Tears of an Angel
Chapter 10
"HEY!! Can anyone hear us?" Shinji called out, slamming the door with a frozen piece of salmon.
"Shinji..." Asuka started in an annoyed tone, "if anyone could hear you, don't you think someone would have come and have...GOTTEN US OUT OF HERE?!" A new person opened the door and looked rather bewildered. "Hey, this isn't the little girls' room." She let go of the door.
"Don't close the door!" Toji yelled. The lady turned swiftly and tried to stop the door from closing but failed.
"What are you kids doing in the freezer? The sign said that this was the bathroom."
"Yes, tell us something we don't know," Toji finished. "Crap, it's freezing in here!"
"Whadd 'ya think this is? Florida? Nice and sunny weather?" Asuka remarked creating clouds of smoke from her mouth." Thirty minutes passed and thirteen more people came into the freezer and all failed to free the previous frozen prisoners. Rei, now pale and stolid looking, thought moving some boxes would be a good idea to locate something useful. She found a fire extinguisher that may be proven to be of some use.
"Look," she said to everybody.
"Nice, Rei!" Asuka cheered. "A fire extinguisher!"
"A frozen fire extinguisher!" Toji added. "Let's try it!" Toji grabbed it from Rei and hit himself over the head with it and fainted.
"Y'know, Toji, you never cease to amaze me with you constant lack of superb intelligence. Maybe we should give you a letter just like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter- an I for idiot," Asuka said.
Meanwhile, at the school, Mrs. Otonashi was welcoming parents into the school and into the theater. One student whispered through the door for her to come over.
"The show is twenty minutes away, director," said the student who was playing a local towns person. "Whatever shall we do? Our leads are still not here!"
"They ought to be here momentarily. Oh, and hon, stop calling me director. You have been doing that since Chapter 9 of this fanfic. The real drama director was so distraught about having our leads not show up on time, that she worried herself into a comma. I'm the Assistant Principle at this school."
"Oh."
"Now go and get back stage. I'll come around the back and let you know if we are ready to start."
"Shinji and company, upon everything good and beautiful in the world, where can you guys be?"
"HELP!!!" shouted everyone in the freezer. "We're cold as heck!!!!" Asuka pounded on the door, as a little girl cried next to her father saying she had to go to the bathroom really bad. Toji was still unconscious, and Shinji tried to punch through the wall in a sorry attempt to break free.
"Everyone's a critic," Shinji said.
"Is there anything in this ice box that can warm us up?" a guy in the corner said.
"If there was, don't you think we've had used by now?" said another.
"This is not so bad," Rei said. "We'll get out of here soon, I hope." Toji regained consciousness, then bumped his head against a frozen piece of haddock; he fell into a semi-coma again. "Never mind; we dead."
Meanwhile
"I just don't know why they are taking so long!" Misato complained as she looked at her watch. "Where are they?" Kaworu looked at the sign that lead to the bathrooms (not!), and felt that something wasn't quite right.
"Misato, I need to go wash my hands." He got up and started on his way.
"Wait, why?" she asked shrugging her shoulders.
"Umm...good hygiene. I always wash my hands before I eat."
"Since when?"
"Since...just three seconds ago."
"Oh, alright. Don't let me stop you then. Be back in time for the food." You mean YOUR food, Kaworu thought. He didn't forget the plan. He remembered one thing before leaving.
"Misato, would you be so kind and tell me what time it is?"
"Sure!" She glanced at her watch and answered with a smile. "Six-forty." Kaworu felt his heart drop down to his feet.
"Uh, thank you." He walked swiftly down the corridor and followed the directions. Bitter coldness engulfed his senses when he stopped before the big, gray door. "Shinji? Rei? Asuka? Toji? Are you in there?" he called. Rei heard Kaworu and rushed to the door. Rei looked very sick and her hands were white and icy.
"Kaworu-kun? Kaworu-kun, is that you?"
"Kaworu?" Shinji, Toji (who is now conscious), and Asuka said in unison. "Oh My God! Kaworu! Get us out of here!!"
"Someone's going to get us out?" said an elderly lady. "Oh, thank heavens!"
"I need to go, Daddy!" said the little girl, who's tears were now harden ice.
"Is that the bathroom?" Kaworu asked.
"No! This is the frezzer! And it's so goddam cold in here that it's almost ground zero degrees in here!!" shouted Asuka. "Kaworu, get us out! We'll be late for the play!"
"Funny you should mention that, Asuka-chan..." he started.
"Stop! Don't tell me. We're late aren't we?" Toji concluded.
"Uhh...yes. So hang on, because I'm coming in there and get you all out of there. I promise you all will be free." Kaworu pulled with all his might to open the door, and he did. As he rushed in, and all the people rushed out of the freezer, Kaworu slipped on a trail of ice and went flying. He let go of the door, and it slammed shut before anyone could take hold of it. Kaworu tried to get control of his feet, but he went sliding at the door and rammed through the small glass window head first. With his head sticking out from the door on the other side, Kaworu's body in the freezer dangled with pain. He held up his hands to support his neck and body.
"Oh, no! Kaworu, are you okay?" Toji asked.
"At least you won't be held responsible for breaking a promise," Rei sadly said.
"Nice view," Kaworu joked. "Brrr...it's cold in there."
"Tell us about it," a teenage girl, sitting on boxes of fish sticks, wearing a mini skirt.
"Is everyone from the restaurant in there?" he asked.
"Yes! Even the cooks are in here!" The cooks were crying because they didn't give enough credit to frozen foods, and now they think this is some kind of punishment.
"Wait!" Toji thought, "Misato! Misato isn't in here, which means that she is the only one that can get us out of here!"
At the school
SHOW TIME!!! Well...not exactly.
"Everyone," Mrs. Otonashi announced, "the leads still have not shown up, so we have to have a seven minute delay and wait. Does anyone here have access to them by use of a pager or cellphone?"
"I don't think so," said a young skinny boy.
"Then we have to wait."
"Oh, God. Please let them be here soon," they prayed.
Sorry kids, God is on vacation for the five Eva children and not everything is right with the world.
