It was about a month before Yuno's mind came to accept what she had done. She couldn't hide from it forever, not when she came home to her parents' bodies every day. Eventually she had no choice but to let it sink in, as much as she tried to reject it.
She had to make up lies about their whereabouts. She told their company that they had gone on a trip and she wasn't sure when they would be back. It was only a matter of time before they realized that their two CEOs had gone missing, of course.
The power had been cut today. The water was still running, but she had received a disconnection notice in the mail. Yuno simply could not afford to pay the bills – she didn't have access to her parent's money in the bank. She was only grateful that the house was already paid off, or else they'd be after her to kick her out, and then they would see…
Yuno huddled in the corner of the room with her parents bodies, like she did every day after school. The smell was horrible, but she was beyond caring. She stared ahead at the two of them without really seeing them.
"Mama, Papa, I'm scared…" By now she was well aware that they would never answer her. Still, it was comforting in a way. "What am I going to do?"
It was really only a matter of time before someone came over to the house to investigate their mysterious disappearance. And then what? They would see the bodies. They would know what Yuno did. They would lock her away again, in another cage, for the rest of her life. She couldn't go back into another cage. She couldn't be locked away again. All she had wanted was to be normal, but even though her parents were gone, it was still impossible for her.
She wrapped her arms around her legs and buried her face against her knees. What was she going to do? Yuno couldn't run away, she had nowhere to go. She couldn't help but feel like it would be better off if she just died – then she would finally be free. No one could lock her away if she was dead, after all. But even thinking about dying… she remembered how miserable she had felt, when she was near death from starvation. Yuno didn't want to die. Killing herself wasn't an option; the thought of dying frightened her too much, even if the alternate was worse.
So she was stuck. There was nothing she could do. Her situation was hopeless. Yuno was trapped with no way out. She still went through the daily motions – wake up, go to school, feed herself - but they were meaningless now. She had nothing to live for. There was no future for her.