hi again! I will upload again today, since I'm in London, my dad has an interview. Bleugh. See

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"Hey shinozaki."

"Hey. Let me just get my bag."

Yoshiki was on his way to Satoshi's, and had called in for Ayumi on the way.

Ayumi had dashed back into her hall to grab her bag. She blushed, remembering what had happened when she last saw him. After they left school, they walked hand in hand back to her house, and they had talked about random, stupid stuff in each others company. It was so perfect. Of course she had some explaining to do to her sister about the spirits notebook But on their way home, Yoshiki had bought her a new one from the stationary shop. She couldn't get over how sweet he was.

"Thanks for waiting. By, Hinoe!" Her sister waved from the living room. She could sense spirits around her sister today, but she hadn't discussed it with Ayumi, since she had spent all her time daydreaming and thinking about that silly boy, Kishinuma. Hinoe didn't mind, though, at least he made her happy, and that was the families priority, ever since she came back from that dreadful place. She watched as her younger sister skipped down the road, chatting to Yoshiki, who was strolling casually beside her.

"Today's gonna be great!" Ayumi exclaimed, staring at the perfect periwinkle blue sky. Yoshiki nodded in agreement. Satoshi was planning to walk on the beach, then go for ice cream on the new pier. He had never actually been there, and was looking forward to it, especially since he would be with Ayumi.

Satsohi was also looking forward to the trip out. Naomi was due at his house any minute now, and he was determined to make up for her disappointment yesterday. Huh? What was he thinking? Naomi wouldn't have any reason to be disappointed... and of course, he was just good old Satoshi, her friend after all. He sighed.

"Morin' 'Toshi!" squealed Yuka, hurriedly running down the carpeted stairs. "What are you doing today?" Satoshi laughed as she pulled him to the kitchen, where his mother was clearing up the breakfast dishes. His father was subsequently at work, since he sometimes had weekend shifts.

"I'm going out with Naomi and the others," Satoshi told her, handing some empty glasses to his mother. Yuka smiled, remembering how kind Naomi was to her during her traumatic experience in Heavenly Host.

"Naomi's really pretty!" Yuka said, perching on a seat "Isn't she, Toshi?"

Satoshi looked up at her.

"Yeah. She is." Suddenly the doorbell went, and a rather overenthusiastic Yuka ran to get the door.

"Yuka?" called a sweet female voice. It was Naomi.

"Hi Naomi," greeted Yuka "Big brothers in here..." In a few seconds, she had found Satoshi and bought him to the door. Yuka grinned and said "Have fun with your GIRLFRIEND, Toshi!", before closing the door with a giggle. Naomi's cheeks tinged pink with a slight embaressment. Why would Yuka say somehting like that?

"Yuka's bubbly as always!" commented Naomi, friendily

"Yeah," replied Satoshi, slinging his rucksack over his shoulder "Though i wish she would act more her age sometimes. She is 14 you know!"

The pair waited out side Satoshi's house, keeping a sharp eye on the distance for the others. It wasn't long before they sighted Yoshiki and Ayumi, who were listening to Yoshiki's iPod.

"What're you listening to?" asked Naomi. The two students were sharing one pair of earphones. Ayumi took her one out, and gave it to Naomi. It was guitar music, of one of Ayumi's favourite songs, Clarity. She hadn't heard this before and was quite surprised when Ayumi told her it was a recording of Yoshiki playing.

"Wow!" exclaimed Naomi "This is really good Yoshiki!"

Yoshiki looked slightly annoyed. "Why'd you have to let her listen?" muttered Yoshiki, taking his ear plug out and giving it to Ayumi. "Here, you to listen to it."

"How are you?" butted in Satoshi, who felt rather put out. He always used to be the main person of the group, the popular one, that glued everyone together. It was different now.

"Fine," replied Yoshiki, nudging Satoshi to one side. The girls were still listening intently to some other songs on Yoshiki's ipod.

"What is it?" Satoshi said, and Yoshiki recalled the happenings of yesterday in the park with Ayumi. Satoshi was happy that she seemed to return Yoshiki's feelings, however, was annoyed that Yoshiki seemed to have someone love him before he did.

"So she asked you if you loved her?" said Satoshi, puzzled.

"Yup, basically." nodded Yoshiki, ducking under a large cherry tree.

"Do you think... Naomi likes me?" Yoshiki glanced at his wistful friend. Satoshi never usually asked questions, he was the one everyone went to for advice. But now he was, and Yoshiki wanted to be of good use to him.

"Well, she looked pretty pleased when i accidentally told her!" he said, clapping Satoshi on the back. "Let's not mull over things."

"Look, theres the beach!" pointed out Naomi, who by now had given the ipod back to Ayumi. Ayumi had slipped it in her bag; it was nice to have something of Yoshiki's close to her.

"Oh yeah!" said Satoshi, distracted from his worried thoughts.

"Come on," said Ayumi, impulsively grabbing Yoshiki's hand, "What are we waiting for? I've never been here before!" The couple ran off around the corner, Ayumi dragging a startled Yoshiki behind her.

"Are they together?" quirered Naomi, curiously.

"I'm not sure..I think their just really close right now." Satoshi shuffled his feet anxiously on the pavestone, waititng for a good time to cross. Was this the perfect moment? He saw Naomi wanting to cross, so he followed her silently.

The sand was like a sun kissed blanket on their feet, and they could spot the rolling waves of the sapphire sea in the distance. By the time Satoshi and Naomi had caught up, Yoshiki and Ayumi were working together to set up a complicated windbreaker. Satoshi grabbed a picnic blanket from Ayumi's bag and put it in the middle of them. Feeling relaxed, Naomi kicked off her floral sandals and flopped down next to Satoshi, who had gotten snacks and drinks out.

"Please can I have a coke?" asked Naomi politely.

"Sure," said Satoshi getting out one of the ruby red cans. He handed it to her, and then got one for himself. Meanwhile, Yoshiki was getting impatient, since Ayumi was giving him all sorts of crazy instructions, and plus it was scorching weather.

"You put the hook in here...no wait, that might be the third one.." mused Ayumi, holding the instructions upside down.

"Come on Shinozaki," Yoshiki complained "Make your mind up!"

"It won't take as long if you down complain!" retorted Ayumi, picking up another metal hook "But im sure it goes backwards." in her confusion she stepped on Yoshiki's bare feet, and he shouted in alarm!

"Watch it!" he said his usual temper flaring up. Ayumi threw him an upset look, and he instantly felt guilty. "Sorry.." he said, securing the last hook for the windbreaker.

Ayumi shrugged her shoulders; she knew they didn't agree on everything. The other two sat next to the drinking others, and noticed how quiet they were being.

"Sheesh guys," commented Ayumi "Lighten up..." Satoshi smiled, trying to act natural.

"Let's go swimming! At least While the sea's warm,"

The others nodded, taking their sand ridden shoes off. "Do you need to get changed?" Satoshi asked the girls, showing his usual outgoing self.

"I've got my swimming stuff underneath," replied Naomi, turning to her smaller friend. Ayumi had been so engrossed in her thoughts this moment, that she had forgot to put it on underneath like she usually did.

"Uh," said Ayumi, blushing "I'll catch up with you later..."

The wet sand was uncomfortable underneath Satoshi's feet. Both him and Yoshiki had worn their swimming shorts on the way, but had left the girls back by their spot, and they had started walking towards the sea. It wasn't long untill Naomi and Ayumi had caught up with the boys, and they were both quite exitcted. The prospect of the icy waves cooling their skin was quite anticipating, since a sudden heat wave had hit the city.

"Last one in pays for ice creams!" Yelled Naomi, wading into the water. Satoshi followed with an alarmingly huge splash, and was joined by Yoshiki, who only ran because he couldn't afford to pay for everything. Ayumi was more cautious with the water, since she was unaware of what spooky things or spirits might be lurking there.

"Ha, Shinozaki," laughed Satoshi, now waist deep in the ocean "looks like your paying." Slightly annoyed, Ayumi dipped her hands in the turquoise waves, and flicked the water playfully at Satoshi. He yelled in shock, since in he was now soaked, from head to toe.

"Hey!" The others started laughing at his feeble atempts to splash her back, but she was to small and quick to be caught. In the process of carrying out his revenge, he accidentally splashed Naomi, making her squeal in surprise. Sure enough, the few splashes escalated into a huge water fight between the four of them, and they were thrashing around crazily in the waves. People stared at them from closer to the shore, but they couldn't care less.

This how they wanted to feel. Happy and surrounded by others, instead of letting the hurt from the horrific events take over their minds.

They left the water a while after, and Yoshiki and Satoshi set up a volleyball net. Naomi was by far the best at sports, and excelled in sports lessons at school. She was also noticeably intelligent, and often came up with well planned strategies in a sport. Ayumi and Satoshi were not as good as the others, since Satoshi was notoriously clumsy and would often make a fool of himself (even though he did try his hardest) and since Ayumi was small, she found it difficult to keep up and therefore grew fatigued quicker than the rest. After a far time of panting with no success, Ayumi quit the game, and watched from the picnic blanket, where she decided to read her book. She was quite the bookworm, but would read about how to witness and communicate with spirits rather then fairytale fiction, which was what Naomi preferred.

"Huh," exclaimed yoshiki, marveling at the new pier "it's bigger than I thought!" The group had now decided to stroll along the large pier, that had just been newly renovated by popular demand. Satoshi loved this pier, for he often visited it with Yuka and the rest of his family. Naomi had also been there before, but it was a first for Yoshiki and Ayumi. As they passed through the grand arch of the entrance, Yoshiki spotted a nice cream stand, and lead Ayumi towards it, since she was paying.

"What flavour do you want?" Called Ayumi, fiddling in her purse.

"Chocolate!"

"Raspberry ripple, please."

She ordered for Satoshi and Naomi. The ice cream man smiled, and got out a shiny metal scoop. Ayumi turned to Yoshiki.

"What do you what, Yoshiki?" Yoshiki blushed. She had called him by his first name...

"Ugh...Mint choc chip."

"And two mint choc chips please." The friendly faced man nodded, getting two more cones out.

"That'll be ¥ please!' Ordered the man, handing over the ice creams. Satoshi and Naomi thanked Ayumi gratefully, and walked over to the balcony with their various ice creams. The water was now calm, and a lone, pale seagull floated on the waves, bobbing along like a buoy. Soon Ayumi and yoshiki joined them, licking their ice creams in appreciation. It was lovely to hang out with friends, Yoshiki thought to himself, he had never felt like this before.

"It's unbelievably hot..." Mumbled Satoshi, wiping his brow

"Not for long," said Naomi, pointing at the sky "Look at those clouds, it's gonna rain soon." Satoshi moved his line of vision away from the seagull and to the sky. Naomi seemed right, but how could it rain so suddenly after such great weather.

"We should head back," agreed Yoshiki, putting his jacket on, "It is getting chilly." So the small party walked back down the wide pier, disappointed that they would have to leave earlier than expected! Suddenly Ayumi spotted something on the wall. It was a picture... No, words, written on the inside wall of the entrance with thick black marker

"Guys..." Ayumi said, peering at it curiously "What does that say?"

The first line was written neatly, in curvaceous hand writing, but had rubbed of a bit due to time.

"M...y.u was h...e 1../6/...ier."

"Huh, Shinozaki, what have you found?" Asked Naomi, turning towards her. Ayumi tried to read the next line. It too, was blurry.

"An...Mo...hig...too"

Suddenly, Ayumi felt lightheaded. The once unreadable words had suddenly appeared on the wall, making her feel slightly uneasy and ill. She ran her sandy finger along the pen lines. A flash of blinding blue light appeared in front of her, and she let out a piercing scream...

"Mayu was here on the 11/6 on the pier and Morshige too xxx