Winds whipped furiously, sheets of rain crashing onto the windshield, blinding the driver's vision. She swerved madly, desperately searching the foggy air in front of her for a slip of clear vision. It never came. She pushed on, her mom's high tech little car bumping and sliding over the slick road she could no longer see more than a black blur against the hazy white around her.
The teen tried to focus, tried to single out the road ahead of her but her mind kept wandering. She could see him now, in her mind. His oval, olive colored eyes gleaming back at her. His raven, shoulder lengthed hair tosseling crazily from the wind that whipped around him as he tilted his head to the said, smiling at her with the pleasant expression she never got to see enough of.
She jerked furiously, pushing her attention back to the rain shadowed road. She couldn't think about him. Not now! 'Focus, Sen, Focus!' She scolded herself. It never was enough. Her mind always tuned her out and her thoughts drifted once more.
"Chihiro, can you tell me about this 'Spirit World' you claim exists?"
The man, suited in a stark white doctor's robe, watched her with deadly serious eyes. The girl simply glared back, eyes narrowed at his emotionless orbs. He tapped his pen against his clipboard, blank so far. She hated when he wrote in it. She knew exactly what that meant. She had said something he thought was off the wall, completely impossible, crazy, just not right.
She hated what he wrote. She hated him. How he just sat, day after day, pretending like he was actually helping rather than shooting every bit of truth she had in her down to Earth. He was too emotionless. Never smiled. Never laughed. Only stared, glared, and demanded more from her that he could rip apart and throw to the ground.
"I told you...my name is Sen, and I don't 'claim' it exists...I know it exists." She finally replied, arms wrapping around her, rubbing her skin beneath the long sleeved sweater she was required to wear. She never could figure out why. Maybe because it was stark white, just like everything else in the hauntingly sterile building.
He sighed, scratching the slight stubble on his chin to scribble something down on his clipboard.
'Dammit!' She cursed mentally, craning her neck to read the scribbled letters from an odd angle. She couldn't even make out a word or two before the doctor spun away to stand, striding over to the tall, white metal door. He cracked it open to whisper a few words to woman who stood outside the door.
She fiddled with her hair. It was long now, cascading all the way down to her lower back in gleaming brown locks. She pulled it to her face, covering her features with it as she dipped her head in, her shoulders heaving slowly. She hated it all. Everything. Everyone.
No! No more memories, no more thoughts. Not of Haku, not of that stupid doctor in that stupid mental hospital. She needed something to drown it out, something that could touch her unlike the rain that the exterior of the car shielded her with.
She reached out a trembling hand to fumble over the buttons on the dashboard, pressing madly until her fingers hit the radio dial. She cranked it up, eyes searching the misty windshield. How had it come to rain so hard in less than thirty minutes? Though, she remembered the clouds rolling overhead with threatening density before she had taken off in the little car.
No luck with seeing ahead of her, she focused on the song that played through the speakers for a moment.
Now home feels so foreign
They told me I was mistaken, infatuated
And I was afraid to trust my hunches
Now I am ready"
She leaned back, letting her rigid form relax for a second under the calming tune. She let herself linger in it, listen carefully to words she had heard swim through her own mind for so long.
Please let me worry about me
Mama don't you worry about me
This is my story
Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean, through the desert, snow
We'll say goodbye to the friends we know
This is our Exodus '04
Through traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio
We'll say goodbye to the world we know
This is our Exodus '04
Landscapes keep changing
History teaches something
I know I could be mistaken, but my heart has spoken
I cannot redirect my feelings
The waves have parted
Daddy don't be mad that I'm leaving
Please let me worry about me
Mama don't you worry about me
This is my story
Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean, through the desert, snow
We'll say goodbye to the friends we know
This is our Exodus '04
Through traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio
We'll say goodbye to the world we know
This is our Exodus '04
I'm listening to a music never ending
My baby don't you know I'll never let you down
You've opened me to so many different endings
But baby I know that you'll always be around
Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean, through the desert, snow
We'll say goodbye to the friends we know
This is our Exodus '04
Through traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio
We'll say goodbye to the world we know
This is our Exodus '04
Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean, through the desert, snow
We'll say goodbye to the friends we know
This is our Exodus '04
Through traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio
We'll say goodbye to the world we know
This is our Exodus '04
Traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio
Traffic jams in Tokyo
New music on the radio"
Brown, relaxed, eyes trailed from her calmed hands, the color finally filtering back into them as she let herself cool. Her body relaxed, falling back onto the seat, her eyes closing for a moment to let two new tears roll down her cheeks to add to the ocean she had created.
That was exactly what she was doing. Running away. She was shunned from her own world, so why not run for shelter in another? One who would believe her of the wonders she had been through, one that was the wonders she had been through. They would all understand. Rin, Kamajii, and Zeniiba. But most of all, Haku.
"Ah...ah..." Gentle sounds made in an eerily calm and echoing voice drifted to Sen's ears, ringing rapidly, snapping her out of her comforting daze. Her vision shot up to the pounding rain that was just beginning to soothe her ears, now, more than anything. It became grating in her ears, her eyes narrowing into the dark that had fallen upon them.
"Kaonashi!" She screamed, her voice vibrating through the cozy interior of the car as the no faced creature came into sight. She was speeding at him, his unblinking, beady, mask eyes staring holes into hers. Sen didn't have time to think or wonder how or why the black cloaked creature of a different world would ever be in front of her.
Her hands ripped at the wheel, steering the speeding car from the lane that led to the hazy black form before he became a puddle on the road. Speeding, speeding, until the shiny paint of the car was crushed against a dark, hovering tree. With a scream, the crash took its tole on the car, on the terrified girl inside.
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How's the second chapter? As good as the first? I hope so.
I really have no idea where this is going...I really don't...but I'll think of something.
So, for now, I'll sit back, relax, and wait for some coolio reviews!