CLICHÈ || Knb《Akashi Seijuro》

#clash no. 018

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Stephen Chbosky, The perks of being a wallflower

The elevator stops with a ting.

I avert my gaze from the ceiling to the cold steel wall beside me, rubbing my eyes. The door opens with a screeching sound and I step outside. Gust of  cold wind hits the front of my body, biting my naked skin as I proceed forward. It's funny how cold underground can get in winter. Don't they say there's lava in the center of the earth? So shouldn't it be hot no matter the weather?

I run my hands through my hair, a failed attempt to arrange the bangs on my forehead, then tie the rest of them into a high ponytail.

"Servers," I nod curtly as the three bulky men with black baggy jeans and oversized dark hoodies bow. "She doing well?" I ask.

"Uh, we weren't informed that you cared about her wellbeing, Little Miss." The one in the middle asks timidly, not meeting my eyes.

"That's not what I meant." I sigh. "Open the door," I order. "And stop bowing every time I open my mouth. It's annoying."

"Yes, Little Miss." They mutter in unison with another low bow. I wonder where maman hired these idiots from. But then again, no one but idiots would work under maman.

The electric door opens with a low hiss. I nod at them to leave. It takes a couple of seconds to adjust my eyes in the dim light and thin fog.

As I step inside, the door closing behind me with another eerie hiss, the first thought that crosses my mind is that this room is colder. Much more cold than I anticipated. Then again, it's been long enough since the first time I came here.

For anyone else, it would have been hard to find the slender blonde girl in the dim blue light and mist that matches the color of her hair. But I know what I am looking for. And, really, she's someone whose shadow I can differentiate among a thousand others.

I crouch in front of her, and lean closer to look at her as closely as Akashi Seijuro has.

"What is so special about you?" I whisper. "Does he really love you?"

She opens her eyes slowly. Her tears glinting in the eerie blue light like pearls beneath the deep, blue ocean. Trials of  blood stained her smoothe, fair cheeks. She is beautiful, I'll give her that.

Her body quivers, perhaps in fear, and teeth chatters violently as she weakly speaks, "Let me go, Enya-san. Please."

I stare at her intently, our faces inches away. Perhaps he had kissed these cheeks, these beautiful plump lips. Perhaps he had stared lovingly at these beautiful pair of dark eyes.

"Why don't you ever answer my questions?" I ask, slightly hurt. "Don't you like them? Or is it me that you don't like?"

"Enya-san," she whimpers. "Please let me go. Please, please, please."

I sigh. She's as fun as those bowing fools of mine. I place a hand gingerly on her face, making her look at me. Her teary eyes look back at me- pleading, begging for mercy. And then I realise something I haven't before.

The color of her eyes.

They are pitch black, just like mine. So dark and deep and filled with purity that you couldn't help but get drawn into, dive within and happily get lost.

The same innocent pair of eyes I once had when I was a child.

I clench my teeth, making my grip stronger at her bony, pale cheeks.
"What do I do with you, innocent little Ino? Should I hurt you?"

"Please-"

"Can I hurt you?"

"Please, let me go. Just let me go. Plea-"

"Will he hate me even more if I do?"

"Enya-san. Plea... please-"

"Your boyfriend seems too eager to get rid of me. I wonder if the reason is you, Inoto Senya?"

I jerk her head aggressively and stand up. A loud thump echos through the empty room as the electric door opens with a hiss as creepy as Hermes' messenger snakes.

I walk slowly, the sound of my lazy footsteps following me from behind as I check the time on my wrist watch.

3 p.m.

How come this place is so freezing? Aren't you supposed to feel hotter the closer you get to the center of the earth?

Update!  Yayyy!!!

So, there's a couple of things you need to understand about this book. And I'm not sure if I should just say it here. Because, basically, the readers are supposed to understand it by themselves.

I kinda plan to make it a little deeper than my other fanfiction. And hope you guys would understand. Because really, there's no point for me to write or you to read if we don't even understand each other.

Vote, comment and share if liked this book so far. I'm trying my best to turn it into something not-so-bad. And your support inspire me to do so. Arigato!

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