The invisible girl (tbhk fanfic)

2 | Quiet week

Akaibara was alone yet again in the library. The kids at school had some kind of break going on, they must have. Everything was quiet. There weren't even any annoying kids screaming in the halls or having dumb fights.

Akaibara had no one to keep her company, only the constant ticking of the stupid clock in the library and the occasional noise of the air conditioning turning on were the only things she heard for days straight.

It couldn't have been summer break, it was only early to mid spring she thought. It wasn't exactly hot but it wasn't cold either and the leaves weren't changing. She'd known this. She stared out the big window over that staircase the library. She'd watched the trees for about thirty minutes. She had tasked herself with counting all the leaves on the trees that she could see. 789 leaves, and none of them had fallen.

What could be keeping the kids from coming to the school? She wished they'd come back. She was running out of things to do, she had reorganized every single book in the library three times over.

Once by color, again by the date they were published, and one final time by genre just how they were before.

She tidied up the place, messed it up, tidied it again. Rocked back and forth on her feet. Paced around the library until she finally tripped.

Tried her hand at impersonations, she mimicked the voices of Yashiro, Hanako, Kou, and Mitsuba rather accurately.

She tried to attempt that floating thing Hanako is always doing, she got both feet off the ground for about four seconds and when she got excited she fell again.

She screamed at the top of her lungs hoping someone would at least yell at her to shut her up. Nothing, sadly.

She attempted to spin a book on her finger. Which resulted in it falling on her foot, it was rather painful actually.

Even more painful was the silence in this still room, the horrible horrible silence that threatened to suffocate her. Oh but it wouldn't succeed in doing that, because every single second of silence was interrupted by the annoying tick, tock, tick, tock, tick of that stupid clock. She needed to leave before either the silence drove her mad or that annoying analog did.

She pulled one arm behind her back to grab the upper part of her other arm out of habit and walked out of the library.
She opened the door shutting it quietly behind her and made her way down the stairs. Hey, stairs. Maybe she could run up and down the stairs in the school, that was something new she hadn't done yet.

And so that is what she did. She ran down the rest of the stairs on that flight of stairs she had started on and walked around the halls until she found another staircase and ran up it. Then the same with the next set.

It was tiring but maybe if she got tried enough she'd at least pass out, then maybe when she woke up the kids would be back!

Okay this sounded kind of sad. She really missed their presence, this must be what being lonely felt like. Is that what other apparitions felt like all the time? Must be.

After running up another flight of stairs and having to catch her breath again she realized she was really close to Hanako's bathroom. Oh, she could play games with him and the Mokke again. She'd lose for sure but at least it would pass the time.

She walked up to his bathroom kind of excited to see another ghost. That is until she was met with a closed door and a note written on a lined piece of paper. "Out of order, bathroom is under repairs." Akaibara read aloud. Under repairs for what? Did someone stick a roll of toilet paper in one of the toilets or something stupid? If so it was probably Hanako making problems for Yashiro to clean. There was no way a bathroom hardly anyone used needed that much cleaning without a little help anyway.