Hey guys, this is Gogos memory that sh had in the last chapter. It might get intense by the end. But this might also explain why she is so boyish in the movie. Lastly Gogo is about 12. BACK STORY AWAY.
I looked into the scrap of paper i had found on my dresser when I woke this morning. It read left past the kitchen, on your right. Red spine, third row from the bottom. I had no idea what it meant just that Ugi had left it for me. I knock on their door, the bright smiling face of their mother opened the door to greet me. She was about 6 feet tall with blond hair, and she was wearing a long, flowing yellow dress. "I see you got Ugis note, well don't let me ruin your fun come on in."
"Thank you Mrs. Ida." I step through the door "The note says to go passed the kitchen take a left."
"Well that's Ugis room, but I don't know where those boys are. Oh well i'm sure you will find them. I have to go to the store so you kids try to be careful."
"Will do Mrs. Ida." She patted my shoulder, then walked out to her car. I entered Ugis room, and to my right was huge book case. I count up to the third shelf and explore it for a red spined book. My hand brushes against it, The 39 clues. I lifted it out of place. The ground shock for a second, then stopped. I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid I chanted softly in my head. "Ugi, Hirgo, this isnt funny what's going on?" I called as i moved back through the kitchen and into the living room. I draw in a sharp breath as i notice the fireplace is gone, it was replaced by a set of wooden stairs. Secret passage, COOL. I run recklessly down the stairs, Ugi and Hirgo meet me at the bottom. "Isn't this the coolest thing you've ever seen?"
The stairwell opened up into a large room, 2 it had large couch, and a table surrounded by four chairs. It was lit by a lantern hanging from the center of the room and a few candles flickering along the walls. "How did you guys find this place, its so cool."
"The book, we were messing around in my room and the book got knocked off the shelf, than the ground shook and you know the rest." Ugi announced pridefully.
"Ya were going to make this place even better." Hirgo added happily.
"Well we have to break this place in. What should we do first?"
"Lets play a card game or something." Hirgo suggested
"crazy 8's anyone?" Ugi asked. We both nodded. "Cool, i'll go them." Ugi charged up the stairs to go get the cards from somewhere off in the house leaving me and Hirgo in the room. We walk over to the table and sit down next to each other than we start making small talk while we wait for Ugi to come back.
Ugi comes bounding down the stairs with the deck in his hand, when he comes up to the table he takes a second before sitting down next to his brother, leaving the space next to me open. He shuffles the deck and we all start joking around and playing the game. After a few hands of crazy 8's than we move to sitting on the couch and talking about school.
Ugi stands to demonstrate something one of his friends did. He jumps off the back of the couch and lands on his back on the other side. Me and Hirgo start dying of laughter, we keep screwing around for awhile till the room starts to smell like something was burning, and the air started to get harder to breath. "Guys do you smell that?" I cough out.
"Ya, smells like something's burning, anyone else getting a little hot?" Ugi asked. We both nod, we all get up and start looking around. We were drawn to the orange glow coming from under the stairs.
We rounded the corner to look under the stairs, a fire started to burn under the stairs. "FIRE!" We scream and rush for the stairs, Hirgo in front them Ugi than me. Hirgo bounded up the steps as well as Ugi, but as i got about halfway up the stair i was stepping on gave way, and i slipped through with my right leg, I could feel the the heat rising as the flames licked agenst my shoe. I look up to see Ugi rounding the corner at the top of the stairs and Hirgo coming back down. He reaches his hand out and pulled me up and pushed me up the stairs. But the stair he was standing on gave way as well. Both his legs fall through the gap, "UGI HELP!" I scream. Hirgo is holding onto the next stair by just the top of his fingers, I reach down to him. I can hear the stair support cracking, "Hirgo, take my hand."
He just screamed in response, at both pain and fear. I reach down and grab his palm with both hands. I tug with all my strength, but i'm too weak to bring him up. I lift my head, the flames had expanded to the doorway now. "UGIII COME ON."
I look over my shoulder as Ugi rounds the corner with a bright red fire extinguisher. He jumped past me and Hirgo who still was dangling by his finger tips on one hand. He pulls the nozzle from its holster and starts to spray down the fire. It recedes and he disappears around the corner. I try again to lift Hirgo up, I pull him up enough to where his other hand is on the stairs.
A loud exploding comes from down the stairs, "UGI!" I scream, and place Hirgos other hand down on the stair, "I'll be right back with Ugi. Don't you even think about letting go."
I bounce over the missing two stairs, i round the corner to see Ugi lying on the ground holding his right leg and screaming bloody murder. The fire extinguisher is no where to be found. I run to him, his leg is badly shredded. I take a second to look over the fire, it had grown up the walls and was starting to burn through the floor. I lift up Ugi, with a lot of help from his left leg I guild him up the stairs, "Ok now the gap, you ready?" he nods, "Good." we hope over.
Ugi lands one stair higher than me, "now help me save your brother." I look back to Hirgo, his knuckles were very white, he couldn't hold on much longer. I grab his hand again and pull with what strength i have left, he lifts up enough to get his elbow on to the stair. He grunts from the heat and effort, than the stair gives way. "UGI HELP!" I plead as i hold on to Hirgos arm as he dangles over the fire, i spear a glance back. Ugi was crawling up the stairs, "UGI, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Hirgos arms starts to slip from all the sweat of holding himself up and the heat. I look back down to him, his hazel eyes look back up at me "Goodbye Leiko."
His arms slips from my grasp and he falls into the fire burning below, His blood curdling screams makes my skin crawl. The tears start to flow from my eyes, I stand and climb the rest of the stairs, Ugis blood stained the wooden stairs. He was propped against the couch holding his leg and crying, it takes all of my self control not to throw him down the stairs to join his brother. The air is filled with smoke, so i pull both of us outside. Just as their moms small car zips up the driveway. She runs up to me, and shouts into my ear "My God what happened, wheres Hirgo?" I can't say anything, so i point to the house. She pulls away from me, but i grab her arm and shake my head, she drops to her knees and starts to weep, before pulling out her phone and calling 911. Ugis leg was still gushing blood as the sirens started to wail, the ambulance took him away in a long stretcher, and a police officer came over to me and took me to another ambulance. They checked me out, i had mild trouble breathing from the smoke, they said it would clear up in a hour or so of breathing fresh air. Than the police office started with his questions. Someone must have called my mom because she showed up. She ran to me and started hugging me in the middle of one of the officers questions, "I'll need to finish this later, but we can take a break." He walks back to his car.
"Oh my word Leiko you scared me half to death, are you ok?"
"I'm fine, but Hirgo's dead. I tried to save him… but…" my words break into sobs. My mom pulls me into another hug and whispers something soothing into my ear. "Ugi… Ugi... "
"Its ok honey, its ok. Listen we are going to do whatever you want to night ok? But right now you finish answering the officers questions, ok? They need to know what happened." I nod, she calls the officer back over and we finish the questions. "Is there anyone that is to blame?" was his last question.
my mind flies back to the moment when Ugi was crawling up the stairs. He did not care about his own brothers life. "Ugi abandoned me as I tried to lift Hirgo. He crawled away, and I… I couldn't lift him. Than the stair gave way, he started to slip. Than he said goodbye and he feel."
I broke down again, there was nothing else to do.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, the officer looks into my eyes. "Hey kid, you tried your best. There is nothing else you could have done. Think of it this way, you kept a cool head in a time when everyone else would have panicked, and you saved one of their lives, they would both be dead without your help."
"Is it bad that i only went down there to get Ugi, so that he could help save Hirgo?"
"No, you cared for your friend. But when you were at your weakest you did not get the help you needed. There's nothing more to it."
That night write a eulogy for Hirgo, it explained what happened, leaving out Ugis betrayal. It emphasized the book that i had removed to get down there. After that me and my mom went out to the mall, we shopped for a while and got ice cream. While we were there, my mom said "This is fun, but i have to go to the bathroom." so we find the closest restroom and i wait outside holding bother our ice creams, while my mom goes inside. As i wait i look along the wall when a singsong voice rings out from behind me, "Hey, Tamago." I frown and turn to see Janet, the girl that tried to ruin my life when at school and a group of her friends, but i always had Ugi and Hirgo. Now i don't have anyone. "Oh, why the long face, did you just look in a mirror." everyone erupts in laughter, but she had snapped my last straw.
I slam what's left of my ice cream cone into her face, "You picked the wrong day to mess with me. I have had it up to here," I raise my hand as far as possible. " with all this shit, i recommend you keep walking or the next thing that gets rammed in your pretty little face will be my fist."
She doesn't believe me and her group of friends and all oohing behind her, some of the ones in the front look scared. "You really think i'm pretty?" She says mockingly "because god knows you're not." I raise my fist, and she takes a step back.
"Get lost, or you will regret it." She just waved to her friends and they walked on. My mom emerged from the bathroom smiling at me.
"Good for you Leiko, you've had to deal with enough today." I smile at her and we walk out of the mall and drive back home.
( one week later)
I dawn a black gown, and clutch a book and two scraps of paper to my chest. The sky clouded and drizzly as we walk up to the large building. Everyone wore black, some cried softly to themselves other chatted quietly with the family or amongst themselves. A small oak casket lay across a table on the other side of the room. I looked around I saw all our classmates and our teacher except Janet. There had been a news report on the day after it happened, and i hadn't gone back to school since. The room went silent when they saw me enter, my teacher walked up to me, "Its good to see you Leiko, do you plan to come back to school soon?"
"Yes mame tomorrow actually."
"That's great honey, we would love to have you back." She smiles at me then walked away.
A man on the intercom said: "the service will now commence." everyone took seats. The service was short but nice. It highlighted his good grades and loving family, but much like the last week His final words and blood curdling scream rang through my head. "Now if anyone else has anything to say they may come up now." I stand and walk up to the podium.
"Hi i'm Leiko Tamago and I was the last person to see him alive. I have prepared a eulogy for him." I unfold the paper and try to keep my hands steady. "I woke up that morning and found a note on my dresser, it had instruction written by Ugi and Hirgo. It lead me to a bookcase, where i found this book." I raise the book. "Than the fireplace opened up and there was a secret room under it." I look at the casket "Thats where his body lays. He was one of my best friends, if not the best. His last words were 'goodbye Leiko.' Thats all I have, thank you." I walk back to where my mother is sitting. No one else said anything. Mrs. Ida approached me after "We would love it if you guilded the coffin to the hearse."
"I would be honored." His father, and three other men lifter the coffin off its table Ugi stood at the back on crouch under his right arm, he placed his left on the coffin. I walked in front of it with a hand on it. We walked through the doors, and out to the parking lot, the men pushed the casket into the long car. I disappeared back into the crowd, than emerged at the back and leaned against the wall and looked down at my feet. When "Hey Tamago." called from nearby, it was Janet but her voice wasn't mocking or mean, it was sad. I look up to see her leaning against the wall next to me.
"Still not a good time."
"I'm not here to mock you, i'm here to say i'm sorry. For everything, every mean word or hurtful comment especially the ones back at the mall."
"Well, thanks your."
"Also i really liked your speech."
"Thanks."
"Leiko, its time to go." my mother called from the call
"See you at school."
"Ya see you." I departed to my moms car. where we drove away my eyes locked on the hearse as the clouds opened up, and the rain started to pour down.
That's what ran through Gogos head in a split second last chapter hope you all enjoyed, and I know this is just leaving you with more questions than answers but all will be explained soon. Also a lot of stuff doesn't fit on purpose trust the author, lastly I wrote almost all of this at about 1 am to 3 am time frame so sorry if the grammars off, but i'm getting tired so i'm going to sleep.
P.S. I drew the photo from the last chapter as well → /qbert751/
