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Rin was still staring at Dell, her mouth open in a comical state. Well, who could blame her, her best friend was making out in her room, with the door closed, with Dell, who happened to have his hand close to her breasts (Rin made a "TT_TT" face in her head).

'SINCE WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO FUCKING SNOGGING MY BEST FRIEND?' shrieked Neru, snapping Rin out of her shocked paralysed state. Neru grabbed Dell by the collar of his shirt and started shaking him.

'Listen here you little no good flirt, if ya break Teto's heart, I will kill you with my bares hands. Ya got that?' growled Neru. Dell looked calmly at her while trembling a little as she breathed fire at him; Neru could be really scary when she wanted to be.

'I would never hurt Teto.' said Dell defiantly. Rin felt someone tap her on the shoulder.

'Come on you lot, let's go. Leon's going on edge 'cause you're not down yet.' sighed Lily. Lily tilted her head slightly, frowning.

'Neru, what are you doing to Dell?' asked Lily. Neru let go of Dell's shirt.

'Nothin'.' replied Neru shortly. Lily shook her head at Neru, turned on her heels and walked off. Dell, Neru and Rin left Teto's room and walked down the stairs onto the landing again. When they stepped outside, Rin realized that the sky was cloudless, bright blue, the sin beaming at them. Rin remembered being told that this was a good omen. The big grey van was parked outside the foster home, and Rin saw Teto chasing Len with a very thick book around the van.

'You no good, coniving, little, boy lolita, banana eatin' bastard!' shrieked Teto.

'I was only joking Kasane, God! And I am not a boy lolita!' cried Len. Rin laughed as she watched them, Neru and Dell joining her. Len ran away from the van, and Rin thought towards the building door. But the next thing she knew was a great force pushing her down onto the jagged concrete path. Len groaned, who was flat on top of Rin. Rin moved a little, but then she felt something that almost caused her to scream: the scars on her left arm rip open. Her eyes widened. Please don't be bleeding, please dont' be bleeding, Rin thought. She looked down at her left arm. The top half of her sleeve was slowly turning from pure white to a deep scarlet. Len, who was still on top of her, followed Rin's gaze. His face went pale.

'R-Rin, what the...?' asked Len, the terror in his voice easy to detect. Rin pushed Len off of her, jumped up, and ran back inside. She bumped into Miku, which made things for Rin much more worse.

'Watch it ya little freak!' hissed Miku, shoving her a little. Rin glared at her, and Miku's eyes travelled down to Rin's arm. Miku screamed.

'What is it? I heard screaming-' asked Lily, rushing down the stairs. Lily looked at Rin for a few seconds, and gasped.

'Rin sweetie, what happened?' cried Lily, grabbing Rin's arm.

'Mama Lily, it's the scars. They've ripped open again.' replied Rin, feeling a little bit faint. She didn't like the sight of blood, and the blood now was so much that Rin thougth she was gonna hurl. Lily's eyes widened, and Rin just realised what she said. She hadn't told Lily about the previous situations with her scars.

'Come on, Rin. Let's get ya to the medical room.' said Mama Lily calmly, leading her along the corridor. They reached the somewhat large medical room, and Rin was sat down on one of the beds.

'I'm gonna get some antiseptic from the shops. Be back in a tick.' said Mama Lily. She rushed out of the room, leaving Rin alone. Her arm was still bleeding, her head was spinning, her stomach churning. Rin, seeing that she was alone, decided to take her dress off so that her upper body was showing to see how bad her arm was. The scars however, had stopped bleeding now, thankfully. But then of course, things went from bad to worse. The door burst open to reveal Len. Talk about embarrassed much.

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Len was, obviously, worried about Rin. The blood was just so... quick when it was coming out. Some of it was actually still on the sidewalk, but Len paid no mid to it. He rushed off after her, and almost knocked Lily over.

'Lil', where's Rin?' gasped Len.

'In the medical room. Listen Len, I really have to go to the shops, Leon's gonna take the rest of ya to school-' Len cut Lily off.

'No. I wanna stay with Rin. I don't want her to go back to school on her own.' said Len. Lily sighed, and placed one hand on her head. She looked tired, really tired. It's just her old age, Len thought to himself.

'OK, fine. Rin'll need the company anyway. Just don't do anything dodgy. I'll be back in ten to fifteen minutes.' sighed Lily. She swept past Len, and Len rushed down to the medical room, and burst the door open. Rin was somewhat half-naked, her dress pooled around her waist, revealing her to be wearing a white and peach pink lacy bra. Len's face went extremely hot, and his... well, his little friend lets say, was starting to heat up as well.

'L-Len-kun! Why don't you ever knock?' exclaimed Rin covering her bra with her crumpled dress. Len shook himself out of his shocked state.

'N-Nii-chan! Why are ya taking your dress off anyway?' retorted Len. Rin started putting her half bloodstained dress back on.

'I wanted to check how awesome my bleeding scars are, thanks to a certain someone.' snapped Rin, glaring at Len, who frowned at her. He didn't mean to fall on Rin. His plan was to grab Dell and throw him at Teto, even though there was probably no chance of that working anyway. Len stared at Rin as she fiddled with her hair.

'Why aren't you at school?' asked Rin looking out the window.

'I asked Lily if I could stay with ya.' replied Len, trying to keep his cool. The sunlight looked as if it was giving Rin a golden glow.

'So that you can skip the first day of school?'

'No.'

'Why then?'

'Because... I...' Len trailed away. Well, obviously, he can't tell Rin how he felt about her. Sure, Dell and Akaito joked about it, but they think that he likes Miku, even though she keeps stalking him wherever he went. Technically, no-one knows.

'Never mind. I was actually excited about today as well.' sighed Rin, leaning up against the bed rail. Len sat next to her.

'Well, homeroom doesn't start until,' -Len looked at his watch- 'fifty minutes. Lily'll be here way before that.' Rin punched him with her right arm hard. Really hard.

'Don't try to charm me. I'm still uber pissed off with you.' growled Rin.