Title: For you I give
Author: crying heron
Genre: dark romance, angst
Rating: ehmmm…forget about this!! I don’t know how to rate
Warning: undefined
Pairing: Aoi (the Gazette) x OC x Die (dir en grey)
Chapter: 4
Disclaimer: don’t own them
Chapter 4: “the Oni’s terror”
I stayed in the bed for almost 2 days. I feel aches in every part of my body. Aoi took 2 days leave from his work just to take care of my bruises and myself. He treated me nicely again after that incident.
I knew what made him furious that time. He saw me running to other man beside himself. As he saw that he felt like his heart stop beating.
He called aunt Miyamoto and tell her that I can’t go to the florist because I fall down from the stairs.
After all the bruises fade away from my body and I finally can move, I started to work again. I use my dark purple sleeves that day just to cover the bruises that still mark on several parts of my body. Thank fully that the bruises in my face had gone faster than any other part.
“Oh my…Akihi you shouldn’t force yourself to work you know” aunt Miyamoto start to walk at my direction as I entered the florist store
“I’m fine. It’s okay for me to work now auntie”
Aunt Miyamoto wouldn’t let me carry the big vase or anything instead she forced me to work behind the cashier. I couldn’t help myself to stand up after I seat because of the pain in my back aches me.
“Hi” a voice startled me
It’s the man that bought flowers for his sick grandma. He helped me to stand up from my seat.
“You look awful” he looked at me
“Thanks” I pull my hand from him gently afraid if Aoi will see it
He looked irritated by my action and started too talked back but he suddenly stopped and yanked my hair back.
“What happen to you?” he asked worriedly
“I…fell down from the stairs” I pull my hair back to the previous spot to cover the deep purple bruises that still marked from the back part of my neck down to my left hand.
“But it doesn’t look like you fall down”
I looked at him with a nuisance expression on my face. He looked at me and stopped his words at that second time.
“Can I help you?” I asked him being professional as a florist
“I need a bucket of white lilies again please” he finally said
I walked slowly to the place where the white lilies are being displayed. I try hard to strain back the aches from my back and the lower part of my body.
“Oh my!!! Akihi!!! What are you doing!!!” aunt Miyamoto wailed in surprise as she saw me. She walked to my direction and put back the vase of white lilies into the shelf.
“How many times I have to say to you so you will stay behind the cashier table?” she helped me too walked back to the counter.
She looked at the man and smiled at him briefly while she helped me to sit down into the chair.
“So, how many white lilies do you need?” she asked to the man
He looked at me confused by her question.
“He needs a half dozen of white lilies for his sick grandma auntie” I answered her question for him.
He looked at me pleased by my answered he smiled widely.
Aunt Miyamoto walked back to the vase where the white lilies displayed beautifully. She took it to the back side of the store.
“Come here please. I’ll wrap the flower for you” she instructed the man to follow her.
The two of them walk to the back of the store where customers chose their favorite wrapping and basket for their flowers. Boredom struck me so I looked outside the window gazed around at the busyness of the street.
My gaze stopped at a black sedan that parked itself into our parking lot. I smiled widely at the car and started too walked faster to reach the front door.
Aoi smiled back at me as his step outside the window hurriedly. He runs slowly through the door as he right in my reach I hugged him tightly.
“Silly girl!! You shouldn’t walk fast like that!!” he strokes my cheek gently and kissed my lips tenderly.
“I came here to pick you for lunch”
I looked at him happily because this will be our first lunch since I worked for aunt Miyamoto.
“Lunch together?” I asked excitedly too him
“Yup!!! Lunch together!!”
As I cuddled into his broad body I can hear noises from the back of the store and remember that the man still in our store. I have the urge to stopped them to walk into the front part of the store but everything it’s too late for me when finally Aoi look into the door where aunt Miyamoto came out from.
“Ah!!! Aoi!!! You’re here!!” aunt Miyamoto greeted Aoi while she walked back to the counter with the white lilies with her.
The man that bought the white lilies followed right behind aunt Miyamoto. He looked at the direction of aunt Miyamoto and finally his gaze met Aoi’s.
My body felt tense at that time. Aoi look at me in disbelief expression in his face. I know there will be another long night for me today.
“I have to take Akihi to the doctor today. I hope you don’t mind if she took a leave now” Aoi asked aunt Miyamoto with a stern voice.
“Oh!! Sure!! You can!!” Aunt Miyamoto was busy with decorating the basket.
Terror filling up my expression, I know my body tense because I can’t move my feet. I looked at the man and start to curse him because he came to our store. I took another glance at Aoi and I know he was angry at me again.
He pulled me as he walked out from the store. I try hard to strain back the pain that came ached my back and the lower part of my body.
“Hey stop that!!!” the man that bought the white lilies stopped Aoi steps as he said that
The two of them look at each other harshly.
“She can’t move!! Why you force her!!”
Aoi look at him and back to me skeptical. I lowered my eyes because I know that this is wrong. The man still looked at Aoi.
“She’s my girlfriend!! And I can do anything to her”
There was horror in the man expression as he heard Aoi’s answered
“But she’s human!! Not an animal that you can do anything to her!!” his voice getting louder
“huoo… take it easy boy!! This is enough!!! Stopped this right away!!! Aoi took Akihi out from here gently and young man!! You still have business with me right in the counter!!” aunt Miyamoto walked toward us as she said that.
She took Aoi’s hand and started to push him and me gently into the door.
“Drive safely kiddo!!” she wave at us when finally our car leave the parking lot.
He drove like a maniac, too fast for a crowded upper street of Shinjuku. I held my skirt tightly as agony start to consume me. When we reached our apartment he yanked me out from the car seat and dragged me along into our apartment.
When the apartment door it’s opened, I hesitate to go inside it but luck is far from me now. He pushed me and slammed the door closed. Before the door closed I look at the hallway of apartment hoping that someone can save me.
He pulled his belt out and started to beat me blindly. He shouted at me sternly. When I finally see he took the vase near him and dashed down it on me, I can’t feel anything at that time but I can see blood rushing out from my head to the left side of my face. The blood irritate me so much when it finally blocking my eyesight.
He lifted my right hand and started to pull me along the hallway to the small room that we usually put our cleaning materials.
He pushed me inside the room and slammed the door closed. I can’t do anything at that time. I can’t even see anything in that dark room.
“You will stop working with aunt Miyamoto!! Do you hear that!!”
I could hear his foot steps walking away from here leaving me alone inside the damp, dark and small room.
… to be continue …