HE'S MINE

025

Tears sprung down my eyes and I covered my cheek with my hand. It was so hard to search for my confidence that shattered into tiny million pieces on the ground.

"I ---," I was afraid, scared so badly that none of the words could slip off my tongue. This had never happened to me before. I've never been interrogated and accused of that kind of stuff before. Imagine your worse fear stand in front of you and stares you in the eye.

"DO NOT SAY A SINGLE WORD," Shinichiro warned me, his finger pointing at my face with rage. "YOU RUIN EVERYTHING," he shouted, pushing me further away from him. With Emma keep crying, Shinichiro yelling at me, and my body shivering, I had no idea what to say to make things better. My back hit the wall as his hands roughly pushed me on it. I covered my chest to prevent him from pushing me again and bit my lower lips from howling.

"Don't you touch the girl?" Just when Shinichiro tried to approach me again, Mr. Grandpa interrupted, I did not see him joining us. He briskly came between us, pulling me behind him, he covered me.

"Do you even know what she has done?" Shinichiro wasn't being Shinichiro, or was this the real Shinichiro?

"ENOUGH!" Mr. Grandpa eyed him angrily and turned around to face me. "Tell me what happened?" He asked softly, his voice very grandfatherly.

"She is sleeping with that guy Haruchiyo/Sanzu." Emma, who no one asked a damn question, shouted again, crying and sobbing.

"Are you Y/n? I asked her not you." Mr. Grandpa gave her a shut-up call. and turned his attention to me again. I was now stammering in hiccups.

"I ---I was ----left alone---- and He---helped me--- get home." I was shivering beyond my control with hiccups in between. "I swear nothing else." I cried more. None of this would have happened if my parents are alive. Parents are your shelter, they keep you above on their priority list, go and hug them.

"Where is Mikey?" Mr. Grandpa shouted at Shinichiro after listening to me. I didn't want Mikey to get in trouble but because of him, I was in trouble today. I had to clear my name to be with him.

"He must be with his friends." Shinichiro shrugged his shoulder, "but what does he have to do with all this?" He defended him like the eldest brother would do see, I wish I had a family that considered me one of them.

"Isn't he supposed to give her a pick and drop? And who dropped you, Emma?" Mr.Grandpa was pissed, Emma's face fell in fear and she refused to answer that. "We should be thankful to Mr. Sanzu for driving her back home safely when your brother should be doing this duty." He was going on at the two of them, none of them said another single word. "For the eldest brother who has no idea about his siblings doing, you are too loud to talk about right or wrong." His comment made Shinichiro's jaw stretch onto the floor. I was no longer crying, there was a sense of father figure before my eyes and that gave me comfort.

I could not believe I witnessed Shinichiro's that side, the side he had hidden away from me.

"And you, do not disrespect her ever again." He pointed his finger at Emma who quickly nodded her head to avoid being questioned any further.

"You hit her again, and you are out of the house." His threat to Shinichiro shook all of us. He couldn't believe his Grandfather said that to him. He covered his mouth in amusement and kept staring at his Grandfather, who didn't bother his stare and swirled to watch me. "Go to your room." He gave me a weak smile and I walked away fr them. As soon as, I entered my room, I locked the door after me and sat on the floor. I face in my hands and my heart beating loudly, what the hell just happened?

All my life I thought Shinichiro cared about me and Mr. Grandpa were strict, but the fact that he gave me so much importance today made me realize who among them was someone I could rely upon.