~Keiko~
“You’re an idiot!” Yumi was looking at me sternly, her arms crossed. “He could’ve hurt you!”
“He was hurting Ami!” I growled back. “And I was supposed to just stand and watch?” I hissed. “I’d rather die!” I gripped the sheets of the bed I was sitting on. “I couldn’t just stand there without doing anything, when I knew there was something I could do to help,” I looked down at my feet.
Yumi sighed, “Well, that won’t change anything now. What’s done is done.” She came and sat beside me, and put an arm around my shoulder, “You know you’ll be punished, right?”
I nodded, glancing at my arm that had been broken by Keiji a few weeks ago. “I know, and I’m ready for it,” tears began to sting in my eyes. Why couldn’t I have been born like a normal girl, instead of a doomed Sohma child?
There was a knock at the door, and I jumped up with a start. Keiji couldn’t of come for me so soon, could he? Yumi walked to the door with a worried look. She opened it slightly to peek out, then smiled, “Come in.”
“Thanks,” Haji nodded, making his way through the door. ‘He’s cute’ Yumi mouthed behind him and I had to stifle a laugh. “You... Uh... left this in the hall,” he held out a bundle of cloths that I realised were my clothes.
“Thank you!” I smiled widely, taking them from him. They were folded neatly, and with a start I realised that my bra and underwear were with them. I blushed a bright red when I realised that it meant he had seen them. “T-thank you,” I stammered, quickly shoving them under my pillow.
He looked like he was trying not to laugh, but, on closer inspection, I could see that he was blushing slightly too. “You’re welcome,” he nodded and left the room.
The second the door closed, Yumi was back by my side, “Omigosh! Who was that guy? Another Zodiac member?”
“I don’t really know,” I answered her. “He’s a Sohma, isn’t that bad enough?”
