Chapter 1; The dream

"Tell you what," he said admiringly, his crimson eyes staring into hers.

"Tell me what?" She asked questionly not wanting to break the eye contact. He blushed a little shade of red but kept smiling down at her. He took her hand in his and both of them looked at the sun setting down across the horizon over the sea. She kept blinking, glad that the sky around her was the same colour as her bright red cheerful soft cheeks were. He stopped looking at the sun across the horizon and turned his face back to hers. She looked back at him and their eyes locked once again.

"Tell me what?" she asked again calmly, he smiled again at her.

"No matter what comes between us," he started, still holding on to her hand.

"Never give up, and fight back?" she smiled, he smiled at her again;

"Yeah that too, but…"

She looked back at him as his gaze went from her eyes down to their hands.

"But?" She started.

He looked back into his eyes deeply.

"Never forget our friendship" he said indignantly gripping onto her hand tightly

Her blonde hair blew on to her face and she went to brush her hair back, but something helped her brush it back. He closed his eyes and she did too as their lips met as they pulled into a strong kiss. She could hear his mind speaking to her;

"Don't forget me, Don't forget me, Don't forget me"

The winds had changed and something suddenly towered over the duo. It's cold mist pulled her away from him, but he struggled to keep her within his grip. Then it crashed over their heads in between them causing them to separate.

"Zoe, absolutely no naps will be accepted in between classes!" Mr Lenchi reminded her. Zoe pulled herself up taking her head off her desk ignoring her class mates snickering at her. Mr Lenchi wrote on the board, what looked like an impossible equation written in chalk.

"Now Zoe, lets see if you were listening correctly earlier today." Zoe shivered under her desk, for she had been dreaming of a memory that she once had with Takuya, her

ex-boyfriend, who had seemed to forgotten her and their promise when they both broke up. But one thing Zoe never knew was, what exactly broke them up?

"Well Zoe?" Mr Lenchi broke into her thoughts. Zoe cursed herself for even thinking of Takuya and not even listening to the teacher at all during the lesson.

"What is 5(x+2)-2(3-2x)3?" Mr Lenchi pointed at the question on the board. Zoe looked at it dumfoundly, "Great, Just Great, if he didn't have to invade my thoughts all the time maybe I would know just what to do right now, Think! Zoe Think!" she thought uneasily.

"Well Zoe?" Mr Lenchi continued torturing her. Zoe stared at the question in front of her, Mr Lenchi was just about to take it out on her when someone knocked on the classroom door. A boy with dark brown hair, with tan skin wearing a black sweat shirt unzipped over a red shirt with light brown shorts stood in the doorway. His hair was full of sweat and was wearing black and white runners. He looked like he had just finished playing a long game of soccer. Zoe immediately looked towards his direction. He entered the room with high posture.

"Mr Lenchi, since I just had soccer practice, I kinda forgot about my assignment" he started. Mr Lenchi turned away from the board.

"Are you going to at least hand it in today Takuya Kanbara?"

Takuya looked down at his shoes, for he had not completed, nor started it yet.

"Umm, I was kinda wondering…" he started. Mr Lenchi shook his head giving up.

"Fine then, it must be back to me by Friday" he answered.

Takuya was just about to walk outside of the classroom when all of a sudden he saw a glance of someone familiar, really familiar. He shook his head and walked outside of the classroom.

"I really should stop staring at that girl" he thought.

Zoe stopped staring at the door, it was him alright, the guy that used to be her bestfreind and her boyfriend.

"Ahem, Now class, where were we?" Mr Lenchi cleared his throat looking towards Zoe's direction.

"Zoe, we will discuss…." He started when the bell cut in. Everyone scrambled for freedom outside for lunch. Zoe sighed in relief and seeing her opportunity she decided to run outside before he would keep her in for detention.

"Class dismissed" the teacher sighed letting his head drop on top of his desk.

Zoe walked around the corridors and looked into her friends class rooms, but to her dismay they weren't there. "Perhaps they're all going to pull another stupid prank on me again" she thought. Looking around herself she spotted a small group of boys her age that looked familiar. Immediately seeing them she decides to walk up to them and greet them like she had always done before.

"Oof!"

"S-sorry"

Zoe bumped into someone, but this someone was no one she had knew at all. Attempting to try figure out who it was she guessed,

"Koji?"

No answer

"Kouchi?"

No answer

"JP?"

She said in an evil tone, but still no one answered. The boy kept standing still as she kept guessing.

"Takuya?"

As she said his name she looked down sadly at her feet.

"No, Takuya forgot about me and our promise, he wouldn't.." she mumbled.

The boy took out his hand helping her up. Zoe looked up, there standing above her was a boy with brown hair with blonde streaks. It was hard to get up though, due to her purple skirt would climb up. The boy looked down at her smiling, as he helped her up seeing she couldn't get up properly by herself.

Zoe pushed herself off of him after he had pulled her up. She blushed bright red, as he smiled again. "Darn that smile, its just like Takuya's warm smile, no Takuya was different, he used to be more kinder and friendlier to me" she thought. But there was something about this guy that made her feel warm inside like Takuya did.

"You ok?" he asked her, showing a bit of concern in his face. She looked back up at him quickly.

"Yeah" she said dreamily.

"Were those your friends you mentioned earlier on?"

She looked around for them, they must of ditched her as she had bumped into this guy, then she quickly looked back up at him.

"Yeah, they are" she answered.

"Name's Kayu, what's yours?" he asked.

"Zoe" she answered.

"Are you new here?" she asked him seeing that he didn't look familiar.

"Kinda, I've been here for three days" he replied. Zoe started smiling and started talking with him as their conversation continued.

Meanwhile Takuya walked around the corridors looking for his other friends, when the two's conversation caught his eye. Takuya shook his head in dismay, "Why do I keep staring at that girl? She looks so familiar, I don't know why I keep staring at her, I don't know her, do I?"

The two started flirting around each other, seeing this a hint of jealousy ran up Takuya's face. He stared at them coldly. Zoe turned around facing Takuya, catching a quick glimpse of him as Kayu pulled her back around to face him again they started laughing again. But something stopped her laughing, she whipped around and realised Takuya was watching them. Takuya shook his head un able to remember Zoe what so ever, but he couldn't help but stare at her. He had always been thinking of her all the time, she was in his dreams, she was always there in front of him. "I'm gonna find who she is, I can't keep thinking she is non existent when I'm staring at her" he thought to himself, he was going to find out.