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FINALLY I settled in to sleep. My eyes closed and I let the pillows melt around my head with a sigh. Puffy, not too much, not too little. Just in-between, if they ever went flat I went out and bought new pillows. I can't sleep unless it's the right kind of pillow. I sighed heavily, running my hands down my face. Work-worn hands, I used to have those soft hands that felt like they've never been used. Then I wanted to start gymnastics. After that things got confusing and now my hands paid in the long shot. They had permanent scars, calluses and muscles on them.
With another sigh I dropped my hands and turned over, trying to get comfortable. I've noticed a few times before now, but the silence of my room was unnerving. The empty white walls loomed over me, the empty wooden floor a giant maw… Threatening to swallow me up. A sudden flash of fear sent me under my covers. I've always been rather scared of the dark and for some reason the blanket really does help.
'You're not alone you know.' Jewels said suddenly.
I started at the sudden voice.
'This reminds me of why you exist.' I whispered.
I made her… so that I wouldn't be alone. Because bad things happen when people are alone.
'Me too.' She answered quietly.
I smiled slightly; those fears had surrendered for now.
'Night Jewels.' I said.
'Night Julia.' She replied.
And it went unspoken between us that I was thankful she existed.
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"What?" I yelled, shooting up.
Jewels groaned and turned over to look at me.
'What're you yelling about?' She whined, cuddling her blankets closer.
I sighed and relaxed.
"Weird dream, sorry about that." I whispered falling back to my pillow.
After a moment of listening to Jewels snore my stomach growled and I sighed quietly. Jewels didn't twitch so I smiled and got up, breakfast in mind. My feet lightly padded down the stairs, I could hear my Mom turn over in her bed when the stair squeaked. I paused, breathing shallow and going silent. The house quieted and I sighed again and finished going down the stairs. That was a weird dream, I had been at my old house for some reason. Not just the house that I moved from recently, I mean my OLD old house. It wasn't actually that old, but I had moved away in the first grade to Maine, then I moved back to Japan.
I can remember the first day we got here, oh man did I have jet lag. It was supposed to be like two in the morning and it was like two in the afternoon. And that… That is just wrong. And the plane ride? Most boring thing I've ever done in my life. I mean come on, me just sitting there for, like, twenty hours. Screw that, I can barely sit still for two minutes. I ended up finishing three books and I didn't sleep a wink. Oh don't get me wrong; I wanted to. But my friend from Maine had this bet with me that I would fall asleep at some point. Basically I was a walking zombie by the time we got off of that plane. But that's off topic, in my dream I had been looking for something (shocker there) and just could not find it. I can't remember what I'd been looking for but it must have been important because when my Mom came in to tell me she threw it out on accident I had woken up yelling. I really wish I could remember what it was…
I feel like it was something important.
I scratched my face and yawned, walking into the kitchen. I blinked away the tears and rubbed my eyes, yawning again. It was too early for this. Opening my eyes I froze in my steps. Wait no… maybe I'm still sleeping. I walked out of the room, pinched myself, yeah it hurt, and walked back in. No, it was still there.
"Heather?" I asked cautiously. The mound sighed and turned over. I glared and turned on the light. "Heather, what are you doing on my kitchen counter?"
"Wha~?" She asked, turning over. I glared back in all of my bed-head glory, hands on my hips. Wow, I'm suddenly glad I put my pants on when I go to bed… "What're you doin' in my room Jewels?" She asked.
I threw my phone at her with a huff.
"I'm not in you room!" I whisper-yelled.
She yelped and sat up, rubbing her head.
"Why did you throw something at me?" She muttered.
I made a 'shhh' noise and dragged her off of the counter, grabbing my phone from her shirt. She stumbled after me, snatching her bag off the table as I hauled her to my room. When we got there I closed the door and turned on the light. Heather was looking around, making an awed face at the empty walls.
"Why are you here?" I growled.
"I told you! I needed a place to stay!" She whined.
"You didn't mention my kitchen counter in those plans! All you did was babble something about 'needing to go' and finding a 'place to crash' then you tottered off like a drunken sailor. Wait, were you drunk? Why were you drunk!" I babbled, Heather turned bright red.
"I wasn't drunk…" She mumbled.
I paused, staring at her. No, Heather is a straightedge of course she wasn't drunk. Then why-
Kazu.
"Oh." I blushed, looking at the floor.
"Good Lord Jewels, you're being embarrassed for me! You haven't changed a bit!" Heather gasped, laughing at me.
Now I turned red for two reasons. I hid my face in my hands; it was burning up.
"Shut up! I hate blushing you know that!" I cried, running to the other side of the room.
She sweat-dropped, face-palming.
"You really haven't changed have you?"
"Sh-SHUT UP!"
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"Okay. You stay here. Don't wake anyone up, don't mess up my room, don't eat all the food and… Don't. Touch. My. ATs." I listed, growling the end.
Heather has this unnatural obsession with pretty shoes and my silver ATs were right up her alley.
"Wouldn't you have them with you." She asked, looking over at me from window.
"All the better." I muttered, pushing away from the door and running outside, grabbing my leather ATing jacket and school bag on the way past.
I actually had the uniform on today. Well… the modified uniform anyway. The skirt had been altered to be longer along with the shirt. The insides were attached to pieces of fabric that kept it from flying up and I was wearing shorts underneath it. In other words, it was impossible to look up this skirt! The shirt was a little harder. I had to replace the white part with a shirt I bought with a bit of the money I'd saved up and then I fixed it to look like the longer version of the other shirt. In other words, I was pretty proud of myself. The outfit in general with much more comfortable and looked great with the school shoes. Yeah… I learned that after Ringo told me there were SHOES to wear too. Oh well. It's not like I didn't totally wear the guys uniform on my first day. How could this be worse?
No scratch that. I'll jinx myself.
Looking up at the sky I was surprised out of my thoughts. Dark clouds covered every inch of the heavens. They looked ready to unleash an absolutely untamable downpour and I jittered for a moment before flipping open my ATs.
"Screw it, I'll get myself to school." I muttered, taking off as a drop off water hit my arm.
I was soaking wet by the time I pulled into school and, looking down, a squeal threatened to burst out of my throat when the padded shirt worked; you couldn't see through it. Humming, I headed to the bathroom in order to dry off some. My jacket caught a lot of the water that would have hit my back and skirt other wise, for that I was thankful. I mean, who likes damp underwear? A shudder ran over my skin, raising goosebumps.
"Why the fuck am I going to school? Screw this!" I heard a voice yell.
A smirk spread across my face. Go Ikki, maybe Agito will become a little more normal. My hope fell when another new voice added into the fray.
"Ikki, good morning!"
A heavy sigh from Ikki. He mumbled something about quiet and having Agito and Akito around. I sighed as well, for some reason my heart had dropped a little when Agito switched over. Finishing up I walked out of the bathroom, the door closing behind me.
"Morning guys." I yawned, brushing my hair with my fingers.
Akito turned around, grinning and dragging Ikki with him.
"Morning Julia! How is Jewels?" He yelled.
I jumped and clapped a hand to his mouth.
"Shush, people don't know about her remember." I gasped.
'Heh, who's talkin' bout' meh….' Jewels mumbled, waking up from her nap.
'I'll switch over. I'm too tired today anyway.' I answered, feeling a shiver go up my spine.
"Mornin' guys. I'm doing great." Jewels mumbled while I promptly fell back asleep.
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"Oh, Jewels, she actually switched over." Akito said, surprised.
I nodded and yawned, stretching. Oh it felt good to stretch for real.
"Yeah, I know right. Shocker. I wonder if she had a bad dream or something." I wondered, realizing that she had willingly switched over for once.
Akito's face looked troubled then an almost devilish grin nearly cracked it in half.
"Hey, I have a good idea." He said, grinning at me.
I raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? And what would that be?"
His grin magically got bigger.
"Set them up."
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"Run, run, RUN!" I screamed, shoving people out of the window.
It was blurry and there was the sound of breaking glass and screams and fire. Explosions went off in the distance.
Freezing, I could feel a presence behind me getting closer. The last person burst from the window and I scrambled to follow when a scream alerted me that I'd missed one. A little girl was cowering in the corner across the room which was quickly catching fire. She had her hands over her head, hiding from the loud footsteps making the floor creak. Beams shuddered and rained down coals.
Fear clenched in my gut and I fought off the need to run away screaming myself. Chanting, I ran across the room and helped the little girl up. She hid her face and shook with fear so I picked her up and ran across the room. Just before I got to the other side a heavy beam broke off from the ceiling, throwing us apart. A monster grabbed the girl and just before she disappeared I saw her face.
That little girl was me.
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I woke with a start. It was quiet and I could vaguely hear Jewels talking to someone. My heartbeats began to slow down and rubbed my head. I'd been dreaming too much lately and my dreams had been awfully violent. It'd be nice if they could be like the one Agito was in, that was a good dream. I froze, my face heating up, oh I totally just thought that.
Choosing to ignore this little fact I yawned and stretched. Jewels paused in her conversation.
'Julia, you're up." Her voice echoed to me.
I rolled off of the imaginary bed and it disappeared with a pop. One useful thing about having this kind of a personality, you get to have imaginary stuff in your brain.
'Yeah, I'm ready to switch back now.' I mumbled, staggering to a stand up.
Jewels looked across at me. She looked the same as she did when I originally made her up. Short, dark brown hair, piercing, ice-blue eyes and tall. What can I say, I like my 'imaginary friends' to be pretty.
'The others are up on the roof, said to meet them there when you woke up.' She shrugged.
I flipped back to the outside. The sudden shock of weight and balance made me stumble around for a minute before looking up. Hadn't Jewels been talking to someone? Weird, I could have sworn she was. I opened my mouth to ask when I realized that Jewels was asleep again, snoring like there was no tomorrow.
I skipped up the stairs to the roof, happy to be back on the outside. Being unable to move unnerves me to no end. If I'm truly immobilized I'll freak out and start screaming and throw a fit. It's not a pretty picture. I wonder if Akito or Agito has a similar problem. Nah, those two are used to switching back and forth.
I peeked around the corner to find that no one was there. Confused, I stepped onto the roof, looking around. Did I hear Jewels wrong or something? Or maybe they'd moved because I'd annoyed them! Uncertainty fell over me like an evil shadow. Maybe I was just a bother to them anyway. Not only did I not have the connection the others did, I also wasn't that great on AT's and…
"What the fuck Akito, why am up here?" A voice yelled.
Wait, Agito? What was he doing up here? The uncertainty backed off and I almost smiled, happy to have him with me. Even though Agito probably hated me the most, I just liked being around him. Stepping quietly, I went the corner of a wall on the roof. He was having an argument with Akito on the other side of the wall. I peeked around, trying to stay silent and inconspicuous. His back was to me and he just went on yelling, the rest of the GUYS were there too.
"We're here to have a conversation with you." Ikki said, the others nodded in agreement.
"Conversation? I don't do fucking conversations!" He yelled.
The other were whispering and by the tensing of the muscles on his neck you could tell he was getting really agitated. Whatever Akito was telling him was really bothering him. I almost said hi to show that I was there when the curiosity overwhelmed me. What was he so annoyed about?
"I was so not thinking about that! Fuck you! How did you even hear about that?" He yelled.
My eyebrow raised. Agito, were you being dirty? I wondered, grinning evilly. I almost fainted when the back of his ears turned red. Oh-ho, why is he so embarrassed? The other weren't so loud and no matter how much I strained my ears I just couldn't hear them.
"Akito! You told them about when Julia got sick! WHAT THE FUCK!" He yelled.
My eyes widened and all I could think about was when he'd helped me with the shower. Oh. My. God.
'Jewels…' I growled. 'You guys didn't…'
'It's time to talk to him Jewels. You know he asked about that dream.' She said.
I paused. Oh yeah, he'd been there for that.
'But, Jewels…I-'
'No. You need a real friend.' She growled.
I glared at her.
'But Heather-'
'Julia. You know she has enough to deal with.'
'But so does Agito!' I cried.
Tears started crowding at the corners of my eyes.
'We both know it. He needs a real friend just as much as you do.' She answered.
And for once she was the calm one and I was the one who was freaking out. My heart clenched.
'But what if he rejects me as a friend.' I whispered.
The thought of not being able to hang out with them, him, anymore made me want to cry.
'I can hear your thoughts Julia. You were already in doubt about them as friends. At least…' She paused, calming down. Her voice has started to become increasingly frantic. 'At least you'll know for sure.'
I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding.
'Okay. I'll try- No. I will.' I confirmed.
I took a deep breath and stepped out from behind the wall.
"Agito." I said firmly.
His entire body froze and he answered me without turning.
"Julia. What the fuck do you want?" He growled.
My heart was in my throat and I could feel the blood rushing in my ears. The others were staring at me which made me want to run back to my spot behind the wall. But here I was and I refuse to be known as one who beats around the bush. After all I really hate people like that anyway.
"I need to talk to you."
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