I was nervous beyond belief. Who could have thought that calling my own mother would be so hard. I was walking back and forth in my room with the phone in my hands, pressing mom's contact then going back to the entire list. I have been playing like this for over an hour now.
"It's easy, just press the 'call' button and that's it. She's not going to scream at me for calling after a few months. I mean - she will talk to me, right?" I asked myself.
When my mom gets angry - silent treatment might continue for a few weeks. Once, she said nothing to me for an entire month because of something minor. And this thing that happened wasn't minor at all.
"I can do it - it's just a phone call. I won't lose anything by calling, right? Aghhhh WHY IS IT SO HARD?!" I hit my wall a few times. Again. If I continue on doing this - I'll turn into Subaru.
"Come on, fingers, just press the damn button!" But these bastards won't move. Suddenly, my door slammed wide open and a very angry Subaru marched in. Without a word, he walked straight to me, grabbed my phone and pressed the damn button for me.
"What have you done?! I wasn't ready yet!" I yelled at the white beauty (let's face it - all of them look like angels).
"You've been making these sounds for too long to not be ready! I don't care about your conversation, just get it over with." He was about to walk away, when I grabbed his shirt.
"S-Subaru..."
"What?"
"You got me into this - take your responsibility and stay!"
"Why the hell should I!"
"To confirm if she's not lying."
"Go get Reiji."
"I will listen to THAT song again.
"..." Subaru walked to my bed and sat down, crossed his arms on his chest and started to wait with a frown.
Phone was already beeping - waiting for mom to answer. Then I heard a click.
"Hello?" Mom's cheerful voice answered. With a shaking finger I turned on the loudspeaker.
"Hi, mom." I was nervous, but happy at the same time. I was talking to my mom after such a long time and she was in a good mood.
"Oh, it's you." Cheerfulness in her voice melted off like a fresh snow in a Russian sauna.
"Yeah, it's me."
"What do you want?" To talk? To get some comfort? To remember good old times when I was your little girl? To talk about the hell I have to go through in this place on the daily basis? To tell her how much I've missed her, compared to Reiji's, horrible cooking?
"I just wanted to talk about something." I heard an angry sigh.
"Make it quick - my show is going on."
"Okay. I wanted to ask, why I was sent where I am right now?"
"Isn't it obvious? To heal your head."
"What? Do you really think that there's something wrong with my head?"
"Listen, your cousin Jane has a boyfriend, and another cousin Ana has one." And so does the third one, named John, but you don't know about it, do you?
"And where are you getting at?"
"Get a boyfriend and prove that you're normal." I made that 'Excuse you!' face.
"But I am normal!"
"Don't talk back to me! You don't want to study where we want you to, so get a man. You'll see when you grow old - life without children is dull. We are only trying to help you. You'll thank me after a couple of years - you'll see. Now, choose a guy you like and go start a family. I already want grandkids, you know." Mom's voice started to regain its cheerfulness.
"I already have a few names picked out. How about..."
"Mom! Hold your horses for a while. What kids?" A sickening feeling was sinking deeper into my stomach.
"You have to start a family with one of the six guys you live with." Suddenly, world around me got a little bit whiter. I stumbled to my bed.
"But why me? Can't you ask your other child to get a family? He's older that me!"
"And still studying in university. He's planning to have a career - family would be a bother to him." Who is this crazy woman and where did she put my real mother?
"Is this the truth?" I asked Subaru.
"Yes." His answer was short.
"Mom, I'll tell you one thing, so listen closely and remember - as long as I'm alive - you will never have grandkids from my side. Now excuse me - I need to get ready for my funeral." I didn't wait for her answer and hanged up the phone.
"So, you were told to 'heal' me, huh." I chuckled angrily.
"Yeah, but none of us really wanted to do anything with this situation. That old geezer told us that that was the real reason why you're here. But neither we, nor him really wanted to follow your parents instructions... Except for Laito maybe."
"But let me guess - that's only his nature, right?"
"Yeah. Because we were told to do it - no one wants to do anything to you in that way, so you're safe at least in that matter. Not even Laito or Ayato did anything serious, right?"
"Yeah, you're right." Somehow, Subaru cheered me up.
"Thanks, Subaru." I smiled. The truth was flying at me like a professionally thrown baseball ball, but Subaru hit it away from me.
"No problem. But I got thirsty from all of the talking." He grabbed my wrist.
"Where's my thank you gift?"
"I have a smoothie in the fridge?" I tried to get away from his grasp. For a moment I forgot that he was a vampire. How silly of me.
"I don't want that." He pushed me down and pinned my hands above my head. "What I want is right here." He leaned down and licked my neck. I will never get used to this.
Subaru was about to bite me, when he stopped.
"I know I shouldn't be asking this, but what's wrong?"
"I... Lost my appetite." He just stood up and walked away. Weird. I also got out of bed and fixed it.
Conversation with mom went quite weird, but hey - at least I knew the truth, right? Right. And there was one nice thing about it - guys won't do it! I felt a bit relieved.
I guess you can count on the vampires when your family lets you down.
But Subaru got a bit weird. I wonder why. I had no time to think about something not relevant, because there were only 30 minutes until school time. If I wanted to keep away from the torture chamber - I had to hurry.
"Guys, sorry for being late." I ran as fast as I could, ignoring the pain in the back and my stomach. That tickle torture session must have exhausted my belly muscles so much they still hurt and my back obviously hurt because of the whip.
"It's okay, Kanato is still not here anyways." Reiji sighed.
"Who's still not here." Asked a voice from behind me. I jumped in surprise.
"Oh, Kanato, it's you."
"Who else could that be if not me, you pathetic creature?"
"Judging from the way you talk - my mom," I chuckled. He was about to say something, but Reiji just shoved us both into the limo.
"Shut up and get moving."
"Thank you for the gallant way of getting me into the car." He ignored me and sat down as far away from me as possible.
I took out my NEW earphones and turned on the music. This time I got a seat near the window. If my imagination wasn't fooling me - Subaru also tried to get from me as far as possible.
"Bitch-chan, why not sit near me, hm?" Laito reached out for my hand.
"No way! It's Ore-sama's turn!" Ayato grabbed another hand of mine.
"Guys, please." I was not in the mood to be shared today. "Just leave me alone." Laito ignored me and pushed Kanato, who was sitting to my left, away.
"Oh come on, Bitch-chan~ give me one sip." He pulled up my sleeve and was about to bite, but stopped after licking my hand.
"I know I shouldn't be asking this again, but why won't you bite me?!" What was up with these creeps? First Subaru, now Laito.
"I just... Lost my appetite." He pushed angry Kanato back to his previous seat - next to me. Now I know who's going to bite me - the mister 'How dare you treat me like a doll!'.
Kanato was angry, he was frustrated, he was holding a knife and that knife was holding my eye as its hostage.
"K-Kanato, EYE see you are upset about something EYE didn't do, but let's not make anything eyelash." The tip of Kanato's knife was millimeters away from my eyeball.
"Kanato," Said Reiji. "You can kill her."
"OKAY OKAY, I'll stop with the puns, okeye." I had to stop myself from laughing, because I would have pierced my own eye with that hungry tip of the knife.
"Oh, come on Reiji, let her have her moment. Can't you see that these eye puns are not so bad." I giggled. I know - when you're looking right at the eyes of danger, you should be wetting your pants, but I already knew that I'll never leave this place alive, so why bother and ruin this beautiful car seat with yellow stains?
I took my eyes off of the knife tip and took a look at Kanato's eyes. I was surprised by what I saw there. His eyes were big and round and the colour reminded me of purple anemones. It felt like two big angry flowers were staring straight into my soul.
"Beautiful..."
"What did you just say?" Ayato asked.
"Kanato, your eyes are really beautiful." His grip of my collar loosened. Kanato's eyes got even bigger in surprise. His face was no longer twisted in anger and his knife was nowhere to be seen.
"Well, I guess you can live for now."
"And I think you will be my Instagram model after all."
"What?"
"Just wait for the summer."
"Tck, how dare you ignore me for so long!" Upsy daisy - I forgot about the royal pain in the soft spot.
"Ayato, I wasn't ignoring you - I was just keeping you away from the headache." Kanato would have been really troublesome.
"Don't lie to me! I need your apologize. Give me your blood."
He didn't wait for my agreement and just pulled me towards him. Ayato roughly pushed away my hair from my neck and licked it in preparation of a bite. But that was it. Only one lick and I was pushed back to my seat.
"Guys, what the hell! If you bite me - fucking bite me!" I was getting really sick of this treatment.
"I just..."
"Don't tell me you no longer have an appetite, Ayato. I dare you to bite me! Come on! Third time in a row? What's wrong with all of you? Did you get a vampire flu or something?"
Shuu just chuckled.
"You will find out soon enough yourself."
"What do you..."
"We're here. All of you - leave this vehicle at once." Growled Reiji.
"Hey, Ruki, how is it going?"
"Nice and clean, how about you?"
"My experiment seems to not work."
"You should use a little bit of this and heat up some of that." Ruki, my chemistry partner for a day, was pointing his finger at the substances I still needed to add.
"You know, this would also work with your blood. Would you like me to get some?" He picked my hand up and was about to bite my finger, but you guessed it - he stopped.
"Let me guess - no appetite?"
"You're not as stupid as you usually are."
"Thank you... Hey!"
"Sorry, my mistake - you are as stupid as always."
Did I somehow get some anti vampire powers? Three Sakamaki brothers tried to bite me, but changed their minds, then we get Mukami brothers. All three of them 'lost their appetite' while facing me.
Now, I will go through my last period - PE and go home. All I have to do is survive the pain I was feeling in my back and belly.
And unfortunately for today - we had to do the stupid power work-out. Six sets of ten crunches, ten push-ups and so on. And of course - the day wouldn't be finished without meeting all of the Mukami brothers. So the last one and the best one of the brothers was left for the end - Yuma. He also had PE. I already did my sit-ups, so I had to do ten pull-up. But there was a problem.
"Hey, shorty, can't reach the bar?" Snickered very very tall Yuma.
"No, I'm just intimidating my enemy. Look - the bar is starting to shake in fear."
"That's not the bar - that's you. Come here." He just grabbed me by my sides and lifted me up.
"What are you... Hey! Let me down!"
"Hold on to it. There. And now do some pull-ups. Hurry." I was hanging on it like a fish on a hook - helpless in pain and... to my horror - bleeding!
"Yuma, I'm not screwing around - get me down!" Sometimes it felt like a false danger, sometimes hot air and bad food tricked you into believing that you were on your days, but this time I just knew it - I had a big problem.
"You damn rotten male - get me down!"
"What's all of this commotion about? I can bite you right here right now for the things you said, you know." Yuma walked closer to me and I felt him touch my thighs.
"DON'T TOUCH ME YOU FREAK." I kicked him in the face. He almost fell down on his butt. When Yuma regained his balance - he was so angry I could feel it in my bones.
"You little bitch, now I really will bite you and I don't care about the audience." I felt his hands on my thighs. He was about to bite me, when suddenly, Yuma took me off of that bar.
"Don't tell me you lost your appetite."
"Something like that. Shouldn't you be leaving or something?" I will find out how he knew it later, but now I needed to reach the bathroom.
"I should." I walked straight to my PE teacher, who was unfortunately a male.
"Sir, can I go to the bathroom." God, may this dense male teacher get an enlightenment and allow me to leave.
"You can't leave now. Couldn't you go before lesson started?" Oh my God, I will make sure to go straight to hell so I can never see you for what you have done to me.
"But I really have to go, you know... Girly... Stuff..." I said through clenched teeth. How could this creature call himself PE teacher if he didn't even know about female body!
"Sir, you should really let her go. Unless you want things to get really messy on this white gymnastics mat.
"She's an adult - she can hold it in." I literally facepalmed and so did Yuma. Can I punch my teacher in the nose and ask him to hold in his blood?
Yuma walked to me and slapped me pretty hard without saying anything.
"Dude, what the..."
"Sir, she needs to go to the nurse - I think I gave her a concussion or something."
"What?! Okay, you may go. And Yuma - you caused her injury - you get her to the nurse's office." When I walked out of the gym - I started to run towards the bathroom.
"Don't slip on your..."
"Shut up you pervert!"
"Is this how you thank me?!"
"You slapped me! We're even!"
"Okay. Good luck with your aunt red."
"DON'T SAY THAT!"
I was standing in a hot shower. This day was a tragedy in so many ways. It all started with a conversation with mom, then my lava days started in a middle of the PE class. If it wasn't for Yuma - I would have been known as Bloody Mary. Oh, that brings me to another few bad things - that bastard knew about my red nightmare! But that was not the worst encounter of the day, oh no - the worst one was when I figured out that I had no supplies.
I didn't have my female curse days for a few months because of the blood loss and bad diet (Reiji is not always in a mood to cook), so I had no supplies. Who could have thought that my body got used to this kind of lifestyle.
So I had to use toilet paper for my trip to the nurse office. And of course - the nurse of the day was mister Reinhart - another male. It felt like all of the females had died out and left me all alone in my misery.
I walked in without knocking. Reinhart stopped writing and raised his head to meet my eyes.
"Oh, isn't here..."
"I don't have time for the chit chat."
"You want to get rid of that bruise from your face?"
"No. There's something more serious."
"Ah, I see. Come here and I will let you choose the supplies you need."
"How did you..?"
"Only one thing can distract a girl from her bruised face. I'm not your PE teacher - I do understand young girls just fine." I didn't know how to feel about it - relieved or creeped out.
I took what I needed and got the hell out of there. The trip home was really silent - I didn't dare to look at anyone, because I was too afraid to show that something was not usual about me. But the guys didn't bother me for some reason.
When we got home, I ran straight to the shower. What, if they could sense I was having my female struggle days. What, if it had the same effect as blood to the sharks? I was even trying to finish my hot, steaming shower as fast as I could so they wouldn't get inside the bathroom.
But no one came. I changed into my comfy pyjamas, grabbed my hot water bottle and walked straight to my bed. I did try to find a nice pose, but in vain. No matter how hard I was trying to lay down in a comfortable position - pain just kept on getting worse.
"Curse this life of mine." I curled up in a ball.
"Ouch ouch damn it why me?" I think that ripping out my reproduction organs wouldn't hurt as much as the cramps I was having right now.
"Isn't it a view good enough to eat." My eyes shot wide open. What was Shuu doing here?! I hid the hot watter bottle under my covers and tried to act normal.
"What do you mean? What view?"
"This pained expression of yours."
"Oh this? I just ate something bad - that's it." They can't know about this. They just can't.
"The way females suffer just because they are females is adorable." He knew! I'm doomed.
"What do you mean? I am not..."
"There's no reason to lie - all of us could sense it even before it started."
"So there really is no privacy in this house, huh. But I have another question, why didn't any of you drink my blood?"
"Too lazy to explain." He got into the bed right beside me. His movements were unusually rough and the jumping of the bed caused even more pain for me.
"Owwy. At least tell me a little bit." I poked his cheek. "Come on - I won't let you sleep." Shuu sighed.
"Your body has a self defense mechanism against vampires when having you cycle - there's a hormone that makes our thirst disappear. And your blood would also taste really bad because of it."
"Good job, mother nature! Owwww it hurts." Shuu just chuckled at my moans of pain. After some more suffering - I finally fell asleep.
Oh the pain, am I right, people that have uterus? (the cringe, I know)
Next chapter will be a little bit more amusing (I hope), but who am I to judge? You're the judge - not me! ~^o^~
So stay tuned for the fang-gang!