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Ch. 3- Miharu's story: Bump in the Night
Hwoarang looks around again. Everyone’s still silent; no one’s volunteered. “Did ya’ll not hear me? I asked who’s next?”P>
“Yeah we heard you. Chill Hwo.” Asuka says rubbing her forehead.
The silence continues. Some looking at their hands, others looking around the group. Then something breaks the silence.
“Is that you?” Miharu turns her auburn head to Xiao.
Xiao looks at her stomach and rubs. “Yeah, my tummy’s hungry.” She looks around hopeful. “Isn’t anyone else hungry?"
“Come to think of it, I’m hungry too.” Jin nods his head.
“Well can ya’ll hold on for just one more story?” Asuka looks to Xiao and Jin. “There’s lots of food down there. I just snuck down there today.”
Miharu starts to say something, but is interrupted by Steve.
“You’re kidding me? I was worried about food and there was no need?!” Steve stares at Asuka.
“You know he has a point there, and I don’t agree with him regularly.” Miharu looks at Asuka too.
Steve’s about to say something when Miharu interrupts.
“Don’t like how that feels, do ya?” She looks at Steve, then continues. “Anyway, I want to tell mine. It’s not really scary, just a little strange."
“Yeah, it does figure. With the money they get from us from late fees.” Steve says, looking at his hands.
“Okay, go for it Ru.” Asuka nods as do the circle.
“Mama, I don’t want to go to sleep. Ryuuko said he had a surprise for us when he got home.” I look over to Hiroshi and he’s shaking his head yes.
Mama shakes her head and smiles. “We go through this at least once a week. You always get the surprise in the morning.” She bends and kisses me good night. I kiss her back and she goes to Hiroshi.
Mama heads to the door. Turning around, she says ‘Good night’. She leaves the door cracked just a little . I get up and open the door wider to let in more light from the hall cuz I don’t like the dark. It scares me. As soon as I’m on the bottom bunk, Hiroshi climbs down from the top bunk, goes to the hallway and turns out the light. On his way back in, he shuts the door to just a small crack. He likes complete darkness. We go through his every night.
“Stop it Hiro. You know I don’t like the dark.” I say from my bed.
He walks over and stops in front of me. “Stop being a baby, Mi. I was never afraid of the dark, but for goodness you’re 7. That’s pushing it.” Hiroshi shakes his head and starts to climb to the top.
“No it’s not! I’m a big girl, mama said so. And mama’s always right.” I go to the hallway, but I don’t see Hiro climb down the ladder.
“Mi, I can’t sleep with the light on. It’s all bright!” He comes to the hallway.
“The light stays on. The door stays open, Hiro!”
“The light goes off and the door stays closed, Mi!”
“And then mama hollers up to us. “The hall light stays on and the door stays cracked. Understood?”
Me and Hiro stare at each other, both angry, then mama hollers again. “Miharu! Hiroshi!”
“Yes ma’am.” We say in unison.
I follow Hiro to our room because I don’t want him to cut the light off anyway. He’d do that being funny.
Sometime later I notice that the hall light isn’t on, so I cut it on. And because Hiro was being smart, I open the door all the way.
I wake up because it’s too dark and see that he’s cut the hall light off again and shut the door. So I cut the hall light on and open the door. And Hiro cuts the light off and shuts the door.
We keep doing that for about an hour, then somewhere along the way we both fall asleep.
I hear this noise, but it’s so dark I can’t see. Not even my hands. I call Hiroshi. “Hiro?”
“Mi? Did you hear that?” I hear him from above.
“Yeah.” I hear the noise again. “I’m scared, Hiro.”
“Me too, Mi.” I’ve never heard my brother scared before.
We don’t hear the noise anymore, but we’re both too scared to get up and turn the light on.
It’s very quiet. I hear only our breathing. Then I hear the noise again, and I’m more scared cuz I know it’s coming from in the room with us. And the door is shut. Then something comes close to my face on my pillow. I don’t see it cuz it’s so dark in the room. Then the thing hits the bunk bed hard so it shakes with a ‘boom’ noise. It took so much for me not to holler.
Hiro jumps from the bed and turns to light in the room on, but no ones there. And the doors still shut. We look around the room. The person or thing couldn’t have left that fast. The light in the hall was on so the room would have been real bright if the door was opened. We left all the lights on and I slept under my covers the rest of the night.
The next morning we asked mama and Ryuuko did they hear some noises last night. They said no.
“Did one of ya’ll come in our room last night and try to scare us?” Hiro asks the question I was scared to ask.
“No.” Mama shakes her head as she puts pancakes on the table.
“No.” Ryuuko says looking at us. Then he takes some toast with his pancakes.
We’re still eating when mama comes in with 2 boxes. “These are from Ryuuko.”
Me and Hiro forget about last night as we open the gifts. I got the yellow ranger and Hiro got the red ranger from ‘Might Morphin Power Rangers’ one of our favorite shows.
(A/N- How many of ya’ll were around that age when that was out? Lol I know I was)
“Thanks, Ryuuko.” We both smile.
“Well, I gotta go. I’m getting off of work early today. Bye.” Ryuuko gets up and kisses mama on the cheek and waves to us and leaves out the kitchen.
That’s when we heard his keychain shaking. Me and Hiro looked at each other. That was the noise we heard in our room when bed shook.
If this was under better circumstances and I hadn’t have been ready to piss my pants, I’d have laughed.
“Ryuuko said he wasn’t in our room that night, but someone was. Then when we heard his keys, we knew it was him even though we never saw him.” Miharu looks at everyone. “Well come on, what’d ya’ll think?”
“Well it was strange for sure. Anyway, I believe it was him even though he said it wasn’t.” Christie looks at Miharu.
“I agree.” Asuka nods. “Ryuuko’s your step dad, right?”
“Yeah. Me and Hiro never liked him, we just tried for mama. We never really thought about that night again, cuz he never did anything again.” Miharu shrugs her shoulders.
“I’ll go next.” Christie says before the question is asked.
