Once inside her house Hitomi couldn't help but hope Van wasn't doing something too important so they could talk. She decided she could try. She focused all her thoughts on him. Please answer Van! Please..

Van felt a pounding inside his head. It was screaming his name like an echo. Grabbing his head he begged it to stop. Van answer! He stopped, realizing what it was.

"What is it Hitomi?"

"Van is something wrong?"

"Why do you say that?"

"I just felt something."

"Like what?"

"I can't explain it. But I feel like maybe something might happen or has happened, something big. If there was something wrong you would tell me, right?"

"Of course I would. Now you should go to sleep. It's late. There's probably nothing wrong. Everybody gets a weird feeling now and then."

"But Van, promise me."

"I'll tell you. Don't worry."

"Okay. Good night."

"Night."

With that their conversation ended. Those conversations always made Hitomi exhausted. He was right, it was late and it was probably nothing. But Van had never just brushed her off. Something had to be wrong. She just didn't know what. Why couldn't he tell her? There had to be something wrong. If she could just know what it was. If she could just stay awake. I'll find out. I'll stay awake. But darkness overcame her will.

Van sat down. Why had he done that? If nothing was wrong why did he make her leave him alone? He didn't know. He didn't know why he didn't tell her he'd had the same feeling at dinner. Maybe something would happen and he just didn't know it yet. Isn't that what she had said? Why had he not wanted to tell her? He knew the answer he just wouldn't admit it to himself. I'm afraid of what might happen. Lying on his pillow he kept thinking. I've never felt this before. Why am I afraid of it if I don't even know what it is? What could I be afraid of? The unknown? He laughed at himself. He had faced the unknown before. Invisible guymelefs. Dornkirk. He had fought his worst fears and yet was afraid of this one feeling. But why? Keep awake.