Hi everybody! Emichii here! And I'm proud to bring you chapter 3! Yayyy!

Chapter 3: Invitation

Mr Icchan's getting married! Misaki thought as she headed home after school. She was glad for at least some happy hews. After all the school day hadn't exactly been… nice.

It's so scary when your two best friends are mad at each other. Especially when they've always been together. Especially when you've never seen them in a fight before.

Tamayo and Kotaro refused to speak to each other all day long, though neither one of them really succeeded.

"Kotaro-chan!" Tamayo cried as she rushed towards her 'best friend' during PE. "Just wait till you hear the news-" she stopped. Kotaro was looking at her with a weird expression on his face.

Oh right, I'm mad at you! I remember now… Tamayo turned away from Kotaro.

Kotaro usually didn't think that much about Tamayo. He usually just took her friendship for granted. But when she wasn't there beside him, breathing down his neck, beating him up, cheering him on, whatever she was doing… he never realized how important she was to him.

During PE, they were doing high jump. As usual Misaki missed the pole completely and fell to the ground in a crumpled heap. Luckily for her, everyone else more or less expected it so they had placed mats all around the high jump stuff.

Nevertheless, Kotaro and Tamayo ran over to Misaki to make sure she was all right.

"Misakichi! Are you okay?"

"Ah, yeah… oh my head…"

Kotaro bent over his crush and started to lift her up. "Tamayo, help me get her to-"

He paused.

Tamayo stared at him.

Kotaro stood up and looked away. "I forgot. I'm not talking to you,"

"You are now!"

"And so are you!"

Tamayo and Kotaro simmered in anger. Misaki, confused, got to her feet and started, "Tamayo-chan, Kotaro-chan?"

Tamayo and Kotaro were still yelling at each other but it was getting hard, since they practically forgot why they were mad at the first place. Everyone else in their class were wondering what was going on. Just like Misaki, they'd never seen them fight like this before.

Oh please, don't keep this up! Misaki groaned.

The rest of the day passed by uneventfully.

The three of them were walking home silently, Misaki in the middle and Tamayo on one side, Kotaro on the other. It was really quiet.

Then they bumped into Ogata, Icchan's assistant. He seemed really relieved to see them.

"Oh! Misaki!" he said. He stopped and breathed in hard after running so hard. "I'm so glad I bumped into you guys because Ichiro's got important news for all of you!"

He handed out slick little envelopes for all of them.

"This is…?" Kotaro started.

Tamayo ripped open the envelope and started at the neat little printing. "WOW! Ichiro's getting married!"

"WHAT?" Kotaro choked back on the word.

"Wh-what?" Misaki repeated. "Mr Icchan's getting married?"

Ogata nodded. "That's right!"

"Who is he getting married to?" Misaki asked.

"This beautiful lady from work. Chitose Hibiya, I think."

"And we've all been invited to their wedding?" Misaki cried.

"Yeah," Ogata said.

Ogata looked at his watch and cried, "Oh no! I'm late! Argh!" He turned and started to leave. Then he turned and said, "I'll see you later, okay?"

"Okay! Bye!"

Then they came to the fork in the road where Misaki would turn right and Kotaro and Tamayo would go the other way.

Misaki eyed them worriedly, "Okay then… see you guys tomorrow?"

"Yup!" agreed Tamayo. "See ya!"

"Bye Suzuhara," Kotaro said stiffly.

Misaki went her way.

Kotaro and Tamayo walked silently.

"You know what?" Kotaro started.

Tamayo was surprised that he was talking to her, but replied, "What?"

He stretched his arms out over his head and said, "You can be really stupid sometimes!"

"What?" she started to object but then laughed. "I guess so…"

Kotaro said, "I think Misaki likes Ohjiro,"

"No DUH!" Tamayo said.

He looked into the distance and said, "But you know how I feel about her…"

She was quiet.

"I'm just telling you this because we're best friends," he added.

Tamayo nodded. "Right." she said quietly. "Just best friends."

Kotaro continued, "I like Misaki but it's so hard to see her with Ohjiro. Especially since I'm no match for him."

Tamayo stopped.

"Tamayo?" Kotaro turned and wondered what was going on.

She was looking down at the ground, her hair falling over her eyes.

"Tamayo, what is it?"

"Do you… really hate me that much?"

"What?"

She refused to look at him but continued, "Why do you always have to act like that? Especially in front of me! You know, I… I love you, Kotaro-chan! Why did it have to be Misaki? Why?"

She leapt forward and ran ahead. Brushing away at her eyes to get rid of stubborn tears.

Kotaro stared after her.

Tamayo: YEAAAHHHH! GO EMICHII! THAT ROCKED!

tackles emichii to the ground

Emichii: (choking) Hi I'm Emichii and I'm here with Tamayo and Misaki… urgh…

Misaki: But Tamayo's right! That was a great chapter!

Emichii: Thankyou!

Tamayo releases emichii to the ground

Emichii: Well, we have to go now… read and review!

Misaki: What? WE have to go already?

Emichii: yeah, I've got to work on the sequel to Promise part 1, because I finished it!

Tamayo: Yaaaaayyyyy!

Misaki: Well, then go read it everyone! It'll be out next week!

Everyone: Bye!

Well that was eventful, wasn't it? Heh… I'm always typing this while I'm listening to FM 104.7, and isn't I write sins not tragedies cool? It's like the best song ever! It's by Panic at the Disco and it rules! YAAYYY! And Evernescence! Hmm did I spell that right? Anywhizzles read and review! Hi Saz! Hi Neominitails!