Saturday, May 05, 2007
Chapter i…
…Rendezvous
…Rendezvous
“Ms. Aryth!” Her nana called out for her from the outside of her room. “Ms. Aryth, are you in there?” She repeated her name once more, but yet, no reply still. “Ms. Aryth, I’m coming in!” Sophia opens the door, only to see the room has no Aryth. “Not again, Ms. Aryth! That girl… Where has she gone to this time?” said Sophia, who is supposed to be Aryth’s personal maid as well.
The room is big, for a one-person bedroom. It’s around the size of two standard classrooms, and colored in blue. There is a bed, king-sized and a table with birthday cards she received from people and books all around. A cushion can be seen too, right beside the door of her room. A plasma television is just right in front of the cushion, on the wall. But, the room was messy, with newspaper articles and printed papers all around the floor.
There is a small staircase to a higher part of the room, where her computer is situated. Aryth is currently using her computer, surfing the internet, chatting as well.
“I’m here, Sophia…” Aryth said, half of her mind focusing on the computer screen. “Can you answer me next time when I called out for you?” Sophia had a slight tone of impatient. “I did, didn’t I? I told you I’m here.” Still, Aryth’s eyes are locked on the monitor of her computer.
The maid sighed heavily, while turning to see the papers on the floor. She began tidying them up, and puts them together in a pack. “Do you still want this?” Sophia takes up a small paper with drawings on it. There is a fountain in the center of the picture, and trees everywhere. There is also a walking lane, just like something we could see in parks, but the one in the drawing is so much more beautiful.
Sophia had always been a fan of Aryth’s drawings. She knew that Aryth loves to explorer things, especially places. She is always the one who would tell Aryth of the places there are in the world when Aryth was small. Those places used to be her bedtime stories. But now, Aryth wants more. She began looking into internet and newspaper, to see if there are any articles about places in the world. Her dream of becoming an explorer, unfortunately, cannot be fulfilled. Due to her father’s strictness and her mother’s paranoid attitude, she seldom gets to go out of the house.
The only way she could know more, is by the mass media.
“No, no.” Aryth wasn’t thinking when she said that. “Are you sure? ‘Cause I do think that this is a masterpiece.” Aryth frowns and immediately crawled towards beside the stairs and looks downwards. She blushes instantly. “So-Sophia! Don’t look at that! Th-That’s…!” Aryth quickly rushes down from the upper part of the room to Sophia. She took the paper from her and quickly keeps it. Her blush still remains, as she is shy of someone looking at something she made out.
“You don’t have to hide your talent, Ms. Aryth. You don’t have to hide your drawings away.” Sophia said, with a slight smile, while putting the pack of papers on her table. “You don’t understand, Sophia.” Aryth turns and walks out of the room, with her face covered by her short white hair. Sophia looks at her shadow, and sighs for her.
Aryth walks to the kitchen, finding something to be her lunch. Annette enters the kitchen as well, and turns to her daughter while smiling. “Dear, are you hungry?” Aryth could hear her mother’s voice, but never turns to her at all. “Dear, what’s wrong?” asked Annette again. Aryth takes a slice of plain bread, and walks out of the kitchen. Annette stood there, saddened by her daughter’s reaction of her presence.
In the hallway, Aryth meets with her father, the president of the country. “Aryth, what is that attitude towards your mother? Have you no manners? How can a 16-year-old girl like you behave that way?! Answer me, Aryth! And, who gave you the permission to exit this house the day before yesterday, huh?! Henry told me everything so you better start explaining!”
Aryth ignores her father’s words, and walks passed him. Edward did gave a few yelling towards Aryth when she is walking to her room, but she acts as if no one’s there.
As Aryth enters the room, Sophia wasn’t in the room anymore. She bites the bread, and climbs up the stairs in her room. She sits down in front of her computer, and began typing the keyboard. After finished typing the URL of the website she wants to enter, her hand reaches to her bread, as she chews on the small bite of bread in her mouth.
She enters the forum, and logs in into her account. She searches for new posted messages, and saw one entitled ‘Can my life be any worse?’
The title got her attention, as she clicks on that post. She enters and reads the posted message.
‘My step-mom is a crazy woman who always yells at me for nothing, and I have a step-sis who orders me as if I’m her maid. I really wish to get away from them. Anyone feels the same way as me?’
That was posted since a month ago, but no one replied. Aryth sighs lightly, and clicked on the ‘post reply’ button. She brought her hands to the keyboard and types her thoughts down. She pushes the button ‘submit reply’ and closes the website.
That post was made by a person by the nickname ‘TormentedLass’.
Her alarm rang. The sleepy girl quickly woke up from her sleep, yawning and stretching her body. She got up from bed, and scratches her messy head lightly. She turns and heads towards the bathroom, which can only fit in one person.
The girl called Sakie brushes her teeth, washes her face with water, and stares at her reflection in the mirror. She blinks for some time, and takes a towel on a hanger beside the sink. She rubs the water on her face, and went to the small closet to take her uniform. Before changing, she yawns once more.
Sakie’s room is a small one, only a quarter of a standard classroom size. Her bed is a single-sized, and her table only fits her books. She doesn’t have a computer, but she does have a lot of books, especially fictions.
Sakie takes her bag on her chair, and walks out of the room. She puts her bag on the cushion in the living room, and goes into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for her step-mother and step-sister.
She fried some eggs and some hams too. After finishing that, she brought them to the table, and puts the eggs and hams between some bread. Soon, everything is done. But she turns and takes a biscuit tin, and eats the biscuits inside as breakfast.
The house became noisy as two people woke up. Hasue, Sakie’s step-mother, walks to the living room, passing by the kitchen. She glances at the breakfast on the table, and walks away, with an ignorant look. Michiko, Sakie’s step-sister sits on the dining table, with her hair still messy, and she still in pajamas. “Sakie, give me my breakfast.” Even though the food is already in front of her, Sakie still has to serve her sister. “Here. Be careful, it’s hot.”
Michiko snatched it from Sakie, and said to her in an unrespectful way, but somehow, Michiko never even listened to what she said. “I don’t need you to tell me that.” And she took a bite, and yelled out again, “It’s so damn hot! Are you trying to burn my tongue?!” Michiko turns to Sakie, with an angered face.
Sakie puts the tin of biscuit down again, and turns to Michiko. “I’m sorry, sister. It’s my fault.” Sakie is used to her sister saying such unreasonable things to her. But, Michiko is slightly better than Hasue, for her step mother is someone whom she doesn’t want to meet much.
Sakie keeps the tin of biscuits in the cabinet, and walks to her bag in the living room. “I’ll be going to school first, sister, mother.” Before Sakie reaches the door, Hasue called out for her again. She sighed lightly, but heard by Michiko. Sakie puts her bag down again, and hurries to her mother’s room. “Yes, mother? What is it?” Sakie asks, walking into the room.
Hasue shows her a blouse, with a little stain on it. Obviously, the stain is still fresh. “Wash this, now! I have to wear this today, so make it quick!” Sakie takes the clothes from Hasue, and walks to the back of the house, where Sakie washes their clothes. Hasue walks to the dining table, and had her breakfast too. But, the moment was ruined when Michiko told her mother of what happened to her, that her tongue was burnt because of Sakie, and that Sakie sighs when Hasue calls for her.
Hasue stomps to the back of the house, to find Sakie. “Don’t go to school today! I’ll teach you how to pay respect to elders like me and your sister!” Sakie tightened her fists, and continued the washing. Michiko walks to Sakie, and smirks at her. “Gotcha back.” And she giggled, while walking away.
Sakie is used to it now.
That day passed with Hasue beating her with a belt. Sakie got new scars on her skin, but she just kept quiet about it. She goes to school as usual the next day, but managed to escape from her step-mother and step-sister this time.
“SA-KI-E!” Tsuruha called out for her best friend when she sees her walking into the school gates. “Why were you absent yesterday?” Tsuruha asked Sakie, with a bright smile on her face. “I just felt uncomfortable.”
Tsuruha frowns slightly, and quickly grabs Sakie’s right hand, pulling her sleeve up. She could see new scars on her skin. “She beat you again yesterday, right? You shouldn’t hide it, Saki! Come, we’ll go tell Ms. Fumiko!” Tsuruha grabbed her friend’s right hand, and walks towards the teachers’ lounge. “No, Janet, wait!” Sakie stops her footsteps, causing Tsuruha to stop as well. “That’s okay. I cut myself yesterday when I was fixing my broken cabinet. It’s not my mother’s fault.”
“Stop calling her your mother!” Tsuruha said, letting go of Sakie’s hand. Sakie looks at her friend’s concerned face. “You know I must…” “You have to fight back, Sakie! You can’t always be like this! No one can help you if you would just let her do everything she wants to you!”
And there came a gang of students elder than the both of them. “Well, well, well… Who is ‘her’ you’re talking about?” Sakie and Tsuruha turn to see this person, and to their worst fear, it is Michiko. Yet, Tsuruha stood up straight, facing Sakie’s step-sister. “Your damned mother, that’s who!”
That angered Michiko instantly, as she takes her fists up. “What? So, someone’s big mouth is finally opened up, huh?!”
“I never tell you that just because your step-sister is here!” Tsuruha never intended to back off now. “I was going to leave some face for you in front of your younger step-sister!” She continued, seeing as Michiko had nothing to say anymore. “You’re going to get it this time, bitch!”
Sakie quickly stood between them, facing her step-sister. “Stop it, sister. Tsuruha never meant it. Don’t hit her, please. I’ll do anything you request for. Just don’t hurt Janet…”
Tsuruha turns to her best friend, with a sad face. “Sakie…” Michiko lays her fists down, and turns off. “C’mon, girls. We’ll try our very best to think out of something for my LITTLE SIS to do.” The girls together with Michiko laughed along with her, walking away with her as well. Sakie releases her breath, turning to Tsuruha. Tsuruha had an impatient expression on her face.
“I told you, you shouldn’t go along with them! And yet…! Yet…!” Sakie had tears dropping from her eyes to her cheeks, which immediately wipes off the anger in Tsuruha’s face. “Sakie…” Tsuruha hugs her friend, as she weeps.
School finishes early too, so Sakie has her chance to use the school computer to online for free. Tsuruha had to go home early today, because her mother needs her help for an upcoming wedding party.
Sakie first logs in into her messenger, and enter the forum she is in. She opens the message posted since a month ago. Since then, nobody had ever replied her calling. But, for a month straight, Sakie had been looking up to see if anyone does reply. And to her surprise, there is one, posted by a member called ‘LockedFledgling’:
‘I can’t say that I’ve experienced the same thing, but I do know that I felt like leaving them behind, and going into a new world filled with freedom. We can do things whatever we want there, and there are only people whom we love. I want to be an explorer, and explore the whole entire world. But, my parents just wouldn’t understand me. They always locked me up inside my house. I don’t wish to see them every day when I woke up. I want to get out of this life too, wouldn’t you agree?’
Sakie smiles happily, and quickly reply LockedFledgling’s message.
‘Of course I agree with you! I want to be in a world with only me and those I love! I want to be free and not locked up by those who are selfish! I want to be in a world that is created by me!’
After submitting the reply, Sakie quickly adds LockedFledgling’s e-mail in her messenger. But who knows? Just right at the time she was going to click ‘Add contact’, someone added her, and the name is ‘LockedFledgling’.
The both of them turned into great friends just by chatting in the internet. Everyday, Sakie would look forward to online again, to chat with her new friend again. She was told that her name is Aryth.
Sakie uses the computer in school to online again today, as usual before school, since she knew Aryth's time would be night when her's is morning. She opens the messenger and waits for her friend to online. And, not long after that, Aryth did sign in the messenger.
“Aryth!!!” Sakie typed in the chatterbox.
“Hey, Saki.”
“How are you, Ary?”
“I’m great. ^^”
“Good to hear that.”
“Remember we mentioned about the world that is created by us only?”
“Yeah. Why mentioning that now?”
“I did it. I found the world that we can create ourselves!”
Sakie stopped typing for a while. She was confused of what Aryth was saying to her.
“What…do you mean?”
“Want to meet each other? I can tell you that way easier.”
“Meet? As in face to face?”
“Yeah, Saki. We wanted to meet each other anyways, right?”
“Yeah but…”
“Don’t worry, Saki. I won’t trick you or anything.”
“No, it’s just that… You’re in America while I’m in Japan. How can we meet each other?”
“Silly girl.”
“Huh?”
Sakie frowns, wondering where this will lead to.
“Tonight, lay down on her bed, and close your eyes. Open them again until the count of 10. You will see me there. Sorry, I got to go. Meet you tonight, then! Bye!”
That was the end of the conversation. Sakie’s frown still remains, as she signs off the messenger as well, and left the computer room. She left school, and returns back home.
Aryth has class, so she can’t online today. Sophia is, apparently her private tutor as well. “Ms. Aryth, lets start out lesson today, okay? Have you finished your homework for last week?" Aryth sighs heavily, while walking to her table and sits beside her tutor. “Sophia…”
“That is Mrs. Tessa to you, Ms. Aryth. I’ve told you a lot of times, you should call me that when class is starting.” Sophia said, with a acted look of a teacher. “Yes, yes, Mrs. Tessa. I am just wondering, can we talk about dream world today?”
Sophia raises an eyebrow, right after she heard the word ‘dream world’. “Where did you get that from?”
“Books.” Aryth said, grinning. “Oh, okay then. Lets see… Dream world is somewhere people’s minds would enter right after they sleep. A dream world is said to be usually happy, peaceful but sometimes, it can be ghastly or even bizarre. Why did you ask that?”
Aryth shakes her head, with a slight smile. “Nothing. What are we going to learn today?” Sophia sighs lightly at Aryth’s secretive attitude, and turns to the book she carries in her hands. “Literature.”
“Oh man!” Aryth grumbled as she heard the topic of the day.
Three days later, Aryth tells Sakie about the world she managed to create, the dream realm. They agreed to meet each other that night. Aryth is excited, since she could finally meet her friend, Sakie face to face. She is even more excited when she thinks about the times she can spend with Sakie inside that world.
During the afternoon, Aryth goes to her bed, acting as if she is sleepy and have to have a afternoon nap. When Sophia and her parents came to check on her, she would act tired to them.
After they stopped coming, she then does what she always do at night.
Sakie enters her room that night, changing into her pajamas and brushing her teeth. She looks at her clock before lying down on her bed. 11.30pm.
Sakie recalls of all the things Aryth told her about this afternoon. She lies down on the bed, and takes a deep breath. She closes her eyes, and counted to ten.
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…10.”
She opens her eyes again, and found herself in the midst of darkness. “Where…am I…?” She muttered to herself, as she turns around to find a clue.
Just then, a voice rang.
“Surprise!”
A girl at the same age as her stands right in front of her.
“Did I frighten you, Saki?”
Sakie backed off a little, but immediately stops as she can somehow guess who the girl is.
“Aryth?”
“Yeah! Nice to see you, Saki!"
End of Chapter
Here's chapter 1. Please post your critics at here.
[p.s.: I have to space every row, since blogger wouldn't let me make the paragraphs seem like paragraphs, get what I meant? (Or maybe it's because of the layout...) But, oh nevermind.
1 space - paragraphs; 2 spaces - Same char., not the same day; 3 spaces - Another char.]
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Resonant Blue Outline
Resonant Blue is about two young girls at the age of 16 who faces problems of their own. The girl whose father is the president of USA, Aryth Hayline has problems of being locked up in her house. Possessing a huge wish to be an explorer, she couldn't have the freedom she lusted for since she was small.
Another girl, Sakie Yasura is living with her step-mother and step-sister who always treats her badly. Her father has a coma, so he had been staying in the hospital for 15 years now[since Sakie was 1 year old]. Sakie desperates to find a way out of her life, to live a life without the two person she hates.
The two girls find each other in the internet, having facing the similiar problems. One day, Aryth told Sakie about something, something that is going to change their lives forever.
"I found the world that we can create ourselves!"
The two of them meet each other for the first time in that 'world', and they started to create their own imaginations in that world. They were having the best time of their lives, until one day, when they had a conflict between them.
Darkness ruled over the world they created, and soon they find themselves in grave danger.
The storyline may not be that original, but I'll try to make it as original as I can. Feel free to critisize my work. Click on the 'Critics' Realm' on the navigation bar. You can post your comments and critics about my work, or even chat there. I'll be posting the first chapter soon, so be sure to come back!
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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