I Think I Love You - Chishiya x Niragi

Chapter 12

Chishiya's POV:
I woke up only able to see properly out of one eye. It was almost like my right eye was a window with blood splatters and smudges, but like the outside world was dimmed. If I blinked, pain shot through my eye and seemed to go all the way to the back of my head. I reached under my sweater and ripped a strip of fabric off my already ripped t-shirt and tied it around my head as an eye patch to keep it shut. I stood up with my arms crossed. The room was silent. I got a wave of fear and loneliness. I wanted to cry, but I was worried it would hurt, so I stopped myself from thinking and started walking through the halls of mirrors again. With my hands in my pockets and my hood up I stared at the floor as I walked. I heard thumping echoing through the halls and a goofy sounding laugh. Like a clown, except the voice was way too deep. As I walked further the sound faded and I heard a large boom and the laughing and thumping was gone. I took a step and something crinkled under my foot. I picked up a piece of paper with arrows drawn on it. They each pointed a different direction (some even pointing up) and they all said things like "this way" and "that way." I looked up to see two path ways. "Which way do I go?" I asked nobody. I chose the left path. I kept walking and found another paper with arrows. This time one paper said "1000 year old serial killer" and "pit of lava." "What the fuck is this?" I asked. "You have been given a piece of paper with two decisions. Each decision is a riddle. If you open the correct door, you may walk through to the next. If you walk through the wrong door you will experience your penalty, which will continue until its purpose is accomplished." Said a silly sounding, clown-ish voice. "Have fun!" I took a second to look at the paper. "Well, if the serial killer is 1000 years old, they must be dead by now. So, the left path. I walked past a rotting skeleton holding a knife with dry blood on it. I walked forward until the next piece of paper. The options were "death sentence" or "haunted graves." "Well that one is obvious." I walked down the right path through a supposedly haunted graveyard. I had an eerie feeling walking through it. I felt like I was being watched, but I didn't believe in ghosts. This graveyard is not haunted. I thought to myself. It felt like it took me hours to walk through the graveyard. I felt weirdly tired and started to feel incredibly sad. Sadness turned to depression and I stopped walking feeling like giving up. I leaned against a mirror and slid down to the floor. I felt nothing and everything. I still felt like I was being watched and it almost became the only comfort I felt in that moment. Someone was watching as I sat and started crying. Maybe they watched because they understood. Maybe they were trapped here too and never got out. I started to panic. What if I'm here forever? I thought. As I cried, my eye stung. I tried to stop crying, but I couldn't. My eye was in pain and soon, so was my whole head. I passed out still sitting up, with my head against the mirror.
I woke up to the sound of banging. Like someone was banging on the other side of the mirror across from me. I looked directly at the mirror. Niragi? I thought. I slowly stood up, slightly trembling. I walked towards the mirror and put my hand on it. The banging stopped and I felt warmth on my hand coming from the other side of the glass. I looked around for my piece of paper. I picked it up and frantically looked through my pockets. I found a pen on an inside pocket and sighed in relief. I wrote on the paper and put it against the mirror. "I can't see you. Wait here, maybe I can find a window. Bang twice when you read this." I waited and heard two bangs. I walked away from the mirror and walked further down the graveyard. I picked up the next piece of paper and started reading. "Pachycephalosaurus" or "broken bridge." "What the hell is a patchy...sep-haylo...saurus?" I went for the broken bridge. There were nails exposed on each plank of wood and the bridge had a very large hole in the middle. I decided I'd take a jump. I slowly climbed onto the first part of the bridge, avoiding the pointy pieces of wood sticking out and the exposed nails. Underneath the bridge was just rock. If I fell down there I'd break every bone in my body if I didn't die. I looked ahead of me to see the other side of the bridge. I got ready to jump. The bridge was swinging and the rope handles were shaking along with me. Without any more hesitation I jumped. "Agh!" I landed on the pieces of wood sticking out. I screamed in pain. Multiple went through my hands and one got me in my side. I breathed heavily and pulled myself to the end of the bridge. I layed on the floor for a second, feeling my wounds sting. I couldn't see Niragi if I just layed there, so I got up slowly and kept walking. Ahead was another piece of paper. It said "the last decision" at the top. I read the options while bleeding out on the paper. "Nothing" and "your worst enemy" were written. Something about this decision didn't seem so obvious. There wouldn't be just a pathway with nothing would there? I was suspicious. I took the lid off of my pen and threw it down the "nothing" path, but I never heard it land. I threw the pen down the "worst enemy" path and it made a sound when it landed. "Nothing must mean, literally nothing." I said. I walked down the "worst enemy" path. The wall wasn't mirrors anymore. It was only windows. My heart jumped. I banged on the window hoping Niragi could hear me. I saw him quickly walking towards the windows. I stopped banging and he looked directly at me. I wrote on the last piece of paper. "Do you see me?" I put it against the glass and he nodded. I started crying. We both put our foreheads against the window and stood there for a few minutes. We kept walking next to each other looking over every once in a while to make sure we were both still there. Niragi had made a sling out of his shirt and his neck and hands were bleeding. I looked down at my wounds from the bridge. I was bleeding from my side, and it wouldn't stop. I didn't think either of us would make it, until I saw light up ahead. I felt a breeze. Niragi and I looked at each other and we both ran to the exit. I got there a second before him and noticed lasers between us. He showed up about to give me a hug. "Wait, wait, wait!!" I yelled. He stopped and took a step back. "Look" I said. He looked closely and saw the lasers. We looked at each other confused. How were we supposed to get out?