The Lion
By Yuki's Twin2
Cass: Yay! I got notebook paper for my binder today. Does anyone know the Fruits Basket character birthdays? If so please post them in you review.
Chapter 6: Month One (August27-September 30)
Isabelle's Diary (Her POV A/N: 308 days)
Day 1: I fell asleep before I even unpacked. Jackie and James are both so cruel. It's like eleven at night. I woke up at about nine feeling dirty. So now I'm sitting in the bath writing in this stupid diary. I can hear Momiji looking for me. I should probably get out of the bath.
Day 4: I haven't been going to school. But I decided to go today. Get this I sit between Momiji Sohma and, wait for it, Draco Sohma. Apparently he's bulimic (no idea about the difference between anorexic and bulimic). Hatori is paying for his to be a permanent residence. He's staying in a house all his own. I practically screamed. I can't wait until Hatori gets here on Day 7.
Day 7: The first thing Hatori did when he saw me was hand me a letter from my best friend in New York, Nikki. It was dated from two months ago. I guess over-seas letters have a hard time. Oh, right you probably want to know what it says.
'Dear Belle,
I just heard recently that you're still alive and living in Japan with your true family. I'm so happy for you. But I miss you so much. Your mom bought a grave for you and put a casket in it, there was a funeral and everything. It was sooo sad. I stopped eating when I heard you were dead. I'm now 5'9" and I weigh approximately 93 pounds. Moms scared I'm going to die. We got in a car accident two months ago, that puts it at about the same time you disappeared. I was in a coma for two months afterwards fighting for my life. I'm stuck in a wheel chair. I'm also in-patient in a facility in New York. I hope to see you sometime soon.
Love,
Nikki.'
I somehow managed to talk Hatori into bringing Nikki out here and moving us into Draco's house. Oh and paying for Nikki. I drank until I passed out that night. I couldn't stand to think of one of the only two people I'd ever cared about while I was in New York to be hurt.
Day 11: We finally moved into Draco's. I get to paint his walls. It's so much fun here, even though we're stuck for 308 days. And my birthday is 12 days away. I'm going to be 18! Nikki doesn't get here until tomorrow sometime.
Day 12: Nikki got here at about eight this morning. She was in a wheel-chair, just like her letter said. We both cried and hugged each other, and cried some more. Then the three of us helped her unpack and showed her around our mini-town. We'd show her around the actual town on her birthday.
Day 17: The first real eventful thing happened today, Draco asked Nikki out! It was so cool. I'm helping her pick out a dress to wear to dinner and a movie with him. And it was the first time I was truly sober since Nikki arrived. I'm hoping that tonight I won't cry myself to sleep. Her dress, we found the perfect one, is a midnight blue made of a clingy blue materiel with gemstones sewed in every now and then causing it to look like the night sky. It was sleeveless, low-cut, and, if Nikki could stand, it would fall to the floor.
Day 21: Momiji, Joanna, Nikki, Draco, Hatori, Aayame, Shigure, Kisa, Hiro, Rin Haru, Kyo, Tohru, Uo, and Hana threw Yuki and me an early birthday party. So we both got gifts from everyone. It was so much fun. Everywhere I looked there were couples. Yuki and Haru were making out on the couch, Hiro and Kisa had retreated to the privacy of my bedroom, Draco and Nikki were sitting in her chair in the middle of the kitchen, Tori and Aaya had gotten married (twitch and sweat drop). I was pretty sure I saw Joanna and Rin holding hands. So Gure was the only one alone. Momiji had led me off to his room. I will not go into any details; I will tell you that I woke up an hour later curled comfortably beneath the covers in Momiji's arms.
Day 23: I got a pass to go to town for the day. I was bored and I had swiped Tori's card while he was busy making out with Aaya. I slipped into a tattoo shop and requested a custom piece for later that day. I grinned and flashed the drivers' license which proved that I had turned eighteen that day. I went back at about seven-thirty. I got a lion protecting a rat and a bunny, and a purple rose head on my upper left arm. Momiji is either going to be jealous or angry, I'm praying for the former. I picked up enough booze to last until I got back out here on Monday. See we had two passes to go into the small town, and next Monday is Nikki's birthday. The only exception to the two rule was a holiday.
Day 24: I got stone cold drunk last night. I had stumbled in at two in the morning; I have no idea where I was. I had passed out in the middle of the living room floor. I woke up at eleven in the morning, with a massive hangover and immediately reached for the booze. That's when I realized I was in my bed, courtesy of Momiji and Draco, and that all of my booze had been poured down the sink, again courtesy of Momiji. I figured I'd kill him later. For now I'd drink black coffee by the gallon. Oh how fun.
Day 30: I somehow made it through last week. I got the four of us out of class for the day and town passes. Nikki had asked at one point how we were going to pay for everything I had planned. I grinned and held up Tori's credit card. We all laughed evilly. Poor Aaya was all I could say later. We hit the tattoo shop, flashed our drivers' license. They had four artists in for the day, lucky us. We transferred Nikki out of her chair to have angel wings tattooed on her back and then she had a rose tattooed on the back of her hand (ow ow ow) with vines creeping up just past her elbow and her older sister's name, birth date, and death date worked in a clear spot on the vines. Momiji got the word Belle tattooed in a rose on his left shoulder blade and a cartoon bunny with its head tilted comically to the side sitting on his right upper arm. I still think Draco got the coolest. He got dragon wings on his back and a small dragon sitting on the back of his hand (ow ow ow) with its tail wrapped around his wrist. Unfortunately Momiji wouldn't let any of us near the booze. Instead we went to Olive Garden and we all actually ate a full meal with dessert and everything. We all said Happy Birthday to Nikki and gave her a small gift. Draco gave her a gold promise ring with her name etched in cursive on the top, tiny diamonds marked the dots in the i's. I gave her a small charm for her charm bracelet. Momiji gave her a pair of simple gold loop earrings. We were back to the house by the nine o'clock curfew.
Month 35: Yay! It's the end of Month 1. We made a cake and celebrated. All of us get out on June 30. And we will celebrate the end of every month until then.
TBC…
Belle's Gifts:
Everyone: Charm bracelet
Yuki: Rat charm
Kyo: Cat charm
Momiji: bunny charm and diamond earrings
Hatori: dragon charm and unofficial use of credit card
Aayame: snake charm
Kisa: tiger charm
Hiro: ram charm
Rin: Horse charm
Haru: ox charm
Shigure: dog charm
Kagura: Boar charm
Kureno had the nerve to send a rooster charm
Ritsu: monkey charm
Joanna: little sister charm
Nikki: best friend charm
Draco: bell charm
Tohru, Uo, and Hana: Gold necklace with a locket containing a picture of Momiji and Yuki.
Akito: Small journal
Cass: Please don't forget the birthday's if you know them.