Chapter 2
At school, everything was miserable and boring for Yoshiki. He`d felt as if he was miles away from Ayumi ever since she had been put in a coma and for some reason, at the moment, she felt even further away. It was as if she had just got up and left but obviously she couldn`t do that. She was slipping away from him and there was nothing he could do about it. Every second he spent with her she slipped further and further into darkness and every second he spent with her, he spent thinking about how much longer he would get to see her. Any day now, she could just go, she could just leave her life behind. She was growing increasingly distant which worried him and it must of shown because before they set off home or in Yoshiki`s case the hospital, Satoshi and Naomi caught up to him and tried to reassure him that she would be alright only, it did nothing to raise his spirits, it just made him remember her situation and how she was going, slipping away, drifting into nothing . He headed towards the hospital and went up to Ayumi`s room where he once again saw her lifeless form led in the same position as it was when he had left that morning. His heart sank, knowing that she probably wouldn`t wake up anytime soon.
"You have no idea how worried I am..."He mumbled to her, sitting down next to her bed and fighting back tears. He hadn`t been expecting an answer however, after he said this, he saw her right hand, which was held in his own, start to move. Looking up at her face, he felt a flicker of hope. He called the doctor in and asked if she was waking up however, the doctor replied to his question with "We can`t know for sure until she opens her eyes but she is fighting. She wants to come back, she has the willpower to come back she just needs the physical power now to break through and wake her body up."
"So you`re sure she will wake up?"Yoshiki asked
"She should, as long as nothing goes wrong."The doctor said before turning around and leaving the room.
"I knew she would wake up." A voice said from the doorway. Turning around, Yoshiki saw Ayumi`s older sister Hinoe stood in the doorway to the room. As she walked towards the bed, she continued talking "Only problem is, something is not right..."
"What do you mean, not right?"Yoshiki asked
"She wants to wake up but, she can`t. She is trapped somewhere, fighting for survival and freedom. There is only one way out but she can`t find it...at least not alone."Hinoe answered "We can`t know for sure where she is either but, I can sense that she has already ran into another living person as well as many dead ones."
"So she is stuck and has to find her own way out?" Yoshiki asked
"Correct. You seem very concerned about her." Hinoe pointed out
"Well...yeah...we`re friends..."Yoshiki replied
"How are you here?"Ayumi asked the blonde boy. To which he replied
"What do you mean? Am I not supposed to be here?"
"Well, no not really. I`m stuck here and no doubt you are too."Ayumi explained. She suddenly felt a stinging pain in her arm and so, she looked down at it, pulling her sleeve up to see what it was. She half expected her skin to be slowly peeling off but she was wrong. There on her arm, newly formed wounds that spelt out words were forming and she suspected they read:
How nice of you to join us...
Everyone is DYING to meet you...
Lovely people we are...more like were...
Lonely as well...
Other than you, there`s no living people here...
Alone for all eternity...
You won`t escape...
Using your brain is out of the question...
My thoughts were that too...
I thought I could escape...
Join my friends and be free...
Only this place shows no mercy...
It`s not Heavenly Host...
No it`s much worse...
Until you find a way out...
Stay always on your lookout...
"What the hell?" Yoshiki asked, confused at what it said having looked at my arm and read it too.
"I don`t know."Ayumi said "But whatever is happening here, it`s not good. Not good at all. And we are stuck, destined to die in this hellish place..."she finished.
