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 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 congrauated 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.