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Part III

The next day at school, gossip was spreading across campus. Gossip about the game last weekend, which we won, was spreading amongst the jocks and the other sports fans, and then there was gossip about the guy that I felt weird about. Almost every preppy girl in the school came up to me and asked if he was my boyfriend. I replied to them in the same way. "NO! GO AWAY PREP!" The guys from the team were happy, and we celebrated all week. The Jackhammers weren't in a running streak anymore!

I walked to my classroom, still feeling weird about that guy from that weekend. It was bothering me ever since, I knew who he was, but I couldn't remember his name! It was driving me insane! I almost walked up to him to ask him, but then I felt weird again, and I walked away.

Girls stood by the window, looking down at something, probably some new guy, and they were talking loudly. Karee was over there as well, so I figured I could go look, too. I made my way through the girls to look out of the window.

I froze. The school principal was showing around a new kid. And it was the guy from the game! I quickly ran to my seat, all the girls looking at me as I did. I didn't care, let them look. I quickly sat down in my seat, my face heating up like fire, and I know I was blushing noticeably. Karee walked up and slammed her hand on my desk, and I looked up at her.

"What's got you?" She asked.

I looked at my desk, "I don't know."

She looked at my face, and I knew she was studying me. "Is that the guy that's rumored to be your boyfriend?"

I hesitated, then nodded. She gasped, then laughed. "Why are you so ashamed of it? He's hot!"

I managed a weak smile, and yet, I felt like slapping her right then and there for saying that about him. He's mine!

Wait... what was I thinking? I don't even know the guy... do I?

"Miss Chihiro, please come here," the teacher called for me.

I stood up and walked over to her, "yes?"

"The principal would like it if you could show around our new student, Kohaku."

"Sure," I said. Kohaku... that name... I heard it before. She led me away, and I felt butterflies in my stomach. He was waiting in the hall, his hair covering his eyes as he looked at the floor while he leaned against the wall. He looked pale... afraid... yet he looked like he was waiting for something.

We stood in front of him, and he didn't even look up at us. I didn't look at him, either; I kept my eyes on the floor.

The teacher coughed and both of us looked at her. "Go ahead, Chihiro, show him around. I'll give you the homework assignment when you get back so you don't miss anything." With that, she walked back to the classroom, leaving me all alone with him.

I looked at him, and gasped, he was standing right in front of me, his green eyes searching my face for something. I felt my face heat up, but I looked away, "shall we go?"

He nodded and we walked down the hall.

"You're name is Chihiro, isn't it?" He asked.

I nodded, "yes, what was yours again? Sorry, I forget easily."

He smiled, "I'm Kohaku, you can call me Haku if you want."

'Haku...' I thought. 'Where had I heard that name before?'

"Rings a bell, doesn't it?" He asked.

I looked at him; he was waiting for me to answer. "Yes... it does..." I answered surprised. "How did you...?"

"Lucky guess," he said, giving his shoulders a shrug. "I can read it in your face."

I smirked and pushed a strand of hair away from my eyes.

"Oh, here, this might help." He reached in his pocket and pulled out a pink- jeweled hair-tie. He handed it to me, and I gazed down at it.

(Memory)

I was eleven, and I was standing in front of the Kohaku Lake. I was furious. He hadn't come back yet. He said he would, but he wasn't here. I waited for him, and he's not here. I held the pink-jeweled hair-tie in my hand tightly, afraid to let it go for loosing my memories of him forever.

With an angry scream, I threw it into the lake, hearing the splash a few feet away. I let the hot tears of anger, sadness, and loneliness fall from my eyes and down my face to the floor, ignoring my parents calling for me.

"Good-bye..." I whispered softly as the wind blew in my hair. The wind carried my words to him.

A soft voice called back to me. "Will you wait for me?"

I smiled. It was him, he was calling to me. Tears of joy fell from my eyes, but the loneliness still pained my heart. "I'll wait forever."

"Remember that promise, Chihiro. Remember." With that, the wind stopped, and my mother was cussing at me to get back to the car. I smiled, wiped my tears away and joined them in the car again. But with each step, my memories left me the further I got from the lake. I was afraid to loose them all, so I clung tightly onto the pink-jeweled hair-tie memory for as long as I could.

(End Memory)

"Are you okay, Chihiro?"

I shook my head, coming out of my memory. I looked at him, why did that memory come back to me? And why did he have my hair-tie that I threw in the Kohaku Lake.

Wait... The Kohaku Lake... Kohaku... Haku! It was coming back to me. Slowly, but coming back.

"Haku..." I whispered, as if I was afraid people would hear me. "The... promise... what...?" I shook my head. Too many things were coming to me at once. Haku... a white dragon... the Kohaku Lake... the hair-tie... the promise... a... bathhouse? What was going on with me?

I placed both hands on my head, feeling my heart and mind twist with everything that was being thrown at me. I was falling to my knees and Haku caught me in his arms. I felt tired, weak, and unable to move. Haku lifted me up bridal-style and carried me to a bench where he laid me down.

"Do you remember?" He asked.

I looked at him. "I... I think so..."

He smiled, "I came back."