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Post by Kei on Jun 12, 2006 19:36:38 GMT -5
Kei gasped as she looked at the pool. Pool, that's what it was called; or, what her tutor said it was called. She looked around, it was so big! But...She couldn't go in, even on a scorcher like today. Kei was wearing her black gloves, and they would probably get wet and slip off. But she had to swim, it was sooo hot out... Kei got in and swam around the edge a while, but never going into the deep zone, she would surely drown. 'If I let go, I will drown...I will never let go!' But someone didn't realize Kei couldn't swim very well, and pushed her playfully into the deep zone. Kei tried to see who it was that pushed her, but she was focused on trying to breathe. She was at the point of passing out when someone grabbed her gloved-hand. But because it was wet, the glove slipped off as the person was trying to help Kei to the surface. 'NO!...No...way...someone...saw...it....' Scars. All along her hands.
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Post by Yasuo on Jun 12, 2006 21:17:22 GMT -5
He was an eavesdropper, but not much of a stalker. Forces beyond him, however, pulled Yasuo after this girl. He silently watched her every move, quietly listened to her every breath. The way she walked and the way she spoke captivated Yasuo in something he'd never felt before.. So, naturally, when he followed her to the pool, he leaned against the wall and observed silently. Other kids were there so it didn't seem too suspicious. But suddenly, Kei was pushed farther into the water. Yasuo smiled, hoping that it was a friend of hers. But when she didn't come up..
Hastily, he pushed people out of his way. He looked through the glossy surface of the calm, rippling pool. Down near the bottom, Kei, not moving much at all. Without much second thought, Yasuo plunged in with all his clothes on. A descent into the water, he swam to Kei and grabbed her by the hand. Yasuo tried to say something, but his voice was lost in the void. So instead he began pulling her up, but her glove slipped off. And there, on her hands, were scars. Yasuo floated there, in stunned silence before he regained his composure and swam lower, grabbing Kei by the waist and hauling her up to the surface.
"Ah!" he gasped when he reached the surface, panting for breath. He made sure Kei's head was above water level and paddled to the side of the pool, where people helped him pull Kei up onto the pool deck. "Kei!" he breathed, pulling himself up and kneeling over her. "Kei! Are you alright?!" The black glove was still tightly gripped in his hand, forgotten.
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Post by Kei on Jun 13, 2006 14:21:23 GMT -5
Kei coughed a little and nodded. "...Y-Yes -cough-...Me okay." She looked at her glove that he held. He could think the scars on her hand were accidental...But there were too many scars to be an accident, it had to be on perpose. "...Me have explaining to do...Me tell you anyway because Yasuo first person I meet." Kei gestured to a cool shady tree looming over the pool, not surrounded by many kids. "Me tell you there...But Yasuo must promise not to tell anyone."
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Post by Yasuo on Jun 13, 2006 18:39:02 GMT -5
Yasuo looked at the scars on Kei with hard, cold eyes. But when his gaze returned to her face, his eyes were filled with concern. She began speaking and gestured to a nearby tree, nearly desolate and empty of human life. Yasuo nodded at her statement and stood up, eyeing her carefully. "I won't tell anyone, trust me." Then he turned to face the tree that would house her secret, the only other living thing to ever know..
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Post by Kei on Jun 14, 2006 6:02:41 GMT -5
Kei smiled as they went toward the tree and sat down. "Me have brothers, two. Lukas and Emile care for me deeply. My father loves me much. But they only my family. I wanted to meet all of extended family. I only no meet family in Japan. My mother...Not so much. When mother had Emile, she want to send me away. Father disagree, but did anyway. He and she sent me to Japan, but warn me first." She started to cry, but wiped her tears and continued. "He say no meet Jiro family. They bad. But I want to meet all of family....Then to make worse, mother told me she never want me... I so miserable I start cutting..."
She smiled at Yasuo, even though tears dripped down her face. "So if meet person of Jiro family, give them my love. Tell them me care, that they not alone."
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Post by Yasuo on Jun 14, 2006 18:57:58 GMT -5
Yasuo blinked, his calm face never stirring. He smiled gently and stroked Kei's chin, "Okay, Kei...I'll tell them if I ever meet one of the Jiro's." Then he turned his head away, thoughts beginning to formulate. It must've been a different Jiro family. There has to be at least a few other people with the last name Jiro, right? Then Yasuo remembered the scars on Kei.
He turned back to face her and said in a firm voice, taking her arm and pointing at the scars, "No more. I don't want you cutting yourself anymore." Yasuo wiped a tear away from her eye and muttered just low enough for her to hear him, "Because even if your mother doesn't want you, other people do. I do. You're my sis--..my friend." Yasuo nodded and sighed.
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Post by Kei on Jun 14, 2006 19:10:20 GMT -5
Kei nodded and smiled, she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Thanks Yasuo, Kei will stop. It weird. Why would Jiro family be bad...? Unless they were in gang or something...And mother say Jiro not too common. She say if meet someone with last name Jiro, to call the police." She shook her head and held up a picture. Kei had it laminated, and took it everywhere, comparing every guy she say to the guy in the picture. It showed a teen smoking a ciggarette with blonde and black hair under a tree, next to him, was a baby tiger. "Then Father say to meet this guy...He say guy in family." Kei looked at the picture sadly, he looked so carefree in the photo...She wanted to be like that. She wanted to live like that.
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Post by Yasuo on Jun 14, 2006 20:11:57 GMT -5
Yasuo stared at the picture with a look of shock upon his face. He quickly shook it off and blinked, looking away. "I know him," Yasuo sighed. The hair and the tiger...in the Kurenai dorms, Yasuo had always heard that tiger purring. It got annoying, so Yasuo usually stole away to the gardens for some peace.
"I'm pretty sure that's Jun. I didn't know he smoked," Yasuo said thoughtfully. "Strange..."
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Post by Kei on Jun 15, 2006 5:52:35 GMT -5
Kei gasped, she showed the wrong picture! She blushed, bright red. "Wrong picture. Me sorry. I just thought he was...pretty, so me take picture of him. I...I thought he was cute!", Kei said blushing bright red. Kei brought out a picture that was tattered and torn. "Mother told me never show this to nobody. You can see, though." It had a young boy, about ten or nine. He had blue eyes and wasn't smiling, his hair was brown. "Me was suspicious of you because you look like boy. Boy is teen now. You are teen."
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Post by Yasuo on Jun 15, 2006 21:10:19 GMT -5
Yasuo laughed when Kei blushed, smiling and nodding to her. "Its okay.." Then she reached for another picture and pulled it out, tattered and torn at the edges. It was obviously aged, the years beginning to show in the color. Yasuo looked at the picture with feign innocence, though inside he nearly fainted. It wasn't the hair that gave it away, nor the eye color, nor the fact that he wasn't smiling. It was the look in his eyes.. "It does look like me, doesn't it.." Yasuo murmured, still trying desperately to protect this newfound secret. What would Kei say? She was meeting the one person her mother despised...
"May I take a closer look?" Yasuo asked, reaching out for the photo.
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