Fifth Chappie: Marks

"Excuse me..!!" Nina called out to the bartender.

"Anything miss??"

"No.. I would just want to ask you something about that boy over there." She said as she points out a teen-age boy that is three seats away from her.

"Well.. that kid? That kid has a problem..." the bartender started. Nina listened to him. "He's been here since the last few months. He goes here every night. He opened up his problem to me once. He said something like a childhood friend. Whatever, I don't understand him. He was always drunk."

"I see... Do you happen to know his name?" she asked him.

"I tried to ask him once, but I just got pissed off.. I reckon you should be lovers with him so that he could forget his heartbreak." The bartender joked.

"C'mon!! Haha! I don't even know the guy! Haha!!" Nina laughed.

"Well there missy, if I were a girl I'd had a crush on that guy! He's cute!!" The bartender used a girly voice.

Nina just laughed.

"C'mon look at him!" he insisted.

"Ok, ok..." she said. She gazed on to him from her seat. "Y-yeah.. he's kinda cute... ! ? ! ? ... HEY!!!!" She walked over to the teen-age drunk.

"Yuta!! What are you doing here!!?" Nina exclaimed.

Yuta didn't budge. She took his hand and dragged him outside. He was heavy but she tried hard. Outside the pub, there were railings. She took him there. He led onto it and started vomiting at the other side of it, which is the sea.

"Yuta... what are you doing in such a place?" she asked him.

"Well.. I just felt like wasting my time there. What are you doing there?" asking back the question.

"I was roaming around. Luckily I bumped into you."

"Really?"

"What's the problem, Yuta?" she asked.

"Tch!!" Yuta muttered as if telling Nina don't-act-like-you-don't- know..

"Yuta..." she said, "Yuta I don't want you seeing like this!!"

"AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE WITH THAT HUMAN BOY!!" he shouted.

Thunder struck Nina, 'why?' she asked her self.

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'Ching!' "Thank you sir, please come again!" the cashier said.

A green haired boy just finished doing his shopping. He exited the grocery store and started to walk home.

"This place is dark, I won't do the grocery again at this time of night..." he muttered to him self.

As he walks at the seaside street, he heard something.

"AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE WITH THAT HUMAN BOY!!"

'That guy is familiar?? ... ! ? Hey... what's Nina doing there? ... Nina?"

"Why!!?? What's the matter with you!??" Nina replied to the boy.

He just gave her an upset look then disappeared.

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Nina felt something weird when Yuta looked at her like that. She sighed. She noticed somebody looking at her from the other side of the street.

"Tsujiai-kun..." she whispered to her self.

But he didn't greet her. He just left knowing that her childhood friend Yuta doesn't want him around.

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"Nina... c'mon..." Ayu tries to stop her best friend.

Nina just cried and cried.

"Oh Ayu-chan!! It's horrible Ayu-chan!! I don't know what to do anymore!! First!! Yuta was drunk, now Tsujiai doesn't want to talk to me!!" she sobbed through her words.

"Maybe its time for you to choose between the two..." she said.

"What?? I don't understand you..."

"...right..." Ayu made a fool of her self-knowing that Nina still doesn't know about Yuta's feelings for her. "Ok.. I'll tell you something..."

"... Hold on Ayu-chan..." she said. She picked up her computer then the smiley rose into view using her granpa's voice.

"Nina!! What are you thinking going back there again!!?? Come back here!! Durmstrang will be here tomorrow!!"

She closed the lid, "Sorry Ayu-chan... I guess I have to go now..." she was still crying.

"Nina... you're suffering too much..."

"Don't worry Ayu, I can take this..." then she flashed her best smile. Her smile was good but her eyes are still in pain.

// Magic Kingdom //

Tomorrow morning...

"Hi granpa!" Nina greeted. She entered her granpa's study room- the one with the big piano and large monitor. The principal of her human school who is also a wizard was there.

"Nina.. Come over here and look." Her granpa told her.

Nina walked over to him. She gazed at the large monitor. There were listed the results of the grades of Magic Kingdom students.

"You're grades were sort of pulled up, Nina.. but-"her granpa was cut off.

Then the principal of their human school spoke, "But his grades are still better." Then he snapped his fingers and Yuta's face flashed on the screen.

'...Yuta.' Nina thought. Seeing Yuta now is a different thing. Before, he was just an irritating face that bothers her every now and then. But now, it seems that things has changed though she doesn't know what or why.

The principal just examined Nina's face with a little smile drawn in his face.

"He really is one of the best students don't you think, Nina?"

"H-huh???? Y-yeah... one of the best..." she uttered.

"But I think it would be better for you if you won't get picked..."

"WHAT!!!!????" Nina's grandfather's voice howled in the room.

"I think Nina really loves the human world and doesn't want to be taken away by Durmstrang."

"What? I don't understand. Please explain." She requested.

"You see, Nina. When Durmstrang picked a student in here, it means that they will bring him or her to their place, which is so far away, for further learning of that student. It means, if you are chosen, they will take you away from this place."

"I could just teleport anytime I want to, right?"

"Wrong. There are teleport boundaries you know. There are invisible walls that can't let you go thru."

"I see... so that goes to Yuta, too, right?"

"Right. But he has still time to back out."

"If he is getting to be picked!!!!" Nina's grandfather butts in.

"It depends on the student if he or she wants to go or not. It is also in the desire of their hearts."

"But does Yuta wants to go?" Nina asked that hopefully the answer would be good.

"If he is getting to be picked!!!!" Nina's grandfather repeated.

Ignoring Nina's grandfather, the principal turned to Nina. "Here, find out for yourself." He gave her a familiar letter.

"I think this would save souls." He said.

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Author's Notes: Buahahahaha!! I just love doing that!! Giving an unfinished ending!! I'm such a bad girl don't you think? Hehe!! Please review!! Onegai..! Chapter 6 is up!!

Oh yeah!! My PC is kinda bitchy lately so I'm sorry if I couldn't give any of you guys some reviews. I also read your works... But the thing is, my PC doesn't do anything about it. Every time I click 'submit review' nothing's happening.. AS IN NOTHING!! So, u got me?? Hehe! _