Hi guys, sorry for taking forever to upload a new chappy. Lol. I'm currently just trampled with work and school. But somehow I had free time (a.k.a mad insomnia) decided to write and this is a product of that. Lol. So again I apologize for my long break and promise to at least try to write something every two months at least. :D
Karin POV
It's funny how memory seems to work…after traumatic events it seems to black out…to the point where you don't remember where or who you are…creating gaps…almost like a black and white film that gets taken out into the sunlight and then played once more…one realizes that in many of the screens there's black blotches blocking certain faces or sometimes whole frames…almost as if they never were there to begin with….
"Karin…."
"Karin…"
"Karin…"
Ichigo POV
"It's a good thing you got there just in time…" The doctor told me as I stood outside of Karin's room at the hospital, "a couple of minutes more and she would've drowned completely…" He continued to speak but I slowly began to block him out as I thought about Karin.
What would lead her to do such an idiotic thing?...
"Well thank you doctor." I said after I had realized that the conversation had gone to an end. I quickly turned around and opened the door closing it behind me before I turned around to see Karin squirming in her bed.
"Karin." I said in a questioning voice as I ran to the right side of her bed frame to the metal chair that was placed there by me since the time I got her here.
"Karin…" I said again as I grabbed her right hand with both of mine and felt something I hadn't felt for the past week…heat…not body heat but heat…the desire to live…
"Karin…" I said once more as I looked at her face and noticed that her eyes were moving below her eyelids. And then she opened her eyes before closing them once more in order to get used to the harsh lighting.
"Karin…" I said whispered this time so as to not startle her…and the next thing I knew her light grey eyes were staring at me.
Karin POV
Who was calling me?...I recognized the voice…it was deep and velvety…but somehow it seemed distant…and was now coming into perspective…it slowly became louder…and then I opened my eyes to sheer bright light…I squeezed them shut once more…the light…I had somehow missed it….once I felt ready I looked to my right to stare into the golden brown eyes of my brother Ichigo.
"Hey." I said trying to force my voice to come out, but all that I heard was a soft whisper.
"Karin, I'm so happy!" Ichigo said as he buried his face into my right hand which he was cupping in his two hands.
"What happened?" I asked as I soon looked around and realized that I wasn't in my home anymore…I was in a hospital…
"You don't remember?" Ichigo asked looking at me astonished…I just nodded no…what was I supposed to remember?...
"Well-"
"Karin!" I heard a loud voice say as I looked to my left and saw Renji standing there at the door.
Renji POV
It was the eighth day today…the eighth day that I would pay the valet parking service outside of the hospital…the eighth day that I would use the third elevator to go up to the fourth floor…the eighth day that I would go down the same corridor…the eighth day that I would walk into room 435…and most probably the eighth day that I would ask Ichigo if she had made any progress when both of us knew that she hadn't moved at all…
I had just arrived to the door and took in a deep breath and opened the door to find Karin awake and Ichigo talking to her.
"Karin!" I said louder than I had expected…she looked at me…those light grey eyes hadn't changed at all…
"Renji." She said in a whisper before she smiled.
"Karin." I said in a lower tone as I walked briskly towards her before giving her a hug. "You're ok…" I said as I released her a bit in order to brush a few of her glossy black strands away from her face and behind her left ear with my right index finger.
"Yea…I guess I am.."
Hitsugaya POV
"Here's your gin on the rocks." The bartender said as she slid the glass towards me. She was quite young, seemed to be about 21 or 22 at most. She was rather tall with a slim figure but a rather huge rack. Her hair was bleach blonde and was picked up in a high ponytail with a side swept bang adorning her face and making her dark blue eyes and soft pink lips stand out even more…at one point in I would've considered sleeping with her but somehow I just wasn't in the mood…
"What time is it?" I asked the young woman.
"It's uh…" She said as she looked down at her right arm and read the time, "10 am."
"Alright thanks." I said as I took the while shot down in one gulp before over paying for the drink and standing up and walking towards the dark doubled doors before being hit by the blinding sunlight….somehow everything felt empty…as the valet pulled in my car and gave me the key I couldn't help but think of one person…Karin…where was she?...She hadn't been at work for a over a week…I had called her and even paid her home a visit before realizing that there was no one there…
"Good morning ," Sandra said from the front desk as she handed me the manila folder containing today's appointments and surgeries.
"Any word on Karin?" I asked as I rummaged through the papers, knowing the answer was going to be the same….
"No, none at all sir," Sandra said rather seriously before she added, "but if there is-"
"I'll let you know…got it," I replied before thanking her and walking to my office.
"Where are you….?"
-Two Weeks Ago-
Yuzu POV
I didn't know why Jinta even asked me to be here, when we have a beautiful home…sure I've been avoiding him lately but it's because I wasn't feeling well with myself…and it wasn't until I went to the doctor that I realized that I was pregnant…our first child…sure it's early but I'm sure he'll be happy…
"Hi," I said to one of the attendants at the front desk. She was wearing the red and gold blazer, black skirt and white blouse that was typical of all Marriott employees, and her black hair was up in a right side bun.
"Good evening Miss, How may I help you?" She said calmly before she finished with a stereotypical smile.
"Um yes…My husband Urahara Jinta made a reservation for a room…"
Jinta POV
I was just sitting on the edge of the queen sized bed holding my wedding ring in between my hands…How could I do this?...Did I not love her?...Of course I did…but this past month she's been avoiding me…and every time I wanted to get intimate she would brush me off…almost as if my penis was a gift that can be rejected…and not an obligation…
"Hey babe, why are you so serious?" Senna said as she held my chin gently with her right hand before she raised my face in order to meet her gaze…she was wearing nothing but a while towel her hair dripping wet…
"Nothing just thin-"
"Oh this?" She said interrupting me as she grabbed my ring with her left hand before she brought it up to her face in order to look at it with more detail. "You know this ring means nothing…it is just a piece of metal…whether it be precious like gold or platinum…or regular metal alloys like silver mixed with nickel or bronze…true people cannot be monogamous…men cannot be monogamous…it's in your nature to impregnate and be with many women, it's part of our evolutionary chain…it's completely understandable…if she wasn't pleasing your needs you find someone else…and if she doesn't understand that then she wasn't meant to be in your life at all…understand?" She asked as she grabbed my open right hand and placed the ring inside it before closing the hand.
"Yea…I-" My sentence was immediately interrupted by the sound of a small thud and a gasp. Senna quickly moved to the side and smirked at the site of Yuzu while she crossed her arms in front of her body.
"H-h-h-h-how could you?" She said quietly but the anger could be felt as she stared at me. Her mascara began to run and slowly trail down her cheeks on to her beautiful purple Grecian style BCBG dress staining it with multiple spots.
"Yuzu I can explain." I said as I stood up, but Senna got in the way.
"Aww…the poor princess…so she's the one that won't sleep with you? Won't cook for you? Won't do anything for you?..." She said as she walked up to Yuzu and brushed her fingers roughly through her beautifully curled blonde hair. "Princess…" She said as she grabbed Yuzu's chin with her right hand tightly. "There's nothing to explain…he doesn't love you anymore…" And with that Yuzu slapped Senna, grabbed her white leather clutch that was on the floor, and left the room crying.
"Damn it! Yuzu!" I said as I began to walk briskly towards the door but Senna got in the way.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"To see my w-"
"Your wife?...Really?...With all the things we've been doing behind her back for the past month? Don't give me that bullshit…"
Yuzu POV
"…if she wasn't pleasing your needs you find someone else…and if she doesn't understand that then she wasn't meant to be in your life at all…understand?"
Those words….they were said with so much hatred…was it my fault that I was feeling sick? That I was too weak to cook?...Am I to blame for all those things?...
I was walking towards the entrance of the hotel through the lobby as random people were giving me stares…I was a wreck and for once in my life I didn't give a damn. I quickly opened the door to go outside and found myself in the cold and quite humid evening…wishing that I had brought my jacket as I began to walk home…
"Yuzu! YUZU! WAIT!"
I heard his voice but I continued to walk…I didn't care at all anymore about his wellbeing…his love…him…
"YUZU!" I heard very loudly before I felt a masculine and strong hand grip me by my left arm and turn me around to face him.
"Let me go." I said silently refusing to look him in the eye.
"Yuzu just let me-"
"Let me GO!" I said aloud as I began to slap him in his rock hard chest to no avail. "LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" I couldn't stop screaming and slapping almost as if I wanted to erase everything that I had seen…everything that I once felt for this man…everything that had happened today…I soon calmed down and just stayed within his arms…
"Shhhh…." He said as he gently rubbed my back and let me continue to cry a puddle of tears and mascara onto his crisp white button down Gucci shirt, "…everything is going to be fine…I promise…"
As he held me in his arms and told me this…I couldn't help but feel lonelier than I've ever felt in my life…
Well there it is! Please Review! And Thanks For Reading! :D