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Chapter 2: Aww Man I Gotta Raise
Thunder erupted through the fairly spacious three-bedroom apartment, sending shockwaves of consciousness through Kagome's body. She sat up and sighed at the red flashing numbers on her alarm clock that read seven forty eight.
The one day she was off, it rains and she's up before noon. That was a bad omen if there ever was one. She plopped back on her pillows and stared at the roof waiting for slumber to claim her mind. No such luck. Why did the one thing that she was totally in love with have to be photography? She wanted to take pictures of people in they're natural habitats or a city landscapes on beautiful dark night not, thick anorexic models that look like they fell face first in Mary Kay headquarters. But waiting for your talent to be discovered doesn't get the bills paid.
Not only was the job tiresome but also, it was eroding her personal life a little more everyday. It was like she couldn't remember anything that doesn't start with a p and end with y.
Countless guys had displayed interest in her and she always tried to tell them it was a waste of time. Its not like she didn't like the guys that would waste they're time trying to become part of her life, many of them she said yes to, but saying yes doesn't have anything to do with remembering that she was supposed to go on a date. Not only was that slowly but surely going to hell but she was sure sometime soon her friends would abandon her no matter how much they say they won't. Just the other day she had ditched Sango...
"Oh, no Kami please do not let that be the thing I forgot to do yesterday!" She scrambled out her bed almost falling and hitting her head the cover being her undoing as, she tried to run to the calendar to see what she already knew in the back of her mind. There it was right they're in big exaggerated letters 'SCATTER BRAIN DO NOT FORGET: MEET SANGO AT CHILI"S OR EARLY STAGGED DEATH IS IMINITE!!!'
Thunder crashed when her wide eyes clashed with crudely drawn pictures based on the themes of August. Thunder crashed again and Kagome fell back onto her bed after she thought she saw a person other than herself in the mirror, scenes of Sango picking some illegal way to torture her crossed her mind.
"I-I gotta get out of here before---" Her eyes looked hungrily in the light in order to see where that scary unsettling creak came from. The door slightly ajar and she could have sworn she saw someone run by in a Scream mask.
"D-do I always leave my door open like that?" Thunder flashed again this time catching her off guard but not too much to where she could not hold the scream in that was threatening to break away from its confines with in her chest. That was the last straw. She got on her knees and searched through her clothes that she placed in the biggest closet any girl could ever have, the floor.
"Yes!" She whispered happily grappling the keys in her hand and tiptoeing out of the door. She might have only been able to see every other minuet but she was sure she spied a white mask with that infamous creepy smile connected to a luminous body dressed in all black and that was enough for her legs to stop listening to her mind whispering run, ! She blindly burst into a full sprint into the dark.
It didn't even matter that she was clad in white pajama bottoms that had little z's making smaller z's and white tank that said 'Got Z's?'. All that mattered was the ever-approaching door in front of her and the increasing speed of the footsteps behind her.
"Yes!" she shouted feeling the cold metal of the gold doorknob under her grateful hands and "No!" she cursed as the metal was ripped from hands just as easily as she was dragged backwards in humiliating defeat. She cursed even more as a person wearing a scream mask laughed manically from atop her back. The person pulled back the mask revealing the challenged face of Sango.
"Going somewhere?" she let the words roll smoothly from her tongue yet hold enough anger to make Kagome pee on herself, twirling the phone in one hand and the mask in the other.
"S-Sango what I wa---"
"Hold on Kagome, get your lie together... ready?" Kagome nodded.
"Sango can't you give me a break? The model I had was beyond stupid! The shoot was for teens that were thinking of suicide, and to get her to look like she cared I had to sit her down and get her to imagine what it would feel like if her dog were dead and that took like forever! And..." Sango watched Kagome's mouth move faster and faster but tuned out the girl's excuses because she knew that if she let Kagome's words and those puppy eyes get to her she wouldn't be able to take out the sweet revenge that was owed to her.
She knew that Kagome's job was time consuming but that's only because she was the cause. If she didn't let her two bosses run over her so much she'd have tons of free time.
Come on, they are two hot twenty-two year olds! They should be enjoying they're lives not letting they're jobs ruin they're youth. Kagome had stood Sango up counting yesterday eighteen times!
If that wasn't bad enough when ever she goes to Chili's and waits for Kagome this nerd worker always sends birthday specials to her table with the words 'Your day will come' in red icing with a crying smiley face on the cake. The nerve of that man! As if someone would stand her up!
Yesterday after she was getting ready to leave he came up to her took her hand and said "Tell ya what, next time you come here I'll be your date. I might even take you somewhere special." She had wanted to break his neck when he smiled at her with those crooked teeth and that pimply face. But instead of getting sent to jail for attempted murder she had said "Actually I'm waiting for my best friend."
"Suuure. We both know you're hurting on the inside." Do you know what he did next he actually pursed his chapped lips and moved in for a kiss! She grabbed him by his cheesy uniform tie and pulled his face close to hers.
"I am one of those kids that in high school gave kids like you swirlys and wedgies. I wouldn't kiss you if you were the last toad on earth and your lips weren't chapped!" and with that she let him go and stormed off in the other direction leaving the sad egotistic man on the ground.
Sango was now back in the present her eye twitching uncontrollably as Kagome's freaked voice started to anchor her mind out of the humiliating past.
"Sango?" whenever Sango's eye twitched like that you could expect some scary things.
"So you couldn't just show up and let me know you wouldn't be able to stay long?"
"My car broke down." She straight lied through her teeth.
"Really were you planning on escaping on your bicycle?" she said sarcastically capturing Kagome's keys from her hands. It was over Kagome's lie had fell through and by the growing butterflies in her stomach something bad was about to happen. No, she wasn't gonna let it end like this!
"I---" she began, but was cut off by Sango who was imagining if she hadn't of intercepted those crusty lips.
"I just want you to know..." her face darkened "Nothing can help you now."
"Fine. Get offa me you psycho fat cow!"
"What," she screeched "fat!"
"If the cow bell fits, Annabelle!" Kagome's sudden brushed with imagined death kicked her boldness factor up a few notches.
"I'm gonna kill you!" Sango face was distorted into frightening fury. Yes, Kagome was becoming very bold indeed. She smirked at Sango who was still on top of her holding the phone.
"I know you're not gonna kill me."
"And how do know that?" she growled out a throaty response.
"Because I'm your best friend and I can do this." Tears welled up in her eyes and her bottom lipped quivered ever so slightly. To bad it was to dark to see.
"True. I can't kill you but I can do something so evil... hahahahahaha!" she laughed as she dialed the numbers on the phone.
"Oooh a phone. I'm so scared."
"Hold on...Yes, hold? O.k. that's fine..." The more Kagome mocked the more Sango's smile grew.
"...Yes I'd like to speak to the...what hold again? Damn Kagome, it's a bitch trying to call your job."
"M-my job?" The boldness was gone now. She began to worry hard; Sango's means of revenge was very destructive indeed. The damage she could at her job was unlimited. What was she gonna do now? Beg for forgiveness.
"Alright, yes may I speak to the Photography leader?"
'Photography leader... Isn't that no she wouldn't call that stalker. It better not be..."
"Hojo, hi!" Sango voice was sugary sweet giving Kagome a stomach ach as she thought about whom Sango was calling.
Hojo Wakashi. She first met him when Sango and her were in the eleventh grade and he was in the twelfth grade. She remembered it like it was yesterday. He was a new guy and he seemed nice enough so, she introduced herself to him. All of a sudden he started appearing everywhere she went, and driving past her house. One time she went to visit her cousin in America and they went shopping in the MTV store in time square and they're he was smiling saying 'What a coincidence to see you here!' She ran away screaming. When he finally caught up with her (two weeks later in school) he told her it was just twist of fate that she had seen him so many times and that he had just been visiting his sick grandmother that day. Despite that she never spoke to him again insisting that he was a stalker.
"Sango no you can't are you crazy how could you I thought we were best friends!" The pity thing was a no go.
"Hojo don't listen to her she's crazy!" she screamed waving her arms from under Sango. Putting the phone in the nook of her neck she squeezed Kagome's arms under her and covered her mouth.
"Yeah we haven't seen each other in a while have we... that noise oh, that's just annoying fly ignore it... it sounds human are you sure? It's just really big. Kagome? She's fine! In fact she was just talking about you..."
"Mmmmphhhh!" Translations-That's a lie!
"Of course she's been talking about you what makes you think that she doesn't want to talk to you? Oh, when she called you a stalking maniac? She was just kidding! The reason I am calling is because..." Kagome was in a dream like state of torment as the rest of Sango's sentence left her mouth.
"Kagome really wants to make you and her work but she didn't want me to tell you. So, when you see her again act like..." The phone was snatched from her hand and Sango was thrown off her victim's back.
"Do you know what you just did!"
"Yeah hahaha," Sango had seemed to acquire an extreme giggle fit "I set you and the nut case up for life!" She burst into fresh giggles.
"No Sango! Those nosey witches at my job listen in on his calls because my boss you know the head of photography she has tabs on him. She like a lion and almost all the men in the office are her territory! I could get fired! I'll have to move out then move back in with my mom, I'll never get a boyfriend, I'll be a soulless loser who never accomplished her dreams, I will die a sad and lonely pitiful life in the Higurashi Shrine with my brother his wife and his three snot nosed kids and when I go to the store as a old woman to get some Bengay for my soar joints I will see Hojo there in every aisle and he will say 'What a coincidence seeing you here!' Then I won't have to die a sad and lonely pitiful life, I'll commit suicide! " Sango raised an eyebrow at the skewed preview of Kagome's past present and future.
"Geeze Kagome stop being such a drama queen!" Kagome turned away from her space of exaggerated reason and glared at Sango her hands itching for a neck.
"I'm over reacting?! Don't be a drama queen she says!" She began to advance Sango. Of course Sango found it wise to back away because the fiery burn of Kagome's aura was starting to singe her hair.
"I... Kagome d-don't do anything rash!" she was behind the table now. Growling with the phone in her hand she climbed on top of the table.
"You might be my best friend but you can't do this can you, can you, CAN YOU!" She demonstrated the puppy dog eyes that she had used on Sango so many times before "I'll show you rash!" She had poor Sango in a head lock when the door to they're apartment opened and there stood a silhouette of a eleven year old boy. He dropped a rolled up bundle of material most would call a sleeping bag on the floor along with a backpack filled with clothes and other night materials. He walked to the two girls and surveyed the situation and shook his head wondering who exactly was older him or them.
"Hi, Kagome and Sango... You forgot again didn't you Kagome? And you went a step to far didn't you? And you're about to kill her." they nodded dumbly at the wise accusations of intelligent eleven year old. He stared at them with uninterested brown eyes. Sango reached out to her little brother from her unusual position.
"Help me Kohaku!" He got closer to Kagome and stared her in the eyes.
"Can I watch!" His eyes suddenly lit up with adolescent spirit.
"Sure!" Sango's mouth dropped open.
"Traitor! I'll get you for this!"
"Sango Faita you are guilty of ruining my life punishment: death by phone!"
Ring Ring
"Ugh, WHAT!... K-Kikyo what do you want... you need to see me... NOW but today is my day off...Yes I am aware that you were the one who gave me my off days and you can take them away...sure I will be right they're, what... Oh I apologize Ms. Natuma."
"Kikyo my boss the territory holder wishes to speak with me." The look Kagome had on her face was only to be used for Halloween. Kohaku got behind Sango and together they stepped back. She walked to the door like Jason stalking his girl having sex. With one foot out the door into a world of wet splendor she turned around and Sango knew whom that movie the Exorcist was really about.
"I will kill you." She mouthed then walked into the thunder with nothing on but her pajamas. Sango glared at her little brother after the creepy situation Kagome had created was over.
"Traitor!" He took off in a full sprint.
"C.P.S., C.P.S! Someone call C.P.S.!" He yelled as Sango proceeded to tackle someone for a second time.
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Kagome sat on glass as she waited anxiously in the fashionable employee waiting room designed for people who were about to get the pink slip. It was said looking at something pleasing to the eyes could settle the heart rate and calm the soul but nothing about this place calmed her down. She was getting more angry and nervous by the minuet. Nervous because well, this was where all her friends who she used to work with and no longer kept in touch with because they were all evicted from they're high priced apartments and had to move out into a worse part of town or back in with they're parents had gotten fired from. Why had they gotten fired? Because her boss was a bitchy slut that no one liked except the sleazy men that worked at Touched By an Angel Photography Agency.
She is even more of a bitch than she was in high school. This whole I hate Higurashi thing started way back in the ninth grade. Kagome had just gotten transferred to they're school and all of a sudden boys just started flocking to her taking all the attention away from little Ms. Popular. Once Kagome's instant charm started to challenge her rain as popular queen Kikyo started torturing her and spreading rumors.
Kagome just couldn't take it anymore so she decided to be a good girl and talk it out with her. Kagome was never the violent type but if you did the right thing you could awaken her inner-devil. Kikyo had asked her was her mother as much of a whore as her and how much had her mother paid her for the night that resulted in Kagome. Kagome's father had died when she was thirteen, and to make a long story short before the teacher had stopped the fight Kagome had relieved Kikyo of her two wisdom teeth and made her eye a pretty shade of blackish-blue.
They were sent to the principal's (not gay just a strong believer in peace.) office who was a total fruit. He ordered them to hug end the feud and ease tension created by the popular giants at school. They hugged and the only thing Kagome relieved was the Bubblelicious gum from her mouth and into Kikyo's hair. She had to where a hat as big as a sombrero for almost the rest of the year. Unbelievably boys still wanted to date the newly bald headed Kikyo.
She knew the little room well mainly because Sango her soon to be dead best friend had designed it right down to stylish floor lights.
"Kagome the bi---uh boss will see you." The blonde girl called and as she passed she whispered low enough to where the bugs Kikyo had planted all over the office couldn't here "Good luck Kag!"
"Thanks" she whispered back.
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"Kagome please come in." Kikyo filed her blood red nails motioning her to sit down in the soft pink swivel chairs.
"You wanted to see me Ki---Ms. Natuma?" She loathed calling her that and she let everyone in the whole building call her Kikyo except Kagome just to demean her.
'Bitch.'
"Higurashi why are you in pajamas without shoes this is not casual Friday." Kagome was so pissed she had forgotten to change her clothes. Her cheeks burned as she all of a sudden started shivering as the fact that she was wet came up and goose bumps took over her skin.
"You called me on such sort notice that I---"
"You're wet and cold. You'll ruin my chairs in that state remove yourself from my one hundred thirty nine dollar chairs." Kagome stood up glowering on the inside.
'Bitch!'
"Hojo is really complimenting your work on Megumi Delgado." She pulled the photo of the distressed model out of its envelope. She looked up from the pale yellow sleeve and glared slyly.
"His been really happy every since your little call Kagome what exactly did you too discuss? Come on Kagome you can tell your old friend Kikyo." She sneered. Kagome's face turned red once again.
"N-nothing."
'BITCH.' Yeah they were great friends just like America and Iraq!
"Its of no matter, that's not what I brought you here for. You've been doing so good I'm going to give you a raise. In fact you're promoted!"
"You can't fire me I---wait what? Promoted." Kagome could feel surprise and joy swirl into her blood stream and create a high no drug could provide. She didn't even notice Kikyo was smiling uncontrollably and feeling the same high she was. She turned to leave then stop as she realized she didn't know what she was promoted to.
"What is my new job?" Her voice held the essence of a premature squeal. Kikyo stood straitened out her skirt, and then setting her palms on the table leaned forward with the evilest leer.
"You get to be the new D.P." her high sky rocketed and Kagome's crashed into the pits of hell.
"I can't be the D.P.!" she roared at an elated Kikyo.
"Too bad. I could demote you would you like that? You shouldn't be so negative it really hurts my feelings when people won't except this job." She feigned hurt.
"Every time someone becomes the new D.P. they end up quitting or getting fired. I can't afford any of those options!" she said almost pleading.
Well, you better not get fired or quit then huh Higurashi. Now, if you'll excuse me I have a meeting with that new Ozarka man. Hahaha!"
As she passed Kagome's ears processed the words that made her holler out "You evil whore!" to the closed door. Kikyo had pushed out "Think twice before you move in on my territory Higurashi I will make your life a living hell. Your new life begins on Monday." through her red lips.
Demon Photography was a hell on Earth and if you were ever lucky enough to get it you were thrown head first into the dirtiest type of photography. The public ate it up but the photographer was mauled up by the world of these temperamental demons that could so easily tip the scale and send you over the edge and into the unemployment line. The last person to mess with Kikyo was promoted to D.P. and wound up in an asylum deemed unfit to work by the Workers Committee.
Some how Kagome had went up against the bull and lost. Now she was the new Demon photographer all because of something that happened in the ninth grade. Things would defiantly change, which was something Kagome wasn't ready for, and she can't do anything about it. Life is so unfair!
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When your enemy gives you lemons make lemonade and throw it in they're eyes.
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