Misguided Bodies
Chapter 2
By,
Midnight Siren
Mia woke up the next morning feeling groggy and cold. She pushed herself over to lay on her back. Gazing up at the ceiling last night's commotion returned to her memory, making her run cold with chills. Sitting straight up in bed she looked around nervously.
"I fell asleep on the sofa though…" getting up and dressing quickly she left her room. She peered into the guy's rooms and found only 4 in their beds. Tip toeing downstairs she found a curled up Cye on the loveseat. Despite how mad she was at them last night she couldn't help but smile.
"Mia?" she jumped at the sound of her name and turned to look at Sage. His hair was slightly messy, but not by much, and his eyes were blood shot. He looked at her with worry and tilted her head. "What happened to your hair?" Mia's hands went to her hair remembering the purple.
"Oh," she laughed nervously, "my friends had a field day with it…they said it should wash out." Sage just stared at her and she laughed again. "I'm going to go make breakfast now!" dashing into the kitchen she sighed. She only wondered what they saw last night while she was sleeping. Making out the faint noises from the others upstairs she decided to get to work. Having a hung over Cye wasn't going to be much help in the cooking department. After a while Ryo walked in, looking good as new. They had recently found out he had a high alcohol tolerance level.
"Mia…" she looked at him, he too had a worried look in his eyes. "What happened last night?"
"Oh…um…" ~ think Mia think! ~ " I was in the bath, the lights went out and I just freaked. You know how I am with the dark these days." Ryo didn't look like he believed her, but let it go. ~ Thank you ~
"Okay…" he walked out and sat down at the table with the rest of the guys….minus Cye who was still sleeping.
"New crimes are being committed in Toyama, people go missing, news at 5," Mia's head popped up as she over heard the announcement on the TV. ~ People missing? How many? ~ she felt a sudden wave of nausea wash over her. ~ They have nothing to do with them Mia, it's not what you think. It's not. ~
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Tess woke up, groaning as she looked at her clock. Forth time this week she'd woken up at 6:30. Rolling over she tried desperately to go back to bed. It wasn't normal to get home at 3, go to bed at 4 and wake up at 6:30 when you didn't have to be back to work until 9:30 pm. The phone rang and she nearly threw it against the wall.
"I tell you if it's the wrong number they're in for it," she reached over and snatched the phone up, "Hello?" she growled.
"Turn on your TV Tess," she perked a bit with curiosity at the tone in Casside's voice. Searching quickly for the remote she flipped it on. "Channel 13, it should be being announced again soon."
"What are you doing up?" she cradled the phone as the commercial for Swift came on. The new dance club in town. ~ We need a commercial hmm… ~
"I haven't slept," Tess groaned. Casside's was a strange one she had to admit. But that's why she slept all day. "It's on."
"New crimes are suspected in Toyama, with over 30 people gone missing, more tonight." Tess stared dumbstruck. Nearly dropping the phone she fell back on her bed.
"30?" Casside was silent on the other end.
"That's not all of them, we know it." Tess gritted her teeth. She knew Casside was right, but she didn't want to admit it.
"What do we do?" Tess was breathing different now. Faster and shorter, on the verge of hyperventilating.
"Nothing we can do…" Casside got quiet again, "But you need to breathe Tess." She stopped and held her breath, trying hard to calm herself.
"It's not us I swear it's not us," Tess finally burst out. Her eyes were watering and she tried hard to control it.
"Maybe Tess, maybe," with that Casside clicked the phone off and Tess just lay there, starring at her ceiling shocked and scared.
"It wasn't us,"
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Ryo lay sprawled on the sofa starring up at the ceiling. The TV was on, there hadn't been anymore announcements of the missing people. Closing his eyes he remembered the look in Mia's green ones. She had looked so…distraught? Yes, 30 people missing was a lot and chilled everyone to the bone, but there was something else in Mia's eyes.
"Now we will join Connie Adams down in Toyama with more details on the disturbing disappearance of 30 people, Connie," the news anchor announced causing Ryo to bolt up. The TV screen showed a young raven hair girl holding a microphone.
"Thank you Allie, I'm here in the city of Toyama, a place where much mystery has happened. It only shocks few to see the large number of missing people from this town. As of last month, 30 men have gone missing. There aren't much leads onto what is going on down here, but the authorities believe it has something to do with the mob…" Ryo tuned the rest out. ~ The mob, yeah right! This is the Dynasty's work… ~
His eyes flickered back to the television as a commercial came on about a new techno club in Toyama. Lights, steam, girls dancing wildly, "the place to be", D-Mix.
"Hmm…didn't Mia say something about that place last week?"
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Sage walked down the crowded street. People flocked to the newsstands, anxious to grab the newspaper to find out more about the missing people. His violet eyes narrowed in on one girl who stood a few feet away from the mobbed newsstand.
Her sea green curls were pulled up into a high ponytail. The white streaks standing out brightly against the pastel colored hair. Her eyes were worried as she tugged her coat tighter around her small frame. Tan legs hung out of a white mini skirt with white ankle boots hugging her feet. Then he noticed her eyes were connected with his. Taking a step back she turned and started to walk away. Sage jogged to catch up with her, but when she turned the corner she was out of sight.
~ hmm weird.. ~
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= later that night =
"Guys lets go out," a whimper came from Cye at Kento's random outburst of ideas. "Aww c'mon! Just don't pack it so hard this time buddy!"
"Kento, there's no where new to go," Sage said resting his head back on the sofa. For how mature some of them were, they had all become party animals…except Mia…or so they thought.
"Hey Mia, what was the club you mentioned?" Ryo asked as he spotted Mia coming down stairs. She stopped, almost shocked, but resumed her walk.
"D-mix…its only be open for a couple of weeks…but I heard it's really neat inside," Mia said casting a glance around at them. None of them were looking at her, to her luck.
"You haven't gone in yet?" Rowen asked looking up from his book. That's when his eyes widened. "Mia! Your hair!" Her hands went instantly to her purple streaks. Only Sage had noticed until now. "What did you do?!"
"Um…a friend of mine was experimenting on it," she laughed nervously but then returned to Rowen's first question, "No I haven't gone inside." ~ That's technically not a lie, I've worked outside at the Bon Fire, not inside the club. ~ Mia thought reassuring herself that it wasn't a lie.
"Lets go there tonight!" Kento exclaimed jumping up, everyone nodded and drifted upstairs to get ready. Mia leaned against the counter, starring down at her hands. ~ be careful you guys ~