Yeah, I'll try to make it so every chapter alternates between Len's and Rin's side of the story.. (^o^)

Thanks for reading, by the way... :) This is a pretty short chapter :


Meanwhile, a boy of about fourteen years old is playing soccer outside.

"Hey, Len! Over here!"

He passes the ball to his friend.

"Thanks!" yells Miki, her long green pigtails bobbing as she dribbles the ball over to shoot it into the goal.

Len plays soccer here every day after school, on a long, grassy expanse of green next to a huge mansion.

'Hey', he thinks, stopping right in the middle of the field to stare up at the mansion, 'Who lives here, anyway?'

He knows it can't be anyone from his school, because no one is rich enough to reside in that huge hunk of marble and stone brick...

'Maybe I could go and see...', he asks, more to himself than to anyone nearby.

His thoughts are interrupted briefly by a shout: "LEN! Wake up!" It's his best friend, Kyle, waving his arms wildly to catch Len's attention. "You wanna go get some ice cream with us?"

Len happily obliges, running to catch up with his friends.

He'll think about the mansion (and whoever lives in it) later.