Love Live!! If Three's A Crowd, Nine's A Multitude!

Chapter 37

See to make things simple. Chika isn't an idiot. Not necessarily in a bad way, it has its perks. Sometimes she'd be so stupid it'd make people feel bad and they'd give her things. Like the other day. 

I brought her to go grocery shopping. And her stupid self managed to bargain with a guy to give her mikans at a discounted price. Here's how the conversation went.

"What do you want kid?" the rough seller said.

"Mikans please." she answered.

"You got any money?" He raised an eyebrow.

Chika nodded her head. "Yep, how much?" 

"Depends on how much you have." he answered trying to scam her. 

"Here," she handed him the contents of her pocket, just a few coins.

"That'll only be enough for five mikans." he said handing them over and taking the coins.

After we left the farmers market, she slumped her shoulders. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"I didn't get to show him my other pocket full of money." she said sadly.

"Is that a bad thing?" 

"I could've given him more money... I'd give anything for mikans." 

This is the type of mind we are dealing with. 

So when she was the one lost it actually didn't surprise me. There's a 95% chance that she went the opposite direction the arrow was pointing to. 

I got on the ski lift and waited. I got high enough to see all of the different routes. From as far as I could tell, there was only one route that wasn't lighted up. I should probably check there first.

As I was going down the hill it became apparent to me that it was really hard to see where I was going in the dark. Not to mention the large trees on both sides of the trail. I kept stopping every few seconds and called out. 

"Chika?" I would yell. No response the first time I went down.

The second time I went down the route that the arrow wasn't pointing towards, in other words: the trail that wasn't even a place you were allowed to ski down.

And I could tell why... THAT PLACE WAS STEEP!

I tried to slowly go down by using the pizza technique Dia taught us, unfortunately it hurt my legs a lot. "Chika?" I yelled again making sure she was there before I actually went down.

No response, I turned back to go to the regular trail, only to slip and start rolling down the hill. I crashed on the bottom, hitting a tree in the process.

Now it may have just been me going crazy but I swear I heard someone calling my name. 

"Shizuko?" the voice said, "Shizuko?" they kept calling over and over. The voice sounded hurt.

I looked around for the first time, about two hundred feet away there was a shadowy figure. Chika?

I walked over to them, they were sitting down on the ground clutching their knee. "Chika?" I said as my eyes widened. Her leg was bent in a way that isn't normal. It was definitely broken. 

"Are you okay?" I asked taking off my skis. That's such an idiot question. Of course she's not but I had no clue what else to say.

"It hurts!" she said crying.

"Is it just your leg?" I asked.

"I-I think so. It just all really hurts right now." she sniffed.