"Who's your favourite?" Rei asked, watching curiously as the young girl blushed.
"I don't exactly have one."
"You're lying, I can see you blushing…" Rei replied, watching as she quickly turned her head away from him.
"…It's the truth though… I don't have one main favourite… I have three."
"Who?" Rei persisted, but the girl just shook her head again, "you can tell me," he added. Mika looked around, Tala and Bryan had disappeared again, Tyson and Max were watching some of the boys who were involved in a card game; Kai was nowhere to be seen.

"Ok… Kai, Tala and you…" the girl sighed, "but please don't tell them!" she added hastily.
"Why not?" Rei asked curiously.
"Because they'd probably never look at me again let alone talk to me!" she told him.
"You shouldn't jump to conclusion about people."
She spun around suddenly seeing Kai standing behind her and slowly everything began to blur.
"You probably shouldn't of done that," Rei commented looking at the girl lying out cold along the bench.
"She needed to know," Kai replied with a shrug.
"You didn't exactly tell her much," Rei retorted.
"She didn't give me a chance," Kai insisted.

"Mika"!
Kai and Rei turned around to see a black haired boy running over towards them. They moved out of the way as he knelt down next to the girl trying to tell whether she was all right or not.

……….

Mika opened her eyes to find her self in a brightly lit room; Rei and Kiyoshi were standing over her. What happened? She wondered but then her memory returned… she had told Rei who her favourite characters were and then Kai… he had just appeared out of know where and she fainted; just great.
"The other's are at your place…" she heard Rei whisper before he left the room, now it was just her and Kiyoshi.
"One of the staff have called your mum, are you ok?" she heard Kiyoshi ask.
"Yeh… I'm fine…" she replied, slowly sitting up from where she lay on one of the couches in the school office.

"Good I was worried, especially after everyone says you've started talking to spirits and ghosts," the Kiyoshi commented sitting beside her.
"No not spirits… I don't think so anyway…" she said, more to herself then to him.
"What? You mean you really are talking to things?" she heard the Kiyoshi ask.
"Not things, they're people…Rei… I've met him, I've talked to him!" she told her friend excitedly, however it was obviouse he didn't share the same enthusiasm as she did.
"Ok, you really are crazy… Mika they're just anime characters… they're not real!" he told her sternly.

"Mika! Ah there you are, good, come on now, you're coming home this instant!"

Mika looked over to the door, it was her mum, her day was getting worse and worse.
"Kiyoshi, thanks for looking after her for now but she really must get home…she's mentally unstable at the moment…" she heard her mother say in a low whisper before she was led out of the school and into her mothers car. They drove in silence for a moment and then her mother spoke.
"It seems you've been causing some problems in school with this talking to imaginary people nonsense… so I have arranged an appointment with a shrink the school had recommended…" was the last thing she heard her mother say before she tried to block it all out until they got home… but that didn't work.
"Mika it's for your own good… these problems are common among some people… they can be fixed!" her mother called out, but it was useless, her daughter wasn't listening.