CHAPTER 13
Haku giggled as she made a bigger mess of herself, she had ice cream on her face as well as down the front of her shirt. In fact she was pretty much covered in it, and had somehow managed to get it on the back of her head. Haku gave the scoop another lick and then turned to smile at Neru.
"Neru! Neru! Neru, take a picture of my ice cream." She held up her ice cream cone half in front of her face, but not enough to hide the smile plastered to her face.
Neru took out her phone and pretended to take a picture.
She only pretended to take a picture because her phone didn't work.
It never had.
But for some reason Haku didn't believe it. When she pressed the keys she said it worked just fine. And she claimed to see the pictures Neru had 'taken'.
Neru never quite understood, but now she took the pictures for Haku without arguing.
"Got it," Neru said and smiled at the dripping, gooey mess on Haku's face. Neru ate a spoonful of her own ice cream, strawberry banana. Haku giggled, and somewhere deep down Neru felt like crying. She didn't know why, but a twinge panged her heart. None the less she continued to smile at Haku, not showing what she felt.
"Do you think Kaito wants ice cream, Neru?" Haku asked, slurping more ice cream into her mouth.
Neru thought about it a moment. She had never seen Kaito eat ice cream, ever, so she had no idea if he liked it.
"Maybe," Neru said as she took a bite of her ice cream. The yellow of her ice cream reminded her suddenly of Len.
Neru jarred in her seat, she left him standing there to get Haku, and forgot him. She looked down at her ice cream, her brain screaming out a million things at once.
"Maybe Len would like some too," Neru said softly and quietly. Now stabbing her ice cream, separating the pink from the yellow. The pink was slightly orange, like a pink stained yellow. Or a red stained yellow.
The image of Len dripping with blood screeched into her mind. She half dropped, half threw, her spoon into her ice cream as she realized it looked just as Len's hair had looked.
Haku looked up from her ice cream mess, and stared at Neru's ice cream.
"I'm full," Neru said with a fake half smile, and pushed the cup of ice cream away from her. Haku went back to eating her ice cream without a second glance.
Neru stood up.
"I'm going to get some ice cream for Kaito and Len," Neru said as she went to get some.
"Hey Neru?" Haku asked in a way that made Neru turn around with fear coursing through her.
"Yeah?"
"Could I pretty, preeeeeetttttyyy please have more?" Haku said. She smiled up at Neru as a drop of red fell from her chin onto the white table.
And all Neru could think about was Len's pooling blood, and the fear that the person who had done that, had found him yet again.