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Yuki's POV

I sighed as I stared out the window blankly. The stars are beautiful tonight, I thought subconsciously. They really were, twinkling merrily against the navy night sky, which met with perfect harmony against the sapphire, crystal clear ocean. The sound of the waves was highly relaxing and I found myself opening up the window and leaning out to inhale the beautiful salty and crisp night air. There, much better.

As I propped myself on my elbows, resting on the window sill, I let my mind drift back to the events earlier this week. Everything had been so hectic…as soon as the semester had ended, Chairman Cross (yes, I wasn't going to even try calling him that word) had suddenly declared he was taking a vacation and insisted on taking The Family. At first, I'd thought it meant Zero, himself and me but apparently Kaname was coming too, along with Yori and quite a few day class fan girls who caught the news at the last minute and ran back to the school with their bags.

It turned out the vacation spot just had to be one of Aido's estates, curtsey of Kaname, on a beach. Not that I minded, of course. I loved the ocean, the mysteriousness of it and how my head always cleared at the scent of the air. Does it really? I found myself questioning my thoughts. I sniffed the air, as if to prove a point and my mind magically cleared. In fact it was so clean I had to wrack my brain to chase back my train of thoughts.

Where was I…I asked myself in agony. I hated the feeling of thinking about something a second ago, yet unable to recall it. After quite a while of viciously killing brain cells, I finally remembered I was thinking about my love of the ocean. As gentle breeze stirred and lifted my hair, I shivered and sneezed as my eyes began to water.

Quickly, I turned away from the window and peeled my numb fingers off my cheeks, arranging my doona in a comfortable position ready for bed. The ocean was fine, but the breezes it brought were my problems. I groaned as the pounding headache I'd felt earlier from the day return. Being sick during the holidays was the worst possible scenario to happen, but then again I attracted disaster so I was pretty much used to it.

I stared at the ceiling, suddenly feeling isolated and alone. Back at the academy I've always had the reassuring presence of Yori at the opposite end of the room the rare occasions I returned to the dorms and had the energy to look around. Not that I minded having a huge room to myself, it's just that…the feeling of isolation mingled with loneliness was a little too much.

Earlier on I've had to pass up on the chance to go rock climbing at a nearby reserve, and now the Chairman had taken everyone for midnight star gazing. Without me. Again. In fact, the whole cabin…thing…yes, thing. I'm not entirely sure how to describe it other wise. It was not a little beach house, but a building, camp week away style complete with separate rooms and corridors. I'd counted earlier on, and there were about 12 rooms. So pretty darned big if you asked me.

I knew there was a girl living at room to my left because the light was never off and by the sound of the footsteps tiptoeing everywhere, especially past my room, a fan girl too. Which meant…I swallowed uncomfortably. Kaname was living next door on my right. There never was any noise coming from him the previous nights and even now, the room was silent. Then it dawned on me: Kaname, quiet, handsome Kaname had gone midnight star watching too…

A lump formed in my throat along with a heavy feeling on my chest that I couldn't quite push down. Of course he'd go star watching, why wouldn't he? Star watching was the sophisticated sorta stuff sophisticated people, especially aristocrats probably did with taste, so there was no way he wouldn't go…watching the stars….at midnight…with his fan girls…

If I could've seen myself just now, I would've sworn my aura darkened, reflecting my dark mood and unpleasant thoughts. I quickly slapped my hands over my eyes. "What am I thinking?" I thought aloud. "I'm supposed to be cheerful, and innocent, and…YUKI! That's right, I'm Yuki!" As silence settled into the room once more, I suddenly realized how stupid it would've sounded if someone was actually still in the cabin. Blushing, I muttered in a small voice, "Well that was stupid."

As I turned onto my side, hands tightly covering my eyes waiting for sleep to come and the god damned cursed headache to go kill it self to hell and hopefully never come back, I suddenly had a feeling tonight would NOT be very peaceful for some reason.