Alabaster hands wrung over the black leather of the steering wheel. Wringing, wringing, until her hands were raw and throbbing. The small, messy bun she had thrown her long mahogany hair into tossed restlessy on the top of her head as she wiggled about. Her shoulder blades worked furiously at the back of the leather care seat, her feet pounding nervously on the gas pedal. Her sense of speed had melted away from her, sending her forward deadly fast. But she refused to stop, even after the wail of sirens screeched behind her. Her teeth grit rapidly, brown eyes casting from the road ahead of her to the empty passenger seat her jet black cell phone rested in. She knew it would ring any second now.
Still, when the shrill scream of the phone let out, she jumped in her seat. Her heart pounded heavily against her ribs as she thrust out a hand, knuckles white from gripping the steering wheel so deathly hard, grabbing her phone in one shaking swipe. She slammed it against the side of her face, full lips, drenched in a rushed coat of red lipstick, quivering as she spoke out a sharp and rushed "H'lo?"
"What do you think you're doing! You took my car when you can't even drive yet! Come home, Chihiro!" The shaking and raspy from crying voice of her mother echoed through the receiver. The girl's teeth grit harder and faster as the white returned to her knuckles from gripping the phone. She groaned in frustration.
"Sen! It's Sen! My name is Sen! And I can drive, mom! I'm fifteen, I have my permit!" She retorted, forcing down the horrible urge to jam her thumb down on the 'end' button on her phone. That's it. She wanted to end this. All of it. She was tired of being pushed around, locked behind tall, metal doors. She was tired of receiving wide eyes stares from across the room whenever she opened her mouth to speak.
"Chihiro! Stop this and come home! We can help you!"
"I'm not crazy, mother!"
"Chihiro!"
"My name is Sen!"
She couldn't take it any longer. Her finger mashed, harshly, on the 'end' button. She listened, pleasantly, as her mother's voice drowned out from her buzzing ears. She hated her mother, father, everyone around her. Even Sachi was starting to look at her weird, with that horrible 'you're a freak' look that she had come to know so well and hate with all her heart.
Even before she could lower the phone from her ear, it's shrill shriek pierced through her eardrum once more. She hurridly picked up the called with another "H'lo?".
"Chi, what are you doing out there? You're mother called me. I know what you're trying to do. You can't, Chi! That place isn't real." Sachi spoke into the phone in that sweet and seducing voice that may have been the only reason she ever spoke to him at first. He was attractive, with dark, puppy brown eyes and unusual red hair. His appearance and voice alone caught her eye that day at the park, before she knew of his caring personality. She could almost remember it now.
Birds twittered gently in the trees, engaged in deep conversation with other feathered friends as they flapped about in the rustling leaves. A scarce wind prickled at Chihiro's silken brown hair, sending satin strands by her chocolate eyes. She quickly brushed them away, bringing them back behind her ears to glance about with a dreamy smile, shifting her legs on the wooden bench she sat on.
"Yes, Yuki. Yes...Yes, I know. Yuki, please! Yuki! My god, if you're going to shout like that, please, wait till I get home before you bust this phone, or my ear drum!" A voice rang from a few feet away, shattering the teen from her thoughts, casting brown eyes towards a boy about her age. Young in a blue t-shirt and jeans. Youthful looking with wavy red hair and puppy dog brown eyes that shot to hers as he lowered his cellphone from his ear.
"Guh. Sorry about that." He apologized with a sexy half grin, tucking the phone into his jeans pocket. Chihiro nearly fell asleep to that deep, manly, voice of his. She hesitated for a moment, letting the dimensions of his sweet tone dwell in her ears.
"No problem...testy girlfriend?" She finally replied, returning his smile as she tugged down the edges of her plain orange tank top. Her lips parted in a sweet little laugh that barely made it an inch or two into the air before being swept away in the wind.
"How'd you know?" He said, his voice teasing with that same grin that nearly melted her before. She was tickled by his words but quickly pushed out a reply before he tottered off again.
"I've had 'em too...Uh...in boyfriends at least." She giggled softly, sweet laughter pulling a full smile to the male youth's lips.
"Heh. Yeah, I guess we all pick up at least one along the road." He replied, stepping an inch closer with a tiny, manly, laugh. It tickled Chihiro pink.
"You're telling me."
"Sachi." He stated his name, thrusting out a firm hand down to her.
"Oh. Chihiro." She replied, raising her hand to slide into his, breathing out slowly from the warmth.
Or had she said her name was Sen?
"Chi, huh? Mind if I call you that?" Sachi teased, shaking her hand warmly, friendly, that almost shot down the girl's last hope of ever seeing him again. She liked him, she really did. Her brown eyes sparkled through the trouble that was beginning to stir at home of the truth that no one would believe.
"Not at all! Feel free! I've never gotten that one before." She piped up, cursing inwardly as his hand slipped from hers. Was it even possible for them to have a life together. Marriage? Children? 'My god!' She stopped herself. 'Why am I thinking about something like that! I just met the kid!'
"Sweet. Chi it is, then." Sachi said, that same half grin holding her under his grasp.
'Why am I remembering all this stuff! There's no time for this!' Sen shook her head wildly, shaking away the thoughts to revert her eyes back to the road. Her mind back to the voice screaming into her ear.
"Chi! Listen to me! We can get you the help you need, if you just come home!"
"No, Sachi! I'm not going to get locked up again! Never again! I'm not insane, like everyone thinks I am! I have to do this!...I thought you of all people would understand...and who the blazes is 'Chi'? I'm Sen!" She screeched back, gripping the phone even more fiercely than she had gripped it under her mother's voice. Tears stung her eyes but she forced them back, blinked them away to save for later. Not when someone was on the line to hear the catch in her voice.
"This is insane." Her boyfriend muttered. She could tell his lips that she had kissed so many times before were on the receiver, letting out heavy breaths.
"But I'm not." She added in, quickly clicking off the phone once more. No more calls. She couldn't take them, all the screaming voices saying she was crazy, insane, lost her marbles. She only told the truth and she was still as stubborn as ever. Still the same Sen or Chihiro from five years ago.
The 'crazy' teen cracked the battery from her phone, turning it completely off for good. Two calls from people she never wanted to see again was enough for one day. She slammed her hands back to the steering wheel, but her tears were flooding and blurring her vision. She had no choice but to finally let them drop down and gently caress against her cheeks.
"I'm coming, Haku." She whispered, the raven haired boy suddenly very much on her mind.
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