Thoughts of her past as well as the most absurd things, such as her mom being mad at finding her blood on the floor, where all running through Starr's head as she kept her eyes clenched shut.
"I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death, we are in eternity now."
She would repetitively think of a quote she had remembered from an old Sunday morning show on one of the many American channels in Tokyo. Its tone struck a cord with her and she had hoped it would give her comfort in a dire situation if ever need be - though she could never of predicted such a situation like the one she was in now.
After several repetitions it would hit her - the door was still covering her body and she hadn't been attacked.
"It's...quiet?" she questionably muttered to herself, wondering where the creature had gone, but before she could do or say another thing she'd suddenly hear a woman's voice.
"Whoops....do you have any food!?"
The feminine voice caused her to slowly stick her head out from under the door covering her, and there she'd glimpse a young woman - who appeared no older than 20 - standing in front of the creature that had busted into her family home moments earlier. It was now dead, and the young woman before it was covered in blood......a sight that caused Starr to cautiously push the door off of her, however when she noticed her cellphone on the ground she'd quickly, and clumsily, make her way to her feet, grab the device, and frantically run into the first floor bathroom - locking the door behind her and sliding to the ground hard.
"119, 119!!*" she whispered while dialing the police - blood smearing all over her touch screen.
When the operator finally picked up Starr couldn't help but be inconsolable to the point of making little sense.
"Police, send the police, ambulances, help me please! There's blood, it's dead, she's bleeding all over, my head is bleeding, please, help me, call my mom!!"
"Ma'am can you calm down, please, give me your address then repeat what's wrong!"
"It's dead!!!! It tried to kill me!!"
Starr would continue to lose it for the next 60 seconds before the woman on the other end of the line calmed her down enough that she was able to give her address. When she did the operator's tone would change.
"Ohhhh, you're in that neighborhood. Don't worry, we've gotten a number of calls - police are heading there through traffic as we speak, give it another ten minutes okay? Do you want me to stay on the phone with you while-"
Before the woman could finish Starr would drop her phone then bring her knees up to her chest.
"Ten minutes? Why so long.....why so long!"
As she hugged her knees she told herself she wasn't going to move until she heard sirens. The amount of blood she saw on the girl outside in her living room was unnerving and she just assumed the girl was beyond her help now, since any human being would go straight into shock or pass out with so much blood loss.
She had completely forgotten the words the girl had uttered, but she'd remember the blood on her clothing as she dropped her head in between her knee caps and sighed - tapping her feet unconsciously.
*They use 119(or 110 for less serious things) over there, not 911. =)