A Diary - Calling For You

Rage Wounds

"How...is he?" I had never seen Ageda so quiet before, his eyes were blood-red, with rage and sorrow, dying to see his brother. But he couldn't, nobody could. We all were just sitting in the waiting area. I lost my calm eventually and grabbed Ageda's collar, "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN, YOU MUST KNOW! HE WAS JUST LYING THERE ON THE ROAD, WHAT IF WE DIDN'T SEE HIM? WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED? CAN YOU IMAGINE IT? HOW DID ALL THIS HAPPEN?" I left off his collar, with a throw. "You guys...saved him?" He whimpered, looking at me with his moist eyes. "We did, but that's not the point here, you tell us how this happened." Akira said with a low voice. We all were sure of him knowing about the matter, I even had a thought of suspicion in the corner of my mind for him.

He remained silent, took a deep breath and said, "I had a severe fight with a group far away the streets, I didn't know it will get this far-stretched. They even warned me about it, but I wouldn't listen, I was too enraged. And they attacked Riiamu, beat him so bad that now he's in the hospital." He was in tears as he said that. "So I was right, you were the one responsible for this."

I always knew Ageda would get in trouble someday because of his arrogance, but the one being the victim was Riiamu here, he was more or less bullied by us, since the time I know him he was really quiet. I wonder if he was always like that, I wonder if he was ever happy from the inside. I really hope he was. But Ageda would always get into fights, with anybody, even us. But that's fine, at last, we would always trouble Riiamu, why would he not beat us up, he should have killed me instead. "And then I saw him there, lying on the street, he was damaged so badly, that I couldn't process anything at that moment, we got him here as fast as we could." Anli retorted.

We waited there till early morning when the doctor finally came and allowed us to meet him, and we ran to see him just as we heard those words. 'Hey, hey how are you now?" I said with teary eyes. "Better than ever!" He laughed. My mind was never so relieved, just as I heard that all the thoughts, all the chips on my shoulder were gone. "You guys are leaving tomorrow for the trip right?"

"Yeah, but we are not going until you're completely fine." I cancelled the plan without thinking once about it, Anli nodded in agreement. "NO, you guys don't cancel it just because of me, you have to go, and you should leave now, get some rest and prepare for it!" Riiamu said with a smile. "What...trip are we talking about here?" He opened up the surprise to Akira, not that I regretted it, in fact, I was happy that he did it. "Yeah...Uhm, we are leaving tomorrow." I told him while scratching my head. "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN A FEW DAYS, YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE! I KNEW FOR A FACT THAT SOMETHING WAS OFF. YOU GUYS WERE NOT EVEN TALKING TO ME!" He turned into a crybaby just in a few seconds. "That's why you are going with us, dumbass!" Anli exclaimed. "WHAT?! HUH?! I WILL HAVE TO PACK STUFF YOU KNOW?!"

"Yeah... we had that in mind but she and Mihoko would just not let me tell you, so how could I?"

"Yeah, I see my importance is being lower and lower, day by day." Akira was jokingly disappointed. "Did I ruin some surprise of yours...?" Riiamu said, confused." "I'm sorry...?"

"You did not ruin it, you just opened it up, you know? Like, we were gonna tell him, but you did, and that's good." Anli gave him a really rough explanation. "You don't have to explain it... you know that? And you're bad at it anyway." I giggled. We were having a good laugh when we saw Ageda sitting on the chair behind us, and we all went silent. "You two should have a talk, we are gonna leave anyways." We started walking out as I held a hand on Ageda's shoulder and said, "Try to be more subtle with people, it would only help nobody but yourself." Ageda held his hand on mine and looked at me in agreement. "Thank you."