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Momo and Toji were walking home. It was a beautiful day. They were chatting happily when all of a sudden; they heard a cry from behind them. It was a piercing scream. Sae's screams were always piercing.

They rushed down the street to her. She had collapsed on the sidewalk and was crying.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Looking up, Sae pointed to her throat. Her face was looking strained and turning a strange purple.

"Oh m'God, Toji! I think she can't breathe!!!!"

He started panicking. He did that a lot. He lifted Sae up and asked, "Where should we take her??"

"We need to take her to an emergency room!"

"The hospital's blocks away!!"

"Look, we're really close to my house! My mom can drive us there!"

"I'm not gonna run around to your house just so your mom can drive us in her grungy old car and get us there when she's already dead!!!!!"

Toji ran off, while Momo stood there dumbstruck.

~~Oh, man. I should NOT have done that. Why does this panic attack always happen and ruin everything???~~

He kept running and running. However much he wanted to run back to Momo and apologize, he knew that Sae was in real danger.

…………

"WOAH!!"

Everyone in the waiting room stared at him as Toji woke up from his dream. Well, it was more like a memory, since that was exactly what had happened the day Sae was first hospitalized.

Doctor Harushima was standing above him. He was stricken by how tall and buff she looked.

"You wanted to see Kashiwagi, right?"

He faintly nodded.

"You're a friend of that blonde?"

"O m'gosh! Is she here?"

"Yeah, but I think you'll have as big of a shock as she had when she visited Ms. Sae. Are you sure you want to go?"

He nodded and followed the brisk pace of the tall doctor down the corridor.

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Summer says:

Since the italics don't always show up on the website for some reason, whenever anyone is thinking to themselves, it will show up in these little swirly thingies: ~~blah blah blah~~ okay? And aren't Toji's dreams really, you know, down to earth? I thought that reflected his character a bit! ^.^ sorry… But I like Sae's funky dreams, because they really reflect her twisted mind and that she's ill. Oh yeah, and remember last chapter with the song "You're gonna die on Christmas Eve. Hey Hey Hey!"? Well, I didn't just write it in to be funny, that song was in one of my dreams! I made it up in my dream… Weird…