Real Fast: thank you for being patient! I don't deserve it at all! But you know...

Also YAY I got this story to actually make sense... Took long pretty much.. Oops :( but here you go! Questions? Message me or leave a review ^^ *is afraid she might make some character OOC but continues anyway*

-EmilyArtStudios

Story:

I step out of the school gate and take a deep breath in. I let it all out and look back at Raira Academy.

From where I stand, classmates walk past me. I also see more students exiting the building from front and back of the school. They chatter away as I look up at our school. "Sayonara..." I say under my breath. I turn to walk the rest of the way home.

My freshman year at Raira has come to a close and I will be entering sophomore year...

I look up at the cloudless sky. The wind seems to smooth the ideas that I have about entering another level of my life. I'm proud of myself actually...

I smile to myself. I hear the normal things going on around me as the mind inside me is thinking about many other things.

There's people going on about break. Their plans for that seem to sound so nice with going to parties, restaurants, or karaoke with friends...

I sigh as I push open the gate to my house.

I check the mail and head inside. My house has been quiet the last few weeks... Maybe they found out...

I go upstairs into my room and sit on my bed.

I go in a daze before pulling an envelope out from under my pillow...

I got this four weeks ago...

A mysterious mail with... A brochure of a very nice looking beach.

There are also tickets inside to enter... Three tickets...

I haven't told Anri or Mikado about them... For many reasons...

•what if... They're busy...

•They could be fake.

•I don't know the person who sent them to me.

I tried remembering why I don't want my parents to know either. I guess it's because they don't want me to leave their sight... Then there's mikado who is a guy and well... I don't know... My dad wouldn't like that...

I close my eyes real tight.

My problem is finding out who sent these to me... There was no letter explaining... Not one little clue...

I put them inside my drawer. I stand up and walk tiredly to my balcony. I get some answers out there... I hope I can find one today...

The sun is still there but it's fading leaving the earth looking like an autumn day...

I want to have fun during break... But how can I do that without getting my feelings in the way?

My right hand automatically lifts up to my chest touching my necklace... The one he gave me.

Izaya Orihara...

'I guess that's another reason...' I thought, and I smiled too...

What if he comes back during those days... And I'm gone..?

The air blew softly and it made that one sound you can only hear when you are trying to listen carefully.

My only options are to tell my parents about it... I guess they'll help me out with this situation... Maybe they'll even agree to letting me go... And with my friends...

Anri and mikado might not even be that busy. They would tell me they would love to come and spend the whole summer with me in some expensive beach. They would tell me everything that is probably bothering them.

Izaya would probably send me a message for once...

My face expression melted into sadness... I can feel it.

My smile faded. My lips even quiver a little and I look away from my backyard... Although that didn't help at all...

I lean on the bar and touch my face with my right hand. That was to stop myself from even letting one tear fall.

At this point, I'm thinking 'what did I do wrong...?'.

I sniff and as I sink down I curl myself into a ball and hold my legs close to my chest. My sight becomes blurry and I can feel a drop fall onto my knee.

He's busy...

I've told myself this a million times...

Now I just...

He didn't send me not one little notice that he's alright...

He's got me worried about him so much...

I drift off into my mind thinking of what might of happened to him. All I got were these terrible thoughts so I stopped myself immediately.

I rub out any tears away from my cheeks and look up at the sky. The air felt different all of a sudden and clouds were starting to appear. It was going to rain but just for a while.

I stand up straight and dust myself off.

I guess I should be making my way back inside...

I step inside and look back. yeah, the rain is pretty much just a drizzle. It'll pass... It'll all pass...

I walk back inside my room while dragging my feet. I'm tired of thinking too much.

I didn't even get one answer...

But I guess I do know what to do now ...

I have someone to talk to... That's Mikado and Anri.

My plan will be to talk to them about this.

I sit on my bed and look over at my clock. Like I said... I'm tired... I guess I should wait on this for tomorrow- it makes sense that way.

I get back up and enter the bathroom for a long relaxing shower... I just hope I don't remember the small tears I used to let out before...

I wake up to the early birds and sunlight of the first day of summer vacation.

I ate breakfast and did my morning routine like always but instead of thinking about school work or maybe let's say... Having friends with special lives- I was thinking about the envelope again.

I had yet to get near it at all today and it's still 9:00 A.M.

I make a deep sigh- not over stress, but to try and calm myself down.

I go over to my phone and search for mikado in my contacts.

It rings once... Then twice...

"Hello?"

Mikado's voice echoes in my ear into my head. I know his voice so well. The last time I talked to him was when he told me I can walk home early on the last day. He had something to do I guess.

"Hello?"

His words repeat and I notice I have completely went blank in thought. I speak- "M-Mikado! I-it's me! Rio..."

He doesn't answer for 8 seconds.

His voice booms into my ear again soon after- "Rio? Hi! How are you?"

I smile from how his voice instantly lighted up just by knowing it's me. I try to make myself say everything I am thinking at that moment but I decided to just talk to him for a while. "I'm good actually! Haven't gotten sick the last time you saw me." I laugh a small bit and then I listen patiently for him to start talking.

"We'll that's good! I've been good too..."

I press my lips together and looked over at where the envelope is hiding. I close my eyes and wait for a yes or no answer...

"Hey... Mikado... Can you maybe help me out with something?"

"What about?"

"It's something that came in the mail..."

"From Izaya?"

My small smile faded by the sound of his name. I look at the floor awkwardly even though I know he can't see my actions. I tried to get to the point. I can't be thinking about a lot of things at once!

"N-no actually... It's not from him..."

"Oh... So who was it from?" The voice he uses now calmed down just a bit... I'll take note of that...

"That's the problem actually... I don't know who it's from but... There's three tickets inside to some place... I've been wanting to get your opinion on the situation and if maybe... I don't know... You and Anri can... Come with... Me if it's legit..?"

Although my voice was all over the place trying to come out and say what's been bothering me (since I don't do that often like before..) I know he heard me.

Those eight seconds of waiting are back and he breaths in.

"First... We have to know why they ended up in your mail box." I hear glass meeting glass at his end. Perhaps he drank some tea and is putting his cup down. "Other questions would be who they're from and why did they gave them to you." I nod my head... But again... I know he can't see me... "But you know..." I press the phone closer to my ear. He spoke softly that time. "If this isn't some non 'hilarious' joke... I would like to come."

My smile that smeared away just a few minutes ago came back and I had to keep myself from going over board. "You will? Tha-that's great!" I start to move my foot in order to get rid of the extra excitement.

"But of course we will discuss about this to Anri if you have not told her already." He said.

"Yes! Yes of course! I'll try to do my own research on these and I can tell my parents about them!"

I hear him laugh just a small bit. "You haven't told them?"

I shake my head. I should really stop that. "Not recently but I tried..."

"I guess we'll do that together." Together? "We'll both come over. I'll let Anri know."

I stand up now- out of habit to want to check my closet. "O-ok! Today would be great!"

"Great. I'll see you later." He said and we both said good bye. I drop my phone on the bed and go over to my closet.

I pause suddenly and start to think of many things... But as always... I ignore it. I open up my closet: first thing I see is the dress Izaya bought me when we went to that one restaurant... I looked away from it without thinking and quickly reached in for something to wear.

Once I find everything I enter the bathroom for a long relaxing shower to remind myself that everything will be okay.

After sometime it was already 10:04.

I go over to the drawers and stuff the mail in my pocket with my phone. I make my way down and see mom in the kitchen. She notices me and smiles. I smile back and walk over to the sofa and look out. I see mikado and Anri walking beside each other talking and smiling. Perfect timing.

I get up and walk to the door.

As I reach for the handle I look over to my mother. "Mom... I invited friends over.."

She looks up at me quickly. She studies me and then looks down at her ingredients again. She nods and puts down what she was cutting. I'm sure she went to go make some tea.

I open the door as soon as I heard the two knocks.

We said hello and I let them in while I close the door.

"Where's everyone?" Mikado asked.

Mom comes out of the kitchen and mikado says thank you and helps her out as she brings the tea over.

"You kids here for a school project?" She laughs as she said it. School is over so I laugh too.

"We want to go and walk around the park mostly." Anri said. She picked up a cup.

"Oh sounds nice. Have fun!" She give me a warming smile and walks over to continue her cooking.

I sit down on the couch mikado sits on and pull out the envelope. "This is it..."

Mikado studies is and looks over at me. "Have you told her yet?"

I look up at mikado and shake my head no. I feel like telling my parents when I know for sure... Formulating a plan with Anri and mikado will help me get the concept of the situation.

Mikado understood why and continues to drink from his cup.

I look over at Anri and smile. She smiles too but averts my eyes in the last couple of seconds. I found it odd but again... I must not think too much of it.

"The park... I guess it would be ok to talk over there..." I said.

"For the most part I feel like maybe we should check the post office first and then walk over to the park." Mikado takes another sip of the tea. He really seems like he doesn't just want to leave it here unfinished.

I nod at him. That sounds like a plan.

"Any guesses on who it might be?" He asks me but Anri slips out an answer. I know what she said but I tried not to make her repeat it. It was mikado who asked her.

"Probably from masaomi...?"

I look up at her. That's not what I expected her to say...

"Maybe... But I don't know if masaomi really has the kind of money to get three tickets to this.."

I stare down at the envelope with a more stern face. Izaya has money...

Mikado stands up and looks over to my mom. "Thank you for the tea Mrs. Kamichika. Well be heading out now."

"Thank you for visiting Rio!" She calls back.

"It's a pleasure."

I stuff the envelope back into my pocket and I stand. We head out the door into a nice warm day and start talking about the problem... As if we were detectives now.