaun was on her right. Jason was on her left. Harumi's girly phase changed into an emotionless teenager. Jason disappeared. Shaun on the other hand was emotionless too.
"Harumi, Jason, Shaun, no!"
"Leave me alone!" Harumi yelled.
"I hate you, Dad!" Shaun hissed.
Ethan couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't believe it. But it was true. He covered his head and immediately closed his blizzard blue eyes hoping it will go away.
"Ethan… Ethan… Dad!"
Ethan opened his blizzard blue eyes to see that he was looking down on the ground, as he felt a soft hand touched his back. He stood up slowly as he looked up, before turning around to his daughter's worried eyes. Harumi was showing tears in her eyes as she was worried about her father.
"Harumi… are you crying?" Ethan asked.
Harumi immediately wipe her tears with her wrists before looking back at her father who was concerned about her sad emotion. "No, I wasn't Ethan," She replied. "What happened to you back there? You almost scared the shit out of me,"
"Where are we?" He looked up to see that Harumi has lead her father to the luggage lockers. Now, all they have to do is find the locker that the ticket said. As they made it pass security and through the metal detector, all they have to do is find the mysterious locker. Once they find the locker while Ethan was putting in the code for it to open, Harumi slipped her hand into her backpack as she touches the grip of her gun. The locker opened as she and Ethan looked at the locker.
This was it. What was in that locker that the mysterious person sent to Ethan?
Ethan opened to see a beige shoebox. The shoes belong to a man's size. But, why is there a shoebox in the locker. Ethan slowly picked it up as it a heavy in his hands. Harumi let go of the grip of her gun as she studied the box with her father. They were too afraid to open the box here, so they decided to take it with them, but not at home. Somewhere that no one can find them.
Cross Roads Motel
8:21 am
After leaving Lexington Station, Ethan and Harumi drove down the streets of Philadelphia quietly as the emotional teenager looked behind her of the backseat where the mysterious shoebox was on her father's side. Ethan stop at the first motel building they stop. They signed in under false names as they climbed up the stairs to Room 207.
Ethan sat down in a chair that was next to the door. Harumi was laying down on her bed looking at her iPhone, hoping that she had the courage to tell her senpai, James Izumi or better known as James Blake that she wouldn't be able to make it to Gordi Kramer's party tonight. So, she tosses her iPhone to the side of her left hip, before looking around the motel room that she and her father had to share.
The motel room looked disgusting. The wallpaper looked old. The room smelled like tobacco cigarettes, since there was two short cigarettes left in the ashtray. God, Harumi would love to have a smoke right about now, since she was going through stress.
she turned her head to see her father in deep thought.
"Hey," Harumi called out to get his attention.
He looked up at his daughter. "Yeah,"
"What are you thinking?"
"About the box from the locker,"
"We can't wait around like we're sitting ducks," Harumi raise her upper body up, before sitting indian style on the bed.
"You're right, sweetie,"
"Please," Harumi held her hand. "Don't call me that,"
"Alright," he stood up from the chair as he walked towards the desk and sat down in the desk chair.
Ethan pulled the shoebox toward him as he opened the cover slowly. Harumi watched as Ethan looked inside the box, before flipping it upside-down to see it more clearly. Harumi stood up from the bed as she walked towards her father and stood behind him.
"Holy shit," Harumi said amazed.
Harumi and Ethan were looking at five animal origami figures, a phone, an SD card and also a gun. Harumi was about to reach for the gun, until Ethan slapped her head.
"Hey, mother-" She complained as she rubbed her red sore spot on her right hand.
Ethan picked up the gun and check to see it was loaded. It was really loaded with real bullets. He place the bullets back into the gun, before he places it down on the table.
Harumi decided to pick up the brown origami figure that had the number one on it. It was a bear origami figure. She opened slowly as she had a ticket in her hand as she finally opened it.
"Are you ready to show courage to save your son?" Harumi read out loud, before looking back at the ticket. It lead to a garage where they have to pick up a car. "Hey, could this be…"
Ethan picked up the phone as he places the SD card into the slot.
Harumi and Ethan started watching the phone screen as it was loading up a video for them to see. They were nervous about what was going to happen in the video until, they see a well filling up with rainwater, until they looked closer to see someone trying to get out of it.
"Help, Harumi, Dad,"
"Shaun!" Harumi and Ethan said.
"Where are you? I'm so cold… Harumi… Dad,"
The video ended.
Ethan was sobbing a bit, before Harumi slammed her hand on the table with a balled up fist. "I knew I was telling the truth,"
"How far would you go to save someone you love?" The phone said on the screen as Ethan and Harumi were still looking at it. "Five origami figures. Each has letters. The letters revealed an address."
"Ethan, we have to save him," Harumi said suddenly.
"We have too," Ethan stood up as he grabbed the ticket and the origami figure from out of Harumi's hand. Harumi started placing the rest of the origami figures in the shoebox, before picking it up and placing it under the bed. Harumi picked up her iPhone and her black backpack from the foot of the bed and follow her father to his car as their dangerous journey to save Shaun begins.
GirlGoneGamer
Harumi Mars
Ethan Mars
~Mini Segment Time!~
"Holy peanut butter cups! Harumi-chan has a gun?! Where did she get it from?!"
*Harumi points the gun at GirlGoneGamer*
"Don't you dare call me Harumi-chan! Call me by my nickname."
"Which is?"
"Haru M or Mimi,"
"Can I call you Haru-chan?"
*The gun clicked*
"OK, Haru M, are you happy?"
"Yes," *she moves gun away from her face* "Please continue before my father annoys me,"
"I heard that, Harumi!"
"Whatever!"
"Haru-chan have such a bad mouth, Ethan-san!"
"HEY! What did you call me?!"
"I know, GirlGoneGamer,"
~End of Mini Segment!~
Hope you all enjoy the chapter and the new mini segment I added. I will add more soon to new chapters, if something is on my mind about Harumi and Ethan. The Lexington Station part when Ethan saw Jason, I added Harumi and Shaun into the nightmare since it wasn't Jason he was thinking about. His main concern is his children! I tried my best to describe her school uniform since it was a summer sailor school uniform, but I did my best.
