Wish
Chapter: twenty-seven
"Firefly"
Kayo swept away tears as she followed Aion down the musky wet stairs. Rats live down here. Kayo thought fighting her eyes. Aion stopped to gaze at Kayo and he gave a laugh. "This is going to be painful for you, but God never said life was without pain. He said he could help you along the way." His sarcastic tone trailed off as he continued down the swirling stairs. "But of course he never gave your mother a chance." They reached a bronze door that was covered in moss. Aion opened the door and continued through revealing a secluded room. "Fukai are you ready?" Aion asked watching the dark room. A boy no older than sixteen or seventeen approached him. He had flowing black velvet hair and he wore an all black wardrobe. "Hello Aion." He said in a rather surprising tone. It was as though he hadn't seen a human being in ages.
Kayo held back her tears but to no avail. She wept and tried to wipe them away. Fukai gazed at her with a confused look on his face. He walked up to her and swept one finger across her face a tear flying away. Pour quoi pleurez-vous Kayo? Est-ce que j'ai dit quelque chose vous faire le cri? (Why are your crying Kayo? Did I make you cry?) He asked as her body trembled. Kayo looked at him with a confused look on her face. "What are you talking about, I can't understand you." She said shoving him away. "You killed my mother you bastard! Why else would I be crying?" She screamed wiping at her tears feverishly. Aion laughed, it echoed throughout the room. "Kayo he sometimes speaks French. You will have to excuse him. Besides you know as well as I do that he doesn't remember killing your mother." Aion implied turning toward the stairs. "I want you to show him around and teach him about the girls. He is planning "B" in the long run." Aion said walking up the stairs.
Kayo's tears faded and she clicked on a flashlight. "Come on Fukai, I have to show you around." She said walking up another set of stairs that was next to the ones she came down. Fukai stood there staring at the ground with a saddened expression. "Kayo, I killed your mother?" He asked kayo looking up at her. Kayo's heart pounded and she shook her head. "Not now ok, I will talk to you later about that. I have to tell you something about Aion ok. Follow me." She said holding her hand out for him. Fukai smiled and grabbed her hand as she led him further up the stairs. He looked like a child who just woke up on Christmas morning. She couldn't believe he could change his attitude so quickly. She remembered him as a child, they were best friends and still in Jr. High. There was a darker side to Fukai and no one wanted to unleash his demon, except for the all-knowing Aion.
One weekday he came over to her home and he was not the Fukai she knew. He walked in a thunderstorm to her home carrying a kitchen butcher knife. That was his weakness, knives. He snapped and killed her mother not to mention he beat Kayo up pretty bad also. Kayo could never forget that night. She just knew he was set up, and she knew why the school prohibited him from having knives of any sort. She shook the memory from her mind; she knew it was the past. Fukai saw her saddened expression, and the same expression took over his face. "Firefly, what's the matter?" He asked stopping her halfway up the stairs. Her eyes widened and she turned to look at him. Her mother always called her "Firefly" and it made her feel uncomfortable.
"Nothing's wrong Fukai, just come along." She told him as she continued up the stairs. He hummed a tune to himself as they walked. He started out humming then he began to sing. "Vous Mon ami vous êtes beaucoup comme eux, mais je coupe votre ligne ET vous savez que je. Main tenant je suis perdu dans vous comme je fais toujours et je mourrais pour gagner la cause que je nais pour perdre la luciole pourrais vous polir votre lumière main tenant... veuillez ne pas pleurer luciole. (You my friend you're a lot like them, but I cut your line and you know I did. Now I'm lost in you like I always do and I'd die to win cause I'm born to lose. Firefly could you shine your light now...please don't cry firefly.) Kayo smiled as he sung the song to her. There was only one thing she remembered in French, and that was the song he always sung to her when they were fourteen. Now I know that bad things happen on earth and sometimes I have to live with pain. I lost someone dear to me and there is no way in hell I'm going to let her lose me. I'll never give up, as long as the sky's light shines on me. There is a God.