Zodiac Academy: Opposites Attract

Chapter Eight

After Aquarius slammed the door she was out of breath and was leaning back against the door, regretting her choices. When she punched Leo she used all the strength she had been saving and couldn't help it anymore, she let her knees buckle and collapsed on the floor, panting heavily. After what seemed like hours on the floor she slowly sat up and clawed at the wall and door until she was on her feet. Aquarius looked up at the small mirror on the wall that had hooks on it that the family used to hang their keys. Recanting the comment from Taurus she decided to look in the mirror, having it been a few days in her remembrance of seeing her face. 

Aquarius shuffled her feet slowly with her hands on the wall under the mirror, taking a deep shaky breath she went on her toes and peered in the mirror. Aquarius let out a small gasp and wheezing sound as she looked at her sickly face. The boys having thought her face was covered in hives was really dead blood vessels having been killed from all of the vomiting she had been taken to doing all week. Her luna eyes, once bright and blue seemed like a dull gray and lifeless, the stars she had been caring in them gone. Aquarius was scared wondering where the look in her eyes had gone, she held on the to the words her father always told her about her eyes. Did the stars leave because she was sick? Or did they leave when she found out about what Leo did? She sighed and looked at the floor dropping from her toes to her feet, the impact of the floor to her heels left her teetering for a second or two before regaining her ill balance. 

The girl stood there like a ghost doing nothing but thinking and growing scared. She pulled out of her trance once she felt her hair shift after she twitched her head a little. The hair that on a regular basis fought over being called spiky or curly was now straight and limp, clearly needing a wash. Once her hair shifted some of it fell and hit her nose, the itch was what pulled Aquarius back, she itched her nose and pushed her hair back. The bluenette slowly started her journey to her room to retrieve fresh clothes and a towel. The walk was slow and staggered, she made it out of the small hallway that located the mirror, the door, a closet, and the door to the laundry room, she was about to shift and go around the couch but tripped on air and crashed to the floor. Her head hurt and she felt like death was upon her, shaking her feeling she crawled the rest of the way to her room.

Grabbing what she needed she sat in the doorway of her room, balling one piece of fabric at a time she then pitched each ball into the bathroom as best as she could. After the tosses she sat for breath before crawling into the bathroom. Once in she pushed the door closed, stood on her knees and locked the door incase her mother came home, doubting that she would, Aquarius made the precaution anyway. Taking her hands she rubbed her face, she sat for a bit and was about to move blinking back her tired thoughts when her phone went off. Sitting on her knees with her feet tucked under her, she pulled her phone out of the waistband of her sweatpants and saw the beginning of a text message from a random number, rolling her eyes Aquarius swiped right on the text notification unlocking her phone and instantly taking her to the messages app. There in a grey message read: Forgot phone at home dead, this is Leo's phone. 

Giving a sigh Aquarius sent a text back saying she was taking a nap so she can go a while without being disturbed by Leo, rather her sisters, again. She clicked and tapped the screen a few times and ended on a screen for entering a new contact, and setting the number saying the user had an IPhone she had taken notice on how the message she sent was in blue. Typing Lion as the contact name, not Japanese for lion, oh no Aquarius's phone has been set to use English. The phone, IPhone really, had been bought in Japan but setting it up Aquarius said she was located in the United States and that she spoke English, which she did, it was her second language. 

Aquarius's mother was fully Japanese but her father was American, German, and Japanese. Her Grandfather on her dad's side was German and her grandmother was Japanese, her grandparents had met in the US and then had her father. Her grandmother fell ill when her father was a child, so she was never able to travel out of the US fearing her illness would worsen. That never stopped Aquarius's grandpa and father from traveling to Germany for yearly visits. Once in college Aquarius's father moved to Japan where he met Aquarius's mother. Her parents had a fleeting love that gave a child but never marriage. When she was little she was taught English secretly because her mother didn't want her to know any language except Japanese, Aquarius had loved hearing her father speak the language and wanted to learn. Her father spoke German, English, and Japanese fluently having a different accent for each so it seemed that when he spoke one language it was is primary one but when he switched it seemed like he was just a robot set to speak the set language perfectly. Aquarius didn't know German because it bore her when she was younger. Her first words that had been in German however, weren't the prettiest and well not exactly german, her father got a good laugh but her mother was very unpleased.