Chapter Seven, Dazed and Confused:

Ri sat at her desk, head in hand, trying her best looking like she was paying attention to the Biology teacher's lecture. Normally she would pay attention, at least a little bit. But after her encounter with Matt, she couldn't keep her head straight. She had been fumbling with the ticket he had given her ever since she received it. And she kept thinking about that moment in the hallway, over and over.

He seemed kind of nervous when he came up to talk to me…And the ticket… She glanced at it once more. Why me? It doesn't make any sense. He could have given it to any other swooning fan-girl, but he gave it to me... She looked at it again, just to make sure that it was for his concert like she thought and not a ticket-sized piece of paper saying 'Ha ha! Did you think I would actually give you a ticket to my concert?' But it didn't. It was to see 'The Teenaged Wolves' on Christmas Eve. I don't see how I can deserve something like this since I've only met him yesterday. Maybe he just felt sorry for me...

"Yoshikawa, what is Mitosis?"

"Mm-hm…" she answered. A couple of the students began to giggle. The teacher looked frustrated towards her.

"Have you been listening at all today?" Ri looked up at the teacher and didn't say a word, looking a little disappointed in her self. The teacher shook his head. "And from what I've heard from Mr. Akiyama, you are also having trouble with coming to class--" The school bell rang before the teacher could finish. Ri got up from her seat and quickly collected all her papers and got lost in the crowd of students leaving the classroom. When she had steeped up to her locker and put her papers and text books in, she lightly rammed her head against it. Ugh…So far today has been nothing but chaotic…

"Ri-chan! Ri-chan," she heard someone squeal in the distance. Ri looked up and saw her crimson haired friend dash towards her. (A/N: I don't know if Matt and Jun go to the same school or not but they are going to in this story. So you'll hafta deal with it :P)

"Oh, hi Jun," Ri said softly.

"Hiya!" she said happily. "Guess what I just heard?"

"What did you--?"

"--About you and Matt's little conversation in the hallway!" Jun interrupted. Ri stared blankly at her.

"What about it?"

"Well someone saw you and him talking on the way to class, and he gave you something." Jun began to look excited. Ri raised an eyebrow.

"So…are you going to show me it?"

"Show you what?" Ri asked.

"What did Matt give you, silly!" she giggled. "Show me!" Ri nodded and showed the little paper that was still in her hand. Jun picked it up from her hand, examining it. She let out a gasp. "He gave you this?!" Ri nodded again.

"I don't really know why though."

"Oh I know why," Jun said with a devious grin on her face. Ri gulped.

"Then what is it?"

Jun scoffed. "Well it is totally obvious! Matt must have a crush--"

Shut up Jun…Don't say it …Ri thought to herself.

"On me!" she finished. Ri looked confused now.

"And why is that?"

"Well, since I am the one who took you under my wing and all, Matt just is trying to impress me by being sweet and generous to you. Any day now, Matt is going to walk this way and ask me to come and watch him sing this Christmas eve…" Jun said dreamily.

"Yeah…that's what is going to happen, Jun…" Ri said, sweatdropping. Thank you so much for straightening that out for me.

Jun smiled proudly. "So anyways, want to walk home together?"

"Sure let me just…" she paused for a moment. She had almost forgotten about her little situation with Mr. Akiyama.

"What? What's wrong?"

"I, um, have to go to the office…"

Jun grinned. "Oh I see…" Ri nodded slowly and grabbed her backpack and started to walk away.

"I'll see ya tomorrow," she called back.

"Okay!" Jun said waving back at her. "Say hi to Yama-kun for me the next time you see him!" Ri laughed nervously and ran off to the school office.

Ed-chan: Hey, sorry for another long wait. I really hope everyone hasn't lost faith in the story since my posts are so spaced out. But thanks to all my viewers for being patient and giving me reviews. So thanks everyone. See you all in the next chapter!