Tadaaahhhhh! Chapter Six! At long last! I hope you like it the way I do! So read on and give me your review! Thanks!

Chapter Six: Bad Dreams, Bad Happenings

        She feels cold and numb. Something is going to happen, the thought just struck her mind so suddenly as she saw herself, falling and falling down an endless hole. Her screams echoed around her, nearly breaking her eardrums apart but still there was no one to find her, to help her.

        However, the fall has ended as suddenly as it had come and she was standing all alone in a place she'd never been before.

        She stared around her only to find nothing but empty darkness until suddenly, out of nowhere, images started to appear in front of her in a bliss. She saw her house at the distance with its usual lights on. The sight of their classroom flashed, replacing her home. She saw her classmates laughing, talking and some were just sitting, reading a book. Then her two friends, Rina and Yuri appeared, startling her.

        "Eri! Over here!" both of them shouted, smiling and waving their hands furiously at her.

        She grinned and took a step forward when they too suddenly disappeared. She began to call out their names but her voice just echoed through and the place remained silent and cold once again.

         "You can't have it!"

         A girl suddenly emerged at the same spot where she had seen her friends. Her eyes glared at her so deadly she took a step back. She'd never seen the girl before although the girl stared at her as if she knew her all her life.

        "You can't have it!" the girl shouted once again leaving her dumbfounded.

        "What is it I can't have?"

        "You can't have it!" she shouted as if she had never spoken, her voice vibrated around her, driving her head insane until the girl also disappeared. Then she saw herself crying for no apparent reason until she, herself, started to fade as well.

        "Remember, I'm just here. Just here…" she turned her head from where the voice came from and saw the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen in her entire life. But the sound of bells broke the moment she had been waiting for and she soon found herself wide-awake.

        She sat upright on her bed and heard her alarm clock went berserk.

        "Just a dream." But she felt her cheeks were wet from crying.

        "You can just call me Masami. I came from Tokyo and spent my junior and first year there," the girl with a pretty face as well as a killer figure and straight black hair smiled at them cheerfully. In her seat beside the windows, Eri could see that the new girl kept exchanging glances with Sendoh.

        They seemed to know each other pretty well. She suddenly felt jealous and envious that the girl had become a part of his life.  

        She sighed and shifted her gaze outside the window instead, waiting for the day to be over. The dream that morning was still playing itself on her mind and she felt quite agitated that she would have seen her dream guy's face if not for her alarm clock.

        "I want all of you to answer the pages one hundred two numbers ten to twenty. It would be submitted tomorrow and no late passing," their Math sensei smiled adoringly at them when they started to whine and complain.

        The bell rang, signaling the end of classes.

        "Remember I don't want to receive late assignments," he repeated before going out of the door.

        Eri gathered her things and turned her calculator off. She had already finished numbers ten to seventeen only three more to go.

        Right on cue, she looked up from her work and saw the two lovebirds went out of the room. But what made her heart feel gloom is when she noticed that the girl's hand was wrapped around Sendoh's arm.

        "Oh well," she muttered as she went out of the door and was stopped when she saw Sendoh waiting for her around the corner.

        He grinned. "What took you so long?"

        Eri frowned yet she felt her heart jumped with joy. "Where's uh, Masami? I thought you were with her and…"

        "She went ahead. Remember we had a date in the library?" his grin went even wider this time.

        She blushed. "Oh. Uh, yeah, right."

        The girl across the room smiled triumphantly at her as she walked with her hand rested on the arm of her prince. She just kept her chin up, knowing that her prince loved her dearly.

        Or does he?

        The thought played itself on her head as she stared at the girl dance with her prince in the middle of the floor as the orchestra started to play songs. Cannot bear to watch the two of them, she stood up from the sofa and headed to the balcony with downcast eyes.

        Does he?

        She stared up the sky and to the stars that seemed to form pictures before her. She sighed.

        "I've been looking for you," a familiar voice said behind her. Then the orchestra started to play a slow, melodious song inside. "So can I have this dance?"

        She turned away from the stars and stared deep into those beautiful eyes.

        She smiled broadly at him.

        "What are you smiling at?" he suddenly gazed at her, jolting her out of her reverie. "Do I have something on my face or do I just look so dumb and funny? Name one."

        Eri chortled nervously at being caught in the act. "I choose: you just look so dumb and funny."

        "Is it my hair, my nose or what?" Sendoh teased, obviously enjoying seeing her squirm on her seat.

        "Everything," then she began to solve the last number on her Math book to distract her eyes from staring at his wonderful, smiling face. "Now lets just go back to work, ok?"

        "If you say so my little teacher."

        "You are being so unfair!" Masami grumbled petulantly, her hands were on her hips and she pouted her lips at him. "You didn't tell me that I already had a replacement?"

        "A replacement?" a naïve looking Sendoh muttered. "Who?"

        "Of course who else but that quiet girl you were just with yesterday after classes," she wrinkled her nose in disgust as if something smelled pretty badly at that moment.

        He chuckled at seeing her typical mannerism whenever she doesn't like what she was hearing. "We're just friends Masami and nothing else. Who ever told you that by the way?"

        Masami sighed in relief and in annoyance at his ignorance. "Its in the rumors, Akira. If you're just too deaf to hear it or you're simply hiding it from me."

        "I haven't…" then he paused as his mind traveled back in time to what Koshino had told him.

        "For goodness sake Sendoh! It's circling the whole school!"

        He stared at the ceiling exasperatedly. "Its just a rumor."

        Masami shrugged, still not contented at his words. Then Sendoh saw a glint in her eyes as he glimpsed Eri walking towards their direction, unaware of her surroundings.

        He had to smile at that as he made a brief surveillance to what was the lucky thing that had made that mind of hers flies again. As he had thought, she was reading something as she walked.

        Probably a book for her next class.

        Masami's voice brought him back to earth.

        "Aren't you Eri?" she asked and Eri poked her head up from the book and nodded.

        "So, why don't you be a gentleman and introduce me, Akira-kun," she then turned to the tall guy beside him with a sweet smile on her face.

        Sendoh made a weak smile. "Eri, I'd like you to meet Masami. Masami, this is Eri. She's the one who helped me in my studies."

        Masami shook her hand. "So you're Eri. I've heard a lot about you," she told her. "By the way, Akira forgot to tell you. I'm his ex-girlfriend."

        Then the smile on Eri's face vanished as blood drained out of her cheeks. Her face looked like she was punched on both of her eyes. On the other hand, Masami, who had noticed the sudden change of the girl's face, smirked.

        "But right now, I'm working on winning his heart again," she continued while Sendoh blinked, unable to believe what he was hearing.

        Eri forced to smile as broadly as she can. Meanwhile inside her, her teeth were gritting so hard you can almost hear the slashing of her teeth.

        "I hope you can."

        One of Masami's perfectly shaped eyebrows perched up.

        Beside the two girls, Sendoh chuckled and began to fan his shirt as he felt the temperature had risen up so suddenly around them. "Well, uh, I think we'd better, you know, uh…"

        The bell suddenly rang and he heaved a sigh of relief as Eri made her exit and bid them goodbye, but the frown is still evident on her face. While beside him, Masami kept muttering curses under her breath as they walked to their class.

        Eri rushed downstairs with a bag of chips and a can of soda on the other hand. She angrily opened the door, her ears no longer containing the shrill sound of the doorbell that kept on ringing for about a half an hour. And she knew who were there before she even burst the door open.

        "What is it?" she demanded fretfully and saw her two friends standing outside with grim faces. Rina's hand was still pressing the doorbell, annoying her even more.

        "What the hell is it?"

        Rina stopped and scowled at her. "What is it? You're not even answering our calls and you're asking what the hell is it?"

        She took a long sip of soda to calm her nerves and glared at her.

        "What's wrong with you, Eri? You're acting so...different! It's totally unlike you!"

        "It's none of your business."

        Yuri shook her head. "Its our business too, baka. We're friends and we're here to help you," then she gaped at the food Eri was clutching on her hands and frowned. "And you're pigging yourself out just to forget this certain problem am I right?"

        "Oh my! It's got to be so serious," Rina added, knowing that their little friend would blame herself when a very serious problem arises.

        "And so?"

        Yuri sighed. "Is it about Sendoh?"

        She glared even harder at the sound of his name that her eyes might bulge out of its sockets if they utter his name again.

        Rina laughed and threw her hands in the air. "As I was expecting!" and she strode pass Eri and went inside the house. "Let's all get inside and sit and have a talk about this love problem of yours ok?"

        Then she added, "Well Eri I think someone has got to replace you at the Ask Me section. You can't even solve this little problem!"

        "I guess so."

        With that, she burst into tears right at that minute.

I'd just like to tell you that Eri is the typical quiet and weak girl. And also in the next chapter, you dear readers, will finally know who is the so-called DreamGuy! Hahahaha! But if you have any suggestion bout it, I would like to know! ^_^