The Guy Next Door

Chapter 18
Rin Akita and Maou Sakasane

Rin's POV

I decided to talk to Maou about it later at night. Gumi, Miku, Neru, Tamako, Sen, Rui, Meiko, Miki, and I decided to have a sleep over in the third floor gameroom. Dad's so nice to my friends. We pushed the coffee table to the side so that our sleeping bags could fit between the giant TV and the couch. Nine girl in one gameroom, you'd think we'd be a bit suicidal since guys live in our house. The wonders of a giant retractable curtain. We literally ate our way through buckets of popcorn and for Meiko, dozens of bottles of sake. During that time, Sen wouldn't let go of Tamako because she treated her like a doll. Meiko was alomst completely raging because she got loaded. And almost everyone couldn't help but sing their heart out at the karaoke Miku pulled out.

"Rinny? Where are you going?" Meiko asked, a bit slurred.

"I need to use the bathroom," I lied. She nodded and took another swig of sake as I past the curtain. I really made my way towards Maou's room. I knocked on his door and he opened it himself. "Can...can I talk to you?" He nodded and I entered his room. "I just wanted to tell you that I can't love you in that way. Ever. I want us to...just be friends. I know that I can't ever change that, so please. For me, stop loving me like this. Because if you keep on doing this, I just know that...I won't ever be able to forgive you."

"Rin..." I shifted my gaze to the floor. "I...If that really...I'll try, but I can't promise you anything." I gave him a gently smile and hugged him.

"Thank you," I told him. When I left his room, Miki waited out in the hallway for me. "Miki?"

"It hurts to tell him that, doesn't it?" she asked. I nodded.

"I didn't want to hurt him and I certainely didn't want to lead him on," I explained. "Wait, how'd you know that I was here?" She made a face.

"Actually, I didn't," she said. "Everyone at the sleep over is wasted and I did not want to be there. Hell no." We walked back to the party to see the curtain torn down and...and... I looked towards Miki and she looked almost as stunned as I must have been. I fell to my knees and Miki dragged me out of there quickly. "Rin! Get a hold of yourself! Rin!" I couldn't think. I just couldn't. I heard on to Miki as if she were a life line. This couldn't be happening!

"Len..." I murmured. Miki literally picked me up and carried me downstairs. She laid me down on the couch and quickly called Teto. Huh, I felt something snap in my head...

"Teto? It's Miki," she said, quickly. "Oh God, I can't believe this is happening."

"Calm down," I heard Teto said. "What's going on?"

"I think Rin's going to have a breakdown!" she screamed, panicking into the phone. I watched as tears started breaking. "Damn it Teto! I don't want her to die! Can you hear me? I don't want her to die!" I think...I think I lost my heart. I don't know what's what anymore. My heart, I lost it, yet I could still feel it. It was heavier than anything I've ever felt before. Miki turned back to me and she screamed something I couldn't comprehend. She was looking over me and her tears hit my face.

"Don't cry, Miki," I told her. "I feel sleepy..." She screamed again and I blacked out. The darkness never felt so relieving.

Miki's POV

Oh God no! No Rin! Don't go to sleep! I kept screaming at her to wake up, but she just wouldn't. I ran to Daichi's room and stormed in. I screamed at him so wildly, he had to follow me. Rin was getting colder. No! Don't die! I ran to the phone and started calling 9-1-1. As soon as the ambulance came, Maou came rushing downstairs and the paramedics were taking Rin into the back of the ambulance. I stormed upstairs and I felt as if I needed to kill. I grabbed a pillow and started hitting everyone upstairs. When I get to Len, Maou had to restrain me from killing him.

"Calm down!" Maou told me. "It won't help Rin at all!"

"I'll kill you!" I screamed, tears running down my face. "You're killing Rin! I'm going to fucking kill you!" Maou kept holding me back, but I broke free and punch Len in the face. "How could you? You're a fucking screwed up bastard!" I picked him up by the collar of his shirt and angrily threw him a couple of feet. All he did was laugh.

"Hey!" he said, drunkly. "Where's that hot bitch you had with you earlier? I'll give her a little something too!" I screamed angrily and Maou held me back again with the help of Mikuo. I tried to break free, but it was no use.

"I swear if she dies, I'm going to kill you!" I screamed. "I'll shoot you until you completely pay for what you did to her! She loved you, you fucking asshole!"

"Miki, calm down!" Mikuo yelled. "He's not in his right mind! He's drunk!"

"I don't care!" I screamed. "He's going to pay for doing this to her! Do you hear me?" I turned to Maou, who held my left arm. "You better not stop loving Rin or I'll kill you too!" I couldn't see anymore, tears flowed out of my eyes like crazy. "I don't want her to die! I don't! If her heart stops, it's all your fault Len Kagamine!" Mikuo picked me up after I stopped crying and I walked out the door where Teto waited in her car. We drove in silence to the hospital and I asked the secretary for her floor. She was in the ER. I met her father there and he looked horrible.

"Miki," he said. "I...I don't know what's going on." He looked at me, afraid. "What happened?" I looked at the floor as I explained what happened. He had the look of a killer when I finished. "Then I'll make sure Len never steps into my villa ever again!" The doctor came of out of the room and pulled his mask down with a sigh.

"There's good news and there's bad news," he said. "Good news is better before bad. Bad news, your daughter is in a coma caused by a brain aneurysm that ruptured from stress." I fell on my knees and Teto caught me before I faceplanted into the floor. "The good news is that we fized her aneurysm and that her coma won't last for very long." I sighed in relief.

"How long is she going to be in the hospital?" I asked.

"A few weeks," he answered. "But I think, that coma will last her through that. It's true I said the coma won't last long, but most comas I've worked with last for years." I gasped and Teto squeezed my shoulder. "There's just one more thing I might need to warn you about. She might have memory loss."

"What?" I screamed.

"Let me try that again," he said. "She might have memory lost about the object or person that caused the stress because she was probably thinking of it when her brain shut down."

"But is she going to be okay?" I asked. He nodded and sighed in relief.

Len's POV

I woke up the next morning with my body aching everywhere. Instead of seeing the cream colored ceiling of the third story gameroom in Daichi's house, I saw my original room's white oatmeal ceiling. I was back at the Kagamine house. I sat up quickly and looked around when a sharp pain hit my head. A hangover? Damn you Meiko for forcing sake down my throat. But why did my body hurt so much? I hopped out of bed and walked to the living room where my dad, Gakupo, sat, reading the newspaper.

"Good morning Len," he said.

"What am I doing here?" I asked.

"Daichi will no longer house you," Gakupo said, casually.

"What?" He put his news paper down and glared at me.

"Do you have any idea what you did?" he snapped. "You sent poor Rin Akita to the hospital! She's in a coma because you decided to get drunk and screw her best friends at her sleepover while she was in the bathroom!" The yelling made my headache worse, but I felt as if I took a bullet to my chest. "Len, I thought you said you weren't going to follow your brothers..." He sighed and sat back down. I never I noticed I was on my knees. The doorbell rang and I answered it. It was Maou.

"Maou?" I asked. "What? Oh God, headache."

"I'd laugh at you if I didn't feel like shit," he responded.

"This is why I never drink alcohol," I hissed.

"Hangovers suck, right?" Maou asked. We walked into the living room and sat down. "It's about Rin."

"She's in a coma, I know," I said.

"Glad to see you care," he said, sarcastically. "The reason for this is a hemorrhage in her brain. It was caused by shock and stress. Miki told me. Mikuo and I had to hold her back from kicking your drunken ass, Len." Maou sighed, putting his face into his hands. "At least there's one good thing that care out of this."

"Which is?"

"The doctor things she's forgotten all about you."

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