Dear Journal,
My head hurts. And I feel like I’ve been screaming nonstop. What’s going on?
Mayura isn’t in the other bed. Most of her stuff is there, though. I see a baseball with fake eyelashes and a pink wig displayed ceremoniously on her pillow.
Has something happened to her? Is the Ship cursed again, causing people to go missing? I grab the head and run to the only other person who usually notices what I say two doors down.
“AKAKO!” I try to shout, my voice hoarse. “Something’s happened to Mayura!”
She turns to look at me slowly. “What did you call me?” she says menacingly.
“Akako…” I repeat. “Mayura’s in trouble…”
“Well, I’m glad that whole ‘Glinda’ mess is over,” she shrugged indifferently. She stands up on her bed and begins to rip strips of sticky tape off of the ceiling.
“Sweet Oz…” I breathed. Mayura, bound and gagged, waved slightly from the ceiling, her eyes shining excitedly with the experience of being hog tied.
“Akako, what was Mayura doing tied to the ceiling?!” I try to exclaim again, pained by my inexplicably sore throat.
“It was for her own good, believe me.” Akako said as she pulled more tape off and Mayura’s legs were freed.
“Her own good? What?” This was so confusing. Akako probably did this because Mayura was getting on her nerves, and she would attack her if she continued. But then why was Mayura being let down now, with me here?
Akako stopped, leaving Mayura half freed. “So you don’t remember anything from the past two days?” I stopped. Come to think of it, I couldn’t remember what happened.
“Today’s Monday, isn’t it?” I asked hopefully.
“Thursday,” Akako continues to peel tape off of Mayura, tactfully freeing her neck and pulling out the gag before the final strip across her stomach.
“Alphabetabaga, are you better now?” she asks. “It was so cool! Like one fushigi mystery after another! A fushigi marathon!”
“Better?” I turned to Akako. “Was I sick?”
“That’s one adjective that could be used to describe your sorry mortal state. I think insane is more like it.” She pulled the last strip of tape, and Mayura fell to the floor rather roughly.
“You called me Dorothy and Akako was Glinda, and you were pulling on my feet and Akako hit you with a broom, and I broke a hole in the floor!” Mayura rattled off proudly.
“The Wicked Witch of the West was on board.” Akako said. “and Elphaba was nowhere to be found.”
I gaped at them. Mayura smiled and nodded her head furiously. Akako stared at me coldly.
“How many did I hurt?” I asked, afraid of the answer.
“Technically, only Pinky suffered physical pain. You threatened me a lot, and I was forced to make sure you didn’t kill anybody, plus Mello and Light are probably pretty ticked.”
Luriane help me. This is the last time I break the rules.
Current Mood:
Apologetic