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The next morning when Shinn woke up, Auel and Sting were already there.

"Ok, so we go home now, we change and its off to school!" Auel said in a horrible sing-song voice that made Shinn feel like puking. Not that he had anything to puke in the first place.

"Sure!" Stellar smiled, amused by her brother's attempt to cheer her up. She was wearing the same dress as she was the day before and Shinn felt his cheeks heating up as he realized how beautiful Stellar looked in it.

*

After getting out of the hospital, Sting, Auel and Stellar got into this really tiny car (Shinn wondered if he could fit in along with them and surprisingly, he could, which led him to the conclusion that he, like air, could be compressed) and off they went.

*

Soon, the trio (plus Shinn) reached their destination - an apartment as tiny as the car at Haven's falls. There was a tiny kitchen and three tiny rooms. Well truth be told, it only seemed tiny to Shinn for he was used to living in a huge mansion as he came from quite a wealthy family. His parents died in a plane crash when he was 14 and ever since then, Shinn lived with his sister Mayu and their aunt at the mansion. His parents were major shareholders of a huge jewellery and when Shinn turned 21, the shares would've been his and Mayu's, but now... Shinn sighed as Stellar went into a room which was painted a delicate shade of Ocean Blue.

There was a bed by the left of the room against the wall and prints of dolphins adorned the blanket that covered it. Beside the bed, there was a desk by the window and a small photo frame stood on the desk by a pile of books and a table lamp. The photo showed a man, a woman and three children - Stellar, Sting, Auel and their parents. Shinn frowned as he wondered where Stellar's parents were.

At that point of time, Stellar opened her sky blue cupboard to her right and took out her school uniform. She laid it on the bed and started to remove her dress, apparently unaware of Shinn's presence while Shinn was too pre-occupied with looking at the photo to notice that Stellar was changing.

Just then, Shinn (stupidly) turned around to see if Stellar was still there.

At that exact moment, Stellar had taken off her dress and was about to put on her blouse.

The two exchanged glances and stared at each other.

"Pervert!" Stellar screamed and slapped Shinn.

"I'm sorry!" Shinn winced, face extremely red.

*

"Who... Who are you?" Stellar asked, hugging her pillow close to her.

Auel glared at Shinn, looking like he could beat him up any second while Sting looked around bewildered, wondering what was going on.

"Um Stellar? It's almost nine, we gotta go now or you'd be late for school. And one more thing, who the hell were you talking to? I see no one," Sting's eyebrow twitched. He was staring at the wall where Shinn was but he couldn't see anything.

"I'm Shinn Asuka, nice to meet you, haha," Shinn laughed nervously. "I'm 16, was an Ellesmevre High student... Until I died. So now I'm Stellar's guardian angel. See this?" he turned around and pointed to his two tiny wings.

"Ok..." Auel rolled his eyes. "Hello guardian angel. You better not peek at my sister again or I'll kill you, doesn't matter if you're dead or not," he tried to punch Shinn but his hand went through him, causing Shinn to feel slightly nauseous. If dead people/guardian angels could feel nauseous.

Shinn offered a sheepish grin to Auel to which the blue haired boy rolled his eyes again.

"So Shinn, we leave for school now. Try to explain to Ste-"

"Auel," Sting cut him off.

"What?" he snapped as Sting pointed at Stellar.

"Shit," Auel swore under his breath as he lifted the blanket worriedly. "Stellar? You ok?"

Stellar was shaking badly under the covers, her eyes were wide and she was hugging her knees.

Shinn stared at Stellar and slowly, put a hand on her knee. "Are you alright?"

"Death... Its bad... It's scary..." Stellar gripped his hand tight.

"Its ok, Stellar! No one's going anywhere! Its alright!" Auel shook her. "Nothing's gonna happen to you," he yelled loudly into her ear.

Shinn covered his ears. If Auel had shrieked instead, he would've sounded like a male banshee during mating season.

"I'm... Alright?" Stellar looked at Auel, eyes wide.

"Uh yeah! You're alright! Nothing bad's gonna happen to you cos I'll protect you!" Shinn added. "I'm here, right? I'm your guardian angel so I'll protect you, ok?"

"Protect... Stellar?" she turned to face Shinn and her grip on Shinn's hand got tighter, fingernails digging into his skin as he winced.

"Er, yeah," Shinn nodded. He looked at the huge round clock on the wall. It was 0845, 15 minutes to 0900. "And we're late for school."

"Promise you'll protect me?" Stellar looked at Shinn and he felt his cheeks glow with embarrassment. "Pinky swear?"

" Yeah..." Shinn put out his pinky and the two pinky sweared.

Suddenly, Stellar went back to normal. She grinned and picked up her blue sling bag with a butterfly pin on it. "Let's go!" she left the room and Sting followed.

"Asuka," Auel said, his voice much lower than previously heard in his epic display of banshee-ness. "A word with you."

"Yeah?" Shinn asked.

"Do not ever mention anything to do with death around Stellar. She goes all psycho when someone does that," Auel sighed. "She's a good kid, so don't you dare fool around with her. If you do, there'd be hell to pay."

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