WestSide Story From Hell

Chapter 4

During my sophomore year, I met Ulquiorra Schiffer. A few weeks before I met Nel, I noticed him sitting in the back next to the window in history class. Normally, this wouldn't bother me, but at the time, that was my seat. For the few times I entered that class, I would've sat there everyday. Apparently, that wasn't going to happen today. But I was tired of being walked over, I was fed up with high school, the separation, and that fact that nothing seemed real anymore.

So I walked over to him, having a total fit inside but trying to keep calm on the outside, and asked him to move. At first, he didn't hear me; so I repeated myself, over and over again. Finally, he looked at me; and I was captivated.

Cliché, right? I agree.

His green eyes were cold and endless, and I felt like my soul was being consumed. He stared at me for awhile, before muttering, "Women," under his breath and moving over a seat. "You can never read them." He continued, and then he glanced at me one more time, almost as if saying "You are the only one of them."

At the time, I didn't know what that meant, so I continued watching for clues. Which wasn't hard, after our first meeting, I began to see him everywhere. After I met Nel, and we began sharing our life stories, including information about the people in our lifes, I learned Ulquiorra was a telepath.

To be blunt, I would've guess that he meant he couldn't read me. But, I mean, come on! You're a telepath, and I could only heal people, maybe create a shield every now and then. How could you not know what I'm thinking? So I quickly ruled that out.

As time went on, I left the riddle unsolved and forgotten. I would see glimpses of him, but I would never really see him, and soon all thought of him vanished. I started focusing on everyone else, everyone else Nel warned me about. Like Lilynette and Starkk, they were shape shifters. They could change into anything, a gun, an animal, anything.

Or Grimmjow, he didn't have a specific power, he had strength at such an godly amount and speed, not as fast as Uryuu's teleportation, but he was fast.

Then there was Gin. Nobody knew what he could do, not even Nel, and that made him the most dangerous, besides their leader; which was still unknown.

But then by junior year, Ulquiorra came back into my life. I passed him in the halls on the last day of school that year, everyone had already gone home, and I was dreading going back to my 'home' to be awaited with nothing. So when I passed him in the halls, I was stunned.

Even more stunning was that even though I was slightly depressed to be alone for a few months, I could tell something was wrong. I grabbed hold of his wrist before he could leave my sight completely, and I walked up in front of him, inspecting his eyes.

His eyes were still cold and endless, but they looked so distant, so lonely this time. I let go of his wrist, and I reached up to touch his cheeks and pulled his head down a foot lower so I could see eye-to-eye. Brushing his hair out of his eyes, he did nothing to stop me; and I took that as an invitation to speak.

"What's wrong?" I asked him, trying to search in his eyes for the answer even though I knew I wouldn't get one. He closed his eyes, and shook his head; pulling himself from my grasp. He started to walk away, when I gave into temptation. I reached forward grabbing a fistful of his shirt and pulled him into a hug.

"What are you doing?" He exclaimed in a hushed voice.

"There's something wrong, and I'm giving you a hug. I don't care if you have a problem with it. Everyone wants a hug when something's wrong, so I'm giving you one. Now shut up, and let's make this a little less awkward than it already is." I mumbled into his chest, squeezing my arms around him trying to emphasize my point.

"I believe this is what Grimmjow calls flirting." He said. Quickly letting go of him, I felt my face burn, and I punched him in the arm. "You must really like hitting on me, huh?" He continued, his voice sounded like he was smirking, but only if you looked close enough would you see that the corner of his mouth moved upwards.

"You're unbelievable." I complained, trying to hide my embarrassment.

Since then, we haven't talked much. He seemed better, and, well, I'm socially awkward. Until today.

I was still backed up against the wall with him towering over me. I bit my lip, and looked awkwardly at my shoes. Sure, maybe since the beginning of the year, I'd spied on him after school when he was at my library. Sure, maybe I enjoyed trying to give comfort, but I'm messed up like that. I'm damaged like that, I don't need to know how; I just know I am.

I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up before I realized what had happened. He closed the gap and hugged me; not the awkward half hug, nor those uncomfortable behind you hugs. He took me in his arms, and hugged me like he didn't want to ever let go.

"Someone once told me, that when there's something wrong, everyone wants a hug." He said, re-adjusting his chin to rest on my shoulder. We stood like that for awhile, listening to him take deep breaths when I finally draped my arms around him, too. When that action was made, he buried his nose in my hair, breathing really hard into my neck.

I don't know what time he left the library, but when the bell rang, I noticed that lunch was over and I skipped the next two hours after lunch.

I was feeling a little stressful, but kinda giddy, so I just got up and went home. I didn't want people right now, I wanted solitude and confinement. But my heart was torn, because I also wanted to go up to Nel and spill my heart out, telling her all the lies I've lived, and how much I hurt.

But honestly? Closure could come some other day.

That night, Nel called. She sounded excited, just dying to tell me something, but a little wary of talking to me.

"Come on, nothing happened. But you and Grimmjow, I must say; you have to tell me the juicy details." I cried, and that broke her wall of hesitation. She began to ramble; gushing about everything that happened.

I like listening to her, listening to her made me feel like I could talk like that again. To be able to gush and babble about silly things. I was able to leave my world, and wander into hers. She was currently talking about how Grimmjow 'forced' her to skip school with him and they sat on the roof until school was over. That they just sat there and talked; then she stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked, immediately getting up and walking to my closet getting my coat. I was insanely worried, what could've made her stopped?

"We…I…I talked about you." She responded. Leaning against the wall, I sighed.

"What about?" I asked, trying to keep calm.

"About you, Orihime. About the Shinigami, you personally, you're…ability." This was getting really bad. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize what I was talking about. He just made it so easy to be around, despite his…guy-ish comments. You're not mad, are you?"

"No…no. I can't be mad about that. I just have to be careful, but you do, too." In the end, I told her about me mentioning her in my conversation with Ulquiorra, and she wasn't mad. I guess, I picked the right person to call my best friend.

By the time we said our goodbyes, it was around 1 in the morning. I was about to go to bed when I heard a knock downstairs. Grabbing my baseball bat from under my bed, I went down the stairs into the library. I didn't hear the knocking anymore, and I saw the reason why.

Whoever they were picked the lock. The front door was wide opened, with adrenaline and fear pumping through me; I squeezed the bat tightly to my chest. Slowly doing a 360 around the area, I backed myself to the wall, trying to see through the shadows and watching the moonlight dance through the window. Breathing rather harshly, I started walking towards the front door.

Walking out the door and into the street, I still kept my back to the street and watched the library. Watching as the stairs that led to the upstair's light turned on.

"What are you doing?" Yelping in surprise, I turned around and accidentally dropped my bat. They stood before me with their cars; Starkk and Ulquiorra. Backing away, I yelped again when Grimmjow exited my home.

"There you are!" He yelled, and I ran. I ran down the street, and turned the corner with my orange hair whipping past me. I jumped over the bushes, into the park and ran into the flock of trees. It wasn't too big, but the trees were tall enough for me to climb and hide in. I heard their cars screech into the parking lot, and Grimmjow yelling at me in the distance.

When I was far enough, I made a grab for one of the branches. I wasn't able to get a hold of one until the 5th tree I tried. By the time, they came to the area I was in; I was already hidden enough by the leaves.

"Can't we just leave already?" Starkk asked while shrugging his shoulders.

"No! Where the fuck is she?" Grimmjow sneered.

"Maybe if you didn't cuss so much, we would've found her by now," Ulquiorra said, staring up at my tree, "I know you're there." He called out. As if. He was bluffing, there's no way he could've seen me.

"She's up there?" Grimmjow exclaimed as he made his way to come and get me down.

"No, let her come down by herself." Starkk said sighing.

"And why should I?"

"Because she's like Lilynette, even if you force her to come, she won't listen to us. So if she comes to us herself, this will be a lot easier." Starkk repied, slumping down next to a tree, knocking some sense into Grimmjow.

"Come down, we just want to talk." Ulquiorrra said, focusing back on me. The jig was up, they knew where I was; it didn't really matter whether or not I talked.

"Talk about what?" I replied.

"The reason why you know of our abilities; about your ability you didn't tell me about."

"You didn't ask."

"Oh, just shut up and stop being stubborn!" Grimmjow bellowed. Ulquiorra turned to glare at him.

"Just come down." He said turning back to me.

"So you can hurt me? I don't think so!"

"We won't hurt you."

"Oh, yeah. Like I'd believe that."

"You should."

"Fat chance."

"Can you just please, come down?" He said please, I thought; stunned.

"You…you won't hurt me. But what about them?" I asked trying to find a loophole.

"If you come down here, I'll make them go. You and me can just talk, if that makes you feel better."

"You can't order me around!" Grimmjow jeered at him only to be silenced by a glare again. His offer sounded better, but he was an Espada. We were taught that they lied, but what about Nel? Nel was an Espada and she didn't lie.

"If I agree to this, you promise to make them go away and not hurt me?"

"I promise." It was better than standing here all night, I was literally half-awake. Taking a look around, I tried to find a place to step onto, to get down. There was none that reassured me that I wouldn't fall.

"I can't get down." I was moe than several feet up, and falling sounded painful.

"Jump."

"You want me to do WHAT?"

"Jump."

"But I'd be falling and…."

"Are you scared of falling?" He interrupted me.

"Well, kinda. But it's more like, it'll hurt!" I exclaimed.

"Just jump, it'll be different."

"How?"

"Because when you jump, I'll catch you." He said, stretching his arms out. Taking a step forward, I readied myself. This was the only way down.

"Promise you'll catch me?"

"We just keep making promises, huh?" He said, having the tip of his mouth quirk up.

"Promise?"

"I promise."

And I jumped.

This...was the chapter were my friend-editors said "THIS IS LIKE TWILIGHT!" at the beginning. Needless to say, I freaked out screeching "WHAT?" I really hope this didn't come across Twilight-y to you guys.

I'm also sorry for not updating faster, I had a really bad writer's block on chapter seven and I really didn't want to update anything without finishing it first.

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