Eventually Rin reached her house. She couldn't walk around forever; her mother would think she had another lost child. It was an hour after she had left school. There were police outside the house and inside she expected. The sudden death of a small child would be investigated as suspicious until they found that he had died of a heart attack. Until then they would be collecting evidence.
Rin's mother ran full pelt at her now only child. Rin welcomed her as she sobbed violently and held on tight.
"Rin, he…"
Rin nodded to stop her having to explain. A couple of police officers where heading over to the pair of them but Rin held on to her mother as long as she could before she was dragged away to give her statement.
Knowing that evidence would be found against her she explained that her brother had come into her room at night. She used the bathroom before going to ask her brother what it was that he had wanted. When he didn't wake up she was shocked and found herself unable to leave. She left the house in the morning desperate not to face her mother and break the news to her.
The police officer seemed very nice and genuinely nice rather than trying hard so that Rin would talk. She wondered if they had purposely sent a female officer to talk to her. The woman was quite young with her dark, sleek hair tightly pulled back and a faint, warm smile on her face. They must have thought the two of them may have been able to relate to each other or something. Rin didn't need someone to relate to though; she gave her statement then sat on the garden wall and rested her head on her mums shoulder. Her mum put an arm around her and rested her head against Rin's.
Over the next few hours Rin picked up that a neighbour had heard her mother scream and entered the house. The ambulance had been called and then the police. The body had been taken away earlier in the morning. Things from Soren's room were being taken away she wondered whether they would need to take anything from her room now that she'd told them he'd been in there. Good luck to anyone who had to process her books, she thought.
The time faded by as the police cleared and the sun set. One minute seemed the same as then next and before she knew it she was inside the house of her neighbour being set up with a bed in the spare room. She settled down silently. She hadn't spoken a word since talking to the officer and didn't plan on any time soon. She'd been offered food and drink but refused requesting only for rest. She hadn't realised how exhausted she was until she found her eyes closing. She was deep asleep in seconds.
When Rin awoke the air smelt delicious. Taking a look around the room she wondered if she'd been swallowed by a marshmallow. The walls were plain, a bland cream colour with a framed piece of modern art hung on the wall as an attempt to bring colour to the room. The sheets were crisp and slightly stiff, they matched the walls in colour. She pulled them off and got up to find she was famished.
A cooked breakfast was waiting in the kitchen once she got up. After her third glass of juice, she noticed that she had slept in her clothes. Thanking the family that taken her in and asked after her mother. They told her that she had returned home now that the police allowed them back in. She insisted on washing her dishes before thanking them once more and returning home.
Her mother was sitting on the sofa staring at the blank television. Her eyes were bloodshot and her face sodden with tears. Rin only paused for a moment before heading upstairs. She showered and changed ready for school. She picked up her bag and reached to the computer desk for the deathnote. Her fist thumped the desk and thudded downstairs.
"You're going to school?" Rin had reached for the door when her mum asked. She was wiping away tears.
"Can't stay here. Won't do much." Rin mumbled in reply.
"Right of course, no point in moping." She nodded. "Have a good day then" she said it out of habit mostly.
Rin walked slowly to school in complete silence. Even the birds seemed to have disappeared. She sighed as she reached the school gates, then pressed on through them. She signed in at reception and headed to her first class, English. The same silence followed her through the halls. It now seemed personified in the bright white halls, she came to wonder if she had turned deaf.
She pushed open the door of her class to be greeted by more silence. This silence had a ring to it though; a sudden absence of sound filled her ears. She could tell everyone had stopped talking to look up at the intruder on their lesson. She apologised to the teacher for being late before taking her seat. The guys she sat next to sighed as he shifted a few books off her side of the desk. Ignoring him chatting in his obnoxious voice to all of his mates, Rin got on with her work and finished early. She handed in her book to the teacher and was allowed to leave early. When she left the room she could hear the chatter get louder.
After moping around the corridors for a while she settled on a bench outside. She stared through the window of the school waiting fro the lesson to end. She wanted to keep busy right now. A few students and staff walked past the window but not many. She recognised one as Light Yagami. He was in her year. Quite a secretive guy, not many friends if any, he kept himself to himself it seemed. He was the only person to notice her sitting there as he walked past.
His brisk walk slowed a little and he gave her the strangest look before carrying on past. It had seemed he was considering some thing but he couldn't quite believe it himself. It had only been for a moment, maybe she over interpreting the look. After all she was getting a lot of weird looks now her brother had died.
She lifted herself off the bench when the bell sounded for the next lesson. She stopped a second before she realised that her next lesson would be biology. She shook her head and headed for the science building.