Marionette

Oceans, Chapter Sixteen - Yokeru [避ける]

Despite Koro-sensei's request that Amaya email to let him know that she'd gotten home safely, she didn't do it. Even worse, Amaya didn't have a single opportunity to rest up, like she'd been told to.

It didn't matter that she really was trying - Anything and everything went wrong for her, and there was nothing she could do.

On her way home, she had a run-in with one of the gangs that Karma often picked on when he was bored. She'd managed to take down two of the three meat-slabs that had picked a fight with her, but the third had managed to get the jump on her while she was regaining her footing, and she was knocked out with a sudden strike to the head. She came to with her obento stolen, as well as the spare money she had left in her purse, though thankfully the idiot that had robbed her decided to be kind and leave everything else. She still had her bank-card, and the photographs hidden away in her purse.

The owner of the Takoyaki street vendor familiar with her was in the process of driving her to the hospital at that point, where she had to spend the majority of her afternoon sitting in the waiting room with a bloodied icepack to her head just for the doctors to take a look at her. The one she got was a young, dismissive type, who had given her a quick check her over and announce that she just needed some stitches to close up the gash to her right temple, and pain-killers to get her through the night. She had no concussion, nor any other problems, though he did surmise that her blood pressure was of course, way too high.

Upon arriving home just after four in the afternoon, Amaya found that Reiko and Yuta were in the process of packing an overnight bag each so they could go stay at Mako's house. Apparently, the twins had tried to contact Amaya, but she didn't pick up the phone, likely because she was unconscious at that point. It was something to do with their group assignment - Since they'd all been at the apartment Monday night, it was now Mako's turn on the rotation.

So after explaining to her siblings that the blood over her was from a small gash she got from a scuffle, nothing more, she escorted Yuta and Reiko the three city blocks to Mako's house so that she knew they got there safely.

And finally, upon arriving back at the apartment, Amaya found that the electricity to the apartment had been cut, because she'd forgotten to pay the electricity account in time. So after rushing to the postal office to make an emergency payment before they shut, Amaya had to navigate her whole apartment by city-light, just so she didn't waste what was left of her phone's battery. The electricity wouldn't be turned back on until sometime the next day, since the company had shut shop for the day.

It was lonely sitting all alone in the dark of her apartment, miserably so.

She didn't feel like sleeping, and her appetite had long since left her.

With nothing to do at all, she propped herself up on the windowsill of her room just so she could sit there and watch the sea of city lights that filled the world outside her window.

Amaya eventually nodded off sometime near midnight right there on the windowsill, which was exactly where she found herself when she awoke just after eight the next morning. The electricity was still out, and likely would be until after midday. So in preference for keeping everything in the fridge perfectly cool, she didn't make herself any breakfast. She just had a shower, got dressed and left.

Amaya was in the process of walking up the trail to the classroom by ten after a quick stop at the public library, placing her feet a little more carefully than she had yesterday, and her eyes were exclusively placed on the ground in concentration. She was dressed just like normal, however since that uncomfortable cold was still bothering her, she was wearing a long-sleeved black shirt underneath her uniform. It helped, but she could still feel the cold aching in her body.