I'm back with another chapter of Faraway from Normality ... oh, and I forgot to tell you that when the character is thinking it will be in brackets, like this (...)
I don't own any characters from Diabolik Lovers, but I do have my OC.
Hope you enjoy the chapter. :-)
Chapter 2
A few days ago
The night was cold; I shivered and curled up to keep myself warm. I watched as people walked past, happily talking and laughing with one another, not a care in the world.
I so wished I could be like them. I closed my eyes and my arms tightened around my legs.
I decided after awhile of not warming up at all, to go and find a warmer place to spend the night. I stood up not even bothering to dust off the dirt that stuck to my pants, and grabbed my old worn out jacket that had way too many holes in it to be called anything remotely close to a jacket, and started my search for a different place to stay.
As I join the rest of the world, people stared and moved as far away from me as they could.
I looked into alleys as I passed them, hoping to find some people that might be kind enough to let me stay with them tonight. I ended up finding another empty alley to try to spend the night and curl myself tightly into a ball, leaning against a huge bin and wall.
My eyes slowly closed when something caught my attention and I reopened my eyes and leaned forward as it softly shined a light onto my face. My fingers curled around it and I pulled it up to my face to look it over.
It was a pendant with a red stone in the middle.
(It's beautiful, maybe even expensive.)
I smiled and brought it to my chest as I thought about selling it so I could get some money to buy some food. So many food items flashed through my mind as imaged them and my stomach grumbled begging for them. I would have to wait until morning since the stores only opened during the day.
Until morning...so long away when you're starving to death...
Slowly the coldness leaved my body and I drifted to sleep.
The present
The large doors were closed and looked very intimidating.
I stared at it and swallow hard, then knocked on the door.
No one answered, so I looked around for a button to push but came up empty handed. So again I knocked on the door and stood back, waiting.
One of the doors opened and an old man in a butler suit stood back and bowed his head.
"Hi...I'm Midori." I mumbled as I scanned the man over. (Is he one of the staff that works here?) "I'm really sorry for getting here so late, just a lot of stuff was happening." I said with a laugh.
The man said nothing back and simply gestured for me to enter.
I did as he wanted and walked into the mansion to a room that looked like a sitting area. I took in a breath and looked back at the man. "Sooooo...may I ask where Karlheinz-san is?" I asked and looked around waiting for him to appear.
"Who are you?" A cold voice pierced through the room and I turned to see a man with dark purple hair and glasses on, his red eyes glaring at me. "Who may you be? And what is your reason for coming here?" He repeated, looked me over and I immediately feel under scrutiny.
"I'm Midori Green. I was asked to come live here." I mumbled looking up at the guy only to look down at the floor, not able to hold his gaze.
"Really?" He seemed shocked and I nodded my head. "By whom?"
I gulped. "By Karlheinz-san. He said I could live here. I'm sure you can just ask him." I said smiling a bit hoping to break the tension.
The man's face hardened and I think I said something wrong.
(Wait, could Karlheinz be a ghost?) I questioned thinking back to the taxi man only for my more reasonable side to appear and kick that idea out the front door and then processed to try and kick some sensibleness into me.
"That person sent you?" The man asked pushing up his glasses with his middle finger. "Why, we already have a sacrificial bride. Why would that person do something like this?" The man questioned talking to himself or to me, I don't really know.
"Huh~ what's going on here?" Another voice appeared, but only this time it's right in my ear and I jumped a bit, startled by it. "Nfu~ while aren't you a cute thing." The man said with a sly smirk. He had a reddish-brown shoulder-length hair and bright green eyes with a fedora hat on his head.
I tried to put some distance between us, only for him to close in on me. "Um...I'm Midori." I said.
I held out my hand for him to shake it only to remember my mistake. (Do they shake hands in Japan?) I questioned, although I have Japanese name and my mother was Japanese, but I was raised over-sea and had little knowledge about how they behaved.
"Nfu~ Midori...I'm Laito~" He said and suddenly licked my cheek.
I jumped and quickly reached my hand to wipe away the spit only to hesitate. (Is this the way they greet each other here?)
"You taste delicious~" He said and smirked.
"Ah...thank you." I said and leaned over and licked his cheek.
He looked startled by it and I felt like an idiot, my face going red. (Did I do it wrong?) "Sorry, did I do it wrong?" I questioned but the startled look on his face disappeared and the smirk to reappeared.
"Nfu~ you're quite the Bitch aren't you~" He said.
(Wait, what? Bitch?) "Uh..." But before I can say another thing another voice cut in.
"Oi! Have you've seen Pancake? Ore-sama can't find her." The man looked like Laito with the same hair color but shorter and the same eyes. He looked over at me. "Who's this?" He stared at me and I shift from one foot another in discomfit.
(What should I do?) I wondered.
"This is Green-san, supposedly she was sent by that person." The man with the glasses spoke up first.
"What!" The other man snapped. "Wait...Does this mean that bastard is taking Pancake? Ore-sama won't allow it! She's mine!" He shouted loudly and his voice echoed.
"Shut up!" Another man with white hair and red eyes appeared in the room and smashed his hand into the wall beside him.
I jumped startled by the fact he just punched his hand through a wall, but the others don't seemed shocked or even fazed, in fact the man with the glasses just sighed in irritation.
"What's going on? You're making so much noise...you're all so annoying. You should just go and die, right~ teddy?" A boy appeared too holding a weird looking teddy-bear closely to him chest and looks like he hasn't slept for days if not weeks with dark bangs under his eyes and smiled creepily.
I shivered and pulled my arms around my chest. I used all my will power to not go running from the mansion and after the taxi.
"Who're you?" The boy asked and suddenly is gone from his spot only to reappear beside me on the other side and licked my other cheek. "You taste sweet." He said with that creepy smile.
I simply nodded and forced a smile. "Thank you." I mumbled only to remember the greeting way here and leaned over and licked his cheek too.
"You taste nice too." I greeted and forced another smile.
The boy looked shocked like Laito did a moment ago. Laito giggled.
"Nfu~ She's a real bitch isn't she~?" He smirked and leaned closer leaving only a small gap of space between us. "But I think that will make her even more fun~" I tried to stand back only to end up cornered by the boy behind me and Laito in front.
"Excuse me..." I mumbled looking between the two. (What is going on here?)
"Stop it. You know that is no way to treat your guest." A familiar voice snapped and I breathe a sigh of relief and looked up to see Karlheinz standing there.
I began to smile at him only to stop when I noticed an oddly familiar girl standing behind him.
I tilted my head to the side to gain a better view of her to make sure if I knew her or not.
He looked back at her and nodded his head signing for her to step forward, her head low and eyes down-casted. I frowned trying to place where I've seen her before.
"Pancake...?" The look-a-like of Laito said in shock.
"Don't worry Ayato. I didn't do anything to her. I'm not like you lot." Karlheinz said as the girl goes over to Ayato's side, still keeping her head low.
I step forward breaking away from Laito and the boy and walked towards Karlheinz. He looked over at me and gave a soft smile.
"It's good to see you got here. I was beginning to worry something happened." He said and I laughed. "Sorry, lots of things were going wrong but I'm here now." I smiled and he nodded back.
"I agree. That's all that matters." He stepped to my side and turned me to face the strangers, his hand resting on my shoulder.
"Midori-san, I introduce you to my sons." He said and the smile on my face dropped.
(Wait, sons? These are his children but they don't seem like him at all!)
The sons stayed silent, their faces cold and hard.
"Wait...where is Shu?" Karlheinz asked looking around. He turned to the side and stare at something. I looked over and there, slouching against the wall is a man with blonde hair with earphone poking out from his ears and blue eyes that stare back at Karlheinz.
"It's good to see you again." Karlheinz smiled and Shu lazily stared back at him.
"That is Yui Komori." He pointed to the girl beside Ayato. She looked up at me and a small smile formed on her lips. "Nice to meet you." She said and I smiled back. "I'm Midori Green. It's nice to meet you too...All of you, and thank you for letting me stay here." I said and then bowed deeply.
"You're going to be staying here?" Ayato asked and I nodded my head.
"Yes, Ayato. She will be staying here as well and just like Komori-san you are not allowed to kill her. If you do, your punishment will be much worse than I have ever given to any of you in the past. Do you understand?" Karlheinz said, he voice very cold and hostile. The sons stared at their father and said "Yes" in union, the tension in the air so thick you could almost cut it with a knife.
I flinched inwards from what he said. (K-Kill?) I sighed and shook my head at the situation that I had gotten myself into. (What is going on? Why would he say kill?) I questioned.
(Told you Midori! You shouldn't have just gone with a stranger. Are you stupid or something?) The voice in my head snapped at me and I cringed inside. (What are these people like that he is mentioning killing?)
I stared up at Karlheinz and all I can think is why is he doing all of this and what will happen to me?
Alright that was Chapter 2...I have nothing else to say...so I guess bye bye for now...
