One Last Breath
~By: Lauren~
D R E A M
"Y-you're lying!!" Meimi jumped, denying the words that were cruelly being thrown at her.
"I wouldn't lie about something like this. Your father was killed on impact and your mother was driven to a nearby hospital were she went into the emergency room. She was in critical condition but she didn't make it." The policeman held out a hand for Meimi to take hold of. "We've been looking for you for hours. Your mother kept calling out your name and saying 'Tell Meimi we love her.tell her we love her.'"
This was all too much. No wonder Meimi thought the car sort of looked familiar. It was her parents. But they couldn't be dead, just five hours ago they were laughing with her happily. In fact, when they were leaving her father said to her:
"Be careful and come straight home from Seira's. When we get back we'll have tons of fun!" Then he made a group of flowers appear in his hands, which he gave to her. They were still up in her room. She had failed her father. She had disobeyed his instructions.
Then her mother had said. "We love you! Bye honey!"
What was the last thing Meimi had said to them? During the last time they were a family?
"Have fun! Bye!"
And then they left. And now they were gone. Forever. And it was all her fault. And she never said she loved them. How could she have forgotten? She always said 'I love you' when they left but why hadn't she that time? The last time she saw them and she never said she loved them.
"I caused their death." Meimi uttered the words but the policeman and woman didn't hear. They were sitting in their cars talking on their radio.
"You caused their death. You killed you own parents. Murder. Murder. MURDER!!!" Her own voice screamed at her, tearing into her heart and ripping it into a thousand pieces. "Saint Tail killed them. Meimi Haneoka killed her parents. She murdered them. She's a Murder. MURDER!!!" They kept hissing wildly, making her grab at her own hair in hopes they would stop.
"You ok?" The policewoman bent down, putting her hand on Meimi's shoulder. "We were told to take you to someone by the name of Sally Haneoka. Do you know who that is?"
The angry words inside Meimi were drowned out a bit by the policewoman. Meimi could feel her body going numb. "T-that's my.aunt." The red head didn't remember even saying those words for at that moment, her legs let her down and her vision went black.
~*~
Meimi looked around. Thousands and thousands of wild flowers surrounded her. The colors all blurred together as she picked up a lily and spun the flower in her fingers. She then looked up to the sky to find that her vision was blocked out by a weeping willow that towered above her.
"Where am I?" Meimi walked in a circle. All there were was flowers. Flowers everywhere. Then suddenly, someone spoke up. She spun around, coming face to face with her mother and father. "MOM!! DAD!!!" Meimi lunged at her parents, her arms outstretched. But.she fell directly through them. "W- what.?" She looked at them, a confused expression written all over her face. Their eyes seemed lost and full of darkness.
Her mother lifted up a single finger and pointed at Meimi. "You.killed.us.." Were the cracked words that left her mother's mouth. Then her father lifted up a finger and repeated what her mom had said.
Meimi took a step backward. "No.NO!! I'M SORRY!! I-I DIDN'T M-MEAN TO!!" They stepped closer to her, long fingernails ready to pierce Meimi's skin. Meimi turn and ran. She ran as fast as she could, ice cold tears stinging her cheeks. After what seemed like hours, she stopped, gasping for breath. Meimi finally looked at her surroundings. Asuka Jr., Seira, and Lina were all staring at her. Meimi stumbled over to them. "Finally.some people.I can trust. You won't.believe what's happened. to me."
Asuka Jr. grabbed her arms roughly. "Why didn't you tell me you were Saint Tail!? Why did you hide it?! Why did you kill those two innocent people?! Your own parents!! I'm placing you under arrest for murder." He held out a pair of handcuffs, which locked around her wrists roughly.
Meimi turned to Seira, her face pleading for help.
"The Lord will not forgive you for what you have done. Don't EVER speak to me again." Seira spun around, walking away into the flowers and then she was gone.
Meimi turned to Lina.
"I knew she was a bad person.but this tops it all." Lina grabbed Asuka Jr's arm; bring him into a deep kiss.
The tears stung as she fell to her knees, the handcuffs digging into her skin. "NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" The broken words left her throat as her cried in complete agony.
~*~
Meimi shot up straight, gasping in ragged breaths. "J-just.a d-dream." She looked out, waiting to find her parents smiling at her. But she wasn't in her room. This wasn't her house. Tears began to drip down her cheeks, staining the bed sheets.
"Shhh.it's ok. It was just a bad dream." A woman's voice whispered gently.
Meimi turned her head in the direction of the voice. "A-aunt Sally?"
"Hi girl!! You've been asleep for two entire days. You must have been exhausted." Meimi's aunt stood up, walking over to the bedside. She was a cheerful woman that lived on the other side of town from Meimi's home. She had dark red hair that seemed to always be in a long braided down her back. The woman wasn't fat but strangely her face was a bit on the chubby side being cheeky and round and right now it was tinted a bit red. A few freckles dotted across her cheeks and shoulders but that was about it. She had a nice figure and was standing up straight, a fake smile plastered on her face. Meimi knew her aunt was somewhere in her late 20's or 30's.She was clad in a pair of blue jeans and a white tank top. Meimi was fond of her but she always thought Aunt Sally tried to be too nice. It was as if she strained to be kind.
"W-why am I here?" Meimi pushed herself up against the wooden backboard of her bed.
"I'm your guardian for now." Aunt Sally sat next to Meimi on the bed. "I'm so sorry honey." She brought Meimi into a tight hug. Meimi didn't even want to think about what she was so sorry about. "I'm sorry you woke up just now but, well, the funeral is being held today. You missed the viewing yesterday. We would have waited but we didn't know how long you would be asleep and plus, they can't keep waiting forever. I was coming up here to wake you up. Breakfast is downstairs.oh and there are a few kids here to see you.said they were friends of yours."
Meimi sighed, sticking out her lower lip. This just wasn't happening. She was expecting her parents to pop in the door any second but.they weren't. The red head couldn't comprehend it so she just didn't think about it. She looked at herself in the mirror. "What's wrong with me.? I can't even cry." With that, Meimi entered the bathroom were she got dressed. Someone had brought her clothing to the room she was in and Ruby was sitting on the bed, squeaking with concern. She came out wearing a short black dress. It was long sleeved and they were a black lace. Meimi had her hair pushed back with a black headband. She pulled up a pair of black socks then laced on an old pair of raven black leather shoes. Meimi felt sluggish as she stepped down the stairs, afraid to see her friends. As she entered the living room, Meimi saw Seira sitting on the couch with worry all over her face. A few other girls from her class were there along with Asuka Jr., Sawatari, and Lina.
Asuka spotted her first, giving her a warm smile. "Saint Tail didn't cause that accident. I bet she blames herself because she hasn't been on any cases lately. It was just an accident; she didn't know that car was coming. And what's more ironic was that in that car were Haneoka's parents. Poor Meimi.." He thought to himself. Partly, he felt it was his fault for chasing Saint Tail. If he hadn't, they wouldn't run down that pathway and onto the road. He cleared his throat. "Hey Meimi." Everyone turned towards her, staring at her with concern and worry.
Seira ran to her friend, embracing her tightly. "You ok?" She murmured the words into the red head's ears. Everyone seemed so quiet.eerily quiet as if they were afraid to speak. Afraid to upset her. Soon everyone was hugging her and telling her they were sorry.
When Meimi's eyes came upon Seira, who was the closest to her, she saw this cheerful woman, probably cleverer than she was, who stood proud with equal nobility to the other nuns. Someone so happy. And Meimi felt as if she was crushing her friend's happiness with her gloomy spirit. And when Meimi looked to Asuka Jr., the most unique of them all but yet the second most familiar, she could feel Asuka's mystic eyes tug at her heartstrings, and Asuka's compassionate expression relaxing her tension. She looked to Lina who peered at her with a strange curiosity and yet it had some kind of sarcastic way of saying she cared. It was so evident as she sat there while they all focused so intently on her, that they did care, enough so that they wouldn't let matters slip them by, enough so that they wouldn't cease to persist even upon her saying she was ok. They cared for her, and although she didn't know how ready she was just yet, she knew she had to show some gratitude.
"Thanks you guys." Meimi spoke loudly as she bit her lip, hugging them each.
The room thinned of people until only one person was left. Seira. Her dear nun friend. "Want me to come to the funeral?"
"No thanks." Meimi smiled as Seira squeezed her hand gently. Meimi couldn't face her friends. She couldn't stand every second in that room with them. Seeing Asuka's face just tore her apart more. If he knew she was Saint Tail.for sure he would hate her now. Her friends were so happy and now.she had just squashed the happiness along with two people she cared about so dearly.
"Call me if you need ANYTHING." Seira hugged her friend once again before she disappeared. And Meimi was glad her friend was gone because whenever she looked at Seira, she was reminded that her friend was a nun. And that she had failed the Lord, she had failed herself and lastly, she had failed her parents.
She was sore. All over, Meimi could still feel a fatigue, a pain that just as suddenly could come to be excruciating, buried under her hair was a deep gash from hitting the cement and her legs felt stiff and cramped. She didn't know what to think as she was already so consumed by just about everything else. There were so many things to think about, yet barely any of them involved her physical problems. There were so many things that ran adrift through her active thoughts: the idea of tonight. It was something that had came to her so frequently since the moment she saw her parent's life shattered, the thought of her inevitable departure at some time, in some day to live forever with her Aunt Sally. But yet, although she felt cluttered and strained and disbelieving to what was fact and what was fiction, truth had it that today, and now, was that time she had so thought of, and at times, even dreaded. In nothing but a few hours, or even less, Meimi would no longer see the funny actions of her dad, or see her mother kiss her good-night, or just be anywhere remotely close to the people who had reared her from the moment she was born, being there for her every moment and second along the way. Holding her up every time fell. That thought, the thought that her parents were never coming home, along with the thought of utter separation of her home where the familiar things of her and her parents lived plagued her so, to the point where she only felt sore in one place - at her heart.
~*~
I yelled back when I heard thunder
But I'm down to one last breath
And with it let me say
Let me say
~By: Lauren~
D R E A M
"Y-you're lying!!" Meimi jumped, denying the words that were cruelly being thrown at her.
"I wouldn't lie about something like this. Your father was killed on impact and your mother was driven to a nearby hospital were she went into the emergency room. She was in critical condition but she didn't make it." The policeman held out a hand for Meimi to take hold of. "We've been looking for you for hours. Your mother kept calling out your name and saying 'Tell Meimi we love her.tell her we love her.'"
This was all too much. No wonder Meimi thought the car sort of looked familiar. It was her parents. But they couldn't be dead, just five hours ago they were laughing with her happily. In fact, when they were leaving her father said to her:
"Be careful and come straight home from Seira's. When we get back we'll have tons of fun!" Then he made a group of flowers appear in his hands, which he gave to her. They were still up in her room. She had failed her father. She had disobeyed his instructions.
Then her mother had said. "We love you! Bye honey!"
What was the last thing Meimi had said to them? During the last time they were a family?
"Have fun! Bye!"
And then they left. And now they were gone. Forever. And it was all her fault. And she never said she loved them. How could she have forgotten? She always said 'I love you' when they left but why hadn't she that time? The last time she saw them and she never said she loved them.
"I caused their death." Meimi uttered the words but the policeman and woman didn't hear. They were sitting in their cars talking on their radio.
"You caused their death. You killed you own parents. Murder. Murder. MURDER!!!" Her own voice screamed at her, tearing into her heart and ripping it into a thousand pieces. "Saint Tail killed them. Meimi Haneoka killed her parents. She murdered them. She's a Murder. MURDER!!!" They kept hissing wildly, making her grab at her own hair in hopes they would stop.
"You ok?" The policewoman bent down, putting her hand on Meimi's shoulder. "We were told to take you to someone by the name of Sally Haneoka. Do you know who that is?"
The angry words inside Meimi were drowned out a bit by the policewoman. Meimi could feel her body going numb. "T-that's my.aunt." The red head didn't remember even saying those words for at that moment, her legs let her down and her vision went black.
~*~
Meimi looked around. Thousands and thousands of wild flowers surrounded her. The colors all blurred together as she picked up a lily and spun the flower in her fingers. She then looked up to the sky to find that her vision was blocked out by a weeping willow that towered above her.
"Where am I?" Meimi walked in a circle. All there were was flowers. Flowers everywhere. Then suddenly, someone spoke up. She spun around, coming face to face with her mother and father. "MOM!! DAD!!!" Meimi lunged at her parents, her arms outstretched. But.she fell directly through them. "W- what.?" She looked at them, a confused expression written all over her face. Their eyes seemed lost and full of darkness.
Her mother lifted up a single finger and pointed at Meimi. "You.killed.us.." Were the cracked words that left her mother's mouth. Then her father lifted up a finger and repeated what her mom had said.
Meimi took a step backward. "No.NO!! I'M SORRY!! I-I DIDN'T M-MEAN TO!!" They stepped closer to her, long fingernails ready to pierce Meimi's skin. Meimi turn and ran. She ran as fast as she could, ice cold tears stinging her cheeks. After what seemed like hours, she stopped, gasping for breath. Meimi finally looked at her surroundings. Asuka Jr., Seira, and Lina were all staring at her. Meimi stumbled over to them. "Finally.some people.I can trust. You won't.believe what's happened. to me."
Asuka Jr. grabbed her arms roughly. "Why didn't you tell me you were Saint Tail!? Why did you hide it?! Why did you kill those two innocent people?! Your own parents!! I'm placing you under arrest for murder." He held out a pair of handcuffs, which locked around her wrists roughly.
Meimi turned to Seira, her face pleading for help.
"The Lord will not forgive you for what you have done. Don't EVER speak to me again." Seira spun around, walking away into the flowers and then she was gone.
Meimi turned to Lina.
"I knew she was a bad person.but this tops it all." Lina grabbed Asuka Jr's arm; bring him into a deep kiss.
The tears stung as she fell to her knees, the handcuffs digging into her skin. "NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" The broken words left her throat as her cried in complete agony.
~*~
Meimi shot up straight, gasping in ragged breaths. "J-just.a d-dream." She looked out, waiting to find her parents smiling at her. But she wasn't in her room. This wasn't her house. Tears began to drip down her cheeks, staining the bed sheets.
"Shhh.it's ok. It was just a bad dream." A woman's voice whispered gently.
Meimi turned her head in the direction of the voice. "A-aunt Sally?"
"Hi girl!! You've been asleep for two entire days. You must have been exhausted." Meimi's aunt stood up, walking over to the bedside. She was a cheerful woman that lived on the other side of town from Meimi's home. She had dark red hair that seemed to always be in a long braided down her back. The woman wasn't fat but strangely her face was a bit on the chubby side being cheeky and round and right now it was tinted a bit red. A few freckles dotted across her cheeks and shoulders but that was about it. She had a nice figure and was standing up straight, a fake smile plastered on her face. Meimi knew her aunt was somewhere in her late 20's or 30's.She was clad in a pair of blue jeans and a white tank top. Meimi was fond of her but she always thought Aunt Sally tried to be too nice. It was as if she strained to be kind.
"W-why am I here?" Meimi pushed herself up against the wooden backboard of her bed.
"I'm your guardian for now." Aunt Sally sat next to Meimi on the bed. "I'm so sorry honey." She brought Meimi into a tight hug. Meimi didn't even want to think about what she was so sorry about. "I'm sorry you woke up just now but, well, the funeral is being held today. You missed the viewing yesterday. We would have waited but we didn't know how long you would be asleep and plus, they can't keep waiting forever. I was coming up here to wake you up. Breakfast is downstairs.oh and there are a few kids here to see you.said they were friends of yours."
Meimi sighed, sticking out her lower lip. This just wasn't happening. She was expecting her parents to pop in the door any second but.they weren't. The red head couldn't comprehend it so she just didn't think about it. She looked at herself in the mirror. "What's wrong with me.? I can't even cry." With that, Meimi entered the bathroom were she got dressed. Someone had brought her clothing to the room she was in and Ruby was sitting on the bed, squeaking with concern. She came out wearing a short black dress. It was long sleeved and they were a black lace. Meimi had her hair pushed back with a black headband. She pulled up a pair of black socks then laced on an old pair of raven black leather shoes. Meimi felt sluggish as she stepped down the stairs, afraid to see her friends. As she entered the living room, Meimi saw Seira sitting on the couch with worry all over her face. A few other girls from her class were there along with Asuka Jr., Sawatari, and Lina.
Asuka spotted her first, giving her a warm smile. "Saint Tail didn't cause that accident. I bet she blames herself because she hasn't been on any cases lately. It was just an accident; she didn't know that car was coming. And what's more ironic was that in that car were Haneoka's parents. Poor Meimi.." He thought to himself. Partly, he felt it was his fault for chasing Saint Tail. If he hadn't, they wouldn't run down that pathway and onto the road. He cleared his throat. "Hey Meimi." Everyone turned towards her, staring at her with concern and worry.
Seira ran to her friend, embracing her tightly. "You ok?" She murmured the words into the red head's ears. Everyone seemed so quiet.eerily quiet as if they were afraid to speak. Afraid to upset her. Soon everyone was hugging her and telling her they were sorry.
When Meimi's eyes came upon Seira, who was the closest to her, she saw this cheerful woman, probably cleverer than she was, who stood proud with equal nobility to the other nuns. Someone so happy. And Meimi felt as if she was crushing her friend's happiness with her gloomy spirit. And when Meimi looked to Asuka Jr., the most unique of them all but yet the second most familiar, she could feel Asuka's mystic eyes tug at her heartstrings, and Asuka's compassionate expression relaxing her tension. She looked to Lina who peered at her with a strange curiosity and yet it had some kind of sarcastic way of saying she cared. It was so evident as she sat there while they all focused so intently on her, that they did care, enough so that they wouldn't let matters slip them by, enough so that they wouldn't cease to persist even upon her saying she was ok. They cared for her, and although she didn't know how ready she was just yet, she knew she had to show some gratitude.
"Thanks you guys." Meimi spoke loudly as she bit her lip, hugging them each.
The room thinned of people until only one person was left. Seira. Her dear nun friend. "Want me to come to the funeral?"
"No thanks." Meimi smiled as Seira squeezed her hand gently. Meimi couldn't face her friends. She couldn't stand every second in that room with them. Seeing Asuka's face just tore her apart more. If he knew she was Saint Tail.for sure he would hate her now. Her friends were so happy and now.she had just squashed the happiness along with two people she cared about so dearly.
"Call me if you need ANYTHING." Seira hugged her friend once again before she disappeared. And Meimi was glad her friend was gone because whenever she looked at Seira, she was reminded that her friend was a nun. And that she had failed the Lord, she had failed herself and lastly, she had failed her parents.
She was sore. All over, Meimi could still feel a fatigue, a pain that just as suddenly could come to be excruciating, buried under her hair was a deep gash from hitting the cement and her legs felt stiff and cramped. She didn't know what to think as she was already so consumed by just about everything else. There were so many things to think about, yet barely any of them involved her physical problems. There were so many things that ran adrift through her active thoughts: the idea of tonight. It was something that had came to her so frequently since the moment she saw her parent's life shattered, the thought of her inevitable departure at some time, in some day to live forever with her Aunt Sally. But yet, although she felt cluttered and strained and disbelieving to what was fact and what was fiction, truth had it that today, and now, was that time she had so thought of, and at times, even dreaded. In nothing but a few hours, or even less, Meimi would no longer see the funny actions of her dad, or see her mother kiss her good-night, or just be anywhere remotely close to the people who had reared her from the moment she was born, being there for her every moment and second along the way. Holding her up every time fell. That thought, the thought that her parents were never coming home, along with the thought of utter separation of her home where the familiar things of her and her parents lived plagued her so, to the point where she only felt sore in one place - at her heart.
~*~
I yelled back when I heard thunder
But I'm down to one last breath
And with it let me say
Let me say