Ferocious Flames

was it an accident?

I was well aware that if I keep looking over there,  then the fire alone will kill me. But it was frozen me who stood there almost about to fall in that pit over the crashed elevator. The sight alone made me so weak that I felt my legs getting almost paralysed. As if the blood has stopped pumping inside my veins. As if the brain had switched off itself and switched on a screen saver. And the screen saver was my memory. My sweetest memory with dad, ryo and everyone. Was it perhaps afterlife? No, it wasn't afterlife as i heard gray shouting from the end of the corridor,"ema bent down!!" I was relieved that except my legs everything else was working.I don't want to die here. At least not now and not like this!! The flames were almost near me  so as to engulf me. No, I don't want to die. It was then when suddenly someone fell over me and eventually I fell on the floor with the flames all over my head. It was gray.
"I swear by God I almost feel like killing you myself." so he made it. I thought he never would as he stood at the end of the corridor. When the flames over us had scattered and disappeared he stood and then supported me as I still couldn't feel my legs. Natsume came beside me and asked," are you alright?" I couldn't pay any attention to whatever natsume and gray were speaking. I couldn't take my eyes off that empty pit even though I knew how bad I wanted to turn away. That paralysed feeling spread out all over my body and I fell. I wouldn't exactly call it unconsciousness as i could hear and see everything around me but I couldn't move. Natsume lifted me and carried me to the nearest room.
"why didn't she move? What was she Thinking? " gray asked. He was acting all like panicking kid.
"she's afraid of fire." natsume answered.
"how do you know?" he started his annoying inquiring again.
"she studied in the same school as me."
I swear by God I would have hit him that time by revealing such things but I was not capable of doing it at least now. Each organ ached and  functioned worsley as if they were dipped in a whole tub of wine. My brain had though switched off the screen savers but now it had switched on the memory of few seconds ago. That crash just repeated itself more than thousand times in my brain and then it started to work again. I wondered if I wouldn't have got out of that elevator. I was actually in that elevator with Ms ken. Was it really an accident?
I felt the blood running again but in an unusual pace. It was faster. My cheeks were all flushed and my senses had just returned as i sat on a chair.
"those flames...she died..I was there..I-i got out..I-i.." I was all panicked. I couldn't speak or frame any better sentences.
"calm down ema. Calm down. You're alive. You're alright." natsume was sitting beside me. Then gray came with a glass of water. My mouth had all dried up so I drank it all at once to calm myself.
"don't worry. It was just a silly accident." natsume said.
"accident?! You really think so? It was alright just a few seconds ago..."
"come on..Mr scarlet don't start over about it. Just look at her. You'll make her more panic."
"but it was there..I-i.." I think I was about to break out but then it was still beyond my capabilities.
"it's fine. You're alright..now don't start crying okay." Gray said amusingly. He actually didn't like this kind of atmosphere. He surely wanted to cheer me up I guess but he wasn't helping much.
"she can't cry." natsume said. Was he pissed? Because he really sounded like one.
"ah??" no wonder Gray didn't like him. Natsume always left gray dumbstruck.  Though gray seriously didn't know how to time out things when it comes to speaking but still natsume should have been more calmer, I suppose.
"lemme drop you home." natsume said. Just after a while in his car I got back to my wise and less- panicking self. Was it really an accident? I kept thinking about it but got nowhere.
"we've reached ema. " natsume interrupted my conversation with my subconscious.
"hmm..." I was about to open the door when he said," are you sure you're alright?"
"hmm.." I nodded.
"just take care. You already overdo it a lot." After a long while of thinking I finally said,"I'm alright and I know how to take care of myself."  I didn't want him to rattle again to Mr yagami but He didn't reply.
"I'm sorry.. I shouldn't have  been  rude but you dont really need to say this everytime we meet."
"yeah..I understand. I was just.. Forget it. Don't worry I'll tell others that you're alright. Everyone would be worried."
"natsume...do you really have to do this?! I don't like you telling everyone about my weaknesses. Leave the past behind, will you?!" then i went away. When I reached home I saw dad amd ryo standing in front of the TV.
"I made the headlines, huh?!" I said as i stood behind them. They turned around all surprised.
"are you alright?" dad rushed towards me.
"yes, I'm fine. It was not me but some other girl inside the elevator. "
"but we heard that you were also there. You just came out by luck."
"that's true. I actually got on the wrong floor. I Was actually going back there but then it just...ah forget it. Do we really have to talk about this?"  I shrugged.
"fine. You should go and--"
Ryo snapped,"no wait. How did you come here again?! Why didn't you call me?"
"I got your words dad..I'm seriously tired so I'm going to use some rest." I completely ignored ryo and he surely got that which made him more pissed. God, I like that face!  I went to my room and tried sleeping but couldn't. Why did that happen? Was it really any technical fault? My phone rang and I knew that it was Ivo.
"hello,  ema? "
"I'm alright Ivo. You don't need to worry."
"you sure answered my unasked question." I heard him sighing.
"I knew that you'll be worried. Ah..Ivo..I want to ask you something..."
"yeah, ask. Why you're hesitating?"
"I'm not hesitating. It's just...ah..you know what, I don't think that it was an accident. "
"what do you mean?"
"I don't know why I'm saying this..but it didn't feel like an accident. "
"it was intentional, you think?"
"yeah..sort of. I just hope I'm  over thinking."
"I too. Why do you think like that?  Has something like this ever happened with you?"
" I think so."
"who would have done this then?"
"no idea. You think anyone will be benefited by my death?"
"financially, you say?"
"what else?"
"that's not necessary though. Whatever. Just take care okay."
"I will. Ivo will you do me a favour. You know about it better than me. Where will everything that I've inherited go if I'd die?"
"about your wealth, I don't have much idea but if you're considering your position in suzuki company then.. It all depends on the board directors as whom they'll choose as their next president."
"oh..thank you. I think that information will be really useful."
"well I wish it would be. Ah..good night then."
"yeah..good night."
That night, it was not only Ivo whom I'd told about all this but ryo as well. Ryo was my stalker he surely had to have some information but sadly, he told me that he spent his earlier life in believing that dad was the actual culprit. He didn't think that it could be someone else so he didn't pay much attention to it.