Chapter One

The Beginning Of Everything

On a rainy Thursday in April a certain group of 3 teenage students(Mai, Keiko, & Michiru) where telling a certain genre stories in their school's Audiovisual Classroom…

"And then, the woman led the policeman through the dark hallways to the public restroom in the back. Once there the policeman told her to go back inside, and wait to see if she could hear the voice again. And she did just as she was told. 'Do you want me to cover you with a red coat?' she answered 'Yes.' And then! 'AAAAAAHHHH!'" Keiko & Michiru gasped at this point. Mai continued, "The policeman burst through the door, and found the girl totally covered in blood; as if she had a red coat draped over her!"

"Mai, you know we hate it when you use that creepy voice!" Michiru stated. Mai giggled at her two best friends' reactions. She knew they were more scared when she told her stories in her certain ominous & creepy voice. 'Same as always~!' Mai thought as she turned off her flashlight. "Scared you guys?" Mai questioned the other two. "You're up next Michiru." She stated.

Michiru who was the last one with a flashlight on started, "Okay, this one is about the old school house-" "Do you mean that creepy old building down the street, that's collapsing?" Keiko interrupted. Michiru nodded and continued, "But it's not collapsing, it was being demolished when all the workers suddenly quit. Because of a curse. Lots of people have died in that school house over the years. Most famously, a teacher committed suicide. So when they decided to build the new school, they started to tear down the old one. But then, the demolition ended the day the roof collapsed on some of the workers. Last year they started the demolition again to make way for a new gymnasium, but a truck driving by lost control and crashed into a group of kids outside; killing some students." Now it was Keiko and Mai who gasped out of fright. "But there's more, I heard about this from an upperclassman. One night a student was walking past the old school house when she saw a face in one of the windows!" Now it was only Mai who gasped. Michiru turned off her flashlight.

Michiru,"Here it goes, One…"

"Two…" Keiko added in a shaky voice.

"Three…" Mai stated with uneasiness.

…

"Four."

All three of them gasped and screamed. Keiko held onto Mai for dear life while Michiru yelled, "The ghost is here to murder us!" But when the lights flickered on they saw a boy clad in black with ebony hair and deep blue eyes.

"Oh please tell me that was you just now." Michiru questioned. The strange boy said, "Am I interrupting?" 'Oh no, not a thing! Except you did just scared the crap out of us!' Mai thought while trying to get out of Keiko's vice grip around her neck. They all sighed and Keiko let go of her hold on Mai and stated, "I thought for sure it was a ghost." On the other hand Mai was trying to get a kink out of her neck because of a certain girl with pigtails. "Sorry, I didn't expect anyone to be here." The boy stated in a cool monotone voice while stepping into the clasroom, "But then I heard your voices and I couldn't help myself." He concluded. Mai raised a unconvinced eyebrow at the strange boy as she thought, "Really?" While Keiko and Michiru blushed over how handsome he was. "Oh, No it's totally fine" Keiko stated as her and Michiru ran up to the boy giggling. The first thing that Mai thought was, 'And he's got 'em. I can't believe I'm the only one who doesn't flirt right then and there with every other cute guy I happen to cross paths with. Although I do have to admit he is pretty attractive."

"What year are you?" Keiko questioned. "I'm seventeen this year." 'Normally someone would just say they're a senior.' Mai thought while she was packing up her things to leave, totally uninterested in joining her two friends in their as she called it, 'Flirt Game'. "So we were just telling ghost stories!" Michiru said, 'Wow, I bet he couldn't even guess!' Mai thought sarcastically as she swung her rucksack over her shoulder. "I see. Well maybe I could join you guys sometime." He added.

"Wow! Do you mean you like telling ghost stories too?" Keiko asked "Yeah." He answered, while the other two laughed Mai was making her way over to them thinking 'Oi-Vey!' " Wow, you seem like a really cool guy what's your name?" Michiru questioned. "My name is Kazuya." 'His eyes, they're not smiling' Mai noted. The other two giggled while Mai wanted to leave, but this Kazuya guy was blocking her only exit. "Okay Kazuya I have one question. Why are you here?" Mai posed as she had a bored look on her face, with the exception of her questioning raised brow. "I have some business to take care of." Kazuya stated plainly. "What are you waiting for?" Mai questioned not sounding the least bit interested.

On the other hand Keiko and Michiru followed Kazuya to where he had moved further into the classroom. "Oh man." Mai was now thinking to herself why she associated with those two. "Do you need any help?" the two ogled teens asked. "No. But I would love to join you the next time you tell ghost stories." "OF COURSE! You're welcome anytime " Michiru answered without hesitance. 'Um HELLO? You aren't gonna ask what I think?' Mai screamed at her friends in her head. "How about tomorrow, after school?" Keiko posed. "Okay, but where?" "Right here!"

Watching this transpire Mai thought 'Something's fishy about him. I better get to the bottom of this… but now I'm going home.' "Well! I'm sorry to not want to participate in this wondrous bout of flirting, but I have a real life and home work to do." Mai stated walking out of the classroom door waving back at her friends.

But what her or the other two love sick girls notice was the curious gleam in Kazuya's eyes watching her form disappear into the hallway while one word ran through his mind. 'Interesting'