Marionette

Oceans, Chapter Eight - Kanraku [陥落]

As soon as Amaya had gotten home that Wednesday afternoon, she locked herself up in her room with the curtains drawn, choosing to try and drown herself in music-clad darkness instead of walking around looking for a person to throw her fists at.

She needed to calm herself down before the twins got back, and for Amaya, music was the only thing that did that for her. She plugged her phone into the wall to charge, her headphones in place as she drowned the world around her out with an assortment of all of the music she had in her old device, which was greatly limited, considering the lack of data the old device could hold.

Somewhere in the time between then and sundown, Yuta and Reiko realized that she was home. It was not long after that which Amaya grit her teeth and escorted her siblings to go do the shopping, like every other Wednesday. It was an event done in moderate silence - Not that Amaya had insisted on it, but rather that Yuta and Reiko could tell that there was something bothering her.

Thursday was as uneventful as the three weeks while Karma was locked up in his apartment - She didn't go to school, padding slowly around the apartment in a kind of aimless droll with her headphones on and her music playing. No emails or calls came through for her - The world was entirely silent around her. About the most that did happen was her spending the afternoon reading Yuta's Evangelion Manga while nobody else was home.

Right now, it was late Friday morning, where Amaya was lying on the couch with the black blankets from her bed covering her from head to toe.

Yuta and Reiko had a day off of school today; It was some kind of event going on at school involving the faculty, and all the students had the day off, according to the twins. Amaya expected they were going to spend the day with Kouichi and Mako, like normal, so she didn't really pry into their business.

She did wonder if they were still here, however.

She hadn't heard a single peep out of them since she woke them up that morning so they didn't miss out on their whole day, and since doing that, she slouched onto the couch and nodded off for a good half an hour.

Amaya let out a sigh as she stretched on the couch beneath her blankets, her eyes closing again as she relished in the strange relief the movement always gave her.

It was about the only thing that she could feel relief with.

She had spent the whole time since slamming her foot into that man's chin examining her own mental and emotional condition closely, and she was bothered by the lack of change that had occurred.

None of the anger or frustration had dissolved into water to fill the inside of her world like it normally would, and none of the water had escaped into the outside world to give her relief. The only thing that happened was that the anger seemed to grow, pushing a lot of pressure onto her mood.

She was still on the verge of snapping, and she knew it wasn't going to be good.

That was why she was still here at 11.30am lying on the couch doing nothing.

Amaya knew exactly what would help her rid herself of the dangerous self-combustion, but she had morals enough to not do anything unless provoked.

But that involved setting foot outside, which she had no interest in doing right now.

She often wondered how Class E was going for Karma and Nagisa - She hadn't heard from either since that train-ride on Wednesday morning, and while she was curious, she wasn't going to go out of her way to find out.

'Amay! GOOD MORNING!' Echoed a sudden voice all of a sudden, followed by a sudden weight crashing hard against her stomach.

A choking gasp escaped the startled Amaya as she threw herself upright, blankets falling from her face and revealing what had suddenly attacked her.