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"Len, get up, Len, get up," Oliver chirped, "LEEEEEEEEN."
He was jumping on the foot of the bed, causing me to bounce in my half sleep.
"Go away," I mumbled, "I'm dreaming of something nice."
"Well, stop dreaming about Rin and wake up!" Oliver told me, rocking my shoulder.
I growled at him, "Stop being perverted."
"But I'm right, aren't I?" Oliver smirked, "Now get uuuuuup!"
He tugged my sheets off, throwing them to the other side of the room. I instinctively curled up into a ball as the cold made the hairs on my arms stick up.
"Not c-cool dude," I shivered.
"Your fault for sleeping shirtless," Oliver teased, before flicking my nose, "Now get up, or I go get the spray bottle."
I shot up instantly. Back in the orphanage, Oliver was well-known for spraying people with a bottle of freezingly cold water to wake you up. Everyone dreaded being his roommate; luckily, he liked me, and had never resorted to spraying me.
"You're damn evil," I hissed as Oliver laughed hysterically.
"What happened to me being adorable?" Oliver asked.
"Oh shut up," I said, throwing my legs over the side of the bed and grabbing my clothes. I headed into the bathroom, taking a nice, warm shower before dressing in my uniform. I already knew Rin would be absent, meaning I'd be spending the day with Piko.
"I'm gonna be so bored," Oliver complained.
"Jump on the bed or something," I told him dismissively, so he threw himself around my leg. I kept walking, dragging him along with me.
"FOOOOOOD!" Oliver yelled, "I NEED FOOOOOOD!"
"Go bother Teto for food then," I said, "I'm leaving."
"Why?" Oliver faked a sob, putting on his puppy dog face.
"Because you woke me up and I'm late. Now let go." I said, gently pushing him off of my leg. Oliver gave in, falling off of my leg and sitting stubbornly in the hall, with his arms crossed.
I rolled my eyes, taking the keys from the pot plant and heading down the stairs. When I arrived in the car park, I found another car looking quite similar to Dell's and laughed. He'd gone ahead and gotten a new car, meaning he'd given me his old one.
I threw open my car's door, slipping inside and slamming the door shut, turning the key in the ignition and pulling out of the car park. As I drove to school, I kept the radio on for news. After hearing of Neru's shooting, I had to listen out.
Unfortunately, it was just a stupid talk show, discussing my upcoming concerts. I flicked off the radio as I turned into the school parking lot and headed to class.
[...]
I sat in the one music class I didn't share with Piko, as Wednesdays were apparently Piko's computer day, in which he spent the majority of his lessons programming and practising maths.
I didn't know anyone, so I decided to sit at the back of the class. As soon as a group of girls entered the classroom, they saw a spare spot next to me and started fighting over who got to sit there.
In the midst of their fighting, a boy strode past them and sat in the seat next to me, causing the girls to rage at him. He had his ear phones in and was ignoring them. I raised my eyebrows at the guy, but said nothing.
"Class, please take a seat," Kamui ordered as he entered the classroom, causing the girls to groan and take seats away from me.
"Uh, thanks," I said to the guy.
"No big deal," The guy smiled slightly.
I nodded back as Kamui started handing out sheet paper, telling us about our next assignment.
"You're next assignment is to write a song," Kamui explained, "It can be on any instrument, or just a song. Songs will be due next Wednesday. It can be about anything - keep it appropriate, obviously - and any genre."
The boy next to me took his sheet, and stared at it, tapping his pencil to a rhythm.
"I'll give you this lesson to work on your songs." Kamui said, "But besides that, it must come out of your own time. You may go use one of the school's instruments, oh, and you can pair up with someone for the assignment."
I took my sheet, heading off to the practise room with the piano, sliding the door open. No-one was there yet, so I put my sheet in place, a pencil tucked behind my ear.
I stretched my fingers over the keys and played the first melody that came into my mind. It was beautiful and delicate, and I found myself humming a harmony to it. I scrawled down the notes as I went, as well as the harmony's notes.
"Can I use this place too?" A voice asked. I turned, seeing Mizune enter.
"Oh!" She said, a bit surprised, "I didn't realise it was you. You can play pretty well."
"Thanks," I smiled, before turning back to the sheet and replaying the last few lines, before scrawling down some more notes.
"Can you help me?" Mizune asked.
"Yeah, sure," I said, "But I'm not coming up with a tune for you."
"Understandable," Mizune smiled, "I already have a tune in mind, with some lyrics, but I can't really play anything well enough to get the notes."
I nodded, "You hum it and I'll play it."
Mizune took a seat on the stool next to me, replacing my sheet with hers. She started humming a song to herself, before I replayed it on the piano. She wrote down the notes I pressed and smiled to me in between.
"Thanks!" She said happily, holding her sheet close to her, "I can go come up with some lyrics now! Sorry for taking up the majority of your time."
She bowed her head ruefully, before bouncing out the doorway. I turned back to my own sheet, beginning to play the melody. I wrote quite a few lines, before ending the song on a few, softer notes. Smiling to myself as I replayed the last few lines and I sighed in relief, just as the bell went.
My stomach grumbled as I turned back to the piano, in hopes of writing down some lyrics. I decided to listen to my grumbling stomach and headed down to the cafeteria.
"Len!" A voice called. I looked up and saw Piko waving to me, so I grabbed a bowl of noodles and hurried over.
Piko was sitting at a table with two others. The girl who helped me in office when Haku was on a hang-over, and the boy who helped me deal with the fangirls. Trust Piko to know the helpful people.
I smiled, taking a seat with the others.
"This is my girlfriend," Piko explained, rubbing the girl's shoulder. Her cheeks tinted red, "Celeste Hikari."
"Nice to meet you formally," I smiled.
"L-like-wise," She stammered, bowing her head.
"Don't be shy," Piko pecked her on the forehead, "Len-kun doesn't bite."
I smiled reassuringly. The boy from my class, with his jet black hair and green highlights, was just listening to our conversation with mild interest while eating his noodles.
"My name's Kalevi Drew," The boy explained, "Just call me Kale."
I nodded and began eating. Piko began chatting about his new computer program, and somehow the subject moved to maths class. Kale began telling us how he had detention after school because of Megpoid blaming a toilet overflowing on him. Celeste simply giggled, whilst Piko noted Kale would already have detention for smashing the window in computer class.
I joined in on the conversation when it turned to everyone's science projects.
"Rin and I are doing a robot," I explained, "She's already made the shell out of some things I bought, and it's able to turn on."
"Nice," Piko said, "What does it run on?"
"Solar power," I explained, "We're debating what it should do. I say it should sing."
"Sing?" Kale frowned, "Isn't that your job?"
I shrugged, "I need back-up vocals, and I'm thinking if we use the robot to help with a fundraising concert for the environment, we may win."
"But lights, microphones and all the equipment aren't very good for the environment," Celeste noted.
"If we use a microphone on batteries and have the concert during the day, it'll work," I said.
"I think it's a good idea," Piko agreed, "Though picking up litter would be better."
"I told Rin that, but she said some idiot would just kick it over."
"Fair point."
"Hmmm..." Kale said, causing us to give him a look.
"What?" I asked.
"Are you and Rin dating?" Kale asked.
I flushed bright red, "NO!"
Piko cracked up laughing instantly, as I went into a rage about how we're 'just friends' and 'she's too tsundere'.
"But you guys would totally be good together," Kale said, "I ship you two all the way."
"Sh-ship?!" I said, "H-hey! We're not f-from an anime!"
"I don't care, I ship you anyway."
"Rin will kill me if you say that!"
"But it's so true-"
"DON'T SAY IT!"
"You two are made for each other."
"Don't you get involved, Utatane!"
Celeste was giggling away, whilst Piko was making digs at how I stayed with Rin for two hours after school. I just flushed and decided to ignore them, causing Piko to laugh even more.
"Oh shut up," I said, "You wouldn't like it if you got 'shipped' with someone."
"I ship him with Celeste," Kale said pointedly.
"Who do you ship yourself with?"
"No-one," Kale shrugged, "I mean... No-one possible."
"He absolutely loves Miku Hatsune," Piko said, "Your girlfriend~"
"She's not my girlfriend, Miku and I are just friends, we dated once but she dumped me, end of story." I said.
"JEEEEEALOUS!" Piko cried, pointing at Kale, who'd turned a bright shade of red, "You're totally jealous!"
"Shut up, Piko-kun," Kale said.
"Never-" Piko started, but Celeste covered his mouth with her hand.
"He'll shut up." She said, "Sorry about that, Kale-san."
Kale smiled at her, nodding before stretching and getting up, taking his tray with him, "See you guys round."
"Bye, Kale-san!" Celeste said, before releasing Piko, "Don't be mean."
"Sorry." Piko said sheepishly.
"I'm going to go work on my music assignment," I said, standing up, "You two have fun~"
"Len, don't be such a pervert-"
I was already walking away, so I didn't hear the rest of Piko's sentence. I headed off down to the practise rooms and stepped into the piano room, playing the song over and over until I began to sing to words that fit.
I took out my pencil and scrawled the words down on a blank piece of paper:
Within a veil of the night, the moon illuminates us
Seeking the warmth of a strong embrace
With white breath and fingers numb from the cold
We trace our names in the snow before it melts away
"I won't leave you"
Was the promise I made
Beyond all the hazy white that I can see
It returns to nothing
I wish the falling powdered snow would land and hide me
Staring at your back as you leave, I suppress my tears
The snow that falls piles up, swallowing the world and my love
Until the day the pain in my heart is gone
I'll melt into white
The days I spent with you come and go like the changing seasons
The last trace of the smile remaining in my memory is so fleeting
You are somewhere amongst the crowd
My thought of "Don't go" turns into a snowflake
I wish the falling powdered snow would fall and hide you
The snow and tears that fall are without even sound
Snow falls, piling up and swallows you and our past
Until the day it finally melts away
Don't forget me
Fragments of breaking memories trickle down
I wish the falling powdered snow would land and hide me
A drop of my voice, of my tears fall
The snow that piles, swallowing the world and my love
Until the day the pain in my heart is gone
I'll melt into white
"Don't forget me"
As the bell went again, I put my sheets in my bag and headed off to class.
[...]
After school, I started driving to the hospital, planning on spending quite a few hours with Rin. Also, I wanted to know when she'd get out of hospital; her injury wasn't that serious, and she was getting a lot better every day. Hopefully she'd be at school the next day.
I pulled up in the hospital parking lot and headed inside, explaining to the receptionist I was visiting Rin Akita, before heading upstairs. I was about to open the door, when I heard a few sobs inside.
"Rin?" I called, "Rin, it's me, are you okay?"
No reply; only sniffling. I turned the door handle, stepping in. Rin was curled up in a ball on her bed, tears streaming down her face and dampening the blankets around her. She was hyperventilating in between her sobs, her shoulders constantly juddering.
"Rin?" I asked, closing the door softly and stepping forward.
"L-Len," She stammered, hiccuping and sobbing more. She looked up with red eyes.
"Rin, what's wrong?" I asked. She tried to say something, but instead sobbed loudly. I gave her a gentle hug and she threw herself at me, sobbing in my shoulder.
"Rin?"
"N-Ne-" Rin tried, but just kept sobbing in my neck. I tightened my arms around her, burying my face in her hair and her sobs started becoming quieter. She hiccuped.
"Ne-Neru," Rin stammered, "Sh-she... Sh-she p-p-passed..."
Rin couldn't even finish her sentence before sobbing loudly. Her fingers curled in my shirt as she continued sobbing. I hugged her tightly, knowing exactly what she'd been trying to say.
Neru was dead.
*receives many angry glares from Neru fans* I-I didn't WANT to write it! I had to for the story! For the sake of fluuuuufff!
Gomen, Neru-san, gomen. Saddest chapter yet... Poor Rin... Her world's just crashing down around her...
On a plus side, Rinto joins the story next chapter, so Rin will have someone else. Besides, Len and Rin are getting pretty close now :3 Romance is sooooooon. I promise.
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