Chapter 16: Yesterday & Today.
After what happened yesterday, Ruru didn't came back and he's making me worry to death. I don't know what happens to him. I can't even go outside to look for him because I'm having difficulty from moving so I stayed inside my room.
"Latrice-chan, don't you want to eat?" I sighed, "Even though I want to eat... My sprained leg hurt so much, I can't use my leg properly." I said as I elucidate my point. Euclece gave disheartened eyes, "If Ruru was just here, then everything will be fine. That brat will give us a wide bright smile in order to cheer you up." she added brittly.
"You know, Euclece. Since the day I met Ruru... Everything around me became aggressive, not all that. My life always gets in danger but he always saves me, no matter what, I haven't even started investigating his past life. I wonder what will happen if Ruru disappears."
Without any warning, the door in my room opened itself. Both Euclece and me felt terrified when we saw Ruru stepping inside my room nightmarish glaring at us.
"So you want me to disappear?"
"What? No! I didn't say that I want you to disappear--"
"Then promise me!"
Me and Euclece were drowned in confusion. "Wait, what are you talking about?! Why does she need to make a promise to you?!" Euclece's voice echoed, anger burning through her. When Ruru turned his attention to Euclece, he furiously glared as Euclece was sent flying away from me. "Euclece!" This can't be real?
What happened to him, why is he acting this way?!
"Latrice, promise me. Promise me that you won't fall for anyone." His voice became rusty as he tried to get near me, I flinched backward my bed.
"Why? What happened to you yesterday? You shouldn't be acting this way." I let this penetrating feeling of mine, fixed my uncertainty gaze to his eyes.
He was left speechless while having his mouth open slightly. Ruru looked in another direction as he finally closed his mouth, he bit his lips, his whole existence right now is getting perplexed from something that I couldn't even imagine. After that moment of silence, he began to speak for himself once again.
"I want to own you. Someone told me that someday you will get ruin by another human and will abandon me. I don't want that, that will never going to happen, But in case that time will occur, I will..." The whole place was covered in gloomy darkness surrounding him, "I will kill you myself." I got shaken from his word, as he tried to touch me. "No-no, don't touch me!" I threw my pillows to him, not all that, even my blanket but everything is just being penetrated.
The darkness started to strap my body, "No--Ruru wake up!---" But from the moment my body absorbed that darkness, I'm losing everything. My thoughts, my feelings, my memories, they are all fading away little by little as if it's being taken away from me. I lost my senses as my body gets cut down to my bed although, my eyes were wide opened, my sights are clouded by twilight.
---Gasps---I heard Euclece that seems to panic from the moment she gets her feet back to my room. "What have you...what have you done... You monster!" Within my foggy sight, I saw Euclece trying to attack Ruru but everything is futile. She can't even get close to Ruru, she was getting washed away from darkness.
In the cold room, we're in, the dreary stare of Ruru to Euclece is stiffening. "Who are you? Why are you trying to interfere?" I got shocked by what I have heard.
Ruru doesn't remember Euclece? What in the world did happened to him yesterday?
I saw Ruru coming from my way, First, he gently touched my hair but I don't understand why he can even do that. Second, he held me tightly like he has his own bones and skin, and lastly, he used his bare ghostly hand to pierce my heart inside my body.
"Ahhhh!!!" As I shouted from the devastating thing he's doing, I felt my whole body was burning. It's hurt more than anything else. "I-i ...don't want to die--" My tears burned to my eyes as my lower lip trembled. Whilst the apricity touched my face, he hugged me tightly and showered me a passionate kissed while shedding tears beyond his eyes.
I can no longer control this situation, my eyes gradually shut itself.
"Latrice!" All I heard is the voice of Euclece shouted my name. After that, I fell in a deep slumber that no one could ever tell when or will I able to wake up. My body is falling from the waves of the gloomy darkness.
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"Wake up." I heard Ruru's voice, echoing to my head.
"Wake up." When I opened my eyes, I'm inside a room that is so unfamiliar.
I held my head that seems to be aching too much, "Sister?" But I got stunned when I saw my brother standing not-so-far next to the room's door. He was looking at me directly through my eyes, "Where am I?" As I asked myself, another familiar person walked in.
"What is it? Latrice, are you planning to skip school again?" I was at a loss for words, I saw my father. Alive, standing in front of me.
My whole face crumpled as my body moves from its own to give myself a longing embrace to my father that I'd lost a long time again.
"Father!" I started crying like a little child ahead of them.
When everything calms down, we had a family bonding in the dining area. My mom is here, she's happily serving the foods.
I can't believe this, I'm with my family right now. My father, mother, and my brother. I'm so happy that I could cry in this instant. When I glance at them, it's like my family isn't broken at all. They are happily eating in front of me, "Sister, are you trying to eat slowly so that you will be late in your school?"
"School?"
I just realized that I'm already wearing my school uniform and now I'm outside our house, my Mother and Father were standing outside to watch us before we go.
"Have fun in school." My mom said while smiling at us, I also saw my father is gently giving us the smile that I have forgotten a long time ago. I get near once more to my father to hug him again.
"Latrice, if you hug him like that again and again. I will get mad. You should do the same for me." My mother said with an irritated voice. I made a little peek at her, she's my mother right? But this isn't right.
I know my mother, she---A traumatic words crossed to my mind, 'You are the reason why your father died! You monster! Get out--Get out!'
I closed my eyes, I can't do any interaction with her. She abandoned me a long time ago. After that me and my brother finally decided to go to school.
As we walk our way to school, my brother would just spout something weird. "Aren't you happy? Everything is coming back to normal. So you don't have to be afraid to talk to her." I stopped walking from the moment I heard him.
"This is a space right?" Just like before, this made-up space was created by someone. From that moment, I realized that we stopped in front of the Omi-Hachiman Stationed hotel where I first saw Ruru sitting in the highest building of the hotel.
This space is now created by Ruru, 'I want to own you!' Those words are running to my thoughts right now, so this is his meaning of his own? Locking me to space? I need to find him quickly. Suddenly someone pulled my hair brutally.
It was my brother, he forced me to look at him directly.
"Stop even thinking of escaping this space. You won't able to find him here." With a rough voice, it is like, he's trying to mark his words to my head. It's scary and eerie. He gripped my wrist tightly, as he started to force me to go to school with him.
What does he mean about not finding him? Does that mean, my brother is also his accomplice? But there's no way he is, my brother can't see a spirits from the first place.
Few more minutes, we arrived in the school together. He also brought me inside my classroom, everything is so bizarre. He also sat in one of the desks quietly, since when did you become my classmate.
"Good morning Laize-kun!" Some students are greeting him so friendly. "Good morning." and he just did the same.
I never thought my brother is someone who would greet his classmate politely.
"Good Morning Latrice-chan!" Unexpectedly, someone greeted me from behind. "Good morning--" I got shy because it's my first time to be greeted by my girl's classmate. "Ohh-- you're so cute! Let me pinch you~"
I looked at the girl, she faced me happily as she pinched me roughly.
"Uwaa--" But someone held her back, with a deadly glare. "Don't touch her." Laize was like trying to scare the girl away from me.
"Uh-ah...Sorry...!" As the girl apologized, Laize moves closer at me as he gently touches my lips. I saw him, that evil grins within his face. "You won't able to escape here. So give up." He is like being possessed by an evil spirit. I frowned at him, I will definitely going to escape here.