ENG - My best friend's sister ᵐᶦᵏᵉʸ ˣ ᵒᶜ

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Meiyo POV


I'm sound asleep until my ringing cell phone abruptly jolts me out of sleep. Dazed and confused by the sudden interruption, I look at the clock on the wall and realize that it was just before midnight. I sit up way too fast and feel my circulation going crazy. A brief dizzy spell almost has me toppling back over before I black out. I hold my head and blindly reach for my cell phone, which is still ringing. It's Hina, calling. I wonder what she wants and pick up with a, "Yeah?".
"Meiyo, you need to come to the hospital right away! Draken was stabbed and is in surgery right now! I'll send you the hospital's address," Hina says into the phone, distraught. At the words stabbed, my gaze falls to nothing and I don't immediately respond to her signal that she has finished speaking. Only when I hear a hoot do I lower my hand again.

Tears immediately come to my eyes as I slowly begin to realize what she just told me. I stand up far too quickly and hold my head again, as once again I see nothing. I slowly feel my way around the furniture and the wall to find my way to the door. I put on my shoes, pocket my phone, and grab my keys before running. Because of my circulation problem, I have trouble walking straight, but I just ignore it. I keep blacking out as I move way too fast. I look at my phone to see which hospital it is and check which bus is going there. Once again I curse my orientation and that I don't know my damn way around the city I live in and would be extremely lost without my cell phone.
I walk as fast as I can to the bus stop and look at the map to check if the bus really passes this hospital or at least stops near it. Thank God it stops almost directly in front of the hospital. While I am waiting for the bus, it starts to rain and of course I don't have an umbrella with me. I sit down on a bench and hold my head because my vision is blurry and I can only see my surroundings out of focus. My coughing gets worse and worse and almost makes me choke.
As my vision improves, I notice that everyone standing here is looking at me funny. No wonder, I'm wearing super tacky pajamas: a pink kitten suit with a little tail and cat ears on the hood. It makes me a little uncomfortable to be stared at like that, but I love this suit anyway, it's cuddly!

After what feels like an eternity, the bus finally arrives and I sit down. The rain is getting heavier and pattering on the roof of the bus and I am relieved that I am finally sitting in the dry and can warm up a bit. Still, my cold makes me cough and people sit far away from me for fear of getting sick. Idiots. The fact that I'm completely soaked, from the rain, doesn't make my cold any better, because this stupid bus stop didn't have a shelter. My clothes stick to my body and I shiver with cold.
The ride to the hospital seems so long and I get more and more impatient the longer we drive. After what feels like an eternity, I finally arrive at the stop and finally get off and walk through the pouring rain to the hospital. The rain pelts down on me and I am soaked to my underwear in no time.

I try to run as fast as I can, but I have to keep pausing because I feel dizzy and have to cough. My legs feel heavy and my breathing is labored. Every step is torture, but I absolutely have to get to my brother.
When I finally reach the hospital, I am completely out of breath, but still run on to the reception and ask about my brother, but the staff there can't or won't give me any information. I am frustrated and anxious at the same time and I can feel the adrenaline in my body. With an annoyed groan, I just walk toward the ER and pass a waiting room there and see some familiar faces sitting there, including Emma, who said to me crying, "Meiyo! It's horrible!"
The mood is depressed and everyone is worried and my lungs hate me and are punishing me with a scratchy cough. I want to ask what exactly happened when Mikey walks up and looks at me.
"You should be in bed, what are you doing here? Aren't you sick?" he says, and the only thing that makes me sick is that sentence from him. I raise my hand, reach out and slap him. His head hangs a little to the side and he looks down at the ground.
"Why didn't you protect him? Where were you when he got hurt? Aren't you always together? So why are you unharmed and he's not?", I pound my fist against his chest and start crying and he lets it happen.
"Yo bitch, how dare you hit Mikey!" someone yells at me from the side. I give him a nasty look and take a step towards him.
"You want one too or what?", I hiss at the short haired one.
"Let it go, Mitsuya, she's Ken-chin's sister. It's fine," Mikey says from behind me and with a hand on my shoulder he holds me back, otherwise I would have probably really smacked this kid too.
"His sister? I didn't even know he had one. Then I'm sorry I called you a bitch," this Mitsuya apologizes to me now and I look back at Mikey.

All the excitement is not good for me, my heart is racing, I am sick and my circulation hates me even more because of all the movements. I am exhausted and can't stop crying and worrying about my brother. I can feel myself losing the strength in my legs and slumping to the floor, but I never get there because Mikey intercepts me.
"You should be in bed, you're really burning up," he repeats, lifting me up to set me down on a chair.
"As if I could be in bed right now!", I mutter, exhausted.
"What exactly happened?", I then ask around the room and get an explanation.
Supposedly there was a fight between some friends and a former friend of theirs, this one was so angry at Kenny that he completely overreacted and threatened and hurt him with a knife. I realize of course that they are lying to me or at least altering the truth. I know Kenny is in a gang and Mikey is most likely in the same gang and I'm pretty sure it was a gang issue.
My brother probably told them to rephrase it because he knew for a fact that I hate that gang stuff. Okay, I don't know 100% if he's in a gang, but everything points to it, even if he never told me. But as long as I don't have clarity, he's not a member for me and I stubbornly hold on to that thought! Takemichi explains to me once again that Kenny had suffered a cardiac arrest, as he was in the ambulance with him.

I start to cry again. I am incredibly worried about my brother, the wound must be so bad that he even had a cardiac arrest. It feels like hours sitting here waiting. My cough is getting worse and scratchier. I am soaked from the rain and I am shivering badly from the cold as I am incredibly cold. A nurse even comes up to me and asks if I need anything, but I just give her a silly look and tell her to leave me alone.
I fight the cough and can't hold back my tears. I am incredibly worried about my brother and I just can't help but be angry at the world.

In the meantime, some others, who are obviously friends of Kenny, have joined them and the waiting room slowly filled up. The newcomers introduce themselves as Chifuyu and Sanzu and Mitsuya also introduces himself properly. I already know Takemichi, Hina, Emma and Keikei, who just joined us. I introduce myself as Kenny's sister and they are surprised because he never told them about me. This fact makes me sad because it seems like he is keeping me a secret.
And then there is silence again and only Emma's crying can be heard. I myself have to pull myself together not to cry out loud myself. I rub myself over my arms to warm myself and again and again I have to cough or even sneeze. I literally sit here like a heap of misery.

"Cute clothes, little one, absolutely does not suit you. ", the boy with long black hair sits down next to me and looks at me. His name is Baji, or as I call him Keikei, my best friend who I've known since I was little.
"Here, put it on, your cold doesn't have to get worse. ", He takes off his jacket and hangs it over me.
"These are my pajamas...I didn't really have time to change," I mumble softly, snuggling into the warm jacket a bit.
"Really cute," he grins at me. If he were anyone else, I'm sure I'd be blushing and looking awkwardly to the side.
"Shut up, idiot ... so you know Kenny, too?" I change the subject.
"Yeah, I have to admit I was pretty surprised when you introduced yourself as his sister. I knew you had an older brother, but I never would have guessed that 'Kenny' was Draken, and yet I've known you for so many years," Keikei sighs and leans back.
"I never invited you to my house in all those years either, you probably would have met him then."
"Now I understand why you never invited me. I've never been to Draken's house, but everyone knows where he lives and you probably live there too, right? It must be hard to live in a brothel," he says and I nod mutely. I'm shivering more and more, I'm incredibly cold, and my coughing almost won't stop.
"I was just embarrassed, that's all," I say and pause for a moment before laughing out loud.
"First Hina and now you too, who knew my brother before I met her. It's crazy that you're all acquainted with each other. First Hina and now you too, who knew my brother before. You are the only two people in my life that I have anything to do with and meet occasionally. ", I say quietly and look at the group spread out in the waiting room.
"If it makes you feel better, I don't know Takemitky's girlfriend, I don't have anything to do with her and I only know that she belongs to him. But while we're at it, Kazutora knows Draken and Mikey too," he says the latter thoughtfully and I just shake my head.
"Him too? So I'm starting to feel like I've barged into a group that's been around forever," I say quietly and sigh. I'm completely shocked by this right now and I don't even know what to think about it. They all know each other, but me? I'm just the unknown sister.
"It's sad that he never mentioned me...", I bring out in a raspy voice, still depressed over this fact. Keikei stabs me reassuringly across the back and looks at me with concern.
"So what, you have the coolest best friend by your side, so fuck if he calls you by others or not," he says. While I know he's just trying to comfort me, his words do anything but.
"That's not the point at all! He's denying me, that's what makes me sad!", I say angrily, because I get the impression that he doesn't take my feelings seriously.
I automatically get a little louder, getting attention from everyone in the waiting room. I immediately cover my mouth and turn to the others, who just look at me. Emma and Hina immediately come up to me and try to calm me down and get me to sit back down, which I eventually do.

I'm really mad at Keikei right now, which is why I ignore him for now from this point on. He probably knows that I'm overwhelmed right now and can't think clearly at all, which is why he fortunately leaves me alone afterwards, but still continues to stroke my back reassuringly. For which I am then grateful to him.

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