Monday, August 27

11:23 am

The Clinic

I opened my eyes to see Mrs. Kawa sitting next to me. "Finally you're awake. After Dustin touched your lips you passed out. And he didn't even kiss you! It was just a single finger!"

"Uggghhhh, I'm tired."

"You've been sleeping for like three hours," she said looking at her purple watch, "You should get to class!"

"What happened after I fainted?"

"He carried you all the way here!"

"Which way?!" A shocked look came across my face. "How embarrassing."

"No, no, don't worry about it. Any other girl would have fainted even if Dustin just looked at them. He picked you up and held you by the inside of your knees and your back! Like how married people do!"

"How embarrassing! Aha, aha, aha!" I said even louder. Now people around me in the clinic started looking at me weird.

"OH YAH!" Mrs. Kawa suddenly had a sudden outburst. Now everyone was staring. She sure was cool and immature for a teacher. "Two other things happened!!"

"Tell. All," I couldn't wait.

"Everyone saw him carrying you, and… as he was leaving after he put you down on this bed… well…."

"Tell me!"

"He kissed you on the cheek and whispered in your ear 'I love you'!"

"Oh. My. God." I couldn't say anything else. I sure was getting over excited about this. I usually don't get preppy when it comes to guys. "Wait, so you waited here the whole time for me to wake up?"

"I didn't have any classes to take care of, I'm mostly just a sub, and sometimes they give me bad students to teach for the day. That's why I have a classroom. And besides, I kind of had to…"

"What do you mean?"

"Well… The nurses wanted to take off your hat because you were running a fever for about an hour while you were asleep. We called your house but no one was there."

"Oh, thanks so much! I totally would have been in trouble if they saw my horns. I don't know what would have happened to me."

"Yah, yah, no, of course! I know, they probably would have sent you to Japan, where I used to work. They would kill you. Your parents must have taken good care of you, keeping your horns hidden while you were a baby, and still loving you. Most parents of diclonius' or silpelits reject there children, and send them to Japan to be killed by one of the doctors at the labs."

"I wouldn't let them take her," said a boys voice. "I'm glad to see you've finally woken up." He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed the top of it. "My princess." Everyone that was in the clinic stared at us. There was a camera flash. Oh, shit, it's going to get all over myspace, but I didn't care.

"You're…" I stuttered. He pulled me up to where I was standing and then hugged me tightly, lifting me off my feet because he was taller then me. I put my arms around him. "This is real."

"Yes," he answered. "I'm real. I was so worried you weren't." He put me down.

"As was I," I said.

"What's on your pants?" Mrs. Kawa asked. I looked, and at the bottom of his jeans was a drop of something red.

"Nothing," he glared at her.

"What did you do?" I asked.

"If anyone hurts you. I. Will. Kill. Them," he pulled up my other hand to his eyes to show me the blood from my lip.

"Where?"

"The bathroom," was all he said. I ran out of the clinic, to the bathroom that was near Ms. Stone's classroom. It wasn't that far away, and I could get there by myself.

"Rika!" Mrs. Kawa yelled after me, as she ran after me. She caught up with me just as I was running into the bathroom.

"Where, where, where?!" I screamed. I saw drops of blood on the ground, and then I looked into the trash can, which had a lid. I screamed. Rachael was all cut up into pieces. I started crying, because this time someone actually killed someone for me. Because of me.

Mrs. Kawa took one look and then took me in her arms, me sobbing. "It's alright, it's alright," she said.

"How could he do this!" I screamed. "How could he kill someone just because they tripped me! How heartless is he?!"

"He did because he was angry, because he loves you. Because he knew she would continue to hurt you. It's not that often you see someone love someone that much, to actually kill them. And at this age…" I looked up, because I realized she was right.

"Yah," I said. I heard a bell ring, and classroom doors slamming open.

"Time for lunch," she said, "You going to talk to him?"

"Yah," I said. "I think I should."

"Well he does love you. Do you still love him?"

I thought about it for a few seconds, wondering what kind of relationship this would turn into. "Of course!"

"You'd love a killer?" The thought made me freeze up, but I still loved him for who I thought he was, no, I knew he really was good.

"Yes."

"Then you're just as heartless," she said simply. "Let's get you to lunch." We walked to the commons, not saying a word as we went. I didn't really accept the thought that I was heartless for loving a killer. As she started to walk off, I stopped her.

"You know, I don't think that someone loving a killer would mean that they're heartless. I think it means that they really love them, no matter what they did, or what they will do. I think it's hard for a person to love a killer, but if they're love for them really is that strong then they will continue to hold on to them, endlessly."

"I think you're right," she confessed, "But if you went through what happened to me at the lab, you'd see why I thought that. "There he is," she pointed to the dark boy sitting all alone, "Have a nice lunch." She walked off to the direction of her classroom. I guess she already ate lunch. Probably when I was sleeping, or more like, fainted.

He looked up at me from across the commons, and grinned. I walked over to him and sat next to him. "Hey, girl," said some girl and her friends, "Today we're sitting with him." They pushed me out of my chair and took me seat, and all the seats around him. They all were definitely prettier than me, but he was mine. What was this feeling?

'Kill them,' it said. 'They deserve it, Dustin is yours.'

'No,' I replied.

'Then just make them get up somehow,' it said back.

'Yah," I said, 'I will.'

I saw Dustin look at me, and he wasn't doing anything about them. He nodded his head gently, signaling to me he wanted me to do something about it. There were about seven girls.

I looked to the floor, "Move." They didn't even turn around. One looked up and just rolled her eyes. I was angry, and I hadn't really been angry in a long time. "I said MOVE! NOW!" I screamed. The 'leader' of the group of friends glanced at me.

"No," she said, "I'm better than you, I get to sit with him. He likes me, you're just jealous." I heard her talking about her nails to Dustin. Again he looked up at me, waiting for me to do something.

"The manicure was forty dollars, and my parents paid for it all!" She bragged. They were pink and had little cute flowers painted all over them. They were extremely long, coming about a whole inch off of her finger.

"Move," I said again. Now all the girls looked at me.

"Bitch, go away," said one.

"Yah, everyone hates you anyway, you're so ugly," I looked down at the ground this time. This is what I had heard my whole life from people at school.

"And I also got my hair straightened as a perm for sixty dollars," I looked at it. It went a half a foot past her butt. I think she might me popular for her extremely long hair and nails.

'What are you planning?' Asked the voice.

'Just watch,' I smiled.

"What the hell are you smiling about?" Asked one of the girls. I started giggling. Dustin looked up at me and smiled. He nodded.

'You know what I'm going to do?' I asked him in my head.

'Yah, do it,' he said back silently.

"I'll tell you one more time, botch, I want you and all of your friends to leave. Now."

"Hell, like we will! What are you gonna do? Go cry in a corner and tell the principal what happened? Uwww we're so scared!" They mocked.

I sliced off a single nail of the girls, it falling to the floor. "What the hell Maria, I thought they were real!" said one girl.

"Elizabeth, they are!" She replied.

"Now MOVE!" I shouted. Dustin started laughing, which annoyed me.
"No!" they all shouted. I cut off all the rest of her finger nails, them making little tapping noises as they fell to the floor and on the table.

"What lovely hair," I said as I picked up a chunk and looked at it.

"Don't touch me!" Maria turned around and slapped me on the face. I gave Dustin a glare, telling him not to do anything about it. I pulled the chunk off hair out of her head as she yelped in pain.

"Now. Move. I never want to see you around me or Dustin."

"Fuck what you say, you're fucking crazy! Get away from us! TEACHER!" That was it. My last straw. I chopped off her hair up to her neck. "Ahhhh!" She screamed as she put her hand to her hair, feeling how much short it was.

"Move before I cut your fingers off," I said. Maria left, crying into a bathroom, her hands over her face. "Here," I said, tossing her hair to Elizabeth. "YUCK!!!" She screamed as a disgusted look came across her face and she finally left. "So, two down, five to go." All the girls looked up at me.

"I'm gone," said two girls, leaving to go sit with their other friends.

"So… whose next?" I said.

"The last one here gets it from me," Dustin said. Then they all left. I sat back down next to him, happy I won him back. "Good job," he said, pulling me to him chest, giving me another humongous hug, "Is that the first time you've used your vectors on people?" He let go of me.

"Yes," I admitted, "Other than that one time in 6th grade."

"I know," he said with a worried face, "It's okay. It was an accident."

"I recognize you from somewhere…" I said.

"Well of course we've known each other for a year now in our heads," he looked at me with a weird smile.

"I know.. but someplace else. Oh yah! I forgot. Why did you kill that girl she hardly did anything to me, all she did was trip me!" I was upset again.

"I'm sorry," he admitted, "I told you in that dream if anyone hurts you then I'll kill them. You seemed to be okay with that, you were just silent. I didn't know it would upset you that much."

"Don't kill anyone again unless I tell you to, if it has to do with me," I ordered him.

"I understand," he said. "Are you going to eat? Or is your stomach still sick from seeing that girl in the trash can?"

"Yah, I won't be eating," I told him.

"I'm sorry," he apologized.

"It's okay," I answered.

"Good job, with those girls. You really scared them off," he giggled. He sounded so cute, laughing like a little kid. "And you didn't hurt them physically, except for when you pulled out her hair, but I know you were angry, and it wasn't with your vectors, so that doesn't count."

"Yah," I smiled.

"So what's this I hear you've talked to Roy?"

"I'm not supposed to tell," I said, "He said he would hurt you, but now I know you're strong enough to handle him."

"I'll say," he laughed, "You still don't know do you?"

"Know what?" I questioned, worried.

"Something bad is going to happen to you," he said in a more serious tone.

"How am I in trouble?"

"Don't worry, I've been keeping an eye on you for a while now. I thought it'd be best not to tell you yet."

"What the hell are you talking about?! I don't believe you!"

We faced each other, and he took my face in his hands. The whole cafeteria seemed to go quiet. "This is real," he said. He kissed me passionately, gently, proving to me that he loved me.

"Tell me everything, even though you should have told me before."

"Some people are after you. They've been watching you ever since you were little, since your parents died, documenting things about you. They check in on you about every other week. They wanted to see how a diclonius acted in a real society. But they think that you have started to get your 'other voice' that tells you to kill people, so they want to kill you. If they don't then they think you will kill a lot of people, even though they know that you have a kind heart. It's just our nature. They think you won't fight back is they try to take you, but they don't know about me. Yet." He added.

"You'll protect me?" I asked.

"Oh course I will," he answered. "I'll always protect you. Even if I die in the process." It was so strange. It was like he was my slave or something, but I guess he wanted to be, because he loved me so much. What would we have to do to keep me out of danger? I didn't know. I supposed I should talk to Mrs. Kawa after lunch. Maybe she could tell me some about what the scientists might do to me.

"Do you know anything about Mrs. Kawa? And hey wait, why didn't Ms. Stone say anything to you after you cussed her out?" I was confused.

"No, I don't know anything about Mrs. Kawa besides that she used to work at a diclonius laboratory in Japan, and that she's a substitute teacher. Ms. Stone didn't do anything because she knows my secret, and she knows that I would kill her, just like I've threatened."

"You've threatened her more than once?"

"Yes," he replied reluctantly. He smiled, "She's always been a bitch."

"You know Roy? Personally?"

"Yes," he answered, "Very personally." I decided if he wanted to tell me about what he meant then he would.

"Would he hurt me?"

"No," he said quickly.

"Yall two sure do seem do remind me of each other," I said.

"I'm not him," he answered.

"I know," I said, "It's just… I don't know."

"Awww, well look at the cute little couple!" Said a boys voice. We both looked up.

"Roy… go away," Dustin said. "Someone is going to recognize you and you're going to kill someone and this is all going to turn into a big mess."

"I'm just going to stay for a little while," he said. He sat across from Dustin and I. "So…" he said, "I was wondering if I could join yall when yall go running away from… whoever is trying to get Rika."

"No," Dustin answered.

"Oh, you want to have her all to yourself?" Roy smiled. "I kissed her yesterday, and she liked it."

"Did not!" I said.

"You're crazy," Dustin replied. "You know who got her first kiss."

"Huh?" My first kiss? It was Roy.

"Nothing," they both answered at the same time. Roy and Dustin continued to talk about who knows what. I saw someone in a black suit talking to a teacher, nodding his head after every time the teacher said something. He had on a dark pair of sun glasses. Then he started walking toward me. Dustin and Roy didn't see him.

"Dustin," I said as the man approached us.

"Rika?" The man asked.

"No," I said, pretending I was confused, "I'm not 'Rika.'" I knew this person was bad. I knew he was going to take me away and kill me. It's a good thing Dustin told me everything before that man talked to me.

Now Roy and Dustin were looking up to the man, silent, all three of us with hats on. "I know who all three of you are," he said. "I need all three of you to come with me."

"I'll be nice and won't kill you if you walk away now," Roy smiled with his evil smile.

"I think not," said the man. He pulled out a gun.

"Like that'll work on us," Dustin said, 'That's an ordinary gun." Some people around us in the cafeteria were screaming and running away because he pulled out his gun.

"We could do this the hard way, or the easy way," the man said.

"I think it's us who should be asking that question," I said. I saw Mrs. Kawa in the distance. She was walking up silently behind the man who was trying to take us all away. I didn't say anything, because I knew she was going to try to help us without anyone getting hurt. She got an empty chocolate milk glass, and hit him in the back of the head with it. He fell to the floor, and glass shattering everywhere.

"Let's go!" She said, taking Roy's and my hand in her hand, Dustin's in mine. We ran out of the school, as more people in black suits chased after us, shooting at us with ordinary guns. We got in the parking lot, and jumped into her car. We were off.

Authors Note:

Okay well this is like where the story really starts! Again I hope you all are enjoying this! LEAVE A REVIEW!!!! –you'll get cookies and I'll add in a shirt that says 'I Love Bloody Love'- Thank you… X3

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