She really needed to stop passing out, her blood was starting to pound in her ears. Waking up this time had been pretty much like the last time: light too bright, a cloth on her head, recognizing the room, etc.. Ageha was just about to swing her legs off the couch when people walked in, the same people that surprised her so bad that she fainted. This time she held her mind and stared back at them through wide eyes. They seemed to be wary to approach her and the man was taking cautious steps toward where she was, waiting for her to react. Way to go you numbskull, you freaked them out with your fainting and now they're afraid to approach you. Her inner Arisaka-san was scolding her for her foolishness.
Ageha took in the man carefully as he slowly made his way to her. He was like Arisaka-san in every way possible, but there was this natural warmth that radiated off him that invited you in. Not to say that Arisaka- san didn't have it, his was just more prominent. But being a tad slow on the uptake from the lack of conciseness, she hadn't processed what happened before until just that minute. She stared at him for a minute and then proceeded to freeze up, freaking out on the inside. This isn't happening! Arisaka-san's father! And Ririko-san! She's so young and that kid is…
Ageha was bout near ready to shut down, but her inner Arisaka-san was yelling at her to calm down and assess the situation. Seeing that it was good advice, she took a deep breath and focused on the older Arisaka coming towards her. He locked eyes with her and held her gaze while he approached her. "How are you feeling?"
She looked at him a moment, trying to decided how she wanted to approached this. Choosing to nod instead of trusting her voice, she watched over his shoulder at the two lingering just beyond the doorway. Following her gaze, he half turned away from her. "Please don't be frightened. This just my son and a friend of the family, they won't hurt you."
Who would ever think that? Faced scrunched up in thought. Shaking her head at the statement and sighing earned her a confused look from the rest of them. "Do you know what happened to me?"
A look passed between the three before returning their attention to her with a skeptical look in two of the three sets of eyes. Raising and eyebrow in confusion, Ageha tried to remember what was going on before the dark took over. Flashes of fragmented memories assaulted her thoughts, things she already knew and remembered. Things like the car and Arisaka-san, but nothing on how she ended up exchanging looks with the past. The need to know how she got here was starting to rise, followed by panic over the situation. None of them were saying anything to her and she was starting to get fidgety under their gaze.
"You mean…you don't remember?" Ageha looked up at Ririko's question then flashed her gaze back into her lap. Clutching her eyes shut and pinching the bridge of her nose, trying to ward off a headache that was forming. The flashes were starting to hurt her head coupled with having to figure out the situation she was in.
Choosing her words carefully for one of the few times in her life, leaving out curtain things, she answered. "I remember leaving a place…maybe a home, or it felt like home. The horn..the car…tears. Someone was crying and there was red. And I mean a lot of red." I think it might be best to frame amnesia. This would just be way too hard to explain that I'm from future. No, but to play the memory loss card. Ageha was proud of herself for thinking to quick on her feet because it looked like they were actually buying it.
There was a silence that followed her statement that was almost unnerving. The air was heavy as the three other persons in the room exchanged nervous glances. When Aoi-san finally turned his full attention back to Ageha, he gave a skeptical look. "There wasn't any blood on you or near you this morning. You were just alone in the street. Are you sure that you didn't just get lost and trip and hit your head?"
Mentally smacking herself for not thinking about her physical appearance, she pulled her 'get me out of trouble look'. Tilting her head to the side and widening her eyes, she returned his skeptical look with one of pure innocent confusion. Arisaka-san gets so mad when I do this because he knows I'm up to something. Heres to hoping he didn't inherit that six sense from his father. Now for a little embellishment. After a second of locked eyes, she broke down into tears (fake tears) that startled the other occupants.
That did it. Skeptical or not, she knew that no Arisaka could resist a crying girl.