Chapter 8: Climax (or not…)
(AN: Naru's POV)
Why does this have to happen to you?
I walked around her bed. It is about two o' clock in the morning by now. I have been awake for about an hour. I woke and found out that the first two watchers (Matsuzaki-san and Takigawa-san) were having droopy heads. I resumed my shift, even though Takigawa-san protested. Now they are all sleeping and I am still the only one awake. Lucky me…
I sat down on the closest stool near her bed. She's still unconscious. It is so weird seeing her in this state. She had always been so sunny, like a bunny…
I nearly laughed at my own thoughts. She is really like a bunny, jumps around, falls into holes and jumps out again… then a different kind of bunny came into my mind…
I shook my head to push the horrid thought from my mind. When I opened my eyes, I was staring at her angel soft face. She was like a fragile vase, a glass flower. She's so innocent, so naïve, so cute…
I blinked. Did I just say she's cute?
Maybe she is…
I stared at her face once more. Such a face, you wouldn't even know a couple of ghosts have followed her around. Not to mention that those ghosts were scary ones and are totally horrible. No matter what have happened to her, her face was still that of an angel's.
I remembered those days when I lost my real identity. All I can really remember about myself is that bloody face of mine that I saw through the car's side-view mirror. The rest were a haze, a mirage…
I gazed at her face…
She could talk about her parents without even sounding so hurt or so melodramatic, unlike those kids I met at the orphanage. I even cried once for the pain of trying to remember something in my past. It was Gene who always makes me remember. He would talk about things and he would always describe our mother, her golden eyes and her long soft hair. Maybe those spirits that really visited me were our parents. Maybe, I wouldn't know…
I leaned closer to her beautiful face…
Yasuhara-san was lucky to have had that kiss…
I blinked at the idea… never mind…
It's such a surprise that someone like her would be able to capture such an intellectual…
…
I blinked at myself…
…
It took me about 10 shameful seconds before I realized what I have done.
Did I just kiss her?!
I scrambled out of the stool, away from her body…
'That was a mouthful…' a voice teased in my mind.
I scanned the room to see if I awoke anyone. I got a shrug from Hara-san…
Looks like I didn't wake any of them. A sigh of relief escaped from my lips.
'That's what you get for leaning so near…'
'And death is what you got for leaning your nose so near…' I answered.
A moment of silence followed…
'You can't blame me.' He said.
'Sorry but I can…' I answered him, 'What were you thinking, playing hero?'
I know for a fact that he went to Japan NOT to help some friend of his in need. He went so that he may defeat this stupid spirit.
'You were so clueless when I left, you know.'
'Ha! I was because you didn't tell me', I answered back as I regained my seat on the stool. I sat as far as possible from the bed.
'Maybe you're right…'
'What's your plan for Keade?'
'What do you mean?', his shocked face came to my mind.
'You left your girlfriend, brother…'
'Jealous now, are we? You should give Mai the rings now. No, you should've and could've given them to her before, too.', He answered sarcastically.
'What are you talking about, Gene?'
'What am I talking about, Dr. Oliver? I'm talking about the kissing scene earlier…'
I have never felt hotter in any other occasion as this…
'Don't change the subject!', I yelled in my mind.
'You better take good watch of her…'
'Yeah, I know.', I answered, 'Do you have any idea at all to kill this stupid spirit?'
'You talk as if it's alive.'
'I do. I always do, Gene.'
'I'll try my best…' and at that, the presence in my mind disappeared.
'Lousy solution maker…' I thought with a chuckle.
I stared at her face once again and I laughed.
'I'll never let anyone change that angelic face of hers.'
I stared at her more…
'It felt good when I tried,' I thought.
And when I realized it, I shook my head vigorously. An: (",) hahahaah
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"Where am I?" I asked myself. We have been going through my falls, the spirit and I.
What have I done wrong?
"You've done nothing wrong, missy. You were just in a wrong place at the wrong time.' The ghost apparition of Tomiko's mom appeared. Suddenly the scene changed and we were in that house once more.
"Stop this…", Earlier he was Urado, all bloody and smelling like corpses locked in the closet. Next he pushed me to the cliff by the side of the restaurant/inn we investigated in. Next, he was the doll in the video. I don't even know him!
"I can't stop, you see. I need your body, and I need full governance of it." The woman floating above the well said and a purple cloud seized my feet and started to drag me in to the well.
"Ayako! Masako! John! Bou-san! Lin-san! Osamu-Kun! ---"
'They won't hear you…' the woman answered and as I fell into the well, I cried as loud as I can…
"Naru!"