"Ugh...."
Reiku sat up from his desk with a grimace of discomfort, his arm noticably numb from dangling over the side for however long it had been. With a groan, he sat up straighter in the chair, raising a hand to shov back his touseled, choppy bangs, when he realized somethign was still between his first two fingers. The hell? One chocolate brown eye cracked blearily open as he lifted those fingers to his line of vision.... It was a cigarette filter. That brought him fully awake. So much so, he nearly toppled from the chair he had no memory of getting into in the first place.... Hadn't he been wit Michael? that was the last thing he could remember.
"Ugh, it tastes like I've been licking the bottom of an ashtray all night... ew..." With another groan, the boy got out of the chair and made his way to the bathroom. All the while he smacked his lips with a mieu of distaste. He dropped the scorched cigarette filtr on top of the desk. It looked as though Mamoru had had a moment or two of free reign... Reiku hoped it was only a moment or two anyway... Was it too much to hope that he had slept as Reiku had slept... probably, but Reiku held out the hope nonetheless.
His medication... he really needed to take it, if he wanted to keep his counterpart locked tightly away. He opened the medicine cabinet to do just that, but when he retrieved his pill bottle, there was no telltale rattling of pills against plastic within it. Reiku frowned, shaking the bottle deliberately but it still didn't rattle. Unscrewing the cap, he saw why.... it was empty. Dropping the empty bottle into the sink, he dug around in the cabinet for a second bottle he kept, but that twoo was empty. what was going on... he'd just taken them last night. There was no way he was already out. A bit panickd, he slammed the reflective plastic mirror shut, his breathing picking up in speed.
"Lose something?"
Reiku looked up into th mirror to see Mamoru smirking back at him. Reiku narrowed his own eyes angrily, slapping a hand against the reflective surface.
"You... you did it, didn't you? Where is my medicine."
"You don't need that garbage.... I just got rid of it for you. You know, the world is far too medicated these days. Pill popping for everything. It's sad really, don't you agree."
"Wha.... what did you do with them?! a**, the nurse won't give me anymore until the date on the bottle! She'll think I'm selling them or something!" Reiu tugged at his hair in a panic. What was he going to do... It was near impossible to keep Mamoru under wraps without his medication to suppress him... And Mamoru probably knew that. Reiku buried his face within his hands. "Why did you do things like this... Why do you have to make everything so hard for me...."
"Are you deaf? I said you don't need those stupid pills.. besides.. you obviously can't be trusted with them."
Reiku peeked up at the mirror from between his fingers, truly feeling on the verge of tears. How could he ace anyone without his medication? What if he started blacking out...
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You took a handful of those pills last night, baka... what are you trying to do, kill us? I just got rid of them so you can't make that mistake again. If I hadn't taken over, we'd probably be dead. But no need for thanks. That's what I'm here for, ne? Don't look so pitiful... it makes us look bad."
"What am I supposed to do now?!"
"Same thing you've been doing... don't put all the blame on me... you were getting rather lax in the taking of your medicine in the firt place, haven't you? You hate those pills as much as I do, so don't go all 'woe-is-me' over it, cuz I won't believe you."
"Shut up! Stop talking to me! This is why I need them... Crazy peple talk to their own reflections, ok? I don't want to be crazy."
"no one wants to be crazy, stupid. But we aren't crazy... we''re just... different. You're letting all these doctors and stuff ge into your head. Stop that---"
"No, you stop it! I don't want to hear anymore!" Reiku flung open the medicine cabinet once more, just so he wouldn't have to look at that face anymore. He stripped off his clothes and climbed into his shower... and nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard that cold voice seemingly in his ear.
"You really are a idiot... I don't live in the mirror you know. You really think you can avoid me by not looking at mirrors? I'm not going anywhere... the sooner you and your little boyfriend realize that, the better off you'll be..."
"Boyfriend..." Reiku froze beneath the stream of slightly steaming water, his eyes going saucer wide. "Did you hurt My-kun... Did you?.... DID YOU?!" His eart was pounding, but he received no response. he stood there for another moment, waiting for an answer that didn't come, then he rushed out of the shower so suddenly, his wet feet slid across the tile of the bathroom floor and he nearly crashed into a wall. As it was, he managed to recover his balnace as he tore into his room, retrieved a pine green hoodie with te Midori crest emblazoned upon te breast a piar of green and white track pants, dressed, put on his shoes, and ran out into the hallway.
------------>Yohokiro's room
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