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Disclaimer: I don't own anybody or anything and I don't own Digimon.
For those who said my story is unrealistic, this chapter explains it all.
Lost Little Girl
Chapter Two
After closing the door, Rika sighed and pulled the towel closer to her body. She hadn't expected to see Ryo, the fact that she'd left everybody three years ago still hurt but she knew she couldn't face her problems again, she could, but then it felt unsafe to her. A part of her wanted to see her friends and family again and a part of her resented it.
She stood against the wall and thought back on her life, how on earth she ended up in this place.
*Flashback*
THREE YEARS AGO
A cheery Rika walked into her home, slipping off her backpack and shoes. After the D-Reaper was defeated, Rumiko (her mother) had allowed her to attend the school where the others went, as to be with her friends, and she was quite happy to get rid of that uniform and the snobs from that private school, anyway.
"Mom, I'm home!" she called, walking into the kitchen. Her mother was sitting at the table with a book. "Hi, Rika. How was school?" she said.
"The usual," Rika replied, and changing the subject, she asked, "So, how was that date with Satoshi?"
"It was great," Rumiko replied. "We went out to dinner, and then we saw Goldmember at the movies."
"That's good," Rika said, and darted off to her bedroom.
TWO MONTHS LATER
Rumiko was usually never home due to her dates with Satoshi. Rika often became pissed with it all and spent most of her time in her bedroom.
"He's more important than the family!" Rika said furiously into the end of the phone while talking to Jeri.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, Rika. You have to give him a chance, that was my mistake when my dad married my stepmother," she told her.
"So she doesn't even come home sometimes until the next morning," Rika said. "Grandma's getting old now, she can't do all the work."
"Ooh, that's bad," Jeri said.
"RIKA, SUPPER'S READY!!!" her grandmother said, peeking her head through the doorway.
"I told you, and anyway, I have to go. Bye," Rika told her.
"Bye," Jeri replied and they both hung up.
TWO MORE MONTHS LATER
To Rika's surprise that day, as she sat at the table, Rumiko rushed in with a sense of enthrillment in her voice. "Rika, guess what?!"
"What?" Rika said as she dropped the spoon into the cereal.
"We're engaged!"
"You're what?!" she cried, standing up from her chair.
"We're ENGAGED!!!"
"So you mean he's gonna be my stepfather? I haven't even met him yet!"
"I know," Rumiko replied. "Which is why we're all going out for lunch today."
"But, I've made plans!" Rika cried. "Ryo wanted me to go bike riding with him."
Rika liked when Ryo invited her places, she felt as if she could talk to him, share herself with him more than the other guys. They both had alot in common, she wouldn't think of him as a boyfriend, but she was kinda fond of him. He felt the same way about her.
"Well, you tell Ryo to cancel his plans, it's about time you met Satoshi."
"So what, do we have to move?" Rika cried.
"If your grandma minds, then yes, but you'll still attend the same school."
"Why can't you just think about me and not him for a change, huh?" she cried and raced into her bedroom.
"Rika, open up," Rumiko said as she pounded on the door.
"No, I'm not opening this door, and I'm not coming with you."
"Well, you're old enough now that you can sort this out yourself," Rumiko said. She turned away from the door and left.
ONE YEAR LATER
Fortunately, at least for the best of it, Rika's grandmother hadn't minded letting Satoshi move into her home. This made Rika particularly happier, though she knew she hated the whole idea altogether. Rika had never developed trust in a man, had never been around one, her father and mother had divorced when she was three. She still remembered it so vividly, he had thrown quite a few objects meant to aim at Rumiko, but had luckily hit the wall, before she finally kicked him out of the house.
She had met Satoshi a few times, he came to her house with rented movies and popcorn. She didn't like him, he seemed cold, the look in his eyes sent shivers down her spine. "How my mother could gain trust in him," she thought. "He doesn't seem like somebody to trust."
"Well," her grandmother said, "I'm off to bingo!"
"Okay, bye grandma," Rika said as she raised her hand to wave.
*End Flashback*
Rika shivered. "That's where the torturing began," she whispered to herself.
*Flashback*
After going off to bingo, Rumiko had received a call from her cousin Amanda in Kyoto. She walked into the living room, where Satoshi sat on the chair in the corner, Rika on the couch as to be away from him.
"I'd love to stay and watch the movie, but I really need to see my cousin, she just broke up with her boyfriend and she needs somebody to talk to," she said. "Rika, will you be okay as to stay with Satoshi over the weekend?"
"That would be fine," Satoshi said straightly, his eyes not moving from the television screen.
Rika felt a lump inside her throat. She barely talked to the guy and he barely talked to her. Now she'd have to rely on him over the weekend and she didn't know how he was going to treat her and act toward her, "Maybe I can bribe my mom into letting me go with her," Rika thought. She raced upstairs to her mother's bedroom.
"Mom," she said as she knocked on the door. "Come in," Rumiko greeted. Rika opened the door. "Listen mom, it's been so long since I got to see my cousin, why can't I come with you?" she asked. Rumiko shook her head. "No, I'm sorry Rika, she just needs an adult, and somebody who's been in her position."
"But I'm not a little kid, I'm 15!" Rika protested. "Rika, you have to have consideration for others. I know what it feels like, when I broke up with your father."
Rika sighed and walked away. Though she never shared it with anyone, Satoshi sort of creeped her out. He had piercing ice blue eyes that locked into yours, they were cold and frightening. "Maybe if I can stay in my room the entire time, yes, that's what I'll do," Rika thought with a sigh of relief.
And so Rumiko hugged her family members and left in a taxi cab. "Time to head upstairs," Rika told herself, but when she reached the third step, she felt a hard tug grasp her shirt collar. "I thought you were going to watch the movie," a voice said.
Rika gasped and turned herself around, causing her shirt to free and snap against her neck. Satoshi's cold eyes locked into her's. "Uh...." she stammered.
"Let's go," Satoshi said coldly as his hand tightened around her wrist. He pulled her into the living room and then pushed her on her back, letting her arm go.
A frightened Rika sat down on the couch when Satoshi sat down beside her. She obeyed his commands and sat and watched it, in her opinion it was a bad movie, but she wasn't about to tell him that, nor any words.
"W-well, now can I go to m-my room?" she stuttered, leaving him unamused. "Sure," he replied. Hands trembling Rika walked out of the living room and down the hall. "Whew," she thought. She pushed the door open and fell onto her bed, reaching down and picking up a comic book. She held it in front of her face for hours on end. As the characters began to blur she checked her alarm clock. 3:03 AM. "Oh," she said sleepily as her head fell onto the pillow. She went out like a light, her comic book in her left hand dragging on the floor.
Something suddenly awakened Rika, at least it seemed sudden to her, the last thing she could remember was her head falling on the pillow in her room, she opened her eyes, but only darkness. She was blindfolded. Slowly she reached up to pull it off, when a hand slapped her's. "Huh?" she thought. She could feel hands touching her where they weren't supposed to, was she dreaming? Quickly she pulled the blindfold off. She was in her parents room, and Satoshi had a belt. Sharp pain shot through her body as he whipped her with it. Rika needed to take action, luckily her hands weren't tied.
Rika rolled over onto her side. She could feel the pain in her thighs like she'd been whipped a million times. Pissed at Rika's actions, he hit her with it again.
"Stop it," she said as she got up. "Hey, you get back here right now!" Satoshi cried.
"Where's Grandma?" Rika asked. "She's sleeping," Satoshi told her. "Leave your grandmother to rest, you wouldn't want her to get sick now would you?"
"I'm telling Grandma and my mother what you did," Rika said bitterly. Satoshi gave a cold smirk and reached into his drawer, pulling out a gun and pointing it at her. Rika's heart sank.
"Tell anybody what I did and I'll kill you, your family and all your friends," he told her. Rika swallowed hard. "Uh...huh..." she nodded.
***
And so the torturing continued. Every time Rumiko nor her grandmother was present at the home, Rika suffered through torture. As much as she hated herself for it she didn't dare say a word to her mother, grandma or her friends.
"If only Renamon were here," she thought. "He couldn't threaten to kill anyone, because she would kill him." But Rika knew that it had to come to an end.
"That's it," she whispered as she looked out the window. "Satoshi's going out with his friends tonight, so I'll tell Grandma, we can call the police, and when Satoshi gets home they can arrest him. It'll be all over," she said.
Of course those cold eyes that laid upon her told that something bad was bound to happen.....
***
Rumiko pulled the purse strap over her shoulder. It was about 6:00 PM as Rika had remembered. "I'm going grocery shopping, see you later," she told Rika, Satoshi and her grandma. "Bye," they said in unison.
"Just a few hours," Rika thought temptingly as she stared into the ticking clock. That would be, until Satoshi went out with his friends and it would be all over.
"Say, your flowers are looking quite dull," Satoshi brought up as he looked to Rika's grandmother. "They are?" she said puzzled. "I just watered them this afternoon."
Satoshi kindly pulled her grandma out of her chair. "Perhaps maybe I should show you," he said. "Oh, yes, please do," she told him and they went out into the backyard.
About ten minutes later, Satoshi had returned. Her grandma was still outside.
"Where's Grandma?" Rika asked suspiciously. "She's out in the garden," Satoshi told her. Rika nodded unsurely, something about the way he said it creeped Rika out.
Two hours passed and Rika's grandmother still had not returned. "God, they couldn't have been that bad now could they?" she told herself. She got up to go toward the back doors when Satoshi grabbed her by the shoulders. "Why are you so fucking snoopy?" he said. "Let me through!" Rika screamed. Satoshi didn't listen, he just hit her over the head. She felt the side of her face hit the floor. Just like that, a devastated Rumiko busted into the house, and Rika quickly got up to her feet.
"Oh, Satoshi, you won't believe it...." she sobbed.
"What is it honey?" he said in a phoney, nice voice.
"My mother.....she's been murdered!" she cried.
At that Rika's eyes widened. "The bastard," she whispered as her eyes welled up with tears. "He murdered my grandma....he heard my plans all along......the creep..."
Before her mother could approach her, Rika raced upstairs. "I can't take this anymore," she said as she wiped her tears. She threw a sleeping bag, a couple changes of clothes and some pictures in which held good memories into her backpack. "I'm leaving," she told herself. "But I need to tell somebody, someone who will understand, who won't worry about me too much." The first image that popped into her mind was her mother. "No, she's around Satoshi too much, he'd find my letter and kill her and maybe even find me."
Then her grandma. "No, she's dead now." Then she saw Ryo. One person that trusted her like no other. "Yes, that's it. I'll write a letter to him, and Satoshi will never know."
She pulled out a pen and began to write.
Dear Ryo,
I know I never told you this though I should have. I'm running away so don't try and catch me, don't tell anybody because I can't take the chance that somebody will find me and take me back to Satoshi. That's my stepfather, he's a creep and he's been molesting me for about a year now. Now he's murdered my grandma so I can't tell her what he's been doing to me. He threatened to kill me, my family and my friends if I dared tell anybody about his actions on me. I'm only telling you this because I trust you to keep it a secret and I don't want you to worry about me. Promise that once you read this letter you will rip it up and never tell a word of what you read. Goodbye.
Rika
"Great," she said. She shoved the envelope into the front pocket and put the straps over her shoulders. "Goodbye, mom," she said within teary eyes. "It's a shame he had to ruin our lives." She then opened her window and hopped out.
*End Flashback*
"So that's when I started to come here," she thought to herself.
*Flashback*
Rika had successfully escaped from her backyard and climbed over the fence as not to be seen by Satoshi, her mother, or any of the police that were investigating Grandma's death, since Rumiko had no idea, and Satoshi wouldn't admit it was him. Slowly she laid her sleeping bag out onto the asphault in the alleyway. A rat crept along the wall. Rika shivered. "Better than Satoshi," she thought as she laid herself into it and pulled the elastic from her now longer hair.
All of a sudden loud music blared in her ears. So loud and irritating, only the beat could be heard and the vibrating against the walls. "Ohhhh!" she said bitterly as she pulled the blanket over her head. The music continued.
"Hey, wait a minute, is that a girl I see sleeping in the alleyway?" a voice echoed through the alleyway. "Oh no, they've caught me," Rika whispered as her stomach turned into a million knots. Suddenly the covers became free of her body. "Ahhh!" she cried as she sat up. A young, friendly face stared into her's. "Who the hell are you?" she asked.
"I'm Takehiro, but people just call me Hiro," he said as he held out his hand. Rika nervously shook it. "What the fuck are ya doin' sleepin' out in tha damn streets when ya can get a room up in my club?"
"Oh, well was I supposed to have the nerve to ask?" she said.
"Why not?" he said with his thugged-up image. "I see you're sleepin' outside, tell me what the fuck iz wrong witchu?"
"Yeah, okay," Rika replied. They both went inside the club, where the music wuz bangin' and strippers were in an enclosed glass part of the bar. "Strip...club?" Rika said.
"Yea, heh, why not? They hot," Hiro said with a snicker. "Oh brother," Rika said as she shook her head. Hiro pulled her to the back of the club. "So, what's the problem? If ya really runnin' low on cash I could give ya a deal," he said. "What?!" Rika cried. "I am not being a stripper, now get a god damn life!" She got ready to leave when suddenly he tugged her wrist. "C'mon gurl, ya dun wanna be all dirty and unattractive now do ya?"
"Well, of course not, stupid ass," she said. "Then work for me, I give ya three hundred a month." "I'm only fifteen, should I really be doing this?" Rika asked.
"Well I doubt you'll get a job anywhere else," he said. "So what do ya say, I think you're pretty hot lookin' to be honest witchu."
"Fine," Rika sighed. "I need to buy my own apartment anyway, so it should be okay."
*End Flashback*
"That's when I began stripping," she thought. "But of course, it wasn't enough."
*Flashback*
Rika had been good enough for the job, she'd been getting alot of praise and she felt herself changing as a person. As the month ended, Hiro handed her three hundred yen.
"Hold on," Rika said frantically. "This isn't enough, my rent costs three hundred and I still need to buy food and clothes!" Hiro just shook his head. "Aw, tuff life ya livin' huh?" he said. "Well, there's always dat last resort." He pulled Rika into a long kiss and took her back to his apartment.
"Now you," she remembered him saying the next day. "I'd say you were about a million, but I don't have that, so how about a thousand?"
"Where tha fuck do you get all dis cash?" Rika asked him.
"My secret," he said handing it over.
*End Flashback*
"And it just became one after another after another after another," she thought. "And now I'm here, Satoshi never found me because I look so different." Her long hair nearly reached her waist and her face was always caked up in makeup.
"Rika!" a voice said. "Rika, open the door, it's me Hiro."
"Coming," she said.
Oh, so that's what happened to Rika. Now how can she fix things up? Find out in chapter three!
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Disclaimer: I don't own anybody or anything and I don't own Digimon.
For those who said my story is unrealistic, this chapter explains it all.
Lost Little Girl
Chapter Two
After closing the door, Rika sighed and pulled the towel closer to her body. She hadn't expected to see Ryo, the fact that she'd left everybody three years ago still hurt but she knew she couldn't face her problems again, she could, but then it felt unsafe to her. A part of her wanted to see her friends and family again and a part of her resented it.
She stood against the wall and thought back on her life, how on earth she ended up in this place.
*Flashback*
THREE YEARS AGO
A cheery Rika walked into her home, slipping off her backpack and shoes. After the D-Reaper was defeated, Rumiko (her mother) had allowed her to attend the school where the others went, as to be with her friends, and she was quite happy to get rid of that uniform and the snobs from that private school, anyway.
"Mom, I'm home!" she called, walking into the kitchen. Her mother was sitting at the table with a book. "Hi, Rika. How was school?" she said.
"The usual," Rika replied, and changing the subject, she asked, "So, how was that date with Satoshi?"
"It was great," Rumiko replied. "We went out to dinner, and then we saw Goldmember at the movies."
"That's good," Rika said, and darted off to her bedroom.
TWO MONTHS LATER
Rumiko was usually never home due to her dates with Satoshi. Rika often became pissed with it all and spent most of her time in her bedroom.
"He's more important than the family!" Rika said furiously into the end of the phone while talking to Jeri.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, Rika. You have to give him a chance, that was my mistake when my dad married my stepmother," she told her.
"So she doesn't even come home sometimes until the next morning," Rika said. "Grandma's getting old now, she can't do all the work."
"Ooh, that's bad," Jeri said.
"RIKA, SUPPER'S READY!!!" her grandmother said, peeking her head through the doorway.
"I told you, and anyway, I have to go. Bye," Rika told her.
"Bye," Jeri replied and they both hung up.
TWO MORE MONTHS LATER
To Rika's surprise that day, as she sat at the table, Rumiko rushed in with a sense of enthrillment in her voice. "Rika, guess what?!"
"What?" Rika said as she dropped the spoon into the cereal.
"We're engaged!"
"You're what?!" she cried, standing up from her chair.
"We're ENGAGED!!!"
"So you mean he's gonna be my stepfather? I haven't even met him yet!"
"I know," Rumiko replied. "Which is why we're all going out for lunch today."
"But, I've made plans!" Rika cried. "Ryo wanted me to go bike riding with him."
Rika liked when Ryo invited her places, she felt as if she could talk to him, share herself with him more than the other guys. They both had alot in common, she wouldn't think of him as a boyfriend, but she was kinda fond of him. He felt the same way about her.
"Well, you tell Ryo to cancel his plans, it's about time you met Satoshi."
"So what, do we have to move?" Rika cried.
"If your grandma minds, then yes, but you'll still attend the same school."
"Why can't you just think about me and not him for a change, huh?" she cried and raced into her bedroom.
"Rika, open up," Rumiko said as she pounded on the door.
"No, I'm not opening this door, and I'm not coming with you."
"Well, you're old enough now that you can sort this out yourself," Rumiko said. She turned away from the door and left.
ONE YEAR LATER
Fortunately, at least for the best of it, Rika's grandmother hadn't minded letting Satoshi move into her home. This made Rika particularly happier, though she knew she hated the whole idea altogether. Rika had never developed trust in a man, had never been around one, her father and mother had divorced when she was three. She still remembered it so vividly, he had thrown quite a few objects meant to aim at Rumiko, but had luckily hit the wall, before she finally kicked him out of the house.
She had met Satoshi a few times, he came to her house with rented movies and popcorn. She didn't like him, he seemed cold, the look in his eyes sent shivers down her spine. "How my mother could gain trust in him," she thought. "He doesn't seem like somebody to trust."
"Well," her grandmother said, "I'm off to bingo!"
"Okay, bye grandma," Rika said as she raised her hand to wave.
*End Flashback*
Rika shivered. "That's where the torturing began," she whispered to herself.
*Flashback*
After going off to bingo, Rumiko had received a call from her cousin Amanda in Kyoto. She walked into the living room, where Satoshi sat on the chair in the corner, Rika on the couch as to be away from him.
"I'd love to stay and watch the movie, but I really need to see my cousin, she just broke up with her boyfriend and she needs somebody to talk to," she said. "Rika, will you be okay as to stay with Satoshi over the weekend?"
"That would be fine," Satoshi said straightly, his eyes not moving from the television screen.
Rika felt a lump inside her throat. She barely talked to the guy and he barely talked to her. Now she'd have to rely on him over the weekend and she didn't know how he was going to treat her and act toward her, "Maybe I can bribe my mom into letting me go with her," Rika thought. She raced upstairs to her mother's bedroom.
"Mom," she said as she knocked on the door. "Come in," Rumiko greeted. Rika opened the door. "Listen mom, it's been so long since I got to see my cousin, why can't I come with you?" she asked. Rumiko shook her head. "No, I'm sorry Rika, she just needs an adult, and somebody who's been in her position."
"But I'm not a little kid, I'm 15!" Rika protested. "Rika, you have to have consideration for others. I know what it feels like, when I broke up with your father."
Rika sighed and walked away. Though she never shared it with anyone, Satoshi sort of creeped her out. He had piercing ice blue eyes that locked into yours, they were cold and frightening. "Maybe if I can stay in my room the entire time, yes, that's what I'll do," Rika thought with a sigh of relief.
And so Rumiko hugged her family members and left in a taxi cab. "Time to head upstairs," Rika told herself, but when she reached the third step, she felt a hard tug grasp her shirt collar. "I thought you were going to watch the movie," a voice said.
Rika gasped and turned herself around, causing her shirt to free and snap against her neck. Satoshi's cold eyes locked into her's. "Uh...." she stammered.
"Let's go," Satoshi said coldly as his hand tightened around her wrist. He pulled her into the living room and then pushed her on her back, letting her arm go.
A frightened Rika sat down on the couch when Satoshi sat down beside her. She obeyed his commands and sat and watched it, in her opinion it was a bad movie, but she wasn't about to tell him that, nor any words.
"W-well, now can I go to m-my room?" she stuttered, leaving him unamused. "Sure," he replied. Hands trembling Rika walked out of the living room and down the hall. "Whew," she thought. She pushed the door open and fell onto her bed, reaching down and picking up a comic book. She held it in front of her face for hours on end. As the characters began to blur she checked her alarm clock. 3:03 AM. "Oh," she said sleepily as her head fell onto the pillow. She went out like a light, her comic book in her left hand dragging on the floor.
Something suddenly awakened Rika, at least it seemed sudden to her, the last thing she could remember was her head falling on the pillow in her room, she opened her eyes, but only darkness. She was blindfolded. Slowly she reached up to pull it off, when a hand slapped her's. "Huh?" she thought. She could feel hands touching her where they weren't supposed to, was she dreaming? Quickly she pulled the blindfold off. She was in her parents room, and Satoshi had a belt. Sharp pain shot through her body as he whipped her with it. Rika needed to take action, luckily her hands weren't tied.
Rika rolled over onto her side. She could feel the pain in her thighs like she'd been whipped a million times. Pissed at Rika's actions, he hit her with it again.
"Stop it," she said as she got up. "Hey, you get back here right now!" Satoshi cried.
"Where's Grandma?" Rika asked. "She's sleeping," Satoshi told her. "Leave your grandmother to rest, you wouldn't want her to get sick now would you?"
"I'm telling Grandma and my mother what you did," Rika said bitterly. Satoshi gave a cold smirk and reached into his drawer, pulling out a gun and pointing it at her. Rika's heart sank.
"Tell anybody what I did and I'll kill you, your family and all your friends," he told her. Rika swallowed hard. "Uh...huh..." she nodded.
***
And so the torturing continued. Every time Rumiko nor her grandmother was present at the home, Rika suffered through torture. As much as she hated herself for it she didn't dare say a word to her mother, grandma or her friends.
"If only Renamon were here," she thought. "He couldn't threaten to kill anyone, because she would kill him." But Rika knew that it had to come to an end.
"That's it," she whispered as she looked out the window. "Satoshi's going out with his friends tonight, so I'll tell Grandma, we can call the police, and when Satoshi gets home they can arrest him. It'll be all over," she said.
Of course those cold eyes that laid upon her told that something bad was bound to happen.....
***
Rumiko pulled the purse strap over her shoulder. It was about 6:00 PM as Rika had remembered. "I'm going grocery shopping, see you later," she told Rika, Satoshi and her grandma. "Bye," they said in unison.
"Just a few hours," Rika thought temptingly as she stared into the ticking clock. That would be, until Satoshi went out with his friends and it would be all over.
"Say, your flowers are looking quite dull," Satoshi brought up as he looked to Rika's grandmother. "They are?" she said puzzled. "I just watered them this afternoon."
Satoshi kindly pulled her grandma out of her chair. "Perhaps maybe I should show you," he said. "Oh, yes, please do," she told him and they went out into the backyard.
About ten minutes later, Satoshi had returned. Her grandma was still outside.
"Where's Grandma?" Rika asked suspiciously. "She's out in the garden," Satoshi told her. Rika nodded unsurely, something about the way he said it creeped Rika out.
Two hours passed and Rika's grandmother still had not returned. "God, they couldn't have been that bad now could they?" she told herself. She got up to go toward the back doors when Satoshi grabbed her by the shoulders. "Why are you so fucking snoopy?" he said. "Let me through!" Rika screamed. Satoshi didn't listen, he just hit her over the head. She felt the side of her face hit the floor. Just like that, a devastated Rumiko busted into the house, and Rika quickly got up to her feet.
"Oh, Satoshi, you won't believe it...." she sobbed.
"What is it honey?" he said in a phoney, nice voice.
"My mother.....she's been murdered!" she cried.
At that Rika's eyes widened. "The bastard," she whispered as her eyes welled up with tears. "He murdered my grandma....he heard my plans all along......the creep..."
Before her mother could approach her, Rika raced upstairs. "I can't take this anymore," she said as she wiped her tears. She threw a sleeping bag, a couple changes of clothes and some pictures in which held good memories into her backpack. "I'm leaving," she told herself. "But I need to tell somebody, someone who will understand, who won't worry about me too much." The first image that popped into her mind was her mother. "No, she's around Satoshi too much, he'd find my letter and kill her and maybe even find me."
Then her grandma. "No, she's dead now." Then she saw Ryo. One person that trusted her like no other. "Yes, that's it. I'll write a letter to him, and Satoshi will never know."
She pulled out a pen and began to write.
Dear Ryo,
I know I never told you this though I should have. I'm running away so don't try and catch me, don't tell anybody because I can't take the chance that somebody will find me and take me back to Satoshi. That's my stepfather, he's a creep and he's been molesting me for about a year now. Now he's murdered my grandma so I can't tell her what he's been doing to me. He threatened to kill me, my family and my friends if I dared tell anybody about his actions on me. I'm only telling you this because I trust you to keep it a secret and I don't want you to worry about me. Promise that once you read this letter you will rip it up and never tell a word of what you read. Goodbye.
Rika
"Great," she said. She shoved the envelope into the front pocket and put the straps over her shoulders. "Goodbye, mom," she said within teary eyes. "It's a shame he had to ruin our lives." She then opened her window and hopped out.
*End Flashback*
"So that's when I started to come here," she thought to herself.
*Flashback*
Rika had successfully escaped from her backyard and climbed over the fence as not to be seen by Satoshi, her mother, or any of the police that were investigating Grandma's death, since Rumiko had no idea, and Satoshi wouldn't admit it was him. Slowly she laid her sleeping bag out onto the asphault in the alleyway. A rat crept along the wall. Rika shivered. "Better than Satoshi," she thought as she laid herself into it and pulled the elastic from her now longer hair.
All of a sudden loud music blared in her ears. So loud and irritating, only the beat could be heard and the vibrating against the walls. "Ohhhh!" she said bitterly as she pulled the blanket over her head. The music continued.
"Hey, wait a minute, is that a girl I see sleeping in the alleyway?" a voice echoed through the alleyway. "Oh no, they've caught me," Rika whispered as her stomach turned into a million knots. Suddenly the covers became free of her body. "Ahhh!" she cried as she sat up. A young, friendly face stared into her's. "Who the hell are you?" she asked.
"I'm Takehiro, but people just call me Hiro," he said as he held out his hand. Rika nervously shook it. "What the fuck are ya doin' sleepin' out in tha damn streets when ya can get a room up in my club?"
"Oh, well was I supposed to have the nerve to ask?" she said.
"Why not?" he said with his thugged-up image. "I see you're sleepin' outside, tell me what the fuck iz wrong witchu?"
"Yeah, okay," Rika replied. They both went inside the club, where the music wuz bangin' and strippers were in an enclosed glass part of the bar. "Strip...club?" Rika said.
"Yea, heh, why not? They hot," Hiro said with a snicker. "Oh brother," Rika said as she shook her head. Hiro pulled her to the back of the club. "So, what's the problem? If ya really runnin' low on cash I could give ya a deal," he said. "What?!" Rika cried. "I am not being a stripper, now get a god damn life!" She got ready to leave when suddenly he tugged her wrist. "C'mon gurl, ya dun wanna be all dirty and unattractive now do ya?"
"Well, of course not, stupid ass," she said. "Then work for me, I give ya three hundred a month." "I'm only fifteen, should I really be doing this?" Rika asked.
"Well I doubt you'll get a job anywhere else," he said. "So what do ya say, I think you're pretty hot lookin' to be honest witchu."
"Fine," Rika sighed. "I need to buy my own apartment anyway, so it should be okay."
*End Flashback*
"That's when I began stripping," she thought. "But of course, it wasn't enough."
*Flashback*
Rika had been good enough for the job, she'd been getting alot of praise and she felt herself changing as a person. As the month ended, Hiro handed her three hundred yen.
"Hold on," Rika said frantically. "This isn't enough, my rent costs three hundred and I still need to buy food and clothes!" Hiro just shook his head. "Aw, tuff life ya livin' huh?" he said. "Well, there's always dat last resort." He pulled Rika into a long kiss and took her back to his apartment.
"Now you," she remembered him saying the next day. "I'd say you were about a million, but I don't have that, so how about a thousand?"
"Where tha fuck do you get all dis cash?" Rika asked him.
"My secret," he said handing it over.
*End Flashback*
"And it just became one after another after another after another," she thought. "And now I'm here, Satoshi never found me because I look so different." Her long hair nearly reached her waist and her face was always caked up in makeup.
"Rika!" a voice said. "Rika, open the door, it's me Hiro."
"Coming," she said.
Oh, so that's what happened to Rika. Now how can she fix things up? Find out in chapter three!