A/N:
For one of my favorite Authors on the site, The Queen of Double Standards! I was originally going to use CUL and Iroha, but somehow along the way, what I had in mind didn't seem to suit them and decided to swap for these two, and I'm content with the decision. Hope you like it. ^^
Pairing: SeeU and Lapis Aoki
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship
Rated: T
Warning(s): Nothing much really, unless you're a tad sensitive, I guess.
Chapter Nine:
I'm Sorry
It was a flurry of black and white as she sped down the abandoned road. Blankets of pale snow and thick dark trees covering each side of the haunting and lifeless lane. She pressed her foot harder onto the accelerator, her fretful blue eyes scanning everything within a hundred feet distance.
Seeu's lips pursed tightly in hopelessness. She regretted the whole thing. The whole argument. Why couldn't she have been more supportive? Why couldn't her stupid pride just falter for the moment Lapis brought up the other school? She only came off as brash because she would've desperately missed her cherished friend.
Both about to graduate from community college, their previous plan was to go to State together. But with the scholarship that her intelligent friend had received for Stanford, that was no longer the arrangement and it turned sorrow into foolish anger. Her original thoughts were, how could Lapis abandon her? Abandon their friendship?
She had slammed the door after they had fought for around thirty minutes about the situation. She had made up stupid excuses for the pain that she would feel if her best friend left her. Stupid arrogant excuses, finally getting Lapis riled up enough to almost shed a wounded tear, but instead she just left the house and stomped out into the brewing winter to her small white car, Seeu not stopping her. At that moment she didn't care what Lapis did, it was her life, she could do whatever the hell she wanted with it.
Wallowing in her own idiotic self pity, she slumped onto her couch, staring at the flames in the fireplace that she had lit earlier when her companion was over. She couldn't remember how long she immersed in the stinging emotion and irritation. With the confliction of wanting the best for her friend, but also selfishly wanting to be close to her.
She didn't snap out of her phase until her cell phone rang, a number she wasn't too familiar with. "Hello?" She answered quite sharply and the deeper voice responded.
"Hey, Seeu. Is Lapis there?"
"No." Seeu responded firmly. "She left about an hour and a half ago. Why?" presuming the caller was none other than Lapis's older brother, Kaito.
An uneasy pause. "Dammit, well she hasn't come home yet. And the storm's picking up. . .I'm getting worried. . ."
The blonde's attention immediately went to look out her window. Usually you could spot the two large trees that resided next to her cabin. Finding a cheap place of her own led her residence a good forty-five minutes out of town, but now she could barely see anything out the pane, just a colorless blur of frosty wrath.
Feelings of self despair suddenly led to a heart filled with panic. "What do you mean she hasn't come home yet? !"
The blonde smeared the salty water gathering under her eyelids as she continued to speed down the road, her 76' Firebird roaring like hell, engine blazing in a furious grumble, continuing to rapidly scan the road. Doubt clouded her mind in a comforting caress. She's okay. . .Lapis is okay. . .she's somewhere safe. . .
Her thoughts halted immediately at what she saw coming up the road.
Tires squealed hysterically as she slammed both feet onto the breaks, chains ruthlessly digging into the black ice that covered the road, making the roadster slide until she frantically got out, deserting it in the middle of the frozen barren road to run over to the heart shattering scene.
All the humanity, all the arrogance and pride within her dropped completely from her soul as she got a closer look. Too shocked to cry from her stinging eyes, too traumatized to breathe anything out of her chilling lungs. She couldn't feel her legs, they were immovable, all she could do was shake her head in genuine and gutting disbelief. "No. . ."
The small white vehicle had run off the lane and plummeted into a dim and protruding tree along the road. The hood's metal morphed around the injured trunk as wicked branches pierced through the windshield, red rear lights weakly lit against the heavily tumbling snowfall.
She forced her legs to move as she ran to the driver's side, her cold throat becoming piercingly tight at what she witnessed in the seat.
Hot tears rapidly spilling from her distraught eyes as she mustered to pull the icy door open, her heart aching immensely with a passion to never quit. The fierce wind blistering the tears that poured down her reddening cheeks, she was filled with so much scorching dedication that she lifted her aching leg and kicked the door with all her might, cracking the driver side's window enough so she could reach her searing hand in and unlock it, yanking open the wrecked door and beholding an image that made her very essence crumble.
The tree's sharp branch had pierced mercilessly through the windshield, directly going through the fluffy jacket and skin right above her limp friend's vital organ.
"Lapis!" Seeu terrifyingly screamed through the sound shattering storm as she acted without thought and took a shattered piece of the insensitive windshield, her own flesh cutting as she thoroughly slashed into the dry malevolent wood, separating her friend from the trunk, only to recklessly pull the treasured unconscious form out and tumble into the soft and kind snow beside the car.
Crying relentlessly with fraught and sincere virtue, the hopeless blonde held her friend's loose torso devotedly in her arms, sobs diligently spilling from her insides as a hefty chunk of the branch still remained, cradled above her endearing companion's heart. Taking it out would've been too dangerous and a risk to the insensible young woman's health. She eagerly patted Lapis's face with her frozen fingers.
"Lapis. . . Jay-Jay!" she exclaimed as her heart began to desolate to a pit of utter devastation. "Wake up. . .please wake up. . ."
The young injured woman quietly opened her eyes in the stabbing winter's air and winced, no pearly blue glasses to help her reduced vision as she stared at her distressed comrade. Her long, wavy blonde hair billowing violently along with the wind, her overwhelmed and tearing blue eyes almost blinded by the cold. "S-Seeu. . .?" her small body cringed in massive pain.
"Don't move. . ." Seeu reassured immediately as she attentively gazed down at the head resting in her lulling embrace.
Lapis's eyes remained closed tight in a humbling wish of relief as her weak hand searched for warm comfort and Seeu grabbed it consolingly. "The. . .c-car. . . it. . . w-wouldn't stop. . ."
Seeu shook her head as she could feel the bitter wind pick up and she continued to cry. She couldn't bear to stop. "It's okay. . .it's okay, I'm here. . ." She told her repeatedly, soothing her friend with an assuring hold.
Arctic fingers tenderly touching the torn scarlet-saturated jacket around the harming branch, Lapis's body shook in an overpowering moment of intolerant ache. "Is-is it bad?"
Seeu shook her head as every supportive emotion in her voice crumbled to a wrenching defeat. "No, no, no, Sweetheart. . . it's not that bad. Just. . " Warm tears ran over her lips and her courage collapsed. "Just a little splinter. . . that's all. . ."
Visible breath frothed out of Lapis's pale lips as she breathed heavily and faintly deep. "My heart won't stop racing. . ."
Seeu held her hand unyieldingly and hugged her body nearer to the warmth and compassion of her own. "Just. . . hold on there, Jay-Jay. . .everything will be okay soon, help is on its way. . ."
Lapis's mouth managed a soft smile as snowflakes collected upon her dark eyelashes. "You're. . .s-such a. . . g-good friend, Seeu. . ." Her voice was almost a whisper in the wind.
The blonde's lips instinctively curled downward in absolute anguish as she shook her head in remorse and closed her eyes tightly against the harsh cold. "I'm sorry, Babe," she let out a desperate sob. "I'm so stupid, I didn't mean to fight with you. . .forgive me, Lapis, for-"
Fond tears lightly spilled from her own shut eyes as Lapis squeezed her hand back, and Seeu pulled her closer. The chilling blistery wind picking up. She pressed her affectionate lips onto her intimate's forehead and then laid her own temple against it as they both cried in synchronous forgiveness.
A numbness washing over the muscle in her legs, she continued to hold her companion, and she would hold her forever. After the brutal winds died down, after the sun came out from behind the unkind clouds, and even after they saw flashing red lights come from the distance in the cruel mist.
"I forgive you. . ."
A/N:
Just kinda in the mood for something like this. . . I guess. And I'm so sorry that it's short. orz
