Chapter 10
Ignoring the pains in her stomach, she walked out of the house to go to school. Ikuto had ignored her the whole morning, and Utau had given her sad dejected looks. Amu couldn't take it anymore. Her heart felt like it was being strangled. It didn't help that at school, a girl came up to her in the middle of the parking lot.
"Hey, I heard you were messing with my boyfriend." Amu ignored the girl and walked past. Whispers came up, "I can't believe she just ignored the Saaya Yamabuki." Then she heard Saaya say, "what a piece of trash." Amu snapped, she turned around and said, "what did you say you little plastic doll?" Saaya smirked, "I said, 'what a piece of garbage.'" Amu rushed at Saaya and punched her in the face, Saaya raked her claws down Amu's arm. Amu grabbed Saaya by her hair and slammed her into the wall, Saaya flipped Amu over. Amu felt something take over, her brain wasn't working properly. She jumped up, and punched at Saaya, she just barely escaped Amu's fist. When Amu's fist hit the wall, it left a big crack. Saaya kicked Amu in the ribs, causing Amu to cough up blood. Amu flew at Saaya in a rage, throwing punches left and right, everyone was running away. A voice was speaking in Amu's head, 'good job Amu, keep going' Amu wanted to scream, but she couldn't, then she heard someone's voice. She couldn't place where she had heard it before. But as soon as she heard it, the rage died down. Amu stopped punching, she quieted down. Saaya was looking at her, rage in her eyes. Amu walked away. "Hey, we weren't finished!" Saaya yelled after the girl. Amu didn't even look back but simply said, "you're not worth my time."
After Amu was gone, Ikuto and Utau came around the corner. They saw Saaya and looked at her, then the blood on the ground, then saw that her hair was disheveled. She didn't see them. They were about to help the girl, until they heard her mutter, "next time Amu, you will not walk away. I will make you regret saying that I was not worth your time." Ikuto's face immediately became uninterested, but deep down his heart was worried. Utau was fully worried, 'what is happening to Amu?'
Amu was walking down the halls, sure her ribs hurt, they were actually probably broken a bit, she ignored it. 'They' had had it worse. Every person that came up to Amu she would glare at. They would immediately scamper away like rats. So now Amu was tired, pale, hungry, and injured. 'Great, what an amazing day this is.' Amu walked to the bathroom and washed the blood off. She rolled down the sleeves of her jacket to cover the scratch marks, she put on leg warmers to hide the scratches and road burns on her legs. The blood washed away from her mouth. When she was done, she looked even more 'cool and spicy' all she needed now were cool ear piercings, 'yeah, I don't think so.' Amu looked at herself in the mirror, 'did I really just do that? The old me would never have even thought about fighting someone. I guess it really did change me. I wonder if I could pass for a 'pretty little psycho'?'
When she walked out of the bathroom, everyone in the hall parted for her. She ignored them all and just kept walking, a bored look on her face. As she was walking, she heard whimpering in a dark corner. She looked and saw a poor kid, getting bullied on by two larger kids. She decided to help the poor guy. "Hey, move." The two boys looked up, recognizing the girl, "hey isn't that Amu Hinamori?" "Yeah, we don't want to mess with her. I heard she can take on all the guys on the soccer team like it was nothing." Amu fought the urge to roll her eyes, 'where did that rumor come from?' "Ok, let's go." With that the two bullies ran with their tails between their legs. The little boy was looking at Amu with stars in his eyes, "thank you so much." Amu just walked past him, but on the inside she smiled. 'Maybe I can- no I can't, don't joke with yourself Amu. Just be happy that you actually were able to do something nice. But don't forget your place.'
Amu walked to her class, but was late because of taking the long trip to help that kid. Everyone looked up and simultaneously exclaimed, "cool and spicy." Amu sighed inwardly, but sat down in the back corner of the classroom. She practically ignored the teacher for the rest of class.
When class was over, Utau snuck up on Amu. "Amu, I want to talk to you." Amu sighed, she knew that it wasn't a good idea, but she didn't really have an option this way. "yeah? What?" Utau spun Amu around and looked her straight in her eyes, "Amu, you know, if something's going on, you can tell us." Amu pushed Utau off, but then when she did that, Utau accidently pushed against Amu's broken ribcage. Amu coughed up a little blood but tried to quickly hide it. Utau's eyes widened. She had felt the break and seen the blood. "Oh my gosh Amu! Your ribcage! It's-" Amu instantly grabbed Utua's wrist silencing the worried girl, "Utau, you are not to say a word about this." Amu's eyes were so intense and serious. She nodded her head, her eyes still wide. Amu instantly let go of Utau's wrist and walked away.
That's when she saw it, images, of bloody people. 'I was wondering when those would show up.' But Amu quickly pushed the images out of her head. 'Not the time to be reminiscing.' Her ribs hurt even more since Utau had pushed her hand against them. 'It is my fault though; I shouldn't have let Saaya get to me.' Amu ran her fingers through her hair, 'what a mess I've gotten myself into.' Amu looked at her lunch, and deciding she wasn't hungry, gave it to a girl who looked like she had just lost her lunch to some bullies, "here, I'm not hungry.' The girl looked at Amu as if Amu was her idol. 'I hope she doesn't think like that, I am definitely not a role model.' She had tried to do it as discreetly as she could but she didn't notice that someone was watching her.