Unpretty
Celeb Ryu & Bouzi Neo
Chapter Three: The Room
"No! MOM! You CANNOT do this!" Neo yelled.
Mom?
"There's no other open beds...you will have to learn to get along."
"Mom!"
"Neo, I know about your problems, but it'd be nice if you didn't refer to me as your mother."
Mom...it was Mother who made me come...either here or I'd be kicked out of Capsule Corp.
And where do I have to go?
"Whatever." Neo snorted, "Bitch."
She began to walk away, "I better not hear about you guys being difficult."
"Who was that?"
"Er... Her name is Ruth I think...head nurse..." Ryu answered.
"In other words Mom. Cause she hates children. Just like all moms do, minus Ryu's."
"My grandma makes up for it..."
"Ruth's too young to be Granny though."
"True. Not by much though."
I notice neither one of them are really eating either, just playing idly with the food.
Neo sighed and stabbed a carrot with the cheap, dull, plastic fork.
"Ever notice how everything is plastic? They really make self mutilation difficult." Ryu muttered.
Neo nodded and looked to the black envelope again.
I look at her, why doesn't she open it?
She looked at her food; she ate nothing, just played with it, and stood up, taking the letter with her.
Ryu stood up too, but before they left I stopped them, "Wait! I don't know where the hell the room is."
"Then come with us, if you're done. We're throwing our shit away."
"Sounds like a plan…" I pick up the tray and follow them
Neo was the first to throw her food away, and slipped the little letter in with it, turning and waiting for Ryu.
We dump the trays and walk to the "room" if that's what you'd call it… It was more like a cell…
It was a mess, there were clothes on the floor and I wondered if anyone actually watched them. Neither ate much, and freak number two ate nothing at all...
Those cuts look fresh.
The windows had bars on them. And they had to buzz nurses just to go to the bathroom... I look at the shattered mirror...so that's how they got the cuts...
Their clothes were covering over the other mirror. You couldn't see anything. "Nice place." I muttered.
They pulled aside a pile clothes to reveal a third bed, which I am assuming will be mine...It doesn't look clean though…
Neo sat on the one in the far corner; it looks like she pushed it there. Katie's bed was close next to hers, almost touching it.
The only thing that was remotely nice was the radio system, which Ryu seemed to control.
"Ryu, where is it?" Neo dove down under her bed, and Ryu seemed to know what 'it' was.
"You had it last."
I blink, "What exactly is 'it'?"
"My black lipstick." She murmured, throwing clothes everywhere, apparently in deep search for the damned thing.
"Didn't you put in the drawer?"
"No! That was the time before last." She sat up, "Or the time before that. I forgot."
"I don't know then..." I pick up a tube off the floor "Is this it?"
"Lemme see!" She grabbed it and opened it, "Yup! My baby." She smiled and applied it, handing it to Ryu.
Freaks... who wears black lipstick?
I sit down on my "bed" but find a hard book beneath me; I open it and find poetry inside. Ryu spotted it "Hey! That's mine!"
"So that's where it went...."
I keep looking through it stopping on one "Empty" it said, " No emotions left, Crying isn't an option my eyes are red and dry laughing would be silly, and yelling insane...I just feel empty, No emotions left.."
"Dude! Bitch, put it down!" Neo yelled angrily.
But I couldn't I blinked and read the words again; this was exactly how I felt. Ryu looked panicked "Please...give it back!"
I almost regretted this, I didn't mean to make her angry, Neo, I didn't care, but with Ryu, I could tell.... I slowly handed it to her.
She hugged the book and tucked it under her bed, then sat on the bed. "So Neo...who wrote you anyways?" She asked turning to her friend, choosing not to confront or acknowledge me.
"Him."
"And you still haven't opened it?"
"I threw it away."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to hear what he has to say."
"...Oh."
I sigh, I wonder what I would do if Goten wrote me...not that he would...
"I wonder if they threw the trash out..." Neo trailed off.
"No clue."
"I'm going to go see."
"Alright...but group is soon..."
"Group?"
