Bound: Ok let's see how this goes. Oh and Kylie I so dedicate this chapter to you! You've become like a muse to me. You're such a good friend! If you want a disclaimer go back a chapter, nothings changed.
Disclaimer: still have to do this for something else though. I do not own The Body of Christoper Creed
Warning(s): Mild swearing, but I think thats it
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"...So tomorrow at five? Okay we'll see you then, thanks for being able to get us in so quick." There was a click as Rika hung up the phone. The people at that office were so nice, she was sure her nephew would appreciate it. She looked down at the paper she had written on. " Dr. Kamiya, huh?"
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Kouichi was looking through the pictures on his phone when he got the alert of a new message. He didn't go straight to it though, when he realised what picture he was on. It was one Izumi had taken of them when she had forgotten her phone and borrowed his. Last summer they had all gone camping together and he and Kouji had fallend asleep leaning into eachother. His brother hadn't liked the fact that Izumi had taken it, but Kouichi kept it anyways. He gave a small smile at that while he exited out.
'Nii-san, I'm fine. It's not so bad up here.
The dark haired boy was kind of hurt by his brothers comment. Some small part of him wanted Kouji to be miserable that they weren't together anymore. He knew it was wrong but he wanted to know that he wasn't the only one of them suffering because of this. He scrolled down back to his own message. He was being hyprocritcal. He hadn't exactly told his brother anything to say that he was unhappy with the way things were either.
I miss you.
Kouichi didn't even acknowledge that he'd given in to that until the sent button was pressed.
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Kouji and Yolei were working silently together when Kouichi's next message arrived. He wasn't sure he wanted to chance checking it again in class. He looked back up at the teacher who was now prowling the aisles; no definitely didn't want to chance it. His cellphone felt heavy in his pocket, knowing his brother's message was so close but he couldn't even read it.
Trying to distract himself he turned back to his work. Glancing at the problem he bit back a groan. The only reason he had made it to trig was Kouichi, and without said boy he was hopeless. Biting his lip he read the problem again before giving up and asking his partner. His girlfriend comment had stopped her being nosy, but thankfully she didn't take it so bad that she would withhold answers from him.
"Hey, how do you get the answer to 43a?" It hurt his pride to ask for help but he would give up his pride if it meant not failing.
"17, you just add these to things together," she pointed at his text book.
"Thanks."
The last few minutes of class passed quickly. Kouji was out of the classroom and quickly headed to his next destination, the gym. He had seen that on his way in...'Oh shit' he stopped his movements. There was no way he would be able to go through gym without someone noticing his collection. On the other hand he couldn't skip class on his first day without his aunt knowing. 'This could be bad.'
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The clock was ticking painfully away in the infirmary. It had been over half an hour and his brother had yet to reply to him. Kouichi sat up and slid his phone back into a pocket of his bag. In a few minutes school would be out and his friends would show up to walk him home. He let out a shaky sigh. He didn't want to explain what had happened. Right now the only thing Kouichi wanted to do was go home and sleep.
Just a few more minutes...the dark haired boy looked up in suprise when the door opened early. The bell hadn't gone off yet, had it? He tried to brace himself for the onslaught of questions that was bound to come. Any second now it would start. Or maybe it wouldn't; he looked up.
"Junpei?" He didn't see anyone else, just the bigger kid.
"I showed up early, hope you don't mind. I figured you wouldn't want to put up with the others right now. Are you ready to go?"
"Um, yeah. Thanks."
"No problem. I, uh, I heard what you said at lunch. And I know you probably don't want to talk about it so I won't ask if you don't want me to."
Kouichi nodded his head and started towards the door. If they left now there would be a pretty good chance of avoiding their friends. Junpei followed in silence and thats how their entire walk was. Down the street from Kouichi's house they parted with a wave, and Junpei watched as his smaller friend walked to his house.
" What's going on?" He said to himself with no one there to answer. Turning around he headed to his own place.
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Kouji thanked some sort of god as he was saved from the hell that would have been known as gym. The teacher was laid back and lazy, he didn't feel like dealing with a new student that day. His only words to the long-haired boy had been 'Here's your pass, go to the library.' The school map was once again in front of him as he tried to navigate back to his locker. The hallways were mostly empty and he didn't have to worry about bumping into anyone this time.
He was good with directions though, and it wasn't that hard to get to his destination. He was in and out of his locker soon, and the library was close by. He figured he would look through his books for the classes he hadn't gotten to yet, and see what he was getting into. Opening the doors to the library the first thing he noticed was that it wasn't as big as the one at his old school. Kouji liked books so this was kind of disappointing to him.
'Oh well,' the dark haired boy didn't feel like thinking at the moment. Looking for a place to sit he noticed his cousin alone at a corner desk. Shrugging to himself he headed that way and took a place at the opposite end as his cousin.
"Hey," he said.
"Hello," his cousin replied. But that was all he said and the two sat in a comfortable silence.
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As soon as Kouichi got home he flopped onto his bed with a sigh. If it meant never having to face his friends again he would sleep forever. He lay with his eyes closed for only a few minutes before giving up on that idea. He had been so tired earlier but as soon as he layed down he felt wide awake again. Kouichi sat up and grabbed a book from his desk before settling down again.
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci. Kouji had given it to him to read a couple of weeks ago but he hadn't started it yet. He turned it around and read the back with mild interest. "I wish no malice on anyone. I only wish to be gone." Thats what the letter on the back said. He stopped reading at this point. I wish no malice on anyone, I only wish to be gone. He fell alseep thinking now that Kouji was gone that wouldn't be so bad.
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"Kouji...Kouji." A voice called out to him. "Kouji, wake up." A hand gently shook his shoulder. Starting to pry open his eyes the dark haired boy realised he must have fallen asleep. Looking up to see who had woken him he thought he saw his brother. He was about to let out a whispered 'Kouichi' when he fully woke up. He wasn't back home, and he certainly wasn't with his twin.
"Sorry." He stood up and glanced towards the clock. How was it that the bell hadn't woken him up a few minutes ago?
"It's okay, let's get going. I have soccer practice so I hope you don't mind waiting. Mom doesn't walking home by yourself yet."
"Whatever, I don't mind." This was said before he realised the worst thing. Arriving at the field his cousin waved to someone, and a pair of goggles started coming toward them.
"Hey Ken!" Oh hell no. Kouji was not going to put up with that goggle-for-brains right now. He quickly spotted an area to hang out until practice was over there and left with a quick 'see ya' to Ken. He sat down to sit it out, and the first thing he did was bring out his phone. He had fallen asleep in the library before he had gotten around to replying to his brother. Just as he was flipping it open he was interuppted by a someone calling his name.
The field was right by the parking lot, and he could see his Aunt Rika waving him over. Grabbing his stuff he lightly jogged to where she was. He didn't really care why she was there, just that now he wouldn't have to sit through his cousin's soccer practice. Ken was okay, but that Daisuke kid would find someway to drive him insane, he knew.
"Hey, kid. How was your first day?"
"It was okay." It sucked. I want to see Kouichi.
"Did you make any friends?"
"I met a couple of people." I'd rather talk to Takuya and the others.
"That's good," she turned to the car. "Come on let's go for a ride."
"Okay Aunt Rika." Take me home.
"Actually, Kouji there was something I wanted to tell you about." Getting into the car they both got settled before she continued. "I got you an appointment with a psychiatrist."
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Bound: Well hope you enjoyed. Oh and The Body of Christopher Creed, you should read it. Good book.
Next chapter(hopefully): I don't know, I'm too tired to think.