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Key to my Heart
007: I Don't Know
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Zero took a deep breath. "Yomi?"
"Yeah huh?"
"I love you."
"...Oh..."
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"Oh... Well... That's... I... You... But..." Key couldn't seem to collect her thoughts. She took a deep breath. "Um... Why?"
Zero shrugged and looked down at the dirt. "I just do. You're funny, you're hardly ever serious about anything and you talk to me alot."
"Yeah... But... Stanley talks to you alot! Why don't you love Stanley?"
Zero laughed. "See, that's what I mean! Even now you're not serious!"
"I was serious! Come on Zero! I'm just me! I'm boring! You can't love me. I'm surprised you even like me," Key said, shaking her head.
"But Yomi-"
"No Zero! I just... Can't... I don't know why... Just.. No..." Key said, standing up.
"But-"
"NO!"
Key shook her head violently and went running in the direction of the camp. She stumbled several times and almost fell into a hole, but she kept running until she was back inside D-Tent. When she entered, red and breathing heavily from running, with tears streaming down her face everyone looked at her but nobody moved. Key breathed heavily and began throwing stuff into the bag she had brought when she first arrived. It seemed like such a long time ago. She threw everything into it and went back to the door. She turned back to the guys who still had their eyes on her.
"I'm running away," she said simply and ran out the door.
She didn't get far, however, when the Warden saw her and pulled her into her cabin.
"What do you think you're doing?" the Warden demanded.
"I'm running away! What does it look like!" Key spat angrily.
"Do not speak to me like that! What makes you think you can just run away? You are here under punishment of law! If you leave, where are you going to go? You'll be an escaped criminal!" the Warden hissed.
"I don't care! I'm sure my mum won't care either!"
The Warden laughed cynically. "You're mother is dead! She died two weeks ago."
Something caught in Key's throat. She froze. "And you didn't feel compelled to tell me?" she practically whispered.
"I didn't think you would care. You did say she wasn't much of a mother," the Warden sneered.
Key was silent. She couldn't believe it. Granted she wasn't much of a mother, she was still family. The only family Key knew of. Where would she go? Maybe she should rethink this whole running away thing.
"Now go back to your tent, and we'll pretend this never happened, okay?" the Warden said in a sickly sweet voice.
Key nodded and trudged out of the cabin and back into D-Tent. When she entered she noticed Zero had returned and Stanley was in the with him. Everyone else was just going about their business. When key entered they looked up, when she sat on her bed, they followed and sat around her.
"I thought you were running away," X-Ray said.
"Warden saw me..." Key shrugged.
"And you didn't get punished? No way," Armpit said, shaking his head.
Key shrugged again. "I don't know."
She lay down and rolled over, to face away from the boys. "Go away."
The boys lookedat each otherand shrugged. They stepped away from Key's bed except for Magnet who stayed and gave her a hug. Key sniffled slightly and half hugged him back.
"Usted será buenos," he whispered. ((You'll be okay))
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The next morning when Key woke up she felt groggy and her eyes were very heavy. She shook her head and continued on as normally as she could. She took her shovel and followed the rest of D-Tent out to the desert where she began to dig her hole.
Just before the lunch truck came, she heard and exclamation of pain from Magnet's hole.
"You okay Mag?" Squid asked.
"Yeah, just cut myself on the shovel blade," Magnet said.
Key looked down at her shovel. It didn't look sharp... But it cut Magnet... So maybe... She took hold of the handle close to the blade. She sat down in her half dug hole, making her invisible to the rest of D-Tent. She took the shovel blade and began to press it to her wrist.
"Key! What do you think you're doing?"
She looked up startled and saw Squid's worried face looking down on her. She looked back down to her wrist where a small trickle of blood was starting to form.
Her eyes started filling with tears. "I don't know..." she whimpered.
Squid took her hand and pulled her out of her hole. "I think you do know. Why would you do something like that? Are you brain dead?"
Key was really crying now. Tears were streaming down her face, leaving little dirt trails. She started shaking her head. "Leave me alone. Leave me alone."
Squid looked surprised but took a step back. Key clutched her wrist and fell back into her hole. Magnet jumped in after her and grabbed her wrist.
"Muchacha tonta." ((Silly girl))
Key smiled slightly and buried her head into Magnet's shoulder. Zero peeked over the side of the hole. All he wanted to see was what was wrong with Key. What he saw was a sobbing Key, clutching her wrist and being hugged by Magnet. He shook his head. He had to forget her.
'Not gonna happen soon...' he thought. He sighed and looked across the desert. It was so big, so easy to get lost in.
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Sy: Wow... Angsty... did not mean for it to come out like that. I seriously need to get busy if I ever want to finish this series, which I do since I have gigantic sized plans for later on. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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