Rin's Point of View

When I open my eyes, I can see a large flame engulfing a single house. Flashing lights fill the sky in blue and red. Smoke also fills the air with a toxic smell that makes me sick to my stomach. Firefighters push past me making me fall. I watch as the flames bring the house down within 5 minutes. Dust and debris fly everywhere. I'm blown back into someone. When I stand, a tall man who is laughing loudly, with a beer bottle in his hand, is standing before me. He yells random things that make no since. Until I hear the words that make me realize what I am seeing.

"Mei! Where do you think you are going!?" I turn to see a little girl running into the fallen house. Luckily, one small section of the house was still up. That is where the girl is going. I now know... This is the night of the girl, Mei's past? Why? How is that possible!? But, I focus in what is happening around me.

After 15 minutes, firefighters decide to go inside the small section. Shortly after, they come out with 2 small bodies. One which is Mei, is holding a smaller body in her arms tightly. The other one isn't moving at all. Their is a ambulance truck and the next thing I know, is I am taken to another place...

A small house. 3 rooms. The other room is a bathroom, and a master bedroom. Around the floor, a futon is spread across the floor in a corner. Beer bottles lay everywhere around the ground. The house seems very american like. This must be when Mei was in America. From what I have heard...

I notice in the futon, a girl lays. She seems a little older than before. She looks my age right about then. Maybe a little younger. A loud voice yells Mei's name. She slowly gets up. Her arms look red. I can't be seen so I follow slowly behind her. When light shines upon her arms, my eyes widen. Scars and bruises mark her body. The shorts she has on, also show scars and bruises on her legs. This man abuses her?!

"Mei! I noticed the laundry and dishes weren't done! And my bottles weren't thrown out!"

"I was in pain dad... I didn't have strength t-", her sentence was cut off by a sharp smack to the face. She doesn't react. It's like nothing even happened. "You always make up excuses! Not having the strength to do it! Yeah right! What do you ever do around here!?" Her eyes flare up like fire.

"I do everything around here! You lie around here all day, drinking and sleeping. Yelling at me! I have to bathe you, feed you! Everything! You can't do anything for yourself! I'm sure if you could do all those things, you would have a job! And I wouldn't have to go out in the streets to beg for money for myself because you give me scraps of food from your plate. You treat me like a slave! You are lucky to be here! If you stayed in Japan, you would be in jail. And I would be living with Sousuke and his family! I hate you dad! That hatred would never go away!" She storms out past me as I look at her father. He laughs...

I turn and run after her... but, when I reach her, she gets farther and farther away. I can't get closer...  My world goes black...

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I snap open my eyes and jerk up. I'm in my dorm room. Sweat drenches my whole body. I'm panting. What did I just see.... That girl, Mei, and her father... She had scars everywhere. Her father was a drunk... and why did she say Sousuke? All of that, did that actually happen to her? Must have... I can't wrap my finger around it... Maybe I can be answers from Sousuke. But, everyone here hates me... I can understand why. But, did she really deserve what I had done? Maybe, I need to rethink... what I have done. 

Gah!! What should I do!? Sousuke recently was transfered into my class from what someone told me, and that he was angry at me. I didn't know why but it obviously has to do with Mei! What is he to her?! Why does he care?!

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I exit Samezuka and decided to take a jog around it. As I pass others, as usual they give me evil looks. I have gotten used to it by now. But even Ai doesn't talk to me! Suddenly, someone comes around the corner. It's Sousuke! I stop running and he stops walking. He has tears in his eyes.

Quickly, a sharp pain surfaces on my face. I realize he punched me. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!" I hold my red cheek and glare at him. "Mei already had enough in her life! Too much for her to even handle! She came here for an escape! But now, you ruin that! She is dying and you don't care!" I step back and put my head down. Images of the nightmare I had flash in my head. The fire, screaming, the bruises and scars, everything... A stray tear falls as I fall to the ground. I think I have realized what I done...

A/N: Gasp! Rin crying!? Omg! Things are going to heat up within the next chapter or so!