• "When something new comes along, our first and natural instinct is to destroy it. Never do we stop to question its motive or its goal. But in this case, admiring a beast's beauty can always lead to one's down fall…" –Unknown


    A Boy of age eighteen wandered about the Marriot. He pulled along a trolley and despite the job he had. He enjoyed it, while at the same time; hating it. They all treated him poorly here, when at eighteen years people tended to treat you differently but then again… it was usually the same. With a sigh he pushed the trolley into the elevator down to the parking lot where he met up with a group of people out back. They wore dark clothing and sat there waiting for him in the snow.

    "So how much am I getting paid for?" he asked ruffling his brown hair, his brown eyes watched them intently as they whispered about each other. He felt a little off and nervous at what they were doing. When he called them up on the offer they told him he had to keep quiet and that he would get paid a lot if he did this job. Sure, doing something illegal was really and totally against the law. But he got paid for it so it didn't really matter; all that did was that he didn't get caught with the large boxes.

    "Exactly what we agreed on," One of the figures said nodding over to the others. "Just do your job and we'll do ours."

    He nodded; they placed the boxes onto the trolley. Looking about as they did, the brunette knew that what they were doing was entirely illegal, but he needed the money to help out his little sister. It was just the two of them and she had fallen deathly ill, so the hospital bill was always extremely high. Deep down inside he knew his parents would never approve of his actions and his decisions. But it was for Evea, all for his little Evea.

    "There are two eggs in each container, but remember Mr. Winston."

    "Hm?"

    "Do not open any of the boxes; we need all of these intact when people for 'YU' come to get them. We don't need our cargo loose in Perrysburg" a woman said crossly at him.

    Winston nodded. "Understood ma'am"

    "Good"


    Fuyumi stepped hesitantly onto the public bus. She felt extremely nervous and scared, she had never been on a public bus except with her friend Becca, but that was only because they refused to roam the streets at night. But among her knowing her actual fears… She was deathly afraid of Public buses and Machetes, her sister laughed at her when she told Jayme that. But Fuyumi should have known that Jayme was going to do that. After all Jayme was Jayme and nothing could ever be done about that.

    "Are you going to get on the bus or what? I haven't got all night!" The driver shouted, snapping Fuyumi back into reality. She shook her head and dropped her pay into the money box. With a nervous sigh she sat down on one of the dirty and old bus seats, a chill ran up her spine showing her shiver and her hair standing on end.

    Her thoughts wandered back on what to she and Katie had discussed earlier. She had told Katie a variety of things about what happened to her on the plane and how when she was walking over to Katie's house a stranger pulled up to her and talked to her. Acting like he sort of knew him.

    "That sounded awful" Katie laughed. "Anyway what time do you normally get up Fuyumi? Because I was thinking about going to the mall tomorrow and hang out. What do you say about that?"

    Fuyumi chuckle a little and gave a weak smile before going onto her thoughts about waking up. "I usually wake sometime around noon. Sometimes it might be earlier or later, all depends on how much sleep I get." Fuyumi told Katie rubbing the back of her head a little.

    "Okay then, I'll call you sometime around noon tomorrow and then we can spend the rest of the day hanging out at the mall. I just hope the snow doesn't ruin it" Katie said laughing a little.

    "Like snow is ever going to ruin a day at the mall Katie, besides, we'll mostly be inside when at the mall. So I'm sure tomorrow will turn out wonderful" Fuyumi said smiling happily at her blond friend.

    Fuyumi yawned. It was getting late; the two had spent hours talking to each other about random things and art. There was a general case where they started talking about doing art collabs or go and seeing a movie. But time was slim and they would only be able to do so much. Fuyumi bolted back into reality when her cellphone started going off, it was a phone call because she remembered what the ringtone for it was. So now on the bus her phone was ringing out the Super Mario Brothers game theme. 'Oh god' she thought to herself feeling very embarrassed towards the few people on the bus.

    "Mushi Mushi" Fuyumi said, remembering what her sister always said whenever she answered the phone.

    "Hey babe" Came her sister's voice from the other end. "Where exactly did you put the cat food again? Delilah is looking for her dinner and I'm not finding it"

    Fuyumi sighed before answering. "Its over by the printer downstairs. Can't you see it?"

    "No, I can't babe. Which shelf?"

    "It should be on the second shelf to the right…. No, the one closest to your wardrobe Jay-Chan. Yeah right there"

    "Okay Thanks sis. I'll see you when you get home from Ohio-"Jayme said and with that Fuyumi could hear the phone hang up. Fuyumi herself sighed and put her phone away, remaining quiet for the rest of the trip on the bus.


    Fuyumi quickly got off the bus and hurried over to the Marriot. She really didn't want to spend another second on the public bus. Her aunt spent awhile trying to get the reservations to this hotel and Fuyumi was glad that her aunt had managed to get the reservation. She walked into the hotel and surveyed the scene around her. Everything looked neatly organized and what made her squeal on the inside was that there was a Starbucks inside the Hotel and along with the Starbucks was a small general store near the check-in and check-out counter. Just the sight of the interior made Fuyumi feel small, weak, and pathetic.

    "I so don't deserve to be here" She muttered to herself. Staring in awe, to her she viewed this place like it was a candy store. It had almost everything here; sadly all they were missing was a mall that had HOT Topic in it. "I really don't deserve to be here."

    "May I help you Ma'am?" A boy at the counter asked.

    Fuyumi stared at him for a moment… trying to process what she was here for and then reality struck her. "Oh right! Uhm… I'm here to check in?"

    "Name?"He asked, looking at Fuyumi and then the computer.

    "Uh Fuyumi. F-u-y-u-m-i" She said nervously. She looked at him for a brief moment, he had brown hair and was shaggy and loose everywhere. Almost reminding her of a skater boy at her high school and what really got her was that he had wonderful brown eyes. Almost in a decent sense… he seemed hot. Fuyumi shook her head viciously as she remembered her promise to herself. 'No! You promised yourself that you would NEVER think stuff like that! You don't need to fall in love only to get hurt!' In sense, most girls would call her selfish and ignorant about the ideal of never falling in love. But Fuyumi shrugged off on that and felt that it was a waste of time, ever since she went to Europe in her freshman year. She viewed life temporary and that it needed to be spent and not wasted on Boyfriends and romance. Her Ex-Girlfriend begged to differ, but her Ex-Boyfriend begged her to stick to her oath and avoid all that bullshit. Another reason why Fuyumi had favored Jason or "Dog" better then most people. Dreonna was a total b***h and was obsessed with Sex and Drugs now and had been trying to get Fuyumi back into dating her, but Fuyumi had refused saying her grandmother would surely disapprove and the same with her parents. Fuyumi was currently betting that one day Dreonna would end up on a street somewhere with sixteen kids. 'Good for her if she achieves it'

    "Here you go Ma'am enjoy your stay at the Marriot suites" he said lazily handing Fuyumi the room card.

    Fuyumi nodded and looked at his name tag, squinting a little. In honest truth… she needed glasses because her eye sight was starting to play around with her. The doctors said she didn't need any, and that she had to wait another year from now. But Fuyumi knew they were wrong, just like her chest pains that she received when she didn't drink enough fluids. "Ah… Thank you Erm… Jonah. You have a good well… Night I guess" she said nervously to the boy. The Boy raised a brow at Fuyumi and smiled a little at her.


    Fuyumi was completely tired and getting to bed would be a decent and good choice for her. Today had been busy for her treading through the snow and talking with Katie hours on end and then getting on the bus… she shivered. Got she really did hate public buses. In moments she had reached her room, she opened it quickly and cautiously like she always did in new places. She remembered doing the same thing at Becca's and Cassie's house when she first stayed there and she ended up receiving weird looks from them because they had no idea what she was doing.

    The room was decent and interestingly colored with shades of red, tan and orange. In her personal opinion she would have gone with shades of blue and then added black to it, but that was just her and her friends always called her "strange" on that. But they accepted it and understood from what Fuyumi had always said: "Everyone is always entitled to their own opinions". She stepped into the bathroom and looked around at it, it was wonderful and large. But she wasn't so much a fan of shades of light tans and whites. In a way… She was glad that it wasn't shades of pink.

    "Well. Good night world and all who inhabit it" She muttered to herself throwing her belongings on to her bed and then re-entering the bathroom. It had been nearly half a day since she last took a shower and the only way she could ever fall asleep quickly and get enough decent sleep was to take a shower. Nobody understood that concept and nor did she, but she was in a sense normal among other things. So a shower it was and then off to bed she would be, ready to hang out with Katie at the mall. After all, this was their winter break and they had to enjoy it to the best they could. But Fuyumi was unaware of the extra guests in the room with her…