Chapter 9: Its you
Tossing and turning Chihiro finally gave up on the ridiculous idea of getting to sleep. Not only was the bed, which consisted of a badly patched blanket on the cold wooden floor, a complete and utter pain in the back but the questions filling her mind buzzed so violently she wondered if there was an angry swarm of bee's stuck in there.
Pushing back the blanket with her bare, and rather cold, feet she gazed out at the sun which was another reason why sleep was so hard to come by. What sort of crazy people would sleep through the day and work through the night?
"Mad people," she mumbled as she pulled her clothes back on and frowned at the questions in her mind. It was so tempting to just scream at them to be quiet.
But they wouldn't. And then, above the buzzing noise of the countless questions about whether she had been here once before, came the image of the boy. The boy below the blankets and it screamed at her, it screamed above the noise of all the other questions and burned it's image onto the back of her eyes.
Frustration, anger, hope, anxiety, fear, happiness and sadness swamped her emotions all fighting to get first place, it was like a war going on in her body and each one was trying to make itself heard over the sound of the others. Competing for first place.
"Fine!" she shouted, "fine!"
And it stopped.
All of the commotion, all of the confusion. It all died down instantly. She had given in. It was time to find out what was going on. And as far as she was concerned, it all started with the messy haired boy on the bottom floor.
The door slide open with a noisy creak causing Chihiro to wince and hesitate momentarily as she remembered the people sleeping in the room next door just through the paper thin wall which separated them. And then there was the creaking of just about every floorboard she stepped on as she made her was down the corridor.
"Shut up floorboards," she scowled at the floor (A/N come on, everyone does it!) and threatened a finger at it as if it could understand.
But she needn't have worried for the bath house was sound asleep. It had been a long night and they had worked hard and now every member was curled up clutching hold of their blanket tightly.
The lift juddered down silently and Chihiro caught glimpses of the outside world. It was breathtaking in every way. The little shops which made up the village around the bath house, the curl of the railway as it wound it's way around the countryside and the bright yellow sun as it stood proudly in front of it all beaming down with gentle rays. The workers of the spirit house really missed out, thought Chihiro as she let a smile play on her lips.
And then the lift stopped with a gently "Flump". She had reached the bottom floor and it made her heart jump but quiver with excitement. She was going to solve it, solve the answer which had haunted her in the world she came from.
The doorways swayed past her as if she was in a dream, but she wasn't concentrating on them, only her final goal.
And then it was in front of her, the small slide door which would lead her to what she waited for for so long. Eyes gleaming with excitement, bones tingling with impatience, she slid the door open and ducked into the large boiler room.
Heat hit her, not over powerful heat but the gentle warming feeling which reminds one of sitting by a fire in the winter. The boiler man snored gently on his post, covered by a blanket which looked undoubtedly better quality than the rest of the workers. And then her eyes fell upon the pile of bed clothes which concealed her answer.
Moving forwards a hand gently rested on the soft material. She took in a deep breath and gently pulled the covers backā¦
But there was nothing there.
No messy black hair.
No boy.
Her heart sank drastically and desperation sank in. He had to be here, he was her answer!
"No!" she muttered, "no, please!" but no matter how much she searched through the bed clothes she could not find him.
Tears filled her frantic eyes as she suddenly felt hopeless and more alone than she had felt than she arrived in this god forsaken place.
"Why?" she cried as tears fell down her face. Cupping her hands over her face she dropped to the floor and shivered as a breeze disturbed the warmth of the room.
And then she paused. A breeze? And then it dawned on her, the door was open! The boy must have left that way!
Jumping up she ran in the direction of the door and whisked around the corner to gaze up at the staircase. The sunlight dazzled her momentarily but as it cleared she spotted someone opening the door at the top of the stairs.
"WAIT!" she screamed, and without thinking she ran at full speed up the staircase in front of her.
Thoughts that she could easily fall to her death by careless running did not even cross her mind, she had to catch up with him.
Flinging the door open at the top of the stairs she ran through the flower garden, stumbling over a few stray roots and slipping over the odd damp leaf which crossed her path.
Finally she burst through the door which led to the front of the bath house. And she came to a grinding halt.
There he was, the boy she had been searching for. Leaning on the bridge he stood gazing out at the scenery which begged to be looked at. His messy black hair fell over his face but it did not seem that he had noticed.
And then, unexpectedly, he turned and looked at the girl who stood there waiting for him.
Silence rang between them as they both stood there taking one another's appearance in. And then, slowly, they walked towards each other.
Excitement, anticipation, happiness and maybe even sadness glimmered in both of their faces.
"Its you."
A/N: Hehehe what a cliffie! Sorry bout the late upload, but better late than never eh? Ok I'll try update sooner next time. I know your probably all hating me so much right now. You all hated me for not making them meet and now your hating me for leaving it like that right? Well I couldn't possibly leave without having another cliffie hehe. Sorry!
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