Going back to school was tiring for Hitomi. Everywhere she went, people would stare and quickly turn their heads to whisper. This only caused Hitomi to walk faster to all her classes. Some people would stop and walk up to her asking her if she was feeling better.

'How ironic,' she thought, 'I'm dying from leukemia, and these people are asking me if I feel better.' The bell rang and Hitomi headed to English. Sitting down in her seat, Hitomi looked toward the door and saw Van walking in. Hitomi had been trying to avoid him all day, even though it was impossible to because she had all his classes.

"You came. Just as you said," Van said smiling while sitting down next to her.

"Yeah. I can't miss any more of school," Hitomi responded blandly while looking straight into her desk. She was trying to look away from his eyes. The same eyes that trap her in one place and cause her to feel that funny feeling inside her. Van looked at her wondering why she was staring at her desk and was about to ask her something when Mr. Foreman began class.

"As you all know we will be performing a play in this class. This class will be joined with the Drama class because of all your inexperience I figured that you might need the help. This play will count towards your grade so don't even think for one moment that this will be easy. You all are probably wondering what play we're doing so I finally came up with a decision. This play is an original that was written by a student in the drama class and yes it deals with romance," Mr. Foreman explained. All the guys groaned while the all the girls gave small giggles. Hitomi was shocked and disgusted. Van on the other hand seemed to think that a romantic play would be nice.

"Interestingly enough for an original it reminds a lot of Romeo and Juliet. Although it also reminds me of Sleeping Beauty as well, but the Drama teacher found it suitable for us to do so we might as well do it. Oh and just remember that we will be performing this in front of your parents and anyone else who decides to come," Mr. Foreman finished. He looked up from the paper that he was reading from and saw that everyone was sleeping. He shook his head in disappointment and went to retrieve a bag. Slowly everyone began waking up again.

"I wrote the names of the characters on pieces of paper and put them in this bag. Your job is to pull one out." Mr. Foreman wandered around the room and hands began to pull out names. Girls sighed sadly as they pulled out names that they didn't want and the guys just looked at the name once and crumpled the paper.

"Miss Kanzaki, you're turn. Oh and welcome back," Mr. Foreman said.

"Thank you," Hitomi said as she pulled out a name. Then Mr. Foreman moved to Van and Hitomi watched as he pulled out a name.

"What are the odds that you get one of the main characters?" Van asked Hitomi as he looked at his piece of paper then to her.

"One to about twenty," Hitomi stated.

"I thought so. I play a character named Thomas."

"Oh."

"What about you? Who is your character?" Hitomi looked at the folded piece of paper in her hand and began repeating in her head over and over again how she wished it wasn't a character that had a romantic thing for the character that Van played.

"I . . . I'm uhmm . . . not going to look at until I go home. I'll tell you tomorrow," she said as the bell rang. She quickly packed her stuff and practically ran out the room so that Van couldn't catch her. Van watched Hitomi run out the room and wondered what made her react like that.

'One more period and then I'm out of school and away from Van,' Hitomi thought. She felt kind of bad for leaving Van so fast but right now she would give anything to get away from him. The way he made her feel was everything that she ever wanted but she couldn't fall in love anymore. Her sickness would just pull them apart and she would kill herself before ever separating herself from Van. She gave a big sigh as she stopped in the middle of the hallway to think for a moment.

'I must be crazy. I'm having all these thoughts about him and me and thinking that there might be this chance for us to be together. What's wrong with me? I'm not even sure if he feels the same about me,' Hitomi thought. She began to walk again and made it to her dance class. This class was her favorite not because she enjoyed it but also because she didn't have Van to run away from. After dressing and going to the small gym that was specially made for the dance members, Hitomi saw all the other dancers stretching. As she walked by them they all stopped stretching and stared at her as she walked by. Hitomi felt uncomfortable with the way everyone was looking at her. Then she noticed Millerna walking towards her.

"Hey! How have you been? We all missed you," she said smiling at Hitomi.

"Millerna I've only been gone for a few days, but thanks and I'm fine," Hitomi said returning the smile. Millerna gave her a hug and then went to teach the new choreography to the class. Just as they were about to start, the door to the small gym opened and the entire Drama class came in.

"What's going on?" Millerna asked out loud not to anyone in particular. Then a tall, handsome, and blonde guy walked towards Millerna.

"Hey Mill," he said with his soft and tender voice. By the look on all the girl's faces, he must have been the most handsome guy in the entire school.

"Allen what is this? You guys don't have the small gym today."

"I know, but the stage was taken by the advanced drama and it's not like we can argue with the teacher."

"Whatever. Yeah well you can't practice here. You can stay here but not practice. The girls are learning a new routine." Millerna walked to the center of the room again and turned the music on. The drama class kept coming in and the dancers had to move back to the far wall so that they could all fit. Millerna taught the first half of the dance and then turned off the music. Everyone got up and took their positions. As soon as the music started they began to duplicate the exact moves that Millerna taught them. The drama class began cheering as individual performances came up. All the dancers smiled as their turn came up. Hitomi's turn came up and the entire gym erupted into cheering. Hitomi had so much fun while dancing. Towards the end of the period everyone was laughing and talking with one another. Hitomi was talking to Millerna when someone walked towards them and introduced himself.

"I knew that the famous Hitomi Kanzaki was a great dancer, but I didn't know she was this great," Allen said as he stood next to Hitomi.

"Thanks. Dancing is what I love to do. I can't help it that I'm good," Hitomi said plainly. The more she looked at him the more she began to feel kind of giddy inside. She felt embarrassed and red.

'What's wrong with me? First I act retarded in front of Van and now this? Besides I like Van not Allen . . . right?' Hitomi thought. The bell rang and school was out. Hitomi walked over to the locker room to change and get out of school really fast. Just as she was about to walk through the girl's locker room, someone grabbed her by the wrist. Hitomi turned to see whom it was and prayed that it wasn't Van.

"Allen?" she said looking at him with a skeptical look.

"Hey . . . again. I was just wondering if you want to hang out sometime. Just for fun at least so that we can get to know each other," he asked. Hitomi just looked at him with a wondering look. Then she realized what had just happened.

'You know for the most popular guy in school it's kind of weird that he's asking me out. Or so I think he is. Well Hitomi you might as well answer the guy, after all you already know what the answer is,' Hitomi thought to herself.

"Sure," Hitomi said. Then she thought for one second and she realized what she had just said.

'O my god, what the hell did I just do!? I was supposed to say no. I was going to say no, maybe I can take back what I said very quickly. Yeah that's it, just tell him that you can't and you're busy,' she thought frantically.

"How about this Friday? At 6:00?"

"That's sounds nice."

"Great. I'll come pick you up." Allen left her with a smile leaving Hitomi standing there with a zombie look on her face.

'WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO!?!?!?!?' Hitomi screamed at herself in her head. She hit herself twice with the palm of her hand and then took a deep breath.

'Now how am I going to fix this,' she thought with a worried look on her face.

Going to sleep was the best thing for Hitomi to do when she got home. She threw backpack down onto the floor and threw herself lightly onto her bed. She stuffed her face into her pillow and then turned so that her face was on its side. She began reviewing what had happened at school and just realized that she still hadn't looked at her character for the play. With a sigh she got up from her bed, went to her backpack and got out a small piece of folded up piece of paper. Heading towards her bed, she leaned up on her headboard and slowly began to open up the piece of paper.

"I'm . . ."

A/N: sorry this took so long but I'm moving into my new home, finals, and report cards were stopping me from writing anymore . . . this chapter seemed kind of like a drag . . . I don't know why . . . it just does . . . well anyway I'm going to be gone for one more time because I'm moving into my house today and I won't have my computer plugged in until who knows when so I probably can't update for a really long time but hey patience is a virtue so yeah. What sucks about this too is that I left you with a cliffhanger and the whole play thing . . . yeah I couldn't find a play so I'm using a friend of mine's original play. Yeah she wrote a play . . . shows how bored we are . . . shows how bored I am . . . I need to go out sometime well anyway so sorry this took so long and remember to review!!! :)