I felt myself staring at Soharu, then quickly looked down. It's all my fault...if I hadn't been trying to hide from those...none of this would've happened.

"Everyone...get the hell out of my sight...now." He said with an immense anger behind his voice.

"Yes, sir," most of the crowd seemed to obediently speak. It seemed as though all of this had happened before, or something... Everything...so rehearsed...Minutes later, the whole crowd (including the nurse, which Soharu had to practically pry out of the room) was gone and Soharu was standing a few feet away from the front of the bed I was in. I didn't dare to look up at him.

He seemed so kind this morning...but now...he's...he's completely different.

I continued looking down while I heard and sensed him slowly walking to the left side of my bed.

He started to talk half calmly. "I'm...I'm sorry about them. They're all such idiots," his voice began to build up rage again.

What is he saying! Isn't he mad at me for making him look bad? Isn't he going to slap me or say something terrible? Why? Why isn't he doing this?

I felt a warm tear run down my face. Then another, and another...

Oh God...now I'm crying...he's going to kill me for sure...

I closed my eyes letting the tears contine to fall down my face.

"I'm sorry...it's my fault...please don't cry," came a soft voice. Soharu? But...wasn't he just completely angry a second ago? I felt a warm hand wipe the tears off of my face and softly touch the side of my cheek.

I...I can't look at him...what if it isn't Soharu! What if it's...it's...

Him.

I kept my eyes closed softly whimpering, while one last tear ran down my face. It felt as though time stopped. I felt a warm pressing against my lips. I opened them about to question him as to what he was doing when I felt something I hadn't felt before. His tongue felt around the walls of my mouth then touched my tongue.

I opened my eyes to look straight into Soharu's and everything I had guessed was just so. The response from him was not to let go, but to pin me down and continue.

The cold hard truth hit me...and if you haven't felt it before, it hurts like hell...and I realized something. This is a guy that I just met...and he got to me, how?

I tried to fight back. Some guy I met this morning that was ontop of me... right now! But I couldn't, he was just so...

Hot.

After five minutes of that one kiss, he moved back a few inches to take a look at my reaction. He smirked. I must've appeared waaay past confused. I glanced down, not knowing what to say, but then realized my button-down top was undone.

What the hell? How did he...?

I blushed deeply, looking away. He slowly got up with the same smirk on his face, not saying a word, just trying to gazing into my eyes. He then got off and walked out of the nurse's office. Just like that.

I felt myself in awe or something. I knew that Soharu wasn't the most popular boy here, but he had to have been one of the hottest ones! Wow.

I heard the sound of high-heels nearing the door to the nurse's office. I quickly rebuttoned all of the buttons on my top and layed back on the bed's pillow, pretending to sleep. Then pulled up the nice cotton sheets. Yay.

The door slid open and I instantly knew it was the nurse. She walked over to the side of my bed and sat a bowl of soup on the small table next to the bed.

F-F-FOOD! I instinctively thought.

I instantly sat up in bed and widened my eyes.

"Wow! You must be pretty hungry, Miss Shinatsu!" She giggled, "It's Cream of Broccolli soup...and there are crackers there, too! Our school is trying to adapt to American foods," she continued with a heavy accent.

While she was talking, I was slurping on the soup very loudly. I read somewhere that that was a compliment to the cook in Japan. But I wasn't slurping on purpose. I was hungry. Oh well...at least I remembered my manners...sub-consciously.

The nurse smiled, "I'm glad that you really liked the soup! Oh, and once you're done eating, Miss Shinatsu, you should go pack up your things at your locker. It's nearly time to leave!"

I finished downing the soup, happily and blinked twice.

"Wow. School's over already?" I asked, clearly surprised.

"Hai! Eto...how do you say it...'Time flies when you're having fun?'" the nurse tried to use an American figure of speech.

I nodded my head and smiled. "Sou ne! See you tomorrow, Mrs. Kamatsura." I got up from the bed and tried to straighten out some of the wrinkles in my clothing. "...oh well," I quietly said to myself. Then I grabbed my japanese school bag next to the bed and walked down the quiet hall to my locker. I stopped in front of it and looked at the clip-on watch on my schoolbag. It read 1:59. Then switched to 2:00. At that moment crowds of students flooded the halls and the sounds of chatter and opening lockers were heard. I shrugged it off and opened up my locker, remembering the combination. Besides the letters that were in there before...about forty more had been added to the compilation. Great.

I hesitantly shoved them into my school bag to read once I got home. Wow...I'd have a long job ahead of me...

"Oy, Kawari-san." A male voice came from behind me. How many times was this today? 5 million maybe? Ugh...I tiredly turned around to see Kiru standing there smiling. I couldn't help but smile, too.

"I'm really sorry about lunch, Kiru-kun..." I said disappointed. I was looking forward to sitting with him... Honetsly, I was!

"Huh? Oh! Lunch! No problem...I was just wondering...could I walk you home?" He said with a grin.

"Sure! I don't think anyone else has already asked me today..." I said half jokingly, glancing down at my school bag, heavier from letters than from homework. He laughed and waited for me while I gathered up the remaining things I needed from my locker. I gently closed it and smiled at him.

We walked down the hall, side by side, and outside to the sidewalk. For the first time in a while, the sky seemed to have regained it's beauty.

"Um...Kawa-san?"

"Yes?"

"Is it true...about Nara-kun doing that to you behind the bushes outside?"

"Oh, of course not. I just fainted because of low blood sugar. So--I mean, Nara-kun took me to the office so that the nurse could give me something for my headache and so that I could eat."

"I knew it! You don't seem like the type of girl who'd let a guy ontop of her that easily...no offense or anything..."

"Um...none taken!" I smiled unsurely at Kiru. They say lying to someone is the worst way to start a friendship.Gasp! How fast it took me!

Kiru didn't really say anything else quite as important as that afterward. We casually conversed about our interests, favorite colors, foods, and such...we exchanged screen names on Instant Messager, too. His was something like, Dorei-no-Ongaku81 (Slave-of-Music81, more or less...). Soon, we both arrived at the steps outside my apartment building and became quiet. I dashed up the stairs and looked behind me and smiled.

"See you tomorrow, Kiru-kun!" I nodded, as I opened the doorway. I'm excited about seeing some guy tomorrow? Oooooo-kay...

"Uh...ditto!" Kiru added and turned to leave, waving over his shoulder, cooly. "Ja, ne!"

Boys will be boys...

Well, now it's like, 5:17 AM. Yay! I think I'm just going to go to bed in like, three minutes...But do you like the story so far? I hope so! I've worked my ass off to write this. Well...it was enjoyable...but still... I do appreciate it when people tell me I'm doing something good or right. XD