The Simple Life Of Haru And Winter

Chapter Six

Haru Ame

Someone once told me, "When you meet a person that you love, the world around you shows its true colors." I might not know anything about love yet, but I do know that when I met her, my world turned a whole lot brighter. It revealed more colors than anything I have ever seen in my entire life. Some colors I didn't even recognize. So, I guess I'm in love.

It's only when they're gone that is when you realize how much of a important role they had in your life. How they had such a indefinable impact. How much they meant to you and to others. How much they changed the world around you. How much you destroy your very own life because they're gone forever.

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"Winter?" I call out down the dark hallway's of the school.

Besides my calls for Winter with the echoing sounds of my foot steps, there isn't any sound at all. Just total complete shear silence. I notice small movement near the stairs and cautiously call out her name again. "Winter?"

More silence.

I hesitantly decide to round the stair case to view if it is indeed her. A gasp escapes me. Instinctively, I slowly pace myself backwards, hesitant of were I'm stepping. This is no longer the Winter I know. Instead, this is a very dark, gruesome, and a very disturbing Winter. The Winter that signifies the true meaning of death...

The once baby blue hospital gown drapes over the partially white tiled floor coated in her own dark crimson blood. Her once long, gorgeous white hair is now nothing but a short, matted mess with dry clumps of blood hanging about. Her back faces me as she trembles in the corner, mumbling incoherent sentences that I strain my ears to hear. Hesitantly, I take small steps to hear her quiet words.

"You never should have come here... You never should have come here..." She repeats again and again as she rocks herself back and forth on her knees.

"W-Winter, it's me Haru." I reveal to her with a cautious placement of my hand on her shoulder.

She screeches like an animal being tortured and runs to a different corner to hide in. When she ran, I noticed something loose was hanging from the top of her head.

I hold my hands out in front of me as if approaching a scared dog. "Winter listen, I'm not going to hurt you. I promise." I say as soothingly as possible.

She does a light sniff, then, "You never should have come here!" Her high pitched screams bounces off the walls. The glass in the building shatters, sending small shards flying towards my back. They barley enter my body.

I only manage to cover one of my now bleeding ears as my remaining hand stays out in front of me in surrender to her screaming.

"Winter it's just me, Haru, so you can listen. You don't have to be afraid. I promise on my life that I won't do a single thing to you that will cause you anymore pain that you're already in."

After a few minutes she slowly regains her sense's. She stiffles a small cry. "F-fine, but when you see me... You have to promise me that you won't run away, that you won't leave. That you won't hate me. Won't think that I'm some sort of monster..."

I take a deep breath to clear my mind in case there's some wondering thoughts. I'm prepared for anything.

"I promise."

She slowly turns her body around enough to were I can have a good view of her current state. The appearance of her body crushes something deep inside of me. Something that I wasn't prepared for.