You Can Learn in Your Sleep, You Know…

M.S.K. : yeah…it kind of is… ;

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Yessika: heh heh heh..…. --; Sorry it took me a while… sweat drop

Well I have FINALLY written another chapter for this story! Sorry it took so long, guys! Just to let you know, not everything in this story is as glamorous as Haku's pink perfume. You have been warned…

Oh, and I do NOT own any Spirited Away characters, they belong to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. However…I'll pay anyone a quarter if they'll take Phlegm… please..?

Chapter 4: The Boy Called Phlegm

Chihiro went to her locker and pulled out her schedule. She had missed a couple of her classes and lunch, but she wasn't very hungry anyway. Her science class was going on at the moment. Returning to the councilor's office, she asked Mrs. Lenning for a pass, and went to the science room. Somehow Mrs. Lenning took no notice of how long she was gone. Either the lady was extremely thick, or this happened a lot. O.o The girl shrugged. Ah well, it worked to her benefit anyway.

The kids in her math class were basically the same as last time….including Phlegm… None took much notice of her as she handed the teacher her pass and sat herself as far as mortally possible from Phlegm. Science passed by as much as it had before; heavy textbooks and lengthy worksheets. She was hard at work on snapping her pencil in half out of frustration from a stupid chemical equation when her attention was diverted to the door. It opened and when the person stepped inside, Chihiro nearly fell of her desk in shock.

The person was obviously lost, with one hand holding a note and schedule, the other behind his head. It was a boy, maybe two years older than she, with ebony hair and eyes that rivaled the richness of emeralds. Haku! Many girls in the class blushed and began giggling at the boy's foreign look. He still had on the clothes from the spirit world.

The teacher took the note from him and turned back to sit in his desk. A moment had passed and Haku still stood there, confused, and hopelessly out of it.

"Take a seat, Haku." The teacher said, reading his name from the note. A few people snickered, remembering his name from Chihiro's speech in the morning.

The boy looked around the room, and caught sight of a young brown-haired girl. Then his face lit with recognition. Chihiro! He must have left the spirit world! She seemed as equally shocked as he.

"Haku. Sit." The teacher was apparently annoyed.

Snapping back to awareness, Haku realized that the only desk open was one next to a kid he knew he wouldn't wish to meet. Even though he was not the type to judge at first sight, he could not help but cringe at the thought of sitting next to the kid with his pants stretched up to practically his collarbone and glasses at least a few feet sticking from his head. Reluctantly, he sad next to the freak and was handed a large book.

He was in mid-turn to look back at Chihiro when he heard a wheezy sound and a cough behind him. With this lip curled in disgust, he turned back to find the nerd staring at him, not even blinking. Feeling more than a tad uneasy, Haku said, "Um…hello…" The kid simply snorted in response, and then leaned forward, nearly pushing Haku to fall out the other side of the desk.

Then suddenly Phlegm jerked upright and scribbled something feverously in a notepad. Someone tapped Haku on the shoulder. He turned, and saw a pretty blonde smiling at him.

"You're name's Haku, right?" She asked. A girl in front of her, a brunette, giggled lightly, obviously attempting to contain herself.

Haku nodded in response.

"Hello, I'm Kani, and this is Nisha." The girl in front of her turned around.

Nisha pointed towards Chihiro in the back. "Do you know that girl?"

Haku couldn't hide a small blush that rose up in his face. "Um…yes."

Kani and Nisha flew into fits of annoying giggles, turning away from him to converse with many other girls. Haku took this time to his advantage to get up and walk over to Chihiro. However, his movement was halted again when someone grabbed his shirt-sleeve. Half-turning, the boy saw who it was and wished he hadn't. It was the nerd, Phlegm.

"There is something of grave importance that I must tell you." His wheezy, thick voice spat out. Haku looked down at his desk (anywhere but his face) and saw those words he just spoke were written on his notebook. One eyebrow rising, he waited for the dolt to continue when another arm grabbed his sleeve and dragged him out of the classroom.

"Chihiro!" Haku exclaimed, smiling.

"How in heck did you get here, Kohaku! You're river dried up!" Then she abruptly changed face. "Woot! Haku! I can't believe you're here! You were right, we did finally meet again!"

Haku opened his mouth, but then stopped in mid-word. Instead, he managed, "I just saw you. With Yu-baba. And I remember now! You-"

"It wasn't a dream! That-that bathroom really took me to the spirit world! That's how you must have come here without your river! What were you going to tell me before I-"

Both stopped, and looked to the right.

Phlegm. Just standing there. Staring.

….

……..Staring……..

"Uh…hey Phlegm…" Chihiro said nervously. He came forward then, taking her hand. Chihiro cried out in disgust, attempting to pull away, but surprisingly, and then nerd held fast. Haku stood there in open-mouthed shock.

Phlegm slowly put something in her hand, and then closed her fingers. Chihiro paled, and her left eye charisteristically began to twitch. Phlegm leaned by her ear and said:

"Keep this in a safe place. I know you will…" Then he turned and walked a bit down the hall, taking a drink of water from the fountain.

"…Chihiro…? What did he give you?"

The girl was nearly deathly pale, and she didn't move. Her hair began to stand on end. "No…it isn't…"

"Isn't what?" Haku began to look worried.

"NO! IT ISN'T! IT ISN'T!" Without further words, she dropped whatever Phlegm gave her and ran into the ladies room. The real one.

Haku dared to look down, and saw a large white……….phlegmy substance with a permanent markered smiley face.

Phlegm was back. "I have something for you…"

Haku whirled, sprinting away. He didn't care where. He sped past people in the halls, screaming in a rather high and girly way.

Phlegm stood and laughed. He whipped the snot from his nose.

"They have come."

Toodles, now! Hopefully I'll get this chapter done in less than half the time it took me for this one… --;