Forbidden

Chapter Eight

Michiru is in her room getting ready for school when her mother stormed in yelling at her. "Michiru, what's the meaning of this?" She pointed to a picture in the newspaper. She looked at the picture 'Oh crap, it's a picture of me and Haruka at the race track.' Her stomach started to hurt as she thought of what her mother was going to do to her.

"I told you not to be friends with him and you disobeyed me." She yelled at her while she ripped the picture into little pieces.

'Him? I guess she forgot that Haruka is a girl not a guy.' She smiled to herself.

"You will never see him again is that clear Michiru?"

"No mother!" Her mother's face was getting red with anger.

"What did you say?" Michiru swallowed hard, this is the first time she would stick up to her ungrateful mother.

"No mother, I will not stop being friends with him." Her heart was beating so fast, she was so angry with her so called mother. Her mother's eyes shone angry at her disobedient daughter. Michiru didn't see it coming, her mother slapped her across the face so hard her nose began to bleed, she fell on the floor in shock, her own mother, her own flesh and blood slapped her. She felt warm liquid running down her face.

"We'll discuss this later." Her mother didn't even say she was sorry or that she didn't mean to hit her, she just left and slammed the door behind her. Michiru could feel tears running down her very sore face, the pain from her face didn't hurt as much as the pain inside her, she assumed her mother didn't love her but now she knew that it was actually true, the feeling of loneliness started to over come her.


Haruka opened her door to her apartment to get the newspaper for the day; she opened it up and began reading it as she headed into the kitchen. She got to the sports section and froze; she looked at the picture of her and Michiru at the race track.

"Oh no," she dropped the newspaper on the floor and ran to her bedroom to get dressed for school and ran out of her apartment to her car within five minutes. She drove over to Michiru's house as quickly as possible without getting pulled over by the police.

As she pulled up to the house she looked at the driveway to see if Michiru's mother was there which she wasn't. She drove a little pass the house and saw someone sitting on the curb in front of the neighbours house with there face in there hands, the person had aqua coloured hair.

"Michiru?" She stopped the car and got out and ran over to the Michiru. She knelt down in front of her.

"Michi," she took one of her hands 'her hands are so cold,'

"Michi, are you okay?" Michiru lifted her head and looked into concerned teal eyes. Haruka gasped in shock at Michiru face, the left side of her face was beet red, her eye had started to turn black and there were dried blood under her nose.

"Who did this to you Michiru, who?" Haruka demanded, Michiru looked at her with a shocked expression, she has never heard her speak like that before not even when people made fun of her. She started to cry as she thought of what just happened to her.

"It was your mother, wasn't it?" Haruka stood up and had her fist clinched into fists of rage. She looked down at her love eyes and saw the pain that she was going through, she took a deep breathe and knelt down to eye level of Michiru. The rage she felt seconds ago simple vanished when she looked into Michiru's eyes. She tried to wipe away Michiru's tears but new ones kept replacing them. Michiru closed her eyes as she felt the gentle touch of soft hands on her face.

"We better get some ice on your face before it really swells up." Haruka took Michiru's hands and helped her up off the curb and guided her to her car.

"It will be alright Michiru, I promise you." Michiru looked at Haruka and nodded her head as she couldn't talk without breaking down and cry more. Haruka drove to her apartment to help Michiru instead of going to Michiru's house encase her mother came back and she wouldn't be able to hold herself back from punching Michiru's mother in the face for hurting Michi.

The drive to Haruka's was very silent as Michiru didn't want to talk about anything, Haruka tried to started a conversation but Michiru didn't say anything. Haruka looked at Michiru out of the corner of her eye and seen her playing nervously with her shirt, 'probably worried about what's going to happen next with her and her mother.' Haruka reached for her hand and brought it up to her mouth and kissed the top of it.

"It will be alright Michi." Haruka smiled trying to reinsure her, Michiru just stared out the front window but didn't let go of her hand.


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