I Ain't Missing You At All…
~ Chapter 5
I think I have a hangover …..
I feel like I have been drinking the whole night . My head is twisting and turning …..
But It all comes back to me.
My senses are coming back to me now.
I hear voices, quiet ones. A laughter of a kid . And I feel this smell….. What is this smell ?
Hospital…It smells like a hospital .
I slowly open my eyes , the room is so bright and white that my eyes hurt . I always hated light and white .It makes me dizzy . I'm more like a night person.
I wonder if I dreamed. The whole Weiss thing… I didn't dreamed Brad that's for sure. I can still feel his hand on my cheek . I fell on the rug damn it !
Someone enters the room. It's a nurse .
She's small, blonde, blue eyes, a nice motherly smile . Exactly what an angel should have . An angel facing a demon .
She smiles at me. Oh, don't pretend you care. I know you don't.
"Hey look who's up ! "
She has a childish voice. I wonder if she'll give me a lollypop or something.
Okay…That was mean….
I want to say something but I don't know what.
"What time is it ? " Stupid question…
"Don't worry hun, I don't think you're late to school . It's Sunday. "
"What ? ! I have been here for two days?!!"
She pushes me slowly to the pillow and prepares some pills.
"Chill down honey ! Let me explain . Someone brought you here , I think your boyfriend,."
B-B-Boyfriend ?? What the….
"You wound was in a very bad stage . It was pretty infected . I don't know what kind of sharp and rusted object caused it , but thank God they brought you here in time ."
"T-They ?"
"Your boyfriend and his friends." She says smiling.
"Now take this pills 'till your pain in the arm comes again . "
I take a look at my arm . It still has bandage on it, but this time it's a clean one . I take the pills despite the fact I feel like I have to get the Hell outta' here.
"Now get some rest and we'll bring you something to eat ."
I just realized how hungry I am.
"Sure ." I say faking a smile .
In the same moment when she shut the door I try to rise and find my jeans and blouse .
That's if I can find theme.
I realize then that I am dressed in a pajama witch sure is not mine ! And as far as I know in the hospital you don't get a new pajama , you just have those stupid robes or whatever .
But I don't have time for this now.
I desperately try to find my clothes when the door opens again .
I stay in terror when I see in front of me a tall man , a redhead with an orange turtleneck and a pair of blue jeans. He doesn't smile, he doesn't say any thing.
He finds me with his eyes across the room , near the window dressed in a blue pajama bare feet and looking at him.
"Finally you're up." He says with that deep cold voice of his .
" W-What..do you want?"
I start breathing heavily .
" I want to talk to you."
Well duh ! He can't kill me in a hospital !
"What about ?" I ask getting ready to levitate some object in his face in case he comes closer.
" You . "
Since when did I got to be such an interesting subject ?
" Me?"
" Yes . Why were you alone on the street , injured, with you face bruised ?"
My face bruised ? It must have been because of Brad .
" Why do you ask ?"
" Why shouldn't I ? "
"Why should ? "
Playin' word games with a katana killer. Very nice Angie .One more point for you .
" Listen here . Schwarz is looking for you . I demand to know what happened."
"Why do you care ? Okay , fine , you brought me to this hospital , I'm fine , I'm gonna step out of your life, never see me again , thank you ! "
"Step out of our life in your pajamas ? "
I hear another voice . From behind the door appears another man . A very tall one with a ponytail , dressed in a white T-shirt and black jeans.
Let me guess, Kudou ?
I take one step back .
" What do you want ? I don't know anything about their plans , Brad is in charge of our missions , I don't know anything ! "
I think I'm starting to be afraid….
The redhead closes his eyes and opens theme looking straight to me . Takes a deep breath and asks with a low voice . I barely understand what is he saying .
" Why did you left ? That's all I want to know."
"Let's say we didn't get along very well . "
" Who ? You with Brad ? " Asks Kudou while lightening a cigarette .
"Hey ! Youji ! Pay a little respect ! We're in a hospital ! "
I hear he childish voice .A young boy, about my age takes the cigar out of Kudou's mouth and throws it in a trash can .
" Oh Omi go and get laid or something ! "
The boy has a cute blush on his face . Takes the pack of cigars and throws it in the trash can along with the cigarette earlier , and throws a diabolic smile into Kudou's face .
Then turns to me . and smiles .
"Hey I see that those pajamas suit you ! "
I blush…I think….A Weiss guy brought me Pajamas ?? Geez…..
" Okay so that was the reason…" The redhead continues.
"Yes…"
"Fine. Everybody, outside." He says.
They just leave me standing here. I see theme talking outside. Hidaka comes with some juice and joins theme.
After a few minutes the spirits get hotter there. Hidaka and the youngest of theme , - Omi that was ? - start gesticulating . Kudou doesn't seem to care about the discussion .He just drinks his juice .
Outside
" Whaaaaaaa--?"
"Shut up Omi ! " Says Youji .
"I have something here to say too you know ! "
"Yeah yeah yeah….."
Ken looks to Aya.
"So what do you suggest to do then ? Give her some money and leaving her in the street ?
" No money ! " Jumps Youji ."Just leave her in the street ."
"You hart less…."
Ken covers Omi's mouth with his hand.
"Omi do us all a favor and stop arguing ."
Omi removes Ken's hand .
"Fine. One last thing : Aya I taught you said our job was to protect the innocent wasn't it? "
Youji mumbles :
"Innocent Omi dear ? " And points to the room where the teenager is dressed in blue pajamas.
"Oh C'mon Youji ! It's not like we didn't murder someone before ! Ever since I laid my eyes on her back one year ago I knew she will never hurt anyone ! Did she ever I mean ever in our encounters with Schwaz pointed something at you ?"
"Well duh ! She threw a ball in me ! A STEEL ball may I remind you ?"
"Well….you provoked her ! "
"Oh Shut up 'till I put this juice in your head !"
Aya comes between the two.
"That was enough. We have to figure out what are we going to do with her. TODAY !"
"Well excuse moi Aya but you were the one that rise the katana on her ! " Omi said.
"It was dark , it was raining, we just came back from a suicide mission and I end up with someone in front of me with an arm full of blood ! What was I supposed to do ?"
"What about check if is an enemy or not ?"
"She's SCHWARZ GOD DAMN IT ! " Youji screamed.
The nurses and doctors looked at theme like they belonged in some straight jackets or something.
Aya grabbed Youji and the other two by the arms and pulled theme in a corner.
" Now we're all gonna' be CALM . I mean very CALM persons and we're gonna think straight !."
"Fine, fine. Then YOU think straight while I go to get myself a pack of cigarettes . Anybody has some money ?"
Omi looked at him shaking his head , Ken showed his empty pockets and Aya just sat there.
"Oh FINE ! I'll see what to do ! ":
After Youji left, Aya looked at the two in front of him.
" You know I really don't care what you say , but this time I want to be honest : Keep her or not ?"
Omi didn't hesitate too long and said :
"She doesn't look dangerous . I say to keep her. She's just a girl. I think four men can handle her if she goes nuts."
"Ken ?"
Ken was looking straight to the girl who was trying to find her clothes.
" Yeah…Omi is right . "
"Thinking about her having Telekinetic powers might be good for us if she wants to join us or something .Fine, we'll keep her."
"What about Youji ?"
"As long as he has his cigarettes and she doesn't stay in his way I think he'll be fine."
* *
Where in the name of Einstein are my clothes?
I searched the whole room for theme. Nowhere.
Fine if that's what they want I'm gonna go away in these pajamas !
I open the window and I get ready to go away from here. 'Till I look down !
Shit !! I'm on the last floor of the Hospital ! Damn it !
I close the window. No escape girl, just have to wait.
Not long. They entered the room in the same moment as I closed the window.
" Trying to escape?" The redhead asked.
"Just admiring the view." I say.
I sit on the bad and ask theme:
"So…how will it be ? Katanas , bugnuks , darts , or a killing wire ?"
Omi asks :
"What ?"
"How are you guys gonna kill me ?"
Geezz…am I trying to be a tough girl or what ? I'm so afraid I can rip the adrenaline off me .
"No we're not gonna kill you ."
" Yet ?"
" We're not gonna kill you. Period."
" Oh….Why ?'
"Don't put so many questions . If you start bugging me with questions then I will kill you."
And with these words the redhead steps out.
Omi pulls his jaw at his right place and heads towards the bed.
"Uh…..He….he's just…..tired …yeah….that's all."
In the same moment I end up with the clothes in my arms. I see the redhead.
"Your clothes kid."
And he closes the door.
"What now ?'
Omi takes Hidaka by the arm and goes to the door.
"Now we're gonna wait 'till you change and we'll go home."
"H-Home….?"
" Our home. Now yours."
And he goes away.
ME ? Home? At THEIR home?
My life is getting very weird with every moment.
As soon as I get dressed they come to take me. Youji doesn't mind me. He doesn't even look at me. Omi tries to cheer me up ,he's very nice. Ken almost tripped two times and the redhead witch had presented me as Aya , keeps on being silent.
I have to admit their place is very nice. I didn't noticed that when I was first there.
" You're gonna sleep in my room ." Says Aya. " Someone " looking at Ken " Accidentally fell of a latter with a bucket of red paint in the guest room and now the whole room is full of red . Until we fix it , you'll sleep in my room."
" It's okay…I can sleep on the couch just fine…."
" My room. Period."
Ken was taking me to Aya's room. Aya turned around and said to me :
" And try to get some new clothes, okay ?"
I shake my head as " Yes" and open the door.
The room is rigid and cold, in shades of gray and white. Just like the owner .
"I'll just leave you 'till you get a bath and feel free to come to dinner ."
Says Ken smiling while he closes the door.
I go into the bathroom and I look into the mirror.
OH MY GOD !! I look awful ! Even more awful than I usually look !
My hair is greasy thing witch I totally hate , my body is dirty from all that falling in the rain , I have bags under my eyes , despite the fact I sleep at the hospital , basically a 2 day coma, witch no one considers being in a coma sleeping ., and my clothes…well…..they are , in a word , a mess.
I turn the water on .
I take my clothes off and go under the hot water witch falls on my skin.
It feels so good starting to feel clean again .
From somewhere I hear a well-known song .
Something About Us by Daft Punk.
Who will listen Daft Punk ? And my favorite song ?
It doesn't matter .
I just leave myself in the rhythm of the music and leave the hot water clean my hair and face .
The bandage is wet , they didn't change it. It's okay , I'll change it myself , that nurse gave me instructions before I left.
The water feels so good…..
After I get off the shower I wrap my wet body in a white bathrobe , maybe Aya's . It's so soft….
I lie in the bed and I think about everything that happened . It happened so fast….
I slowly surrender to the sleep on my favorite Daft Punk melody witch is coming from somewhere….dunnno from where….
My Mind slowly goes to sleep in the rhythm of the melody…..
~ Chapter 5
I think I have a hangover …..
I feel like I have been drinking the whole night . My head is twisting and turning …..
But It all comes back to me.
My senses are coming back to me now.
I hear voices, quiet ones. A laughter of a kid . And I feel this smell….. What is this smell ?
Hospital…It smells like a hospital .
I slowly open my eyes , the room is so bright and white that my eyes hurt . I always hated light and white .It makes me dizzy . I'm more like a night person.
I wonder if I dreamed. The whole Weiss thing… I didn't dreamed Brad that's for sure. I can still feel his hand on my cheek . I fell on the rug damn it !
Someone enters the room. It's a nurse .
She's small, blonde, blue eyes, a nice motherly smile . Exactly what an angel should have . An angel facing a demon .
She smiles at me. Oh, don't pretend you care. I know you don't.
"Hey look who's up ! "
She has a childish voice. I wonder if she'll give me a lollypop or something.
Okay…That was mean….
I want to say something but I don't know what.
"What time is it ? " Stupid question…
"Don't worry hun, I don't think you're late to school . It's Sunday. "
"What ? ! I have been here for two days?!!"
She pushes me slowly to the pillow and prepares some pills.
"Chill down honey ! Let me explain . Someone brought you here , I think your boyfriend,."
B-B-Boyfriend ?? What the….
"You wound was in a very bad stage . It was pretty infected . I don't know what kind of sharp and rusted object caused it , but thank God they brought you here in time ."
"T-They ?"
"Your boyfriend and his friends." She says smiling.
"Now take this pills 'till your pain in the arm comes again . "
I take a look at my arm . It still has bandage on it, but this time it's a clean one . I take the pills despite the fact I feel like I have to get the Hell outta' here.
"Now get some rest and we'll bring you something to eat ."
I just realized how hungry I am.
"Sure ." I say faking a smile .
In the same moment when she shut the door I try to rise and find my jeans and blouse .
That's if I can find theme.
I realize then that I am dressed in a pajama witch sure is not mine ! And as far as I know in the hospital you don't get a new pajama , you just have those stupid robes or whatever .
But I don't have time for this now.
I desperately try to find my clothes when the door opens again .
I stay in terror when I see in front of me a tall man , a redhead with an orange turtleneck and a pair of blue jeans. He doesn't smile, he doesn't say any thing.
He finds me with his eyes across the room , near the window dressed in a blue pajama bare feet and looking at him.
"Finally you're up." He says with that deep cold voice of his .
" W-What..do you want?"
I start breathing heavily .
" I want to talk to you."
Well duh ! He can't kill me in a hospital !
"What about ?" I ask getting ready to levitate some object in his face in case he comes closer.
" You . "
Since when did I got to be such an interesting subject ?
" Me?"
" Yes . Why were you alone on the street , injured, with you face bruised ?"
My face bruised ? It must have been because of Brad .
" Why do you ask ?"
" Why shouldn't I ? "
"Why should ? "
Playin' word games with a katana killer. Very nice Angie .One more point for you .
" Listen here . Schwarz is looking for you . I demand to know what happened."
"Why do you care ? Okay , fine , you brought me to this hospital , I'm fine , I'm gonna step out of your life, never see me again , thank you ! "
"Step out of our life in your pajamas ? "
I hear another voice . From behind the door appears another man . A very tall one with a ponytail , dressed in a white T-shirt and black jeans.
Let me guess, Kudou ?
I take one step back .
" What do you want ? I don't know anything about their plans , Brad is in charge of our missions , I don't know anything ! "
I think I'm starting to be afraid….
The redhead closes his eyes and opens theme looking straight to me . Takes a deep breath and asks with a low voice . I barely understand what is he saying .
" Why did you left ? That's all I want to know."
"Let's say we didn't get along very well . "
" Who ? You with Brad ? " Asks Kudou while lightening a cigarette .
"Hey ! Youji ! Pay a little respect ! We're in a hospital ! "
I hear he childish voice .A young boy, about my age takes the cigar out of Kudou's mouth and throws it in a trash can .
" Oh Omi go and get laid or something ! "
The boy has a cute blush on his face . Takes the pack of cigars and throws it in the trash can along with the cigarette earlier , and throws a diabolic smile into Kudou's face .
Then turns to me . and smiles .
"Hey I see that those pajamas suit you ! "
I blush…I think….A Weiss guy brought me Pajamas ?? Geez…..
" Okay so that was the reason…" The redhead continues.
"Yes…"
"Fine. Everybody, outside." He says.
They just leave me standing here. I see theme talking outside. Hidaka comes with some juice and joins theme.
After a few minutes the spirits get hotter there. Hidaka and the youngest of theme , - Omi that was ? - start gesticulating . Kudou doesn't seem to care about the discussion .He just drinks his juice .
Outside
" Whaaaaaaa--?"
"Shut up Omi ! " Says Youji .
"I have something here to say too you know ! "
"Yeah yeah yeah….."
Ken looks to Aya.
"So what do you suggest to do then ? Give her some money and leaving her in the street ?
" No money ! " Jumps Youji ."Just leave her in the street ."
"You hart less…."
Ken covers Omi's mouth with his hand.
"Omi do us all a favor and stop arguing ."
Omi removes Ken's hand .
"Fine. One last thing : Aya I taught you said our job was to protect the innocent wasn't it? "
Youji mumbles :
"Innocent Omi dear ? " And points to the room where the teenager is dressed in blue pajamas.
"Oh C'mon Youji ! It's not like we didn't murder someone before ! Ever since I laid my eyes on her back one year ago I knew she will never hurt anyone ! Did she ever I mean ever in our encounters with Schwaz pointed something at you ?"
"Well duh ! She threw a ball in me ! A STEEL ball may I remind you ?"
"Well….you provoked her ! "
"Oh Shut up 'till I put this juice in your head !"
Aya comes between the two.
"That was enough. We have to figure out what are we going to do with her. TODAY !"
"Well excuse moi Aya but you were the one that rise the katana on her ! " Omi said.
"It was dark , it was raining, we just came back from a suicide mission and I end up with someone in front of me with an arm full of blood ! What was I supposed to do ?"
"What about check if is an enemy or not ?"
"She's SCHWARZ GOD DAMN IT ! " Youji screamed.
The nurses and doctors looked at theme like they belonged in some straight jackets or something.
Aya grabbed Youji and the other two by the arms and pulled theme in a corner.
" Now we're all gonna' be CALM . I mean very CALM persons and we're gonna think straight !."
"Fine, fine. Then YOU think straight while I go to get myself a pack of cigarettes . Anybody has some money ?"
Omi looked at him shaking his head , Ken showed his empty pockets and Aya just sat there.
"Oh FINE ! I'll see what to do ! ":
After Youji left, Aya looked at the two in front of him.
" You know I really don't care what you say , but this time I want to be honest : Keep her or not ?"
Omi didn't hesitate too long and said :
"She doesn't look dangerous . I say to keep her. She's just a girl. I think four men can handle her if she goes nuts."
"Ken ?"
Ken was looking straight to the girl who was trying to find her clothes.
" Yeah…Omi is right . "
"Thinking about her having Telekinetic powers might be good for us if she wants to join us or something .Fine, we'll keep her."
"What about Youji ?"
"As long as he has his cigarettes and she doesn't stay in his way I think he'll be fine."
* *
Where in the name of Einstein are my clothes?
I searched the whole room for theme. Nowhere.
Fine if that's what they want I'm gonna go away in these pajamas !
I open the window and I get ready to go away from here. 'Till I look down !
Shit !! I'm on the last floor of the Hospital ! Damn it !
I close the window. No escape girl, just have to wait.
Not long. They entered the room in the same moment as I closed the window.
" Trying to escape?" The redhead asked.
"Just admiring the view." I say.
I sit on the bad and ask theme:
"So…how will it be ? Katanas , bugnuks , darts , or a killing wire ?"
Omi asks :
"What ?"
"How are you guys gonna kill me ?"
Geezz…am I trying to be a tough girl or what ? I'm so afraid I can rip the adrenaline off me .
"No we're not gonna kill you ."
" Yet ?"
" We're not gonna kill you. Period."
" Oh….Why ?'
"Don't put so many questions . If you start bugging me with questions then I will kill you."
And with these words the redhead steps out.
Omi pulls his jaw at his right place and heads towards the bed.
"Uh…..He….he's just…..tired …yeah….that's all."
In the same moment I end up with the clothes in my arms. I see the redhead.
"Your clothes kid."
And he closes the door.
"What now ?'
Omi takes Hidaka by the arm and goes to the door.
"Now we're gonna wait 'till you change and we'll go home."
"H-Home….?"
" Our home. Now yours."
And he goes away.
ME ? Home? At THEIR home?
My life is getting very weird with every moment.
As soon as I get dressed they come to take me. Youji doesn't mind me. He doesn't even look at me. Omi tries to cheer me up ,he's very nice. Ken almost tripped two times and the redhead witch had presented me as Aya , keeps on being silent.
I have to admit their place is very nice. I didn't noticed that when I was first there.
" You're gonna sleep in my room ." Says Aya. " Someone " looking at Ken " Accidentally fell of a latter with a bucket of red paint in the guest room and now the whole room is full of red . Until we fix it , you'll sleep in my room."
" It's okay…I can sleep on the couch just fine…."
" My room. Period."
Ken was taking me to Aya's room. Aya turned around and said to me :
" And try to get some new clothes, okay ?"
I shake my head as " Yes" and open the door.
The room is rigid and cold, in shades of gray and white. Just like the owner .
"I'll just leave you 'till you get a bath and feel free to come to dinner ."
Says Ken smiling while he closes the door.
I go into the bathroom and I look into the mirror.
OH MY GOD !! I look awful ! Even more awful than I usually look !
My hair is greasy thing witch I totally hate , my body is dirty from all that falling in the rain , I have bags under my eyes , despite the fact I sleep at the hospital , basically a 2 day coma, witch no one considers being in a coma sleeping ., and my clothes…well…..they are , in a word , a mess.
I turn the water on .
I take my clothes off and go under the hot water witch falls on my skin.
It feels so good starting to feel clean again .
From somewhere I hear a well-known song .
Something About Us by Daft Punk.
Who will listen Daft Punk ? And my favorite song ?
It doesn't matter .
I just leave myself in the rhythm of the music and leave the hot water clean my hair and face .
The bandage is wet , they didn't change it. It's okay , I'll change it myself , that nurse gave me instructions before I left.
The water feels so good…..
After I get off the shower I wrap my wet body in a white bathrobe , maybe Aya's . It's so soft….
I lie in the bed and I think about everything that happened . It happened so fast….
I slowly surrender to the sleep on my favorite Daft Punk melody witch is coming from somewhere….dunnno from where….
My Mind slowly goes to sleep in the rhythm of the melody…..