Strike Zone!

Chapter 7: Maid

As of 8:02, Saturday. There is a glaring hole in the pile of clothes.

          "My goodness! I screwed up! I hope Eiko doesn't find out..."

Mari Ree, the maid of Furui Eiko, just found out Hikari is abducting Eiko into her home..., that's what Hikari grasped to believe to be ready for the worst case scenario. From the looks of it, that maid has a loose screw that might or might not have double personalty disorder, might also have violent tendencies is going to be the end of her. Que horror...

Well that only left her with only one option, approach Eiko and hope she is as clueless as she looks like, a child that is.

          "E-Eiko? Mari is gone now, you can reveal yourself now."

There is no response coming from the pile of clothes.

         "Oh wait! How stupid of me. You cant move yet right? Fine, its my clothes after all."

Hikari pushed a huge portion under the clothes, it revealed a sleeping Eiko, deep in slumber under the caress of the sweet scent of a fresh laundry. She nudged Eiko until she waked up. Eiko looks very satisfied on her solemn, short nap. Then the thought of danger finally kicks in inside her.

         "Is it over? Did she left? What did she said to you?"

         "Wait, you didn't listen to our conversation?"

         "I guess being visibly sleeping doesnt match to your criteria of not paying attention."

         "F-fine, my bad. But you did fidget a while back, how do you explain it?"

         "Doesn't matter, let's move on."

         "Wait, your stopping me because you are about to lose an argument are you? Why cant you just say its just an itch? Huhh?"

Hikari acted all high all of a sudden, she knew she's about to score on beating Eiko's sharp tounge once in a while so she grabbed the moment. But Eiko still has something under her sleeve.

         "Stop being childish than what I already look like. If I say its an itch then I might as well be an idiot as well."

         "Why is that so?"

         "Have you forgotten the fact my body is numb? I can't feel a damn thing. I'm just positioning my head to be comfortable. And if you argue that you stay the same position as you where from the start of your sleep then I might as well surrender to Mari right now so lets get serious shall we?"

         "Hold it! If you are numb, then you are unable to move at all!"

         "Sigh... If you are that persistent then I'll explain later to your uncultured mind."

         "F-fine, I'm sorry. Its quite rare for me to talk like this to other people...uhmm so I apologize if I'm hindering you... hehheh."

While trying to compose herself, she backtrack on what they talked about earlier.

          "Ahh yes! Of course Mari is very worried sick about you! Leaving home like that is a no-go in a family you know? Let me ask, when did you leave anyway? It looks like ages when Mari mentioned it."

          "Yesterday."

          "Wait, what? Yesterday? Unbelievable! Well, you look passionate enough to take it to your own accord based from what you said about your mission AND there is a reason why you are here, so who is your leads anyway?"

         "Absolutely... none."

After hearing all this ridiculousness, Hikari wears a face of someone so baffled they are amused and dissapointed at the same time.