Chapter 5
When you have been through a lot in your life, you get used to the pain and hurt that comes with it, nothing makes you cry anymore. It's like a big vessel which keeps on filling with pain and desperation.
But even a big empty vessel has a limit, just when you thought that nothing can break you, only a little nudge is needed, and you find yourself all pathetic and crying all over again.
You thought nothing could make you cry anymore but you never realize that no matter how big or strong you are there is always something that can break you .
And when the vessel bursts years of pain, longing, suffering, torture, slashed hopes comes running to you and you find yourself to be 14 again, scared, angry and not knowing what to do .
After finding that horrid skeleton she found herself in another empty hallway, maybe one of these passages will lead her to your room, all she wanted to do as crouch down and cry, but she needed to get out of this maze first,
She took another turn and it brought her back to where she started from .
Maybe she would die here, she thought. She has heard about this part of the castle , the forbidden northern part. today she realized why it was called forbidden. Someone could get lost here for life and no one would even know where you went.
According to history, this place was sealed a long time ago because of some eventful happenings. Ghosts they said.
But there were no ghosts in real life. Was there?
Her scalp itched as she listened for any sort of sound. There was no sound except he eerie humming of the insects.
She gulped, yes. Maybe that was it. She had given up. After the huge outburst she just had no energy left to go again and get deeper into the maze.
Heavy sobs started falling down, all she wanted was a little bit of privacy , to lead her own life without the interference of any male, and she was happy, she had managed to escape her fathers house with her sister when she was 14, she had no idea what she was going to do with her sister Suzuna who was only 12 then, all she knew that she had to save her sister from her father, and she did.
She met a family who were willing to take her with them without asking any questions. But when was life easy. They had also asked for a allowance , to take care of her, feed her, get her a shelter over her head, get her a good education, good clothes, the list is endless.
And so she worked hard, to support her sister, she started as a waitress at a maid cafe but it wasn't enough, and when she was told about the walker castle she had no idea that it would turn out like this . That it would cost her her life.
She sighed, surely she was over reacting , she was sure someone would notice if they didn't find her until morning.
And as if on cue she heard a loud crash which was synchronized with the lighting that followed.
Her whole body turned cold, who could be here at this time of the night, or more importantly what could be here.
She felt a sweat tickle down her chin, and in lightning speed someone grabbed her hand.
"Ahaaha—muphg!"
Her shrill cry was stopped by a strong hand that covered her mouth
"I'll let you go, if you decide not to scream".
Misaki swore she had never been so happy to see another person as she was now, and that too of the opposite sex. She could recognize that voice anywhere,
"Takumi?"
It was hard to make out his face in the faded moonlight , but she knew he had a smirk plastered on his face.
"What are you doing here?" She blurted out
He raised an eyebrow, "I followed you, what are you doing here?"
"I..." god she was embarrassed, how could she possibly tell him that she was lost.
"You got lost didn't you?"
"No!"
Takumi raised his elegant eyebrow for the second time,
"OK, maybe I got lost a little" She said as proudly as she could , but it was kinda hard when she saw that Takumi was barely controlling his mirth.
"Are you just gonna stand there or start walking"
Takumi face became passive as if he didn't understand a word she said.
"Lead the way", she said again, she was not in a good mood and honestly she'd rather stay alone in the huge room than to spend another single minute in his presence.
Takumi closed his eyes, and when he opened he had a disheveled look on his face.
"I cant"
"WHAT?"
"I don't remember the way?"
"But-but you just came here?"
"So did you."
"I didn't know where I was going?"
"And I was following you."
Misaki should kill him? Feed his limbs to the dogs, but first she had to get out and her only last option turned out to be a dead end.
She wanted to cry, no! She had cried enough for today, she wanted to kill him and no matter how many times she killed him inside her head it didn't seemed to be enough.
Suddenly, the huge oak door closed around with a bang.
Misaki let out a yelp, she hated the rain, hated it, but most of all she hated the thunder that came after wards.
She slumped down near a wall, she didn't care if Takumi thought she was a cry baby.
She was just too damn tired.
Takumi went the door and checked its lock,
"I think one of the windows broke and the wind pushed the door to close"
He turned in the lock and uttered a word that even Misaki looked up to see him, finally he turned and said.
"We are locked inside".
There were times when Misaki felt like giving up, for example , when she saw her father hit her mother with a belt, he'd come home drunk and and the first thing he would do was hit her mother.
She never really understood her mother, or why she stayed with him , even when she was 4 year old she knew he was horrid.
He hit her almost every day, but one day Misaki had lunged herself at him covering her mother with her little pale body and her fathers belt hit her,
Her mother had cried out,
"don't hit her", but he hadn't listened , he was blinded by rage and alcohol ,
"get out of the way, you little wench!"
And he kicked her near the stomach. Misaki growled in pain, but she didn't cry not did she give up she flung herself at her mother again knowing that if she didn't do something, her mommie might die.
Misaki had nightmares about that night, but she had never told anybody, she never knew why her father stopped hitting both of them maybe because that time her mom had already became unconscious but it had stopped, and that was enough.
She opened her eyes, she had went through hell in her life than compared to that, this was nothing.
She was Misaki Ayuzawa. She never gave up.
She got up and kicked the door, nothing happened, she kicked it again and again and again finally when she heard a voice "stop"
"its no use"
but she didn't listen. She kicked it again, stronger this time , she hit it near the lock hoping it would break, she kicked it again.
"Stop it Misaki"
"no!" came her voice, "I can do it! I will do it."
And when she was about to kick it again this time , two strong arms engulfed her in a hug.
"Its okay" he whispered.
She hadn't realized tears were running down her cheeks.
She didn't care as she slumped into his arms wetting his shirts with heavy sobs.
He held her tight as if his life depended on it, and he knew and he couldn't let go of her now, not when she needed him so much.
She didn't realize how long she stayed in his arms only she knew that it had felt right.
Her sobs had became hiccups now and the tears had dried away too, he looked at her face, with closed eyes and red cheeks she looked like an ruined angel.
"I wont give up!"
"I wont give up!"
"I wont give up!"
"I wont give up on you mother! I cant"
These were the last words she had said before she drifted off into his arms.
A.N: last time I said that I might never update again, but I couldnt keep my promise, :) I had a writers block and also I am going to a be away from internet from now on, but I will try to give you as many chapters as I can before I leave it for a long-long time.
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