"Kyo, wake up or you're gonna be late for school!" Senpai's voice was yelling in her ear, that woke Kyo up.

"..hmm, what?" She twisted and turned and realized that Chiharu had been there with her.

Oh crap.

"I said KYO—"

"Uh, no, it's ok, I got the idea already!" she said getting off the couch and looked around hoping that there wasn't any piece of evidence of Chiharu.

"What are you doing?" Senpai asked her, grabbing an apple off the table.

Ok, Kyo, think of something fast!

"Umm, I left my shoes, yeah..uh" Kyo turned her gaze away from her, and felt Senpai's eyes boring in her back.

"Your shoes are under your bed."

"No, I'm talking about my jogging shoes." She replied quickly, hoping that would shut her up. She pulled up the blanket that she was sleeping on, there carefully laid was Chiharu's jacket !

Oh, no no!

She blushed and sat quickly on top of the bed. "On second thought, why won't you go to school without me? I mean, I'll take a long time getting ready, put these –pointing at her blanket, pillow and etc—in my room, then get ready—"

"Ok." Senpai said casually and threw the scraps of the apple she finished, and gave her a warm smile.

Before Senpai left, she took out something from her book bag, which caused a look of suspicion on Kyo's face.

"Here, it's from Chiharu."

Kyo took it from her hands, and looked down with a red, flustered face of embarrassment. He was with me, she has to know!

"Senpai, yesterday, last night, well—" Kyo tried to explain, but Senpai held a hand out in front of her.

"I know everything, Chiharu explained to me before he left with Imai to school." Senpai sighed, "I'm glad he came I was worried about you staying here alone, so is everything ok with your dad?"

She hid the pain of regret on her face, and forced a smile. "Yeah, he's coming over this weekend to visit." With her.

"Oh, that's great! Finally you and your dad can catch on stuff, you know school, stuff, boys—" Senpai kept babbling.

"Senpai, I have to go and get ready for school right now, I don't want to be late like last week." She stood up and Senpai gave her a small hug," By the way, before you leave, don't forget to return Chiharu's jacket to him." That caused Kyo to look at her with a red face, and Senpai winked at her and went out the door.

No way, she knows about everything..AHH! I'm glad she wasn't mad though.

Heading to her room, she opened the note that Senpai gave her. It was from Chiharu.

No more tears.

She held Chiharu's jacket around her and smelled his warm scent. It was so seducing. She felt as if he was here right now, holding her just like last night. She blushed and went to her room and got ready for school.

Minutes later, she went out to the driveway to met Senpai. Suprisingly the rest of the guys were out there!

Hamaya started jumping up and down, waving at her, "KYO!"

Imai and Kensuke turned to her direction and began walking up to her. What she didn't know was that Chiharu was right behind Senpai, looking back at her with a small smile hanging on his lips.

Kensuke was the first one to reach her side and whispered in her ear," So I heard someone stayed over last night?"

Kyo turned red and glanced at Chiharu, he was talking with Imai, not looking in her direction.

"No, he just stopped by to say hi and he went bye-bye." She responded quickly as Kensuke began to stare at her curiously.

She noticed Hamaya whispering and pointing at her arm to Chiharu. Chiharu turned red and walked up to Kyo, who was confused.

"Uh, thanks for the jacket, Kyo." Chiharu said, putting his hand through his hair.

"Uh, yeah, no problem, next time don't leave your things lying around!" she dumbly said and noticed Kensuke smiling at her.

"It's ok, Kyo, got the point." Kensuke winked at her and lobe his arm with hers.

She sighed pretending to look confused and looked at Chiharu. Who seemed to have his eyes on Kensuke's arm with hers.

She smiled.

"Kyo, hello!" Akari's girly voice hanged in the air, echoing in Kyo's.

Kyo had her head on top of her desk, watching the guys play basketball through the window. Hearing Akari's voice caught her attention. Since last year, they've been enemies into friends, then best friends. Weird how things change.

"What, what is it?" Kyo said uninterested, when it came to Akari, it was either about nails, hair and boys.

"There's this dance nest week, on Friday, it's a sports banquet!" Her cheery voice rang into her ear.

"Akari, it's just athletic people geting awards and eat, nothing to it."

"No, Kyo, it's more than that, it's a DANCE plus the banquet, the sports people get dates, dress up really nice, and then they get the awards and eat."

Hmm, this is new. A dance and a banquet, I wonder, if Chiharu heard about this?

"You're thinking again, Kyo, and leaving me out of it." Akari said eyeing her carefully.

"Oh, just thought about it, it seems kinda cool." She looked out the window, Kensuke made a 3-point shot from half court. He's good.

Looking in her direction, Akari smiled mischievously at Kyo.
"Kensuke Yura is hot, isn't he, Kyo?"

Now that question got her off balanced and she forced herself no to freak out.

"He's fine, I guess." She said in her most casual voice.

She continued," But Chiharu Eniwa is pretty hot too, I heard that he hasn't found a date yet!"

She pretended that she did not hear anything that came out of Akari's mouth at that moment.

"I just hope I get to be that lucky girl that goes with Chiharu Eniwa." Akari said, staring dreamily out the window and at Chiharu.

Wait, Akari likes Chiharu? Where does that leave me?

"Kyo, are you ok?" Akari's face now contained a worried look.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine, great actually."

"Kyo, you're my best friend, I know I don't usually listen, but I need your advice." She sat next to Kyo and whispered in her ear.

"How do I get Chiharu to notice me?"

Oh crap.

She stayed frozen on her seat, thinking about what to do or say, the bell rang.

A flash of disappointment was written on Akari's face," I'll ask you later, I have to go to class, you coming?"

"Oh yeah, first I need to get some books in my locker, I'll see you there."

Akari gave her a waved, out the door, as a crowd of students passed by, Akari was out of sight.

Kyo got up from her seat, passing some other students, into the hallway. She went straight to her locker, number 415 and tried to remember her combination.

Uh let's see 45…or is it 20? Um right, 25…15..oh..um..40!

She turned the lock, and it didn't budge. She tried it again, same result.

RING!

Oh great, I'm late for biology!

Frustrated, she punched the locker, without remembering that the locker was not breakable with a just a punch. Her fist throbbed with pain.

"..stupid, stupid locker!" Her head was pressed against the cool metal of the locker when she felt a tab on her shoulder.

She turned around and looked up.

"Kyo, what the hell are you doing to my locker?"

Oh crap.