Chapter 2
,Revenge…"
Rie whispered. ,Revenge on my nitwit brother."
She was stirring
in the cookingpan. She was making a carrotporridge.
If Aye hates
something more then anything, it's carrots.
Rie offered to
cook, like she does a lot, since she enjoys doing it. And she is
making Aye a special meal tonight.
Grinning she adds some extra
carrots and stirrs the stuff roughly.
Checking on the patatoes
and chicken, she quickly sets the table. She loves cooking. It's
almost like inventing stuff, only cooking usually turns out good and
not in explosions.
,Dinner is ready!" Rie cries out, putting
the pans and pots on table.
Father is the first one to enter, his
nose high up the air. ,Mmmm, this smells so good. Are we in a 5 star
restaurant?" He says smiling.
,Dad, don't be stupid." Rie
cuts his compliment short, blushing. She isn't good with
compliments at all. They make her feel so uncomfortable and stupid.
Mother and Aye quickly follow, sitting down at their seats.
,I
have prepared something new. I wanted to try something out with
vegetables." Rie explains. ,So I hope you will all eat your
plates."
,Ofcourse we will!" Father says immediately. ,We
don't wanna be rude."
Aye is sitting on his knees, staring at the orange stuff in the pot in front of him. ,Ehm… that…"
Rie sticks the spoon in the orange carrot substance.
,I'm
sure you will love this Aye! Look, you don't have to chew it!"
She drops a whole spoon of carrotessence on Aye's plate.
,But…."
Aye complains, questioning himself if the stuff on his plate is what
he thinks it is. ,This…but…."
,You wan't some more?
Here you go!" Rie drops another spoon on Aye's plate. ,I have
more then plenty Aye!"
,I think he has enough now, dear."
Mother says. ,But I would love some."
She
holds up her plate and Rie smiles and scoops up the carrotmouche.
After helping everybody to their food, she sits down and says,,I hope you will all like my master cooking as much as I do! Let us
all dig in and finish every last bit of it, since there are starving
people in the world, amen!"
Father
grins at his daughter. ,Yesh, let's!"
The signal for
everybody to start eating and they do, accept for Aye.
Father and
mother are really enjoying the meal Rie cooked but Aye is poking the
orange colored porridge with his spoon, looking suspisiously at it.
,These…"
,Don't be rude and eat it." Rie says.
Father looks up at Aye. ,Yes, son. You can't say you don't
like it, you haven't tasted it yet!"
,I don't really like
carrots, daddy." Aye mumbles, staring at the carrotstuff.
,Try
it and find out if you like it!" Father says.
,Eat it all."
Rie adds.
Pressured, Aye sticks his spoon into the mass of carrot
and pulls it back out. A pile of orange is balancing on top of his
spoon. He swallows bravely, blinks at the vegetablemixture. Then he
opens his mouth and lets the spoon enter it.
He chews and chews,
swallows. Rie is staring at him, hoping he will hurl it all out
again, since that's his usual reaction to carrots.
Aye looks at
Rie, a surprised look on his face.
He sticks his spoon into the
carrotmass for the second time, taking another bite.
Rie watches
him, not able to move as he finishes his whole plate of carrot
without complaining. Suddenly he lifts up his plate to Rie.
,Can
I have some more Carroty?"
Rie stares at him motionless for a
second, but then wants to explode.
,YOU MEAN YOU LIKE IT!"
She bellows with astounishment.
Aye smiles. ,Yes, please can I
have some more?"
,You're such a big boy!" Mother cries out
happily. ,Eating carrots and all!"
,I love it! I wanna eat it
at my birthday." Aye says.
Angry Rie turns the pot with
carrotporridge upside down over Aye's plate, causing the whole
inside of it be thrown out of it, spattering in every direction as
soon as it hits Aye's plate. Whiping bits of carrot of his face Aye
looks at his overfull plate.
,Well, I don't know if I can
finish that all…"
,You don't have to." Mother says.
Rie
grumbles and leans back in her chair.
,Rie
would you clean the mess up later, please." Mother says. ,But I
must say, I think it's great you cooked carrot in a way you're
brother likes it!"
,Yay for you." Rie mumbles, not eating
her food, leaving it untouched.
Stupid Aye. How can it be she
can't even take revenge on a stupid 5 year old?
She keeps
looking grumpy, until her father informs her about school.
,Ehm…what…oh the usual." She mumbles.
,Okay…"
Father says, trying to keep the talking up. ,So good grades for
every class?"
,Yesh, the usual." Rie cuts it off short.
,A's and B's." Father says.
,Mmyup." Rie starts to
pile up the plates which are now emptied. ,Don't worry about me. I
know how to take care of myself, okay?"
,Don't need help
studying or something?" He looks at her, hopeing her to react on
his offer.
,No,
thank you. I'll be fine." Rie clears off the rest of the table,
cleaning the table as fast as she can, as her father stands up to do
the dishes.
,Dad, I can do that myself." Rie bites at him. ,I
promised to do the kitchen today."
Father
grabs ahold of a dryingtowel. ,Let me help you, so we'll be done
sooner."
,I don't want help!" With a fast movement she has
taken the towel out of his hands.
,Now go and play with Aye or
something!"
Father tries to make one last movement, but mother
jumps in. ,Leave her. She has it under control, Diego."
She
takes Aye out of his seat. ,I will put you into your bath, young
man. You got carrot all over you!" And she tickles him. Aye cries
out a laughter.
,I wanna bathe with daddy!" He claims as soon
as his laughter gives him sence of speech back. He stretches his arms
out to his father.
,Well, okay then." Diego says, taking over
his son from his wife, who follows them upstairs to the bathroom to
put down towels and bathrobes.
Rie is left alone in the kitchen
with a big pile of dishes, cleaning them alone with fury.
She
wishes her dad had put up more of a fight. That he would force her to
go away so he would do the dishes. She wishes he wouldn't give up
so easy, while she is dying for his attention.
Why doesn't she
take it when she gets the chance?
What makes her want to run away
like this?
She
can't never become the daughter he wants to have. She is a stupid
bitch, always swearing and being absend with almost everything. When
was the last time she told him something what happened?
The only
way she really contacts the family is through cooking and fights.
She closes her eyes to keep the tears from coming.
He can't
love her like this. Why can't she change?
School,
counting down the seconds, minutes, hours. Trying to avoid as much
people as possible. Not looking anybody in the eye. Not paying
attention to anybody.
Mathclass now, a big test with difficult
formulas and large numbers.
Easy, piece of cake. Rie bends over
the paper, filling in every answer carefully and precise. She can
almost imagine a big red A+ at the top of her paper.
She grins.
Rie, girl, you are a genius. Not even Einstein had so much
brain!
After putting her pens away, she stands up to deliver the
paper to her teacher, who smiles at her. His eyes almost say it too.
,An A+ again, huh, Rie?"
,Yes." Her eyes say back to him.
,Did you expect any different."
,No."
,I thought so."
Rie grabs her bag and quickly manages her way out of the
classroom. She still has 20 minutes left until class is over. She
better go to the library and bring back the book she lend. Maybe she
can find a cool science book or something.
Besides the
sciencelab, the library is Rie's other favorite hideout. When it's
her birthday or christmas, she only asks for machanic parts and
books.
Her mother, ofcourse, always gives her a piles of clothes
too, but she doesn't care about those. A brain doesn't need
those. A brain needs books.
Plus, she thinks she looks fine the
way she looks now. Dark colored clothes, not standing out of the
crowd because of flashy colors. Her mom loves colors, but stopped her
attempts to let her daughter wear colorfull clothes, since Rie
refused to wear those pink and yellow things she bought her.
Rie
stays in the library, flipping through books she already read,
putting them back and avoiding people who start searching at the same
bookcase as hers.
Finally time is over and the bell of next class
rings.
Rie quicly puts the book back she had in her hands and
rushes out of the library. The hallways is already packed with
students, but Rie easily and quickly finds her way through them.
Barely being noticed by anyone.
She hurries inside her
Biologyclass. Another test coming up and she is reading for it. She
sits herself down at a table in front of the teacher, so she won't
have to look at the backs of other students.
The place next to
hers remains as empty as ever.
Though on the table that goes with
it, now sits a boy.
A boy that doesn't belong to the class, but
a boy she met a few weeks ago.
She stares at him, wondering what
in the world he is doing in their classroom. She dares to take a
quick turn around to check if others find his presents weird too.
Questioning if maybe he is a new students they only got informed
to the lst few minutes of her last class, so she missed the news, the
teacher tells the class to settle down and take a pen or a pencil.
Rie immediately got her pen ready, purposly not looking at the
boy, who's still sitting on the desk, his eyes focused intensly at
her.
Sometimes you can feel it when somebody is watching you and
this is one of those times. Rie just feels his eyes staring at her
and she has an awful big deal concentrating on her test because of
it.
When she read the same question 3 times at a row, she decides
she isn't gonna let one bloody boy ruin her chance on an A+ and she
raises her hand into the air.
,No questions during a test, miss
Rie." The biologyteacher simply says, looking at her hand. But Rie
keeps it up.
,Miss Rie?"
,Please sir." Rie says, as
polite as she is able to. ,I was wondering why this boy is sitting
on the table next to me. He is really annoying and I can't
concentrate."
The eyes of the teacher moves swiftly from Rie to
the table next to her.
,I have no idea what you are talking
about, miss Rie." He says. ,But may I assure you, you are
disturbing valuable testing-time right now. Please return to your
work."
Staring
at the teacher with large eyes, she wonders what he meant with the
don't-know-what-your-talking-about-part.
It is clearly a boy is
sitting on that table. Right in front of the teacher, for god sake.
How could he not see it!
Again she raises her hand into the
air. ,Sir, he is really there. He is staring at me."
Losing
his temper, the teacher cluthes a pen in his hand. ,Miss Rie, there
is no boy sitting on that table, now please be quiet or else I have
to send you to the principle!"
A giggling sounds hurls up from
the class behind her.
She is being laughed at. She is at the
center of the attention right now.
Her cheeks turns red and she
bends over at her table, covering her head up.
No, this can't
be. There is sitting a boy next to her.
Why are they laughing?
Are the class and teacher trying to pull a prank on her?
The boy
next to her bends over to her. ,You can see me." He breaths.
Her
eyes shoot towards him. Who is this boy?
Is he a crazy guy escaped
from some institution or something?
,You're the only one who
can though." His whisperingvoice echoes in her ear.
What…
What did he just say?
She is losing her mind.
Who is this boy?
What in the world is happing to her?
,You…can see me, right?"
The boy asks, now sounding really insecure.
Rie lifts her hand up
the air again. ,Sir, I feel really really ill. I have to puke really
really bad."
With a serious look on his face, the teacher
studies her. Then he nods. ,Yes, clearly somethings wrong. You're
excused. You can catch up the test later."
Without further
talking, Rie grabs her stuff and rushes out of the classroom, running
her way down the stairs, speeding outside.
This can't be good.
What's happening?
Maybe she is losing it. Maybe she has some
sort of panickattacks, maybe she is just to smart for her brain to
handle. Just like Matilda could use her brain to let things fly.
Out
of breath, she crushes down on a bench in the park.
She can't
remember ever running like this, panting she drops her bag on the
floor.
,You can see me! You can really see me."
It's like
having a heartattack. Her eyes widen. ,Wha…who…What are you
talking about!" She manages to cry out, backing away from the boy
who now has taken seat next to her on the bench.
,You…you can
hear me. You can see me…You… I can't believe it!" The boy
almost seems to faint in excitement. ,I searched everywhere for you.
I looked in every corner of the city to find you!"
He moves
closer towards her.
Rie, however backs away more. ,Find me? I
don't even know you!"
,Don't you understand?" The boy
says. ,Im invisible. Nobody can see me….But…now you can! You can
see me!"
,No I can't!" Rie cries out. ,Go away! Leave me
alone!"
With these words she jumps up, grabs her bag and starts
running, ignoring the stings in her side. Running, keep running, she
pushes herself.
Get away from that freak!
