The next day I woke up soaked and cold. I crawled out of the tent and got ready for school. It was had seeing as I couldn't stand up.

"How am I going to get to school? Maybe I should just go to the hospital. But still how." I said to my self. Then I saw a perfect walking stick.

I limped my way to the hospital. They said it was just a sprain and gave me cruches. I got to school late and went as fast as I could to my class. It was math. Karei looked at me and said "What did you do try to jump off a building". I looked at her and gave her a dirty look.

I went to my next 3 classes and then lunch. I didn't have anything money or anything to eat.

"Hey" Koyuki had just walked over.

I just looked at him

"Yah so I think we may have gotten of on the wrong foot yesterday."

"Why do you want to be my friend?" I asked

Koyuki sat down "Well your new and I thought you could use a friend seeing as this is a new place and all."

"Thanks" I said with a smile. Probably the first really good feeling I have had in a long time.

"So what happened? What with the cruches?"

"I tripped and twisted it."

"How?"

"I was runni...I fell down the stairs at home." I caught my self. I had almost told him what really happened but I wanted to keep home or lack there of a secret. After I said this my stomach gurgled.

"Why don't you get some lunch?" he asked me

I hesitated to answer. "uhh...well...I don't any money"

"Why didn't you bring lunch?" he asked

"uhh...so I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't..."

Koyuki cut me off. "It's ok. Why didn't you answer my question?"

Suddenly the bell rang. I bolted out of the lunch room. I couldn't tell him. I felt bad about not telling him but I feel like if he knows he won't want to be my friend anymore or he'll tell everyone. I went to my last class which was study today. I walked in and Karei was sitting on one of the decks talking to her friends. I went to my desk by the window and looked out at the sky. It was cloudy and dark almost as if...it started to rain. I lifted my head and checked the clock. I still had a half an hour to go and it takes me 15-20 minutes to get home. The rain was coming down really hard. Then Koyuki walked over. "Hey why didn't you answer my question at lunch?". I looked away.

"Yami, is there something going on at home? Are they starving you? Yami look at me"

I kept my head down.

"Yami?" He said in a calm but demanding voice. He took my hand in his and said "Yami I care about you. You can trust me. If you need to tell me something you can."

"How can you care about me? You don't know anything about me?" I said still not making eye contact.

"Well, I'm trying but you keep avoiding my questions. Just answer me this. What's your home life like?

I lifted up my head and just looked into his eyes. I was about to say what my home was when the bell rang "I gotta go. Sorry" I said as I walked out. I got out of the school as fast as I could and limped my way home as fast as I could. I got to the forest entrance. I went in and every time my cruches hit the mud they sunk in. I finally got to the heart tree and I went to my tent as fast as possible. When I got there I was soaked with mud and rain. I fell to my knees and thought about what I should do, when I hear foot steps and rustling in the bushes. I turned around and saw nothing. I sat still. If it was anything dangerous I'd better not move quickly. The rustling stopped. I grabbed my cruches and tried to stand up but they kept sinking into the mud. I couldn't walk. I sat in the mud waiting and thinking. What was I to do now. Last night I lost my food. Tonight I lost everything ells. All of a sudden I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jump and fell side ways into the mud. I saw who it was... "Koyuki how did you fined me? Why are you here?" I said as he gave me a hand and lifted me up. "I wanted to see what you were hiding. Yami. Why didn't you tell me? You could have stayed with me."

I looked at him with a face full of shame. I didn't know what to say. "I don't know. I guess I just didn't want to burden anyone."

"Yami. Why would you think that?"

"Because that's how my parents made me feel. To them I was just something extra to take care of. They didn't love me. So when they died, I had no other family and I had it in my head that I was just a burden to people. So I never asked for help."

"How long have you been out here?"

"I don't know."

"How did you survive?"

"Well I would collect rain water and steal food. I would go into restaurants and collect food that had not been finished. I had enough for at least week until yesterday. I came back and it had been all eaten and scattered by animals that got into my tent."

"Wow. Your a genuine bad girl aren't you." he said with a smile and we both started laughing.

"So I guess your coming to my house."

"Are you shore? Because I cou..."

"Yami if I wasn't shore I wouldn't have offered."

I smiled and he picked me up onto his back and carried the cruches.