Chapter 2 - What the Hell Just Happened?!

Aya smiled in her success as she found herself outside the school's theatre, but after a few seconds, she realized that she had no idea what to do next or why she had even followed Shuro. 'Her face. Remember? She looks like the girl the in my dreams.'

"What do I do now! This is what I get for not thinking this out."

"Not thinking what out?" Aya jumped when she felt an arm around her shoulders. She turned her head to see Shuro, a cocky grin on the girl's face.

"Why don't you join us, Aya? It's a lot cooler inside."

"O-okay." Aya allowed herself to be led into the building, Shuro's arm still around her. Having only been in the theatre for assemblies, Aya had never realized just how big it was without all of the noisy students. The only other people in the building were Shuro's group of friends who had scattered themselves throughout the first three rows.

"Shuro! What are you doing?" A guy on stage had his arms crossed in front of him, "C'mon, it's our turn." Another of the said friends had climbed up to sit on the edge of the stage.

"Let's go-oh! We've got fifteen minutes of lunch left and we gotta practice!" Shuro smiled again as she steered Aya towards a seat on the isle away from her friends.

"Well duty calls. I wanna talk to you after school. Meet me here, 'k?"

"S-sure." Aya sank down in her seat as Shuro walked up onto the stage. The girl who had been yelling earlier, had returned to her seat and was now turned around, yelling at the sound booth.

"The third CD, Yuzu! Accompaniment CD, track 12, Don't Do Sadness and Blue Wind from Spring Awakening." She stayed turned around glaring at the booth until the opening bars of the song filtered through the speakers and the guy on stage began to sing. 'Wow, he's really good.' Aya's gaze went immediately to the stage as soon as she heard Shuro's voice as she exchanged lines with the guy.

"... God. You remember how we used to run back to my house and play pirates, Ven LeBergman, Melchior Gabor, you and I?" Aya's eyes widened as Shuro began to sing.

"Spring and summer,
Every other day,
Blue wind gets so sad.
Blowin' through the thick corn,
Through the bales of hay,
Through the open books on the grass.

Spring and summer..." Aya took a shuddering breath. Shuro's voice was beautiful. 'I can almost feel it.' She couldn't take her eyes off of the other girl even after the song ended.

"... Don't do sadness. Just don't care."

"... Spring and summer." With a quick glance in Aya's direction, Shuro seated herself in the front row between two of her applauding friends. The group was able to get through one more song and skit before the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. Aya waited until the last of Shuro's friends had left. As she neared the door someone grabbed her waist from behind.

"So, what's your next class?"

"Shuro! Uh, um... L-leadership-"

"Oh! Well then you can afford to miss that." Shuro turned the two of them around and kicked the door close behind her. Releasing Aya, Shuro leaned against the closed double doors.

"I decided that what I wanted to talk to you about can't wait," Shuro's grin vanished as she spoke, "You have dreams about me don't you?" Aya couldn't speak.

"I'll take that as a 'yes'. The thing is, you're in my dreams too. I don't know why, we've never been friends or anything. Do you know what the deal is?" Aya could only shake her head.

"Well, what does your dream say, Aya?"

"W-what?" Shuro crossed her arms in front of her.

"Your dream, doesn't the dream you say something before you wake up? Mine keeps telling me that I can't be happy unless I find the 'fallen heavenly maiden' and it shows you, only... different. Your hair is black and your eyes are a gold." Shuro's gaze redirected to the floor. 'She looks kinda embarrassed.' Aya observed.

"That's what I see too," Aya began, "Before I wake up my dream tells me that to be happy I have to find the person 'whose voice touches the soul' or something like that. You look different too, long black hair and gold eyes." Shuro fingered her bleached and dyed, shoulder length hair.

"Aya, I don't mean to sound like a sci-fi B-movie but, I think this means that we were supposed to meet each other. I wonder why though."

"I guess- Shuro! Your hair!" The girl's hair began to change to black as if someone had poured black dye on the top of her head and the color dripped down. Shuro clutched frantically at the now, black tresses.

"What the hell! It's growing too?!" Sure enough, the strands began to elongate, only stopping when they reached her lower back. She suddenly covered her eyes with a gasp of pain.

"Shuro! Are you okay?!" Aya hurried over to try and remove the other girl's hands.

"No, I'm not! My eyes are burning!" Aya gasped when she finally pried away Shuro's hands. Her eyes were gold. Shuro looked panicked at Aya.

"What the hell just happened?!"

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I picked Shuro's song to be Blue Wind because I imagined her voice to be similar to Lauren Pritchard's.

The next chapter's gonna explain a lot.

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