Ice Mask

Chapter 2

~Izo~

"Ay-Ayame...?" I questioned as my long time friend had her sword in my face, still sheathed, but it looked like she would kill me in a moments notice.

"Izo, I need help." She said with the most serious voice she ever had.

"What kind of help?" I questioned, probably looking stupid, still sitting on the floor, but I didn't move an inch.

=Ayame=

"Since about an hour ago, people just stopped noticing me, ignoring me, and walking as if I wasn't there!" I complained.

He laughed "I don't see why they had any reason to stop and talk with you." He said chuckling. This earned him a slap, and he stopped laughing right away. 'What now' I thought to myself.

"Seriously Izo, I hate being ignored!! And you know this! Get them to notice me!" I said probably sounding like a child.

"Alright..." He said probably thinking he will regret it later. "Who exactly was it that ignored you?" He questioned.

"Well..." I listed about five people.

"That many? Well, Nyoko is my neighbor, let's visit her first." He said standing up.

~Izo~

"Here we are." I said as I knocked.

Sure enough, Nyoko's mom opened the door.

"Oh! Izo! I assume you're here to see Nyoko?" She asked with a smile.

"Yes ma'am we are." I responded.

"Let me go get her." She said walking away.

"She's ignoring me too!" Said Ayame silently to me.

I did everything I could to not chuckle at that. 'Its too perfect!! Everyone's ignoring her, and I didn't even know they had a sense of humor!' I thought as Nyoko came up to the door.

"Izo? Need help with 'cheating' on a test again?" She said with a wink.

"No, Ayame wants to know why you and everyone else is ignoring her." I said as I heard Ayame say something about me being a cheating piece of trash.

"I haven't seen Ayame since yesterday at school. Trust me, if I saw her, I have some gossiping to do, and I would do it then and there." She replied.

"Then I'll leave you two too it." I said starting to walk away.

"What?" She asked.

"I said I'll leave you to it." I said turning with a furrowed brow. "You didn't notice she was sitting on your couch?" I asked.

=Ayame=

'She looked right through me again... How rude' I thought as she turned back to Izo.

"I'm sorry, Izo, are you drunk? Hallucinating, or something?? She's not there. Have a look." She said pointing at me.

Izo walked in, and looked right at me suddenly confused.

"She sitting right here." He said walking over grabbing my arm, and lifting it in the air.

"Izo, I think you should go home, and get rest and maybe talk with your doctor... She's not there." She said looking at Izo stupidly.

"Fine, I might be in a dream... Or something... I'll go talk with my doctor." He said grabbing my arm ad dragging me outside.

*at the doctors*

"Oh hey there Izo." Said the woman at the desk.

"Hey, I need to have an appointment with my doctor... I just need to get some things figured out." He responded.

"Alright, have a seat, it should be about five minutes before he can talk with you."

*five minutes later*

"Izo? It's your turn. Come on in."  Said his doctor, and we got up and walked in.

"Alright what seems to be.... Oh dear..." Said his doctor.

"Doctor Kenzou? Are you alright?" He asked.

"I'm so sorry Ayame." Is all Kenzou said.

~Izo~

"You can see her?? I thought it was just me!" I said a little loudly.

"Yes, and you do know she's dead right?" He asked.

The shock of my doctor lying to me was beyond stupid. "Doctor, I don't think you're played to make jokes... Can you tell me what's going on??" I asked.

"Alright, but you won't like it. Let me go get a bed. I'll be back." He said as he walked out.

When he came back in, he had a bed, with someone in it.

"Ready for the explanation?" He asked.

I simply nodded, Ayame just looked at the bed with the person in it like it was someone she knew. 'It might be...' I thought to myself. 'Dah shut up depressed brain thought'

"Alright Izo, we recived this person at 3:36 pm yesterday. A person walked onto the street, and got run over by a car going 68mph. They are not alive anymore." He said pulling the blanket down just to the neck. I walked over to the bed, and nearly fainted.

=Ayame=

It's weird looking at yourself, especially when the other of yourself is dead.