Bloody Shovel

My vision became instantly blurred as painful tears slid down my face. I didn't want to breathe, I just wanted to die right there. I didn't care how, but I wanted this man to kill me. I collapsed while my last breaths were wasted with loud gasping sobs. All my happy memories with my family flashed past insanely fast, causing me to become dizzy. My hands shot up to my head as visions regarding the man who was making my life hell sped through me like an electric current, and I remembered everything. I could still hear the voice on the phone clearly telling me that I no longer had a family. I was falling apart. My life had no meaning anymore and if it did I wasn't able to see it. An unbarring Ache consumed every inch of me as I let out a scream. It felt as if something had a harsh hold on my heart. My shriek seemed to amuse him because he burst out laughing to the point where we were both crying.

"I still remember stabbing that woman. It is still fresh in my memory like the blood that oozed from her lifeless body," he said softly as if he was talking to a child. "Her eyes were looking at me. I don't like killing woman but you gave me no choice." Gently escaped his mouth as the tears raced down his face. "I didn't kill her....you did." He whispered in my ear. I barely heard him with my crying in the background. I really wish I hadn't heard him, because I began to believe him....I did kill my mother. And just as I thought he couldn't make me feel and worse about myself...

"What kind of a monster kills their own mother?" the man snickered as he began to watch me fall to pieces. This must be what Akito feels like... All the time. Constantly reminded of his mother dying giving birth to him. It was more horrible than I first imagined. The man grew tired of the same thing replaying itself over and over again. After 5 minutes strait of me screaming and weeping he had became bored. He began advancing towards me, I scurried around the ground trying to get away, but he kept his steady pace and continued after me. I searched for something that would save me something to fend him off with but my attempts were futile.

I was still retreating, crawling away until my back was up against another tomb stone. My hand slipped on the wet moss and I fell to the ground landing on something that dug deep into my back. My hand skimmed against it, I felt the ruff rust covered surface attached to a long wooden handle. I tried to lift it but it was entwined in roots and moss. He came to a halt before me, knelled down and extended his hand to my neck. At first his hand was gentle rubbing against my neck then it tightened almost instantly. I could no longer breathe as his other hand came closer and made contact with my thigh I panicked. I used all the strength I had left to free the shovel of its shackles and swung it at his head. It made contact and he tumbled back. Red began to pool around him. At that sight I ran.

I ran past his car that remained on the road side and kept going, I wasn't going to stop. It was some time before I reached a pay phone a little outside of town but I was to sore and hurt to run any farther. I raked through my pockets to find any change. Lucky for me I had a buck seventy five in my skirt pocket. It took several tries until my shaky hand placed the quarter into the slot. I began to type in Rei's cell number out of habit but stopped half way. I slammed the phone back into the slot. I got my change back and started again, this time I was phoning Akitos house. After the second ring the phone was answered. "hello?" there was a long pause, it wasn't Akito. His sister had picked up. "hello???" the voice asked again.

"Hey" I replied my voice unfazed, just strong and steady.

"who is this?" The voice replied curiously, had they really not realized I was gone?

Just as I was about to hang up the voice on the other side asked "ummm excuse me but...Is this Sana..."

"y-yeah its me" I said trying to hold back tears.

"AKITO! SHES OKAY, SHE IS ON THE PHONE!" loud footsteps echoed from the other side, he must be running down the stairs.

"SANA! Where are you, I'll come get you just stay where you are!" he sounded frantic I had never heard Akito like this....was he crying?

"why Akito..." I whelped not able to hold the tears back any longer. "why didn't you tell me the truth..." the line was silent "MY MOM IS DEAD! REI IS DEAD SO IS SHAMURA!!!, YOU KNEW!"

"I...."

"DON'T SAY YOU WERE TRYING TO PROTECT ME!, you left me....alone for that creep....he stuffed me in the back of his trunk....my face was shoved against my mothers tomb stone, I was dragged and injured, he almost raped and killed me, BUT I KILLED HIM FIRST!, that's right...I killed a person...ITS YOUR FAULT!....I HATE YOU AKITO, YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!"

"sana where are you..."

"SHUT UP YOUR NOT GONA SEE ME AGAIN!" I screeched as I dropped the phone to hang by the cord and ran. I was still running towards town, it had been three and a half hours since I had ran away from the phone. I slowed down as I seen headlights coming down the road. The truck stopped a few meters ahead. The lights were blinding. I couldn't see a thing. They were shut off and a figure got out of the car. They began walking closer. It was too late, by the time I realized who it was I was caught. There lay Akito pinning me to the ground. His eyes looked me over. Blood was speckled all over my school uniform along with mud and grass stains. My hair was matted and messy, eyes red and puffy, I was covered in cuts and bruises not to mention my bleeding lip. Seeing me like this made tears stream from his eyes. I stared up at the starry sky with an emotionless face as Akito hugged me and apologized at least 50 times, for like 50 different reasons. He slid off me so he wasn't squishing me anymore, he removed his jacket and draped it over my body as he cradled me and began walking towards the truck, he laid me in the back, and covered me in tons of blankets before hopping in the drivers seat.

"you shouldn't be driving...your not old enough" I mumbled.

"my sister said the same thing when I said I was coming to get you" he replied "as long as I don't get caught we will be fine"

"it would be helpful" i murmured

with that he revved the engine and took off making a sharp U turn and heading home.

we got back relatively fast. The second we were in the drive way Akito was already carrying me out of the seat in the house and up the stairs. He kicked open his door and laid me down on his bed. He went to leave but I grabbed him by the shirt and dragged him and kissed him passionately, he met me with open arms and I did the same with open legs...nothing happened with his sister in the house though, it was to risky.