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Something shimmered silver…like stars and the gleaming moon…and then clouds of gray and darkness drifted over it, and then I couldn't see it anymore….I don't know what's happening.

Chapter Two

It was six-thirty on Saturday when Fuu woke. Forgetting that it was winter break, Fuu automatically got up and was about to get dressed when she finally remembered.

Fuu put on her glasses but fell back into her pillows.

"Get up Fuu! You'll be late for school!" Fuu jumped at the sound of her mother's voice rising from the kitchen downstairs.

Great, Fuu thought. I thought it was Saturday…I guess I had a dream last night that it was Friday.

But the dream had felt so real, even though she couldn't remember it at all now.

Pulling back her sheets, Fuu glanced again at her clock. Yes, it did say that it was Friday. Fuu got dressed and jumped down the stairs two at a time.

"You better hurry up and eat, Fuu. You're already twenty minutes behind schedule," Mrs. Hououji said.

"I'm not hungry," Fuu said, pulling on a thick jacket and gloves, and slinging her backpack over her shoulder.

Fuu greeted her friends in the cafeteria when she finally made it to school.

"Hi Umi, Hika - " Fuu stopped.

Both Umi and Hikaru were smiling secretly.

"What is it?" Fuu asked.

"Oh, nothing," Umi tossed her hair.

"No, c'mon, tell me," Fuu begged.

"Fuu, Ferio's back!" Hikaru burst out happily.

Fuu's eyes widened. "F-Ferio?"

Just then, Ferio appeared in the cafeteria, and when he saw Fuu, he ran over to them.

"Ferio!" Fuu cried.

Through her classes that day, Fuu found it hard to concentrate on what her teachers were saying. And it wasn't just the notes she and Ferio were passing; it wasn't the fact that everything around her seemed to be blurred along the edges; it was that the whole day was starting to feel like a twenty-four hour déjà vu.

It wasn't like she had experienced the day before…it wasn't as if she knew what would happen next; it seemed that everything that was said and done so far was familiar.

As Fuu and Ferio walked home, Fuu was silent most of the way.

"Is something wrong, Fuu?" Ferio asked, frowning concernedly.

"No," Fuu replied too quickly. She cringed.

"C'mon, Fuu, tell me," Ferio said. "What is it?"

"Nothing, nothing," Fuu said.

Ferio scuffed the ice encrusted on the sidewalk with his boot. He knew something was wrong, but also knew that Fuu could sometimes be very private with what she was thinking.

"So are you free tomorrow?" Ferio asked, hoping to take her mind off whatever was bothering her. "It's the first day of winter break."

"Yeah, I am," Fuu said with a smile. "It was so strange; today I woke up and thought that yesterday was today and it was already tomorrow."

"That was really confusing," Ferio frowned and Fuu giggled. "I guess you thought that 'cuz you wished it was Saturday."

"That's what I thought too."

"Do you want to go to the lake?" Ferio asked after a few moments of silence.

"Sure," Fuu said. "I don't think my parents will miss me. They're going to a Nutcracker play."

They walked down to the park, and took a small trail off the main path to a frozen lake. Once they were there, Ferio began digging in his pocket.

"I wanted to give you something," Ferio said, pulling out his hand and holding out a small box, a slight blush crawling across his face. "I got it in the U.S."

"You didn't have to…" Fuu said, taking the box in her gloved hands. A hint of crimson also rising in her cheeks.

Cracking the lid open, Fuu gasped. "It's so pretty!" she said in awe, holding up a shimmering silver necklace, twinkling with small stars and moons. It barely weighed anything; it seemed to float in the slight breeze.

"It's so pretty!" Fuu repeated.

"I couldn't find one as beautiful as you, though," Ferio said with a wink (AN: awwwww…kawaii).

A full, crimson blush had risen into Fuu's face, which was frozen in an astonished smile. "Thank you so much, Ferio. It must have cost so much…"

Ferio smiled. He opened his mouth to say something when a blast broke through the silence, sending crows flapping from the trees: it had been a car backfiring. The air was filled with feathers and the shrieks of birds.

"Ahhh!" Fuu screamed as a black crow flew in front of her, its talons knocking the necklace from her hands, sending it spinning out across the frozen lake.