Chapter 2- The first dream and a boy?

She was surrounded in darkness. She was screaming and crying, although she couldn't understand why. She was blinded, seeing only darkness.

"Chihiro."

She opened her eyes, only to find emptiness, a bottomless pit with no beginning or end. It was pitch black, dark, cold.

"You have to go! Leave before it's too late!" She focused on the voice. It sounded familiar.

She crawled forward, feeling nothing. She stood up shakily, not knowing what direction she was facing.

"So dark. Where do I go? I need help."

"Mom? Dad? Akari? Anyone? Please I need help!" She sobbed. "Haku?" As soon as she said his name, a thousand little white eyes lit up. The eyes were empty, but they were all staring at her. She shook. She remembered those eyes. All those years ago, when she had saved Haku. The "spirit graveyard" under Yubaba's room was filled with these shifting, ghostly shapes.

Through the shifting bodies of the spirits, she saw a faint light, glowing enough to shred light on something laying on the ground.

The thing shifted, and she jumped back. It moved closer. Two steely eyes peered back at her. They smiled a sad smile. Chihiro recognized those eyes so well. The eyes she longed to see. The eyes of her first friend in this town. The eyes of…

"Haku."


"Chihiro!" A voice commanded. She bolted up in her chair and hit her knees against the bottom of the desk.

"Owww…" Chihiro rubbed her knees and grit her teeth. When she realized that the whole class was staring at her, her gaze shot up to meet her teacher's, Miss Sotoko.

"Well Chihiro?" she asked, giving Chihiro a steely glare. She sat, digging small crescents in her palms. She looked around and at the chalk board to see what she had missed. Miss Sotoko sighed and told me that Chihiro would come to her classroom after school.

"Anyways, Seiran, how about you?" She pointed the piece of chalk at some kid in the first row. Chihiro tried to pay attention to the lesson, but soon her mind drifted off to the strange dream she had last night. As she replayed it for the fifth time, the bell rang, and she darted off to the cafeteria.

"Getting detention on your first day to college sucks, and especially with Miss Sokoto." Chihiro twirled around, to see Seiran standing behind her. Seiran had choppy brown hair down to his shoulder blades, with highlights. He was one of the "hot popular guys" of the school.

He walked past her and paused, looking back at her. Chihiro guessed he was waiting for her to follow him.

Hmph. Well, I'm not going to be some little ducking following after this guy she huffed. Chihiro marched past him toward the cafeteria. He chuckled and she glared back at him.

"So welcome to Kohaku College! This is a pretty hard college to get to, so you must be as smart as you are pretty." He flashed a smile that wasn't glued on straight.

"Yep. Oh I mean no… ah okay. Yeah that's fine. Sure…" She mumbled half-heartedly. Actually, she had a terrible time in school, and the only thing she excelled in was art. Chihiro had gotten in through her math and science skills too. But she spoke gibberish in all other languages and she flunk at history. Her P.E. wasn't so bad, although she didn't like it much. And with her first day at college and spacing out all the time, her grades were already wilting.

Seiran and Chihiro talked (or more like he rambled and she listened) until we reached the cafeteria, where he blew her a kiss and sauntered over to one of his "girl tables."

Chiriro looked around, until she spotted Akari.

"Ohmigod. You are so lucky Chihiro!" Akari turned to her when she sat down.

"What do you mean?"

"What? You know what I mean!"

Chihiro stared at her for a while. She watched as Akari's smile went through the steps of turning into a frown.

"Jeez, wakey wakey, the sun has been up for a while Chihiro! I mean that you got to walk all the way to the cafeteria with Seiran, and he even blew you a kiss! Freshmen are never that lucky!" She was bouncing in her seat with a glow of girly something that Chiriro had yet to discover. Chihiro stared as that too, went through the steps of shutting down.

"Oh." Was all Chihiro said. Akari stared at her for a while. Then a sinister grin slowly spread across her face. "What…?" Chihiro asked slowly, as Akari's bouncing energy returned.

"The only way that you wouldn't be moved by Seiran giving you attention, is if you had another boy on your mind!" Chihiro jolted. For some odd reason, she could feel her face heat up. "Ha ha, I knew it! Chi's got a boyfriend!"

Chihiro sighed. "Chi?"

"All of my bud's hafta have nicknames!" Akari practically shouted. "But don't try to get off subject~ so do you have a special someone?"

Chi sighed and stabbed her straw into her juice box. What was she waiting for? Akari was right, she really didn't have anyone.


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