Hey, the last chapter didn't go into a lot of detail about how the rest of the gang was dealing with Kurama and Alena's disappearance, so I thought I'd have sort of a mini chapter to get that done, because it's kinda important. Amanda and Marissa take it pretty hard…. Anyways here's a chapter. Warning, it's not the nicest thing to think about what those two are doing to themselves, but it's important, and some other comments in the rest of the story wont make sense if you skip over it or don't read. So……
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Amanda sat in the bathroom stall, her knees drawn to her chest her feet resting on the edge of the toilet. She stared down at the meaty underside of her left forearm. Her right hand was hidden beneath it. Almost net-like light scars covered her forearm from wrist to elbow.
The brunette sighed. It had only been six months since the last time she decided to 'relieve' her pain in such a manner. Lifting her right hand, Amanda reveled a small, sharp, razor blade between her fingers.
Trembling, she raised the blade and pulled it across me skin in a quick stroke. And again just below the first. And a third time. After that she sighed, the pain almost too much. She sighed, pulling a wad of gauze and bandages out of her purse, and carefully wrapping her arm not letting the blood drip at all.
When she was done, she slipped the extra gauze, and the knife into her purse, pulling her shirt sleeve down over the bandages, and calmly walking out of the bathroom like nothing happened.
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Keiko and Maggie trailed Marissa out of the lunch room after lunch.
"Marissa, you didn't eat breakfast, and you didn't eat lunch in there. What's up?" Kieko asked worried.
Marissa suppressed a growl and turned to face them with a small, ever hyper, very cheer-leader-like smile. "It's nothing, I swear. I just wasn't hungry."
"You haven't eaten since last night, stripes." Maggie said, using the girl's old nick name. "You can't go with out food for that long. It's unhealthy."
Marissa snarled at the name. Maggie and Keiko recoiled slightly; they'd never seen her like this. It was unnatural. "I'll eat, whenever the hell I feel like it, kay?" She snapped before storming down the hall.
Maggie sagged against the wall watching her go. Kieko watched her also, then turned to Maggie with sad eyes.
"Has she done this before?"
Maggie nodded slowly, her eyes watering up. "A few times. She'll starve herself for days. Not one bite of food." Maggie sank to the floor, and Kieko sat down beside her.
"But, why?"
Maggie just shook her head. "It's how she deals with pain. Laci sulks, then tries to forget about it, Marissa stops eating until she'd die if she didn't. Phoenix breaks things and smokes. Nikolas disappears for days. Amanda cuts. They all deal differently." Keiko put a hand on Maggie's arm to find the girl shaking. "We're all pretty self destructive."
"How do you handle it?" Keiko asked. She was sort of scared of getting an answer.
Maggie smiled sadly. "By causing myself none permanent damage and pain. Just like Alena."
Keiko stared at her for a moment. She wrapped an arm around Maggie's shoulders helping her to her feet after a moment. "Koenma will find them, don't worry." Maggie nodded sadly.
"He'd better. Or else."
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Phoenix sat on the roof with Yuskue smoking. They both planned on ditching the rest of the day. And going out to start some fights or something like that.
Yuskue spoke up after a moment. "You took the fact that your sister disappeared pretty well."
Phoenix snorted. "Sure, I'm nervous as hell and she'd fucking kill me if she know I'd started smoking again." He said flatly.
Yuskue frowned slightly. "Koenma's being a total bitch about the fact that we can't go find them."
Phoenix nodded in agreement. Both boys sank back into silence just staring up at the sky.
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Two chapters in a day. WOOHO! That's awesome for me even if this chapter is kinda unimportant, but important none the less. R&R!