The Gravestone

Friendship

      Ai comes out of the bathroom and looks at me like I've done something wrong. "What?" "Mm..." Ai walks up to me and pushes me flat on my back to the bed. "I just realist that I've been dating the most beautiful woman in the world and I have her pushed underneath me." I blush and lift my arms up around Ai's back, I pull her down for a kiss, few minutes go by and we are getting ready for bed. "Night babe..." Ai says rapping her arm around my stomach, we fall asleep a few minutes later. "Where am I?" I say looking around a white room with nothing in or around it. "How did I get here, and where's Ai?" Suddenly I'm falling to the ground, I land in a river that is up to my ankles. "You don't deserve to live~" A weak withered voice says. "So, we are going to kill you~" Next thing I know the river starts to surround me, passes break off to make a bubble filled with water. I take a deep breath of air before the bubble of water is placed around my head. "You can't hold your breath for long not if you know what's in your mouth right now." A familiar voice says with a laugh. I start to feel stuff crawling around in my mouth, the scent of blood feels the air. I open my mouth to let out what was in it and a swum of moths comes out and feels the bubbled water, I try to scream but the moths muffles the scream.

        The families voice comes back with anger in their voice and says, "You think I loved you, you annoy me! ~" "I-I'm s-sorry" I can barely could get out. The smell of the of the air starts to change, I can't make it out, but it makes me feel sick. "I don't think you get it." "Please......." I reach out to grab the hand that I start to see, but in steed of what I wanted the hand raps around my body and lifts me up. "You really don't get it, do you? I was born to protect you, to confront you, to love you... But instead of what I wished for you fell in love with a nobody." I start to feel my body being squished together. "S-stop -" I feel myself turning purple, I look to side to side but all there is moths, the moths start to turn to blood, and I slowly started falling to the ground. I reach and kick trying to find something to grasp onto. "Hashioki? HASHIOKI?! WAKE UP HASHIOKI?!" I slowly started to feel like I'm being shaken, when I slowly open my eyes I see Ai crying over me shaking me until I wake up. "Hashioki... Please don't leave me..." "Hey I'm up" I lean up to tap Ai on the shoulder but instead my hand goes throw her shoulder. She shivers and stops shaking me. "what was that?" She say looking around the room. "you had fallen for her instead of me~ I was always there for you and this is how you thank me?!~" "W-what??" I look around to see a little boy crying in the courier of the room. "We was 5, and I was your best friend remember? I was the kid that was pushed of that cliff on that fielded trip."

        "I'm sorry, please just let me wake up to make sure she's ok..." I say with tires running. "No, you don't how long I've suffered." "Please she's scared, I need to help here." "fine I'll let you, but I'll let you now that I'll be watching you from now on." I slowly start to wake up to Ai crying. "Ai I'm fine, but are you?" "N-no, I wake up to you squeezing me, I managed to get out of your grasp but then you started grabbing you neck, you was turning blue..." "I'm sorry for worrying you..." "Remember what I told you I'm supposed to worry about you." "I know but I can't help but be sorry..." A few days go by and I'm at work, "Hey did you go see the fireworks Hashioki?" Yuzu says walking up to me. "No sorry I couldn't, Ai drug me to the hospital..." "Oh... Well I got it on film Mei requested for me to." She smiles sheepishly. "You're the best Yuzu." I put down the cleaner and straighten up, I walk up to Yuzu and hug her. "Hey Hashioki, Yuzu, the boss wants to see you." Niko says walking up to us. "Oh, hey Niko how have you been? And thanks, we'll be there in a second." I say letting go of Yuzu. "I've been good, Kaito and Asahi has been keeping me busy for a while." "I haven't seen Kaito and Asahi in a while now, have they been?" Yuzu says. "Those boys have been keeping me busy none stop, I'm confused as to how they are my own flesh and blood."