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Before Momo could go much further, the door of the closet slammed open.
"Kiley! I thought we were going to sneak up on Momo!" The girl said as she jumped out of the closet and bopped Kiley on the head. Her name was Yomiko, one of Momo's new friends.
Kiley started laughing hysterically. "Oh my gosh! We surprised her enough, look at her face!" He pointed at Momo's face, which looked similar to a popping balloon.
"K..k..kiley! I thought you… were…" Momo trailed off…
Yomiko started laughing too and Momo just stood there with the look of KILL planted on her face. But Kiley's and Yomiko's laughter cheered her up enough to make her start laughing, and soon the three of them were just standing in the middle of the hallway with janitor supplies spilling from the open closet, their laughter filling the empty hallway.
"So…" Momo tried to break the somewhat awkward silence that filled the air after the laughter died away.
Yomiko looked at her watch. "Oh m'gosh! I'm sorry, but I have a drama class! Hey! Do you guys want to come watch? We're rehearsing our play, The Good Ol' Days, written by Rei Sashomie. It's not too bad, at least, it's better than the last one we did about the cats or whatever."
"You know, we've got history class coming up, but I don't see why we can't just ditch it!" Kiley started beaming as he thought of missing out on the daily bore fest.
Normally, Momo would have loved the idea as much as Kiley, but then she remembered that she was planning to take the notes from class to the hospital today to see if she could help Sae…
"Um. I'm really sorry, guys, but I don't think I can make it. I was going to take the notes to—"
"Oh, that's right. Momo has been an annoyingly good student these past…" he started counting on his fingers, "Umm two weeks? Let me see…"
As Kiley stood there, in the middle of the hallway pondering the mystery, Yomiko and Momo waved each other good-bye and walked down the opposite corridors.
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Summer says:
Well, the story is starting to progress… sort of… I have something good in mind for the next chapter, so hold onto your seatbelts! We figured out the answer to one of our questions! Yay! And the next chapter will answer that one, too… muahahahaha! Hope you guys enjoy the story!