Chapter2

#Chapter2

The first lesson came and went quite quickly when all I wanted was to be sat in my seat at the back of the class not going anywhere. I didn’t want to walk the halls, I didn’t want to go out into the yard, I didn’t want to come face to face with those guys, the ones who were going to ruin my life but as the bell rang, I knew that I had no options but to leave the class and head out into the halls that were crowded with hungry wolves that were seeking for blood. My blood.

Silently making my way out of the hallways, I tried to stay as invisible as I could, not wanting to be seen by any unwanted eyes and yet still, I felt as though I was so out in the open for everyone to take a good look at. I felt exposed and vulnerable. I had moved out to Tokyo 6 months ago. Being half Japanese and half English, I would’ve thought that I belonged to both countries but really, I didn’t belong anywhere, I just wanted to be alone. Alone and away from anyone toxic. I was born in Japan but my biological parents took me took me to England for a better future and when they realised that they no longer wanted to take the responsibility of their daughter, they shipped me off back to Japan, they left me in the hands of an adopted family that could care less about me.

My adopted father was a drunken mess that barely made it home from the bars that he spent all nights at and my mother, well, she was a prostitute. Or so, that’s what I assumed she was, I had saw her with multiple men, getting paid large amounts of money, coming home early in the morning, leaving in the middle of the night. We could say that my entire life was a mess but it was fine, none of it bothered me, of course, I wanted a family who actually cared about me, I wanted a family that took care of me but instead, I was left with people who didn’t even tell me goodnight. Even still, al li wanted was to get good grades, go to college, gravitate, get a good job and be independent. Never needing anyone but myself.

I never thought that my entire life would be put on hold because of walking home alone at night, never thinking about the consequences of what could happen if a 16 year older school girl would be roaming the streets at the dark of the night. But then again, who thinks that they’re going to witness a murder on their way home?

/"Yui is it?/"

An unfamiliar voice broke me out of my thoughts as the person behind the voice grabbed me and smacked me into the wall, I had just made it out of the hallways and managed to get out to the back of the school yard, trying to rush home when I was stopped by someone and of course, that someone was one of the guys who was there that night in the alleyway, contributing to the murder that I had witnessed.

/"Yes./"

I mumbled as I looked up at him, he was tall, slim and had a devilish look on his face, like he was here to taunt me, to strip me off whatever bravery I had left.

/"Tell me Yuri, where were you last night?/"

He asked with a hint of threat behind his tone of voice before he looked back to his group of friends, and as I followed his eyes, I too, looked at his group of friends, they were all stood there in a distance staring at us…. They were staring at me. And as much as I wanted to avoid any eye contact, I couldn’t, I was frozen here looking back at them, though it was more at just one person specifically as he devoured my soul with his dark eyes.

He stool around 6’4, he attractive, the most attractive guy in school, the guy that every girl swooned over and yet, looking into his eyes terrified me, I didn’t look at him as anything more than a murderer because that’s what he was and even still, it seemed as though, he was watching me like he wanted to swallow me whole, like he was infatuated with me, though it was probably hatred and anger from the fact that I had witnessed the murder, the murder that they all committed.

/"I- I was home./"

It wasn’t a lie and it wasn’t the truth, technically speaking, I was actually home last night but he never asked where I was before I got home so really, I wasn’t exactly lying as he never gave a specific time frame.

/"Don’t play with me Yuri, I’d really hate to… lose my patience and-/"

He spoke softly but each word he spoke held another hint of threat as he grabbed my blouse and ripped the top button.

/"And tear apart your innocence./"

His words holding a thousands of warnings behind them, I knew that if I didn’t want to even find out what he meant by tearing apart my innocence and so, I answered him honestly this time as I said;

/"Yes. I saw you. In the alleyway, but I didn’t tell anyone-/"

He cut me off before I could finish off my sentence as he slapped his hand around my mouth as he said;

/"Now that… that is a problem Yui./"

And with that, I k ew that… my life as I knew it,

It was over.