Chapter 18|| Spilled
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Urgh! Stupid alarm clock! I wake up to shut off the stupid thing, and get out of bed, lazily. I go to the washroom and do my business, come out take my clothes out from the closet and get changed. I wore blue skinny jeans, a red top with white bold letters saying 'Merry Christmas', my hair in a ponytail and some light make up such as light pink lip gloss, black eye linear and mascara.
After getting dressed I look at the time and it is 8:30am so I go downstairs and make myself some breakfast. I make eggs and have some two slices of bread with some orange juice. I sit at the table and start munching down my breakfast.
After I finish, I start to wash the dishes, and put them away. I glance at the time and see I have fifteen minutes to get ready and meet everyone at the lobby. I start to wear my boots, coat, scarf and hat and head out of my room. I take to elevator to the ground floor and see everyone waiting for me.
"Morning everyone!"
"Morning Mikan." Says, Koko, Yuu, Sumire and Ruka.
"Hi Hotaru!"
BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!
"Mou~ that was mean Hotaru."
"You're too loud idiot" she says monotone. Sigh, I look over at Natsume. "Where are we going Natsume?" I ask.
"Hn. You'll know when we get there. Come on, let's go." He says heading out, which we follow. I guess he was still mad about yesterday. I will apologize later for sure, I had no right to say in his family matter. We all get inside the car and head off to our next destination. Wherever that is. Lord knows!
Half an hour later we arrived at an orphanage. Loran's Orphanage, I wonder why we came here. We all walk in and see some little kids playing, decorating the Christmas tree, cleaning and they all seemed to enjoy it a lot. I look over at a girl in the distance in the corner just looking at the other kids having fun. Why was she not playing with the other kids? I was taken out of my thoughts when I heard a voice.
"Hey Natsume. Long time, no see man." I look over at the man who said that. He was tall, black hair, blue eyes and looked very handsome, for an adult.
"Hey Loarn." Natsume replies with a genuine smile.
"How are you? Who are these girls?" he asks looking at us, and then over at Natsume.
"Well this is Sumire, that is Hotaru Rukas girlfriend and this here is Mikan." He introduces us. We give our greetings.
"Well they sure are smok'in, especially Rukas girl. They are keepers." He grins at us. We all blush red. Wow he sure is comfortable in saying this. I look over at Hotaru and she was looking down at he ground, even she was uncomfortable, and Sumire just moved behind Koko.
"Loarn that was just weird." Natsume says, annoyingly.
"Whatever man. Listen we got a new kid here. She is a girl and won't talk to anyone. Shin found her on the street, bruised and unconscious. He brought her here the following day. She would get scared if anyone approaches. I can't seem to get through her. Maybe you guys can. Oh yea, Ralph is dying to see you." With that he walks off. I wonder who Ralph is, and the poor scared little girl.
Everyone soon spreads out into the house. Ruka and Hotaru went off with the kids building and playing with blocks, Yuu Koko and Sumire were playing boarding games and reading to the kids. I walked around a little and saw Natsume playing with a little boy. I'm assuming that he is Ralph that Loarn mentioned earlier. I walk over to them
"Hi guys." They both look at me, almost with the same expression.
"What do you want you old hag?" Says the little boy Ralph. I was surprised at his language.
"Excuse me?"
"You are excused." He says and I stare at him in shock. Natsume looks at him and flicks his forehead.
"Language." He says to Youchi.
"Whatever." Ralph mutters. Wow he was acting like Natsume. If I didn't know any better, this boy could be Natsume secret little brother.
"What is it Mikan?" Natsume asks.
"Nothing, I was wondering if I could play with the two of you."
"No. Go find someone else. Natsume bro is busy playing with me." Ralph says, angrily. Gosh what is it with this kid. He was clutching on to Natsume as if he was a lollipop that no one but him could have.
"Ralph." Natsume warned him. He looks over at me, "Yeah sure." I take the opportunity and sit by them. I wasn't really doing anything, just observing at the both of them and looking at how much fun they both were having, as if they were brothers. I never had this type of fun with my brother. None at all, I feel someone flick my forehead. I look at who did it, and it was that Youchi.
"What did you do that for?"
"You weren't paying attention." He says. I saw that Natsume wasn't around, I wonder when he left me with him.
"Well now you have my attention, so what is it?"
"I want you to leave Natsume and me alone. I don't like you here with us, when we are trying to have fun." He says bluntly. Why was he being so mean to me?
"Why are you bei—"
"Being so mean?" he finishes my sentence and continues, "Because I hate girls like you. Always taking things from others, and never had a care in the world. You always think about yourselves, not caring if anyone else is hurt." He finishes. I look at him at what he said. How could he think of me like that? I haven't even been here that long and I already have a kid that hates me. I can feel my vision getting blurry. Why is that everyone hates me? I see him looking at me, surprised. I get up.
"I am sorry that I made you hate me." And walk away without another word.
I was in the kitchen baking some things like cookies, muffins and cake. I had already made cookies and decorated them. The cake was in the oven and I was currently decorating my double-chocolate chip muffins. I was nearly done but still had half to go through. I was in the middle of decorating when I heard tiny footsteps approaching me, and then it stopped. I get back to work, and now I hear shuffling near the cookies. I walk over to see what was making that noise, and in the corner I see that little girl from before. I walked closer to her, but she just scooted back to wall even though there was no space. I stopped in my tracks noticing the girls' discomfort. She was looking at something so I follow her glance, and she was looking at the cookies that I made. I walk over to the cookie tray and dump them all into a bowl for her. I walk back with the bowl in my hands and place it in front of her.
"Here, you can have as many as you like." I say to her happily with a smile. I walk back to the counter and resume my muffin decorating and humming. I hear crunches and moans and I assume the little girl likes my cookies. I smiled and continued my work. Later I had three muffins left and boy was I tired. At the corner of my eyes I see the girl approach me with an empty bowl. I guess she ate them all. I take the bowl from her and place it on the counter. I start working again, but the girl bumping to me I look down to see her trying to get a glimpse of what I was doing. Since she was small and counter was a little bigger that her she was on her tippy toes.
I set my things down and pick her up and place her on the counter so she could see. I was a little shocked my action but smiled a little later. Guess that was her way of saying thank you. I pick up the red creamy tube and start decorating again. 15 minutes later I feel her poking me, I look at her.
"Yes, what is it?" I ask. She points to the tube in my hand, and then to herself.
"You want to try decorating the muffin?" I ask her seeing if I got the message. She nods her head yes and I give it to her. She smiles and start to decorate the muffin I was working on. I help her with it.
CING!
And the cake was done. I wear my oven mitts and take the cake out of the oven and place it on the counter, away from the little girl since it was not. I take my mitts of and put them back in the drawer and go the to the little girl.
"When we finish with the muffins, you can help me decorate the cake alright?" I say to her. She nods in response.
We were now at our last muffin and I hear…
"Aoi." A voice say and I new it was the little girls voice. I look at her in surprise because I never heard her say a word; even Loarn said she wouldn't talk.
"W-What" I say in whisper.
"My name is Aoi. I am the quite girl around here." She says lowly but good enough for me to hear.
"Oh. May I ask why you are so quite?" I ask her. He is silent for a while but then looks up at me answers.
"I am scared." She says, quietly.
"Why."
"I don't want to get hurt again." She says as tears work down her checks.
"What do you mean?"
"My daddy use to hit me, and my mommy to. They always use to hurt me, and not let me eat. I was never allowed to play with anything or anyone. I don't want the black tall man hurting me, or the man that bought me here. I don't want anyone to hurt me." She says crying now, and I hug her in comfort rubbing smooth circles on her back.
"Shh…it's okay. No one here is going to hurt you. They are here to help you. They want you to have fun with the other kids, eat, get good sleep. They will take care of you. You don't have to be afraid of anyone here. The black tall man is really nice." I say to her.
"Okay. What is your name?" Aoi asks.
"Mikan."
"Can you be my sister Mikan-nee-chan?" she asks happily.
I smile at her, "Yes you can."
We both start decorating the cake, mostly Aoi I just helped filling in the cream on the cake. She was pretty good at. We laughed had fun and see was too because she kept laughing and smiling.
"WOW!" I hear someone and I look over and see Loarn. Aoi gets scared and gets closer to me, wrapping her small arms around me. I guess she got scared. I look over at Loarn.
"Hello Loarn, sorry she got scared."
"It's okay. I saw her laughing and smiling with you. She was never like that when she came here. I guess she warmed up to you." He says with a huge smile on his face.
"Hi." Loarn says to Aoi. Aoi looks away scared.
"Aoi, he not gonna hurt you trust me. He is a good man." I say to her. She looks up at me and then at Loarn.
"Hi." She says barley above a whisper.
"What is your name cuite?" Loarn asks her happily.
"Aoi." She turns less shy and more confident. Loarn laughs a little and Aoi does along with him. he takes her with and I stay back and clean up the mess, while cleaning up I hear someone come in and it was Ralph.
"Hi Ralph." I say to him nicely. I know that he was mean earlier but he is just a kid without parents he will learn as he grows up.
"Hi." He says.
"Would you like a muffin, Aoi had the cookies earlier." I offer.
"Aoi?" he asks.
"Yes the new girl." I say, handing him a muffin that I made. He takes it but looks down as if he was ashamed of something.
"Everything okay Ralph?"
"Yes. Well no. I…" he was hesitating. I hope everything is okay.
"Is everything okay Ralph?" he looks up at me wit shame and guilt.
"I wanted to sorry." He says.
"It's okay Ralph, you didn't know me at the time. There is no need for you to say sorry."
"No. It was rude of me. I was mean to you and you were and are so nice to me.." he says, his eyes teary. Why are kids saying sorry to me?
"I'm sorry Mikan-nee-chan." He apologizes and I pick him up and hug him, 'Shhing' him. After a while he calm down and started to eat the muffin.
"This is really good Mikan-nee-chan." Ralph says.
"Thanks, but thank Aoi as well. She decorated it." He nods and heads off, and I resume my cleaning.
Hotaru POV:
Ruka and me were with the kids that were playing the blocks, and buildings out of them. Ruka seemed to be enjoying himself very much, not that I complaining she had more tolerance than I did. Then my phone she began to ring. I look at he ID and see it is my brother.
"Subaru"
"Hotaru, we got a problem?"
"What happened?"
Mikan POV:
We left the orphanage and both Youchi and Aoi were sad. We told them that we would visit again soon and with that said, they cheered up instantly. Everyone at the place loved my baking which made me feel really happy.
When we arrived at the hotel, I was beat and went straight to my room. I got changed and was about to go to bed when there was banging at my door.
"MIKAN SAKURA YUKIHARA! You better open this door right now!" I hear Hotaru from the other side of the door. What has gotten into her? I hear other voices as well.
"What the Hell!?" Natsume voice.
"Hotaru! We all need our beauty sleep!" Sumire without a doubt.
"What the hell women." Koko and Yuu. I walk up to the door and open. Hotaru bargains in very angry. Everyone follows her in.
"What is the matter Hotaru?"
"Why did you hide it from me?" she asks darkly.
"W-What are you talking about?"
"Why did you sign the papers Mikan!?" she shouts. Oh shit.
How did she find out?
"She did what?" Sumire asks now shocked, while the boys are confused.
"Yes I sign the agreement Hotaru. I had made up my mind about it anyway."
"What are you guys talking about?" Natsume asks confused. I can all of them confused other than Ruka.
"We had the money Mikan! We talked about this. You could have given it to them, and would have had your sugery. You could have lived. WHY DID YOU DO IT!? YOU WANNA DIE!?
"What surgery." Koko questions.
"YES! Hotaru! I wanna die! Happy! Satisfied!"
"Mikan, what is she talking about?" Natsume questions looking directly at me.
"Nothing." I say looking away. I hear him walk up to me and grab me by the shoulders roughly.
"I'll ask again. What is she talking about?" he questions in a dangerously low voice.
"Mikan if you don't say it, I will." Sumire threatens me. I glare at her.
"No. You. Won't. None of you will say anything." I say each word separately. I try to get out of Natsume grip, but no a vial.
"Yes, I will." She replies back. That was it I had it!
"FINE YOU ALL WANNA KNOW!? WILL IT SATISFY YOU ALL!? FINE! HERE IT IS! I HAVE CANCER! STOMACH CANCER, LAST STAGE AND I MAY NOT SURVIVE!?"
