Gonna drop a warning now about suicide and death things!
Beep….Beep….Beep
What in the ever-loving hell was that noise and why was it interrupting the most peaceful sleep Minako has ever had in her life? Wait a second, sleep? When had she fallen asleep? What day was it, what was going on? Her eyebrows scrunched together in confusion and she felt like her entire body was encased in lead. She tried to lift her right arm to face, that was a no go. Then she tried her left. Still nothing. The moment she tried to move her right leg, she was met face to face with the most intense pain she had felt her in life. It caused her to gasp out and pain and her eyes to finally open before having to quickly shut at the bright lights. Her eyes watered up and she whimpered and felt nauseous.
Then people were suddenly in her room and she couldn't really hear anything for a while before the pain settled down and she dared to open her eyes again. This time she had a doctor in her face and what the fuck was going on? She tried to lift her arm again to rub at her eyes, but this time felt the constriction of something holding them down, but couldn't see past the stupid doctor.
"We were sure you weren't going to wake up." Great, an idiot. Where was Ami's Mom when you needed her? "What hurts?"
Grinding her teeth for a moment and swallowing through a rather dry throat, she was only able to croak one word out. "Everything." In reality, she wanted to know what was going on in her life that she was in a hospital all of a sudden. Were they out fighting youma and she got seriously hurt? It must have been ugly to wind up in the hospital.
The doctor finally stepped out of her face, saying something about medicine that Minako could not give two fucks about. It was her hands strapped down that confused her. Then she glanced at the room and saw no…visitors? Where in the hell were the girls? Maybe they had been kicked out when Minako woke up. That had to be it.
Bless, a nurse was holding a cup in front of her with water and she drank from it gratefully.
"Aino-san, now that you're awake, can you tell us what happened?"
"I don't know. I woke up here that's all I know." She tugged a little on her restraints. "Uhm..can these come off?"
"I'm afraid not yet. Not until we do a full mental assessment."
"A full what now?"
"Well yes. It's required for patients who attempted suicide."
To say Minako was confused would be putting it politely. Suicide? Her life was the happiest it had ever been and they thought she tried to commit suicide? Finally, she eyed the rest of her body. Left leg in a cast, check. Bandages up her right arm, check. What did her beautiful face look like?
"Okay..now I'm really lost. Pretty sure that's not something I've ever wanted to do or ever attempted to do?"
The doctor looked at his nurse with concern for a moment. Which in turn, concerned Minako. They two talked in whispers before the nurse left and he looked at her again, putting medicine in her IV line. "This will help with the pain. The nurse will be back in a few moments with a friend of yours. Perhaps that'll jog your memory."
Bless so her friends hadn't left her and they had been kicked out. By all accounts, he would be sending Rei in and Minako would be ready to cry at that sight. Maybe they could do some dramatic escape. Except…it was Usagi who entered the room. The doctor left the two of them and Minako stared at Usagi, who seemed ready to cry.
"Uh..Usagi. What the fuck is going on?"
"Why didn't you say something Mina!?" Usagi hiccupped as the tears started. Fuck couldn't they have picked someone a little less emotional?
"Okay. I have no clue what's going on, Usagi. I don't know what happened, why I'm in the hospital, or why the hell they think I tried to kill myself. Where's Rei? She's a lot more straight forward."
The room went silent at that and Usagi had to look away. That wasn't a good sign. It suddenly make Minako incredibly uncomfortable and like she couldn't breathe. The silence was worse than Usagi's crying had been moments before.
"Usagi."
"You uhm..I.." Usagi slowly sat down on the edge of Minako's bed, unable to look her in the face. "You jumped from the top of the center shopping plaza building."
"I did what." When had seen even been at the shopping center? "You're sure none of this from a youma battle? Because to be real here, I don't really remember anything past the other night when I stayed at Rei's."
"That was a week and a half ago, Minako." Usagi hesitated before digging into a pocket and pulling a piece of paper out, mulling over it. "Ami managed to get a copy of this, from your records. They found it on you after the emergency crew showed up after you jumped."
Minako's eyes met with a typed out letter about her own death. With her own signature at the bottom and what in the fuck?
「I'm done with everything up to this point in my life. It's been nothing but absolutely miserable. Moving from country to country, enduring test after test for middle school and high school. Not to mention my parents, who hate me. I didn't realize how much they hated me until Rei got me moved out and I started to miss them, but was unable to ever go back to having parents. It made me truly alone. On top of that, I was made to work against my will at the Hikawa Shrine and I hated it. I came to hate Rei because of how much more miserable I became. Because of that bitch, I'm really alone. I'm better off dead.」
Was this a suicide letter? Who even says these kinds of things, and when she did ever miss her fucking parents after they disregarded her for years. But all of that wasn't what got her attention, it was the part about Rei. God if Rei saw it then..
"Rei hasn't seen this, has she?"
"…Everyone did. Uhm. I'm the only one who came back after it though. They all…" Usagi pulled the letter back and stared at it, gripping it hard enough to crinkle the paper.
"They all what?"
"They all think you hate them too."
Minako was floored and god she was sure she was going to puke everywhere from how the world was tilting sideways. "I didn't write that…!"
"Ami compared your signature, it's a dead on match." Usagi folded the letter up and put it back in her pocket. "But, for what it's worth, Minako, I believe you didn't write it either."
Someone on her side, but how could it be her signature? She started to make out an image that was fuzzy and just when it started to clear up and sharp pain went right through her head and she shut her eyes, whimpering, pulling on the restraints to try and stop the pain. It was only moments later the doctor ran back into the room and put another liquid in her IV line. She could only barely make out his words as the darkness started to return.
"She's still too risky to keep awake…"
And then once more, Minako was met with total blackness and silence.
Yeah I've become THAT person.
