The thunder outside was unbearable. The sound rang in my head and rain slammed against my window. The force of the wind had toppled the nearest electricity pole cutting off our power for the second day now. I sat huddled in my room, holding my knees in my arms. One of my only weaknesses is... A storm. I know it sounds stupid but in my defence, the sounds always sounded like the glass breaking on the ground, that my dad used to throw.
Five years ago, my mother and father died in a car accident which I was in too. I spent hours crying in my room. The injuries weren't the things that hurt the most it was the fact that, it was not an accident. It was a planned suicide. My father was an alcoholic, ever since my sister died of lung cancer. My mother was always kinder to me, her sister was like my lifesaver. Whenever my parents got into a fight or my father was drunk, my mom would send me to my aunt's house.
I had three cousins, I don't know where they are right now. The oldest, Sam was the closest to a family that I had. After the crash, I was sent to their house. Which was fine with me because Sam would hug me to sleep on days like this one. It was fine for a while but... My aunt and uncle were coming short on money and they couldn't afford to take care of me anymore. I was sent to an adoption centre, and on my 11th birthday, the Clarise's adopted me.
"CRACK!!" The loud sound outside shook me out of my thoughts.
"Why? Just why did I have to choose not to go to the party?" I thought to myself.
The neighbours were having a party and my family had decided to attend, unfortunately, they had not told me that tonight would be one of the biggest storms of the year.
The lighting flashed on my phone. I had tried calling my brothers and Raekyo but they did not pick up. The party was only a few houses away but I am too scared to go outside. The reality of the situation started getting to me. My mind slowly started to get foggy with fear. The dark place that I had escaped was chasing me again, Depression. I had been depressed about a year ago. I had gotten over it with the help of my friends.
My phone buzzed and I reached over to my nightstand where I had kept my phone.
"H..h..hello," I asked shivering from the coldness.
"RIVER, Are you Okay?" I heard a voice say. I had forgotten to check the I.D of the caller
"Kaeri?" I asked. Kaeri is my oldest brothers girlfriend.
"Yeah, it's me. Your brother told me that you weren't picking up your phone. What happened?" She asked. I looked at my notifications.
7 missedcalls from 'Hayato'
4 missed calls from' Raekyo'
10 unreadmessages from ' Haruki'
I was shocked, how did I not hear this but I picked up her call.
"River?RIVER!!" I was too shocked to comprehend the voice calling me out.
All this and the stress got to me. My vision went blurry and suddenly my skin felt colder than before. Except for one spot, on my wrist. I held it hoping to get some heat out of it. My skin had gotten so cold. It didn't work I could feel the coldness racing up my body up to head. Right when the ice was about to fully cover my body, everything stopped. The coldness slowly faded down my body. I felt weak, too weak to stand. My knees felt unstable and my limbs were collapsing.
'Why and I still trying to stay awake? I could just fall, nobody would care anyway.' I thought.
'NO, there is a reason I am fighting.' I thought as I slowly trudged towards the door. I tripped and fell down, the pain overwhelmed me. I laid down on the cold carpet ground. I closed my eyes and focused all my energy on staying awake. I heard the downstairs open and voices shouting my name. I smiled, knowing that they cared I faded into darkness.
Hayato P.O.V
We sat in the waiting room of the E.R room in the hospital. My little sister, Raekyo sat with my mom comforting her. Though I think she is only trying not to cry for her sister. They had always fought, but they loved each other more than they could realize. Haruki was talking with the doctor, and I was trying to contact dad. He was in Arizona for business reasons. He was not picking up his cell.
"Hayato, they said that she is in a stable state but she is still unconscious. That is all the information I could get from her, but she want's to see you in her office." Haruki said once he sat beside me.
"Okay, dad is not picking up his cell. Could you keep trying until he picks up?" I asked he nodded and sat down in my spot. I looked at him he has dark circles surrounding his eyes. I looked at my phone.
'4:00' It read. It I 4:00 in the morning and we are still awake. I knew it wasn't a good idea to leave her in the house for the night. I knocked on a white room labelled. 'Docter Sharina'.
"Yes, come in." a female voice said. I walked into the room and was immediately bombarded with the smell of Lysol and medicine. She was holding a file with my sister's name on it. She looked up with a frown on her face.
'WHAT? why are you looking at me like that?"I asked freaking out. The only thoughts that ran through my head were 'Did something happen to her?'.
She shook her head.
"Sit down Hayato, your father is out of town.I was told?" I sat down.
"Sorry, and yes you would be correct. I am the oldest boy in my family after him."I said.
"I won't be cliche with you, sir. Would you like me to say it fast or explain?" She asked.
"Explain" As much as I wanted to get this over with, I needed to know what happened to her.
She took a deep breath and exhaled.
"Your sister is not in injured in any way.." I sighed in relief but I knew that there was more.
"but, She seems to have a mark on her right wrist. No matter how we tried to take it off it wouldn't budge.It is rather a strange symbol. It looks like a Heart made of flower except for half of it is gone." she said exclaiming.I was shocked, I knew it would happen but not know.
"I'm surprised she held on that long."She said getting up. I shook my head.
"What do you mean? When we got to her she was unconscious and she did have a fever of 102 C. That is why we brought her to the ER she was not responding to anything." I said confused.
"For more than 1 1/2 hours with a fever of 199 C degrees, hotter than when you brought her in. most people would have fallen unconscious even before that. Do you have any idea, why she held on?" she clarified. Why did she hold on? What happened to her? Who did this to her? and most importantly, why did she only pick up Kaeri's call?
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