by Kore » Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:55 am
GeminiMoon wrote:
♂Edgar♂ ♥ ♀Mira♀ Part One
Bleary eyes opened slowly, the monotonous beeping greeting the small girl’s ears. Her head was swimming in a sea of haze and confusion, and the numerous bright lights didn’t help much either. Still, she forced herself to sit up, and nearly fell out of the bed for it too. Slowly, the vertigo began to fade, and the child was able to more easily take in her surroundings.
Everything was so white. The brightness of the walls just made her so uncomfortable. The place simply felt so void of life, emotion. Colour. There were machines hooked up to her, like what aliens might use to suck out the invisible life force of a child. Wherever she was, this certainly wasn’t her home. And she certainly didn’t want to be here either.
Her tiny hand grasped around the thing clipped to her finger, trying with little success to pull it off. She was a half a second away from calling out for her mother to help, when she was startled as someone burst through the door. With a small jump and jerk, she looked up to see a woman in white and blue scrubs.
“Oh, Mira, honey! Don’t take that off!” she rushed to the girl’s side where she readjusted the clip on her finger.
“Who-- Where am I?” Mira blurted as she struggled to pull away. “Where’s Mama and Papa? Mom! Papa!” The girl called out as she continued to fight this lady who seemed to be so clearly working with the life sucking aliens. She didn’t even seem to notice the woman’s troubled expression.~~~~
Never had a child seemed so happy with a cup of jello, as the young girl cheerfully placed each jiggling spoonful in her mouth. Who would’ve guessed such a large appetite would be wielded by someone clutching onto a dusty and worn teddy bear.
“Mmm, yum!” Mira smacked her lips together as she placed the empty cup on the tray before her. “Mr Nibbs says he really li-liked it Ms. Jack,” she added, much slower than usual as she was being careful to enunciate more clearly. The woman, Ms. Jack, gave a simple nod and smile as she gathered up the tray and handed them to another nurse beside her.
It was funny how just some time ago, Mira had believed this place to be a alien facility for life sucking, and that Ms. Jack was one of those aliens. Now however, the girl knew this was a hospital, Ms. Jack was a nurse, and Dr. Long-name-that-was-difficult-to-pronounce was, well, a doctor. Mira simply just called him Mr. Doctor.
“Hey, Ms. Jack, can I go see my parents soon?” she suddenly perked, a quiet and yet bright smile upon her face. “I promise I won’t wake them up, I just want to watch them sleep.” Well, that wasn’t entirely true. While Mira wouldn’t intentionally wake them up, she did hold the desire that they should suddenly wake up so that the first thing they would see would be their daughter.
“We’ll see Mira. You,” Ms. Jack kept her voice both stern and kind, “you and Mr. Nibbs should get some more rest first. Till then, I’ll be back in a bit to change your bandages, kay?” the woman flashed a smile before hurrying out of the room, with a man in a white coat hot on her trail.
It was no mystery to Ms. Jack why “Mr. Doctor” was following her, he wanted a talk. Privately. Even without exchange words, she knew what was to come. And so, quietly the woman lead the way to his office, her footsteps swift as she slipped inside.
Safely out of the hallway, the man took a seat at his desk as he ran his hand through his dark hair. “So,” Ms. Jack hummed quietly, “have someone been found to take her in, Dr. Shamiska?” She treaded her tone carefully, as if she were trying not to shatter glass with the sound of her own voice.
“Yeah,” Shamiska sighed, “her Aunt Estel. She’ll be coming for a visit, and in two weeks time she’ll take the girl to live with her.” He rubbed gingerly at his temples, his eyes unfocused and almost fully closed. He took a deep breath, before straightening himself up and fixing his cold dark eyes on the nurse. “Ms. Jack, what you did was completely unacceptable.”
“I-I’m sorry Mr. Shamiska. I was trying to break it softly to the girl--”
“Tell me Ms. Jack, how do you break it softly to a child?!” he gave a curt interruption, now standing up at full height. “Do you lie to her?” His expression was cold and harsh, peering so easily through the woman before him.
“I didn’t mean to lie. I just thought that maybe. . . that maybe withholding the information for just a bit longer would be easier--”
“Easier?!” Shamiska’s face was flushing red now, as steam all but came out of his flaring nostrils. “Easier for who, her or you? Because this sure as hell won’t be easier for her. How do we tell Mira her parents are dead now?!”
Ms. Jack might’ve answered, or maybe she wouldn’t have. Whatever her actions, they were replaced as she turned to face the sudden creak of the door. There, standing barefoot and trapped between the hall and the office, was a little girl in a blue flannel dress, her expression and mind blank as her grip on Mr. Nibbs only tightened.~~The True Beginning~~
Music drifted so lightly through the air, and was the only thing from keeping an era of awkward silence of taking over. The car was stuffy, as it should be after such a long ride. However, the clustered feeling might have been in part to the sheer reluctance to talk. The blonde in the front seat had tried to engage in conversation at first, but after several fruitless attempts had just given up and let the thought drop. And Mira was too withdrawn within her own thoughts to even try.
Everything was just a large mass of haze. Mira didn’t even remember anything that had happened back at the hospital. It was as if her mind had suddenly shut off, and she had been left on autopilot the entire time. Now, she wasn’t even clear of when she had gotten in this car, or even how long she’d spent in it. The only thing she could vaguely recall was laying down in the back seat and staring down near the floor.
“Mira, we’re here,” the blonde voice kindly coaxed as she watched with blue eyes in the mirror.
“Huh?” Mira lifted up her head, glancing outside the window. “Oh, okay Aunt E.” She climbed carefully out of the car, pulling Mr. Nibbs along with her. A pair of brown eyes gazed up at this simple abode; her new home. It looked exactly as she remembered.
The walls were either a dirty yellow, or a faded brown, and almost all the windows were paneled with coloured glass. A cobblestone path lead up to the front door, with weeds and yellow flowers sprouting up through the cracks. The front yard was unkempt, just as Mira knew the backyard to be, with shrubs climbing up the walls. Ah, home sweet home.
She took a steadying breath, her gaze shifted over to her aunt Estel. “Aunt E? Can I go, uhh. . .” she pointed towards the back of the house, “to swing?” The woman gave her a nod, which was all Mira needed to walk through the tall grasses and around the house.
In the backyard, she found the swing that had been tied to the lowest branch of a large oak. This oak Mira knew to reach up to the guest room on the second floor, her new room. She really hoped it wouldn’t come to life in the middle of the night and steal her from her bed, but she knew that was a ridiculous notion. She was too strong for a tree.
“Who are you?” the girl jumped at the voice as her hand just grasped onto the swing’s rope. Her eyes met the red ones of a boy with flaxen hair. He was tall enough to be about eight or nine, which meant he was all too clearly taller than the five year old little girl.
“Who are you?” Mira repeated with a curious look, having never seen this boy before.
“I asked you first,” he countered quickly, his hand whipping the hair from his eyes.
“I asked you second?” Mira was blunt to point out as her grip around her teddy tightened.
“Yeah, and?” the boy raised an eyebrow, unable to see how her statement made a relevant point.
“Fiwst the worst, second the best.” the girl managed to say without singing it or sticking out her tongue, which in itself was rather mature for her.
The flaxen male laughed and shook his head. “That lame excuse?” he watched her as if expecting her answer, but she remained unresponsive. “Fine, I’ll go first then,” he sighed, scratching at the back of his head. “I’m Edgar.”
“Edguh?” Mira cocked her head slightly in question.
“Edgar.” He corrected with a curt nod.
Still, the girl continued pronouncing it just a bit off. “Edguh.”
“Just call me Eddie,” he finally intervened, swiftly waving off this pattern that seemed to be forming rather quickly. “So, who are you?” he directed the question towards the girl in her floral dress.
“Oh! I’m Mira, and this is Mr. Nibbs,” she held up her old teddy and gently pushed his arm so he waved for Eddie.
“Well Mira, you must be new here, so let me tell you something,” he was fast in coming to stand beside her, his head ducked lower to her level. “You see that swing you’re holding? That swing, this old tree, and that house all have one thing in common. They all belong to the evil witch who lives here.”
“Nu uh!” Mira was quick to deny, her lips pulled down in a pouty frown. “You’re lying!”
“No really!” Edgar struggled to hide his smile of amusement, “I’ve seen her! She likes to caste spells on small little girls and suck their youth out.”
With her feet spread and her hands on her hips, Mira stared down this flaxen boy. “No she doesn’t. My aunt’s not a witch. You’re a witch!”
For a brief moment there, Eddie was stumped. Did he just hear that right? “Your. . . Your aunt?”
“Yeah, my Aunt E. Come on, I’ll show you,” Mira replied determinedly, taking a firm hold of the boy’s hand with the one that wasn’t clutching Mr. Nibbs.
“Uhh, no, that’s okay,” he tried to weasel his way out of it. His words were far from too late however, as the fired up girl refused to take no, or any other variation of no, as an answer.[To Be Continued. . .]
Ugh, it's soo long. >_> To anyone who actually goes through to read it, sorry about the length. ^^;;
Last edited by
Kore on Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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