Naraku No Hana
Chapter 3: Childhood Friend
"No matter how hard I try, You're never satisfied/
This is not a home, I think I'm better off alone/
You always disappear, Even when you're here,
This is not my home, I think I'm better off alone
Home, home, this house is not a Home, home, this house is not a home!"
-Three Days Grace "Home"
I sat there waiting for 9:00; it seemed the sun was there in the room taunting me about my pain. I wanted to see him...not just for the apology's sake; I wanted to take the malicious voice's plan into action. I don't like him very much, or depressed voice either... Go ahead, laugh, a twenty-one year old woman with male head voices, but they have helped me before.
I looked out the window at the waning sun, it was nice for an area that was so close to a city full of ignorant people spewing toxins into the air and obscuring the sky from the view that was so taken for granted by our ancestors. I thought about the last time I was happy, before the head voices... before everything.
~ Flashback time~
"Hey, there, 'Jennifer'"
"What do you want?"
"I think your daddy can answer that, mouse girl!"
"Shut up!"
"Did I hear you squeaking? I got you something every mouse likes!"
"I don't want any cheese!"
"Hey!" Called someone off in the distance I turned away from the bully who was tormenting me to see a boy coming over. I sighed, was he another bully?
He was about my height and really skinny with black hair and dark eyes, "New kid, you wanna help me with this mouse?" Said Ted, the bully I mentioned earlier
"Leave her alone! What did she do to you that you have to be so rude?" The boy asked pointedly.
"What does it matter? She's a freak with a weird family! She doesn't get up on the desks when mice appear, and says they're 'cute'. Someone needs to put her in her place!" Ted exclaimed, pushing the boy a little.
The boy looked very angry at Ted's explanation for bullying me, and pushed him harder than he'd been pushed, "Leave her alone! Don't make me tell you again!" He yelled.
Ted shrugged, obviously unhappy that the nameless boy had fought for me, let alone fought back at all. "Whatever, "he started, "I'll let you two wierdos have your private time."
Ted walked away as my nameless savior bored a hole into the back of his head until he had vanished completely. The boy then turned to me, giving me a small smile, and looking at me with concern, "Are you ok, eh, Jennifer, right?" he asked.
I looked down shyly, "I- I prefer 'Jenny' if you don't mind." I said, twirling one thick lock of brown hair from its place in one of my pigtails.
"Jenny, huh? That's a nice name." He said, smiling a bit wider, "My name is Johnny, but you can call me 'Nny' if you like."
"Ok, Nny," I began, smiling and blushing a little, "Do you have any friends?" I asked.
"To tell you the truth, no." he said, looking away slightly.
"Oh, that's kinda sad," I started, "I'll be your friend if you want."
"I'd like that very much." He said happily.
~End Flashback~
'Hey, genius, it's already 9:00. Get moving.' Said the malicious voice.
I looked up to see the once golden sky I'd been staring at replaced by a black velvet cover with several stars of hope. I love looking at stars, they just make me feel...free.
I'd decided that I had spent enough time looking back at my past and would have to go.
I took the path that led all the way around the block to see house 777, and walked on the concrete minding the sign saying "Stay off the loose Soil." and Knocking on the old wooden door.
"I'm coming!" called an eerily familiar voice.
The door swung open to reveal a man in his early twenties with shaggy black hair that had two long strands of it sticking out in front, and dark eyes with black circles beneath them. He wore a shirt that had an angry looking smiley face on it with a caption below it reading "Have a nice day... somewhere else!" and torn sleeves, and dark pants that were stuffed into black boots that had steel toes. "Yes?" he inquired.
"Hi, Nny, long time, no see."
See, didn't I promise that it would get better? Well, I'd like to thank any readers for taking time out of their days to read this. I will probably not continue since I haven't gotten many reviews, but if I get enough requests, I'll probably go on. If you liked this, recommend it to friends or other authors. Ok, rant's done. See you!