Author's Note: Another late update. Sorry again. I think I'm missing something in my life here… I just can't put my finger on it… feeling sort of unbalanced and empty lately…
)LilacBlu( - All the questions you asked will be answered in future chapters.
)kawaii star tenshi( - Huh:Is confused: I didn't say he died…
)lIlSAKlI( - Trust me, if I let her live any longer the between her and Syaoran scenes are going to be dragging on for the sake of reviews (coughlike some authors docough) and I'm not one to do that… :P
)Manuca( - You're not the worst… I dream of plunging off a mountain… and I believe shit like freewill and crap, that's why I try most of my waking time trying to turn back time… I know the stars are there… but when you see them it's different… my friend who's technology obsessed saw them and even she enjoyed it… she understood why people created constellations… And that's saying a lot. The Red Devils is my team… :) There are 9 teams. Pink Flamingos, Blue Bandit Angels, Black Pirates, Yellow Ducks (peeps), Red Devils, Orange Pylons, Green Turtles and the Gold Rush. You compete against each other for the huge events, but mostly, like 17/20 of the time you spend with your own group, which is then usually divided into another 2-3 groups.
)Mystic-Fae( - Well, you do understand I'm trying to portray this story as realistically as possible, and you don't always have happy endings… but don't worry, everything will work out in the end.
)ChibiMayu( - Orubia didn't die yet. But she will.
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Chapter Seven
Bellena Orubia; Finding Answers
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Orubia set the pages down on her bed.
God. So that's it. She died in the end.
Orubia shook her head violently. What have I been expecting? I should've known. Happy endings don't happen in real life. God wouldn't give you another life just because you fell in love. Nature doesn't give a damn and will continue the cycle of life and death.
Something wet dripped onto her hand. Orubia touched her face and took a sharp inhale of breath.
Why am I crying? I didn't even know this girl!
But the tears continued to fall.
Orubia looked in the mirror at the silhouette of her reflection. It's already after midnight and the sky is as dark as the abyss. But she understood at that moment. She understands why she was crying.
Because Sakura's story had a deeper meaning… and Orubia is repeating the same mistake. "Why am I here…" she asked herself. "Why? I'm not even sick yet! I'm still a carrier! My disease isn't acting inside of me and yet I stick myself in here, welling up in self-pity. No! NO! Why am I wasting my life? I can still live like a normal person for a couple more years!"
Orubia jumped abruptly up. "That was the moral of the story! I can't stay here. I have to leave, now!"
"Child…"
Orubia whipped her head the other side. The old lady… The one with the slowest and most painful death. "You're… you're Madeleine?"
"How did you know?"
"You knew Sakura…"
"Was she a friend of yours?"
Orubia smiled thinly. That's all the proof she needed. Sakura's story was definitely real. There had been a patient who slept in this bed before her, and died on the exactly spot. "Yes, we were friends."
"You plan on leaving."
"Yes. There's no reason for me to stay."
A soft cough. "Good, good… you made a good choice, my dear. But please, do wait till morning… it's too deep into the night. You can wait for another couple of hours." She writhed in her bed.
"Yes… and tomorrow morning, I will be free… No more self-pity… I must live my life to the fullest." Orubia fell onto the ground, and rested against her pillow, not at all minding the cold floor. She found the greatest gift in life. Wisdom.
The morning sunshine woke the restless girl. It's morning. "I can leave now…"
As quickly as possible, she shoved everything into her suitcase and almost dashed towards the door.
"Wait…"
She turned around. "Madeleine…" She smiled sadly. "I hardly saw you more than 5 minutes worth of time, but I want to tell you one thing before I leave: hold on. Someone somewhere in the world needs you."
Madeleine nodded as best as she could. "Do visit me, please."
Orubia paused. Did she really want to come back often to this death place just for an old lady she hardly knew? But she replied, "Yes, I will."
Outside the room…
"I'm sorry sir, but there's no more rooms left."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"A girl by the name of Bellena Orubia came in yesterday and took the last spot. But you do realize there are only two spots anyways."
"So, so I have to move into one of the bad rooms?"
"They're not bad rooms, sir, they're normal rooms."
"My parents will pay you!"
"She came first, sir, be fair please. I cannot just send her out."
"But I don't want to be sharing a room with ten other people!"
"It's the way the system works, there's nothing I can do."
At that moment Orubia appeared beside the angered young man. "Does he want my room?" She asked the nurse.
"Orubia! Darling, you shouldn't—"
"Marie, I'm moving out."
"What? Why?"
"I told you the moment I came in! I have HIV but I'm only a carrier right now, I can still live! I don't have to stay here! I will be back someday, but I will not stay right now…"
"Orubia… I'm glad you've made such a positive decision, but you do realize if you leave now, you may not get that room the next time you come."
"I understand." Orubia nodded firmly. She looked at the young man and almost fainted. He was the most handsome and firm man she's ever seen. It's such a pity he has to be wasted here. But taking a closer look Orubia saw a tiny blonde figure to the other side of him. Oh well… "Since I'm leaving, I guess you'll be having my spot." She told him with a smile.
The nurse punched in the information into the computer and confirmed it. "Okay. I'll just be taking you to your ro—"
"It's okay." Orubia spoke up quickly. "I have nothing to do now anyways. I'll take him there, you just stay where you are, Marie."
"Well, I suppose…"
Orubia smiled sweetly. "Don't worry about it."
"Well, thank you dear."
"No problem."
"Thanks." The young man said to her.
"For what?"
"You know. I mean, I almost had to end up in one of the worse rooms…"
Orubia giggled. "Even if you didn't come today, I would've left anyways. You don't need to thank me, just thank your good luck."
He nodded. "You're pretty happy for someone in… our case."
"I was inspired last night." Orubia stopped in front of a white door. "Here it is." She put her hand on the doorknob but didn't turn it. "There's another patient in there. She looks old but she's not. Before you go in, I want you to do me a favour."
"What is it?" He asked.
"Please do talk to her and take care of her…"
He frowned, and paused for a long while. "I'll see."
"Try your best." Orubia opened the door as the young man and his girlfriend thanked her.
"Thanks for your help here, and… yeah."
Orubia nodded. "My pleasure."
The young man began to walk further into the room, towards his bed.
"Wait!" Orubia cried coming after him.
"What is it?"
She held out her hand. "It was great meeting you though short. I'm Bellena Orubia. What's your name?"
He gave her his hand and Orubia felt warmth creeping over her from his large hand. "I'm Janstone Kevin. Nice to meet you too."
Orubia's smiled faded away and felt a sheet of cold ice washing over her. This, is Kevin? THIS? This guy, is KEVIN? She took a sharp intake of breath and withdrew her hand. No wonder Sakura was in love with him.
She smiled coldly at the blonde. "And you are?"
"Cane Lori."
God. How long has it been? And they're still dating? So Kevin can be faithful after all… so why wasn't he that way to Sakura? Why? Orubia took a deep breath. "Nice meeting you."
"Yeah, you too." Lori smiled sweetly.
"How old are you now, Kevin?" Orubia asked as unsuspiciously as she could, but her voice was tainted with hatred.
"I'm 19… why?"
It's almost been a year since she died… Orubia let out a crazy laugh without meaning to. "You bastard." She growled.
"I beg your pardon?"
"YOU BASTARD! YOU DESERVE THIS! THIS WAS HER SECOND LAST WISH! GODDAMMIT EVEN IF SHE DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN I KNOW THIS IS HER SECOND FINAL WISH! TO HAVE YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE! YOU FUCKING BASTARD YOU DESERVE THIS! FINALLY, JUSTICE HAS FINALLY COME TO YOU!"
Kevin blinked. "Excuse me? Are you sure you're… mentally stable?"
Orubia let a cruel smile fall onto her lips, which looked twice as haunting as normal people because her blue eyes were so pale. They were almost like ice. She opened her handbag and pulled out a badly stapled together diary and threw it at his face.
It bounced off his skin and hit the ground, where he silently picked it up. "What is it?"
Orubia laughed. "Do you still remember a girl named Kinomoto Sakura?"
Kevin's head shot up abruptly hearing the name that just seems to refuse to stop haunting him even after it's gone from the face of earth. "How—"
"Don't ask me." Orubia shrugged walking away. "Read and find out, you bastard."
Orubia sat on the bench with her boyfriend next to her.
"I'm so glad you've finally decided on this. It's the right thing, you know, and I'm so happy you've finally come back to the sane side of humanity."
"Yeah…" Orubia muttered in agreement, though her mind was nowhere near Lender Eric.
"So do you want to go somewhere today? I'll take you anywhere." He offered eagerly.
"No… thanks, but I think we'll be just fine, you know, sitting in this park, so near to the nature…"
"Yeah, you're right. I suppose we should enjoy nature more instead of taking it so for granted." He wrapped his arms around her shoulder. "How long do you think you have left? You know… to live…"
"I honestly don't know."
"Oh… well, so how are you feeling now?"
"Just fine."
"Do you need anything."
"I'm okay."
"All right… so, do you want to talk about something?"
"Not really."
"Oh…"
Orubia didn't notice the silence that had fallen between them. She was thinking about Sakura and Syaoran.
As her mind went back to the past, to the beginning, to when they first met, till the last day they met, she suddenly found herself furious with Syaoran.
Why the hell was he gone for so long? He knew she needed him, yet he was always away. Planning my ass. Yeah right it takes an entire month to plan some crap. What a lie. Sakura was just too happy and too blind to see. But not Orubia, she could see his lie like light in darkness.
It's all his fault. It's all his fault! How dare he leave her for long! Didn't he care about her feelings at all? Though Sakura had written everything good about him, Orubia knew he was no prince charming. There had to be something selfish deep inside of him that he's not showing, after all, nobody was perfect. It's those who appear to be that you should be suspicious of, because they're hiding something from you.
"—And Mindy was so glad you came, you know. Everybody in school misses you Orubia, we were actually planning to kidnap you out of the hospital if you didn't make up your mind soon, you know. Am I glad we didn't have to go through th—"
She stood up abruptly.
"Ruby?"
"I'm sorry, I got to go?"
"Wha—"
Without considering his feelings, she jumped away from him and rushed away.
Hospital…
"Excuse me! Excuse me! Marie! Excuse me!"
"Woah! Hold up! Don't scream in a hospital!" The nurse protested.
"Sorry, sorry." Orubia apologized sliding up to the front desk. "Marie, I need you to do something for me."
"If you changed your mind about leaving you're making a horrible mistake."
"Not that! I'm worried about something else… I need you to do a check on a person for me."
"Well, I'm actually not technically allowed to be giving out information on patients—"
"Not a patient! I need you to look through and see if there was ever a certain person who volunteered here…"
"Oh… well, I guess that should be okay… I can't give you much information though…"
"I don't care, I just want to know when did he leave."
"All right, I guess I can give you that much. What's his name, sweetie?"
"Li Syaoran. L-i, S-y-a-o-r-a-n."
"Let me check…" Marie typed the name into the computer system, and seconds later, she frowned. "I'm sorry, are you sure the spelling's correct? There was nothing under that name."
Orubia bit her lips. She had almost a photographic memory. And besides, his name was repeated so many times throughout her diary. "I'm positive."
"Let me check again…" Marie sighed after another search. "I'm sorry, there was nothing under 'Li' or 'Syaoran'. No such person exists in our database."
Orubia felt like she wanted to cry. Could it be that the entire was just a story? Could this Li Syaoran be Sakura's fantasy? No… that's not possible! He can't just be a… non-real person! No! This can't be!
She covered her face frantically. "No, he was here… he exists! I swear he does! There's prove… there has to be prove… yes! I got it! I'll prove it to you he exists! Come with me!" Without waiting for a response Orubia grabbed Marie's arm and dragged her to Madeleine and Kevin's room.
When she rushed in, Kevin was on his bed with Lori next to him. They were both squinting at the diary with a surprised and shameful look on their face. Kevin looked up when Orubia kicked the door open frantically. He opened his mouth to say something, but Orubia just held up her finger and gave him a shushing look. "Keep reading. Don't pity her. She died happy, even without you." She said scathingly.
Turning around, she dragged Marie to Madeleine. "Madeleine, mame…" Orubia shook her gently. "Mame, sorry for waking you up, but I need you right now, wake up, please…"
Madeleine stirred then opened her eyes drowsily. "Child… you're back… s-so ear, early…"
"No, I'm not back… I just need you to witness something…"
Madeleine yawned. "What's the matter?" She asked, blinking her eyes a couple of times.
"Ms. Madeleine please tell Marie here that Li Syaoran existed…"
"Li Syaoran…" she repeated. "That's a familiar name…" She thought for a bit. "Oh yes, how could I forget… he gave her the happiest days of her life…" She chuckled. "Sakura was never a happy girl, but, but every time he came… she… she was al-always, so, so h-appy… like, like even more than, normal people."
"But you're positive he's real, like you've seen him." Orubia demanded, begging for this to be true.
"Oh yes, he was quite handsome, a real gentlemen and a smooth talker. He was definitely real."
"See?" Orubia said to Marie with relief.
"Well, this proves he's real…" Marie said thoughtfully. "But he's definitely not in our volunteer system… maybe he was in a different department? Could he have been a nurse, a doctor, a nurse in training?"
"No, not possible… he's only one year older than her… meaning even now, he's only 20. And besides, he hasn't even started university yet…"
"That's true… it takes quite a few years to graduate if you're studying medical school…" Marie thought a bit more. "I'm sorry Ruby, I'm running out of ideas, I don't think I can help you…" She sighed. "It's strange how you know so much about his past yet you know nothing of him now…"
Orubia looked down.
"Tell you what, if you give me a hint of where he is now, what he's interested, which department he's under, I'll whip you another search. But till then, there's nothing I can do. Maybe if you can, trying calling him and talking to him or something." Marie smiled encouragingly and left.
"So was Li Syaoran that loser's name?" Kevin bit out.
Orubia whipped her head around angrily. "Don't call him a loser. He's 10000x better than you'll ever be."
"Yet she begged me to kiss her and not him."
Orubia growled. "Don't talk about what you don't know. Keep reading and you'll see. She kissed him too, except he didn't kiss her after degrading her to the lowest level like you did. In fact he saved her from suicide after you nearly completely crushed her."
"She begged me, not my fault."
"You're such, such, a self-centred bastard. I won't talk to you. Finish reading the diary and by the time I'm back, you'd better have learnt something."
Orubia whipped around angrily to storm out of the room.
"Orubia…" A voice said dryly.
She turned around to face Madeleine.
"If you find out anything, do report back to me… I worry for her too…" Madeleine requested with a genuine frown.
Orubia stared at her for a bit, then nodded. "Yeah, I will." And with that, she left the room.
So it's true. He's not a fucking volunteer worker. I bet he's just some freak picking up girls at the hospital! Because he'd have more of a chance this way! Orubia shook her head clear of such thoughts. He may not be the perfect prince on a white horse, but he can't be that bad either…
She has to get to the bottom of this… something's not right… there's something missing in this puzzle… that one, but most important piece…
And where's a better to start than the source, Hong Kong?
Hours later Orubia was at the airport with nothing but 2 sets of clothing and a lot of cash. She convinced her parents she needed it, and how could anyone say no to her at such a time?
As she settled on the plane, her cell phone suddenly rang. "Hello?"
"Hey, Ruby, I heard you just begged a load of cash off your parents… you're not on drugs, are you?"
"Eric, I'm fine. Don't worry about me."
"So why do you need all that cash for? I mean, I won't tell anyone, just worried."
"I told you, don't worry about me."
"I mean, if you need for a good reason, I'll support you with some too, and know that I'm always here… you can always rely on me."
"Yeah, thanks."
"So, where are you?"
"On a plane."
"PLANE!"
"Yes, Eric, is that so hard to believe?"
"Where are you going? I'm going with you."
"No you're not. The plane is taking off in like 5 minutes. I got to go, they're signalling all electronics off."
"Why did you tell me? Baby if it's a vacation you want I would've planned it all for you, much better, and less rushed than—"
But Orubia had already hung up the phone. She leaned back against the chair and closed her eyes.
Hong Kong…
Four hours later she was at her hotel. It was a cheap one. The paint on the wall was peeling, and the light was dim and dirty. But nothing matter to Orubia right now. She just needed a place to recharge; after all, she'll be spending most of her time on the road.
Orubia took a quick shower, and went to bed, getting ready for a busy day tomorrow…
Next Morning, Outside…
It was now that Orubia realized she didn't know where to start. Great, she's in Hong Kong now, Syaoran's birth country, but there's like ten thousand billion people, and she probably wouldn't recognize him even if he walked right pass her.
But it was then she remembered that he was very famous, rich, and mentioned that everybody but Sakura was interested in his life.
-Flashback-
"Are those necessary?" I asked pointing at the guys dressed in black.
"Not those, they."
"Whatever."
"And yes they are, 'cause otherwise we'd be squashed to death by reporters."
I snorted. "Who would be interested in your life?"
He laughed. "Everyone but you."
"Damn right."
-End Flashback-
That's right. Then that means, a lot of people should know him… Orubia tapped a girl who was waiting by a tree on the shoulder.
The girl turned around and smiled.
"Hey," Orubia greeted. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure." She replied.
"Um, do you know anything about Li Syaoran?"
Her face suddenly went white and then frowned angrily. "Don't mention his name right now… do you have no respect for his clan whatsoever!"
"What? What happened? Did he get kicked out?"
"Kicked out? Never! Not him in a million years! Are you really that shielded from the media? How can you not know?"
"What happened?"
She sniffed and pouted sadly. "Go away… I'm not in the mood to talk anymore…" She turned around and wiped at her face.
Orubia frowned. What happened?
At first she had thought the girl was crazy, but turned out everyone else had responded her with the same thing. The girls would be amusingly upset, and the guys would get gloomy and just walk away.
"What could've happened?" It was then Orubia noticed that the country seemed unnaturally white. Hong Kong was supposed to be bright and colourful, yet almost all the store signs were white with white furniture, white menus, and white paintings. What's going on? Maybe she should try calling his family…
Orubia walked to the nearest phone booth and dialled 411. It was the operator for this country. (I think that's the number for Operator in China… not sure though.)
"Operator, how may I help you?"
She didn't want to sound too suspicious, so she tried a different approach. "I have a friend, her last name is Li. I'm not sure what her parent's names are, and I really need to speak to her right now, it's an emergency. So I was wondering if you could give me all the Li's numbers there are?"
The lady paused. "Sure, I suppose. Do you have a pen and paper with you?"
"Yes." Orubia replied, taking them out of her bag.
"Well get ready to write, 'cause there are a lot of Li's in Hong Kong."
By the end of the day Orubia had called 24 houses, and the responses from each weren't much different from the people on the street. She sat down in her hot bath and sighed depressingly. This isn't going anywhere.
The phone suddenly rang.
Well this is stranger, I didn't tell anyone I'd be staying here. Orubia stepped out, wrapped a towel around herself and picked up the phone. "Yes?"
"Miss Bellena?"
"Yes."
"There is a certain Mr. Lender here to visit you."
Orubia raised an eyebrow. How did Eric know she was going to be here? "Send him up."
"Yes, madam."
Second later after she was in her pyjamas, there was knocking at her door, and when she opened up, she was greeted by a firm hug. "Hey baby, how are you?"
Orubia squirmed away. She was frustrated already today; she wasn't in the mood for anymore questioning. "Just fine. What are you doing here? How did you even know I'm here?"
He grinned and touched her hair lovingly. "I was driving while I was on the phone with you, I drove to the airport immediately and I checked the schedule, and there was one plane that left at the time, and it was to Hong Kong. So I took the next flight, I mean, you understand right? I just wanted to make sure you're okay, and in case you needed anything. You were pretty distinctive, I asked around a bit if they've seen a girl with light brown hair and the palest eyes. Apparently you've gotten around town quite a bit, not with the best the reputation though. After a couple of points and dead ends I ended up here, and since there was a Bellena here, I knew it had to be you."
Orubia sighed in frustration. "Thanks, I'm glad you care, but it's late now, and I'm going to bed."
"Oh yeah, I know, just wanted to see you, is all."
"Great, you've seen, now you should go. You can't share a room with me."
He turned a bit pink but smiled. "Yeah I know, it's okay, goodnight then."
"Yeah goodnight."
"So how about a goodnight kiss—"
But Orubia had shut the door on him.
Next day Orubia spent the entire morning calling, yet not even one call was useful. Yet in the afternoon, just as she was reaching her last numbers, she finally reached the person she was looking for.
"Li residence speaking."
"Hello there, I was wondering if Li Syaoran's there."
There was a long pause. "What's your business?"
"Just want to… chat…"
"I'm sorry, don't ever call back again—"
"Marcus, get off the phone. I got this."
Immediately, the man gasped slightly. And in a quick, shocked voice, he uttered, "Yes mistress, of course mistress, I will go now." There was a click.
"May I help you?" A soft but powerful voice asked.
"Um, hi, I would like to speak to Li Syaoran please?"
"Why?" She asked.
"Because… you know… just to chat…"
"What makes you think he would want to talk to you?" She asked without emotions.
"Well, we were friends, but haven't communicated in a whil—"
"Do not lie to me. Liars anger me."
Orubia nearly chocked to death. How did she know? Unless… "Would you by any chance be… Li Yelan?"
"Yes I am. But you have no authority to call me by my full name."
"Terribly sorry, Madam."
"State your true business."
Orubia sighed. "I would like to know what happened to Syaoran… he left Sakura so many times without excuses, and I just recently found out he lied to her about being a volunteer worker too, and I want to know why wasn't he with her during her last minute of life. Why hadn't she died with him holding her hand? I want to know what happened! I demand an explanation!" Orubia cried, full of emotions.
To her surprise, the woman only shot her down. "Shut up. Do not scream. Don't think your emotions will make a difference. You know nothing of my son; I know that for a fact. You wonder what happened to him, but doesn't everybody? Do you know where my son is right now? I do. But why should I tell you? You're no friend of his, you read his life from somebody's journal."
Orubia swallowed. "Yes. You're right."
"Of course. I refuse to answer any question of yours, until you answer just one of mine: Tell me where Syaoran is. Then I will answer everything else."
"He's… he's at home!"
"No. Go back to where you came from, come back to Hong Kong when you have the answer." And she hung up.
Go back to where I came from?The next thing found Orubia at home packing her bags. She came from the hospital; there must be something there that she missed. She bought another last minute ticket, and hopped on the plane. Like last time, her cell phone was ringing again. "Orubia."
"Hey, baby, where are you? I just came to see you and they said you aren't in this hotel anymore…"
"I'm heading back."
"What?"
"I've done everything I needed to."
"So that's it?"
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you even inform me? I thought you got kidnapped or something!"
"Sorry, forgot."
"Well baby, wait, I'm gonna catch up with you."
"No, plane's departing in 5 minutes."
"Again?"
"Yea."
"Well, can you meet me at mine or your house as soon as we get bac—"
Orubia already hung up the phone.
Hospital…
Orubia ran around the hospital over and over again, asking nurses if they remember a certain Li Syaoran, but it seemed none did, and disappointed, Orubia went back home.
Her parents fussed over her, but Orubia felt herself trapped deeper and deeper into the life of Sakura, and found that she could not concentrate on anything else. What did she mean? Just tell her where Syaoran is… well there's a million places on earth! How's she suppose to guess? And how would the hospital know? Unless…
Orubia gasped.
He's not a volunteer worker, because he's staying at the hospital.
She pulled the covered up to her chin as she felt her body freezing over. Something about that sentence chilled her to the bones.
It was already Saturday, as Orubia was about to leave her house, her phone rang.
"Yesh?"
"Ruby, tha' you?"
"Yeah, Eric, 's me."
"Are you busy today?"
"I'm actually leaving right now."
"Oh, I was hoping we could go somewhere together, you know—"
"Eric, I'm busy."
There was a pause, and then she could hear something sad in his voice, but paid no mind to it. "Ruby, you've been kind of distant lately, slamming doors on my face, hanging up the phone and all…"
"Been busy."
"Yea, and very evasive. I mean I can understand what you're going through and I wanna be there for you… but you're not making this any easier…"
"Sorry, busy."
"See, even now… I'm kind of hurt, because you're going maybe a bit too far… farther than normal people should even if they are sick…"
"Eric I've got to go."
"No Ruby, we have to talk this over… I mean I don't feel happy around you at all, no offence, but I'm even feeling often depressed and annoyed—"
"I got to go!"
"No, we have to talk this over and discuss everything, I want to be clear with each other, and if you really have no more feelings for me and want somebody else, you can just—"
"Eric! I've GOT TO GO!"
"Ruby, no, I'm still talking here, I want to get everything sorted out—"
Orubia slammed the phone down and ran towards the hospital.
On Saturdays the hospitals have completely different shifts. Every station was taken by a different nurse than normal days.
Could this be when she will find her answers?
Orubia browsed through halls after halls, asking nurses, making them recheck the computer over and over again, trying out every spelling that seemed possible, but there was no hope.
"Please!" She said, stopping a nurse. "Do you know a person name Li Syaoran?"
"I'm sorry madam, I have not ever heard of that name."
"Please, think hard, he's got brown hair, amber eyes, 19 years of age, he was definitely here last year… you've got to have seen him around somewhere!"
"I'm sorry madam, but I haven't."
"It's Li Syaoran dammit! Li Syaoran! Listen to that name! It has to ring a bell! LI SYAORAN!"
"Miss—"
"No! LISTEN AND REMEMBER! LI SYAORAN! LI SYAORAN! LI! LI! SYAORAN! SYAORAN! SYAORAN LI! SYAORAN LI! LI SYAORAN! REMEMBER HIM! YOU GOT TO HAVE KNOWN HIM!"
"Please—"
"NO! KEEP LISTENING UNTIL YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING! OR I'M NOT GOING TO STOP SCREAMING! LI SYAORAN! LI SYAORAN! THAT'S RIGHT, LISTEN TO THIS NAME! AND IF YOU'RE IN THE HOSPITAL LI SYAORAN, YOU BETTER COME OUT! LI SYAORAN! LI SYAORAN!"
"I know Li Syaoran." A soft, feminine voice said.
Orubia whipped her head around at the speed of light. "You do?" She asked with hope in her eyes, staring at the nurse in front of her, who had dark, dark green eyes and red hair.
"Yes, he and Dr. Ada knew each other pretty well. I would almost say they were friends. I'm Dr. Ada assistant. I knew Syaoran quite well too. He was a sweet gentleman."
"Where is he? Where is he? Why didn't the records in the computer say he was a volunteer worker? You're proof! You've worked with him! Tell them to change the records!"
The nurse frowned. "What's your name?"
"Bellena Orubia. You?"
"Arima Lessi."
"Nice to meet you Arima. Now tell me what happened to Syaoran?"
"You can call me Lessi." She stated, then frowned. "I never heard him mention you before… how do you not know him, if you do not know where he is right now?"
"Why does everyone keep saying that? I knew him through a friend, okay? Where is he? JUST TELL ME!"
"If you don't know, I don't think I have the right to tell you… Maybe you should ask his mom instead…"
"I did! She said she won't answer any questions until I find out where he went! Then she'll answer everything for me!"
She smiled a bit. "He was such a nice boy, always so sweet and gentle… I often talked with him, you know, and he always made me feel better…"
"That's nice. Where is he though?"
"He always obeyed everything the doctors said… it's too bad he left really… he trusted people very much too… it's rare finding people like him these days…"
"WHERE IS HE?"
"He wasn't the healthiest but always energetic. He had such a bright view on life…"
"I don't care! Sorry but I don't! I just want to know what happened to him!"
Lessi looked at her in the eyes. "Listen to me, Orubia, listen closely. He was such a nice boy, always so sweet and gentle… I often talked with him, and he always made me feel better… He always obeyed everything the doctors said… it's too bad he left really… he trusted people very much too… it's rare finding people like him these days… He wasn't the healthiest but always energetic. He had such a bright view on life…"
Orubia took a step back. "Why are you talking in past tenses…?" She demanded darkly.
Lessi tried to smile, but there were tears in the corner of her eyes. "Orubia…"
"Where is he?" She demanded, swallowing thickly.
She sniffed. "He's dead."
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Author's Note: A couple of people guessed he died that night after that quite "strange" scene. That was the impression I was trying to give… but yes, he's dead, not in the way most of you thought though… most of you thought he died because of that twitch but that's not quite true…
And sry, from now on chapters are going to be a tiny bit shorter because I've planned out the ways I want to end them…
Oh, and I'm getting a 8 week old kitten soon!
5978 Words… short, but not terrible.