Scarlet
By L. Hiiragizawa
Disclaimer: …as usual…
AN: Once again… pardon me for the OOC-ness and typographical errors found in here. Geez, I aint Ms. Perfect ya know… but thanks anyway to the one who brought this matter up. It sure made me work efficient and better.
The Call
"No!"
"Tomoyo?"
"No!"
"Tomoyo!"
"Away!"
"Dear it's ok I'm here…"
"Leave me alone!"
"Tomoyo! Speak to me."
"Go away I don't need you."
A slam of the door echoed. On the other side of the walls, a sigh was heard but inside the enclosed walls of the room from where she lay, a pillow covering her head while some others scattered on the floor, a smirk broke its silence.
It's been a while…
She threw the pillow off her head as she sat up in the bed. Her mother came back from a business trip from China and as usual, she played before her shocked eyes the same act. The same stubborn act she had perfected through years of constant practice. Like she cares a bit! She had suffered long enough and to her it was payback time.
She smiled at how evil she can get.
Part of her applauding in joy and praises…
And part screaming lectures and wanting to break.
After all, she was her mother and though she knew how magic could be done, no spell would ever make her change her destiny.
Okay… destiny.
Like she believed in it again!
Well maybe…
Her eyes drifted onto the case that kept what she dreaded the most these past few days, staring at it so intently as if something will pop out from beneath the sheath of darkness that surrounded her.
Only the faint light from her night lamp gave essence and life to the dullness of the dark, which made her see things amidst the dimness of the night and her lonely sanctuary.
Still, the crystal intrigued her thoughts and what role it played through the course of her fate…
If there is something such as one.
The curiosity seeped into the corners of her seeking mind…
Wanting each and every detail explained for everything was blank.
"The Crystal of Tears belonged to a princess that lived about two hundred years ago…"Blank it was…
Yes…
A princess…
Strange story isn't it?
Too bad she never made the lady finish it just because of…
Sophia…
"I am not Sophia!"
Do not leave me Sophia…
"Away!"
I need you Sophia…
"Away!"
I'm waiting for you…
"No! NO! I don't know you… Away!"
"Leave me alone… No! Leave me alone."
"Who are you?"
"I don't know you…"
"I don't"
I love you Sophia…
I love you…
I love you…
Tomoyo shook her head trying to shrug off the thought of what hell had dawned to her from such a mysterious occurrence. She knew nothing of the crystal, knew nothing about the possessions…
The nightmares…
A girl whose name was Sophia…
The voice that always heeded for her and called out each time she felt alone…
The voice that owned those blue and icy eyes that stared emotionally at her every waking hour and till she dreamt away.
And only…
If only she could decipher what emotions those orbs held and what they desired.
Most importantly… why her?
Why Tomoyo Daidouji?
Why can't she escape and be free?
Was she cursed?
Punished?
"Tomoyo?"
The bedroom door swung open revealing a tall, slender and elegant looking woman in view that disrupted Tomoyo from her trance. She had a hair that most likely looked like Tomoyo's and she held a suitcase at hand. As Tomoyo found her walking towards her direction, she quickly looked away.
"What do you want?"
Sonomi sighed and sat beside her bed when she heard her daughter's tone hard and cold that made her heart melt with sadness. Never did she knew what her daughter's problems were nor why she acted so differently to her whenever she had the chance to go home in a desire to see her treasured one and snuggle her close.
And how she wished she had seen her grow up to what she was now though disappointment clearly twinkled in her eyes every time she sees her sulking in bed and locking herself up from the social life that she was in.
"Is there something wrong? It's been a while and I want us to talk like what most mothers and daughters do. So how are you?"
Tomoyo shot her a glare.
"The hell you care?"
"Why the rude face? I know that I don't have time for you because I attend to our business and go on trips, which deprived me from spending time with you. You grew up so fast that I didn't even notice that your 18th birthday is nearing. So where do you wish to celebrate?"
"You didn't notice for the mere fact you don't care. My life's fine without you for your information and I don't give a damn whether I'll have a good birthday or whatsoever. My life is great but not till you showed up today and nose around my own affairs. So why won't you buzz off and get on with business for I know that makes you happy."
Sonomi felt guilt and anger stir up in her as she brought up a hand and slap Tomoyo in the face. Tomoyo on the other hand smiled a bit but it was visible how her eyes are nearly fogging up.
"You never knew how much I suffered to give all these things for you. How I longed to see and embrace you in my arms. How my body tiresomely slump itself in business meetings with my mind on you. And here you are, ungrateful of all my actions?"
With that, Sonomi stood up leaving Tomoyo with a single tear hanging from above her eye. She slammed the door shut and for the first time ever since she learned to fight back her tears away, she found them slowly trickling down her cheeks but no, not in guilt nor sadness…
Anger.
"I hate you…"
She threw a pillow to the door.
"I hate you…"
Wiping away her tears.
"I hate you."
She tried to calm herself up and drew herself near the table in front of her from where the crest was placed. She ignored it and opened a cabinet instead. She frantically searched for something and as she got hold of what she wanted, she lifted it up high in the air.
"You have been waiting for me all these years right?"
She spoke to the silver blade, which shimmered in the darkness like a crazed girl. She stroked it with her finger as she raised it above to have a better view, snickering.
"And I have been waiting for you…"
Tomoyo gripped the handle tight and while slowly crying, brought it up above her wrist and brushed its smooth part up and down, teasing herself slowly on what she was about to do…
"Strange…"
She placed the blade down as her gaze returned to the closed crest, enclosing the crystal from her reach, tempting her to open it up and get a good grip of it. She opened up the crest slowly, thinking that why not give it a shot? This might be the last time she would hold something very precious.
As she held it whole for the very first time, she felt the room's aura change once more from its warmness to suddenly feeling every bit of coldness sensed by each sensory nerve cell she had on her skin.
The same odd feeling she had each time she thought and got near the crystal.
She held it up high and suddenly studied it with her violet, puffy eyes. And as soon as she returned her eyes back to the blade that laid on top of the desk from where she placed it down, she felt her eyes close involuntarily and saw the same apparition which bugged her for days since she got the crystal from her grandma…
The same blue eyes…
Sophia…
…That now flamed in pity
Please don't do it…
…They pleaded making Tomoyo fall down to her knees clamping her ears shot once again.
Do not leave me for the second time around…
"W-who are y-you?"
She choked, gasping for air as she panted heavily.
I cannot lose you now. I love you. Don't leave me…
Sweat trickled down from all over her body
'Not again… leave… just leave…'
She chanted in her thoughts, waiting for all of these to stop.
I won't let you Sophia…
…The eyes now showed possession and desire that made Tomoyo shiver in fear and cry.
"Stop bugging me… please tell me you are a nightmare… stop…"
She pleaded crushing her ears tight, the necklace still within her grasp while shaking her head frantically.
Come and be with me…
Come…
The pain she was feeling was excruciating. She no longer saw the eyes but blinding whiteness. Yet still… the voice continued to haunt endlessly.
"Tell me who you are…"
Tomoyo felt herself drawn to the light as the crystal glowed a faint blue.
"Tell me what you want."
No reply but a hiss instead…
She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"TELL ME!"
She found herself being lifted up and as she opened her eyes, nothing did she saw but white…
Pure
Blinding
White.
But the night wasn't still…
Not quiet.
You.
Only You.
And with that, the room left her sight.
AN: Fireblaze- sorry di ko masyadong nabubuksan mail ko e. Sobrang busy ko pero promise… I'll keep up.
Okay that chapter squeezed my brain juice outta me. Review or else I'll let ya drink the nasty stuff I squeezed… dontcha worry… they're yummy. ^_^
Constructive criticisms are accepted. Tell me how this sucks/rocked…my pleasure.