Chapter 9 : Onihime
So, this is Onihime's chapter of his thoughts.It's super, SUPER short.The support I have recieved is really wonderful, thank you so much to everyone who has taken time out to review my little story!
A week has passed since I have to come to live with Sora. He lives out in the poorer area of town, but I don't mind a bit. When he showed me his aparment he seemed a little embarrassed, as if it wouldn't be good enough for me, but his little kitchen, and his room and the bathroom and my new room seemed more rich and exotic to methan anything in my own home. However, hisapartment was a complete mess, so for the first while I have spent all my time cleaning it. You would think, being a Lord I wouldn't know how to, but I spent all my younger days watching the servants because there was nothing better to do. so I have picked up a few things. I actually really enjoy doing work! It's as if, for the first time in my life I have been allowed to do something for myself, I'm in control of what I decide to do. When I go out grocery shopping, I love the markets. I've never really been outside my home before, I was never allowed to mingle with normal people, who were able to do what they liked. I love the smells and the sights and the sounds of people trading and arguing and buying. I love just watching the whole world go by.
I don't think I have ever been so content and happy with my life.I love cleaning and shopping and all the little chores I get to do, even more than the lessons on etiquette, and the fencing classes and my Father's lectures on how to be a respectable Lord because now, I have a choice. Sora doesn't make me do anything, I do everything because I want to, I feel for the first time I'm free.
Yet there's always that little sour pang of guilt when I think about my mother. I hope she's all right. I hope Father is treating her like a human being instead of a possession, heh heh,like he ever would, and despite all the good things that have happened lately, I still feel empty inside. There's still a big hole inside me, and all it does is grow and grow with each passing day. I'm missing something, and I don't know what.
What's more, Sora sneaks out every night, coming home really late, and sometimes he doesn't come home at all until the next morning. I know it isn't any of business, but every time I ask him about it, he brushes me away with that smile. I never liked not knowing anything, being kept in the dark, not even when I was a kid, and now it's really started to make me frustrated. But, I can't expect him to tell me anything, we've only known each other for a week. I just have to accept that we all have our secrets, and get on with my new life. I've already got so much to be grateful for, and it's all because of him.