I quickly went inside the station as I paid my train fee, I went through the gates and headed to the stairs where I hid myself. I just need to see who's following me. I stood there for a few seconds as I heard footsteps getting louder and louder, then I heard multiple footsteps. Out came a pack of people walking close to each other. Shit, now I can't tell which one is following me, I run up the stairs as people stare at me, the train wouldn't arrive till 5:30 pm, it was 5:24 right now. The group of people come up the stairs and split up separately. I looked around to see who was the most suspicious. There were 7 people other than me here.
The first looked like a businessman, he looked tired, I can cross him out. Another 2 were female, one looked about the age of 20 and the other 30. There was an old lady and old man as well. Then there leaves two, a person wearing a hoodie checking his phone, and a girl with headphones on doing some weird stretches that looked older than me. It has to be one of them, but who, if I can just figure out who's following me I can report it to the police. The person wearing a hoodie looks more suspicious. I walked towards him as he faced me and took off his hoodie, "can I help you?" He asked.
I open my mouth and try to speak, but can't, my words couldn't come out, I try harder, I quickly get my phone out as the person in front of me looks confused. I go to my camera and check my neck. My throat was giving off a pure red color, I tried to yell but couldn't, all I felt was pain. I started scratching my neck but that made it worse. I kept scratching since it relieved some pain, but the moment I stopped I fell to the floor and held onto my throat as tight as I could. The person in front of me ran off as I rolled on the ground in pain, the other people except for the girl with earphones came to me and asked if I was okay. The earphones girl just looked at my eyes with murderous intent, she wanted me dead.
"Someone call an ambulance!" The 20 year old lady yelled as the businessman took out his phone and called the police. Foam came out of my mouth as more pain appeared, it was difficult to breathe, I didn't want to breathe anymore, I stopped breathing and passed out, the last thing I remember seeing was the earphone girl walking away from me.
I open my eyes and see a white ceiling, this isn't my house, "oh good you're awake," a male dressed in white came up to me, he put on a mask and gloves then grabbed a tongue depressor. "Say ahhh," he said as I followed orders. "You're at the best hospital in town, do you think you can speak?" He asked, I open my mouth and try to say something, nothing came out as I held onto my neck in pain. "I see, you've been poisoned, but this type of poison is different, we have no medical records of this type. I can tell you the bad news." He paused and looked at my frightened face.
"While you were asleep we ran a few tests on you and found out that your throat has swelled up, it'll look like you had internal bleeding, lucky for you, you made it in time. Now I'm going to need to ask you, can you contact your parents?" I sat on the hospital bed and shook my head, the doctor handed me a clipboard with a sheet of paper on it.
"Can you try writing what you say here?" He asked, I nodded my head and wrote down, "my mother and father are working in another country at the moment." Then showed it to him, he read it and nodded, "I see, so you don't have a parent taking care of you at the moment?" I nodded, "alright, we'll be in the condition you're in… Don't worry I'll advise your school about this, but what I have to ask you, do you know who did this to you?"
I write down on the sheet of paper, "Someone gave me a drink, I drank it, then my throat and neck started to hurt and irritated, that's when I fell unconscious at the train station." I gave the clipboard back to him. "Alright, now I'm going to need you to tell me who this student is so I can call the police and they will start an investigation right away." I looked away from him, I quickly wrote down, "Fuji Haru," then showed the doctor.
"Do you mind giving me a description?" He asked, I wrote down, "he's taller and older than me, he's in the soccer club. I don't know what class he's in." I handed it back to the doctor. "Do you think you can go back to school, and try to find him, then contact me?" The doctor said as he sat next to me and checked my throat again. "If we can get the poison we can find, we might be able to find a cure, by the looks of it, your tongue might fall out." I sat there with fear, "I'd give you 2 days, then you're most likely to die. You have 2 days to try and find him and the poison. I know this might be tuff for you but it's necessary to find a cure, here I'm going to give you my number."
The doctor pulled out his phone from his pocket then stood up and grabbed my phone sitting on a desk and handed it to me. I put the password in and unlocked my phone. We exchanged numbers and he called me. "Alright, if there's anything you want to talk about just text me, if you find any more information text me, if you're able to find the poison, text me. You got that?" I nodded. "He stood up and went to the door, "wait here, I'll bring you something." The doctor left his door, I looked at his desk and saw a wooden plank that had the name, Akifumi carved into it, at least I know his name now. I only had two days, I layed down on the bed as I grabbed my throat.
If I don't find that poison. My tongue will dissolve and fall out, I checked my pocket and couldn't find the metal ball, I looked at the clock in the room, 7:26, is it am or pm? I check my phone, it's am, school starts soon, was that doctor really with me this entire time? I'm going to have to thank him a lot, the door opened and doctor Akifumi came back in with a neck brace. "Alright to avoid suspension I'm going to have to put this on your neck." Doctor Akifumi got close to my face and put the neck brace on. "This might make it harder for you to move, but it's the best option we have now, we can't have any suspicion. No matter what happens during school hours, do not take this off, you got that?"
I gave a thumbs up since I couldn't node, I can't move my neck, "alright I'll let you go, but here," doctor Akifumi went to his desk and pulled out a doctor's note, then handed it to me. "This will tell the school that you broke something in your neck, you might arrive late to school but with this you'll be able to make it late. Now then," doctors Akifumi put out his hand towards me, I grabbed it, "I expected you to bring it to me, Itsuki Hiro," I shook his hand and got up from the bed.
When I left the hospital I felt tired but continued to walk to the station, it doesn't look like the earphone girl is following me anymore, I get to the train station and arrive at my stop, get out of the train and head home, with this neck brace off it'll be harder for me to put my clothes on. I arrived home, changed, and left my home with my bag and supplies. I walk back to the station and make it to school. Before going into the building I headed to the area where the metal ball was, went over to it, grabbed it, and turned it on. I only have 2 days to find the poison.