Disclaimer : See chapt.4
~The Two of Us~
Chapter 5: Warmth
A/N: The scene take a few moment before the ending of Chpt.4
The rain was still showering the city. The weather was cold and people would prefer to stay at home than make their body wet. But the blue eyed boy was different. He was running in the heavy rain. His eyes went to all direction –searching for a girl with raven hair and beautiful amethyst eyes.
Damn! Where is she?! thought Eriol. She's been acting so strange and I'm sure it's not just about 'the accident' A/N : Remember Chpt.3? When they had almost kissed?
Eriol then stopped running. His eyes stopped at a familiar figure that he had been searching on.
"Tomo...," he suddenly paused. Eriol's eyes went wider as he saw an unknown man who was standing in the 3rd floor of the abonded apartment –right above Tomoyo. That mysterious man was holding a flower pot and then he dropped it.
In a slow motion,the flowerpot fell...
"Tomoyo! Look out!!" Eriol shouted in sudden.
Just right before the flowerpot crashed Tomoyo's head, she had managed to avoid it.
PRANG!!! The flowerpot crashed the street and broke into pieces.
"Tomoyo!!" yelled Eriol as he went closer to that girl –who was now kneeling on the street. "Are you all right?"
Tomoyo ignored Eriol's question. Instead,she just said, "...to kill me. He wants to kill me."
The rain was getting even worse. Eriol looked at the sky. He usually used the stars to calm Tomoyo down. But there're no stars. Not a single one. The sky was covered by the black cloud.The rain drop fell as if it were the sky's tears.
Eriol couldn't see clearly,because his glasses were wet. So he put it off. "Tomoyo? You could get sick if you stay in here. Come on. I'll take you home. But I'm afraid we had to walk,my car was still in the club and there's no time to take it. And besides,our house were near here," Eriol said as he took off his jacket and give it to make Tomoyo's shivering body get warmer.
At Daidouji Mansion
"Tomoyo? Dry your self. You could get sick," said Eriol as he offered a towel.
But Tomoyo, who was still shocked,from outer space.
Eriol looked at him unpatiently. He then put his hand on Tomoyo's hand and gently hold it. "It's Ok if you don't want to talk to me but,...please!! Take care of yourself!" shouted Eriol.
Eriol's shout seemed like effective. It had made Tomoyo 'wake up' . She looked at him and slowly her mouth said some words, "I'm sorry,Eriol. I know that you are worry about me,but...I need time to be alone at this time."
Eriol smiled. "Finally you talk. You should say from the very begining if you want to be alone! And...if you need me,don't hesitate to call,ok?"
Tomoyo nodded. She then turned around and went to the stairs. Eriol. He's so nice and that's one of the main reason why I want to be alone. I don't want to bother him. My problems are my problems and I had to solve it on my own.
Tomoyo at least reached her room. She then opened her bedroom's door.
It's too dark,thought Tomoyo. She tried to find the lamp's button. She then clicked it.
But the fact that awaited her in her bedroom wasn't the good one. Her eyew grew larger as she saw the view of her room.
"No!!!" Tomoyo screamed. She started to lose her balance...
She fell. But not to the hard and cold floor but to a pair of strong and warm arms.
"I think leaving you alone in here isn't a good idea, and I guess I'm right," said Eriol. His arms were still in Tomoyo's shoulder. He then helped her to stand up.
"By the way, what happened? Why did you fall?! Don't say that you saw a spider or something like that!" teased Eriol.
But Tomoyo didn't show any reaction. She just raised her arms and pointed at her room.
"What? What's the matter with your room?" said Eriol. He looked at it and gasped.
The first thing he saw was the broken window. The window's glass pieces were everywhere on the carpet. Tomoyo's white,thick blanket was unveiled. Her bed was torned with a knife. All of her books and stuffs scattered everywhere.
But the thing that could get alomost all of his attentioln was the mirror. There was a short message on it –written with the blood-coloured paint. It said: 'You're next."
You're next? What does it mean? Thought Eriol curiously. Tomoyo's problem –whatever it is – is...more complicated than I have thought.
Eriol then closed the door and kneeled beside Tomoyo –who was still sitting on the corridor's floor. Tomoyo covered her face with her hands.
"Umm...Tomoyo? I know that you hate this question,but...I still had to ask you. What happens actually?"
Still –the raven-haired lady didn't response.
"Tomoyo!!" Eriol shouted at her. He grabbed her hands away from her face and forced that girl to look at him. "Look! We've been a friend for years and you had to tell me about this! I don't mean to dictate you what to do, but you can't let all of your problems stucks in your your head! Tell me! I'm your friend!" He was breathless because he didn't give any comas when he said those sentences.
Tomoyo was shivering. "I cant! It's too...too scary!"
"I know it might be painful,but you can't always running from your problems!"
"I...I.... Please understand Eriol! I can't tell it! I'm afraid!"
Eriol looked at that girl. She might be one of the strongest girl in my Top10 list ,thought Eriol. But yeah. She still a girl. No. I mean a human. She still have fear at something. And she looks so... weak at this time.
And before Tomoyo could realize it,Eriol's arm were around her –holding her tightly.
He hugged me –just as a friend, thought Tomoyo. But why 'a friend's hug ' could be so warm? So comfortable. So safe. And why I'd wish that the moment will never ends?
Because our friendship is more then just the 'ordinary friendships' . Love? Yes –but just as a friend. We care each other ,understand each other as a friend. More than a friend but it's not love. We're like brother and sister.
Eriol then let go his arms. "Feel better now?"
Tomoyo nodded. "But to tell you my problems...it's still to...,"
"Scary? Complicated? Difficult? Look,I know it seems so hard to do,but believe me, you'll feel better after that!"
Tomoyo looked at Eriol with confused looks.
"Don't look at me like that! Please Tomoyo! I'm your friend and you have to trust me!"
Tomoyo thought about Eriol's word. She then started to tell everything that happened to her to Eriol.
Funny,thought Tomoyo. Eriol's right. By telling him my problems –somehow- I could feel better.
*
Eriol was lying on his bed looking the top of her room with blank eyes. I still don't fully understand,thought Eriol.
Why there's a bloody murderer that aftering Tomoyo? She even never makes peoples get angry with her. She always smiles and never letting anyone know her real problems. She even hardly ever tell me about what she really think.
How could I say that I'm her bestfriend if I even couldn't make her trust me?
Damn! This is too hard. Maybe I'd better talk to Brother... Hey! Wait a minute! My brother! I've almost forgot about him! And is he home now? Maybe he's come back. I'd better check his room.
"Brother?" said Eriol as he knocked his brother's bedroom's door.
Since there was no answer after knocking 5 times,Eriol then grabbed the door's handle and swindled it. It was open. "Brother? Are you there?"
Eriol stepped into Rio's room. It was Eriol's first time get into his brother room. And even Rio was a little bit untidy man, Eriol had to admit that his brother's room looked comfortable.
The wall was painted in softblue. And it looked match with the other light brown furniture. Except the bed –it was yellow. The sport magazines were in the white carpet.
The cold wind suddenly blew. My stupid brother forgot to close the window, Eriol thought as he closed it.
Eriol was about to leave the room when he realized a high,black cabinet in the corner of the room. It was opened a little. Eriol was curious. He came closer and opened it.
It was a... filling cabinet. That's weird! I've never know that my brothers likes reading and keeping documents,thought Eriol. He even hate everythings that had a pile of words inside it. Except sport magazines of course.
Eriol then took one of the folder and open it. It was an old newspaper clipping. Eriol turned some pages and found out something same from all of that newspaper clipping. All of that were about girl's murder!
He gasped and hit a box with no purpose. The box fell and the contents scattered to the floor. They were...photographs. Eriol grabbed some of them and realized, that the girls on the photographs were same with murdered girls in the newspaper clipping.
He recognised one of the girl in the photographs as Satsuki –his brother ex.girlfriend. a/n: Rio had introduced some of her ex. girl to Eriol before Wait a minute! Tomoyo said that the dead girl at the night club named Satsuki,right? What is this means? My brother had the photographs of the dead girl? What all of these for?
Not yet Eriol recovered all of that sudden news, his eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar photograph. He took it. The girls has a raven hair and amethyst eyes. It was the picture of Tomoyo Daidouji –his bestfriend.
Tomoyo's face on that photograph was circled with a red pen. Behind the photograph there were text said ' The next one' . Eriol recognised it as his brother's handwritting. A bunch of questions came to his mind. "B,brother? What have you done?"
At that time,Eriol hasn't realized that Rio was hiding behind the door –litsening and watching his little brother's movement. "As his older brother, I should have taught him attitude about privacy. And now...seems that he has known my little secret," said Rio softly as he walked away.
TBC