"Stay away."
I was in the dream garden, approaching the man, when he suddenly whipped around angrily at me.
"W-what?"
Startled, I stopped walking.
"Just stay away from me, Kagome."
"I don't understand. What did I do?"
"What didn't you do?! How could you abandon me like that? Did you ever think about my feelings?"
"What are you talking about?"
My voice was loud and shaky. Why was he so mad?
"I trusted you. I loved you. And you just walked away from it all, from me!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry…"
Tears were pouring from my eyes. I don't even know what I did but seeing him in so much pain just made my heart ache.
His unclear face seemed to lighten, and he moved close to me and embraced me tightly.
"I just want you to be happy, Kagome. With me! I just don't get why you cant see how much I care…"
I started feeling his arms around me more and more. His heat ran through me, his skin brushed against mine. Then it was dark.
"Oh!"
I sat up and gasped, awaking suddenly from my dream. Once again I as so close to seeing who it was, but no such luck. Looking around, I noticed I was not in my bedroom. In fact, I wasn't even in a bed.
"Wha…?"
I looked around the room I was in. There was a couch that I was on, a pool table behind the couch and a bar in the corner. It looked like a basement because of the stairs leading to the top floor. I stood up from the couch, but instantly wish I didn't. A sharp pain kicked in. The pain came from down there.
"What the…"
I saw a bathroom so I headed into it and locked the door. I pulled down my underwear and slightly gasped at what I saw. Blood was streaming down my leg and pooling in my panties.
"But my period ended last week…"
This was not my period. It never hurt like this. There wasn't much blood, but still. I cleaned myself up and waited as the blood eventually stopped coming out. I left the bathroom and looked around the room. Where was I? Flashbacks of last night then flooded into my head. I was with Kai. We were kissing. We got very high. We went downstairs for some drinks. We were kissing. And then…nothing. I cant remember a single other thing that happened.
"Kai?"
I called out in a quiet meek voice. Just as I called his name out, I noticed my cellphone flashing. I had a new voicemail. I picked up my phone and called my voicemail box, then listened as the message played for me. It was from Kai.
"Hey baby. Sorry I'm not there. I had some…business. You get it. Anyway I left at around 4am so I wont be back until later. You can stay here if you don't wanna go to school today. I also wanted to say that last night was…"
His voice drifted off mysteriously then came back and I could hear the grin in it.
"Amazing. I didn't think you'd be that good."
He laughed then finished talking.
"So you can use anything you want in the house. I have some speed in my drawer. We should have another sleepover soon. Love you babe."
Click. He was done. I was absolutely speechless.
"I was good? At what…?"
Things started dawning on me. The blood in my underwear must have been from…I glanced at the couch. Oh my God. There was a condom package, ripped open, on it. And there were some marks…oh my God.
"We had sex?"
"Hey Kags!"
Eri said to me at lunch. The other girls smiled their hellos.
"We didn't see you this morning. Where were you?"
Waking up in my boyfriend's empty mansion and realizing we had sex, even though I don't remember a fucking thing of it!
"Oh, I overslept."
They shrugged it off and we ate our lunch. They laughed and talked, I bit my nails down to the skin. After school they invited me to go to WacDonalds with them.
"Uh, sorry guys. I have to go…do something."
"Ugh, you're ditching us for Kai again. Am I right?"
Yuka cocked her eyebrow up at me.
"Actually no, I'm not. I have to go to the doctor."
I said defensively, making them soften up.
"Oh my! Why do you have to go? Are you sick?"
"Yeah cause whatever you have, I'm sure Hojo has the cure for it! He's like a walking clinic instead of a walk-in clinic!"
Eri laughed and snorted at her own joke.
"I'm not sick. It's just a checkup."
"Okay. Want us to come?"
"NO!"
I answered immediately, my voice squeaking.
"I mean, no thanks. Got to go!"
I booked it down the street. I walked to my 'doctor'. It wasn't my usual doctor place, this one was different. It was a STD clinic and you could go in there and test to see if you have ever had sex before. It's generally for rapes but I think drunken/high sex counts too.
I entered the door and told the nurse I wanted to be tested. She made me take a urine sample, then set me in the waiting room to…wait.
"Miss Higurashi?"
Ten minutes later she came back with a note. I took the note and thanked her, then left the clinic. Better look now.
'Name: Higurashi, Kagome
Age: 16
POSITIVE'Positive. Meaning I am no longer a virgin. Shit.
I picked up my cell and speed dialed a number. It rang twice, then someone picked up.
"Hey."
"Kai? We need to talk. Now."