Supernatural Case Files

3 Dollar Ticket.

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Chapter 4

Picking up her car keys Umber left her house, walked to her parked car, and drove through the busy streets. Umber finally left the town lights behind and moved deeper into the suburbs where there was not that densely populated. But still well-maintained and finally when she was also about to cross the suburbs and enter the woods through the connecting highway crossing the bus bay.

Unexpectedly the window to the driver's side of her car shattered on her face pretty awfully with the wind speed and a huge stone to flung over causing a similar crash through another parallel window of her car. Both the glass panels close to her shattered thin pieces of glass in the air causing her to panic out of a sudden, her skin began to leak tiny streams of blood where the tiny fragment touched directly and her red velvety gown was now completely covered with dangerous but sharp glass fragments. Those fragments were undetectable even tho they shined dull under the moonlight as Umber suddenly pulled her car down to a halt on the silent highway near the bus stand and yelled through her pain.

"Reveal yourself, you bloody bastard."

Shouting out without confidence only to hear the most familiar voice in the most expected place. Umber was too stunned by the person's confidence to perform such a shameless act.

"I know you officer,
It's me Zakura Ichigo. You and your partner have been to my home previously." Answered the girl slowly but steadily heading to the car from her hiding spot somewhere behind the separating line and under the trees from her perspective.

"Why you?
Why you out of everyone?
Why the girl that I took the responsibility for protection under my hand?
Why do you have to be so cruel and mean to the hand that only cared for you?

You are a snake Zakura, you break the one that cares for you the most. You risked my everything. Helping you pushed me for my permanent termination ruining my life and now when I am bleeding you are staring at me blankly.

Thank me that I still won't hate you and today was supposed to be my first failed date. Thanks to you," whispered Umber as she beautifully teared down on her sorrowful state lying in the car.

Zakura was dressed in a maroon frock. Umber could still sense something in her that she could never before. Her fright as if she wants to run away and is screaming for help.

"I am sorry Umber,
This is the last time I would appear before you.
Please help me out!"

Umber rolled down her broken car glass making her space to lean down to cry.

"My life is in danger," she repeated.

Even after hating her, Umber could never stop admiring those green teary eyes of hers. That is what motivated her to protect her so far.

"How do you think I am?
I don't even know how grave is the situation and at this time of the night. While we are located this far away. I am at my worse all thanks to you. My condition can't provide you much support all thanks to you. But for the sake of your family, I would at least think of a way. I would better seek help now, signaling can be optional. I would first kick myself to action. Think of how I can save us both. I will look around for any help, hope I kick till the last."

"Thank you, officer,
You appeared in my life when I needed you the most."

The last thing Umber could hear echo was her voice before she took on the steering and when she tried to drive for a turn her already loss of blood caused her a blurred vision that further complicated her driving finally causing her bumper to crash onto the tree ahead while uprooting the tree that in turn landed straight on the car top almost immediately collapsing on the car to the ground and also trapping Umber underneath all the rubble and stuff.

Suffering from grave injuries and a lot of blood loss, Umber finally put her eyes shut and only her face was visible from the almost flattened crashed vessel.

Standing there glaring at the disaster before her eyes made her cry even more. The shattered car and blood traces on the exact spot they met all the time, made Zakura cross back to all the memories she ever had with her security.

"I am sorry Umber,
The time I put you through and on your best day today.
The way you are before my eyes. I hardly believe you could come out alive.
I have been nothing but bad luck for your purpose even tho you extended your arms for help.
I couldn't do anything but take you into a deep sinkhole of my accursed life.

What could I have done after all? My life had been drawn out from me for the everyday run for money. The few people I could've trusted on. I lost them all.

I was called being accursed and impure blood from my birth. The girl who has got her blood mixed from birth.

Me being a quarter and a half Japanese and my family having my mother half Serbian. People always looked down on our family in our homeland for having the Serbian blood running throughout our genes. Not only that but my father who was pure Japanese wouldn't be greeted in the community for a silly reason as silly as heterochromia or double-coloured eyes. Back in Japan people were too rude to our family, looked down on us like we were any lower creatures and we never belonged to the land. Japanese were very mean and rude to anyone who partially inherited their heredity by birth. Not all were that way even tho some were kind but we still faced hatred enough. My mother who was among very few of the women who sought her interest in learning and performing medieval Japanese healing techniques was not appreciated at all even tho the practitioners diminished by modernization and she helped a lot of visitors even tho they still mistreated her. She could never climb the economic ladder as any native woman would do in that field. Her kindness was taken for granted for her mixed blood hereditary. Moving into America, I believed our economy will stabilize but I had to almost strive each day to bring the amount I brought home. The incomplete doctorate degree I have to leave behind and for the time I have to spend running up and down this path to her old woman's mansion ruined my life to this day. I was too young and caught onto money making that I forced myself onto various illegal sources of money and I regret not living my life sober.

I wonder now if my life was good being humiliated each day and struggling financially in Japan or falling into money greed and chasing down the wrong men for money like Kayne in America.

My life left me with no meaning. I screwed it up so bad that I should better die, but I fear for my parents. Who would be for their support if their only daughter died? Who would want to earn their lives like I did?

I love them and I want them to be happy and you were the one I saw hope in your eyes. Hope that I could still improve but I killed my only hope alive." As she tried her hard to run through the desolated lanes finding help for their purpose.

With all the memory she had composed while visiting and traveling through the roads from her past. Zakura knew for some of the kilometers even if she tried her desperate not a lot of people lived there, she ran through the almost noninhabitant town streets failing to find help only to be stumbled onto an unknown metal surface.

"Forgive me Umber, that's all I could do for your behalf. Looking around the broken car upon which she stumbled upon, Zakura gravely realized how she felt she was out in town and had to take some shortcuts into the woods only to end up the journey on the exact spot she started from. All this time this girl was scared, tired, out of her mind, running for her friend, running for herself, anxious, thinking about her family, and everything that clogged up her mind only made her act senseless in the end.

Fearing that her body would be found out by the person who was after her. Zakura was very much afraid for what she dragged her friend into. She even wanted her dead body to be away from his filthy touch so she pursued her last strength in uprooting more of the light branches from the scene and dropped it all slowly one after the other on the car to keep her presence distracted.

Even tho she couldn't always help Umber at this moment of her life she was dedicated to bringing her all for her purpose.
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