Realms: "Kakurenbo? Sukima Onna- ASH

Chapter 19: Logic and Emotion Don't Mix

A hospital never felt darker, I was no longer surrounded by the smell of safety. I was in a place I don't know how to navigate my way through. Did I mention the faces? So many new people, communication is different when it comes to the border of children and adults. Say this for instance, children can get far more emotionally attached and are more, how can I say...talkative and playful, along with some being incredibly judgemental. We don't really think much when it comes to choosing friends, as we can't always see the difference between the good and the bad. Adults are more aware of their surroundings, carefully picking friends and foe, using a more logistical approach. At first they may seem stiff, but soon they start to soften up over time.

Well then, we all have our difficulties. It's hard being away from home, you're just confined to a bed for time, I miss my siblings. Satsuki's sometimes soft but excited tone in voice, Onii-san with his constant reminders for my own good, his cooking, and just them being around. It's horrible staying here. Plus, I don't even know if I myself can define this room as a safe place, the constant feeling that someone was stalking me from behind, the constant nightmares, the sounds...

I desperately need to get out, before I become the next bug stuck in the web. I can't help, I can't shake off the fact that there's something- no, someone more specifically a Demon-Yokai thing haunting more regretful self, guess that's my lifetime punishment for:

1. Getting into fights with a rich spoiled brat.

2. Letting curiosity take the better of me.

3. Not listening to my brother beforehand.

But still, I just can't shake off the feeling that someone was watching. It was incredibly, uncomfortable knowing that you are being watched, but not of a being of your own kind.

As time slowly ticked away, I grew wary that the slightest touch of a cold hand with long nails was stroking my head...from behind. Unsettling, the strokes were. The rubs on my head suddenly grew harsher in short period of time, to a point they were thrashes toward my head. The hand was still cold, but I could feel the fury within the constant beats in the way it grasped my hair.

It was unbelievably painful, to a point my temper got over my fear of looking behind. I turned my head to face the wall once more, hair strands blocked the view but lucky that hand had finally let go of its grip. Moving my hair away from my face, the bigger picture looked clearer. Staring at a face of terror we merely glanced at each other for quite some time.

Lunch in the Senior's Courtyard, fairly simple if you ask me. There are tables where each major friend group sits, and all the minor ones sit close to the origin of where it branched off. There were three large friend groups, the Gossip Girls, which consist of Akane, some comrades, a lot of gossip, attitude. Then there's the Boys, you know, your average annoying boys in the class who act stupid.

There's that one group that branches off the gossip girls, how should I say... Double Trouble? Just self-explanatory really, it's two best friends that are the class clowns and cause mischief in class during the moment of students most hated food; boredom. For the boys, it just breaks off into all sorts of mini clusters. There's the different sport groups, the Smarties, and then there's the gamers. Really it's just a jumbled up mess sometimes.

In fact, the friend group Rei, Taro, and Karin are a part of don't even match any of the above, there's some sport, there's some smart, an average, and a ton of attitude towards judgemental people and enemies. It was both easy and hard being the odd set out, well you have your friends, that's the easy part, but getting picked on, the judgement and unacceptance makes life harder.

Why not actually join a group instead of being the odd one out? Well, even though there's groups, they don't really have much diversity. Just look at the girls, the bullies and the trouble clowns, you have two choices, but Double Trouble will most likely have some well difficulty with the name and other such plans since it's now three people. And boy you do not want to join the Gossip Girls, they are a menace to the others. Oh, the Boys literally act like wild animals, the sport kids will just play sport and talk about sport and the P.E. lesson, the Smarties just talk to each other about all sorts of analytical nonsense, I don't even know what say about the gamers.