It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the sky was clear, and there was just the slightest breeze. Nobuyuki yawned as he sat up in his bed. I wonder what time it is… he thought. He glanced at the clock. It was six A.M. Wow! That's a new record for me. He looked over to his side. Lying there was his best friend Coby. He crept over stealthily and positioned himself over Coby's face.

"BOO!" He yelled. The room was sort of soundproof and the only person that was woken up by it was Coby. He lept up and started punching the air.

"Take that, and that and that and tha-" he started mumbling. Nobu lept back in surprise.

"Woah, chill man. It's just a prank bro. It's just a prank." He yelled.

"Nobu? What happened? Why am I standing up? What time is it?" He said as he rubbed his eyes in attempt to be more aware of himself.

"I tried to troll you but then you like got up like a ninja and then started punching random places. It was super sick. Are you like taking martial arts or something?" He explained.

"No, I'm not taking martial arts. What time is it though?" He glanced at the clock. "Nobu. Bro. Why did you wake me up around six?!" He exclaimed. Really good thing the room is soundproof. Nobu took a deep breath.

"I woke up and didn't want to be awake by myself so I woke you up too. You would have slept until nine if I let you. This way we can go to school early and see everyone. It's the first day of school! I can't wait to dump Alice."

"You still haven't dumped her yet? Man you are such an idiot. Can't you see how much of a jerk she is?" Coby replied and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah. I get it now. It took Lillian almost getting extremely ticked off to realize it. I mean like she absolutely never get's mad! If she gets pissed, then it must be really bad." He muttered under his breath.

"WOW. That's why you are dumping her. Just… Ok. I'm just glad you're dumping her." Coby facepalmed himself. That is the worst reason ever to dump somebody, he thought. Nobu looked at him suspiciously.

"Um ok. Let's get ready to go to school. I can't wait to see everyone else." His head was once again in the clouds. Coby suddenly had an evil smile on his face.

"Are you going to ask Lilian out?" Nobu just stared at him for a few moments. Then he got pissed.

"Bro. That. Was. Uncalled. For. WHY THE HELL WOULD I ASK LILLIAN OUT!"

"Because you like her." he replied in a matter of fact voice. When Nobu opened his mouth to reply he continued. "Don't try to deny it. I've seen the way you look at her. Everyone in the class knows." He sighed.

"Can we just not talk about this? Yes? Okay. Let's get ready for school. We still need to walk there and that takes like half an hour." And he quickly exits the room. Man, thought Coby, He really does like her… I wonder how this will turn out.

Later in the day at school…

"Hi people!" Nobu shouted from a block away. The group of people saw them and waved back. When they got closer, they said hi to all the girls and fist bumped with the boys.

"Have you seen Alice? I need to tell her something." The girls looked at each other.

"Um ok. She's by the big tree." said Reina.

"Thanks. Be back soon! Then I'll tell you guys the why." He sprinted toward the tree. There was a girl on her phone trying to film a sitting there. is so cringe. When he stopped in front of her she didn't look up. "Oi. Alice. We need to talk." She finally looked up.

"Nobu! How was your summer?" She asked putting on a fake smile. At least it looked fake to Nobu.

"Alice I'm dumping you." It took a few moments for that to be processed through her brain.

"You're what?" She said astonished.

"I'm dumping you. You're like a jerk to my friends! I'm such a baka for not realizing it until now."

"Well FINE! DUMP ME IF YOU WANT. YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER GIRL LIKE ME!" She started crying as she ran away.

"The question is… Do I want to find another girl like you? Probably not." He mumbled to himself. His friends were starting to approach him.

"Nobu what did you do to her?" Carl asked. "All we saw was that she was yelling at you and then she ran away." Nobu scratched the back of his head.

"I may or may not have dumped her." Everyone looked at him like smoked was bursting from the top of his head like a volcano. The surprising thing is the fact that they all started cheering.

"Why are you guys all cheering?" He asked surprised.

"We were wondering how long it would take until you did it man." said Jobe.

"She was like the biggest jerk in the class!" said Coby. Even the girls were looking happy at the idea.

"Well I guess I didn't notice." He looked ashamed of himself. Coby hit him on the back.

"Don't worry about it bro. We can talk about it after school."

*Bell rings*

"Let's go find our class now." Said Carl. They all walked in a blob in respective pairs of the people who like each other. Nobu walked in the back with Carl.

When they got into their class the teacher took attendance. Surprisingly, both Alice and Lillian's names weren't on the list.

"Um Mrs. B why aren't Alice and Lillian on the sheet? They were in our class last year." The teacher gave him a surprised look.

"Do any of you know the answer to the question?" Her gaze swept across the classroom. Nobody knew the answer. She sighed before answering his question. "Lillian transferred to Aquaria Elementary and Alice requested to change classes." Everyone was mindblown. They wondered why Lillian transferred without telling them.

"If there are no other questions I would like to introduce a new student. You can come in now." A girl with two black braids walked into the classroom and introduced herself.

"Hi! My name is Sachi and I'm going to be in your class for the rest of the year!"

"Thank you for introducing yourself. There is an empty seat right over there beside Nobu. Why don't you sit there?" The teacher indicated the spot at the end of the table. Damn, Nobu thought, she's hot.

At recess…

"Does anyone know anybody who goes to Aquaria?" asked Nobu, "We can ask them if they know why she transferred." Then he facepalmed himself. He forgot that one of his friends, Kaiji, had transferred there with her. "Never mind I thought of somebody."

"Can't you just message her?" said Reina.

"I would but my phone doesn't support google." retorted Nobu. "Can one of you do it?"

"Sure!" said Rose from her spot beside Coby. She started scrolling through her chats. "Why is this taking so long?" She muttered. "I thought I talked to her recently." She found the chat at the bottom of the entire list and started typing a message.

"When was the last time any of you talked to her? Or messaged her?" Coby asked curiously.

"When the school year ended." was the reply that came from all of them. Nobu and Coby shared a look.

"Oh no…" Nobu murmured quietly to himself, "She was already unstable last year. If no one talked to her… Oh shit." He accidently said the last part louder than he intended to.

"What?" inquired Carl.

"I think we forgot about her birthday." Everyone just stared at him as they comprehended his words. Than the colour slowly drained from their faces.

"Um when was it again?" said Jobe.

"It was three days ago!" yelled Kylie, Yuzuha, Rina, Rose, Reina, and Lin in unison. Jasmine had transferred as well so she wasn't there either but she at least she had told everybody the last time they all saw each other. The boys all looked at each other.

"Oh no." said Mikkel. Everybody started panicking.

"Does anyone know where she lives?" asked Rina.

"Yeah. I went to her house three years ago." said Rose.

"Why don't we all head over after school to celebrate to make up for forgetting!" said Lin. Everyone agreed with her and they started planning.

After school…

"Are you sure this is the right place?" asked Yuzuha. They were standing in front of a small house with faded paint on the outside.

"Yup." replied Rose. "We came here for her birthday party that time. Well what are we waiting for? Let's knock." Kylie strode forward and knocked on the door three times.

"Who issss it?" came a hissing voice from the inside. They all glanced at each other, unsure of what to say when the door opened. A lady was glaring at them. "Well what do you want?" Everyone glanced at Rose for confirmation that this was actually her mom. She gave a tiny nod.

"We're looking for Lillian." said Oki bravely.

"Lillian?" the lady rasped. "Why would sssshe be here?" At first everyone thought that she had said why would you want to see her.

"Well we would like to-" continued Oki before he was cut off.

"Wait." said Nobu. "Did you just say why would she be here?"

"Are young people deaf thessse days? Yessss that issss what I ssssaid." The lady just continued to glare at them. They all just stared at each other.

"Actually, why wouldn't she be here? Isn't this where she lives?" said Carl being rational.

"I kicked her out two years ago. Now is there a reason you're all still gaping at each other?" They were all doing just what she had said staring at each other with their mouths open.

"Wait. Do you mean that you made her homeless?!" said Kylie, with her voice rising. Everyone was horrified by what that implied. Now they all just waited for the lady to confirm it.

"Yessss." she snapped. "I did kick her out. Why wouldn't I? She's the reason my husband is gone!" Everyone just stared dumbfoundedly at each other. The horror of what this meant dawned on them.

"Does that mean that she's been living on the street all this time?" asked Reina quietly.

"Yes! I would have thought she at least told you so you wouldn't come barging on my door! I am done with you people!" With that she slammed the door in their faces. They just stood there.

"Oh my god…" murmured Kylie quietly. "And for all this time."

"What kind of friends are we?" Yuzuha asked herself leaning on Oki for support. "What kind of friends are we if we've known her for such a long time yet she never trusted us enough to tell us?"

"First things first." said Nobu trying to act all business like. "We find Kaiji and see if he knows anything."

The following day after school…

"Are you guys all ready?" asked Coby. "We don't have to be violent. We're just going to ask the questions and then we'll go. You guys didn't have to come." Currently they were a small group. All the girls except Reina, Rose, and Yuzuha came because Lillian was their friend. Reina, Rose, and Yuzuha couldn't come because they had volleyball practice and they didn't want to be kicked off the team. Kai, Mikkel, Oki, Raven and Jobe couldn't come as well because they had a track and field meet. So now it's just Nobu, Coby, Carl, Kylie, Lin, and Reina.

"What do you mean we didn't have to come?" said Kylie in a mad tone. "She's our friend too! Just because she hung out with you one percent more than she did with us doesn't mean that we don't consider her a friend." They were all waiting in a small park close to Aquaria waiting for Kaiji to show up. They couldn't do it the previous day because that would be too short of a warning.

"Hey look there he is!" exclaimed Carl.

"Hi Kaiji! What's up?" yelled Nobu, trying to throw him off.

"Hey Nobu! I have a question. Did you see Lillian at all yesterday?" He replied out of breath. They all gave each other surprised looks.

"No we didn't. We actually came to ask you if you knew where she lived." said Coby worriedly.

"I know where she lives. I went to her apartment the day before school started so we could organize a place to meet. Did you see her yesterday though." They looked at each other worriedly. Nobu decided to answer the question.

"No we didn't. Why?" Kaiji was surprised at his response.

"You didn't? I thought she ditched to see you guys but I guess that doesn't correspond with the note…" he mused quietly to himself. Then his eyes suddenly lit up with an idea. He reached into his pocket and pulled out two items. One was a key, the other was a note. Everyone crowded around him as he read the note out loud. "Kaiji. I left because there was no reason for me to stay. I went with the sloth of bear. Take the keys. You can use them to get into my apartment. Apparently I'm fae. You guys didn't need me. Btw if anyone from my old school sees this no I did not kill myself. I'm still alive. Hopefully. I was going to though… L" The note was somewhat vague, and only after reading it a second time did he figure out what it meant. He looked horrified but also amazed.

"I know what happened to her now. At first I thought she was just joking but she wasn't. Sloth of bear… She was trying to make a seven deadly sin reference! The grizzly sin of sloth… She was talking about King. And the part about being fae… She probably wasn't joking. She must have left the keys for a reason…" Kaiji thought out loud. Everyone just stared at him. Only Kylie knew what he was talking about.

"Wait. So King came over. She didn't' question it. And she just went with him?!" Then she took a look at her friends which were staring at her comprehensively. "King is a character from this anime called seven deadly sins and he was Lillian's favorite character. Something must have happened to explain why whe didn't question it."

"Hold up a sec, Kylie." Nobu started. "So you're saying some made up dude, supposedly came over and just took her? Maybe she had more of a reason that was left at her house. That's probably why she left you the keys." Nobu being the rationalist. To be fair it was a very reasonable possibility so they decided to just pursue the topic another time. At least publicly they said it. After all the girls and Carl left, Nobu, Coby and Kaiji arranged to meet on the weekend to go checkout her apartment.

Hi guys. I know I changed a lot of names. EDITED ON MARCH 11, 2017. Just sayin.