Shadow tossed and turned sweating. He was dreaming about Maria's death over and over again. He screamed her name over and over again, she ran his room shaking him and kissing for 2 seconds, until he woke.{N/A: read summary} "Maria, I m sorry if I woke you."Shadow sighed. "You didn`t wake me,Shadow,I woke myself." The twelve year old smiled. "Shadow... I love you."Maria kissed him, his eyes shot open. She pulled away a half an hour later, when she heard the professor walk in. "Maria I thought you were in school, what are doing kissing shadow?" He asked. "I… uh… wasn`t feeling good, yeah I wasn`t feeling good." Maria was a terrible liar. "So, you`re making-out with shadow instead of resting? Maria, darling I know you made-out with him for the past half an hour, and you're grounded." He dragged Maria to the school sector. She told all her friends, they knew it was Maria`s number one goal, and they congratulated her, Shadow could barely pay attention in training. "Shadow what's wrong?" Gerald asked. "It's Maria's soft, tender lips is what's wrong." Shadow answered. Surprised, Gerald told Maria that she could no longer "see" Shadow, but be friends with him. "But, that isn't fair, what if shadow loves me back, I can't just reject him!"Maria was in tears. Maria, I'm sorry but you two, n-no I just can't have you two... "Dating", Cause one thing leads to another and you're in the hospital with a child! I don't want to either kill you or shadow!"Gerald had finally won the argument he left, Shadow walked in and kissed Maria dragging her onto her bed they both deepened the kiss."Ah-Ha!"Gerald burst in, they both broke the kiss. "Shadow,this way,please."Gerald leaded him out. "Goodbye sweetie."Shadow waved to Maria, Gerald slapped Shadow across the face,hard. He slammed the door shut.
