Chapter 4
My Wish
Haku's p.o.v
Oh. My. God.
"MEIKO!" Kaito screamed, running towards the burning school, but the others tried to hold him down, he can't just run into the fire, we don't even know where Meiko is, we don't even know…don't even know…
If she's still alive.
"Call the fireman or something!" Len shouted. But when I took out my phone, there was no signal, so were the other phones, Rin shouted next, "Where's the public phone?"
"There aren't any near here; the nearest one is half a mile away!" Dell reminded, "I'll try to be fast enough, be back in ten minutes…I think."
And with that, he ran off.
"We've got to get the people out of there!" I said, almost shivering.
Then, someone came out of the building, with all the smoke and the fire behind, we couldn't see who that person is, but I saw who it was, with that one sided-ponytail, everyone could recognize her.
"Neru!" Rin shouted. But Neru looked like she was dying, tears fall down her face like a river.
"I…can't be-believe...it" She said.
"Believe what?" Rin asked, as she run towards Neru, trying to catch her as Neru fell to her knees, Rin asked, "why did this happened?" But Neru just stared at Len, and pointed at him, and then finally she said, "He…did this."
"What? No way! He didn't leave us for one second!" Rin screamed, "Come one Neru!" Although she has never been kind to Rin, Rin still cared for her. Neru said, "He…killed Meiko."
That wasn't something we would've expected. I don't know what happened before, but…Neru looked like she was speaking the truth. It might be possible, maybe Len sneak away when others weren't noticing, Rin told me he took a long time to change, it gave him enough time, but still, Len killing Meiko? He didn't have a reason to do that, and we don't have evidence.
"Neru! Neru!" Rin shouted, but when I looked at Neru again, she wasn't moving. Her eyes were still opened, staring at Len, glaring at him, as if telling him that she will hunt him down no matter what.
Len just stared at the two girls, wondering, or maybe trying to figure out what has happened. He probably never left us, yet he was blamed for burning down a school…and killing Meiko.
We all had one conclusion: Neru's seeing things.
But Miku thought otherwise.
It was like she's gone insane, she stormed towards Len, tried to hold Len still, and took out some things from his pocket.
A knife and a lighter.
"What are these doing inside?" Miku shouted at Len, he took a few steps back. He shook his head crazily; he would never do this kind of thing, we all knew he was innocent, but this…
Then Miku aimed the knife at Len.
"Miku, what are you doing!" Rin screamed. Len jumped away, staring at Miku with widened eyes. Rin ran towards Len and pulled him away. I did something stupid, I tried to hold Miku down, my hands holding her wrist, using as much strength as I could, then I shouted, "Run!" Gakupo, he quickly drags Rin and Len off, but Kaito fell to his knees, staring at the burning building, I swore that I saw a tear trickling down his face.
In a minute, Gakupo and the Kagamines are gone.
"Miku, calm down!" I shouted, despite her small body, she was strong. I hoped that Kaito would help me, but in his condition, I figure that he wouldn't even move if the fire reaches him.
Then, Miku turned towards me, and stab me in the guts.
My eyes widened, my legs felt like jell-o, I drop to the ground, with my hands, I tried to forced down the pain, blood flowed out, my body felt like it was burning, the ground around me turned red, my silver hair got wet with sweat and blood. What was Miku doing? I tried to shout at Miku, but what came out was air. It hurts so much.
Then, Miku bring her knife down to my throat.
This time, I didn't feel anything.
Kaito's p.o.v
I saw fire on the building, I saw smoke covering the blue sky, I saw red colored liquid on the floor, and I saw Miku running towards the direction where the others ran. But I don't want to see these, I want to see Meiko looking at me, or maybe beating me up, then at the end, hug me and say she was sorry. But this scene didn't appear before me; maybe it'll never appear before me.
I tried to shout at the fire and hope Meiko would suddenly walk out, I tried to imagine Meiko never even went in the building and that she's now somewhere in her house. But it was all just my imagination, this never happened.
But I know deeply, Len didn't do this, he would never. Even if he did, what's the point, if he killed Meiko, what would I do? Kill him? Meiko would still be dead.
I loved Meiko; this was all what I knew.
"Sad, isn't it."
I turned back, hoping to see a brown haired girl staring at me, with a smile on her face. But no, this girl was pink haired, my hopes fell, it was Luka.
"You know what? Len's innocent." Luka said.
Like who wouldn't know that, except for a certain annoying girl. Meiko, she would only be suspicious for the first three seconds, but she'll never accuse any other people for something without proof.
Then, she said, "Because I did it."
I almost stood up and strangle her, I don't know if she's just kidding, but no one would joke on this kind of situation, I felt mad. If Meiko was here, we would have beat Luka up. I already listed a hundred ways to kill Luka and make it look like an accident.
Until Luka pulled out a gun, the happy thought about killing disappeared.
"Well, if you had fallen in love with Miku, it will be her who's in that building. But no, you just have to fall in love with Meiko, eh? Do you know how much trouble it gave me? If the story goes wrong, do you know what will happen to me?"
I stared at Luka, has she gone insane? I asked, "What story? What does this have to do with us?"
"Hmm," Luka said, "I'll give you a hint, Evil story."
Evil story? I thought. What kind of hint is that? I tried unscrambling the words; the result was 'Levi troys', no way that's the answer. Initials? I couldn't think of anything. But how about this…
Evil story, story evil, story and evil, story of evil.
The story of evil.
It makes sense. Rin and Len, the look alike, it was like how the story is, but here, some of the things had been changed. I was the prince of blue, the one who lose his love. Miku was the lady of vengeance; Meiko was the lady of green…or maybe red. Rin and Len, they were the servant and the princess…the prince and the maid. Miku…she's going after Len, Rin would…
Oh, no.
I have to warn them…but Luka.
"You know what? I know what you will do; you'll go off and stop Miku from this. But I won't let you. But I'll tell you this, I'll live, all of you would get an unhappy ending. The end for all of you." Luka said, "Maybe you can call it happily never after."
She pulled the trigger.
The last thing I thought was, I'm going to see you, Meiko.
Rin's p.o.v
Run, run, run, that was what the three of us know. Miku has gone insane, she's my best friend, I like her, but I never knew that one day I would have to run away from her like this. Miku, maybe she just overreacted, but I doubt it, she wouldn't do this, and accusing Len of murder? That's just paranoid.
We run like the wind, or maybe you can say we looked more like we were running like hell, it was like every time we turn back we would see a Miku, aiming her knife at our throat, the thought was scary. I mean it, I dare you to point a knife at your friend and see how they react.
"We'll have to hide somewhere." Gakupo said, "Anyplace near here that has many people?"
I thought for a while, the conclusion made me curse…just thinking about clothes made me want to throw up, I said, "The mall."
"How far is it?" Gakupo asked.
"Two blocks away," Len shouted.
"Then let's go," Gakupo said.
We didn't try to hail a taxi; we were afraid if the driver was too slow or if we get stuck in a traffic jam, Miku would catch up with us. We didn't stop to catch some breath; because we didn't even notice we were out of breath. We only found three words in our mind, run and hide.
When we reached the mall, we found tons of people, it was easy to hide if we looked like normal Americans, but, sorry, yellow hair isn't going to help me.
Gakupo also noticed that his purple hair is going to be very noticeable in the crowd of people, he said, "Maybe I'll stop here and try to hold Miku off."
Len tried to say, "But…"
"You two look shorter, from the crowds, she'll think I'm trying to run with you, it's harder to see you two."
Shorter?
Is that a compliment or an insult?
"What about you?" Len asked.
"Don't worry about me, I can buy you some time," he said. Then, he ran towards the opposite direction of where we were supposed to be heading. Then I grab Len's hand and tried to blend in with the crowds.
I wanted to hide Len in a safe place, I didn't want him to get hurt, I like him, no, I love him. I care about Miku, I don't want to hurt her too, but I don't want her killing Len. Your best friend or the person you love, it's hard to choose…
I have an idea.
"Rin?" Len called out, maybe I was just scared of my plan, or maybe I was just happy about the fact that Len's going to live longer, I walked a lot quicker. I headed towards the boy's clothes section, pick up some clothes and pulled Len into the changing room.
A girl and a boy in a changing room do make things awkward.
"Take off your clothes," I said, my face actually blushing. Len's face was even redder than mine, he shouted, "WHAT?"
"Just do it," I said, "and put these on." I handed him the clothes I took from racks. I learned this trick from The Story of Evil, where the servant exchanges his clothes with the princess, they looked alike, and so no one found out except for the lady of red. But still, if we want to exchange clothes, it will be pretty embarrassing for Len to wear girl's clothes.
I turn around and looked away from Len; I do not need to see a boy without clothes on. After he changed, I put on the clothes he was wearing five minutes ago. The last thing: I tied my hair into a little pony tail and took off my ribbon, looking in the mirror, I looked exactly like Len.
"Rin, what are you doing?" Len asked, I smiled at him, but I could feel something falling down my cheeks, sweat or tears, I don't know. I took out something from my clothes, the bottle with a message, I handed Len the bottle, and said, "Help me put this wish into the sea, would you?" I walked towards the door, my hands on the handle.
"Len," I called out, "sorry."
Then I ran out of the changing room, as quick as I can, Len called out my name again and tried to catch up with me, but I was faster, he lose sight of me in three turns.
I'm sorry, Len, I really am.
If I could be reborn in our next life, it would be nice, if I could be with you again.
That, was my wish.
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