Chapter 2:

"Rin..." I muttered, turning back to the school gates, searching for his bright crmson hair, or his obviously out of place Sawezuka uniform, but I couldn't find it to my extreme disappointment.

"Haru?" Mako called out as him and the others had gone on without me.

"..." I was torn between two equally tempting options; stay with the guys, walk home, and forget about Rin, or search for the ringtone I heard, find Rin... and apologise.

Memories of the past caught up into a hurricane flooded my mind, ricocheting until my head began to spin; beating him in the race, seeing his crying face, him running away from me... not accepting my apology or sympathy...

I grabbed onto the metal fence at the front of the school to keep my balance, trying to regain vision to see what was going on, but all I could hear was the distant voices.

"What's wrong with him?"

"Is Nanase acting up?"

"He looks ill..."

"Can he hear us?"

"Haru?"

The last voice was familiar to me, one that I had heard a minite ago, or maybe an hour, as I'd lost all concept of time.

"Mako?" I managed to choke out, before everything went black.

I awoke to a bright white room which I recognised as the matron's office.

"He's awake!" A voice called out, Nagisa, I believed.

"Nagisa?" I called out, wanting anyone to help me, console me.

"Ahhh, Haru! Shhh, you'll make it worse!" Nagisa exclaimed.

I sighed heavily and sat up, adjusting to the white lights. I scanned the room, counting the people there; Rei, Nagisa, Makoto, Gou and Ama.

"Mmm?" I mumbled. "Make what worse?"

"Ahhh, you have a head injury, nothing serious though..."

"Then why am I here?"

"Ummm, we brought you here until you woke up, you passed out, Ya know?"

Groaning, I stretched my stiff limbs and stood up, glad that I was in my normal clothes and not hospital robes. Everyone stared at me as if I was crazy, or superhuman, as I walked to the door.

"What?" I asked.

"Well, you're injured..." Mako said, sounding worried.

This time I snapped. "I'm not a baby!" I shouted uncontrollably, "Just because I fainted doesn't mean I'm supreme controller of the world! So stop treating me like I am!"

And with that, I ran out of the room, tears streaming down my face, and I soon found myself at home. This time, I knew I would lock the door.