A/N: Hello all again! I hope you enjoyed my last chapter. I know it was a tad bit short. Sorry! Lol. Oh, I would also like to announce that I am changing the rating from T to M due to the content I plan to put in later chapters. In other words, keep reading. Please leave a review and if you haven't read The Frozen Lunar Flower, please do that too. Much love!

Chapter 3

It was snowing. Blue could feel the cold snowflakes falling on her face, the wind so icy it stung her cheeks. Why was she on the ground? She tried to move, but felt a warm, thick liquid spill out from a wound on her side that wasn't there before. Everything seemed so dark, but she could make out a shape in her peripheral vision. A shaking hand touched her cheek gently. What was happening? 'So warm...' she sighed.

Blue felt her eyes open suddenly, her alarm clock screaming at her. She rubbed her temples as she punched the snooze button for instant relief. "Oh crap," she muttered as she caught sight of the neon numbers. She'd slept in way too much.

"Hey, Blue." Hige knocked on Blue's door. "Um, I might be wrong, but I think you're running a bit late."

"I'll well aware of that, thanks!" Blue hollered back as she wiggled into her jeans, falling onto the bed as she did so.

Hige heard a loud thumping noise as Blue fell into the wall while putting on her converse. "Are you alright in there? That sounded painful."

Blue opened the door barely more than a crack, her arm wrapped around her chest. "I'm fine. A little bruise never hurt anybody, right?" Hige nodded and made his way to the kitchen, shaking his head along the way. How silly of her to be bouncing off of walls while getting dressed. It was actually somewhat cute. He shook his head as he popped two poptarts into the toaster. 'You should not be thinking that way, retard!'

Blue grabbed her school bag and ran into the bathroom, brushed her teeth quickly, and rushed to the front door. "Hey, Blue." She stopped with her hand on the doorknob. "What is it?" Hige handed her a warm poptart. Blue felt her face warm up as Hige opened the door for her. "You shouldn't go without eating something." Blue murmured a barely audible 'thanks' and left.

She slung her school bag over her shoulder as she rushed down the stairwell of the apartment complex. Maybe it wasn't such a good thing that she had school a few days after the worst day of her life. Then again, there were guys at college. Different guys, too. She sat down at the bus stop, hoping that she hadn't missed the bus for the college. They usually ran every fifteen minutes, so the odds of her missing a bus were small.

The bus finally arrived, filled with other college students running late. Blue payed her fare and sat in an empty seat, just wanting to get to school and get the day over with. At the moment she didn't really feel like going anywhere at all, but life is funny that way. When the bus finally stopped and Blue had gathered up all her things, a tall girl bumped into her.

"Oh, sorry," she said in a friendly voice. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

'Obviously,' Blue thought, slightly irritated. "That's alright." She turned and made her way off the bus, the girl still following her like a lost pup.

"Sorry to bother you again, but are you a freshman?"

"Yeah. Sorry if you're lost, but I don't know where I'm going either."

"Oh, I was just going to ask what your schedule was. I'm new to town and I don't know anyone."

'So I just happen to be the victim of your choice.' Blue shook the mean thoughts from her head. "Well, my name is Blue. I'm heading to English right now, how about you?"

"Same!" the girl replied in an airy breath. "Who's your teacher?"

Blue pulled her schedule out of her back pocket. "Jefferson."

"Mine too! My name's Christie by the way. Christie Hall."

Blue nodded as she continued to walk to the Langauge Arts building, praying that she would make it before the bell. To be late on the first day would really suck. Christie continued talking, however.

"I'm from Helena, Montana. My parents own a really nice farm. I love farms! Do you like farms, Blue? We have a few horses. My dad bought five acres of land for our horses last spring. They just kept breeding and the colts aren't old enough to sell yet, so my dad just bought more land. I love riding horses. I used to compete, you know. Did you ever do any sort of sports when you were younger?"

Blue pondered the question for a moment. "I played soccer for a few years. I'm actually kind of nervous around horses, too." 'Shut up, shut up!'

Christie gasped. "Really? I think horses are some of the most gentle creatures. Aside from cats, that is. Cats and dogs are very well mannered. We have a lot of cats because the mice get way out of hand in the barn, especially in the winter time. I love when they have kittens though! Baby kittens are so fluffy! My cat is named Keiko. Do you have a cat or dog?"

Blue nodded. "Yeah, I had a cat named Miko. He died though. I had him for years."

"Well that's because cats have nine lives! I know that..." Christie continued to educate Blue in the life of cats, in the proper way to train cats to chase mice and not eat them because they might be poisoned, and which shampoo horses in Montanta tended to prefer. For some reason, Christie's cheerfulness irritated Blue. Her green eyes were so bright and her golden brown hair seemed way too silky, not to mention she was thin enough to be a swimsuit model. Blue looked down at her stomach and glared at the nearly invisible squishyness. She had never thought that she was pudgy at all before, but compared to Christie, she was a horse!

"Hey look, we're here," Blue said with slight relief, cutting Christie off in a rant about chickens. Blue walked into the class room, mildly nervous as she took her seat somewhere in the middle. She glanced at her watch. Class started in five minutes and the professor still wasn't here? How strange. She noticed that Christie had become completely silent. It was actually rather eerie. Blue then noticed a short man at the front of the class, who she assumed to be the professor.

"Good morning, class," he said, his voice stunningly deep. "I am Professor Jefferson and I teach English 101. This semester we will be covering basic grammar, along with three major literary works. I have yet to choose those, however. For today, I will give you a few worksheets to do and pages to read from your books on nouns, verbs and adjectives, just as a review. There might be a quiz over this. I will be in my office if anyone needs me."

Blue picked up the first worksheet from the desk in the front of the classroom and took it back to her seat. This was a basic review, but the sentences weren't like the ones teachers used to give her for review.

Once the class was over, Blue was relieved to be escaping from the classroom. Thankfully, English was her only class for that day. She had two classes the next two days and only one on Thursday, so it was pretty well balanced.

"So Blue, how did you like class?" Christie squeeked, appearing out of no where.

"Um, it was fine, I suppose."

"I absolutely loved it! Our professor seems like a funny guy, doesn't he?"

Blue raise her eyebrow. Was this girl stupid? "Not to me. He seemed pretty serious about his job."

"Yeah, but he seems like the type that can have fun outside of class too." Christie was all smiles, even after two hours in a boring class. How could she be so cheerful in a town where she knew almost no one?

"Hm, I suppose so. Look, I'd love to hang out and chat sometime, but I'm really tired today, so I'm going to go home."

"Oh, where do you live?" asked Christie.

"In the apartments across from the shopping place with the dollar store."

"Cool! I'm staying near there!"

'What a wonderful coincidence," thought Blue bitterly. "Wow that's neat. Well, I have to go now. See ya." Blue quickly made her way to the bus stop where she hopped on a bus headed her way home. Christie seemed like a nice person, but it just drove Blue insane that she was so happy all the time. Once the bus stopped, Blue grabbed her stuff and ran up to her apartment as quickly as possible. She just wanted to hide from the world right now. Jamming the key into the lock, Blue quickly opened the door and kicked off her shoes.

"Hey, I'm back!" Blue dropped her school bag next to her shoes by the front door before she walked over to the couch and collapsed, glad to be home. She noticed a piece of paper taped onto the table.

'Blue,

I hope you didn't forget that I have to work today. We're supposed to be getting new people and the boss wanted us there to help teach, so I left early. I hope you had a good first day at school. I'll see you when I come home later at the usual time.

-Hige'

Blue sighed as she grabbed a manga off of the coffee table. Turns out she would have the place to herself until later that night. For some reason that made her feel rather sad, but it wasn't as if she had to worry about getting into an arguement with Hige. She was still lonely, though.