Haunted

Chapter 6: Halloween's Full Moon

Almost one at a time they all reached the flower shop. Ken was on his motorcycle, Omi and Yohji in the green convertible, and Aya in his white porche. Aya beat them all there, it was crazy how he seemed to not even notice the stoplights signaling that it was red, and red meant to stop, not speed up. Ken gave up on his recklessness, concluding he could only really compete with Aya on the highway. There was a difference between not caring if you got killed, and trying not to get killed; and a motorcycle was a very dangerous risk. Yohji took his time, for once, probably being forced into it by Omi.

"Aya how's your shoulder?" Ken dared to ask, moving towards the coffee pot. He got no response from the redhead who was now reading the paper and tuning out the rest of the world. Ken poked him on the shoulder. Aya winced and cowered lower into the chair away from the contact. "Hey Aya how's your shoulder?" Ken asked again, aggravated. Success. Aya looked up and stared at Ken.

"Fine."

"But you winced when I touched it." Ken smirked; he caught Aya now.

"The painkillers wore off." Excuses, excuses. Ken exhaled and pulled up a chair, waiting for the coffee to heat up.

"Hey honny I'm home." Yohji flung open the door so that it hit the opposing wall.

"I'm going to go tell Manx." Omi squeezed past Yohji and walked up the stairs to his room.

When Omi emerged two hours or so later he found that Yohji had stolen Aya's newspaper and Ken was sipping at a cup of crap coffee that Aya had made. That was the worst stuff ever! Omi had no idea how Yohji, Ken, and Aya all liked that same black and disgusting coffee. Omi gagged and looked around some more, noticing something was missing.

"Where's Aya?" He blinked and Ken looked up at him.

"Oh he took some more painkillers and fell asleep on the couch before he made it upstairs."

"Is he okay?" Omi asked a bit more audibly.

"Shh, he's sleeping. Well he practically drank two whole cups of coffee, read the whole paper, took way too many painkillers and passed out on the couch."

"Shouldn't we make sure he's okay?"

"He'll be okay."

"Can you keep it down," Yohji murmured over his paper.

"But—…" Omi wandered away to the couch and observed the sleeping redhead without touching him. He eventually turned and wandered back to the table and took a seat. "He looks paler than he did last night, maybe he shouldn't come tonight."

Violet eyes opened to stare down at the floor below him. He went to roll over but found there was nothing but a wall of cushion blocking his way. He instantly sat up, over come with confusion. Where was he? Aya looked around until he realized he was on the couch. There was no one in sight… what time was it?

Aya squinted at the digital clock on the VCR, it was only six, six what? He squinted more at his extremely blurry vision until the small letters PM came into view. He hadn't slept through the Haunted House, somehow all the way that became a relief to him.

Aya's blurry eyes shifted over to the window to find the source of the weird lightening in the room. He caught sight of a huge orange half-circle rising up from the trees in the distance. He sighed, creepy; a full moon on Halloween.

"Aya?" Omi voiced sounded through the quiet room. Aya jumped, he hadn't realized that Omi had been watching Aya for a while now. He turned towards the chibi.

"What?"

"You're okay?"

"I'm fine, you should stop worrying." Aya's unfocused, glazed eyes grew colder as they stared directly into Omi's eyes, which were averted slightly.

"Are you sure?"

"Just leave me alone." Aya's eyes flashed, catching the growing light from Halloween's full moon.

To be continued...

In this chapter the story has gotten much harder to write. I think Ihad Omi pry a little too much. Let me know!