May 25, 2011

Forecast… Sunny

Wednesday

"I saw a new job posting on the town bulletin board!" I was actually going to school that day, despite the fact that Em was still sick, but my mom was taking care of her. "The daily pay for being a tutor looks really good." To be honest, I wasn't trying to listen in. Just I thought that Will would have liked to hear this. Not about the tutoring job, cause, well yeah. I don't think Will is gonna want to help someone study. I just about made it to the door when someone called for me.

"Oh, good morning Kreed-kun." I didn't even try to stop in fact I just spun on one foot to see Yukiko running up to the building with a smile on her face.

"Sup, Yukiko-san?" I started to walk backwards into the building. Yukiko didn't really talk to me very much. But it wasn't like we avoided each other. It was kinda like that with a few of the members of the investigation team. I started thinking that I needed to hang-out with 'em more.

"Well, nothing really…" We of course stopped at our shoe lockers; I was still walking backwards… I'm, I can be a bit of a show off. "Is Em-chan feeling better?"

"She'll still be out of school for a while, but she's already grabbed her guitar again." My smile grew as the thought of my sister walking through those doors and cursing up a storm. It was good to know that she was getting out of the whole, I need to protect everyone I know from that pebble stage and getting back into the 'yeah I'm a punk rocker, suck it!' phase! Man would her teachers be surprised… still, she was one of the smartest people I knew so there wouldn't be much to her grades dropping. "I heard some girls talking about job postings at the gates."

"Oh, yeah." Yukiko just shrugged, we kinda just jumped to a completely different topic, Yukiko looked to the ground now, she didn't really seem like she wanted to talk about it. "The inn needs some more help, but we wouldn't know who to hire."

I swear you should have seen how fast that cell phone was up to my ear, I think Yukiko almost thought that it phased out of nowhere. Before I hit the send button though, I looked back to Yukiko. "What kind of help?"

"F-fixing things… how did you…?" I held up my hand and decided to send a text just in case if he was in an interview. I didn't even blink as I typed away the text, finally hitting the send button on the phone I slipped the phone back in my pocket.

"I just sent a text to one of the best handy-men I know… well I don't know very many so… yeah." I thought about it for a moment, I never really saw Will fix anything, but I have seen things that he had fixed before. I knew that he was good at it, which should have been enough to get that poor bastard the job. "So, anyway… Have you seen Chie? I haven't heard from her since she left my house yesterday."

"Um, well…" Yukiko looked like she was deep in thought for a moment until the thought suddenly a thought hit her. "Oh, she called me when she got home. She was incredibly happy for some reason."

I started blush greatly the moment Yukiko finished that sentence. Just as my cheeks turned bright red I heard a familiar voice. "Morning Yukiko, Kreed!"

I quickly tried to cover up my cheeks as I turned around quickly. "Ch-Chie! Morning!" I'm pretty sure that at that moment my whole face was red. Which I think confused Chie completely. At least I hope she heard what Yukiko was talking about at that moment. Which I would find out that she did. "S-so, um… how are you today?"

Now she was trying not to laugh. She moved closer to me and slipped her hand in mine. "I'm feeling good today; I really like your mom by the way."

I blushed even more now, good it was weird… I didn't want to seem embarrassed about her, or my mom. Just this was an embarrassing that I knew now that she was teasing me! "You're making fun of me now aren't you...?"

"Maybe." Chie smiled and got as close as she could to me. Then of course the bell rang, which made us both move apart as we knew King Moron would have been walking by any moment. I really didn't want to have to listen to his lectures on purity or chastity! God he could be so freaking annoying, but I still wasn't going to complain about it anytime soon, because that would result in another lecture. I was getting tired of school for a moment, but also lack of sleep was not helping one bit at all! Still, I was going to fight through it at least for Chie.

After School

"If you actually got me a job at the inn…" Will was incredibly nervous as we rode a bus down to the Amagi inn. I was going with him to help calm the poor bastard down, god he was nervous, I didn't really know why. It was just a job interview, hell half of his pay might end up going to bus fare. Still here I was sitting next to Will as he fidgeted with his hands. He started school a year earlier than most people so he was about seventeen as well. "I will flip out!"

I sighed, yeah, I was going to help calm him down, but I also wanted to check up on Em. "It won't be me who gets you the job dude."

"True enough…" Will was quiet for the rest of the ride. He quickly but in calm like way, walked to the inn. My mom was waiting outside the inn for me. "Wish me luck!"

I nodded at Will and walked up to my mom. "How's she doing?"

"Good, she was just asking to see you." I smiled and ran into the inn, almost running into Will's back.

"Sorry!" I ran through the halls listening for the sound of a guitar. I finally heard it and knocked on the door. Not even really waiting for an answer, I slowly opened the door to see Em in a tank top and shorts. "Yo!"

She looked up from her music and smiled at me. "Sup, bro?"

I smiled; yeah she was starting to act like I remember her acting like. I sat down next to her and she sneezed for a moment. "You feeling any better?"

"A little, but this damned cold keeps messing up my chords!" I tried not to laugh at her, well not at her, but with her. She was always like this, but I can tell that she was a little embarrassed about the fact that everyone show her feelings, but the way that she really was… it didn't do much to make her change her attitude. Which was a good thing, it meant that she would always be my little sister. "Hey, I can hear you snickering, bastard!"

She was smiling as the words left her mouth. She playfully shoved my shoulder, we both started to laugh. It had been a while since we last were able to talk like this, so it was good to know that we both just didn't really care if the other was making fun of them. "Well, at least I didn't make a fool of myself on stage!"

"Oh please; you always do that!" She threw herself back onto the floor and sighed slightly. "You know, it felt good… to get it off my chest you know? Just having everyone understand you, even though that you could never understand yourself."

"Yeah, I do, in fact…" I leaned forward a bit, I knew what she was saying, I've known for a while now. The fact that I thought I couldn't let people in because I thought that they would use me, or abuse me… but Chie was the first one to prove me wrong, she understood what I felt and went to comfort me, not use me. Yu actually took time to talk to me every now and then. Yosuke… well, Yosuke was Yosuke, but still. He was at least a good person, at least to the point that he didn't use the information against me. "Mine just kept yelling about how I was… well, ya know."

"Yeah, I do…" Em sat up slowly and put her head against my shoulder. She yawned a bit. "Why did you do it?"

"I that I was alone…" Em looked up at me.

"You never were…" She had no Idea who right she was.

January 1, 2010

… Unknown Time

"Wh-what the hell!" I had no idea where were I was, I had no idea how I got there. But one thing was for sure, I felt lost… It was dark, I couldn't see anything, but I could feel someone nearby. "Where… where am I?"

"You just had to go and warn someone didn't you!?" I heard the voice ringing in my head, it wasn't nearby, and it was in my head for sure. "Now, now I have to go and find a new fucking avatar! And so help me, I will kill you before anything!" I froze, k-kill me!? So I did the first thing that came to my mind… I ran, I didn't know which way I ran, but it didn't matter, I just ran. I don't know how far or long I ran, I just did. I couldn't feel my feet hit the ground after each step, but they did. "You can't get away from me! I am the Shadow of humanity! I am what humans want! Only now, I want to you to disappear!"

That moment, I fell to the ground, and smacked my head. "Please… I, did what you wanted!"

"NO! You were just a tool! Even if you did what I told you to do, this would have been the outcome!" Then, an invisible force wrapped around my neck and picked me up into the air. "Now, this game would have been so much more fun had you just LISTENED! But, still, you're a broken tool now… it's time you die!"

I could feel the air of whatever this thing was, moving to kill me. I waited for it to kill me, he was the reason I was suffering now… it was him… yet, before it happened… my eyes snapped open, I didn't even realize that they were closed… I was in a room, a weird room I had never seen before. "Igor, it has been a while, but please, his destiny comes in contact with a future guest."

I couldn't really see the person, who was talking, but I could clearly see the person, but what I did see was a blue butterfly fly away from me. In front of me on a couch and in front of a table was and older man with a large bold spot on his head and the longest noise I have ever seen. I thought I was going crazy, but I was just being chased by an invisible monster… soooo, yeah. "Welcome… to the Velvet Room."

Sorry, I know that this chapter is not the best in quality, but I have to give up the computer I've been using for my writing, so I just wanted to get one more out, don't worry, I can still update, but it will take a little longer than two days sometimes. Still Hope you Enjoyed, there may not be any updates this weekend, cause… I AM GRADUATING! YEAH! Well, see ya!