Natsuki's Getaway

Reunited

I sat on the bridge, one wrong move and there goes my life. One small action can change everything... I blew some of the smoke out of my mouth, "Hmp... see if I care...", I rolled my eyes, continuing to smoke as I looked at the ground. Not too high, but high enough to knock me unconscious if I somehow, accidentally, 'slipped'.

My drug dealer wants his money... I ain't giving him a penny, I'll let him push me off this god damn bridge. I sigh, sadly, glancing at the bandages, bruises and cuts all over me as I then looked at the sky, breathing in a ton of smoke. "Once they find ou-"

"N-Natsuki?!" I could hear MC's voice, calling my name. I turned my head to see them looking at me, tears falling from his eyes as he came closer. "W-We all thought you were dead!"

'What the fuck is he doing here?..' I chuckled, flicking some of the ashes off of the cigarette and rolling my eyes. "I should be. Shoulda died in that car crash with my dad... or when I cut my wrist", I shrugged, putting the cigarette back in my mouth and laying on the bridge.

"BE CAREFUL!", he shouted and I ignored him. "Natsuki... how did you survive for so long?.."

"I killed him", I responded quickly. "I screamed and punched the fucker in the face and he ran right off the road into the woods... watched him die... I should have, too, but I didn't... I bailed and here I am..."

He stayed silent for a little while, moving a tiny bit closer to me. "What do you mean you killed him?", he asked with a shaky voice, staring at me.

"I mean exactly what I fuckin' said. I. Killed. Him. Watched him fuckin' die!", I finished my cigarette, putting it out by pressing it against my skin as I growled.

"What the fuck?!", he yelled at me while I dropped my cigarette. "Was that really necessary?"

I smiled, propping my legs up, my skirt falling up towards me. "Yes. Yes it was." I sighed, fixing my skirt and sitting back up on the edge of the bridge, grabbing part of it and resting my head on it. "Basically..." I'll let the flashback tell the story;

-FLASHBACK-

I was laying in the hospital bed while the doctors quickly, yet carefully, unhooked me from all the machines I was hooked up to. I haven't changed the bandage they gave me there or taken it off, even though the cut reopened and bled everywhere - obviously.

My dad came in the room, an innocent smile on his face to make himself look approachable, but deep down he's become even more evil than he was when I first left that hell excuse for a 'home' with MC. I knew he didn't love me... He let me leave with my dad after what I just did... after what's happened in the last week. It's been one week! I should have known Yuri was right all along. I mean, he's letting me go back to that house, of course he doesn't care.

I was terrified at the time, but I accepted whatever came towards me. He took me out of the hospital without me getting changed. They gave me an extra outfit - a pink wrinkled shirt with a long, silky pink skirt - to leave with, although I'm not sure what, but it was perfectly fine by me at the time.

The very second my dad and I both got into that car and he saw me in the passenger's seat, he backhanded me and told me to "get my ass to the back seat where I belong". I crawled to the back seat - as I was told - gently rubbing my wrist that was tightly bandaged, sighing as I looked out the window.

He was mumbling threats and calling me names, telling me over and over again what he was going to do to me when we got home. I was just so scared and angry and sick of all of this, sick of living that way that I finally snapped...

He started driving a bit after the traffic light turned green and I screamed at the top of my lungs, causing him to scream as well and started swerving when I leaped up, covering his disgusting eyes and punching him in the face over and over and over again...

We were headed right for a tree and I got back to the back seat, hiding in the corner and covering my head with my arms. We crashed into the tree and I kept my eyes on my dad, watching his head go through the windshield and hitting the seat again, hard.

Blood gushed from his head and ears, blood pouring out of his mouth, a giant piece of glass in his stomach and another near his throat. I looked right into his eyes that were full of nothing, but rage and evil a few seconds ago, now wide with pure fear and guilt... then I watched them roll to the back of his head slowly and his breathing coming to a halt. I stayed curled up in the corner, shaking like a leaf and staring at my dad's corpse.

'I actually killed him...' I slowly moved my arm, seeing a gigantic piece of glass sticking out of my uninjured arm. It must have punctured me when I was watching his life end and I just didn't realize it because of the fear and adrenaline. I stayed as quiet as I possibly could, tears falling down my face rapidly as I groaned, carefully pulling the sharp shard of glass from my arm. Once the now bloody shard of glass was out of my arm, my arm was bleeding profusely. I decided to take my hospital gown off, wrapping it around the wound tightly. At that moment, panic finally set in when I actually realized I just killed my dad...

I glanced to my left at the seat next to me, quickly grabbing the outfit they had given me back at the hospital when I was leaving, Even though I know MC could care less about me living or dying, I still loved him with all my heart and missed him a lot... and this outfit will always remind me of him... I pushed the already broken door open, running away from the car as fast as I could, running as far away as I possibly could, collapsing to the ground, unable to breathe due to extremely bad stomach pains, but I made it out here alive... for now that is...

-FLASHBACK OVER-

"Natsuki...", he started, holding his hand out towards me with a comforting smile. "You know I love you... right? I understand why you would think that, but I came here because I wanted to... join you, b-but you're alive..."

My face went blank as I pushed his hand away, jumping across the bridge onto the second platform, turning around and jumping back to the one I was on previously, holding onto the bar above me, swinging upside down in the air and landing on the top of the bridge, calmly walking to land next to him. His face was full of shock and fear and, I'm not going to lie, I felt badass in front of him. "Bullshit..."

"Natsuki, I'm serious", he stood up, walking over to me with tears in his eyes, but his face was full of relief and happiness now. He pulled me into a tight hug, resting his head on top of mine, crying tears of joy. I had no choice but to hug him back and smile. I couldn't help it, he actually loved and cared about me and I spent the longest time believing he didn't give two shits... "I love you...", he whispered through tears as I started to tear up myself.

"I love you, too, ya know...", I closed my eyes and relaxed in his arms for a bit, my worries sort of just... disappearing. I couldn't tell you how much I've missed his embrace.

"I WANT MY MONEY!" I heard his god damned voice after a fucking gun was shot and the bullet landed near my foot. I gasped, being slightly used to this by now, but MC screamed. "NATSUKI, YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU AND TURN YOU INTO THE POLICE, DON'T FUCK WITH ME, LITTLE GIRL!"

"W-what's going on?!", MC grabbed my hand, slowly backing away with me.

"It's my drug dealer, Pedro...", I mumbled. "IT WAS ONE BAG, DUDE! YOU'LL GET MORE FROM ANYONE ELSE EVEN IF I DID PAY YOU!", I shouted, a bit worried about mine and MC's safety.

"BULLSHIT! I HAVE RECORDS, I'M NO RETARD!", he screamed, shooting the ground near me again as I jumped, grabbing MC's hand tightly, running away with him as fast as my tiny legs would carry me.

"Shit... he's right... we gotta hide", I stated, calmly and quietly to MC, continuing to run, looking behind him. I got so much more than one bag of marijuana from him, believe me... It was a lot of money... and I don't think I'm only affecting myself...