Chapter One- An Odd Goodbye

When the alarm went off at 4:30am, I really wasn't ready to get up. I wondering if my step brother Darien was up yet. Most likely not, he is never up on time. I slowly got up and I felt the cold air on my back. Darien likes leaving the windows open, even in the winter time for some unknown reason. I don't like it really, ex specially on colder nights, because it makes my room freezing. I wish he wouldn't leave them open all night. There are other ways to bring air in the house, but I wasn't going to say much about it. It was nothing more then a minor annoyance

I went into the bathroom and stepped into the nice hot shower. I was trying to clean up my cuts that always manage to reopen some time during the night. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn't getting attacked in my sleep, or that my nightmares weren't real with the open wounds. And I was also trying to warm my freezing body, I wish I could have stayed in there forever but I knew I couldn't and it is still cold out there. So once all my cuts looked well cleaned and I washed my hair. I slowly got out and wrapped a towel around my body. Then went and got my school uniform on.

Most people didn't like wearing the school uniforms, but I didn't mind them, I don't have to pick out a new out fit every day before school starts, plus I blended in better that way. I loved to blending in, saves from some of headache of being teased or picked on about whatever I choose to wear. Of course I still get teased about being smart, but I see that has a complement. Although, Deanna will probably never stop teasing me every chance she gets, or attempting to make my life hell. I am not sure why she doesn't like me, but recently I haven't been letting her get to me, much. It's not middle school anymore.

When 5:30am came around I went to get Darien up. I knew this was going to be the hardest thing that I had to do all day, including fighting the negaverse. He never got up on time but somehow, unlike Serena, he is never late for class. I guess it is a typical thing for a senior, but I am only a freshman and I hate being late for class. I never have been without a good reason, near death to be honest or the end of the world, and I don't plan on starting now.

I walked into his room, turned on the lights and throw a towel at him "It's 5:30am! It's time you get up and get ready for school" And like every other morning all he did was roll over "Come on Darien, I don't want to be late for school" I sighed standing at the door way. I can't believe him! How can he plan on passing if he is so lazy!!

"You never want to be on time or late, just early" He moaned and got up. I heard the door knock, so went to answer it and left Darien to get ready for school. I knew it had to be Greg, it was his last day in Tokyo for a while.

I opened the door and it was Greg, my boyfriend,"Hey come in" I stepped back had he entered and stood in the hallway of my apartment. I guess I felt weird having a boyfriend. Has Greg and I got older are relationship was more forced, or destiny then love. But it never really bothered me, I had my school work and he had, whatever he done. Which I honestly never really cared to ask about.

"Why don't we not go to school today?" He came closer has I moved back and before I realized it he had me corned up against the wall, "we can stay here just you and me"

I starred at him with a blank expression on my face, momentarily before I spoke, "I cant miss any school with the scouts on over time, my grades are slipping" I know missing school wouldn't make a difference, I was ahead three to eight chapters in every one of my classes, but that was my excuse for everything. I couldn't stand missing school, unless it was because I had to save the world.

"Ami" Greg warp his arms around me tightly "Today is my last day here for a while, let's spend it together" He moved to kiss me and I turned my head. Kissing him was the last thing I wanted to do.

"Then you should spend it at school, and say goodbye to all our friends" He look like he was starting to get mad. He got mad often, but you wouldn't know it by just looking at him. No one other then our close friends believed that Greg had a temper. "Greg, I can't miss school, not with Serena on her little mini strike against Helios, What if something happened that I need to miss school, and then I'd be in trouble.. It's my future on the line."

"Whatever you want, Ami" He let me go by throwing me again the wall. It didn't hurt, I was used to getting thrown around by monsters or the enemy. Then he glared at me and it sent shivers down my spine. "But I am not going to school" He then smiled at me, has if nothing happened "I better go, Love ya, Ami" Love ya, is one of my least favorite expression it's so not sincere in any sense. Then he kisses me for the last time in three months, and I was for relieved.

Greg has changed so much in the last 3 years that I have known him. I am not sure what had happened to him when he came back from America but he was far from the same person that I met in middle school. He went from being just like me, smart and love to study, to someone, well, that was like every other jerk at school. I found it funny that my soul mate was the one person that I didn't want to be around. But things would change, or at least that is what I am told. He is my soul mate, right? So I have to love him sometimes