Day 55

I lost her... She's gone... My best friend...

He walked down to class a few minutes late like he always was. He took his seat occasionally he would glance over at Kate who was reading, but something was different. Her face was all squinted up she had no glasses on.

"Kate..." he whispered, "...Kate.."

"What do you want?" she snapped back in reply.

"Where's your glasses..?" he asked.

"They were too much of a burden so I got rid of them." She answered. What no one knew was that not even the squinting helped, that girl was blind as a Zubat.

"Kate, Keith, please If punishment is necessary in order for you two to stop talking during class it will happen." Mrs. April explained and went back to speaking.

After class Keith tried all he could to catch up to her. He looked all around for her and asked around for her but no one could answer, mostly because no one really cared.

"Hey, Isaac!" Keith shouted trying to get his friend's attention.

"Yeah, what's up?" he asked, "Wait, hold on." He took off his glasses and put them in his pocket, "Is that better?" He asked unamused.

"What? No! Put them back on!" Keith said anoied, "What was that for?!"

"What was that for!? Kate came crying to me down in the library last night and told me that you didn't want to be seen with her any more because of everyone else saying that it wasn't cool! That's what Keith, Both Rhyhmi and I know that she's sensitive about them." He continued not letting Keith speak, " Actually, when she first met you she wore those glasses more than I've ever seen her wear them in her time here." He shook his head.

"I can't believe the both of you! No one ever let's me finish! All that I said to her was that I couldn't hang out with her any more then she took it up upon herself to decide why I couldn't or rather didn't want to be with her any more! She was one of my best friends.. The reason that I can't is because.." He made up a quick lie, "My Parents they don't like my grades they think that Kate is the reason for it and they don't want me being distracted by her..."

"Well you know, I could tell by the way she was talking to be that she was heart broken. You'd better go find her Keith, because you can be sure that I'm not going to be the one to tell her." Isaac said, "and you're lucky that she didn't tell Rhythmi or you'd be getting slapped right about now."

"I'd best be off to go find her then... To go find her and.. I think i may know just where she is.."

Keith ran off from where Isaac was and out into the court yard, he could see foot prints in the snow. He ran down the foot print path to find her. Of course just what he had thought he was in the hide away, her safe haven. Keith grabbed the bark on the tree pulling it open and sliding down under ground. He walked in seeing shelves and a sleeping Charmander. He walked into the room and looked around. He found Kate sprawled out on one of the chairs sleeping soundly with her glasses on and a piece of paper with a pen in her hand. He walked over to her and looked over her shoulder reading the letter.

Dear Grandpa,

How's work going? I know I just got back from visiting but I'm just so excited to become a ranger, you'll be so proud of me when I become a Top Ranger just like Wendy is. Keep the b

It ended, it must've been where she had fallen asleep. Keith didn't want her to freeze out there so he folded up the letter and placed it into her pant's pocket then picked her up bridal style and carried her to the edge of the room. He stopped in front of Charmander and woke him up telling him that they were leaving.

As they left the pokemon followed drowsily behind. He looked down at her face her eyes looked red from her hands rubbing them impatiently he thought that she had been crying. She shifted herself in his arms trying to shield away from the cold and burying her head in his chest.

He soon again reached the school and carried her inside. Luckily Kincaid was no where to be seen but he was seen carrying her in by many of his classmates and peers. He walked up the stars carefully ad into the girls dorm hall and into her dorm that she shared with Rhythmi. He looked around before he actually went into the room to make sure that Rhythmi wasn't in there. He soon walked in and placed Kate down onto her bunk with Charmander making himself back at home again next to her. He stood up on the side of her bed and began pacing the floors.

"I really don't know Kate... I really don't know what it is about you... I can't stop caring about how you think of me. Yesterday you didn't let me finish... It's funny really..." He checked to make sure she was sound asleep, " have to get rid of someone and someone else thinks your in my way so I had to get rid of you in a way that you wouldn't get hurt... This is the funny part. ready: Even if I wanted to not get rid of this guy I would be forced to do it... " he paused and looked at her for a brief moment and continued pacing., " I made up this stupid lie that I'm even surprised tat people bought into I told them that my parents weren't happy with my grades and thought you were in my way so they wanted me to stop seeing you.. But Kate.. I had to find you and I'm so glad that I did..But I'm unhappy that you were asleep..." He let out a sigh and walked over to her bed side and knelt down beside her, " If anything I need you in my way, Kate..." He leaned in close to her cheek but before he could even do anything she began to awake.

She jumped in her spot with surprise that he was there, "What are you doing?!" She shouted with a large red mass growing across her cheeks.

"N-nothing!" He yelled back in a surprised tone running out of the room.

He ran back into his own dorm and closed the door behind him leaning up against it. His eyes closed he took a breath.

"Aww, look at you in your little school uniform!"

"He looks a bit out of it to me, seems like the cold got to him a bit."

"The cold is marvellous how could it ever get to someone."

Keith's eyes shot open, "What...?!" He was confused to see his childhood friends standing in front of him.

"Hey we saw you carrying in some little brunette chick. She's a bit of a cutie if you ask me."

"Shut up Ice!"

"Cool it Lavana you're gonna burn up." Ice replied.

"Who was she, Spike?" Heath asked.

"Just a girl she got lost out there and I went to go find her. She's no one." Keith replied.

"Well since she's no one to you you think you could set us up?" Ice raised his eye brows.

Lavana quickly knocked him in the back of the head and smiled, " We just wanted to see how yo were doing. We know that this sort of mission can be stressful and overwhelming. Just know that if you need help we're always here for you, alright?" Lavana stated.

Ice rubbed the back of his head and nodded in agreement.

"Well, we just stopped by to see how things were going we have to be off now, Kincaid needs us for something stupid. See you around Spikey." Heath said walking off with Ice.

"Just be careful with your mission, you're like my brother, I don't want anything happening to you... And I really am here if you need me alright..?" Lavana said once again, smiling. Keith nodded pulling his childhood friend into a hug, "I'm so happy to see you again and I'm sorry it was for such a short amount of time.. We'll see each other soon, promise." She pulled away from his hug and ran off to catch up wit Heath and Ice.

"Same old, friends that I've always remembered, it was great seeing them again." He sighed tossing himself onto his bed and relaxing.