Minutes later, after Daisuke and Satoshi finally stopped making out and were sitting at opposite ends of the same table, blown (no pun intended) away at what had just happened, the librarian came over and told them that classes had been cancelled for the remainder of the day due to intense snow.
"Well, I'd best be headed (again, no pun intended) home." Daisuke clumsily gathered his things and was headed out the door when Satoshi tapped him on the shoulder. "It was fun," he said. "By the way, I wrote my phone number in your Algebra notebook. Give me a call if your girlfriend is bugging you. I'll be more than happy to listen to anything you have to say."
Daisuke, both disturbed and relieved at the same time, walked home without Rikuwithout anyone, for that matter. When he came home, he hung his backpack on the hook and went into the bathroom for a long, hot shower.
"Are you sure he wasn't just tired?" Risa asked Riku in their room later that evening. "He's been dazed a lot more lately. Give him time. I'm sure everything will work out.
"Risa, if I tell you something do you promise not to mention it to a single soul?" Riku always gave full warning before confiding in a person.
"What is it, Riku? Is it about Niwa?"
"I talked to Saehara today. He said he was in the library checking out the book "Pearl Harbor: We Were in the Right, Stupid Americans", and he saw Daisuke and Satoshi in a somewhat, er, compromising position."
"You don't mean…Daisuke? Are you sure it wasn't somebody else?"
"Risa, would I ever lie to you? Saehara said he KNOWS it was them!" With this, she broke down on the bed and started crying. Risa put a comforting arm around her younger sister.
"We need to get you around some new faces. Imiko and I are going shopping in Kyoto and then to a hot spring next Saturday. You should come with us. It will help clear your mind of some of this."
"Do you really think it will help, Risa?"
"I know so! You're going to have a ball (for the last time, no pun intended)!"
Risa and Riku spent the last hours of the night behaving the way sisters should. They played Monopoly, chatted about old boyfriends, and really made an evening of it. Little did they know who Daisuke was thinking about…or the secret that enveloped them all.