~*Mai*~
What’s, going on? I wondered. Am I, wait, where am I? I felt something on both sides of my head. “Mai, aren’t you going to wake up for me?” I heard, then I felt something warm near my face. Hey, what’s, Takumi? “Mai, I’m going to kiss you.” He whispered. Huh?! I opened my eyes fast and he was right there. Like RIGHT THERE. I couldn’t even see him clearly, it was all blurry. He sat up, I couldn’t feel his breath anymore. “Good you’re awake.”
“I-I can’t see a-anything.” I stated clumsily.
“Give yourself a minute or so, hey, what happened to your cheek?” He asked. I sat up slowly and looked down.
“I tried to run, and they caught me, then I, I tried to reach out to you, and, and the one hit me.” I touched my cheek and felt that there was a long scratch there. I hoped it wasn’t bruised as well.
"Well there's no bruise." He said lightly touching my cheek. I didn’t mean to, but I flinched, and he pulled his hand back fast. I brought my knees up to my chest and laid my head down on them.
“I’m sorry.” I said quietly, holding back tears.
"No, no don't be sorry, i understand if it hurts and you didn't want me to touch it." He stated and brushed some of my hair out of my face. "I'm just glad that nothing else has happened to you."
“Don’t let them hit me again, I don’t care about the scratch, just don’t let them hit me again…” I wrapped my arms around his neck and let myself cry. “But, I would rather have me get hurt than you, s-so just don’t put yourself in harm’s way. Y-you’ve been through enough already.”
"Mai." He hugged me back "I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
“You promise?”
“I promise.”
“Ok. What are they going to do to us this time? What about Aki and Haru?”
“I don’t know, all we can do is hope that they haven’t got a hold of them yet. We’ll get out of this again, don’t worry. We’ll be just fine.” I closed my eyes and didn’t let him go.
“I hope so.” The door opened and I looked over and saw a guy in a lab coat walk in holding a clip board.
“I need to take height and weight measurements from both of you.” He stated.
“What if we refuse?” Takumi snapped.
“We can easily sedate you and take them that way.” He said calmly. “That’s all we want at the moment.”
“I’ll go first, ok?” Takumi whispered. I nodded and let him go and laid down on the cot. “I’ll be right back, right?”
“Yep.” The scientist held Takumi by both of his arms and took him out of the room. I was left there alone. I’m so scared. I just want to go home and never come out of my room again. I was afraid that they weren’t just going to take two measurements, and that something else was going to happen to us, and I really didn’t want to get cut open again. I wanted this all to go away. The door opened and they came back. Takumi smiled at me and I stood up. “Come on.” He took my wrists and I looked at Takumi.
“You’ll be just fine, I’ll see you in a minute or two.” He said as he sat down. I bit my lip and I was led into a different room. He took my height and weight, and silently took me back to the room. The door opened and I rushed over to the cot where Takumi was.
"See i told you, that you'd be fine." He said
"I'll be back in a bit." He left the room. And I sat next to Takumi, making sure our arms were touching slightly.
"So what's your height? Is it still 5'4"?" He asked.
“5’5’’, we’re the same height, remember?” I said quietly.
“That’s not fair…” He grumbled.
“Maybe you’re not done growing yet, don’t fret over it.” I smiled.
“Easy for you to say.”
“It is, considering I’m done growing. You’re just, a little behind schedule.” I grinned.
"I've lost 15 pounds in two days." He looked away and my smile fell instantly. I reached over and turned his head towards me. I studied his face and felt his arms.
“You don’t look it, I would have noticed, believe me I would have. You, well, you feel lighter though, like, literally. Do you think it could be because of what they did to you? Do you feel any different, like unhealthy, or light headed all the time? Have you been eating, god help you if you haven’t and I find out…” I started talking really fast to the point where I didn’t even know what I was saying anymore.
"Well, yea I’ve been eating but not in the past few days except for the food that you made me and that's it for the weekend, but i don't feel unhealthy, or light headed, i might be from what they did to me then." I smacked him.
“You idiot, you need to eat more! I can’t have you konking out on me, and leaving me alone. I really need you here, I know you can’t control what these freaks are doing to us, but you really do need to eat a bit more, I’ll even come up every day and make you stuff if that’s what its gonna take.”
"It's not my fault that i haven't eaten all weekend." He commented, holding the now red mark on his cheek. "And that really hurt."
“Maybe if you weren’t being so insistent on breaking me of my fears, then you would have had time to eat something. A-And I’m sorry, I didn’t think before I did that, that was pretty hypocritical, I ask you not to let anyone hit me, and then I hit you.”
"No it's fine, really your just trying to make sure that i don't go completely anorexic." He laughed.
“Completely?” I asked.
“nonono, not what I meant…” He quickly said. I laughed and hugged him.
“Yeah, I worry about you is all.” I told him.
"Thanks." He hugged me back and I smiled. "So how much do you want to bet that Haru is going to ask Aki out today?"
“How much do you have? He’s not gonna do it.” I informed him.
“What makes you think that?” Takumi asked.
“He is certain Aki doesn’t like him, and he doesn’t wanna risk what they already have right now. Not like she would reject him, but he doesn’t know that.”
"Ten bucks says that they admit they like each other by the end of the night." I offered.
"You're on."
"Then you're going to owe me ten bucks tomorrow morning in school."
“If we get out of here.” I looked down. I knew I would win if we did, so that just made me want to get out of this place even more.
"We'll get out of here, i'm thinking that maybe all they wanted was a few measurements and to see what we can do. Oh yea my wing span is 13 feet." He changed the subject.
“That’s cool, I don’t know if I want them to know I can disappear. I mean, you can’t pretend nothing’s wrong, but maybe I can.” I realized.
