Just a character

Um, he likes chocolate

Never have too much chocolate

Pretty lazy

Eats

I will now begin the story….

"Hey Izumi!" the brown haired boy greeted sitting down beside her. "Looks like we're in the same Biology class!" as he continued grinning only to receive nothing from her but blank looks.

Glancing at her assignment and back at him, she couldn't help but sigh. "Idiot, this is "Chemistry."

"I see that you feel it too." he responded with a dreamy look now receiving glares from the blond.

"Takuya, quit making lame pick up lines before you make me lovesick." as she turned away from him and continued her homework for class. "Maybe I shouldn't have said lovesick…" she thought.

He couldn't help but smile again. "Aw, so you really do care for me!"

Hearing that line almost made her pencil snap, as she slapped herself in the face. "Now…I know…how Rika feels with Ryo…" she muttered.

"Hey!" another voice interrupted, as she glanced at the person who sat behind her, to only see Ryo with a bored expression.

She stared at him in surprise. "Ryo? When did you get here?"

He rolled his eyes. "Wow, it's an amazement that you haven't noticed." as he smiled. "You're just like Rika in a way."

"Not only that, I'm in a class full of idiots…" Izumi muttered.

"I'm not exactly like an idiot like them you know." another boy added who happened to sit in front of her.

"Eh Kouji? Can you read my mind?" was all that she could say.

"No, you just happened to say it out loud." smirking as he said this.

"Stupid boys." she glared at all three, as she opened the textbook and tried her best to ignore them.

"Ah, it seems like Orimoto-san is getting annoyed." yet another boy teased who unfortunately sat two seats away from her.

She glared at the boy who said it. "Takato! I swear! If Juri wasn't in this class, I would shove those goggles down your throat!" making Juri blush hearing this, as Takato just had an amused expression.

"Seems like day by day, Izumi is becoming more like Rika."

"Kouichi, you're not helping."

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"Hm, I "wonder" how Rika is doing at the hospital." Mimi thought to herself as everyone left out of the school building after school. Walking over to her driver as he opened the door for her, she smiled. "Thanks, oh and can you drive me to the hospital? There's someone I want to see."

Already driving away from the school campus, she couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen next. "This better be interesting."

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Moments later, she walked into the hospital building walking through the hallways until she got towards her destination. Pausing to hear that there were doctors and nurses, she stood still to listen.

"Is she alright Doctor?" a nurse's voice asked as she checked her clipboard for the patient's name.

"We were lucky that she survived. It's a mystery on how her oxygen got cut off, but at least she's alright. Well….except for one thing." he agreed but sighed as he had to explain the bad news.

The nurse glanced at Rika who was still asleep. "Is it bad?"

"In a way." he nodded. "It's her memory. She still has parts of her memories, but at the same time, lost the other half. So she will remember a few things and some people, but someone still has to help her trigger the rest of her memory back."

The nurse didn't respond for a moment as she kept looking at the paper on her clipboard in confusion. "I still don't understand how she could've lost memory. It doesn't seem… I don't know, it's confusing."

"Think of it like when you're drowning, your oxygen is cut off."

"Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear." the pink haired girl announced acting "innocent" as she walked in the room. "But is Rika alright?"

"I'm guessing you are one of Rika's friends?" the nurse asked.

Mimi paused and then smiled. "Why yes, of course. I'm Rika's "best" friend."

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"I take back about what I said the other day." Izumi announced as she and some of the others walked towards Takuya's house.

Kouichi grinned as he nudged her. "I bet that's what you're like now, but when you and Takuya get in the house you-" but was suddenly cut off by his twin who covered his mouth to stop him from continuing.

"Kouichi, shut up." Kouji muttered to him as he looked at Izumi. "You know, you really don't have to move in with him if you don't want to." looking over at Takuya who was busy talking with Takato with Juri by his side. "I know I wouldn't."

"I guess you're right…" she agreed as she looked at the sky and the clouds as if they could give her answers. They both were quiet until a muffling sound could be heard from Kouichi again.

"I can't understand what you're saying." his twin responded giving him weird looks as his brother still muttered something until he took Kouji's hand off his face and coughed slightly.

"I said I couldn't breathe! You were cutting off my air!" Kouichi exclaimed almost at the stage of passing out.

"Well if was the only way to keep you quiet."

"Oh yeah, by trying to kill your own brother?"

"Hm……maybe."

"Well, I guess they can't go through a day without arguing." Takuya laughed appearing out of nowhere beside Izumi.

"Ah, Takuya. How long until we finally get to your house?" as she noticed that it has been a while since they left school, and they seemed to be walking endlessly.

Pointing to the house right in front of them, he smiled. "We're right here."

It was all silent between them as they approached the house. "Do I really want to live here?" she noted to herself thinking if there was still time to regret this.

"Well, have a nice time at Takuya's house!" Kouichi grinned patting her head while everyone waved goodbye before running away down the street.

"Some friends." the blond wanted to exclaim but kept it in her mind as she forced herself to walk through the gates and into the house. "Alright, all I have to do is survive through dinner, survive having to sleep here, survive through the morning, and then….I have to think of Plan B." repeating the words with every step she took in his house.

"It's Izumi!" a woman's voice cried out as she walked out of the kitchen to see them walk in.

"Maybe there is still time to run out the door." she added glancing at the door, but Takuya shook his head knowing what she was thinking of and dragged her to follow him.

Later that Night

"Alright! I'm laying the boundaries around here. You stay on your side, and I'll stay on mine." the teen pointed as she pointed to the invisible line that separated them.

"Eh? What are you talking about? This is my room, why do I have to listen to you?" he answered playfully as he sat on his bed leaning against the wall.

"There's no way I'm going to have you sleep right next to me." she glared. "Unfortunately, your mom won't let me sleep anywhere else in the house because she's afraid I might get hurt or kidnapped."

"Well, that's my mother to you." he smiled. "But there's only one bed here, so you can have my bed for the night if you want."

She shook her head. "There's no way I'm going to sleep in "your" bed. I'm capable of sleeping on the floor you know."

He sighed as he sat down on the floor with her as she gave him a suspicious look, while he just had a calm expression. "There really is no way to change your mind, but you changed your personality."

"What are you talking about?"

He smiled at the fact that she was pretty dense. "You changed."

She looked at herself. "Well yes of course I changed into my pajamas."

He shook his head, knowing that she was just kidding, and laughed. "I meant that since the beginning of the school year, you've become more of a nicer person."

"Very funny." she laughed but was looking away from him. "Define nice for me and come back after a few years."

"I guess you haven't noticed."

Izumi still kept her gaze away from him as she observed his room. "Then…in what ways have I changed?"

"Well, first of all, you're starting to become friends with Kouichi again, and you're also starting to talk to Takato, Kouji, and Ryo. I mean, you'd never talk to them."

"So? It's not like I count them as my friends. Besides, I blame that group for making me like this." she argued back trying to prove that he had no evidence she changed.

"That's what you say, and another thing. You wouldn't have agreed to being here, especially at my house, talking "to me." emphasizing the part about him.

Now she had to admit, that the part about him is partly the reason she changed her personality. At first, she did find him annoying everyday she saw him, but since then, it seemed like he knew what she was feeling on the inside. "Fine, so you win." she admitted.

He smiled. "I knew you'd finally see it my way." as he stood up. "I'll be right back, I gotta make sure that Shinya is in bed and not staying up late playing video games." shutting the door behind him, leaving Izumi in the room.

Once he came back, he found a sleeping Izumi on the floor, leaving him to wonder what to do. "She's going to kill me if I do this." as he gently picked her up and laid her on his bed. He switched the lights off, and watched her sleeping face, until he fell asleep.

……….The Next Morning

"Good morning goggle head." a girl's voice announced as he walked into the kitchen to see her already dressed and breakfast was already set on the table. "You might as well eat." taking a seat across from her.

He stared at the food in front of him and gazed at her. "How do I know that this wasn't poisoned?"

"Fine, don't eat it." she muttered wondering why she even cared if he was hungry in the first place.

"I'm just kidding Z." he grinned taking a bite of the food.

"Don't call me that."

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"Izumi, there's something weird going on." Juri announced running towards her blond friend. She a worried look, that was going to kill Izumi to death if she didn't find out what was wrong.

"Well? Spit it out! You can't expect me to guess." as she quickly threw her school shoes on and then walked towards her locker.

"Rika is here, but it's not the Rika we know."

"Ah…okay?" shutting her locker still clueless about the situation and followed after her. Just before Juri could explain any more, she noticed Rika with Mimi. Smiling. Laughing. "Mimi with Rika……that's not good." she thought worriedly.

Speak of the devil, the pink haired student glanced at her direction and smiled. "Well, this isn't how it was supposed to turn out, but since Rika has no memory of Izumi or any of her friends, she'd be the perfect puppet for my play."