In which Namine had a visit from Mdm Baaba
"What!"
"Yes, Mdm Baaba is going to visit us, white horse. I know she's somewhat annoying but try to bear with her please?" Papa looks at me with the same pleading looks and so…I got switched to automatic.
"I will try to bear her."
He beams. No, scratch that, he glows. I know that Mdm Baaba is a pain for Papa but he needn't be so happy that I decide to bear her.
It is morning and it is a Saturday. I am really hyped up about the weekend because for the next two days, I will not be around people who ignore me and giving me the die-Namine looks. It is strange that I have that after my meeting with Roxas. I wonder what had happened to them.
After some discussion, we decided to meet at the afternoon at the Radiant Garden. It is actually just a park and the name is very exaggerating. It doesn't look like a typical park but instead, a forest or jungle inhabitant by weird creatures that I have not met yet though I would very much like to avoid meeting them. (There was a rumor that tigers live in it.)
Anyway, Mdm Baaba is going to visit us that very afternoon and I am frantic in trying to reach Roxas or Sora to inform them of the cancellation. But no conclusion came to my mind.
So, I did the only thing that I am best at; disappearing. I am going to disappear without telling Roxas. I feel bad and wonder how he is going to react. The worst he can do is to cancel the date with Avaron. The prospect of being decapped loomed overhead and sneered at my misfortune with the ugly twisted face (that looks more like Avaron) and sheathing and unsheathing its sharp claws that can kill.
But now, being decapped is like paradise as compared to seeing Roxas' dejected look. He might be a jerk in front of everyone but he's nice all the same. Sora too and I got drifted off on how Sora spends his weekend.
Avaron is still nowhere to be found. I have a feeling that she's not going to be around when Mdm Baaba is about. That is one plus in Mdm Baaba's visits.
Actually, Mdm Baaba's real name is Madam Barbaronavalnasky. Weird name so I decided to shorten it when I'm about three. I figure, if you shorten it when you're older, it will be called as plain rude so why not now? She's a grand old lady with the typical short and thick wavy grey hair but very kind. But she lives in the past. She still handles me like I'm a toddler and always gives me presents. That's another plus.
Mdm Baaba used to me a stranger who happens to take interest in me. She did insisted that I must come and live with her and at that moment, my eyes are shining like stars at the very thought of going away from Avaron. But Papa really wants me to be with him so here I am.
When the second hand is directly over the number twelve at three in the afternoon, I can hear the familiar 'clickety-click' of her high heels and her booming voice.
She burst in and smiled. "NAAAAMinneee!" I cringe at the sound.
"Umm, Mdm Baaba?" I got engulfed into a huge embrace before the air and rush into my lungs again.
"Guess what have I brought?"
I pretend to think hard which is the opposite on what I am really doing. "Um, a complete set of art supplies?"
"Wrong, it is…" She pulls out something and gestures ta-da!
It is beautiful and shiny. It is a bracelet with my name on the heart shaped thing dangling from it. I gaped and gaped. When did Mdm Baaba change her type of presents?
She winked at my expression. "You know, you are a big girl now, a lady! So, I think that you deserve something beautiful to make you outstanding. Here." She gently fastened the latch on my wrist.
"Mdm Baaba, Thank you."
"Whatever gets you happy, is happiness for me too!" She winked again and stood up. "I'm sorry that I have to cut the visit short because there are some urgent things that I need to attend. By the way, good luck on hitting a guy. Bye Namine!" She kisses me on the cheek and vanished out of the door.
That remark reminds me of Roxas. Roxas! I jumped up. I hope he doesn't mind me being late.
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Roxas is sitting on a branch of a hundred year old tree. He can see and feel them, everywhere, the emotions of people, the atmosphere that they are in, everything. But none hit him so bad than the white blond girl who made his mind being clouded with gray. It makes him want to reach out for her, make everything okay for her, embracing her in his arms and stroke her hair, telling her that everything is okay. He wanted to confront to her about those things, ever since he got a vibe at the first meeting. But now, she's late.
Maybe she's not coming because of something urgent. Roxas sighed. He jumped down from the tree and began wondering about the town.
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I managed to put the sleeves over my arms as I raced to the Radiant Garden. But something made me slow down, stop and sighed with frustration. Roxas is not there.
I found myself wondering about the town, feeling slightly lost as I don't have a purpose to be there. I manage to wonder inside a dead-end alley. Dead-end alleys are bad. You can always get easily caught in there. Alarm bells are ringing in my mind and I turned. The same purple eyes looks upon me with burning hatred and the same red strands of hair outlined her face. Hiromi and her gang are here.
At the sight of her face, everything came tumbling down into a complete jigsaw. My mind whirled and my brain ticks. I bumped into her after my meeting with Roxas. She is everywhere at once. And after that, the die-Namine looks are everywhere. She is the one spreading poison in everyone's ears, the venom seeping into those same words that now, resulted in a mob of students who looks homicidal enough to kill a nobody in Radiant High. Me.
But now, they look like a million eons away from the usual hatred looks. They look as if they want to kill. I noticed a shadow under their eyes and the one underneath them are moving. Moving! The strands of darkness slowly snaked up and consume them, turning them into…a silhouette of themselves with two red dots as eyes. Hiromi advanced on me with incredible speed.
"No!"
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Preview
"No!"
Hiromi's deadly hands (or claws) are only inches away from my face when a silver streak blocks it. The twisted face looks up to only have her face connected with a deadly blow. It is all so fast that I couldn't see my savior.
Hiromi jumped back with her other twisted members with her red dots still looking upon me with dislike but unable to reach me due to the figure in front of me. It looks so familiar, the stance, the way the spike on the hair moves in the gentle breeze. My mind whirls and my brain ticks.
"********!"
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Guess whose name is it? Ps. Sorry for making it quite short.
