When Mio woke up, her eyes burned and her head hurt.
"Fairy said you've been crying," Yui said. "Is that true?"
Mio looked over at Yui who had her comforter all around her. Mio couldn't help but giggle at the sight of her. Yui looked like an Eskimo with her messy hair and a confused look painted on her face.
Yui, then, joined in laughing with her.
"Well, aren't you guys having fun?" one of the nurses asked. "Well, time to shower, then phone calls, the breakfast, you know the drill."
"Yes!" Yui saluted the nurse.
"Mio!" Yui called for the first time her name and Mio was startled. "Fairy says, fairy says that every day is-is a new day and, and uhm, that, uhm-."
Yui turned to her side and started talking to her Fairy completely forgot about Mio but nonetheless Mio smiled and was happy that Yui tried cheering her up.
Mugi was still 'Chari' and Mio still couldn't talk to her during breakfast time but she completely changed when they all went to meet Mr. Sayan.
"So, how's everyone doing today?"
"Is this session going to take long again?" Azusa asked, already in a bad mood. She had never liked Mr. Sayan, she always thought he was too harsh to be a therapist.
"Well, our sessions are always an hour long unless we're not making progress then I prolong the session," Mr. Sayan explained.
"So, how's everyone doing today?" he repeated himself.
"Good!" Ritsu cried.
"My Fairy's wearing purple today!"
"I'm fine, I guess," Azusa sighed.
"It seems I still can't control myself," Mugi said.
"I'm okay," Mio looked down, remembering their last talk.
"Now, I want all of you to share to each other about school."
"What about school?" Azusa was quick to ask.
"Well, anything, share problems, share anything that made you upset, share something that you like about school, share anything. We'll go around the room, so we'll start with Yui."
"School's great!" Yui said but frowned. "But they would make fun of me and my fairy. They said she doesn't exist."
"Do you think she does?"
"Of course!"
"Why do you think she does?"
"Because I see her!"
"Now we've talked about this, haven't we?" Mr. Sayan said.
Yui sighed and kept quiet. She nodded slowly and bit her lower lip.
"I'm trying not to make you upset, but we have to try for you to live without your fairy," Mr. Sayan said.
Yui started tearing up and then started crying. "I hate you! No! I hate you!"
"Can we have a nurse down here, please?" Mr. Sayan said on the phone and a few minutes a nurse appeared and carefully took Yui away from the group session. Ritsu gulped and stopped running around in circles and sat down, behaving herself.
"Look what you did," Azusa pointed at the door. "You're not supposed to make a patient cry!"
"Yui's a different kind of patient," Mr. Sayan said. "Let's move on, shall we?"
Mio can feel the atmosphere began to tense up. She reached for her sleeves as the cold crept up her arms.
"Mugi?"
"School's fine with me," Mugi began to say. "As long as Chari's not involved."
"Go on," Mr. Sayan said.
"When Chari's involved and I become Mugi again, people look at me differently. They stay away from me. And part of me doesn't mind that but part of me hates that about me. And it's frustrating," Mugi said.
"Have you been meditating?"
"I have, yes," Mugi said. "I've also been taking psychotherapy and cognitive therapy. But the process is so slow that it's so frustrating."
"Yes, the process is slow, but the outcome is enormous that you shouldn't be focused on that," Mr. Sayan said.
Mugi nodded her head.
"How about you, Mio?"
"When is it going to be my turn?" Ritsu said under her breath, but she sat in her seat, impatiently waiting for her turn.
"Uhm, school's been stressful on my end," Mio said softly. "I've been trying to maintain my grades at my classes but I've been failing almost every tests and quizzes."
"Is it because you're depressed that's why you're failing or you're failing that's why you're depressed?"
"At this point, I don't think it matters. Since I'm both failing and depressed," Mio pointed out.
Mr. Sayan nodded, taking notes. "Are you taking your medicines?"
"It's not like she can't? We're almost forced to take them every night," Azusa commented but bit her tongue quickly.
Mr. Sayan ignored her comment and went on to Ritsu. "Ritsu, you've been quiet yourself, what's the matter?"
"Oh, nothing!"
"So, what about you, the Great Ritsu? How's school for you?"
"Good! Everyone seem to like me! Except the teachers," Ritsu said.
"I could imagine," Mr. Sayan chuckled.
"Favoritism," Azusa mumbled.
"Have you been behaving yourself?"
"Yes!"
"Good!" Mr. Sayan said.
"Now onto you, Azusa,"
Azusa sighed. "Well, people don't seem to like me and I don't seem to like people. Teachers don't seem to like me and I don't seem to like them either."
"Okay," Mr. Sayan cocked his head, taking some notes once again.
"Have you tried writing?"
"Yes."
"How about some art therapy?"
"Yes, I have."
"How do you like it?"
"It's alright," Azusa rolled her eyes.
"Okay, well keep these options in mind once you're out of the hospital, they will help you."
For a good half an hour, Mr. Sayan went over each one of their symptoms and ways to improve them and ways how to handle each other while being in the Institute with one another.
Lunch time came and Yui wasn't in the cafeteria. It seems that she was having an argument with her Fairy. Mio came to check her out, looking to see if she was okay.
"Yui?" she called out her name as she went inside their room.
"No! I don't want to talk to you! You're not real! You're not real!" Yui sobbed. "You're not real!"
"Oh, Yui," Mio shut the door and came to her and carefully touched her shoulder and placed it on her chest. "It's okay."
Yui sobbed on Mio's shoulder.
"She's not real, is she?"
Mio couldn't answer, she began to tear up as well, she didn't know why.
"If you want, I can be your Fairy," Mio said.
Yui sniffed. "Will you?"
"Mhhm," Mio said. "I'll be your Fairy."
Mio caressed Yui's hair and felt bad for her. "I'll be your Fairy."