Tsubaki And Vhynn's Story

Chapter 4

I woke up in the middle of the night to hear me and Vhynn's song echoing in the room.

'In my heart we'll never be apart~' I smiled to myself and I wiped my eyes sleepily and felt around my nightstand top for my phone.

'I'll love you and forever more~'

I smiled and waited for my favorite part.

'Sarang Hae Yo means I love you~'

I finally found it and answered.

"Hello?" I mumbled, still half asleep.

"Tsubaki?" asked a high pitched voice, confused.

"Hi? April is this you?! How the heck did you get my number?" I rubbed my eyes and looked at the clock. 3am?!

"Ya, Uhm can you come over to my place. I'll explain everything there!" her voice getting higher, reaching hysteria.

"Okay, calm down. Where do you live?" I asked moving out of Vhynn's embrace grabbing a coat.

When I arrived to the orphanage I felt my legs weaken. It had been many years since the last time I was here... I started towards the door ready to knock, however, April got there before I could.

Her eyes were red and puffy, her face wet with tears. Her hair was up in a messy bun and her shirt wet as well.

"Honey, what's wrong?" concern washed over me as I followed her into the orphanage. The door closed behind us, scaring us both.

I sat on the couch next to her as she launched into her tale.

"Uhm..." she looked down at the pillow she was holding and played with the fringe of the pillow "it all started about 5 years ago. Or at least that's as far back as I remember." tears started rolling down again "the reason I started panicking when I saw Vhynn again was because... Because he was in my memories" her voice started to crack and sobbed frantically. "When I was young I remember his face, his voice. B-but I-I don't know why Tsubaki. We've only known one another for a month now but...

Dammit I need to tell someone!!!!" she cried harder gripping my hand tightly. "I-I, Tsubaki. I don't know who my parents are. I remember being Kidnapped, screaming. The fear building up in my chest.

The next thing I remember was 3 years ago. I had shown up in a town near here. In an orphanage everything between the kidnapping and then is just gone, blank." she shivered remembering. "But then that all changed earlier in the year I had moved here, to Honshu. I met this one guy, Nicholas at the coffee shop on my first day here. It was love at first sight" she laughed lightly, wiping tears from her eyes smiling bravely.

Recently, as you know he just came up one day and asked me out, and it feels like up until then I never really lived.

"But it still bothers me, what did I go through all those years, was it traumatic? Did I miss something important? What about my family. And how is Vhynn tied into all of this?" she said burying her face in her hands.

I rubbed her back trying to remain comforting, "hey. Look at me" she looked up at me.

"We can make it through this. You can trust me, I will help you-" I was cut off by the harsh knocking on the door. I looked at the clock, it was now 6 am. Who the heck would be knocking at 6am?!

"Is Nick coming over or something?" I whispered to her eyeing the door.

"No, he doesn't know I live here!!!" her voice started rising in the panic of the moment.

"It's the police, open up!" shouted the voice by the door.

"c-coming" cried April as she approached the door.

"are you April?" he asked shining the light into the house.

"y-yes?" she said shaking.

"Your families been looking for you, for a long time young lady." he said looking her in the eyes.

"Yes we have been" answered a voice I didn't expect. Vhynn stepped into the street light, the light making his eyes sparkle as tears spilled on the floor.

"Welcome home little sister" he said, holding his hand out for her.

I fell to the ground. All of it making sense now, the dejavu I felt when I saw her, the reason Vhynn was so shaken up when he saw her. The way they seemed to share a connection. It was all just... Too real.

"D-does Nick know?" she asked, her voice shaking almost as bad as she was.

Vhynn ran his hand through his hair, a sign of stress. "Yes, I told him the day we went to 'The Garden of Eden' when you guys surprised us. That's what I was there telling him about." he looked into my eyes, as if apologizing for not telling me too, but that wasn't good enough for me. I avoided his gaze as he talked to the police. I felt a tug on my coat as April nodded her head to the side of the road.

I walked with her over there as she looked over, making sure we weren't being watched.

"Did you know about this?" she asked her voice soft like a mouse. I felt like I was on the border of tears. I looked down ashamed as I shook my head at her.

"It's okay" she said, now taking her turn with comforting me. I let out all the pain I felt. It was like he couldn't trust me, like there was in a crack in our solid foundation; I let all my feelings out as tear after tear fell to the ground.

I didn't even stop when the policemen stopped to stare, I didn't stop even when the sun began to rise over the horizon, I didn't even stop crying when the smell of the sunshine came near and a soft hand gently grabbed my wrist and felt the heat of another's body move beside me, "Tsubaki, I'm sorry. Please talk to me"

I shrugged his hand off and managed to speak between choked sobs, "Just leave me alone..."

He touched my face but I shrank away, "Don't touch me. Just go away..."

"Tsubaki, please-" he said but I wouldn't let him continue. "Vhynn!!!! What part of leave me alone don't you get! You left me alone when you had something important to say, like the fact that you're related to April, but now you won't leave me alone!" I turned so he could see the damage he caused to me.

"You are so full of Bull Shit!" he looked at me as though I'd just slapped him. April tried to grab my hand to talk to me but I just shook my head at her.

"Not today, April. Not today." I walked away not bothering to see if they followed.

A week had followed since the fight with Vhynn early that Friday morning, such a big change in my life has happened so fast.

I'd began to lock my window every night, added another lock to my door.

When Cross tried to talk I'd blast my music as loud as I could, I'd thrown my phone at a wall, shattering it after the 3rd time our stupid song played. I hadn't eaten since that night, my life was falling apart.

I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat.

Several times I thought about ending all of it, taking a knife and letting it bite into my skin. But what would that do? Absolutely nothing.

I hit my head against the wall, feeling myself slowly slipping away.