Kamis, 09 Oktober 2014 di 06.59 Diposting oleh Unknown 0 Comments

Mayu Akkandabe is the most popular girl at Tokyo High School.
Mayu Akkandabe is the nicest girl you’ll ever meet.
Mayu Akkandabe is dead.
And Arashi Haruto is the main suspect.
A war erupts at Tokyo High School, a rift between the people who believe Arashi’s innocence and Arashi’s guilt.
Arashi must rely on the help of  Nara Yukio, whom he can’t stand to prove his innocence.
Yukio refuses to let Mayu’s murderer escape her grasp, however as the mystery  begins to unfold, Yukio begins to wish she had left it all alone.


[CHAPTER 3] 

Yukio :

I’m sitting on a sofa at Mayu’s old house, in-between Mira (Mayu’s grandma) and Mrs Kaguya. Mira is crying softly as she tells me stories about Mayu as a little girl, about her first school play, the time Mayu nearly fell in a water fall, Mayu’s first birthday.

Mrs Kaguya is silent, her whole body hnched over, her eyes staring ahead, lost and confused.
There’s a commotion outside, someone shouting. The living room falls quiet, everyone except Mira stopping their conversations.

“I’ll check it out,” a woman says, taking only one step towards the door before stopping as it flies open.
I watch in shock as Arashi Haruto runs into the room, his eyes wild as he stops and looks around at everyone. 

No one dares to speak, I feel Mrs Kaguya’s arms and legs tense. I glance over at her but most of her hair is shielding her face so I’m unsure of her reaction to seeing Arashi.

A few seconds later, Arashi’s dad runs in wiping his face, he stops beind Arashi, his face piched up in humiliation. “I’m so sorry…I tried to stop him.”

All of sudden it’s like a switch has been turned on, everyone stats screaming at Arashi. Some try to make a grab at him but he manages to move faster than them. 

The only people not speaking are Mrs Kaguya, Mira and me. I can’t think of the single thing to say. Slowly Arashi makes his way towards us. I study his face, wondering if he really has murdered Mayu, I know this doesn’t mean anything but he doesn’t have the eyes of a killer. They’re a soft, green colour, they kind of remind me of spring time.

Arashi’s voice snaps me out of the little trance that my brain has fallen into. “Mayu was a beautiful girl, I will dearly miss her and I’ll never forget her.” 

He stands still whilst the whole room falls silent, waiting for Mrs Kaguya to speak, even I feel myself anticipating the comeback, wondering why Arashi bothered to come, surely he knew it was a stupid and cruel idea. 

After an age of silence, Mrs Kaguya retaliates with just one word. “Murderer,” she hisses.
I look around at the reactions from the onlookers, most look disappointed, they were expecting a rant and a rave with lots of screaming and threats. Instead they got one word. 

Arashi nods once before leaving the room. After a few seconds of silence, everyone begins talking again as though nothing had happened. I watch Arashi’s father, he stands still for a few seconds with his eyes closed before a pained axpression crosses his face and he follows his son out of the room.

I’m sitting with Saki, curled up on the sofa, watching reruns of F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode’s. I don’t know why we put a comedy on, neither of us are laughing, we’re both just staring blankly at the screen. Mum and dad are still round Mayu’s….no,not Mayu’s. Mr and Mrs Kaguya’s house, Mayu doesn’t live there anymore, I need to get that into my head. 

The whole way through the wake I just kept expecting Mayu to skip into the room, do one of her signature, three-note giggles, then tell us that it was just a joke, that she wasn’t really dead. She didn’t skip through the door, in fact the only unexpected visit we got was from Arashi. 

“Saki?” I murmur, dragging my eyes away from the Television. 
 
“Hmm?”

“Do you think….Do you think that Arashi is the murderer?” I ask, watching closely for Saki’s reaction.

At first Saki doesn’t move at all, she just sits still, staring at the TV. I’m about to repeat the question when all of a sudden Saki jumps out of her seat and stares down at me angrily, “Of course he is!! How dare you even question that. Do you think Mayu just dropped dead by herself or something?”

“Well no, I just thought…” I start to say, startled by Saki’s melodramatic reaction.

“No, of course she didn’t. don’t be so fucking stupid, Yukio!” Saki shouts, leaning her face so close to mine that I can feel her breath ticking my nose. 

As quickly as she got wound up, Saki calms down. Her whole body just sags onto the floor, her face pressed into her hands. I know a lot of people at our school are terrified of Saki, she scares me sometimes too, but I always love her because I know this side of her, the soft side of her, the side that no one else gets to see. 

I slide myself off the sofa and put my arms around my sister. “It’ll get better,” I say, trying to make myself believe those words. 

Saki looks up at me, unshed tears glossing over her eyes. “It’s got to be him, right? It’s got to be Arashi.” I smile sadly but don’t answer, I’m not going to lie to Saki, nobody knows enough about Mayu’s death to find the murderer. Saki sighs. “He’s the only one with a motive. I mean she split up with him like a day before she was murdered. Can’t the police just arrest him already?”

I bite my lip, Mayu had broken up with Arashi shortly before her murder, though it had been more like two weeks before, not a day, and she’d told me that they were still friends. It just didn’t add up.

“They just need some more evidence, Saki, it’ll al be sorted out in a few weeks,” I say, pushing myself to my feet and rubbing my eyes. “I’m feeling kind of tired, I’ll think I’ll turn in for the night.” Saki stays on the floor, not saying anything just staring at her hands. “Night,” I mutter before leaving the room.

Lying in bad that night I mull over Saki’s words; she’s probably right, Arashi is more than likely the murderer. I just can’t imagine why he would kill her, they were so close even after breaking up. 

Arashi’s probably just some psycho, a psycho who’s really good at covering up his true feelings. The annoying thing is, even though I keep telling myself that, whenever I close my eyes, I see Arashi’s springtime-green eyes and can’t help but think that they’re the eyes of an innocent. 

[CHAPTER 4]

Arashi : 

I stand just outside the school, groups of friends walk past me, chatting and laughing. None of them see me, no one ever really sees me, though I think people may start looking for me more now, looking for me so that they can avoid me.

Sighing , I try to build up enough confidence to step into the school. I didn’t want to come in today but I 
though that anything would beat sitting at home with my father constantly sending death threats my way. 

Anyway, home’s getting really dull. I’m not allowed to do anything; I’m not allowed on the internet because my father seems to think that I’m going to search up girls in the local area to kill next. I’m not allowed in the garden because the neighbor might see me and remember that my father is related to a murderer. Nothing is allowed to spoil my father’s reputation. 

I stare up at school again, I always say that I don’t care what pathetic students in my year say and I don’t, but having an egg (shell and all) chucked at your head is pretty painful. 

“Arashi!!” I turn to the cry of my name, bracing myself for an egg in my face, instead I see Joi and his girlfriend. 

“Hey Joi, hey Aya.” I smile, glad I won’t have to walk in alone. 

Joi comes up to me and slaps me on the back, “it’s good to have you back so soon.” 

“I couldn’t stay away! you know me, I love school, I was having withdrawal symptoms whilst I was away!” I say, rolling my eyes. 

Aya sidles up to Joi and takes hold of his hand. “So, you’ve finally grown enough balls to stand up to these pathetic idiots?” she says, her hair bouncing in the time to her words. 

I sigh. “it’s always nice to know I have your support, pheeee, it really is!” 

Aya smirks. “Believe me Arashi. If you didn’t have my support, you’d know it.”

Joi shakes his head and smiles, fondly down to Aya. “We better get going, don’t want you to be late on your first day back,” he says as he leads Aya through the doors. 

I follow closely behind them, dreading the day that’s to come. 

Surprisingly, by lunch time, the worst thing to happen to me was when some twat threw a copy of pride and prejudice at me during English; whoever it was should never partake in any sports that involve aim, it was a terrible throw. 

“Enjoying school, Arashi?” Aya asks, between mouthfuls of a strange looking, blue sandwich.
I glance over at her. We’re sitting on a bench just off school grounds. Joi is in the middle with Aya sprawled out, like a cat, on his lap; which eaves me about an inch of space to squeeze into – thank God I’m skinny. 

“It’s amazing, you know how I love school!” I reply, sarcasm practically dripping from each word.
Joi smiles sadly. “Has it been that bad?” 

I shrug, not wanting a pity party. “It’s fine, I can deal with it.”

I look over at the pair of them, the only two people that I know, that don’t want me dead. Aya’s gone back to eating ber sandwich, she’s accepted that I’m fine and now she no longer cares. Joi shoots me a sympathetic look but doesn’t say anything, I think he understands, partially, how I feel. He’s god at empathizing with people in difficult situations. He’s a good friend. So is Aya but in a different, less simple way. 

I take out my phone and see that I’ve got a warning text from my beloved father, to remind me that if I’m not at home before four, I’m going to be in serious crap. 

“twenty-five past guys, time to go back to prison!” I cry out, swinging myself onto my feet. I delete my father’s text and push my phone back into my pocket. Aya and Joi take a while to untangle themselves before getting up and making the short walk back onto school property. 

“You!” I hear a screeching voice cry before a face lunges into mine, close enough that I can smell everything that they’ve just eaten. I step back and get my first clear look at my attacker, it’s one of the twins. The scary one.

“Can I help you?” I ask, forcing my voice to sound bored. 

“What the fuck do you want, Saki?” Aya shouts, stepping forward.

“Piss off Aya, go wash your hair or do something to make yourself slightly less unattractive!” the twin hisses, without taking her eyes off of me. I glance at Aya, but Joi has pulled her away and is obviously saying something calming because she’s not resisting him and trying to aim a punch at the twin’s face.

“What do you want?” I ask the twin, taking all my self-will not to shout.

“You’re a disgusting piece of crap!” the twin begins, advancing on me, just as I’d imagine a snake to advance on it’s prey. “How dare you show you face here after what you did!” 

I shake my head. “I didn’t do anything. Maybe you should get your facts right before attackin me and making yourself look like a bigger twat than you actually are.” 

The twin snarls at me, like some wild beast, her face contorts in a violent manner before she continues with her silly rant, “ I can’t believe you would murder an amazing girl like Mayu then dare to lie about it, you deserve to die.” 

“Saki,” a voice shouts, stopping Saki’s rant.

Both me and Saki spin round to see who this new voice belongs to, unfortunately it belongs to the other twin, Yukino or whatever her name is. She probably wants her chance to attack me with false accusations. 

“It’s time for class,” the Yukino girls says, walking towards us. She doesn’t even glance at me.

“What?” Saki says, her voice echoing the confusion that I feel.

“it’s time for physics, you don’t want to be late again, Mr Oogama would kill you!” Yukino says, a small smile playing at her lips. 

“Yukio, can’t you see that I’m busy?!” Saki asks. So the other twin’s called Yukio, not Yukino. I was close enough. 

“I’m sure you were just about done, weren’t you, Saki? I’m sure everyone can see you opinion,” Yukio says, a small challenge in her eyes.

I look at Saki, wondering what she’ll do. After a short silence, she smiles coldly, her lips pinched together, 
 “You’re right, I don’t want to be late for science again.” Saki gives me one last, hatred-filled look before go.

Cathie glances at me once, before turning on her heel and following after her sister. I stand still, watching her fade into the distance, wondering why Yukio would stop the scary twin from screaming at me. Something didn’t add up. “What the hell was that about?” I wonder aloud.

Aya and Joi walk over to stand with me. “Who knows?” Joi shrughs. “Maybe Yukio’s nicer than Saki.”
“Maybe.” Aya siles, a worrying, I’ve got-a-really-dumb-plan smile, and I’m left praying that her plan has nothing to do with either Yukio, the scary twin or me.
 

Minggu, 05 Oktober 2014 di 00.13 Diposting oleh Unknown 0 Comments

Mayu Akkandabe is the most popular girl at Tokyo High School.
Mayu Akkandabe is the nicest girl you’ll ever meet.
Mayu Akkandabe is dead.

And Arashi Haruto is the main suspect.
A war erupts at Tokyo High School, a rift between the people who believe Arashi’s innocence and Arashi’s guilt. 
Arashi must rely on the help of  Nara Yukio, whom he can’t stand to prove his innocence.
Yukio refuses to let Mayu’s murderer escape her grasp, however as the mystery  begins to unfold, Yukio begins to wish she had left it all alone.



[CHAPTER 1]



Yukio :

Mayu Akkandabe was the most beautiful girl you would ever see. She had startling, green eyes which forever held a sparkle. Her long, blonde hair always fell in precisely the right way. Her pale skin radiated healthiness and her lips were forever smiling.

Until November 3rd, 2011.

Until just over a week ago when someone ripped everything away from her. The papers say she was murdered, they don’t say that she was pulverized. They don’t say that she had acid thrown in her face. Some of them don’t even say her name. 

To the media she is just a sixteen year old girl who got good grades and looked pretty. A sixteen year old girl who was unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sixteen year old girl who created a vey popular story for them.
I know it’s not the media that I’m angry at, not really. I’m angry at Mayu’s murderer, I’m so uncontrollably angry but I don’t know what to do about it, which just makes me angrier.

“Come on Yukio, it’s time to go in.” Saki says, jolting me out of my mind and into the present situation.
I look at Saki, my twin sister, who is still managing to look immaculate. Her hair as straight as paper, down to her waist, her make-up swept on effortlessly to create a natural, glowing look and her clothes presses to perfection.

I hold back a small smile, even though we are identical we never look it. I’ve tried my best to look nice but I just couldn’t manage it this morning, my hair’s pulled into a lopsided ponytail. I didn’t even think about putting make up on and my clothes look as if they’ve been living at the bottom of my wardfrobe for the past year.

“Come on!” Saki hisses, grabbing hold of my wrist. Part of me wants to throw her hand off of me but I lack the energy to do so, instead I put up no fight and just allow her to pull me through the large doors, into the church.

Saki, who still has a strong grip on my wrist, begins to pull me down to the front row of pews. I focus on my eyes on the floor as we walk, not wanting to catch even a glimpse of the wooden cage in which Mayu rests. 

“What the hell!” Saki cries, I look up, shocked by Saki’s word, does she not realize that we’re in a church, at funeral! “You’re sitting in our seats.”

For one shocking second I think that pearl’s talking to Mayu’s parents-who both look completely lost- before I realize that she’s talking to Aya and Joi, who are sitting next to Mayu’s parent. 

Aya looks up, her curly, green hair falling at all angles around her face which is decorated with tears, “What?” she ask, sounding about as disgusted as I feel embarrassed. 

“You’re sitting in our seats,” Saki repeats, pronouncing every word slowly.

“Saki, we can sit behind them,” I murmur, trying to move to sit in the second row.

“No,” Saki says, hardening her grip on my wrist. “We deserve to sit in the front of row, we ere her best friends.”

“We can move back,” Joi says, standing up and walking towards the second pew. 

“No we cant, we got here first and we were far closer to Mayu than those two,” Aya growls, her hands clenching at her dress.

“Look, you and Aya sit in the front row, I’ll sit behind,” I say to Saki, unsure whether it’s wise to leave her sitting next to Aya but just wanting to sit down and pay my respects to Mayu.

Saki looks like she’s about to protest, but I manage to shake my arm from her grip and get into the second row before any words leave her mouth.

Joi takes a seat next to me, and Saki eventually takes a seat next to Aya. He smiles down at me and I manage a smile back. I don’t know Joi very well, only as the boyfriend of Aya. I can never understand why Aya and Joi are going out; Aya is loud, stubborn and never thinks before she speaks. Whereas Joi is quite, friendly and when he does speak, he always says the right thing. 

“Aya doesn’t mean to be rude,” Joi says suddenly. I smile, knowing how he feels, apologizing for someone you love. I do it all the time for Saki. 

“Nor does Saki. She’s jut upset,” I say.

Joi nods. “We al are, Mayu really was….something else.”

I nod unable to speak, knowing that if I try to, I’ll just end up crying. I distract myself by looking around at all the people who are here to say goodbye. The people in the front rows are mostly family (along with Saki,Aya,Joi and I ) but then the rest of the church is packed with students from our school.

It’s strange, I didn’t even know that Mayu knew half of these people, I knew she was popular but I didn’t realize how well-liked she was. There are people in the back pewas crying, people I know only as ‘The person who sits behind me in History’ are staring aheade with shocked, lost faces.

I always thought that Mayu and I were friends with the same type of people but I’m beginning to wonder if I really knew Mayu’s taste in friends at all. 

***

[CHAPTER 2] 

Arashi :

I sit on my front door step, watching people milling in the front garden of the house where Mayu used to live.
Mayu, Mayu, my beautiful Mayu. I used to tell her over and over how beautiful I thought she was, she never believed me, she always used to compare herself to the evil twins. She was so modest, she never thought too highly of herself or too lowly of anyone else. 

We were neighbor for her whole life, we were also best friends until the twins moved in on the other side of her. she got to know them and suddenly everyone lived her, suddenly every one of the pathetic people at my school could see what I had always seen in her. And then we began drifting apart. 

At first Mayu tried to include me, she would still make time for me, still treat me as though I was special, but slowly the gap between us grew bigger. We stopped seeing each other at school, we didn’t have the same friends or the same hobbies. 

Eventually we just stopped seeing each other all together, I was only eight. We didn’t speak for years, not even to say ‘Hi’ when we passed each other on the street.

Then at the beginning of Summer, Mayu began to talk to me again. At first I didn’t want to talk to her, she’d abandoned me and I had my own friends, but she was so nice, it was impossible not to like her. Eventually we were as close as we ever had been. I don’t know why she suddenly wanted to talk to me again, only that something must have gone wrong with the twins. 

Over the Summer we began to grow closer and closer, we could talk to each other about everything, then one day our relationship shifted. It was a late, warm evening and we were in my garden listening to the radio when one of her favourite songs came on, she pulled me into a dance. At first we were joking around, laughing and falling all over the place but then it turned more serious.

That was only two months ago. 

Slowly I stand up, I’m already wearing a shirt and tie, I have been since this morning, trying to make up my mind whether or not to attend the funeral. I chickened out of that but now there’s the wake, that’s just next door, I feel pathetic not being there. I wonder if Mayu would want me there, I know her family certainly doesn’t, they made that pretty clear on the that of her murder. 

I look at the house and I know that I have to do, I have to pay my respects to my lost lover.

I take my time walking out of my front garden , to the next house. I pause at the gate, wondering what I’m going to do when I actually get inside the house. I want to turn back but it’s to late now, people have begun to notice me, if I leave now it will just be brandishing me as guilty. 

So I hold my head high, open the gate and walk straight trough the garden without one look at the people staring at me. I walk into the house and bump straight into my mother, “Sorry…” she mumbles before glancing up and seeing me. “Arashi! What on Earth are you doing here?”

“I’m here to pay my respects,” I mutter, acting bored, even though it hurts to know that even my own mother doesn’t want me there.

“You have to leave, now, before your father sees you,” Mum says, taking my arm and trying to tug me towards the door. 

Luckily for me, I’m about a head taller and twice as wide as her so it would take a lot more than a simple tug for her to move me. 

I shake her hand off my arm and begin to walk away. “Arashi, please don’t cause any trouble.” I ignore her and continue to walk towards he back of the house to the living room, knowing that that’s where Mayu’s parents are going to be. I have to find them and tell them, tell them something, I just don’t know what yet.

Just before reaching the living room I have the bad luck to bump into my father. I duck my head away and try to swivel past him but he’s to quick for me. He grabs me by the scruff of my shirt and slams me against the closest wall. “What the fuck are you doing here?” he hisses. 

I struggle against his grip, to no avail. “Let go.” 

“No. I’m taking you home right now,” my father says, keeping a low but menacing tone.

“No, I need to pay my respects,” I argue back, ignoring the shocked looks being sent our way by the onlookers. I wonder why they don’t do anything, surely they can tell I’m in pain. Then I remember, I’m public enemy number one. Of course no one’s going to help me, the majority of them probably want to help my father beat me up. 

I look up into my father’s eyes and realize that there is nothing I can say to make him let go of me. He will never willingly let me walk into that living room. I know I can’t overpower him so I do all I can think of.
And spit in his face. 

The reaction is just as I imagined, my father’s grip loosens drastically enough to allow me to break free, though it only just gives me enough time to run to the living room. I’m sure many of the onlookers would’ve made a grab for me but they all seemed too stunned to move.

I lunge into the living room, closely followed by my father, who no longer wants to create a scene, not in front of the grieving parents.

The living room falls silent, everyone is focused on me. “I’m so sorry… I tried to stop him,” my dad says, breaking the shock barrier that kept the room silent, holding back everyone’s words from me. 

Suddenly I am overpowered by the screaming and shrieking voice, hurling all sorts of insult at me. I ignore them and walk to the sofa upon which Mayu’s mother, Mayu’s grandma and the less-scary of the twins sit. All three are silent. 

I open my mouth three times before any sound comes out, “Mayu was a beautiful girl, I will dearly miss her and I’ll never forget her.” I stop, hoping to get at least a small, merciful response off of Mayu’s mother.
The room slowly falls silent again, everyone waiting for the reply, hoping that I’m going to be cursed  out of the house for ever more. 

But Mrs. Kaguya as Mayu’s mother doesn’t do that, she doesn’t even ask me to leave, no, she hits me exactly on my sore spot with just one word. “Murderer.”