May 24,2011

Forecast… Cloudy in the Morning, Rainy later in the day

Tuesday

"Sorry Chie, I'm not gonna be at school today…" Chie called me up in the morning when she noticed that I wasn't at school. I told her the truth though, which every guy should do to her unless they wanna lose their man-hood, or ya know… just be Yosuke… "Em came down with a cold and my mom wants me to help take care of her."

"It's fine… just make sure that we get to train sometime this week, we haven't done that in a while!" I smiled at the sound of her complaining like that, it's not that I like to hear anyone complain, just… she was right, with everything that had been happening, we haven't done our thing in a while… So, on Thursday I planned to go straight to the Flood Plain with her after school.

"I will, bye I'll talk to you later." I smiled even as I heard Chie sigh over the phone, it may difficult for us to get sometime in together, but at least we knew that we could count on each other.

"Okay, I'll talk to you later." I heard her phone close before the line went dead, which indicated that the call was now over. I wished that I had more time talk to her today, but my mom pulled me out of school so that she could finally see me. So, the problem was knowing where it was going to take place, because knowing her, she would just burst through the door randomly if she was coming over. And if I had to go to the inn… she'd still burst through the door randomly. So I had to get everything clean!

I flipped on my I-pod radio from my room and turned it way up! It was a time when no one was home, so… I didn't think a noise complaint was going to come in. Still I bobbed my head to the song as it played through the speakers. Where was Will in all of this… another job interview… at the local liquor store… I already knew what was going to happen the moment he even mentions knowing Yosuke… No job! I felt bad for the poor guy in that sense. Still, in the end of it all there were only so many places that he could apply, and unfortunately for him… I think the inn was the last place for him to apply at. Em was at the inn with my mom for the night if you wanted to know.

So I started to clean the living room of the house first as the song played and filled the house with noise. "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey!"

I started to sing along with the song with the song bobbing my head the whole way and cleaning up the house. "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey! Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey! Violence is an energy, against the enemy! Well, violence is an energy, wah hey!"

I really wasn't paying attention to what I was doing now, but I knew that the living was getting clean (it was really the only dirty room in the house). "Bringing on the fury! The choir infantry! Revolt against the honor to obey! Overthrow the effigy! The vast majority! Well, burning down the foreman of control! Silence is the enemy! Against your urgency! So rally up the demons of your soul!"

I took a break from cleaning, but only to run to the kitchen to start on the dishes. "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey! Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey! The insurgency will rise! When the blood's been sacrificed! Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes… Sing!" Then the I started to wash the dishes and bob my head to the music, I was actually having fun today, just wished that it could have been with my friends… share in the fun, ya know! Yet they were stuck with King Moron… and I was stuck with a few glasses and plates. But, I had great music at the same time.

"Well, violence is an energy, oh ay, oh ay! Well, from here to eternity, oh ay, oh ay! Well, violence is an energy, oh ay, oh ay! Well, silence is the enemy so gimme gimme revolution!" I was about finished with the very few dishes, no I have no idea how I was getting them done that fast. Anyway, someone started to hand me the dishes. "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey!"

The new person just kept handing me more and more dishes as the song started coming to a close. "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey!
 Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, wah hey! Overthrow the effigy! The vast majority! Burning down the foreman of control! Silence is the enemy! Against your urgency! So rally up the demons of your soul!"

With that the song came to an end and so did the last of the dishes. "Thanks fo- wait…" Finally realizing that someone was handing the dishes… I slowly turned to find that the kitchen was empty, the next song on the play list started up.

"We are, we are… we are made from broken pa-" And then it stopped that fast… I was starting to get scared, so I crept out of the kitchen and into the living room and reached for my baseball bat that I took into the Shadow World with me. I slowly moved down the hall, not knowing what to expect, I moved slowly, so that I wouldn't make too much sound. Raising my baseball bat ready to attack, I reached my room and slowly counted to three… 1… 2… 3! Once I reached three, I flung the door open and charged in… to find that there was no one there… Now I was flipping out! What the fuck was going on!?

Then, just when I was the most on edge… I heard someone whisper in my ear. "Boo…" Needless to say… I flipped out and bashed my head against a wall.

Time Change: Early Morning to After School

"Would you stop laughing!?" I yelled at a young woman sitting on the couch next to me as I held the ice up to my head. I blacked-out for a few hours, yeah I slammed into the wall that hard! Still, the woman had light brown hair and green eyes that held a lot of mischief in them. Her skin was tan and had a slight glow to it. She wore a pink t-shirt and blue jeans, plus… flip-flops, really… really…? "God, how are you a qualified parent!? You just about killed your son and you're laughing about it!"

"I'm not laughing about that, I'm laughing that you're perfectly fine!" Yes… this woman how scared the ever-living crap out of me is my mother! How is Em the normal in the family… well this is how! God, my mother was one of the most immature people you will ever meet! She enjoyed playing pranks on her kids and dancing like a fool in public. She had the maturity of a twelve year old! God, did I love my mom! "So, now that I've calmed down… you seem to be doing well, no new scars and what was it… one, two… no three… no, not even that! Five new contacts in your original empty phone!"

My jaw dropped… oh, mother of God… she snooped! She looked through my phone while I was asleep! Oh, crap… no that means she saw the note I put next to Chie's name! This is bad, this is very bad! "You snooped!?"

"Not only that, but the Chie girl that you talk to so much is now coming over after school, which means… now." Oh, you have got to be joking! My mom didn't even know Japanese that well! At least not that I know of… "Besides, this is the perfect time to practice!"

I stopped and froze… oh god no! She could understand what was being said! Now I could no longer get away with anything! She was going to end up learning all of my secrets! Crap now I said like a preteen with a dairy. Okay, what I was truly worried about was hearing me cuss more than anything… She would kill me if she heard that… "Well, um… crap…"

"Em taught me." I rolled my eyes, of course Em did that. It was just like her to do such a thing, still in the end the world was freaking crazy and all of it was against me. That's when I remembered the bigger problem here… Chie was coming over!

"Crap!" I shot off for the door, but the moment I opened it… go figure… there was Chie. "Screw you too God…"

"Hello to you too?" Chie looked incredibly confused, and by all rights she had the right to. It was kinda confusing to both of us. "Are you okay though? Your text seemed rushed…"

"So, is this her?" My head almost hit the ceiling with how much my mom scared the living crap out of me! Of course Chie jumped too… it was kinda weird how we both just jumped. "Hellooooo! It's nice to finally meet you Chie Sotanaka! I'm Kreed's mother!"

"Mom, I think she's still getting past the whole scaring the crap out of her!" I rubbed my forehead, good… I was one second away for the whole 'Mom you're embarrassing me,' stuff! My mom held her hand out to Chie. Yet, Chie just seemed even more confused.

"H-hello…" Chie bowed to my mom for a moment. "Um, Mrs. Richards…"

"No, no, not Mrs. Richards… just Katherine Richards!" My mom brought her hand up to point into the air. I shook my head, it was a little to a shit ton of embarrassing, god, I hope she didn't scare Chie away. "Besides there's no reason to be so formal, I want to get to know the real Sotanaka. Not the, I'm gonna be a good girl around my boyfriend's parents Sotanaka!"

"O-oh." Chie was still completely confused, and I think that last statement didn't help one little bit. "Kreed, what's going on?"

"Short version, got knocked out, mom stole pone and texted you…" I was looking away from her; I just did not want my mom to tell her the note that was in the contact. I would then go to the roof and fail at flying… "So she knows that we are dating and everything." I put air quotes around everything. Chie seemed to slowly start understanding everything. My mom was crazy, and she liked everyone to know it… kinda easy to see where I got it though. But this was my girlfriend that she was acting crazy too. Still, I was surprised to when Chie started to smile at her!

"Oh, well, your son is really cool." Me and my mom both froze, you know that saying like father like son… well in my family it was like mother like son.

"What…?" We both got confused and said the word at the same time. Chie started to blush a little and moved closer to me, and slipped her hand into mine. Now I was blushing… and my mom went from the confused face to a happy one. "I see, well I see why he thinks so highly of you. I know I didn't really get information out of you, but you seem like a nice girl Chie."

She just about to respond when Will busted through the door breathing heavily. "Oh, my god, I'm never going back to the North end of the shopping district again!"

"Told 'em you know Yosuke?"

"Yes…"

Sorry it took so long to get it done, closing out the school year. Anyway not much I'm gonna say about this chapter except hope you enjoyed and please send feedback

Song(s):

Know Your Enemy by Green Day

We Are by Hollywood Undead