August 20, 2009

Forecast…. Raining

"Hey," A large boy in a football jersey walked over a smaller ball who was drawling down strange patterns in a sketch book. The smaller boy was doing his best to try and ignore the larger one, using his earbuds as an excuse for why he couldn't hear him. The football player noticed this and was already getting pissed, so he did what he did every day to the smaller boy. He pushed him clean out of his desk, which caused the boy too hit his head against the wall, the factuality member who was still at school to grade his papers ignored the act of violence. "I was talking to you dumbass! How main times to I have to tell you this? This is my seat! You can't just get your rich little mummy to buy every damn thing you want!"

"I don't have do anyth-" The boy was trying to defend himself when the jock threw a punch hitting the boy who was newly standing back up right in the stomach.

"Shut the fuck up!" The jock smiled, he loved doing this more than anything, except football. Everyone in the school did not like this boy, he was weird, always ignored them to listen to music and draw stupid fucking patterns in a sketch book, and the final insult to injury was that the boy had rich parents! "You are nothing but a rich pretentious piece of shit Rich-shards! Just fucking kill yourself, not a single person would miss you damnit!"

"Y-you're w-w-wrong!" the boy, still trying to gain his breath back, started to tear up. This was his sixth school in the country. Yet, nothing changed no matter where he went! Everybody wanted him too just disappear, they wanted him to die. Only this time the teachers felt the same too! Only because his mom came into money where they able to afford sending just him all over to go to school. Yet tomorrow they were visiting him because of his grades, he knew what it meant too, they were going to make him go to another school already, because his grades dropped… again.

"No," The jock smiled evil as he grabbed the boy by the caller of his shirt. "You know I'm right you little shit! So run on home now, I'm done with you, you worthless piece of shit!"

With that the boy let go and stormed away, leaving his victim to stew about what he said. He quickly grabbed his sketch pad and ran home, tears now rolling down his face. You can only argue with someone for so long before you actually start to believe them, that is what happened that day. When he made to his house, the boy slammed the door shut and started sobbing loudly. He hated his life; he never asked to be rich! He wanted his parents to become poor, yet he had to think about his sister too, that was not a deciding factor in his next decision though, the boy took out his i-pod and started to play Bullet by Hollywood Undead, as the song's upbeat tone played in his ears, he sang along with song for the most part, he walked to the bathroom and stared at his reflection.

When you're young,

You'd never thought you die!

Found out you could, but too scared to try,

You looked in the mirror and you said good bye,

Climbed to the roof to see if you could fly

"Goodbye," he smiled at his reflection sadly and pulled out a razor blade. "Goodbye Kreed Richards, the most unwanted person in the world!"

With that I dug the blade into my wrist…

April 15, 2011

Forecast…

I shot up in my bed tears streaming from my eyes; it was the first in a long time that I had a nightmare like that. I held my head for a moment as I looked around my room, this was the first really time I had gotten to just look at my surroundings. My room was mess from all the days I hadn't picked anything up, there were still boxes in the corner of my room. I walked over to an open box labeled with a sketch of a weird and unique pattern. I made the pattern so that people wouldn't look in it without asking first. Reaching into the book, I pulled out about three notebooks, they were just a few of the sketch pads that I had used in my life. There was something about drawling that just made me feel complete; it was an escape for me, when I drew down anything on my mind. I felt like I was the only person that mattered, no one else could hurt me if I was drawling.

I quickly finished my trip down memory lane and sighed, something didn't feel right about today, and I couldn't quite place my finger on it. I looked over at my clock, and saw that it was five in the morning. I decided to get ready for the day. Before I even got dressed, I looked at the two scars that ran along my writs. Two of the five scars that I didn't want anyone to see, and started to sob quietly, this was going to be a long day and I knew it! Yet I would just have to put on a brave face like always.

Time change: Five AM to Early morning

Fog had enveloped the town this morning, and I swore I heard a few police sirens somewhere off in the distance, yet the rain was still coming down. I sighed, on days like this, I loved to try and draw, so I had my sketch pad under my arm. I was so tired, apparently last night I had tossed and turned enough that it felt like I didn't get any sleep last night. I was so busy thinking about my nightmare that I bumped into someone. "Son of a- Oh! Yu, what's up? You feel any better after yesterday?"

Yu nodded to me and started to talk, AGAIN a freaking miracle. "Yeah, but apparently there was an accident, my uncle had to leave early so he could go and see what happened."

"Yikes!" I recoiled slightly, and went to push at my glasses, when I remembered… I didn't have them. Damn Yosuke! "What do you think happened?"

Yu just shrugged at me. "I heard some girls gossiping but they just finished when you bumped into him."

"Dude," I smiled brightly, I don't know why, but I felt comfortable enough when I was with Yu and the other. Yet we still had to get to school on time, so I decided to think about it more later when I had the time. "Way to sound like a creeper!"

Yu smiled back. "Hey I'm just a pro!"

Time Change: Early Morning to Afternoon

There was nothing that really happened today except King Moron's usual rants about… well everything being indecent. Then, just after lunch we were all called into the auditorium for a pepper rally or something, I didn't really hear what it was. I was drawling in my sketch pad and was too focused on the stuff I was drawling to even hear what they said. Chie had to physically poke me to break my concentration. So the entire student body was gathered as well as all the stuff members. Ms. Sofue was standing at the podium in the middle of the stage. Yu was listening in another conversation between gossiping girls, Chie was staring at her phone with great intent, and Yosuke seemed about as down as I was when I woke up. I on the other hand had calmed down after me and Yu walked to school, so I was humming the beat of a song I knew, as Chie put her phone away. "Yukiko said she'd be here after lunch…"

I was standing next to her at the time. "Don't worry; she's probably just helping out her folks."

"I know." She sighed, I could already tell that Chie was kinda protective of Yukiko. It wasn't a bad thing either, sometimes true strength, is knowing when to step in and help someone. Chie turned back so she could see all three of us. "I wonder why they're holding a school assembly all of a sudden."

"Crap!" I recoiled in fake fear now. "They found out that I'm a spy! Oh no!"

Yu started to laugh at my joke, Chie just shook her head, but she was smiling, until she turned to Yosuke. "Hey, what's wrong, Yosuke?"

Yosuke finally looked up for what must have been the most interesting spot on the ground in the whole freaking world, because he just blow off the question. Which was the first indicator that something was wrong, I knew that from experience.

"Oh, it's nothing…" Yosuke looked back to the ground as Ms. Sofue finally started to speak.

"Everyone, please settle down." I was surprised by how many people actually shut up, usually people keep talking because no one gave a crap. "The school assembly is about to begin. First, the Principal has something to say."

Principal was an old man with a white beard and bald spot on his head, he wore a blue robe with a black over coat. Ms. Sofue walked away from the stand so the principal could talk, and what he said finally made me realize what made me so uneasy this morning!

"I…" Not the best start to a speech to begin with! "Regret to say that I have a terrible announcement for all of you."

Now you just scared all the first-years in the crowd, god we the Principal needed so public speaking lesions. "One of our third-year students, Ms. Saki Konishi of Class 3…"

That instantly was able to catch my attention; Saki was Yosuke's friend and crush! I looked at Yosuke and saw all of the emotions that were running through his head; fear, worriment, and sadness. "Has passed away."

That grabbed all four of our attentions! What the fuck was going on!? She looked fine yesterday, now she was dead! Was it the same person that got that announcer? Yosuke suddenly looked like he was going to cry, I couldn't blame him either. The person he had fallen in love with had just dead!

"Miss Konishi was found deceased early this morning…" I knew it, something was wrong this morning! "The reasons behind her passing are currently under investigation by the police. If they ask you for your cooperation, I urge you as students of this school, to provide only the facts."

Everyone started gossiping and talking, but the one emotion that had swept over the whole room was fear! After all, we as humans fear the unknown, it is only natural, still Yosuke was about to break down and I knew it. "All right, please quiet down. I have been assured by the faculty that there's been no evidence that bullying was involved in the incident."

"Just because someone says that doesn't mean there wasn't!" grumbled in English so that no one would understand what I was saying and question me on that.

"So mind what you say, not only to the police but to anyone who ask."

Chie spoke first, she was in complete shock, so was Yu, I was surprised that he even showed the emotion, I could tell it took a lot to faze the guy. "Found dead…? How could this happen…?"

"If I found out anyone bullied her," I clenched my fist. "Even though I didn't know that well, no one deserves this kind of treatment."

Yosuke was out of it for the rest of the address, everyone was, and no one could blame any of us. It was a major shock to found out that someone you even just met once was found dead.

Yosuke had run a head of us as the assembly ended, that left Chie, Yu, and me to try and find him. As we searched we heard two girls gossiping on the first floor of the school, school was pretty much over at this point so people were already leaving too. "She died the same way as that announcer, right? That's so creepy…"

"Well, last time, it was from an antenna, but this time she was hanging from a telephone pole. It's gotta be a serial murder case."

"Someone said the cause of death was some unknown poison."

"Unknown…? C'mon, this isn't some sci-fi drama." You never know!

"Oh, by the way, did you hear? Someone saw a girl that looked like Saki on that Midnight Channel thing." That really grabbed our attention, now that they mentioned it… the girl that we saw looked kinda like her. OH MY GOD I'M AN IDIOT! IT WAS HER! "They said she totally looked like she was in pain. Isn't that scary?"

"Haha, sounds like someone had a nightmare." Yeah, not just that person either! "Media's been broadcasting their interviews with her nonstop, so maybe they just had Saki on the brain."

With that they left, as they walked away, Chie got visibly angry at the two girls. "Sheesh, it's easy to toss around theories if you're not personally involved…"

"Hey…" I jumped almost ten feet in the air when I heard a familiar voice behind me. I spun on my foot as fast as possible to see Yosuke behind me, he still looked very much pained by this news.

"JESUS!" I yelled in fear. "Don't ever sneak up behind my like that again! God I just about had a heart attack!"

"Sorry," Yosuke didn't so much as flinch. "Did you guys check out the TV last night?"

"Yosuke!" Chie got irritated at Yosuke now, not to anyone's surprise. "Not you too!"

"Dude," I shook my head at him. "After yesterday I want nothing to do with TVs for some time."

"GUYS!" Yosuke yelled at us not in anger though still much to our surprise. "Just listen for a sec! Something kept bothering me, so… I watched it again, and…"

Chie looked like she was about to say something, so I held out my hand to single her to let Yosuke finish. "I think the girl on the screen… was Saki-senpai."

I that's where this was headed, yet I knew where it was going to go next, and I didn't like the looks of it, especially after yesterday! Yosuke did manage to gain Yu's and Chie's attention. "There's no mistaking it… Senpai looked like… she was writhing in pain… And then… she disappeared from the screen."

"What?" Chie had no idea where this was heading obviously, so I kindly spoke what I knew was on Yosuke's mind.

"So now you think she got in the TV somehow," Chie and Yu looked at me with shock, Yosuke just nodded. "Not only that, but… you think people who show up on the Midnight Channel die, case in point: the announcer and Saki, stop me if I'm wrong. And now you want to go back and ask the bear if she was there, right?"

"Yes."

"YOU FU-FUCKING IDIOT!" I knew he wanted answers, but I was not going to risk everyone's safety for this. "Even if it was, you need the bear to let you out, and we still have no idea if that world is even safe!"

Yosuke knew what I was saying, but he still wouldn't let it go. "I need to know why senpai died like this, I just can't dismiss all of this as coincidence, after everything I saw! I just can't let this go! I'm going to Junes, I won't force you guys to come with me or even making you guys let me do this, after all I need Narukami to go back."

Before we could even say anything against him, Yosuke left, I could tell just by the look on her face that Chie was just as worried as me about this. "I can kinda understand how he feels, but we can't be sure we'll be able to get out safely again."

"Exactly my thoughts," I sighed and turned to Yu, he looked lost in thought. "So what about you Narukami? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to help him," Yu said that with such a start face that I went into a coughing fit again. He wasn't serious, right? "He needs answers."

"Are you nuts!?" I yelled at Yu for a moment, before calming down and looking at Chie. "Anyway, let's go make sure he is fine!"

Chie nodded in agreement. "Yeah."

With that we all left for Junes to get that idiot Yosuke before he got him, and the rest of us killed.

Time Change: Afternoon to After School

Junes electrical department

Yosuke was standing in front of the same TV that we jumped in last time, only he had a golf club in his hand and a rope that was tied around his waist in the other. The dumbass had the audacity to smile at us as we approached him. "You guys came."

"We came to stop you, idiot!" Chie stomped her foot in frustration.

"Except for Mr. Mute over here!" I pointed at Yu with frustration. "Look Yosuke there are other ways of doing this besides jumping head on into a dangerous place, but if you keep doing this; make sure to send us a post card from the afterlife!"

"Don't joke about stuff like that!" Chie turned some of her frustration to me now. She refocused her energy back to Yosuke now. "C'mon… You really shouldn't do this. It's too dangerous."

I know…" Yosuke tried his hand at calming us down, only I had a royal flush and he had a two of a kind, aka it didn't work!

"If you know, then you WOULDN'T be doing this!"

"Would you please let me talk!"

"Are you still going to go through with this?"

"Yes."

"Then no!"

"Gah!" Yosuke gave up trying to calm me down and turned back to Chie. "But we were able to come back once, right? If we go in from the same location, maybe we'll meet that bear again."

"Yosuke," I spoke up trying to get his attention again.

"Yeah?"

"You are," I paused for dramatic affect. "A total dumbass!"

"I'm with Kreed here!" Chie stomped her foot again, man she was really putting her foot down (ha ha get it?). "'Maybe' isn't good enough!"

"Look," Yosuke put all the sincerity he had at that moment into his voice, trying to get us to at least let him go in, and it was starting to work on me. "I can't just act like everyone else and pretend this has nothing to do with me."

It was also working on Chie a little. "That's true but…"

"What about you Narukami? Could you just walk away? Or you Kreed?"

Yu nodded in agreement with Yosuke. "I'm with you."

I sighed and voiced my feelings here. "Look you guys may want to, but I'm more worried about Chie."

I could see that in the corner of my eye that Chie had started to blush a solid red color. Yosuke grinned with sincerity. "You two don't have to come with us. That's why I want Chie to hold this!"

Yosuke had handed her the end of the rope that wasn't tied to his waist. "What's that? A rope…?"

"We'll go in with this tied to me," Yosuke smiled meekly at us. "So I want you to hold on to this and wait here."

"I lifeline?" I had I feeling it wouldn't work and so did Chie.

"Wh-what? C'mon wait a sec…"

Yosuke ignored her pleas and turned to Yu, handing him the golf club. "Here Yu, this is for you. I thought it might be better than going in empty-handed. Alright… let's go. There's no use wasting any more time. Chie, whatever you do, don't let go of the rope!"

With that Yosuke and Yu both went up to the TV and disappeared into the screen. A few moments after they left, Chie titled her head and scratched the top of her head. Feeling a slight tug from the other end of the rope, she pulled on it until it popped out, my jaw dropped almost to the floor. Chie fell to her knees and fell to her knees. "See I knew this wouldn't work!"

I walked over to her and bent down so I was sitting next to her, I rubbed her back as she sobbed for a bit. "They'll be back."

"How do you know!" Chie said through her sobs, tears soon fell to the floor from her face.

"Do I have any reason to lie to you?"

"Yes!"

With that I sighed and pulled out my sketch book, I looked around for something to draw. Finally I found the most beautiful thing in the area to draw. So I started to sketch it in full detail, only with a way I remember it from an earlier stage. "What are you doing?"

"Calming myself down." Chie stared at him as I kept drawling; she looked at me with confusion. "Drawling helps calm me down; after all, it's helped through six different schools."

Chie looked at me with shock, but she didn't say anything, so we waited for the guys to come back. It took a few hours, but finally the guys came back through the TV, Yosuke was smiling brightly and was being carried by Yu. I practically jumped to my feet when I saw them, Chie looked up the tears quickly came back to her eyes. "You guys came baaaaaack!"

Yu smiled at us, Yosuke looked shocked for a moment. "Huh, Chie? What's with that face?"

"DUMBASS!" I yelled at Yosuke. "What do you think is the problem!?"

Chie still had the rope in her hand and threw it full strength at Yosuke, which was still enough to knock him to the ground. "Shut up! I was so worried! I mean scared stiff DAMNIT! I hate you both!"

Chie then ran away from everyone tears falling from her eyes. "I think that might have been our fault."

"No shit!" I was so initiated at those two at the moment. "Damnit, I'll go get her!"

"Wait," Yu tried to stop me. "The bear asked us to give these to you."

Yu was holding my glasses, they were completely fixed! "T-thanks. See you guys later I guess?"

With that I ran after Chie. Now that I freaking see! It was a damned miracle! The lenses were even better than I ever imagined, it was almost like I never needed them in the first place! Damn, that bear was good, at, well whatever the fuck it was that he did… "Damnit Chie, where are you!"

After a good hour or so I finally noticed a familiar green jumper curled up on a bench in the mall. Chie was still crying, I could tell by the fact that she was still shaking. I looked down at the sketch pad in my hand. I had drawn the most beautiful thing I saw at the time, I drew Chie… I sighed and walked over to her. "Hey, this seat taken?"

Chie looked up at me, rubbing the tears out of her eyes. I could tell that she had been crying for a time now, her eyes were red. Chie shook her head at me then looked back to the ground. Sobbing slightly still. "Hey, I told you they'd be back… still I know how you felt. I was just as scared as you, I mean even though I just met you guys… I feel happy being around all of you. I can tell all three of you actually care about me and vice versa."

"That's still no reason for what they did!" Chie retaliated at me. I knew she was right, but I wasn't here for her to forgive them, I was here for her!

"You're right," I smiled weakly as I placed my sketch pad on Chie's lap, she looked at it and her jaw dropped. It looked unrealistic, but very detailed; I drew everything, down to the wrinkles on her jumper. She looked amazed, or thought I was a major creeper. "I did that to calm down; I didn't want to talk, because I knew anything I said would have made you worry more. You know, if you ever need to talk about anything. You can come to me; I'll listen to everything that you have to say!"

Chie smiled brightly at me until she saw my right wrist that had slipped out of my sleeve, a deep scar ran across it. I noticed what she was looking at and sighed, I wasn't panicked or anything, much to my surprise. It was not a topic I liked talking about. "Wh-what happened to your wrist!?"

"I've had this scar for a little over a year." I calmly explained to her, my voice started to shake a little. "I was in the lowest point of my life. I saw no other way out, so I tried to end my suffering. My mom and sis came to visit the house I was living in at that time… They found me on the bathroom floor…"

Chie gasped as I explained to her one of the darkest memories of my life. "I tried three more times after that… each time with the same result."

I pulled the caller of my shirt down so she could see a scar that spanned my entire neck in a perfect circle. "This was the last attempt, it was a month before I came to Inaba and met all of you. It hurts just to think about my life. No one liked me, I was always picked on and called names, even the teachers didn't stop it."

A tear rolled down my cheek. Chie wiped it away with her sleeve, she looked concerned for me. "I don't know why I'm telling you this, I guess I just feel like I can trust you. You know, it feels good to finally get that off my chest!"

"You actually helped me."

I looked at Chie, she was still smiling sadly, but there was some happiness and gratitude in her eyes. "H-hey Chie?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you not tell the guys about this, my scars and the drawling?"

She smiled at me and nodded her head. I helped her feel better by sharing in some of my suffering. It felt weird but good at the same time, still the last two scars where the ones that I wouldn't let her she, we were not close enough for that, I didn't think we would ever be. Chie slowly got to her feet and sighed. "Well, thanks for the talk. I feel better, and I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Oh, Kreed!?"

"Yes."

"You're a good friend," I blushed a little bit and looked towards the ceiling of Junes. "Anyway, bye!"

I waved to her as she left the mall, now that the information was out there, there was no going back, and I wanted no one but Chie would ever know that I had attempted suicide. Yet no one, not even me, knew why there was always a black haired girl that had saved me the last three times. Yet I found myself wishing I could see her again, that way I could thank her. I got up from my seat and started to walk home after. One my way home I noticed a black haired girl walking toward the shopping district, it was the same girl from the train station the day I had gotten to Inaba. I just shrugged and went to home to sleep the day off. Still scared about the information I had given Chie. The last thought on my mind before I went to sleep was why I had told Chie about my scars. I still had no idea why I did it.

Took me all day but here is chapter 4, I know, I know. OMG Kreed is suicidal! Well I thought it would be a good thing to help build his character can you blame me! Well that's all for today and next chapter will not be so depressing I promise!