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My legs burned as I ran, but I couldn't stop, I HAD to find Anzu, I had to... I turn a corner and suddenly time felt like it was slowing down, there she was and....that....that woman was there, she had hurt Anzu, she was bleeding, my voice caught in my throat I wanted to scream but I couldn't.
The woman turned to me and smiled...it made me feel sick, my fear froze me in place. Why did I have to be so weak?
She ran towards me her arms open for a hug I wanted to run to do anything but I couldn't. Just as her arms were about to wrap around me, Anzu pushed her away, even while hurt she stood up for me, she truly was amazing.
The woman glared at Anzu,"HOW DARE YOU STAND IN BETWEEN OUR LOVE!!, she shrieked then she softened her tone and smiled at me again,"Don't worry my love...I won't let anyone come between us.",her voice...how could it strike so much fear into me?
Then she lunged at Anzu time seemed to stop as I heard the sickening sound of the knife piercing Anzu's skin. She screamed in pain, the her pained scream finally got me to move. Without thinking I pulled the woman off Anzu and punched her. The others arrived and Tsuchiya restrained the woman while we waited for the police. We tried to stop the bleeding of Anzu's wound but the blood seemed endless. It was my fault, if I hadn't been a coward this would have never happened, Anzu keeps telling me that it wasn't my fault, but as more and more blood spills from her injury, the harder it gets to believe her words.
*some time later*
The police arrived and arrested the woman, Anzu was rushed to the hospital, they told us to wait outside. My heart feels heavy with guilt, why... why did something like this happen to her? Hours pass and many doctors and nurses rush in and out of her hospital room.
Finally a doctor approaches us but by the look on his face I can tell its not good news. "I'm sorry, we were too late. She lost too much blood",the world seems to stop all around me. Anzu, dead? No. It couldn't be. Someone as amazing as her couldn't possibly die. Not like this. I begin to feel dizzy I attempt to grab stwady myself i manage to sit down and then the world goes dark.
I wake up back at in my room in Anzu's house, I call out to her before the memory of what happened rushes back and I remember that she can't answer me anymore. I go to her room, its just like she left it. I sit there for a long time, Junta comes to talk to me but I can't hear him over the voices in my head telling me that its my fault she's gone. He leaves eventually, leaving me alone again.
The next day I wake up early, my body moving on its own as I get dressed and start making breakfast and when I'm done I realize that I accidentally made an extra one for Anzu. I wait by the door for a while before I realize that I'm waiting for her to come ruching down the stairs late as always. The walk to school feels quiet without her there.
Saki tries to talk to me during school but I ignore her. I avoid Junta as well, I know he liked Anzu, so I doubt he'd want to see me anyway. I decide to mave back with my parents, I got too comfortable, and now the one person I loved got hurt, maybe I needed this as a reminder that I should never get too close to people.