Chapter 8
I slowly opened my eyes to someone shaking me. At first I thought that it was Aido but once I opened my eyes I saw my dad instead. "Ashley, are you alright? You're so pale. Are you sure that it's just cramps?" He asked, both looking and sounding worried. "I'm fine, dad. I might be getting sick though." I answered as I tried to pull myself into a sitting position. My dad ended helping me, and moved my pillows so that my back was against them in a half sitting, half laying, position. "Are you to sick to eat? Do you just want to sleep." He then asked and I fought to keep my eyes opened. "No, I'll eat." I said and he handed me the food. "OK then. Call if you need anything." My dad said the then left my room.
Once he was gone I started to eat, Smokes and fries. The smokes had ketchup and mustered while the fries had nothing since they were curly fries and ketchup would just ruin them. I then looked beside me, on the other side of my bed, but all I saw was a few stuffed animals and bits of wrinkled blanket. Aido wasn't there. "Aido." I whispered slowly and touched my neck where he had bit me. I could feel the already crusting, meaning that they closed up and started to heal, wound, and it made me feel a little sick, know that a anime vampire had made them.
Putting my plate of food on my bed-side table then got out of bed. I had to hold on to by bed since I lost more blood then I thought and I quickly turned around and grabbed onto my underwear/shirt dresser to keep myself from falling down. I then gazed into the mirror and, moving my hair to the side, stared at the bite marks. they were red and I was right, they were starting to crust over. Seeing the bite marks made me feel even more sick then when I touched it.
I then looked back at my bed, expecting to see Aido laying there. He still wasn't and I was beginning to wonder where he was. 'Maybe he's in the living room.' I though to myself then carefully went my way to my door, opening it slowly and trying to keep myself from falling over. I then got to my walker and slowly went to the living room, again being careful because I didn't want to fall.
"Ashley, wow, your father is right, you do look pale. Are you OK?" My mother asked as I came into the living room. As she came up to feel my forehead I saw my dad sitting on the other love set and my sister was on the computer. Aido was nowhere in the living room and I couldn't hear movement in the kitchen so I knew he wasn't in there and I couldn't see him in the dinning room (the living room and dinning room are combined). I don't know why I felt so upset, but I did. "Well, you don't really warm. You fell just the opposite." My mom said as she pulled away. I just moan lightly, feeling tired. "Maybe we should just go back to bed." She then said and I turned around, nearly falling.
My mom ended up helping me back to my room, making sure that I wouldn't fall again. She then helped me into bed, taking the plate of food before I layed down. My mom took the food and turned off the light on the out. I sighed then shifted my position to face the wall. I was still upset that I didn't know where Aido was, and I don't know why I was so upset about it. I just sighed and closed my eyes. In just a few minutes I was in a deep, dream filled sleep.
I woke up to the feeling that someone was nudging me. "Aido?" I murmured and slowly to opened my eyes, only to see my brown, multipo (half poodle, half multice) down sniffing my face. I jumped and yelled a bit. 'What? What is it?!" My dad asked, running into my already opened room. "Who the hell opened my door and let in Peanut?! Peanut, out!" I asked, in a bad moan since i still felt bad from Aido sucking my blood the night before and watched the 3 year old dog leave the room. My dad sighed then looked down the hall. "Nykki must have opened the door for your cat and never shut it. How do you feel?" He asked, sitting on the edge of my bed. "Well I thinking I can walk...hop without losing balance, but I still feel week." I answered and he nodded, getting off my bed.
"Well, good. Do you need anything? Your mom and I are going to do some shopping and your sister is going uptown to hang with her friends." My dad asked. I sat up some more and shook my head. "No, I can manage myself." I answered and he nodded in understanding. "Before I go, I just want to know one thing. How did you get like this?" He asked and I stared up at him. My neck with the bite marks was showing so ether he just didn't notice them yet or, like with Aido, only I can see them. "I don't know." I answered. There was no way I was telling him the truth. He'd just think I was going crazy or something. Hell, until Aido bit me, I thought I was going crazy myself. "OK then. Get some more rest and we'll be back in a couple hours." He said, leaving the room and shutting the door behind him and I yelled a bye.
Between 5 to 10 minutes later I heard my family leave and I got out of bed. I was going to look for Aido. I walked...hopped, to my door, having better balance then last night because of the sleep I got. I then went down the hallway with my walker. I then stopped at the utility-room door and looked in it. I could see him, but then I remembered that the first time I was with Aido I couldn't even see him. "Aido, are you in there?" I asked then waited a few seconds and when I didn't hear anything I moved into the living room. Again I couldn't see Aido, but that didn't really mean that he wasn't there. "Aido, are you here?" I asked again.
I then sighed sadly and parked my walker in the same place as I did as the last time then hopped over, landing on the same couch I saw Aido lay on that one time. "Hanabusa Aido, If you are anywhere in here, please show yourself or give me some kind of sign." I said then waited for a few minutes but nothing happened. I don't know why I was getting so upset, but I was. Maybe it was like the saying, "You don't know what you have until it's gone." There was also the fact that I had a crush on him.
I pulled my leg and stump, which is what my parents call it, up on the couch and curled up, taking one of the couch pillows and hugging it tightly as I started to cry. "Please, show yourself. Just as I was getting uesd to you, and after you bite me, you suddenly just abanden me? That's not fair. Please don't leave me." I said in a whisper as I continued to cry. I felt so hurt, and not because of the bit. Maybe a was just having a girls moment. I continued to cry until I cried myself into a dream of where I relived the moment I met Aido.
