Chapter 10: Not again

Isabella's POV

"Come on Isabella! You need to cheer up!" Maylu said and Ella mumbled an agreement.

"I'm a murderer." I repeated to her. I had been saying that to any of my friends who had talked to me all week.

"No your not! It was her fault for going into full-synchro. It was her fault she died." Maylu said.

"But-" I began before Maylu snapped.

"That's it! You desperately need to be cheered up! You're coming with me!" Maylu started to drag me out of the dorm.

"No I don't want to go!" I grabbed the table and my PET.

Maylu continued to drag me out of the building to the park. "No anywhere but here!" I begged and closed my eyes as we neared the park.

Maylu stopped dragging me and said, "Will you please open your eyes!"

"No." I closed my eyes until they hurt.

"OPEN YOUR EYES!" Maylu sounded very scary. I opened my eyes slowly at first and then saw the surprise of a life.

"Happy birthday Isabella!" All of my friends said. I felt very stupid. I had been to busy moping that I forgot it was my birthday!

"Aw, you guys didn't have to do this!" I said.

"You want us to leave and take everything with us?" Yai asked.

"No, party on! ^-^" I said and music played out of nowhere. I chatted with everybody until the song "Ordinary Day" came on.

"I LOVE THIS SONG!" I yelled and sang while dancing. Everyone chuckled at my silly dancing. When the song ended I collapsed on the bench breathing hard.

"Okay, lets have some cake and open presents!" I said once I was breathing normally again.

Lan got me some new battle chips, Maylu got me some stuff for my drawing notebook, Tory got me a few of my favorite books, Dex got me a gift card to Applebee's, Chaud got me a bracelet with my name on it, and Yai gave me $200.

"Thanks guys! I love the gifts! Now let's eat!" I said and pumped my fist in the air. The rest of the party went on pretty normally, if you call Dex devouring the cake before I could even cut a piece off for me normal. I offered to help clean up, but they forced me to go back to the dorm. Though I sunk back out when they left and went to the part of the park that they weren't in. I sat down by the water.

"Hey you." A voice I knew by heart now said. I got up and hugged him. "Hey." I said.

"Happy birthday. I got you something. Close your eyes." He said. I closed my eyes and I felt him put something around my neck. I opened my eyes and I saw that he had put a locket around my neck. He put his hands on my shoulder and I opened the locket and saw a picture of me and him on one side and on the other side it said, "I'll always be there for you."

"I love it!" I said and kissed his cheek. He hugged me from behind.

"That's good." He said. I was about to ask him what his name was, again, when Ella said, "Maylu and the others should be done cleaning up, and if we're not at the dorm, we're going to be in major trouble!"

"Alright. I have to go." I sighed. I gave him one more hug before I walked away.

"Nice going Ella! I was just about to find out who he was!" I glared at her.

"Oh, my bad, but seriously we need to get back before Maylu does so STEP ON IT!" Ella yelled. I ran as fast as I could and made it in right before Maylu came in.

'Phew! Just made it!' I thought.

"Hey Bell. Did you like the party?" Maylu asked.

"I loved it! I actually forgot it was my birth-" I said before an emergancy came on our computers.

"Citizens of Den Tech City, be on the look out for suspitious characters. We have information that a new evil organization has arisin. They call themselves World Six and they claim to be twice as bad and tougher than World Three. They haven't struck yet, but the attack is expected any day now." The news person said.

I glanced at Maylu and heard her mumble under her breath, "Not again..."