Post by sarah54321 on Jan 14, 2014 5:07:53 GMT
Edo Hideki, that is me. I am him. I have blue hair. I have green eyes. I have two parents. They are nice parents, but they are never home. I had a brother. His name is Koji Hideki. I like him. He is a very nice brother. Unlike me, who has blue hair, he has greyish white hair. He said that he just got it from being scared so much. I guess you can get grey hair so easily that way. We both go to Misuterii High. It is a normal High School. He is two years ahead of me.
Brother Koji never came home one day.
I do not know where he went. He went to school like always, bid me a goodbye. I was sick. It was not a bad sick. It was a normal flu. I wish I had not been sick. I hated missing school. School was fun. My brother did not like school, but I did. I had to stay home all alone, and then I got a weird call from the school. It was saying that my brother had to stay behind because of something that he did. My brother did not get in trouble. I thought it was strange.
I had slept for a long time. I do not know how long. My parents did not come back home. They would not be home for a while. It was going to be a whole week till they did come home. When I woke up, it was almost Six o’clock in the evening. I made myself dinner by myself and waited for my brother to come home.
He never did, though.
The phone had rang again, and it was the school. It said that there was an emergency lock down. Someone had died. They would not be let out until further notice. Outwardly, I only stood there and stared blankly at the wall. Inwardly, I began to panic. My brother Koji…What if he died? I put down the phone, shuffling back to the table and wrapping everything back up so that it would be fresh when he got back home. Koji told me that I needed to be positive. I will be positive.
It took me a long time to get my thoughts back together and to act positive. I put on a smile even though no one was there to see it. Koji would be proud, very proud. I went to bed soon after. I usually went to bed at 10 o’clock in the night time, but I could find nothing to do till then. My brother and I usually played around till then, but I had no brother to play with. It took me a long time to fall asleep. It was strange for me, because I was used to being able to simply ‘shut down’ as Koji had said it.
The following morning, Koji never came back.
I woke up, fully expecting to hear the sound of my brother complaining. He was always complaining whenever he got up for school. He was a hard sleeper. I woke up to nothing, though. It was exactly Eight o’clock A.M. It was the normal time that I woke up when I had no school. I did the normal routine. Get up. Brush my hair. Brush my teeth. Eat breakfast, which was a simple candy bar. I usually just waited for Koji to get up in these situations, but he was still away. I decided to do something that a lot of teenagers my age did. Watch T.V. I walked into the large family room, plopped onto the couch, and turned it on. It was on the news, coincidentally, and I was seeing something very
familiar.
I saw my own school. There were a lot of adults in front of it.
“-Hanako had passed away; her body found mutilated in the courtyard. There were also signs of other assaults. There are many missing teenagers, some thought to be dead because of the large amounts of blood that were found to belong to them…”
I stared at the screen, listening to the names of the different students that were missing, dead, or presumed to be dead and no body was found. I hoped in the back of my mind that I heard no Edo, obviously. No, Koji was not one of them, either. He simply did not come home because of the police that presumably came by when the school was opened for him to exit. That had to be what happened.
“-Koji Hideki, Madoka Hikari-"
No. I did not hear that. He was not on that list. I kept trying to repeat that mantra mechanically in my head. He is alright. He is alright.
“If any of you have seen these people, Please report your findings to the local police station.”
They were flashing pictures of the missing teenagers at the school. I had seen my brother’s face above the name. He was smiling on the picture. I was not smiling back for once. I had been shaking in fright. My brother is gone. Where is he? Why is he gone? Was he dead? He was one of the people that they said had found tons of blood from but no body. Where was Brother Koji?
I jumped when the phone began to ring. Who was that? Was that the school? I walked over, picking it up and holding it to my ear. I did not hear the mechanical female’s voice. I instead had heard my Mother.
“Edo! Edo-Honey, are you alright?! I just got the message from the school. I’ll be coming home soon. Please be safe, please. Hey, can you hear me?”
‘Mother,’ I began in an almost monotone voice, if not for the fact that I was still shaking,’ I am fine. I had stayed home because I have a flu.’
“Oh thank God. Honey! He’s alright!” I heard shuffling on the other end, before she began to talk again,” Are you still there, dear? Is your brother okay? Where’s Koji?”
‘Mother…,’ I began, growing slower,’ Koji is missing.’
I heard a gasp on the other end of the phone, and a voice that was murmuring denial and sadness. She told me to stay home and be safe. I told her that I loved her, putting more feeling into my voice than I usually did to others. She let out a sob before hanging up. I put the phone down and walked back to my room. Where my parents were, they would not be getting back home for at least another day.
What was there for me to do? I could not spend time outside. I was told not to go outside. I had to stay in here by myself. I wished Koji was here, but he would not be returning. He might never be returning, I quickly told myself. Lying back down in bed, I stared up at the ceiling and proceeded to wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
How long am I waiting?
It felt like hours, when it had only been one. I could not sleep. I was too worried. Koji had joked before that nothing could worry me. I was like a robot, he had once said. I acted robotically, but just because I acted like that, it did not mean I was without worries or emotion. I eventually got back out of bed. I could not go back to sleep. It was lucky for me that the doorbell had rang by then.
I walked over and opened the door, giving the usual, expressionless,’ Hideki Residence, Welcome.’ What greeted me were people that I did not know. They looked like older men, and wore certain kinds of uniforms. I had soon deduced that they were something like policemen. They asked me questions. Do I know what happened? Am I okay? Do you know anything that could have caused this? I did not welcome them into my house, but I answered. I do not know. I am functional. I do not know what could have caused it. They left without another thing wrong, and I closed the door after them.
I turned to leave, before I heard a knock at the door. We had a doorbell. Why the knock? I turned back, opening the door a crack again. There was no one there, though something red fell onto my head. It was an envelope. I flipped it over. It was addressed to me, but my eyes had widened.
-To: Edo Hideki. My Brother.-
This…This envelope was from my brother. I quickly slammed the door shut, turning and walking back into the family room. Flinging myself onto the couch, I ripped open the envelope without waiting. Notebook paper fell out, along with a glowstick. I quickly picked both up, unfolding the paper and reading. The handwriting was messy, and it was obviously written in haste.
-Dear Edo,
I’m very sorry for leaving you alone in the house. I know that it may be a little scary, but I trust that you’ll be just fine. After all, you’re my robotic brother. You’re not shaken by anything! Anyway, that isn’t why I sent you this note and a random glowstick. I’ll be coming for a visit, and I want to take you with me. I met very nice people, and they’re offering us a new life. It’s your choice whether you come or not, and the glowstick is to make sure that I don’t hurt you on accident. Please wear it at night. I love you, Bro.-
I did not understand. What was my brother talking about? Koji loved our parents. He was upset that they did not stay home like a normal family would, but he did love them. He loved them just like he loved me. Either way, this meant that my brother was safe. I held the paper to my chest, sighing in relief. I was…Very glad. I had to wait for the night to understand what was going on, though.
So, I waited.
It took a long time. I thought I would go insane because it took so long for the time to pass. I kept re-reading the very short letter. It helped me. I wore the glowstick around my wrist. It also helped. They were presents from my brother. I laid in my bed, wearing my school uniform. Why? I had put it on this morning because I forgot that we would obviously not be having school. I decided to stay in my room all day. I turned everything else in the house off, including the T.V. I did not want to hear more about the school case.
Then night came. Then, they came.
I did not hear my door open. I only was snapped from my thoughts when the lights went out. I sat up in my bed, looking around while holding the glowstick closer, hearing it snap slightly as it began to glow a little bit more. I heard a familiar chuckle, and my eyes went wide once more.
‘Brother,’ I gasped.
Without waiting, I leaped from the bed and flung myself towards where the voice was. Though it was pitch black out in my room, I could tell that it was Koji that had barely caught me and hugged me back. He let out a tired laugh, patting my head.
“Hey, Edo. I came just like I said I would,” he explained, stepping back,” Did you make your choice yet? Oh-Or will you want a better explanation?”
“This is your brother? He looks like a nice person,” commented another, female, voice.
I turned my head towards the sound, but my brother quickly snapped my attention back.
“I’m a Shiki. Uhm, those are basically vampire-like entities. Almost all of us are adverse to light, obviously, and drink blood. Uh, the thing is is that I met them during the school incident. You’ve probably already heard about that, right? It’s not that bad, really. I can finally see in the dark, and I’m not scared of it or anything! Blood may seem nasty, but it’s actually kind of tasty once you get used to it,” he began to explain in a jumble, still smiling.
I had been entranced by his nearly pitch-black eyes that had red irises, listening closely to the story. He lost his green eyes, the thing that made us look related. Hah, now we look nothing like siblings... I was confused, though. Was he inviting me? Why would he invite me? What about Mother and Father? They would be shattered if both of their children disappeared. What if I told them about this? They would not believe me, but they would still be so upset. Did he not think of this? Maybe he did not think that they cared so much. Yet, by the call that I had received, they did. They very much did.
“-Well, will you?” A voice snapped.
I blinked my eyes slowly, staring at the person who was my own brother. I took a step back, looking down. How would I put this?
‘What about Mother and Father? They do not want us gone at all. You can not come home, can you? … I am sorry. I do not think I want to go with you.’
I bowed my head, expecting to be yelled at because I rejected his request. However, he only patted me on the head gently. I looked up, seeing a sad smile, but it was also relieved.
“I understand…I’ll still visit. You know, you can always say yes any time,” he offered, smiling.
“We need to go, or else people might notice the door open,” whispered the female voice again.
With a nod, my brother gave me one final hug before exiting out of the same door he came from. The female whom I had never asked the identity of left soon afterwards. With that, I was alone once more.
I do not know why, but I began to cry. My brother would never come back home to his family, and we would never be a true family again. We would not have Mother, Father, Brother, and me at the same table, laughing on a rare occasion. I walked to the door, opening it and running back out. I got to the door of my house, swinging it forward and staring out into the darkness of the night. There was no trace of my brother or the female. I was completely alone.
My parents came back the next day. They were crying very hard. They said that the police had told them that my brother was almost one-hundred percent likely to be dead. He was not, not completely dead. I did not tell them, though. They did not need to know. They would only cry more, knowing that Koji left of his own will.
We had a funeral for him, and I did not cry. I only felt empty, like what I acted. My parents did not go on business trips anymore. They stayed home and worked very hard. Even though they did not leave, I still did not interact with them very much. They had also become quiet. It was like I was alone in the house still, and I was without Koji. Although he promised, he did not return at all. I waited at night for him, wearing the glowstick sent to me even if it did die and held no light.
Alone in a house that used to hold two, I do not know what I should do. I am still waiting...
‘Please come back, Brother.’
‘I miss you.’
‘Why did you leave?’
Brother Koji never came home one day.
I do not know where he went. He went to school like always, bid me a goodbye. I was sick. It was not a bad sick. It was a normal flu. I wish I had not been sick. I hated missing school. School was fun. My brother did not like school, but I did. I had to stay home all alone, and then I got a weird call from the school. It was saying that my brother had to stay behind because of something that he did. My brother did not get in trouble. I thought it was strange.
I had slept for a long time. I do not know how long. My parents did not come back home. They would not be home for a while. It was going to be a whole week till they did come home. When I woke up, it was almost Six o’clock in the evening. I made myself dinner by myself and waited for my brother to come home.
He never did, though.
The phone had rang again, and it was the school. It said that there was an emergency lock down. Someone had died. They would not be let out until further notice. Outwardly, I only stood there and stared blankly at the wall. Inwardly, I began to panic. My brother Koji…What if he died? I put down the phone, shuffling back to the table and wrapping everything back up so that it would be fresh when he got back home. Koji told me that I needed to be positive. I will be positive.
It took me a long time to get my thoughts back together and to act positive. I put on a smile even though no one was there to see it. Koji would be proud, very proud. I went to bed soon after. I usually went to bed at 10 o’clock in the night time, but I could find nothing to do till then. My brother and I usually played around till then, but I had no brother to play with. It took me a long time to fall asleep. It was strange for me, because I was used to being able to simply ‘shut down’ as Koji had said it.
The following morning, Koji never came back.
I woke up, fully expecting to hear the sound of my brother complaining. He was always complaining whenever he got up for school. He was a hard sleeper. I woke up to nothing, though. It was exactly Eight o’clock A.M. It was the normal time that I woke up when I had no school. I did the normal routine. Get up. Brush my hair. Brush my teeth. Eat breakfast, which was a simple candy bar. I usually just waited for Koji to get up in these situations, but he was still away. I decided to do something that a lot of teenagers my age did. Watch T.V. I walked into the large family room, plopped onto the couch, and turned it on. It was on the news, coincidentally, and I was seeing something very
familiar.
I saw my own school. There were a lot of adults in front of it.
“-Hanako had passed away; her body found mutilated in the courtyard. There were also signs of other assaults. There are many missing teenagers, some thought to be dead because of the large amounts of blood that were found to belong to them…”
I stared at the screen, listening to the names of the different students that were missing, dead, or presumed to be dead and no body was found. I hoped in the back of my mind that I heard no Edo, obviously. No, Koji was not one of them, either. He simply did not come home because of the police that presumably came by when the school was opened for him to exit. That had to be what happened.
“-Koji Hideki, Madoka Hikari-"
No. I did not hear that. He was not on that list. I kept trying to repeat that mantra mechanically in my head. He is alright. He is alright.
“If any of you have seen these people, Please report your findings to the local police station.”
They were flashing pictures of the missing teenagers at the school. I had seen my brother’s face above the name. He was smiling on the picture. I was not smiling back for once. I had been shaking in fright. My brother is gone. Where is he? Why is he gone? Was he dead? He was one of the people that they said had found tons of blood from but no body. Where was Brother Koji?
I jumped when the phone began to ring. Who was that? Was that the school? I walked over, picking it up and holding it to my ear. I did not hear the mechanical female’s voice. I instead had heard my Mother.
“Edo! Edo-Honey, are you alright?! I just got the message from the school. I’ll be coming home soon. Please be safe, please. Hey, can you hear me?”
‘Mother,’ I began in an almost monotone voice, if not for the fact that I was still shaking,’ I am fine. I had stayed home because I have a flu.’
“Oh thank God. Honey! He’s alright!” I heard shuffling on the other end, before she began to talk again,” Are you still there, dear? Is your brother okay? Where’s Koji?”
‘Mother…,’ I began, growing slower,’ Koji is missing.’
I heard a gasp on the other end of the phone, and a voice that was murmuring denial and sadness. She told me to stay home and be safe. I told her that I loved her, putting more feeling into my voice than I usually did to others. She let out a sob before hanging up. I put the phone down and walked back to my room. Where my parents were, they would not be getting back home for at least another day.
What was there for me to do? I could not spend time outside. I was told not to go outside. I had to stay in here by myself. I wished Koji was here, but he would not be returning. He might never be returning, I quickly told myself. Lying back down in bed, I stared up at the ceiling and proceeded to wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
How long am I waiting?
It felt like hours, when it had only been one. I could not sleep. I was too worried. Koji had joked before that nothing could worry me. I was like a robot, he had once said. I acted robotically, but just because I acted like that, it did not mean I was without worries or emotion. I eventually got back out of bed. I could not go back to sleep. It was lucky for me that the doorbell had rang by then.
I walked over and opened the door, giving the usual, expressionless,’ Hideki Residence, Welcome.’ What greeted me were people that I did not know. They looked like older men, and wore certain kinds of uniforms. I had soon deduced that they were something like policemen. They asked me questions. Do I know what happened? Am I okay? Do you know anything that could have caused this? I did not welcome them into my house, but I answered. I do not know. I am functional. I do not know what could have caused it. They left without another thing wrong, and I closed the door after them.
I turned to leave, before I heard a knock at the door. We had a doorbell. Why the knock? I turned back, opening the door a crack again. There was no one there, though something red fell onto my head. It was an envelope. I flipped it over. It was addressed to me, but my eyes had widened.
-To: Edo Hideki. My Brother.-
This…This envelope was from my brother. I quickly slammed the door shut, turning and walking back into the family room. Flinging myself onto the couch, I ripped open the envelope without waiting. Notebook paper fell out, along with a glowstick. I quickly picked both up, unfolding the paper and reading. The handwriting was messy, and it was obviously written in haste.
-Dear Edo,
I’m very sorry for leaving you alone in the house. I know that it may be a little scary, but I trust that you’ll be just fine. After all, you’re my robotic brother. You’re not shaken by anything! Anyway, that isn’t why I sent you this note and a random glowstick. I’ll be coming for a visit, and I want to take you with me. I met very nice people, and they’re offering us a new life. It’s your choice whether you come or not, and the glowstick is to make sure that I don’t hurt you on accident. Please wear it at night. I love you, Bro.-
I did not understand. What was my brother talking about? Koji loved our parents. He was upset that they did not stay home like a normal family would, but he did love them. He loved them just like he loved me. Either way, this meant that my brother was safe. I held the paper to my chest, sighing in relief. I was…Very glad. I had to wait for the night to understand what was going on, though.
So, I waited.
It took a long time. I thought I would go insane because it took so long for the time to pass. I kept re-reading the very short letter. It helped me. I wore the glowstick around my wrist. It also helped. They were presents from my brother. I laid in my bed, wearing my school uniform. Why? I had put it on this morning because I forgot that we would obviously not be having school. I decided to stay in my room all day. I turned everything else in the house off, including the T.V. I did not want to hear more about the school case.
Then night came. Then, they came.
I did not hear my door open. I only was snapped from my thoughts when the lights went out. I sat up in my bed, looking around while holding the glowstick closer, hearing it snap slightly as it began to glow a little bit more. I heard a familiar chuckle, and my eyes went wide once more.
‘Brother,’ I gasped.
Without waiting, I leaped from the bed and flung myself towards where the voice was. Though it was pitch black out in my room, I could tell that it was Koji that had barely caught me and hugged me back. He let out a tired laugh, patting my head.
“Hey, Edo. I came just like I said I would,” he explained, stepping back,” Did you make your choice yet? Oh-Or will you want a better explanation?”
“This is your brother? He looks like a nice person,” commented another, female, voice.
I turned my head towards the sound, but my brother quickly snapped my attention back.
“I’m a Shiki. Uhm, those are basically vampire-like entities. Almost all of us are adverse to light, obviously, and drink blood. Uh, the thing is is that I met them during the school incident. You’ve probably already heard about that, right? It’s not that bad, really. I can finally see in the dark, and I’m not scared of it or anything! Blood may seem nasty, but it’s actually kind of tasty once you get used to it,” he began to explain in a jumble, still smiling.
I had been entranced by his nearly pitch-black eyes that had red irises, listening closely to the story. He lost his green eyes, the thing that made us look related. Hah, now we look nothing like siblings... I was confused, though. Was he inviting me? Why would he invite me? What about Mother and Father? They would be shattered if both of their children disappeared. What if I told them about this? They would not believe me, but they would still be so upset. Did he not think of this? Maybe he did not think that they cared so much. Yet, by the call that I had received, they did. They very much did.
“-Well, will you?” A voice snapped.
I blinked my eyes slowly, staring at the person who was my own brother. I took a step back, looking down. How would I put this?
‘What about Mother and Father? They do not want us gone at all. You can not come home, can you? … I am sorry. I do not think I want to go with you.’
I bowed my head, expecting to be yelled at because I rejected his request. However, he only patted me on the head gently. I looked up, seeing a sad smile, but it was also relieved.
“I understand…I’ll still visit. You know, you can always say yes any time,” he offered, smiling.
“We need to go, or else people might notice the door open,” whispered the female voice again.
With a nod, my brother gave me one final hug before exiting out of the same door he came from. The female whom I had never asked the identity of left soon afterwards. With that, I was alone once more.
I do not know why, but I began to cry. My brother would never come back home to his family, and we would never be a true family again. We would not have Mother, Father, Brother, and me at the same table, laughing on a rare occasion. I walked to the door, opening it and running back out. I got to the door of my house, swinging it forward and staring out into the darkness of the night. There was no trace of my brother or the female. I was completely alone.
My parents came back the next day. They were crying very hard. They said that the police had told them that my brother was almost one-hundred percent likely to be dead. He was not, not completely dead. I did not tell them, though. They did not need to know. They would only cry more, knowing that Koji left of his own will.
We had a funeral for him, and I did not cry. I only felt empty, like what I acted. My parents did not go on business trips anymore. They stayed home and worked very hard. Even though they did not leave, I still did not interact with them very much. They had also become quiet. It was like I was alone in the house still, and I was without Koji. Although he promised, he did not return at all. I waited at night for him, wearing the glowstick sent to me even if it did die and held no light.
Alone in a house that used to hold two, I do not know what I should do. I am still waiting...
‘Please come back, Brother.’
‘I miss you.’
‘Why did you leave?’
