Hilarious guy. Not!

Immature

Really lame jokes

Open minded

Kenta's friend

And Takato's friend too

Zzzz….

Um……continuing on?

"Good morning Izumi." The usual look on that pink haired girl really annoyed her. Mimi did nothing but gave her a coy smile pretending she knew nothing.

As much as she wanted to say something back, she held back her words and kept a calm expression, silently walking past them. "I know you're up to something…" she muttered to her.

She glanced over at the group passing by her, and over at Rika and smiled. "We should probably get to class now Rika." ushering her to walk down the hallway with her.

Rika nodded but looked back at Izumi wondering what was that moment between the two of them about. "Mimi, who was that blond girl?"

"She is your rival." answering simply since this whole "set-up" was already planned ahead of time.

The brunette stopped which surprised her for a moment. "Why ……is she my rival?"

This was something to think about, since this was definitely not in Plan A. "Oh Rika!" the dramatic teen cried hugging her suddenly. "You still don't remember!"

"R-Remember what?"

Her sad expression turned to a slight smile while she was still hugging her. "She tried to kill you."

Suddenly, the worried look that was on Rika's face turned to confusion. "How do you know that she tried to kill me?" as she tried not to believe a word that this girl was saying.

"She used your fear. Water. She pushed you into a swimming pool and let you drown." her eyes went dark and gloomy explaining the whole story. "But luckily, Ryo saved you." pointing to the boy sitting with his friends from the other side of the room.

Well, it was partly true. Ryo "did" save Rika, but what made her wonder the most about was the drowning issue. "Just because we were rivals, doesn't mean she had to kill me…" she noted irritably. "I'll get back at Izumi…" and hearing a group walk in the classroom, she found her target, sitting down with her friends with a smile. "You'll see Izumi, I'll wipe that smile off your face for almost killing me."

"Hm, this is going to be a lot of fun." Mimi murmured to herself as she saw the dark expression on her friend's face glare at Izumi. "The characters are all in place, so it's time you guys give me one heck of a show."

Matt, who was watching Mimi the entire time, knew something was going to happen. Especially, about the fact that the two of them have been childhood friends, so it's easy to read her expression. Little did she know, that she also had a part in the play……

………………..

"Hey, are you okay?" Takato asked worriedly seeing Izumi with a frozen look as if she had been shocked by something.

"A-Ah…" loss for words, as she looked to the side of her. "I just got a chill from someone. Like they're mad at me or something…"

Juri poked the blond. "I think it's someone right behind you a couple of desks away. Rika doesn't look so happy."

"Eh?" as she looked behind her to face a death glare from her as she turned back to her friends. "What did I do now?!"

………………

"Cheer up." Takuya nudged Izumi giving her a sympathetic smile.

"Um…Takuya? This isn't exactly the right moment to say that line." Takato pointed out while walking with them, with Juri by his side.

Juri sighed knowing that she couldn't do much for the sake of their problems. "The only thing we know is that fact that Mimi is behind this."

"By the way." Takato announced throwing the soccer ball in the air and catching it. "How long has Mimi been your rivals?"

"I never thought about that…." Izumi finally spoke up since that was something that woke her mind. "Mimi "used" to be nice to me, but then she started hating me for some reason after Rika's situation facing death."

"Huh?"

"She means, the time after Rika's mother and grandmother got in an accident." Juri answered so that she could continue the story.

"Right." the blond nodded. "After that incident, not only did she start avoiding and hating me, I started to lose some of my friends. Now that you mention it, in the beginning of the school year, I lost Hikari, Junpei, and Tomoki. Kouichi I guess, but now he's back to talking to me again."

"Maybe…" the third goggle head muttered. "During that incident with Rika, you three had a problem?"

"Yes, but what "kind" of problem is the thing I'm wondering about." she glared and sighed. "We're just repeating facts, and we still don't get any helpful answers to help us."

……………..

At the Kanbara Residence

"This is going to be boring…" Izumi complained to no one as she dropped her school bag near the door, entering in Takuya's room. "Takuya's mom went to buy groceries for dinner, Takuya is at a soccer game, and Shinya I guess went to go follow him." sighing as she sat on the chair and gazed outside. "Maybe I should go watch the game…"

Just when she was going to get up from her seat, she tripped over something. "Oh yeah, as soon as Takuya finally decides to clean his room." she added sweat dropping that his whole room was like a storm blew right through it. Shrugging to herself, she simply went around to picking up his books, folding his clothes that were thrown on the floor, and came across a book that she tripped over earlier.

"Geez, how does he find his stuff around here?" she thought tiredly flipping through the pages of the book to reveal photos. She paused as a photo fell out of one of the pages and picked it up from the floor to examine it. "It's Takuya as a kid." she noted as a slight smile was shown on her face.

Putting it back on one of the pages where it fell out in the first place, she couldn't help but look at the other photos he kept. Turning each page, she kept smiling that, in fact, she didn't know why. One thing made her stop as she saw a picture hidden behind another photo. "What could he be hiding?"

Slowly taking the picture out, she had a look of confusion, as she examined this picture of Takuya in the middle, with a mother and father. "This isn't Takuya's parents…" she silently reminded herself, looking at the back to see writing on the picture. "Takuya and his Parents."

She took the other picture that had Takuya, Shinya, and their parents. Yep, they were different. "Takuya with his cousin Shinya and his aunt and uncle?" she read this time in surprise as she quickly checked the other pages to see if their were anymore hidden photos. Indeed, there was.

On the last page, was a picture of her and Takuya when they were kids.