Kris found herself lying on a bed in a room that seems to be a hospital. She put her hand on her forehead as if expecting she had some kind of fever, but she was fine. She sighed and looked at the person sitting beside her. It was Tohru; she was sitting on a chair. Her eyes showed hints of tears as Kris stared at her.

"…Tohru…why are you crying?" Kris asked.

"You suddenly fainted while playing Laser Tag. So we brought you to the hospital. I am so glad you're okay," Tohru cried more. Kris then remembered what had happened. The events seemed like it happened just a few seconds ago.

"How long was I out?" she asked when she saw that Tohru was wearing different clothes than the other ones she was wearing before.

"You were out for at least a month," Tohru answered as she tried to hold back her tears.

Kris was about to shout 'A month?' but for some reason, she has no strength to do it. She merely lay there as the seconds went by. Tohru was still crying when someone opened the door. It was Yuki, Arisa, Hanajima, and to her surprise, Kyo.

"Kris! Oh goodness, you scared us to death sleeping like that!" Arisa exclaimed.

"It looks like she is better," Hanajima said smiling. That was the first time Kris ever saw her smile like that. Maybe they were actually worried about her so much. Kris became very happy at this thought.

"How are you feeling Ms. Garson?" Yuki asked.

"I'm fine, I guess. What is wrong with me?" she asked. Her voice seemed different. It was soft and rough.

"The doctors said that you were stressed and lacked of nutrition when they examined you. Your brother told them that you haven't been eating right lately," Tohru said. She already stopped crying but she still had redness in her eyes.

"Oh…" Lacked of nutrition? What? I am eating right, and I was not stressed. Why would my brother say that? Kris thought as she tried to sit up straight.

"I think you should lay down, Ms. Garson," Yuki advised to Kris.

"Don't worry, I am fine, look." She tried her hardest to get up and finally made it. "See?" She made a goofy smile that seems to remind Yuki and Kyo of Tohru. 'Now that is creepy,' they both thought in accord.

Kris stayed in the hospital for another week, getting constant visit from her brother and sister, and especially all of her friends. However, despite the good royal treatment, Kris was getting tired and bored staying in bed all the time. She felt more active walking around instead of lazily flipping the channels in her television. There was nothing interesting to watch anyways, and for some reason, she got in to the American music channel called 'Fuse.'

One night, while Kris was watching a music video of the popular American rock band called 'Green Day', she decided she should sneak around the hospital to get a little bit of exercise. "Not many nurses and doctors are around anyways. I wonder if they have some kind of garden here."

She got out of the bed and walked out the door. But when she opened the door, someone was there, and she bumped and fell right on top of that person. She realized she was on top of the same guy she crashed into before.

"…Kyo! I am so sorry…I…" Kris didn't know what to say and started blushing bright pink. 'Why do I keep meeting him like this?' she asked herself.

"You're not thinking of sneaking out are you?" Kyo asked.

"No, I'm not…I was just trying to look for the bathroom…" Kris thought that this explanation will not work at all. 'He won't buy it. The bathroom is just right there and how can I explain myself that I forgot where it is? He'll think I am a stupid person to forget a thing like that…Well, I do forget a lot of things, but a bathroom?'

Kyo stared at her as she started shaking her head, unaware of what Kris was thinking. He thought it was kind of cute that she was acting like this. 'What am I thinking? Her…cute? Well…she is pretty, but…Oh no, not again!' he screamed in his own thoughts.

Both of them realized that they were acting a bit stupid. Kris laughed. Kyo grabbed her arm and dragged her to the bed. "You won't get better if you stand around like that," he said not looking at Kris.

"But this place is getting boring. Besides, I have school and I can't miss it! If I fail high school, I won't be able to graduate. And if I don't graduate, then….." Kris stopped and finished the words in her mind. 'Then I won't be able to enjoy the last happy days of school with my friends before I get married to some guy I don't even love!' She started to cry.

Kyo looked at her. He did not like crying and see someone like that miserable looking. "Uh…stop crying. You don't have to worry about school so much," he said.

Kris stopped crying and looked up to him. Her eyes were filled with tears and she looked almost like a beautiful porcelain doll. Kyo blushed.

"You have to think of yourself sometimes," he continued, "it is not healthy when you always try to stress yourself all the time." He wasn't looking at Kris but she noticed his bright pink blush and started to smile.

'He's trying to cheer me up. Then that means he's not mad at me,' she thought.

"So what are you doing here so late at night? Don't you have school tomorrow?" she asked.

Kyo did not answer. "Uh…" is the only thing her said. "I was here because…because Tohru was insisting of staying with you all night that it kind of bugged me. She was here all month visiting you and waiting for you to wake up. I know she was tired and she has to go to work, so I said I'll go instead. It wasn't really my choice."

"Oh…" For some reason, Kris was a bit disappointed about his reasoning. She kind of expected him to say he was worried about her too.

However, in Kyo's mind, he was thinking of something else, 'I don't even know why I came here. Tohru did say she was coming here but ended up staying home since she had work. Also, I did not offer to come here. I just…I just wanted to, for some damn reason.'

There was an awkward silence so Kris started talking about something else. She remembered the time when they first met. She accidentally hugged him. He might be totally confused about him not transforming, so Kris tried to apologize to him, careful not to mention anything about the Zodiacs.

"About the other day, when I crashed to you, I am really sorry about that. I was late for homeroom, and I was so much in a hurry that I did not even see anyone there," Kris said not looking at him in the face. She was so embarrassed to look at him.

"Don't worry about it. I shrugged it off my mind a long time ago," Kyo said.

"But, I was wondering why you were there in the first place. Were you late also?"

"No. That yankee, Arisa, saw you running to the locker pods and asked me to come get you before the teacher came to the classroom," Kyo said with his voice having a hint of displeasure.

"I can tell you didn't want to do it," Kris said smiling.

"They forced me to do it. Arisa does that to me all the time!"

"Why don't you just simply say 'no' to her?" she asked.

"…Because Tohru asked me," he said simply.

'Oh…I think he has a thing for Tohru.' Kris was still smiling, but somehow this thought made her uneasy. She did not know why, but thinking about it makes her angry but somehow happy for him.

She just stood silent and thought deep. She can't stop thinking; there was something inside her that wanted to blurt out a thought.

Kyo noticed that Kris was struggling about something. Her eyes were shut and her face was twisted. "Hey, are you okay," he asked with concern.

Kris couldn't hold much longer. She has to say it. She ended up shouting to Kyo…

"Kyo, when I hugged you…umm…Were you wondering why you did not transform?"

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