Yay! chapter 3 now running! omg, you people r sooo nice -teary eyed- lol, ok but i really do thank the people who reviewed.

Author's Note: you know, greetings cards are so fun to look at. I went to Hallmark and stayed at the place for an hour (and pressed those bears that sing, then ran) but it's a fun passtime.

and for the first time, I don't have much to say.

Disclaimer: See chap 1

Chapter 3

Things were going completly backwards for Risa. When Satoshi had been talking to her more that day, she thought they could get closer. Wrong. For some reason, since the day of the play, he seemed to stay far away. He didn't even go to lunch with her when he'd say yes. "I can't believe he bailed on me!" Risa whined when he did not show up.

"I wonder why he didn't come." Riku asked quietly.

Daisuke stood up, he had a look of determination on his face. What was he up to? Risa wondered. "I think I may have an idea." he said before he walked away.

For the rest of week, Risa tried to talk to him. But everytime she got close enough, he'd find a way to get away.

"Hello Satoshi!" she smiled. "How are you?" Risa was now following him through the halls. He said nothing, he only continued to walk. Satoshi only lost her when he went into the boy's bathroom.

Risa ran back to the class. She ran up to Daisuke and tipped his desk to make all his books fall off to get his attention. "Daisuke! I need to talk to you."

"I'm talking to Takeshi right now." he muttered, picking his books back up.

"So what." there was a horrible tone growing in her voice. It was a mix of both concern but it was overpowered by her fury. "Then leave this ugly git for a moment and come with me. This-is-important." Daisuke knew he couldn't win. He just stood up and walked to the hall with Risa.

Once they were out there, she leaned against the wall, staring at his eyes with her arms crossed. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Daisuke said.

Soon her eyes were gathering tears. "Why can't you tell me what's wrong with Satoshi?" she began to get choked up. "He began to act really, really kind to me, but after the day when he didn't come to lunch, he stopped talking to me."

"Look, Risa I can't -" Daisuke was stopped because he was pushed against the wall.

"I'm worried!" Risa shouted. "Since then, he's stopped showing any emotion to me. I talk to him, he ignores me. I ask for a pencil, he ignores me. I walk with him, he ignores me. I know you know something."

Daisuke was dead silent. What could he say. Of course he knew what was wrong but he couldn't tell Risa. "Risa, I don't know how you think that I know what's beating Satoshi down but I can't tell you anything more." She kept boaring her eyes into his. After she blinked, something had changed. They were now a swirling pool of crimson and violet. Risa jumped back, scared but curious. This made room for Daisuke to walk away, but when he walked away, he seemed to standing straighter up and he looked like he was strutting.

"Daisuke-"

"Risa, leave it." he said a calm voice and walked back into the room.

By lunch Daisuke seemed back to his normal, peppy and clutzy self. When he walked back to the table, Takeshi tripped Daisuke and made him spill his tray. Riku offered him hers but he refused.

The group joked together about class but Risa didn't want to say much. They all just ate and Riku and Risa both gave Daisuke some food. As Riku stood up to throw away her garbage, Risa scooted closer to Daisuke.

"Are you mad at me?" she asked. Daisuke shook his head happily.

"Nah, I just felt a bit pressured." he admited. The two both walked away from the table. "But please," he paused for a moment. "Don't keep asking me about Satoshi. I know what I know because he trusted me to keep it a secret. If you want to know more, ask him yourself."

During English, Risa began wishing to do skits again, but no luck. Throughout class, she would stare at Satoshi, hoping he'd at least look over at her. She's rather be embaressed than ignored right now.

After twenty minutes of reading, the teacher blew a coaches whistle as loud as he could, making all the students jump and a few to throw their books in the air. Risa sighed as she put away her book. Now where the hell did he get a whistle. And...like he needs one. She thought.

"In class assignment!" he screamed out to the class.

"Can that vein in his neck pop out any farther?" Risa heard Takeshi's voice ask.

"All of you need to write a short poem for a completion grade. Ten minutes, then I will pick a few to read out loud." Students began to complain all over the room. "Start, NOW!" The teacher blew the whistle again, resulting most of the students wincing. Of course execpt one.

Through the directions, Satoshi never complained or show any sign of being scared. He just pulled out a piece of paper, a pencil and began to write.

Once the ten minutes were finished, he somehow found an air horn and blew. Risa was beginning to prefer the whistle now. She passed her's up a seat and waited for the teacher to confirm the papers.

"Alright." the teacher's deep voice rang through their ears. "First will be- Daisuke Niwa." All eyes travled to Daisuke as his face turned as red as his hair. "It is called 'What color is Mystery?' (how creative, the teacher growled.)"

I've always wondered what color is Mystery

It could be black, not seen or heard

but no happiness is all a tragedy

What about red, bright hues but repels others away

no brown, green, yellow or orange

so I'm left with purple, ment to fit loyalty and royalty

but still still hides secrets for the dark and light

The class clapped, which made Daisuke feel even worse. Satoshi had a look of amusement on his face, apparently he got the message Risa missed. The teacher next called Risa's, which was about good weather. Riku stared at her weirdly, and Risa only shrugged and said "It was the only thing I could think of."

"Next will be," he stared at the paper closly. "There is no name on this paper." the teacher shrugged and read it. "It's called 'Lost'"

I don't know where to go

I don't know what to do

I'm lost in this maze of

life, decisions, lessons and you

Maybe if I knew better

this wouldn't be so hard

But now, I can't cry or care

everything's falling apart.

Everyone was quiet until the bell rang. The students were dismissed for the day.

Risa stood at a hallway window, gazing out at the bright sun. It was too calm for her liking. Normally, this quiet wind and the shining sun would cheer her up but today, it just gave her more room to think about Satoshi. Why was he avoiding her? What way could she get hs attention. Maybe she can get him to come to lunch with her again and she could cook him something special. She would serve him in her lovely pink apron, he would love it.

Risa suddenly snatched her bag and ran down the hall. "Oh no, my apron. I left it in the classroom." she cried.

When she reached the room, she knocked to make sure she wasn't interupting any after school class. Since no one answered, Risa opened the door and looked around.

The room had been rearanged. Before there had been counters set up, now there were a few beds, closets and changing tables. They were transitioning from their cooking unit to their home care unit. Risa continued to look around. The beds looked so soft. As she spotted a chair in the back of the room, she noticed her apron was hanging on it. "Great!" she clapped her hands together. Risa took the apron stuffed it in her bag and began to walk away until she heard something move.

"Hello?" Risa spun in a circle.

"Hey Risa," a quiet voice came from behind a moving counter. Satoshi set it down and walked in front of it.

"Satoshi!" Risa accidently said sounding too excited. "I mean, hey how are you?" she looked around. "Wait, did you do this by yourself?"

He nodded. "I was supposed to do this earlier but I'm doing it now." Satoshi reached over and straightened a bed sheet. Everything seemed peaceful until he shot his head up.

"Satoshi, is there something wrong?" Risa reached out her hand to make sure nothing bad was going to happen. Suddenly, he grabbed her hand and pulled her to a closet that held all the extra blankets and towels. "Satoshi!" He shoved her in thereand then squeezed himself in too. "What's going on, how come-"

"Shhhh." he muttered, putting his hand over her mouth. "I'm not supposed to be here, be quiet. It will only be a few minutes." Risa took his free hand in hers. They heard the door click open and voices begin to talk to eachother. They were teachers checking through the rooms to make sure no students were still in the building.

Risa began to break down in the closet and began to cry. She was getting scared. What if they got caught, would they be suspended? What would her parents think? In a sense of protection, she pressed her body on Satsohi's. Risa heard him take in a sharp breath, but only hugged him tighter. She looked at him to see what she could in the dark. He was muttering "No, no, no." under his breath.

They heard the door shut and they listened closely to see if they could hear anyone else. Satoshi slid the door open. "That was close." she sighed. Risa smiled and looked up at Satoshi and expected a look of accomplishment like any normal guy. Once again, wrong. Satoshi's hands were holding onto his head, he looked like he was having a bad headache.

Risa walked in front of him to see his eyes. They were closed. "Satoshi." she moaned, placing her hands on his, still placed on his head. "You're going to be alright." she said in the softest voice she could. Risa let out a weak smile. Whatever was going on, she wasn't following but it looked like Satoshi was going through pain and she wanted to help.

"Do you need a bag of ice?" Risa pointed to the fridge. Satoshi began to pace. He began to whimper as he walked. "Satoshi." he didn't answer her."Satoshi!"

Now, his hand found their way from his head to his sides. Satoshi was clutching his sides and let out a scream. "Quiet!" Risa told him and looked over her shoulder real fast to make sure no one heard. "Come on, you should lay down." she softly took his arm and guided him to a bed with gray sheets and a white pillow.

"Here you go." Risa took a step with him. Then, she accidently tripped over her foot. She flailed her arms everywhere but there was nothing to grab on to. Luckily, she landed on the bad. Unluckily, Satoshi fell on the bed, and on top of her. SHIT! She looked at him. He must have blacked out. Satoshi now laid on her chest.

She giggled happily. Risa ran her fingers through his beautiful blue hair. She felt like a mother who's son just had a bad dream and he came to her for comfort. But her smile faded. What was wrong? Was he becoming sick?

Risa let Satoshi sleep for bit. She rested her head on the pillow as Satoshi rested his head on her and relaxed. This was so peaceful, so peaceful she just wished she could stop time and make sure she never left this moment. As time went on, Risa began to think up things. She thought that it was starting to feel like they were a married couple and she was helping her husband get better. Looking at him solemnly, she kind of felt ashamed. Why would Satoshi Hiwatari want to marry her?

She didn't know how long she laid there but then again, she didn't care. She watched as the sun ducked beneath the trees but got inturupted. Satoshi began to stir and lift his head. Risa only stayed still, seeing what he was going to do.

He sat of his knees and fixed his glasses, then strightened them. Satoshi brushed his hair out of his eyes and run his fingers through it to fix it. While he did this, he wasn't fully awake and beganto swayed back and forth. He finally fell forward and his hands were places on either side of Risa.

Satoshi only relized where he was when he saw where his face landed. His face was less than an inch from Risa's face. Both of them were wide eyed. "I-I'm glad to see you woke up." Risa giggled.

When he saw the sun setting outside, Satoshi tried to move but when he did their waist's brushed againt eachother's. Risa moaned in fear. Satoshi looked around, no matter what move, he couldn't move without touching Risa somewhere.

"I'm sorry Satoshi." Risa whimpered. She tried to move from under him, only for their waists to hit again. This time, Satoshi let in a fast, sharp breath.

"Risa, I-" he stared at her dark brown eyes reflecting directly back into his blue ones. "We have to get out of this position. You need to slide up, ok?" Risa nodded and scooted up slowly. So far it was working. She only had to move her feet about another foot. "Good, keep going." Satoshi incouraged.

Finally, Risa scooted out enough that Satoshi could sit down. She got off the bed and brushed off her shirt. "Yay!" her girlish giggle could help but make Satoshi smile. She reached out her hand to help him up. Satoshi walked to the corner of the room and grabbed his bag, then headed for the door. "Wait up!" Risa shouted but Satoshi ignored her. "I said wait." she said as she cut him off.

"What?" he sighed. "Unlike some people, Risa, I have to be somewhere and I just waisted a lot of time doing-" Satoshi stopped. He didn't know what he did for the past two hours.

"I want to talk to you." Risa said. "Let me at least walk with you until we have to split, ok?" Satoshi rolled his eyes.

"Fine." Satoshi muttered but started walking again.

Satoshi and Risa walked together in silence. Risa couldn't bring up the courage to ask Satoshi what was wrong and everytime she tried, she'd open her mouth but no sound would come out. She kept looking at him, seeing him look straight forward. It was like he was in the army and had to have a perfect posture or he'd be punished.

Satoshi began to suspect something and looked at Risa, and she was caught. She laughed and scracthed the back of her head, embarassed. Risa looked back up at him and it seemed that he never let his eyes left her. She fell in love with those bright blue eyes. They were so soft. As she stared, she noticed they were full of concern. Could it be concern for her? Why would he be worried about her?

"Satoshi, are you alright?" he only nodded. "Well, you've been ignoring me for a couple days now. Why?" Satoshi was so quiet. Risa couldn't even hear him breathe.

"Because sometimes you have to take a break or else it will hurt you." This definatly not what Risa expected. She replied with a "Wha?" He lightly smirked and continued. "I couldn't...be close to you for a couple days. It would be too dangerous but you wouldn't let me. You know, sometimes you let your curiosity get the best of you." He looked up in the sky. "Be careful, that could defiantly be a threat."

Satoshi stopped. There was a fork in the road. "Well, I do believe that your house, and I need to go this way." He pointed the opposite direction. "Later?"

Risa nodded happily. "Later." The two split, Risa was waving franticly. She sighed and held onto her bag tighter. This could get somewhere.

ok, chap 3! -sigh- im going back to read harry potter now...nah just playing. Please review. Make the soul happy.

PS, the poems were a bit of spur-of-the-moment poems so i know they suck.

-Paige