Mum and I walked down the path heading towards the park. I couldn't help but feel a little… bad. I had, after all, tricked my mum into coming with me so she could see someone she probably didn't even want to see, just so he would leave me alone.
We walked over to the bench I had been slitting in the night before to wait for Kish, which wouldn't be long if he was on time. I looked at all the couples together in the park and found my gaze land on a girl that looked strangely familiar. She was making out with a boy on a bench and she had on all black, with brown curly hair and sapphire blue eyes. I had seen her before… I suddenly remembered the night before and me bumping into a girl, that girl.
A chill went up my spine as I saw how passionately she kissed him, and how she willingly let his hand wonder anywhere he wanted to put it. It made me sick. Without warning I felt someone's hand on my shoulder and quickly looked around. It was Kish. Mum looked around too, and her eyes widened. He smiled at us and winked at me. I rolled my eyes and got up so he could be alone with her. I quickly walked down the path as I heard Mum start yelling and accusing him, apparently they weren't as good friends as Kish said they were. I walked down the path, just being bored and wishing I had something to do, I wouldn't have even minded if it was just working at Café Mew Mew, when something caught my eye. I looked around and walked over to a tree. Engraved into it were the initials: MA+IM. I frowned. Those initials reminded me of something… like I knew who's they were, but it was very unlikely. There were hundreds and thousands of people with those initials all over the world, they could belong to anyone, but for some strange reason I had the feeling that I new them.
My train of thought was interrupted by a voice, "So why would a beautiful young girl like you be out all by yourself on a nice day like today?" I twirled around in surprise and found myself gazing at a young man, 16 or 17 at least. He was very cute and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Most cute guys couldn't be trusted. I looked at him and blushed a little, it wasn't that I was nervous, it was just that I hadn't expected a cute guy to come along and sneak up on me like he had, and also be complemented about my looks by him.
"Oh… I was just walking… thinking, you know?" I said and instantly regretted it. I was acting like a total geek, but he didn't seem to mind.
"Yeah, I often do that. Would you like to walk and think with me?" I looked at him then down at the ground. A total stranger had just practically asked me out on at date! I nodded and walked over to him. We walked slowly down the side walk, just talking casualty. His name was Sho and he went to the high school down the street. Everything was going fine until we got to the parking lot.
"Would you like to go for a ride?" he asked, gesturing to a bright red sports car. I looked at it in wonder and then at him. It was a really nice car, but did he really expect me to go with him? After all, we had only met a half an hour earlier at the most.
"Um… no thanks… I'd better get going anyway…" I turned around and started to walk away when I felt Sho put his hand over my mouth and grab me. I struggled to get myself loose from his grip but he was too strong.
Quietly he whispered in my ear, "You're very petty, and I was hoping you would come with me with no trouble, but I guess you're to smart for that, aren't you?"
I struggled and tried to scream for help, but my voice was muffled my Sho's hand over my mouth. He started dragging me towards his car.
'He's kidnapping me! He's kidnapping me and is going to rape me and there is nothing I can do about it!' We were almost to his car and I knew that as soon as he put me in there all hope would be lost. For a last attempt to escape I elbowed him in the stomach and bit his hand. He yelled out with pain and let go of my mouth.
"Help! HELP!" I screamed, and tried to get out of his arms, but he grabbed hold of me around the waist and pulled me back close to him and clamped his hand over my mouth again. He pulled open the car door and threw me in, then slammed it shut and went to the other side to get in. I pulled the door open and tried to get out but he got to his side of the car to fast and grabbed hold of my elbow and dragged me back in then slammed my door shut. He quickly locked the doors and then turned and looked at me, and he had a wanting smile on his face. I pushed myself as far away from him as I could go and stared in horror at him. I knew he was trouble from the beginning, but no, I had to go and walk with him. Now look at the mess I was in. he started moving forward and I new I had no way to get out, I was trapped. Once again, I had made a huge mistake, but this time no one was here to save me.
"You're a lot of trouble, you know that? But you're worth it, just to get to be with you, even if only for a short time." He whispered to me, and I had a feeling that this wasn't going to be a short time. He had me trapped, he had me in his car, he could do anything he wanted to me and there would be no one there to stop him. He scooted over in his seat so he was right up close to me, and then grabbed me and started to kiss me. I struggled as best as I could, but he kept me close to him, I even hit him a couple of times, but it made no difference to him. He started to pull me shirt off my head and that's when I really started to fight him. I started kicking and hitting him, and I think he was starting to get a little skeptical about continuing, but he continued and soon he was even taking off his clothes.
I started to get really scared, and I wished that I had never come with Sho, I would have rather watched Mum and Kish argue then be stuck in this car with no hope of escaping. Finally Sho was satisfied, for the time being that is, and stopped kissing me and trying to rip off my clothing. He pulled his clothes back on and told me to do the same. I shakily pulled them back on as quickly as I could. He then started up the car and started to drive out of the parking lot. I huddled myself in the corner of my seat and held my legs.
'There has to be a way of getting in contact with someone…' I thought taking a quick glance at Sho, checking to make sure he was still driving and not looking for a place to pull over at. I felt tears on my face and still coming out of my eyes, I didn't understand why these things always happened to me. I always found a way to get into trouble without trying to. I suddenly noticed that in all the commotion between the two of us, one of us had hit the unlock button and the doors were no longer locked. I slowly grabbed the handle of the door and then quickly opened it and jumped out. I fell onto the hard pavement and looked at the car that had Sho driving it keep on driving. Then without warning he turned the car into a quick u-turn and started zooming towards me. I looked at the car with my eyes bulging twice their size with fear. I quickly climbed to my feet and started running as fast as I could down the sidewalk, I had to hid, anywhere would do. I turned down a street and recognized it immediately. I was on the same street as Café Mew Mew!
I ran down the street towards Café Mew Mew and took a quick glance behind me and saw that Sho was hot on my tail, he was gaining on me and almost up to me. I turned up the path to the entrance of the café and pushed the doors open and ran in. My eyes were shut and I was crying like a crazy person. I felt myself run strait into someone's arms. They grabbed hold of me and I thrashed around, trying to get free from their grip.
"Hey, hey, hey! Calm down! What's wrong? What happened?" I looked up and saw that I was in the arms of Mikio. I buried my face in his shoulder and started to sob hysterically. I heard a door bang open and I quickly looked up and saw Sho coming towards me, and he didn't look to happy. I took a step back and looked up at Mikio, who was very confused about what was going on. Sho came up to me and grabbed my arm and started to pull me away from Mikio. I tugged at my arm and held on tightly to Mikio.
"What's going on here?" asked Mikio, holding tightly onto me.
"Just had a little trouble with the car and the girl got all scared and skittish, that's all." He said, tugging my arm trying to pry me away from safety. The next thing I new Akinori was standing next to me as well, and he didn't seem to pleased with the fact that someone was trying to take me with him when I obviously didn't want to go.
"Let her go or you'll have to deal with me." Akinori said threateningly.
"And me." Mikio chimed in. Sho looked at them then at me.
He let go of my hand and backed away, "I'll see you again Yuki, and when I do, you'll be sorry!" I held tight onto Mikio, scared that Sho might change his mind and try to drag me away again. Sho turned around and walked out the door of the café, slamming it behind him. I shivered, praying he wouldn't still be there when I tried to leave.
I looked up at Mikio and he asked in a worried tone, "Are you okay?" I nodded, trying to forget the horrible images that kept replaying in my mind.
"What happened? What did he do to you?"
I shrugged, "I went on a walk with him and when I didn't want to go in his car, he pulled me in."
"Yeah but what did he do after that?" Mikio asked, not knowing how embarrassing this subject was for me.
"Well," I looked down with shame at his feet, "he did a lot of stuff, you know?" I waved my hand as I summed the whole catastrophe in two seconds flat.
"Well, at least you got out," he said.
Immediately I thought of where I might be if I hadn't gotten out. Would I have been raped? Would I be at least free? Would I even be alive? Mikio distracted me from the compelling thoughts momentarily.
"And Yuki?" he asked, inching in closer to me. My heart raced. He was close enough; he had to have felt it jumping out of my chest. I looked up at him, locking in on his green eyes. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't break the eye contact.
"I hope you know you'll be safe from him whenever I'm around." He was now inches away from me. An explosion of words came from an anonymous source.
"What the hell are you doing! Dude, you can't do that! Get away from her, or I'll bust your face in!" I saw Akinori waving his arms, and moving his lips to form vile words. I couldn't hear them. Everything was in slow motion. I didn't notice him leave. All I saw were Mikio's eyes. I saw a gradual red flush grow across his cheeks as he pulled away and walked out of Café Mew Mew. I now noticed things I hadn't before. The seemingly millions of eyes on me, my rumpled shirt, and most embarrassing of all, my pants were at an almost 45 degree angle from my hip line. Showing all too much skin and the entire strap of my kitty underwear on my pale leg. My cheeks glowed red and I quickly ran into the kitchen, to fix my pants. As soon as I got in the door of the kitchen I regretted choosing it for the room I fixed my pants in, because standing at the oven, looking strait at me, was Keiichiro. A smile crossed his face as I quickly fixed my pants.
"I saw you had a little trouble back there." He said as he stirred a pot of soup.
'A bit of trouble!' I thought bitterly, 'First a guy tries to rape me, then he chases me into Café Mew Mew, and then I get embarrassed for my underwear showing and you say I had a bit of trouble!' I wanted to smack him. Instead I only nodded. He scooped up a bowl of soup from the pot and walked over to me.
"Looks like you have a bit of a decision to make." I looked at him all confused then he sighed, "Seems like it would be every girls dream…" then he walked out the door and I was left alone wondering, yet again, what he meant.
Keiichiro has a way of saying things that just doesn't make sense to me. I was about to fallow Keiichiro out of the kitchen when I thought better of it. Did I really want to go back out there and face the humiliation again? And did I really want to leave through the main exit were Sho could easily just nab me and pull me back into his car and drive away? No, I decided to leave through the back exit, just to be on the safe side, and to save me the humiliation.
I walked over to the back exit from the kitchen and opened it slowly. I stuck my head out and looked around just to make sure Sho wasn't there, you can never be too careful. I saw that it was clear and I quickly walked out of the door and down the street, determined to get home without any more run-ins with someone who wanted to rape me or something. I walked down the street and was getting close to Café Mew Mew's main entrance when I stopped myself and quickly hit. Standing by the door of the café was Sho. I had been correct to think that he might do that, now I just had to think of a way to get by without him seeing me. The answer came right to me.
"Hey Brown Eyes, what you hiding from?" I looked up to see Nariyuki hovering over me, giving away my hiding spot.
'Well at least he didn't say "Yuki" then I would be a goner for sure.' "I'm not hiding you vile toad, I'm… resting." I took a quick glance over my shoulder at Sho and saw he was getting interested in Nariyuki. "Listen Nariyuki, what do you want? I'm a little sidetracked right now so if you're just here to annoy me, GET LOST!" I said taking another glance over at Sho. He was staring very intently in my direction.
"I'm hurt Yuki! I thought you enjoyed my company!" he said flouting down and sitting down next to me.
"Oh yeah! You try to kill me and I run! That's such a great relationship!" I said getting up and walking in the opposite direction of Sho. I walked around the corner and Nariyuki grabbed my hand.
I jerked it away a glared at him, "Listen, I've had enough of all this 'boy grabs girl and tries to rape her' junk for one day, so just get lost." I turned around again and walked away. Without warning I felt something hit me in the back and I went flying. I landed on my feet and looked around at a monster that resembled a dog.
"Okay then, let's skip strait to the fight then, shall we?" Nariyuki asked smirking at me. I glared and then transformed. The dog jumped at me and tried to bite me in two but I jumped out of the way.
I then yelled, "BLIZZARD SURPRISE!"
The attack hit the dog and instead of the dog getting weaker or turning back to normal, it just got mad. I ran at me and I just jumped out of its path. I landed on a roof and looked down at the dog and Nariyuki and then to my horror the dog jumped up as well. I backed up, wide eyed, and ran for my life. I jumped from roof to roof until I found myself back at the park. I jumped from the roof I was standing on and ran into the park. Without thinking I jumped over a bench, and then felt my foot get grabbed by the dogs massive jaws. I yelled out in pain and fell to the ground. Looking up I saw Nariyuki and the dog standing over me. For the second time today, I was trapped and had no way of escaping. I started to crawl backwards, but Nariyuki grabbed my foot and pulled me back.
"How does it feel to know you're trapped and have no way of escaping?" he asked snickering.
I looked him strait in the eye and said calmly, "It feels the same as it did earlier today." He looked at me all confused and then I saw something hit him and the dog and he went flying away from me. I turned around to where the blow had come from and saw a girl standing behind me. But not just any girl, a Mew Mew! She was in all purple and she had on a skirt that went down to her knees that billowed in the breeze and a fancy tank top. Her curly brown hair went down to her waist and was loosely flowing into the breeze going all over her face. I looked at her face and she had sapphire blue eyes and as soon as I saw them I knew who she was. Well I sort of new who she was… she had never told me her name.
She looked down at me and frowned, "Will you quiet down now? Some of us are trying to have a quiet, peaceful, day in the park." I nodded and then she helped me up. I turned and looked at Nariyuki, who was looking at me angrily, having just lost again. He disappeared and left me standing there with the new Mew Mew.
I looked at her and managed to stammer, "Um… hi… I'm Yuki, and you are…?"
She rolled her eyes and flipped her hair behind her, "Emiko"
I smiled and said, "Well… um… I was wondering if you might… help me somewhere…? You see, I've been getting into a lot of trouble today and I don't feel safe…"
She cut me off, "Yeah, whatever. Let's go." She changed back to normal and started walking. I quickly changed back as well and ran up next to her. I had found the last mew and we were on our way to Café Mew Mew.
