OMG... it's been sooooooo long since i first posted this story... anywways sorry this chapter is boring, and I'm sorry there still aren't any recognizable characters yet. Next chapter I promise! Well, R&R, and please tell me about errors... but no flames. Read it or don't, just don't be mean. Thx! .
Chapter 2: Kiko no more...
The rain outside made it extremely difficult for Tokiko to see anything at all through her bedroom window. She moved her head forward until her nose was just touching the glass and exhaled onto it, leaving a foggy cloud on the smooth cold surface. She dreamily traced her finger through the rapidly disappearing cloud, writing the characters that spelled out her name. Sighing deeply, she watched the last bits of her name disappear, then looked out her window and across the street.
They said she was crazy. Her teachers, her friends, everyone. Even her parents had thought something was wrong with her, but they had just attributed it to the stresses of growing up. She told them she heard voices sometimes, even about some of the faces she saw in the mirror. She tried telling them about what had really happened that night with the mirror, but they never listened. They never took her seriously.
Then, nearly three years ago, she was attacked. Not physically, but in her dreams. All she really remembered was waking up in her bed screaming. Her parents came in to find her grasping her head, blood pouring from her mouth; the effect of bursting a blood vessel in her throat from screaming so much. When she regained consciousness, she told them someone had been in her dreams yelling at her. Now her parents had no choice but to ignore her. Sadly, they went about the wrong way to help her. A series of long, painful tests followed, each one coming back with the same result: nothing. Anti-psychotics didn't seem to work, and shock therapy just made it worse.
Through the years, many more attacks occurred, all of them being attributed to "mental stress" or "a chemical imbalance in the brain". Tokiko knew they were just making things up because they had absolutely no clue. After each mental assault, they would conduct more tests; each one more uncomfortable and arduous than the last. They put her in a mental ward for two months to undergo further testing and experimental treatments. Every medication under the sun was crammed down her throat with the hope that one would solve their problem. Yet even after all that, none of the doctors or specialists could find out what was wrong with her.
Tokiko knew what was wrong. The problem was that they never listened to her. After two years of having her brain analyzed over and over, and being subjected to torturous testing, Tokiko stopped telling her parents when she heard the voices. She learned how to keep most of the attacks under control, or at least enough so that she could hide them from her parents. The less she told, the less testing was done. Her cheeks began to gain back their color, and her emaciated body began to fill out. After a while, the doctors announced that she was actually getting better, that one of the treatments must have finally worked. Tokiko also knew this was bull; she was getting better because she had ceased to be a human guinea pig. The medications lessened, and the painful examinations were cut down to a few routine blood tests a month and a few sessions with a psychologist.
They said they had never had such a hard case to crack as Tokiko's. They told her and her parents that the problem seemed to have solved itself; that they had never officially been able to pinpoint Tokiko's disorder.
But Tokiko could. She knew exactly what was wrong with her. It had all started with that night seven years ago, when an innocent dare turned into the worst day of her life. The day she appeared in the mirror…. the day Rinsha showed up.
"Damn it Kiko, aren't you going to eat anything this morning? How can you ignore your hunger like that?"
Tokiko glared at the slight reflection of herself the window made. Her reflection had a pitiful expression on it's face (or on her face rather) and was glaring back at Tokiko with the same amount of hatred, lower lip protruded in mock pout. Tokiko winced at the whiney tone in Rinsha's voice.
"Shut up. I just don't feel like eating this morning." The evil twin looked as though she was about to say something, but Tokiko cut her off. "Absolutely nothing you say to me will make me eat, ok? So just shut up." Rinsha's glare intensified and she crossed her arms over her chest, turning her head away from Tokiko with a huff. Tokiko rolled her eyes and turned away from the window. She didn't feel like dealing with Rinsha right now, let alone look at her.
She closed her eyes and let her head fall back against the window. She listened to rain with a melancholy look on her pale face. The rain droplets that rolled down the window cast strange, twisted shadows on the white walls of her room, like snakes slithering towards her from every direction. When she finally opened her eyes, a few tears rolled out from the corners of her eyes, mimicking the snakes as they made their way down her cheeks.
Her life had steadily become a living nightmare since the night of the sleepover. She had lost all of her friends, and even, she sometimes suspected, the complete love of her parents. She was behind in school due to her long absences while in the hospital, and most of her energy was spent simply keeping control of he own mind. She was no longer the talkative little tom-boy of her youth; now she was just a mentally troubled youth who just happened to have a demon living inside her head. And just as her name on the window had disappeared, she too would one day completely disappear. Leaving her life in the hands of the one she hated most in the world.
"Rinsha," she asked, her voice cracking with emotion. "are you ever going to leave me alone?" There was a pause in which Tokiko knew the demon was smirking at her desperate question. Then an eerie laughter filled Tokiko's head.
"I dunno Kiko. Maybe…. maybe when you die."
Thanks for reading! Hope you liked, and yes, there will be Yu Yu characters in here eventually... :sweatdrop:
