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Chapter 13
"There you go, honey." Mom put a cold towel over Light's sweaty forehead. I stood at a distance in the doorway, trying to feel what was wrong with Light.
"Thanks, Mom," Light said.
"Do you need anything else?"
"No, thank you."
"Alright." She brought her fingers through his hair. "Call me if you need me. I love you."
Mom kissed him on the forehead before leaving the room.
"Sen?" Light called when she was out of earshot. I looked at him, then I turned around in spite of myself. I ran downstairs, pulling on a jacket.
"Mom, can I go outside?"
"Not with Light sick," she said. "Besides, why aren't you with him?"
I shrugged. "I just… want to go outside."
"It's been raining off and on all day. Why don't you go tomorrow and go see Light?"
She was already finishing the salad Light had prepared. She wasn't paying attention to me anymore. I gave her one last stare before tip-toeing softly to Dad's old office downstairs. I opened the window and jumped through, leaving it cracked open so I could come back inside via the same way.
I ran through the puddles and through my street. I ran across town square, and soon I was in Sector 5. I kept running until my lungs were screaming. I started walking for a few minutes. As soon as my breathing was fairly normal again, I resumed running.
Sector 7 looked horrible. It had been about a year since it had been destroyed. It seemed as though it was officially part of the slums. There were rats everywhere. I saw more people that had the rashes Light had. Geostigma. That's what Mom had called it. A small child was wailing. His Geostigma covered his entire body.
I was soon running under the ruins of the Shin-RA Electric Company. There were less people here. It started raining again. I knew I had been gone long enough to make my mother wonder if I was really upstairs with Light this quiet the whole time. I suddenly saw an old building that caught my eye. It was a church. Or at least, it had been a church. It was crumpling down and didn't look particularly safe. But there was something about it that made me want to go inside. I walked towards it and tried to open the door. It was stuck. I put my shoulder against it and pushed as hard as my little body could. The door creaked, then swung open. I stumbled inside. It was beautiful.
There were yellow and white flowers in a large hole in the floorboards. The ceiling above was partially missing. I carefully stepped around the flowers and admired them from a distance. There were not many flowers in Midgar. I had only seen flowers before in books and on the TV. Never by my own eyes.
I started crying. I was scared. I was scared that Light was going to die. I had a lot of friends at school, but none of them were like Light.
I fell on the ground, dirtying my clothes. I sat there for a long time. Somehow, I felt comforted.
I ran back home as fast as I could, getting absolutely soaked along the way. I snuck back in the same way, but tripped and fell hard on the ground.
"Owwww!" I whined as I gripped my head and squeezed my toes together. "That hurt, that hurt…!"
"You're back."
Light's voice made me jump.
"Light!" I screeched. He stood there in his baggy flannel pajama bottoms and his baggy white shirt. His face was pale and clammy, and his hair was messy and sweaty. He looked pitiful, a sad look on his face.
"Why did you run away from me?" he said quietly.
I reached into my bag and gave him my best smile.
"Look, Light!" I cried. "I brought you flowers!"
He looked surprised at first. Then, his face broke into a smile.
"Thank you," he said quietly. "I love them."
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