The one called lucky

Chapter four: Squeegee

I sit down at the small table, letting my head fall against it, I let out a sigh. Someone tapes me on the head, I look up, to see Sango handing me a piece of grilled cheese. I take it, stuffing it in my mouth. Everyone at the table is staring at me. Their eyes are full of pity.

"What?" I ask my mouth half full of food.

Everyone then looks away, Sango picks at a scab on her arm, Miroku starts to whistle and Ayame is looking at her nails as if she just got a manicure. I decide to just ignore them and continue to stuff myself with the grilled cheese. But I'm still waiting for them to confess something. I take a sip of water. "We could go star gazing tonight." I suggest, trying to break the silence.

"That would be fun!" Sango says while nodding her head. Ayame also nods her head in response.

"I'm sorry but I can't go, I'm going to see Inuyasha tonight." Miroku says as he stands up.

"You make it sound like a date." Sango remarked.

"I would never cheat on you my dear Sango!"

"I guess that doesn't count you flirting with that cashier girl."

"I was having a friendly chat!"

"I still don't believe you, now leave us girls alone." She said shooing him away. He left the restaurant in a huff.

"No, where do you want stare gaze." Sango asked.

"We could go to that park that's like just across the street." Ayame suggested as she took my water bottle. "Come one, let's go." She said as she stood up.

We walk out the door, I toddle down the street, while I shuffle my feet. Sango has her large bag on her right shoulder; my skateboard is attached to it somehow. Ayame has my acoustic guitar in her right hand; all I got on me is twenty cents and my pride. We cross the street, looking up at a sky scrapper, there's a clock hanging over the entrance, it about eight o'clock. I stuff my hands into sweater pockets. Looking up at the sky, it's clear from clouds.

We walk into the grassy part of the park, Sango lays down a red and black blanket onto the ground. We all lay down, our heads in the middle. I close my eyes, letting the cold wind brush my face.

"Life is sweet sometime." I hear Sango say. I smile at her remark. "But sometimes it stabs you in your back and it makes your heart aches." She added.

"Time, is the only thing that slowly stops the ach, but it's made of all the things we hate…" Ayame say, I turn my head to look at her, she her hands crossed over her chest, she staring up at the sky. She continues. "… when something good happens to us, we want it to last forever, but it usually feels as if it's being fast forwarded, when something dreadful happens to us we want it to leave us alone right away, but feels as if time is being stretched out at that moment." She closes her eyes. "The people that live here, always wants to have more than already have, they are greedy. Wanting more things than they need. We should be thankful for what we already have."

Sango propped herself onto her elbows. "Did you like just memorize that?"

"Nooo..." Ayame said as she looked back at Sango. It made Sango go into a laughing fit. I joined in, rolling onto my back, clutching my stomach. Ayame was giving us a confused look.

Suddenly a flash light hits me square in the face.I sit up, rubbing my nose. I hear Ayame laughing at me.

"Who the hell throws flash lights?" I slightly scream as I stand up, flash light in my hand. A police officer is running towards me. I have the urge to run away.

"Excuse me Miss, some boys where throwing my flash light around the park, did anyone get hurt." The officer asks. I just grumble, handing him the flash light.

"Remember ladies, the park closes at ten thirty." The officer said before leaving us. I flipped him as he walked away. I sat back down in a huff. Ayame was imitating the police officer.

I lay back down on my back, looking up at the sky. "I heard the stars are brighter in the country." I say randomly.

"Yah, I know what you mean." Ayame says.

"Have you ever gone to the country?" Sango asked.

"I used to live there, my parents had a horse farm, I used to love running through the woods."

"Why did you leave?" Sango asked interested.

"I had to."

"Didn't your parents worry about you?"

"No… my dad was dead when I was nine… why are you one the street Sango?" Ayame asked as she turned to her side.

"My mom and dad died in a car crash, I went to an orphanage when I was young. I don't even remember my parents; I only have pictures of them." Sango said as she passed her hands through her hair.

"And you Kagome?" Ayame asked.

"My grandfather and mom died in a fire. My brother Sota, he died of cancer." Memories start to come back. Sango took out three blankets; I wrap myself in one keeping all the cold air from entering.

Before we went to sleep, Sango asked Ayame a last question. "But why can't you live with your mother?"

"I'm erased from her memory; I'm no more her daughter…" My eyes quickly open; I turn my head towards her. Tears are rolling down her face.

Next day

I lean against the lamp post on one of the busiest streets here in downtown Tokyo. Squeegee balancing on my hand, I wait for a red light. I look to the side at Sango; she has a hand on her stomach. She kept hugging her stomach this morning, she tells me it's because she has the flu. Ayame says it's a bunch of bull shit. I'm still wearing what I wore from yesterday, I have my hair in a ponytail, and a pair of black converse that I got at a garage sale. Sango is wearing a pair of baggy black pants and a green shirt. She stares constantly at her belly, as if she was waiting for it to start gaining weight.

I step off onto the street, spray bottle being thrown up into the air. I catch it with ease. I walk through cars, swinging my squeegee in the air. I knock on some of the stopped vehicles. Trying to catch their attention. I bet it gets them annoyed. Some opens their window and yells out to me. I run towards them, it's a man, around in his thirties. He points to his windshield. I spray it, then pass the squeegee across it, then taking off the remaining suds. He hands me out two dollars. I wave to him as I walk away.

Sango is washing someone's window. He then also gives her some money. The cars start to move a gain I step back on the sidewalk. Sango joins me, she has a hand on her stomach. I look from the corner of my eyes, trying to figure out what has been happening to Sango.

"Are you ok Sango?" I ask. She just nods to me, an looks down the street. Then looks back at me, she gives me her squeegee. "It's Miroku." She says she about to leave me again. I just sigh in annoyance, everyone has been abandoning me to go see their boyfriends. I see Miroku talking in Sango's ear, her face bights up and nods. They then walk down the street. I lean back against my pole, booth squeegee in my left hand, I somehow got stuck with Sango's back pack, Ayame borrowed my guitar. My skate board is also with Ayame. I decide to give up window washing for now. I walk down the street, I stick out so much, everyone is dressed fancy. I look as if I just came out from a thrift store.

I put my hood over my head. It the evening. Everyone is going home. Some one is walking towards me, I then realise who it is. I need to hide. It's Hojo. The Health nut. He's smiling at me, I'm trying not to look at him, I need an escape.

I see Inuyasha walking out of the corner store he works at. I run towards him, I hit about three people with my squeegees as I go through a crowed. I'm nearly crawling when I eventually get to him. I take his hand and drag him away down the street.

"Will you slow down!" He screamed when he nearly tripped. I stop at a door entrance. Taking large breath of air.

"What are you running away from?" He asked.

I just wave him off, while clutching my stomach. Standing up straight, I stretched my arms over my head. I start to do my stretched exercise that we used in gym class at my old high school. Inuyasha is looking at me as if I was an idiot.

"Ok I'm finished." I say as I put the bag back onto my shoulder. I give a sign to Inuyasha to follow me. We walk down the street. "So…" I say trying to start a conversation.

"My mom wants to meet you." Inuyasha said as he put his hands in his jean pockets.

"Really?" I ask surprised.

"Yup." He said calmly, "She wants to meet everyone I know, if you want to we could go now. My house is like the next building."

I just shrugged. It would be neat to meet his mom. We walk through a door, go up some stairs, he opens door fourteen. Taking my shoes off in the hallway, Inuyasha is already in. I poke my head in, only to be greeted by a colourful hallway. I step in, examining everything. Close the door behind me I walk down the hallway beside Inuyasha. He calls out.

"I'm home… is the ramen ready?" We walk into a small room, a woman stands in front of a stove, she has black hair going down around to waist, an approver is thrown onto a hanger.

"How did you know that I was making ramen." The woman asked her back still towards us.

"I could smell I from the hallway." He said simply. I look up at him, wondering if he was joking.

"How did you smell it from their?" I ask.

The woman then turns around. She has a shock expression on her face, mixed with disbelief. "I didn't think you two where back together…" She said stepping toward us. "If I knew I would of made something else than ramen for you Kikiyo." The woman said as she wiped her hands with a dishtowel. I look over my shoulder in case she was talking to some one else.

"Mom, this is Kagome." Inuyasha said pointing to me.

"Oh, I see, they just look alike. Are they related?" The woman asked.

"No, I don't think so." Inuyasha said as he sat down.

"Oh, your one of Inuyasha's new friend. Now I remember." She said she came up to me, giving me a hug. She then ushers me toward a seat. I sit down. A bowl of ramen with some chopsticks is put in front of me. I wait till she sits down. I then slowly starts to eat. I turn my head towards Inuyasha. It looks as if he's swallowing it whole.

"One day you're going top choke on ramen if you don't eat it more slowly." His mother said in a playful tone.

He gets up to get some more. I'm still not finished my first bowl. When everyone is finished Inuyasha's mother took the bowls away. Inuyasha brings me into the living room, the room is a strawberry red and a bleu. Theirs a purple couch against the wall, a TV is in the corner of the room.

"Want to play a game?" he said as he pointed to a Playstation. I nod my head. We booth sit down in front of it. He press a couple of buttons, it eventually turns on. He gives me a controller. It's one of those fighting games Sota used to love. I would always beat him. He had slow reflex. The game starts. I look down at my controller trying to figure out which button did what. I hear noises. Looking up I realise Inuyasha has put me on the verge of dying. I let go of my controller and push Inuyasha with booth of my hands making him topple over. I used to do that when Sota was beating me. I take advantage of this by trying to learn which buttons did what. When I'm suddenly hit in the head by a tissue box.

"Don't push bitch!" He said as he sat back up straight.

I through a pillow at his head. But he easily caught it and threw it back at me. I rubbed my noise. "You asshole!" I take the pillow and through it back at him again but he repeats the same thing and hits me square in the face. The phone then rings. Inuyasha stands up and walks toward the hallway. Standing back up, I take the pillow with me and go follow him. He has the phone pressed against his ear, he looks annoyed. I throw the pillow at his head. He takes the phone away from his ear and covers the mouth piece with his hand.

"That's not fair bitch, I wasn't ready for that!" Inuyasha said.

"Well I wasn't ready when you threw that tissue box and those two pillows at my head." I said back while pointing my finger at him. "And my name is not bitch, it's Ka-go-me!"

"You don't need to yell it… go find something to do." He said as he put the phone up against his ear. He then walks into the Kitchen.

After he left me, I decide to go into a room. Slowly opening the door, I'm greeted by complete darkness. I walk in, my eyes slowly start to adjust. There's a bunch of magazines on the floor, an unmade bed in the corner of the room, a desk with a computer and a phone beside. I walk over the mess on the floor, heading toward the desk. I slowly pick up the portable phone.

Covering the mouth piece so I won't make any noise, I put the phone to my ear. The sound of a woman speaking. I can't hear what she's saying, she's saying it a whisper. I put the volume up, but I still can't hear. I suddenly can hear her speak clearly.

"Inu baby." The woman says. Except I don't hear this from the phone, the voice is in the room. I stiffen as I hear footsteps coming closer. Tow hands cover my eyes. "Guess who's behind you?" The woman says again.

"Non one is behind me." I hear Inuyasha say from the phone in annoyed voice. Whoever is behind me tightens their grip, I'm suddenly turned around only to be face to face with my reflection. Except it looks angry. And it's left eyes is twitching.

Yah! I finished the chapter, at last. I bet you know who's Kagome's reflection is. It's really obvious. Right now I'm at my country house watching cows eat grass and get chocked by an electric fence. That's how boring my weekend is. Thank you to all the people that reviewed me or put the story in their favourite. It is now three am and I will laugh myself to sleep after listening to a funny song.