And now, I present to you……The Fifth Chapter!!! This is a bit short but…Read on!!! ^_^ Chapter Five: Revealed

        "Eri!" Sendoh called as he glimpsed a familiar girl with her head bowed walking to wherever her feet might lead her. "Hey Eri, where are you going?"

        But it seems that she hadn't heard him.

        "The girl is lost with her own thoughts again," he muttered, a smile forming on his lips as he remembered the first time they had met, and how she had looked. It was like she had woken from a dream only to find she was in a dream again. He treaded to catch up with her fast pace.

        He grabbed her shoulders, stopping her as well as sending her out of her wits as she jumped in shock. He laughed at her startled face.

        "Hey, what are you doing here all by your…" he stopped as he saw her face. "Are you all right?"

        She just nodded.

        Sendoh frowned at the lack of life on the girl's eyes; her cheeks were paled as if blood were drained out from it. "What happened to you?"

        She suddenly broke into a sob and flung herself on his chest, wetting his shirt along the way.

        Sendoh blinked and slowly hugged her. "I'd better bring you home."

        "You—WHAT" Sendoh's voice was clearly heard all over the room and everyone stopped moving, staring at him in perplexity.

        Rina simper apologetically while Yuri bit her lips.

        "Will you lower your voice?" Rina told the astounded ace. "If it got around the school, Eri will simply kill us."

        Sendoh sat back on the chair, which was suppose to be where Eri would be sitting right at that moment. But fortunately, she was in the newspaper room due to some meeting.

        "But I don't get it. Why would you set her up with a bunch of no-good guys?"

        Yuri sighed. "It's because of some sort of dream she had a couple of days ago and this girl," she cast a glance at Rina who squirmed on her chair and smiled timidly at her, "thought of that crazy idea."

        "But if you had thought it was crazy then why didn't you stopped me," she protested, glaring at her friend.

        "Even if we stopped you, it would never make a difference," was Yuri's reply. Rina just rolled her eyes.

        Sendoh who was looking back and forth at the two girls finally had the chance to butt in. "It's nobody's fault, ok? And looking for her…what do you call that?"

        "Her dream guy," Yuri filled in.

        "Right, and looking for her dream guy is such a foolish thing. I mean looking for a person that you didn't even know his face or something? That's ridiculous."

        Yuri nodded. "That's what I told her. But she didn't care and kept on fantasizing about that imaginary person."

        They fell in silence until Rina spoke with uncertainty evident on her voice.

        "So what now?"

        The orange ball bounced back at him as it hit the board. He picked it up and started to dribble the ball, staring at the basket at the same time. He took one more shot in the free throw line and his brow furrowed before the ball even reached the basket. Just as he had expected, it whacked the rim and bounced back at him again.

        "Can't concentrate, huh?" Koshino asked who had been watching him the whole time.

        Sendoh grinned as he brushed the sweat on his forehead. "Just tired, I guess."

        Hikoichi frowned. "Tired?" then his eyes sparkled wickedly at him. "I know why. Is it because of that girl the whole school has been talking about?"

        He blinked. "What girl?"

        "See! You're guilty. You're hiding it from us all this time," he accused, looking hurt and about to burst into tears. "So who she is? I've got to check her too!"

        "I didn't know whose you're talking about."

        Koshino folded his arms and narrowed his eyes at him. "The girl you've been with every after school."

        "And you've been hiding it from all of us! That you have a girlfriend!" Hikoichi added. "And you said we're friends!"

        Sendoh scratched his head and smiling dumbly at the two. "Hehe, we're not really what you're thinking of. She's just a friend of mine."

        "But you hide it from us!" Both of them gushed as gallons of tears flow from their eyes.

        Strong and firm footsteps was heard inside the court. Sendoh saw their team captain, Uozumi heading towards their direction and he sighed in relief. "Saved from the second great flood."

        "What's going on with those two?" Uozumi asked when he finally reached them while Sendoh shrugged back.

        "What's that?" Sendoh asked.

        "Just the school's newspaper," and suddenly the two stopped and in a blink of an eye, Koshino was already beside Uozumi and had the paper in his hands.

        He smiled. "Hey, the Ask Me section. I like this part. Let's see what's today's the question."

        Hikoichi leaned over as he read aloud, "what if there was a friend of yours you're extremely close with when one day, she reached out and kissed you? Would that change everything and what you have for her or him?"

        Sendoh's eyebrows went high.

        "And the answer is," Koshino trailed off as he glances down the paper. "Uh, dear friend, it all depends on how your friend had kissed you. A peck on the cheek might only mean that he/she just cares and appreciates you. However if it goes way beyond, like a kiss on the lips, well it might as well be love. But it's up to you whether you want the change or not. Good luck."

        Sendoh's eyebrows went even higher this time.

        "Who's the writer of that page?"

        Koshino glanced up from the paper at him questioningly. "The paper didn't tell who the writer is. This section has always been anonymous." He stared curiously at their ace whose face went paled. "Why did you ask? Do you know the person?"

        He chuckle, which came out a little forceful. "I hope not."

        Hikoichi narrowed his eyes. "You're hiding something again!"

        "And what about this girl? You didn't tell us her name."

        "I think I'm going to be executed any minute now," he scratched his hair, fidgeting distressfully.

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