"So I get that it's not that time-of-the-month" he says under his breath. I send a death glare his way.
School finishes with me having to take the black liquid every break or when I threw up. I walk out of the school gates and start walking home after texting Beatrix I won't be working today. Ren follows me home.
"Don't you have to work?" I ask him when I reach my gate.
"The bosses gave me a day off" He answers stopping in front of my house.
"You're not going to get employee of the month if you take days off" I say with sass. I open the gate and walk to the front door. I do a weird knock and which it opens. When I am about to close the door I see Ren standing there. "What are you doing?" I ask him coldly.
"I have to watch over you in case you, you know" He says.
"I don't need help and besides if I did need help I have older siblings" I tell him.
"But they're not home" He refuses to leave.
"Actually Kala and Kailey are"
"Why are they at home and not at school?" Ren asks.
"Because they have already graduated high school overseas and are now having a year break before they go to Unisversity" I tell him.
"But the only reason I got a day off is because I said I would look after you" Ren complains.
"Next time make up a better reason that doesn't involve me" I pat him on the shoulder before shutting the door in his face. I take my shoes off and walk to the lounge room.
"Who was that?" Kala asks watching children cartoons in english with the 3 youngest Blackwells.
"No one" I answer her. I take a seat on the couch besides Kennedy who is too absorbed in Tom and Jerry to notice me. This is 4 year olds for you.
"The boy from next door is outside!!" Kailey shouts from her bedroom. She runs out and goes for the front door.
"Don't!!" I yell but I'm too late.
"Hi what can I do for you?" Kailey says in a sweet voice.
"Um.." Ren doesn't know how to react being faced with Kailey. "I have been assigned to look after Chikara from the bosses." Ren manages to say.
"When you said the bosses you must be from Jeffery's club?" Kailey asks. She says Jeffereys club on purpose.
"No my boss is Scar" Ren speaks truthfully.
"Okay come in" Kailey says opening the front door. She leads Ren into the lounge room.
"What is he doing here?" I ask Kailey.
"He's here to look after you" Kailey responds not minding my attitude.
"But I have you 2 to look after me" I complain.
"We already have to look after the 3 little ones and so a helping hand wouldn't mind" Kala jumps into the arguement.
"Fine" I say turning back to watching Tom and Jerry.
Ren sits on the seat beside me. "What is this?" Ren asks looking at the cartoon.
"Tom and Jerry" I respond.
"What's it saying?" Ren asks when he can't understand english.
"There not really saying anything" I respond to his question. There isn't a lot of talking in Tom and Jerry.
"Can you understand it?" Ren asks me.
"Yes" I say bluntly.
"How?" Ren asks.
"My first language is english"
"Why?"
"I have friends and family in every part of the world and we needed a language that we all spoke to communicate with one another and that language was english" I explain. "The Blackwell's are from the Britain."
"So they would be fluent in english"
"Yes they are"
"How do they know Japanese?"
"My friends and I all can speak 2 languages before the age of 6 and after that our parents would make us learn a language of our choice. The Blackwell's wanted to learn Japanese because Japan has a lot of street fashions" I explain to him in a quiet voice. "Now that I've told you can you shut up. I'm trying to watch the show." I say to him coldly. Ren doesn't say a word and sits there watching Tom and Jerry.
10 minutes later Tom and Jerry finishes and another cartoon replaces it.
"Adi time to take the medicine" Kala says while holding a cup of black liquid. She hands it over to me.
"Do I have to?" I ask her pitifully. She nods her head. "Well bottoms up" I say before gulping the black liquid. I grimace at the taste. Seconds after I had the black liquid my vision starts to blur. I rub and blink my eyes to try to stop the blurriness but it doesn't work. The only thing I can see is fuzzy colours. "Ah" I sigh. I slip off the couch and start feeling around the floor. I use the vibrations from the floor to see.
"What's wrong with her?" Ren says loudly. I 'see' that he is walking towards me. He stops in front of me before crouching down and tilting my face towards him. "Her eyes have lightnened!!" Ren gasps and releases my face. He falls backwards.
"Nothing is wrong with me. I just have diffculty seeing at the moment" I say to him. I look over to where he is sitting and see a mix of colours which are mainly dark.
"Why? You're vision was fine before" Ren says while leaning closer.
"It's something that happens everytime on the 21st of every 3 months" I explain to him. I touch the nearest part of him which is his foot. "See I can still see" I tell him.
"We're home!!" Killian's voice sounds from the front door. He walks in and finds Ren and I on the floor. "Has it happened already?" Killian asks while running towards me completely forgetting to take off his shoes.
"Yes it has happened" I answer him while standing up. The colour in my face comes back and I don't feel weak anymore. I stretch my arms and legs. "Ah how I hate feeling weak" I sigh. I walk over to the kitchen before pulling the fridge door open and getting the milk out. I pour myself a glass before putting the milk back into the fridge.
"How can you do that?!?" Ren's voice exclaims. "You can't see!" His voice sounds again.
"Yes I can't see using my eyes but I can while using my feet" I tell him while shaking my barefeet around.
"This is the time where you go. Bye Ren hope to see you again" Kala and Kailey say while pushing Ren out of the door with all of his belongings.
"You're right he is a chatterbox. Not letting us watch Tom and Jerry in peace. Who does he think he is?" Kala says while pouting.
"He's like the younger version of Old Kitamura and Kiyoshi" Kailey says shaking her head in disbelieve.
"See and now you inderstand where I'm coming from" I tell them. I sit on the lounge room floor. I feel Kimberly crawling over to me. When she comes close I pick her up and put her in my lap. "What do you think you're doing Kimmy?" I ask her in a baby voice.
She responds with cute little giggles. She touches my nose while gurgling. She pulls on my long bangs while giggling.
"I know I have gorgeous hair but please do restrain yourself by touching" I say to her trying to free my bangs from her grasps. I sit Kimberly on the ground in front of me which she satys sitting with just a bit of swaying. Soon Kolte crawls over and those two have a gurgling conversation. "I'm glad that I wasn't a normal child" I say while remembering when I was a baby.
We spend hours in the lounge room before having dinner and going to bed all of this is done with me only seeing fuzzy colours. When 10 o'clock strikes I am feeding steak to Asra. After she eats it I bid her, Killian and Thunder the panther goodnight before climbing up to the loft and going to sleep on the hard wood. I don't bother with the blanket because I wouldn't be able to feel the vibrations that well.