May 22, 2011

Forecast… Cloudy

Sunday

"Chie is with parents today, Yu is where every the hell he goes on the weekends, Yosuke is working… poor sap." I was walking along the Flood Plain with my hands behind my head with my chest back farther than the rest of me. To be honest it would only take someone to poke me for me to fall flat on my ass. Still… "Kou is at a family meeting, Kanji is still sick, Will is a job interview for the book store, would be weird to hang out with Yukiko… God I really don't know very many people do I…"

I tried calling Em again in the morning when I saw that she still wasn't home, so again I assumed she was with Mom. Yet, I knew my mom, it was Sunday, she wouldn't wake up until Midnight tonight… why? Who the fuck knows!? Still I didn't want to wake her. I sighed as I kept walking, until again I made it to the stairs by the Flood Plain, that's when I noticed the old woman in the funeral get up, I was so confused, how many funerals has she been going to? Of course I wasn't really gonna bother her, so I quickly turned to walk away, still leaning backwards. I spun around way to fast and fell backwards, go figure right, so I just let gravity do its worst, not really caring… I rolled down the hill, still not landing on the stairs! I once again stopped short of ramming into the old woman… only this time I was upside down… "Ow… that hurt…"

"Oh my… is that you Kreed-chan?" Hisano smiled down at me. She looked like she was trying not to laugh at me; I was still perfectly fine, except my pride just got kicked in the balls! "My, my, you remind me of him. Only, unlike you, his nose was just a little lower than yours, and his eyes a bit smaller, and his was shorter… Haha, he was a handsome man."

I quickly rolled over a jumped to my feet to look Hisano in the face, so I guess she was trying to say that I looked like someone… until she described him… She was older, so I wasn't gonna bitch and complain, she probably had many ways that someone could remind her of someone else. I shrugged for a moment and looked around, all just to make sure that everything was working properly. "I guess I didn't really look like him." I smiled gently to Hisano.

"Well, maybe not so much in the face, but…" She smiled at me, this was weird, but I guess that I liked talking to her; I guess she was my friend. So, to be honest, I thought about coming back here at least once a week to talk to her, or whenever I could. "Your expressions and the gestures you make, perhaps?" She didn't sound too sure about that, but I almost laughed at her, until I heard the next few words… "My husband, that is. My husband passed away recently…"

"Oh, I-I'm sorry…" I looked away from her, this was a very delicate topic with just about everyone who this had ever happened to, so I wanted to avoid talking about it, but she brought it back up.

"It's quite alright dear." She smiled at me, just before her face dropped back into a darker expression of sorrow. "Do I look like Death to you?"

The question very much grabbed my attention; she called herself that last time I was here. I had no idea why she would say that. I thought about it for a moment, I went over every last version of death I had heard about… that's when I knew that, that wasn't what she was asking about at all! "Oh, oh! Of course not!"

"I see…" Hisano looked to the ground for a brief moment. I didn't really want to upset her, so I was very much up for avoiding that! I started to feel like I was learning more about her just by talking to her… it was a unique feeling, one that I remember feeling with Chie when we started talking. Only this wasn't really the same. I mean after all, I started to date Chie, hell I was starting to… Never mind, we'll leave that for another time! A-anyway! Hisano looked to the ground before she looked up at me. "You mustn't become Death."

My jaw almost dropped at the statement, and the fact the she just smiled, given it was a sad kind of smile. That statement had given me a definite reason to return to talk to her again. "I won't, but I once tried to invite him to take me away… well a few times…"

"Oh dear!" Hisano seemed shocked, yet she also knew what I was talking about, she I could understand why that would shock her so much. I don't know why it really shocked people so much, you could clearly see the scar on my neck if you really looked hard enough, and besides, I was over all that, that kind of thought that was going through Hisano's head was what got me in trouble the first time. "I never knew that. You don't look the type for that kind of thing."

I smiled sadly at Hisano, I really didn't think about it that much. There wasn't that much for me to worry about from me anymore, except maybe beating the ever-loving shit out of those thugs if I ever see them again. I don't think that there are many people who would bother stopping me if they saw that, in fact, I was half excepting someone to help next time. Even if it was very unlikely. Hisano looked at me again. "When I'm with you I feel like he has forgiven me… That can't possibly be true, though… After all, I'm the one who… I'll see you later, Kreed-chan."

With that… I watched sadly as Hisano walked away, I thought before that I was the only person who was troubled… the truth can be a cruel and dangerous thing. I guess that's why the investigation team was looking for it… so that it wouldn't be such a dangerous thing, and people didn't have to fear it. So we could all live for a change!

Time Change: Afternoon to Evening

"How'd it go?" I looked over the couch as Will walked into the house, he was looking to the ground, so I wasn't really expecting a miracle, still, you'd think in a small town like this, someone would give him a job just to be nice. Will shook his head in defeat and fell onto the couch next to me. He sighed loudly.

"That's the third one that I've tried this week!" I tried to laugh, I knew he was over exaggerating, it wasn't the end of the world if he didn't get a job right away, and everything was close enough that you could walk to it. So really didn't need to waste the gas. "Why is this so difficult!?"

"Maybe you're looking in the wrong places…" I looked to the ceiling with a smile on my face; it was getting harder not to smile when my friends were around. That was a good thing though. I yawned as I looked over at the clock. "Holy crap it's that late already!"

It was just about Midnight, which was a surprise in itself… but then I heard something hit the window outside, and not even a second later than that did it happen again! That's when I knew that it had started to rain that night. I sighed; I wondered if anyone would show up tonight… Well, we hadn't heard any reports of missing people. I started to walk to my room. "Going to sleep?"

"No Will, I'm going to jump out of my window." I smiled at him and made it halfway down the hallway… that's when my phone started to ring. I looked at the small device as I pulled it out of my pocket. It was my mom. "Hello? Mom?"

"Kris! Is that you!?" She sounded frantic and scared, she was breathing heavily at that moment. It was starting to scare me! There were barely an times that she did this kind of thing… but when she did… something bad happened. "Is Em with you!?"

"No, I thought she was with you…" No I was really scared, I did not like were this was going… and it was going there fast! There's no way that Em had anything to do with Ms. Yamano! She didn't fit the pattern! There was no way… no way that my little sister was in there, sh-she couldn't be!

"No, I-I haven't seen her at all!" I froze where I now stood, Will looked at me from down the hall, he also looked worried, he knew Em, but he was more worried about me… this was my sister we were talking about! "No one at the inn has seen her either… I-I don't know what to do… Em…"

"I'll find her mom, trust me…" I think she nodded when the words left my mouth, she was weird like that. She didn't say another word, just hung the phone up. That's when I heard the TV turn on in the living… I walked to where I could see the screen. Standing there in a gothic outfit was my little sister with a steel guitar in her hands. "No…"

"Hellooooo shit for brains!" I know that it was her Shadow talking, but I about lost it right then and there! The Shadow was going to make a mockery of her! "You useless sacks of meat have just tuned into the best fucking show in the whole damned world… mine! I'd thank you, but then that would mean I'd have to give a fuck about all of you… and to be honest… I don't."

Me and Will were speechless, me because Em had been kidnapped, Will because he wasn't used to seeing Em act like this. Which was understandable, not many people knew how she really acted. Hell, me and my mom were lucky that we did. She didn't like many people knowing that she acted kinda like how she dressed, just a bit like a punk rocker. To be honest, she had ADHD, so she had difficulty paying attention to anything. Yet, she did a good job at doing that. "Anyway way, I'm having a small dilemma… I need an audience, pieces of shit or not, I don't give a fuck! Still an audience. To watch me in one of the best damned guitar battles you have ever fucking seen! I know what you're thinking now 'what, a sweet fucking girl like Em Richards in a guitar battle!' I know, you fucking morons! Just wait till you see the opponent… LATER BITCHES!"

"I have no fucking clue what to say to any of that…" Will got up and started to walk down the hall towards his room. "So, I'm gonna go sleep that whole damned thing off, later." I just stood there for a moment… I couldn't think straight, this was unbelievable! There was no way in hell that I could think straight at that moment, there was no way for me to process this information that I had just received! No possible way! I was shook from my thoughts when my phone started ring.

"Hello?" I was amazed that I was able to process enough thought to get that word out. Then I heard Chie almost yell over the phone.

"WH-wh-what was that!?" Chie start to flip out a bit, I think just about everyone on the team was, after all this was another person just appeared on the Midnight Channel! "Was that really Em-chan!"

"Yeah," I started to breathe heavy for a moment, this was bad, very bad! "Chie, haven't asked much of you, but I think I'm gonna need help."

"With what?" I know reading this it sounds rude, but no… those were the most sincere words I have ever heard.

"Kicking the shit out of the Shadow wearing my sisters face!"

Bam! Yes, Em is in the TV! Unfortunately, if there is an update tomorrow, it will be around Midnight. No, update Saturday unless I don't finish Friday, it will be early in the morning. Hope you enjoyed and please send feedback and I've been thinking about it and its gonna be a long time before they appear but I need at least ten to fifteen OC's, I cannot really make and keep track of that many characters, so if ya want you can send some in! You will be notified if yours is accepted! Persona-user or not is needed, also good or evil needed, so send feedback! And remember there is a very long time before they appear, but I will take them now.