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CHAPTER#4 MAGIC'S IN THE MAKE-UP.
When we got home I went straight for the shower then locked myself in my room. The guys came over insisting that the party wasn't over yet, but I didn't feel like being social.
As I was pulling on a clean black tanktop I looked at my arms. The scars were still there and now visable. I usually covered them with make up. On my left arm were scratches and kanji symbols carved into my skin. On my right arm it was just scratches all on my forearm and wrist. I had learned the meaning of those kanji symbols long ago. I havethis wierd probelm where I black out when i'm to tressed or holding in emotions too strong to handle. And one time I blacked out and woke up bloody and bruised in the hospital.
Apparently I tried to kill myself, but in the process I had carved a message into my forearm that only I could understand. I had cut pretty deep, so of coarse that meant and ever lasting reminder would be left behind in the form of a scar. I hated it. I either constantly covered it with make-up or I would wear really long gloves that went all the way up to my elbows during the day. But everynight after my shower I had to see it. Haunting me. Making me remember my real past, the one I tried to forget by making up a fake one.
Before I could think on it anymore I heard a knock at my bedroom door.
"Rikki i'm just tired, i'll be out in a min..." I stopped when I opened the door to see Dally and quickly hid my arms behind my back.
"Not Rikki, Dally. Your being a little antisocial so I thought i'd check on ya. Make sure your all right an' junk." Dally grinned.
"Sorry. Toom any people in a small room for me." I grinned.
"Well if you won't come to the party i'll just have to bring the party to you." Dally laughed and walked in right past me.
He looked around at all the pictures I had drawn and hung on the walls, and the kanji I had written on the walls. I searched around with my eyes frantically trying t find a sweater, jacket, gloves, anything.
"Nice room. You draw all these?" Dally asked pointing to a few pictures.
"Yeah, they suck. But I like 'em." I laughed nervously.
"No, thier good. Whats this?" Dally asked pointing to the kanji painted on the walls.
I found my jacket, grabbed it, and walked over to him while putting my left arm in the sleeve. I pointed with my right arm.
"It's kanji. Japanese writting." I said.
"Whats this?" He asked holding my arm and looking at the scars.
"Oh, uh. I had catsbefore I moved here." I lied quickly.
"Pretty nasty cats." he commented.
"Yeah. Vicious." I said quietly.
"When did ya' get 'em?" He asked.
"The scars? I actually got these the very same day that I met Rikki, Frankie, and Bubbles." I said.
FLASHBACK
"Worthless! Can't you do anything right?" My mom yelles at my dad.
"I put food on the damn table don't I?" He screamed back.
"Barely!" My mom yelled.
"That's true. I never get anything to eat." I said loudly.
My parents of coarse ignored me and continued to scream. My mother had a point though. My father didn't really put any food on the table for us. I was lucky if I ate once a day. I tried to ignore my parents, but i knew eventually they would find a way to blame me for whatever it was they were arguing about and the argument itself.
"This is your fault!" My mother yelled.
Speak ofthe devil...
"You always do this! If it weren't for you we'd have more food, more money!" My mother yelled.
It was my fault. They didn't plan on having me. If I never existed they would have had a much better life. But here I was. Eating thier food, living in thier home, wearing the cloths they bought for me.
"Why did you have to come along! Why couldn't you have died before you were born!" My father yelled.
I felt it coming on. I had blacked out before, but I could tell this one was going to be bad.
"You would have caused me less pain if you were a miscarrige!" My mother yelled.
Then it happened. Everything went black. I didn't hear thier screams anymore. I didn't feel any more pain. I thought maybe I was dead. But then I woke up. My arms hurt like hell.
"Oh your awake. I'm Rea, Rea O'Brian. Me and my sister saw you walking along the road in the rain, all bloody and then you passed out. Whats your name?" Rea asked.
"Mariko, Mariko Kyoko. Why was I bloody?" I asked.
Rea gave me a confussed look.
"We were hopping you could tell us that. You don't remember?" Rea asked.
"No. Alls I remember is the argument my parnets were having, and then, it just went black." I said. I tried to move m arms to find my purse for a smoke but they semed to be stuck.
"Oh, they thought you might have injured yourself, so...you can't move your arms. Thier straped in tight." Rea said nervously.
"I didn't do this. I can't stay here." I said panicking.
"Look, just give them a bullshit story and we'll give you a ride. Where do you need to be dropped off at." Rea said kindly, she couldn't have been older then sixteen.
"Anywhere but home." I said.
"You a run away?" Rea asked.
I nodded my head.
"So are me and my sister. Why don't you just come along with us?" Rea asked.
"You trust a stranger?" I asked.
"No, but I trust someone who's parents are as bad as mine." Rea said confidently. "So you wanna come or no?" She asked.
"Yeah. I'll go anywhere so long as it ain't home." I said.
"Good. I'll go get a nurse so we can get you out of here." Rea smiled.
The nurse came in and said she needed an explaination for why those cuts were on my arms. I was shocked when I saw them. But I came up with a quick lie.
"I was walking my dog when someone grabbed me from behind and just started to beat me. I didn't get a good look at him though. He threw his jacket over my face trying to suffocate me. But then I felt him cutting me." I fake cried.
"Oh i'm so sorry. Your so lucky these nice girls found you. You can leave whenever your ready. Should we call your parents?" The nurse sniffled letting me out of my restraints.
"Thier not home. She says her and her sister can give me a ride home." I said drying my eyes a little but keeping a fake crying look.
"All right. I'll just sign the papers. Here's a care package for being so brave. It has replacement gauze for your wounds. I'm afraid they might scar though." The nurse said handing me a papaer bag. "You can leave anytime you want." The nurse sniffled and left the room.
"Your good." Rea smiled.
"Years of practice." I said drying my eyes completely, grabing the bag and following her out.
END FLASHBACK
"So how did you and Rikki meet?" Dally asked.
"I met her at a battle of bands. We just hit it off. She needed a replacement guitar lasy minute." I smiled.
"Thats cool. I've never seen those scars before." Dally commented lighting a smoke and handing it to me.
"I cover it up. make-up, gloves, jackets." I said.
"Why?" Dally asked.
"Becuase I don't like the memories it brings back." I said.
"Cats that vicious? Damn I wouldn't want 'em." Dally laughed.
Rikki's POV
It was getting hot again. Dally still hadn't come back from Mime's room. But I wasn't worried. She was a good kid.
"I'll be right back." I called out.
I got up and went to my room. I shut the door, rolled up my jeans and turned the fan on facing my legs. I looked down and saw my all to familiar scar. It was in the shap of a rose on my knee, it was pretty big. But I still didn't like what it borught back. The memory of the day I left home forever and saved mime.
FLASHBACK
"Mom, Dad! I need a new backpack for school tommorow!" I yelled in the kitchen.
My parents were on either side of me with thier a phone glued to thier ear. They acted as if they didn't hear me. But this wasn't unusuall. Me and my sister were frequently forgotten like this. They never heard us. never knew we were home or not home unless the dishes weren't done.
I stormed into the room and looked at my sister.
"Can we go on a car ride? I need to get out of the house." I said.
"Sure, where do you want to go this time?" Faylinn asked.
"I dunno. We've been everywhere." I sighed.
"Why don't we just leave?" Faylinn asked.
"I'm trying to figure out to where." I said.
"No, I mean leave leave. Get out of this hell hole." Faylinn said seriously.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah, lets just grab some things and go." Faylinn said.
Twenty minutes later we were driving down the road to the exit of the town with a bag each in the back. We were listening to some pretty good music and driving carefully. The rain was harsh and making it hard to see the road. Suddenly I looked over to see someone walking on the side of the road. it was a girl. The closer we got I realized she was bleeding.
"Faylinn pull over!" I screamed.
Faylinn did as I said without question. She must have seen the girl as well. I jumped out of the car and ran towards her. I tripped half way there and landed on something sharp. I stood up and pulled out a big chunk of glass from my knee. But I had to help her. Just before I reached her she fell over unconcious. Faylinn helped me get her in the car and we decided to drive her to the hospital seeing as I needed to go as well.
They took me and the girl into a room to be stiched up. She had horrible cuts all over her forearms. She looked no older then fourteen.
"Your lucky you got here when you did. She would have died in another half hour without medicl attention." The nurse stitching up my knee commented.
"Yeah, Is she gonna be okay?" I asked.
"She'll be fine. She's getting stiched up and of coarse plenty of fluids. We'll have to keep her here though." The nurse said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Doctor says it looks like the poor thing tried to kill herself. We'll have to wait until she wakes up to find out for sure." The nurse said.
"You gonna be okay on your own Rea?" Faylinn asked me.
"Yeah why?" I asked.
"Need a smoke." Faylinn smiled then left.
I waited for the girl to wake up. Stitches weren't so bad. But they said I would most likely have a scar from it. I didn't care. They strapped the girl's arms to the bed while she slept. I waited for her to wake up which didn't take long at all. She woke up five minutes after Faylinn had left. I calmed her down and told her she could come with us. She gave the nurse a bullshit story about being attacked and was let go.
"Hey Faylinn, ready to go?" I called when I saw her.
"Yeah." Faylinn said. She was talking to a girl with a bandage on her hand.
END FLASHBACK
"Is that a birth mark?" Johnny asked from the doorway.
I had forgotten to lock the door. I guess I didn't hear him knock either.
"No, it's a scar." I replied.
"It's pretty. Like a rose or something." Johnny said.
"Yeah, I still don't like it." I said.
"When did you get it?" He asked.
"The same day I met Sephy, and Bubbles." I smiled.
Faylinn's POV
"Anyone else want a pop while i'm up?" I asked.
Rikki had just come out of her room with Johnny, Mime was still in her room with Dally, I trusted the kid to make her own decisions. And I knew Mime. She was most likely telling him what the kanji on her walls said.
"I'll take one." Darry pipped up.
"Me too." Soda smiled.
I went in and grabbed three cans of pop. Handed Darry his, sat next to Soda and gave him his.
"Looks like you burnt yourself." Soda laughed.
"Yeah, a long time ago." I replied.
He was referring to the burn scar that ran from the knuckle of my tumb to the base of it.
"How'd you get that?" Soda asked.
"Cigarette accident when I met Mime and Bubbles." I said.
FLASHBACK
Rea walked into my room pissed off again at the fact that out parents did nothing but ignore us. She wanted to go on a drive. that's what we did. Whenever we couldn't handle being invisable we went for a drive. but for some reason we aways came back. I wasn't listening much to Rea when I thought of something. Why do we come back.
"Why don't we just leave?" I asked outloud.
I'm trying to figure out to where." Rea said.
"No, I mean leave leave. get out of this hell hole." I said seriously.
"Really?" Rea asked.
"Yeah, lets just grab some things and go." I said.
Twenty minutes later we were driving down the road to the exit of the town with a bag each in the back. We were listening to some pretty good music and driving carefully. The rain was harsh and making it hard to see the road. I loved music more then anything. But it seemed even better now that I knew we weren't going home.
"Faylinn pull over!" Rea screamed.
I did as Rea said without question. When I looked where Rea pointed to I saw a girl all bloody and walking aimlessly. Rea jumped out of the car to go and help the poor kid. Rea tripped half way there and landed on something. She pulled it out and threw it aside and that's when I knew it was glass. I got out of the car to go and help Rea. Right before we reached the kid she passed out. We got her in the car and drove to the hospital. Rea needed stitches too for her knee.
"You gonna be okay on your own Rea?" I asked Rea.
"Yeah why?" Rea asked.
"Need a smoke." I smiled then left.
I stood just outside the hospital entrance with the cigarette in my mouth smoking it like a fiend. That kid scared the hell outta me. She was so busted up it wasn't even funny. I didn't get to think to long though. Someone had grabbed me from behind. I panicked and went to burn them with my smoke but it turned on me and scrapped itself down my thumb. Before anything else could happen the person was thrown off of me. I turned around to see some girl had just beat this guy off of me.
"That's right, you better un you fucking pervert!" The girl yelled after him. She looked about my age, nineteen.
"You just saved me." I panted out.
"Yeah, you okay?" The girl asked kindly.
"I'm fine. Thank you so much...uh...I don't know your name." I smiled weakly, I wasn't shaking so badly. Afterall it could have been worse.
"Names Bella Alloca. Whats your name?" Bella asked while helping me stand up porperly.
"I'm Faylinn O'Brian." I introduced myself.
"Lets get you inside. They'll put some ointment on that for you." Bella instructed.
The nurses did patch me up, and gave me gauze and ointment to take home.
"So, do you need a ride home or anything. It's thanks for saving me." I asked Bella.
"Actually ya. Thanks. I walked here but it's a little late to walk back." Bella said.
"So where you headed?" I asked.
"Anywhere but home." Bella said.
"You wanna come with me and my sister? We're running away as well." I said.
"Why the hell not. I got nothing better to do and no where else to go." Bella smiled.
"Cool." I replied.
Then I heard Rea calling me."Hey Faylinn, ready to go?" Rea called.
"Yeah." I called back. When Rea reached me the girl we had saved was with her. Poor kid looked pale from lose of blood.
"Can she come with us? She's a run away." Rea asked.
"I don't see why not. Rea, this is Bella, she's comin' with us to." I said.
They shook hands and Rea introduced the girl we saved.
"This is Mariko Kyoko." Rea smiled.
Mariko and us all shook hands and said hello then left.
END FLASHBACK
I laughed a little to myself at the memory of all of us pilling into the car, five minutes of silence, then a song came on we all knew, so we sang along to it and started talking. We got to know each other, and it was like we had known each other since we were kids.
Bubbles POV
"I shall return. If I don't in ten minutes send a search party." I laughed and walked to the restroom.
As I was washing my hands I looked at the scar that had reappered once the make-up had washed off. Just then however Two-Bit walked into the bathroom.
"Hey girlie. Finsihed yet? What the hell happened to your hand?" He asked looking down at it.
"Huh? Oh, Old battle scar." I laughed.
"I ain't seen it before." Two-Bit said.
"I cover it up a lot. Don't like lookin' at it." I smiled.
"How'd you get it?" He asked.
"Ran into a wall and tried to stop myself. I got it the same day I met Frankie, Rikki, and Mime." I said.
"Awe, that would have been so awesome if you had gotten it from a fight." He laughed.
"Yeah, awesome." I said quietly.
FLASHBACK
Once again my parents and me were in a heated argument. This time about my cloths.
"You look like a little slut!" My mother screamed.
"At least I only look like one!" I yelled back.
"Don't you dare speak to your mother like that you little whore!" My father yelled and slapped me.
I flew across the room from the blow and slammed into the wall. Everything went quiet. I had been hit before plenty of times, but never this hard.
"I didn't mean..."My father tried.
"Don't give me that bullshit!" I yelled angrily.
I turned around and slammed my fist into the mirror behind me causing it to shatter and my knuckles to be busted wide open. I looked at my knuckles that were bleeding profusly now, then to my parents, and then I walked out the door. No one tried to stop me. No one said a damn thing. I just left.
I had to walk myself to the hospital though. Lose of blood was making me weak, and my knuckles hurt like hell. They stitched me up and warned that there would most likely be a scar. I was on my way out when I saw some girl outside being attacked by a pervert. I couldn't let that happen. So I ran outside and beat him off her until he ran off.
"That's right, you better run you fucking pervert!" I yelled after him.
"You just saved me." The girl I saved panted out.
"Yeah, you okay?" I asked kindly.
"I'm fine. Thank you so much...uh...I don't know your name." She smiled weakly, she was't shaking as bad as I thought she would be right now, but it could have been worse. She looked about my age nineteen.
"Names Bella Alloca. Whats your name?" I asked while helping her stand up properly.
"I'm Faylinn O'Brian." The girl introduced herself.
"Lets get you inside. They'll put some ointment on that for you." I instructed.
The nurses did patch her up, and gave her gauze and ointment to take home.
"So, do you need a ride home or anything. It's thanks for saving me." Faylinn asked me.
"Actually yeah. Thanks. I walked here but it's a little late to walk back." I said.
"So where you headed?" Faylinn asked.
"Anywhere but home." I said.
"You wanna come with me and my sister? We're running away as well." Faylinn said.
"Why the hell not. I got nothing better to do and no where else to go." I smiled.
"Cool." Faylinn replied.
"Hey Faylinn, ready to go?" Some girl called out behind us called.
"Yeah." Faylinn called back. When the one girl who called out, that looked about sixteen, reached her I looked and saw another one about fourteen standing behind her. Poor kid looked pale and had bandages all up her forearms.
"Can she come with us? She's a run away." The sixteen year old asked.
"I don't see why not. Rea, this is Bella, she's comin' with us to." Faylinn said.
"Nice to meet ya'." I said shaking her hand, Rea then introduced the girl behind her.
"This is Mariko Kyoko." Rea smiled.
Mariko and us all shook hands and said hello then left.
END FLASHBACK
That was one of the best days I could remember. It was real easy for us all to be friends, like we had known each other since we were little kids.
Mime's POV
I'm not to sure what happened last night. But when I woke up Dally wa sleeping on my floor and the guys were all sleeping in differant parts of the living room. I just laughed when I saw the time. 4:30 P.M. I went and got myself dressed then woke up the girls to get ready. Our concerts were every weekend. Saturaday's and sunday. And we had a gig tonight in about an hour.
We all got dressed and ready in the same things we wore to last nights gig then left.The guys woke up in time to drive behind us. Said they wanted to hear more of our stuff. Just before the curtains lifted Rikki turned around to ask what song we should play tonight.
"How about 'The magic's in the makeup'?" I asked.
Everyone thought for a second then nodded in agreement. The curtain rose and we began to play our music. This song meant alot to all of us in a differant way. It was one of our more mellow songs to play. Rikki began her singing.
(A.N. Again any words in means Mime is singing with her.)
Can you tell I'm faking it? But I want to be myself
A counterfeit disposition Can't be good for my health
So many different faces
Depending on the different phases." Rikki sang.
I noticed Frankie looking at her hand for a moment.
"My personality changes
I'm a chameleon There's more than one dimension
I can fool you and attract attention Camouflage my nature Let me demonstrate..." Rikki and I sang calmly.
I couldn't help but look at my gloved arms.
"Makeup's all off Who am I
Magic's in the make up" Rikki sang.
"Magic's in the make up." I sang alone.
"Who am I?" Rikki sang.
"If you bore me then I'm comfortable If you interest me I'm scared
My attraction paralyzes me No courage to show my true colors that exist" Rikki and I sang.
I noticed bubbles looking intently at her knuckles that were now covered with makeup and gloves.
"But I want to be the real thing
But if you catch my eye can't be authentic The one's I loath are the one's that know me the best" Rikki and I sang.
I couldn't help but look at Rikki, she was staring down ather knees for a moment before she popped her head back up and continued to sing.
"Makeup's all off Who am I
Magic's in the make up" Rikki sang.
"Magic's in the make up." I sang alone.
"Who am I?" Rikki sang softly.
Then came my guitar solo with Frankie and bubbles backing me up on thier instruments. It was pretty mello.
"The makeup's all off Who am I
If the magic's in the make up" We sang.
"Magic's in the makeup." I sang alone.
Then who am I
Magic's in the makeup
But I want to be real the thing But the magic's in the makeup And I want to be the real thing
My makeup's all off Who am I?" We finished the song.
The crowd loved it. They cheered and some even threw us roses and flowers. As the curtain came down we all knew that the other three were thinking about that day too.
"We said we'd forget." Frankie said.
"And we will. No more of the past alright?" Bubbles chimed in happily.
"Who's hungry?" I asked.
Everyone loved this idea. So we got our money and decided to leave with the guys to go and eat some dinner.
So what did you guys think? I made it nice and long for you this time. It's a small insight to all of thier pasts. And to answer some questions. Mime is half Japanese half american. Rikki and Frankie and half Irish and half American. Bubbles is part Cuban, Part American, and part Japanese. Please review.