Chapter THIRTEEN! WOW. I never thought I would make it this far.
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~Tiruneko ;3
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IA curls up next to Len and lays her head down in her hands. Rin is on the far left of the bed, Miku to IA's direct right. Her eyes stay open, although everyone's has already fluttered closed. Her fingers play with the torn string on her skirt. Her teeth thoughtlessly bite at her bottom lip.
Somehow something was wrong, and she could feel it. Len's chest rises and falls with his breath, as well as Miku's.
Both are so warm. She thinks, curling up again. Len moves slightly, then settles back down, still asleep. He smells like… like honeysuckle or cinnamon. She wraps her fingers around her hair and twirls it gently.
She wants to sleep like the rest of them, but somehow can't. She also wants to move out of the warm bed, but fears of disturbing anyone.
Very, very silently, she creeps out of the bed and tip toes to the chair in the corner, curling up and putting her head in her knees. Something feels so wrong to her. A little nagging voice in the back of her head screams, "Go, go and hurry." But without knowing what to make of this feeling she ignores it.
Her stomach gets queasy. The thought of waking up Len crosses her mind, but seeing how peaceful and relaxed he looks, she quickly puts that thought away. She can't possibly disturb Len.
She wanders over to the cabinet under the TV stand, and opens a large silver box. Cold air flows past her and into her face, making her eyes sting. IA rubs them, then sees all the food and drinks staring her in the face. Tentatively, she picks up a can of mango flavored iced tea and sips it quietly back in the chair.
Lights occasionally flow through the shutters to the hotel room. Her hands reach up, and pull open a small opening in the window.
Down bellow cars race down the street in the dark night. The window has a straight shot of the parking lot, and a certain car catches her red eyes. It is a white van with the words painted in black on the side. It says: CRYPTON HUMAN ADAPTION CORP. with the logo of a white hand grasping the sun with a C in the center.
She has seen this white van before. As it pulls in she racks her brain for where. Her heart pounds in her chest. IA doesn't understand why she is so scared. As long as Len is here, she'll be okay.
With a burst of painful, dark, and lonely memorizes, she remembers the car.
She jumps off the chair, dropping her tea and spilling it all over the floor. Her small hands grip Len's head tightly, and she shakes it back and forth screaming at high speed.
"Len, Len, Len, Len, they're here, Len, Len, Len we need to go, Len, Len voice! Len, they're gonna take me again, Len I donn' wanna go back to the darkness! Len, Len, LEN!"
His red eyes blink open slowly, to see IA clutching his face in her hands, shaking him back and forth. Her eyes are wide with terror and the noise of water splattering onto the floor comes with waking up too.
"IA, whose here?" He asks drearily, sitting up.
Before she has time to respond it hits him. Who else but them could make her so terrified?
He bolts up out of bed, grabs IA's pink jacket, and tosses it at her.
She puts it on wordlessly, shaking like a leaf.
"RIN!" He yells, once pulling his sweat shirt on as fast as he can.
She bolts up right, rubbing her eyes.
"Wha?" She asks just as her sweat shirt smacks her in the face.
"Guess who." Len says bitterly, stalking over to the mini fridge and filling the backpack with anything and everything it can possibly hold.
"God, how the, how the heck did they find us!" She screams as she nudges Miku awake.
"The credit cards. That guy must have told."
IA runs over to Len from the window.
She grips him with all of her strength, then buries her face into his sleeve to try and stop herself from crying.
"It's okay, we'll get away soon." Len says, placing a hand on her head.
"Len, seriously we've gotta run." Rin says, throwing on shoes. Miku sits up in a daze.
Rin tugs her by the wrist to her feet. The group stumbles to the door and throws it open. The hallway is mainly empty except for a woman getting a soda out of a vending machine.
"No elevator, we're taking the stairs." Rin says, stopping her brother from marching the dazed and tired group onto an elevator.
They all march down the stairs, IA almost tripping multiple times. Len glances down at her stoic face.
"How did you know they were coming?" He asks her, catching her again before she fell.
"I saw the car come." She replies simply, staggering to her feet again.
"Why did you think to look?" Rin asks.
IA simply shrugs before resuming running down the stairs.
The sound of the door opening about three flights bellow them makes the group go silent. Everyone exchanges panicked glances, and they all begin to run as quietly, and as fast, as they can back up to the top.
Once they break back into the hallway they bolt to the elevator.
"I was wrong! We're taking the elevator!" Rin cries, hitting the close doors button almost ten times.
Rin turns to Miku as the elevator drops floors slowly. She takes her long hair, and tucks it all inside the hood of her jacket, then flips the hood over her face, and zips it all the way. She does the same to IA.
She takes the bow out of her own hair, and removes the clips pinning her bangs back out of her face.
"Don't look anyone in the eye, keep your head down, don't move fast. Len I'm going to walk out with IA and go to the car. Follow thirty seconds later."
The panel above the door the elevator turns to read one and the doors slide open. Rin takes IA's hand gently, and they move swiftly out into the lobby and out the front doors, passing behind a woman with long pink hair speaking to the receptionist.
Heheheh me and my evil cliffhangers X3
A Question For You:
-Which character is your favorite so far and why? I would like to get some feedback on my character development so far and I think that this is a good way to do it. Or I'm just crazy.
~TEAM STATS:
Team Luka: 4 votes
Team Meiko: 1 vote
Team Rocket: 3 votes
Dream Team: 1 vote
(those are the only fan teams I will include now. Unless of course I find your team very funny.)
~Tiruneko ;3