Chapter Six- False Friend
School was the only thing I could look forward to. It was where I could pretend nothing has happened, and I could get along with everyone. Well, almost everyone.
I was walking down the hallway where someone pushed into me on purpose.
"Oops, sorry loser," Rachel sneered at me.
I narrowed my eyes. I brightened as I saw Ethan.
"Hey Ethan-" I called out but he gave me a hostile look that made my whole blood freeze up in ice.
"I'm sorry…" He said politely. "Do I know you?"
It was as if those words were an arrow plunging into my already fragile heart. I gave him a nervous smile. "Ethan…I'm Kimiko remember? Your friend?"
His face was still stone. "Don't recall…" Ethan walked away from me into a classroom, leaving me stricken with horror.
What did I do?
I remembered what Edward had said, Ethan's father.
"You know Ethan cares about you,"Then how come he was ignoring me? Why? The words that I recalled in my memory made the words Ethan had just said to me made it even more sour and bitter.
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"Kimiko…Kimiko…come back to Earth…"
"Huh?" I was sitting next to Erika, my only friend as it seems, in the cafeteria.
"What's wrong with you? You always seem to be daydreaming. You're out of it today,"
"Aren't I always?" I cracked a weak grin.
"You keep staring at Ethan," Erika pointed out.
"Ahhh, am I?" I asked, just noticing my habit. I just couldn't help but wonder why the hell he would ignore me!
"Yes," Erika shot me a concerned look. "Is everything alright?"
"No, he isn't talking to me," I said absently.
"Why not?"
"I don't know…"
"How about this? I'll talk to him for you. Just give me a note,"
My face lit up like a million candles. "Really?! Awesome!" I took out a piece of paper and scribbled a quick message that read, "Why are you ignoring me Ethan? I thought we were friends!"
I handed to it Erika and she delivered it to him. Ethan looked bored, and took out his own pencil and wrote something.
He gave the note to Erika who quickly came back to me. "I didn't read it yet, since he said it was for your eyes only. But you'll tell me right?" She smiled.
I opened it. It read, "Because you have a horrid stench on you that smells like werewolves. I couldn't stand it from the first day I met you. I don't want to see you ever again."
My fingers trembled at those piercing words. This wasn't the truth was it? Ethan was lying…he has to be!! My eyes welled up with tears but I fought them. This was all a lie…
"Kimiko? Are you okay?" Erika asked. "What does the note say,"
I looked up and forced a smile. "Umm nothing," I crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trashcan.
But…why was I feeling so sad? We were just friends right?
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After school, I faced Ethan for a full frontal confession. Before he disappeared I grabbed his arm. He looked back at me and scowled.
"Ethan, how come you're ignoring me?" I demanded.
He sighed as he let go of me. "I don't want to talk to a lowly life form as you." Ethan briskly walked outside of the building.
A lowly life form? Who was this? This can't be true…I ran outside and saw him enter a Volvo. Bella, his mom, looked at me with sadness in her eyes before they zoomed off.
Tears streamed down my face, taking in everything that had happened. He hated me. Ethan, my friend, really didn't like me. It was real.
Just like my mom and dad.
A car drove in the almost empty parking lot and out came my mom. She looked at me with deep worry. "Honey, why are you crying?" She came over to me and hugged me just like when I was five.
"Is it because of the divorce?"
My heart stopped for one full second. "Divorce?"
"You didn't hear yet? That's not surprising…he must be drinking. He drinks when he's depressed." She muttered the last part.
"Why won't you get back together?" I blurted out.
"Because honey," She looked at me with soft eyes and stroking my hair. "He doesn't truly love me. Jacob cares about me you know, but he doesn't love me. I can't be with someone who doesn't love me. Instead he loves that vampire who is already married. Horrible." Mom shook her head.
I stared at the ground, the sky growling with anger.
She led me into her car. "Come on sweetie. It's going to rain soon, and I'm here to pick you up."
The car ride was quiet, and Mom was humming to a tune in the radio station. She was unbelievably happy for someone who's going to get a divorce.
I sighed as I stared out the window, the rain now coming full force. How did life be like this? Just a few weeks ago, my parents were together and happy, and Ethan was talking to me.
Old wounds that were made opened up again, and the name Ethan was like applying salt to those wounds. I contorted my face of the pain, and forced myself not to cry.
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"You're not going to come over to my house for a bit?" Mom said, a little bit of disappointment in her voice.
"No…I'm going to stay at Dad's." I said bluntly.
"Okay…"
I entered my house to see Dad nowhere. These days, he was lying on the couch holding an empty bottle of alcohol and the whole house filled with the stench of beer.
"Kimiko!" a faint voice called out. "Come in the garage!"
I walked to the garage and saw Dad under a car that was dead a long time ago. He rolled out and grinned at me, his face greasy with oil. "What's up honey?"
I gave him a quizzical look. "What? Why are you so happy?"
"Why can't I? I mean it's no crime to be happy!"
"But…you're just going to divorce Mom! You should be sad!" I shot at him.
"Well…that's not what divorces are for," He said calmly.
"UGH! You should be pissed that you're breaking up! AM I THE ONLY FREAKING PERSON WHO IS ANGRY?!?!" I stormed out before he could reply back. I rushed in my room and slammed the door.
When I eyed the window, I thought of something. I'm going to take a walk, and clear my head. Yeah. Take a break from all this confusion for a while.
I snuck out of the window, and thanked god that my room was on the first floor.
As I landed smoothly on the grass, I walked in the crisp night air, taking a deep breath of the fresh atmosphere. It smelled good after it rained.
Things were very quiet at night, the crickets singing their song of the night, and an occasional owl hooting and taking off into the night sky.
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I must've walked a few miles, because there was light peeking behind the horizon, a few thin lines of red tracing it.
Dawn was coming, and I felt sleepy. My mind was fading in and out of consciousness, but where could I sleep? It was probably far away from my home, and probably the whole reservation, and I had no other friends. I had no clue where Erika's house was, and Ethan…didn't care about me anymore.
My heart hurt at his name again, throbbing with pain. I missed him so badly. His face…his whole appearance…his scent…his flute that he played for me…his voice…I missed him all.
But he was just a friend. I forced myself to think that. Because he would never feel that way about me. It's close to impossible. And after what he was feeling towards me, I understood it all. He didn't like me at all.
That's all I was to him, one of the many people in this huge world.
I should just move on with life. But then how come I keep thinking about him? Why??
I found shelter under a huge cherry blossom tree and laid my hand against it, empty of energy to do anything else. My stomach was weak with hunger, but what I desperately needed now was some sleep.
Ahh…sleep…
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"Kimiko! Wake up!"
"Huh?" I was just drifting off to happy land when a cold hand slapped my face gently. That hand was familiar…
"It's Bella! You know, Ethan's mom!"
Oh…it was just Bella.
"Hi Bella," I said a little dazed, since I was still waking up.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Sleeping…" I murmured.
"Out here? It's cold! Aren't you supposed to be at school right now?"
"School? Oh…oh well…"
Bella sighed and then grabbed my arm, dragging me to her car. "Get in…" She ordered in a commanding voice, but still with a hint of kindness in it.
I followed her orders like a robot, and I drifted off in her car before I could do anything.
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I felt something cold on my cheek that was soft at the same time.
Someone was whispering words that were so quiet, I didn't think that they were there. It almost sounded like a lullaby, but I couldn't tell.
Happiness filled my broken heart as I heard the familiar notes of a flute playing. That melody that I loved so much. But where was it coming from? Was Ethan there right now?
Then I felt something icy touch my lips.
But as soon as my eyes opened, it was gone. No one was in the room I was in.
I sighed as I turned over. It was all a dream. Of course it was.
I woke up in a huge room, and realizing that the last thing I remembered was going into Bella's car, I must be in the Cullen's' mansion…again.
A light blue silk blanket was wrapped around me, and I was on what seems to be a highly expensive white leather couch.
Food was set for me on a table that sat near me. It was pancakes and apple juice. I remembered that was the same Ethan had set out for me. Ethan…
The door opened and in came in a little pixie girl that danced a little as she came to me. "Hello, my name is Alice!" She said brightly.
"Umm…hi." I said, a little taken aback by her happiness.
"Alice!!! You're not going to make her your personal Barbie doll are you?" Jasper walked in, glancing at me for a second then back to Alice crossing his arms.
Alice gave a small pout. "But we should cheer her up, after all she's been through," She pleaded.
Jasper sighed and smiled with amusement. "Have fun."
Alice looked at me with an evil gleam in her eyes. "Let's make her pretty!" She closed her hand around my wrist and took me into another room.
But when I was in the hallway…we stopped for some reason.
We saw Ethan.
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Vickie