Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long! My surgery went great (thank you for your kind messages!). Enjoy this next chapter of Unforgettable.

xoxo Belle.

The minute I entered the Sun Dorm I let out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding.

Home my inner sanity sighed, appearing to relax inside my head as I climbed the stairs and walked through the winding hallways on the way to my room.

Hold that thought. I thought back as I stopped dead where I was.

Rei was standing in front of my door, talking to Akane.

"I haven't seen Kisa all weekend; do you know where she is?"

"Umm..." I heard Akane say, but I didn't hear what she said after that.

I retreated back a couple steps and hid around the corner from where Rei and Akane stood.

What's your next move?

Not get seen. I thought firmly, going back down the hallway I was in. I knew there was another way to my room through one of these hallways...

SMACK.

"Ouch! Oh my god, be careful!" I reprimanded whoever had just run into me.

"Kisa? What are you doing out here?" I looked up to see Rei staring at me.

"What do you mean what am I doing out here? It's not curfew yet is it?"

"Yes but-" He raised an eyebrow. "Akane was just telling me you were in the shower."

Think fast! My mind panicked. I mentally thanked Akane for covering for me, but quickly came up with a plausible lie.

"Oh, she still thinks I'm in the shower? Crap, I must have left without telling her. I just came down to get some laundry." I said, holding up the bag in my hand.

Rei eyeballed my bag, and then my head. "Your hair is dry."

"Yes Rei." I snapped. "Humanity has invented something called a hair dryer that-"

"Kisa!" Akane suddenly said, running past Rei and throwing her arms around me. "I thought you were still in the shower! I mean... I heard the hair dryer going and when it turned off I went by the bathroom and the door was still shut... so I figured you were fixing your hair for bed or something."

I laughed quietly. "Yeah, I just came to get some laundry."

Rei wasn't buying it. "Why are you dressed like you're going outside?"

"I'm cold." I said. "I just had a shower and don't want to catch my death."

Rei sighed. "Alright well, see you guys at school tomorrow. Night Kisa." He nodded to Akane. "Akane." He wandered off, looking confused.

Akane and I looked at each other for several seconds after he left, and then burst into laughter.

"Kisa Matari you owe me sooooooo much!" She smacked my arm lightly. "You don't even know!"

"If it was anything like that I have an idea." I said, nodding in the direction Rei had went.

"I had to do that all weekend; I'm surprised they didn't see through me. You better make sure you have all your homework done for tomorrow with the amount of time people around here think you've been spending on it." She shook her head. "Oh Kisa, what am I going to do with you?"

I smiled sheepishly before following her back to our dorm apartment.

Akane locked the door behind me once we were both inside and turned to me immediately.

"So?"

I looked at her confusedly. "So what?"

"What happened?" She crossed her arms and tapped her foot on the mat at the door. "You were at the Moon Dorm this entire weekend; you can't possibly tell me Aido asked you there just to stare at a wall."

I reddened slightly, my mind running through everything that happened to see if there was something I would be allowed to tell her about. It came up with nothing. "Ha well you know... it's Aido. He just made me do a couple chores and things for him."

"Why do you?"

I was confused again. "Why do I what?"

"Why do you do what he tells you? You don't have to." We moved to the living room and sat down on the couch.

How wrong you are. I thought to myself, fighting a smile. "I do if I want him to leave me alone."

"You mean him picking on you at school?" She thought for a second. "You mean he actually makes you do chores so that he WON'T pick on you?" She thought for another second. "You should really tell the disciplinary committee or Headmaster Cross about that, you know."

"Oh they already know." I sighed.

"Then why aren't they doing anything about it?" She started getting inquisitive, and at that moment I knew I had to get away from that conversation.

"I'm going to go actually have a shower now." I said. "Can you help me with my homework?" I smiled sheepishly again and Akane rolled her eyes. "I would be forever grateful, Masa-sensei." I teased.

"Yeah yeah go have your frigging shower and then I'll help you." She waved me away.

I turned and walked toward the bathroom when I heard Akane call out "Nice bandage!" My hand flew to my neck and I froze, a blush staining my cheeks.

She probably just thinks he gave you a hickey. My mind reasoned.

Yeah but then that means she thinks I'm fooling around. With AIDO.

Hey now, it's the first guy she's ever seen you fool around with. so it hardly makes you a slut or anything.

Yeah but if it's Aido then it's like, a given that you're a slut. He's a famous playboy! I cringed.

Let's not worry about that now. My inner sanity closed the mental conversation when it realized I was starting to panic.

After showering and getting myself dressed for bed in the bathroom, I threw my weekend's worth of dirty laundry in the hamper and made my way to the bedroom. I walked in and, ignoring the look Akane was giving me, spread my homework all over my desk. Akane cleared her throat and I cringed, knowing if I wanted her help I'd have to look at her.

I turned toward her and was surprised to see that her expression was deadly serious.

"You love him, don't you?"