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DAYBREAK

Episode 12

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S NOT TRUE!" Haruka was screaming at the top of her lungs.

"What's not true?!" Michiru slapped Haruka and she finally woke up in a cold sweat. "You've been screaming your head off for 10 minutes now."

"Where's Kurai?!" Haruka was becoming frantic.

"She's in the hospital, where you left her. Why?" Michiru was starting to get worried that there was something wrong with Haruka.

"I have to go there…NOW!" Haruka jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs.

"What's going on?!" Michiru was running after Haruka.

"I don't have time to explain." Haruka grabbed her jacket and keys.

"But, Haruka, you'll be late for school!"

"I don't care!" With that she sprinted out the door and to her car. Haruka raced away, with Michiru staring after her in shock.

Haruka ran through the hospital until she finally reached Kurai's room. She opened the door and barged in…but there was no one in there. Haruka's face flushed.

"Where is she?!"

"She's downstairs." Haruka jumped at the sound of the nurse's voice. "I took her down there a few minutes ago so she could eat."

"Oh…" Haruka sighed. She apologized for screaming and moved past the nurse. Haruka walked slowly around the corner and then sprinted down to the cafeteria. She looked around and found dozens of people in wheelchairs.

"Cold-Nose!" Haruka turned at the sound and saw Kurai sitting with a bowl of cereal in front of her. Haruka walked over to Kurai and sat down in a seat opposite her. "I was expecting you, but not dressed like this…" Haruka looked at what she was wearing and realized that she was still in her pajamas. "At least you fit in with all the other patients." Haruka smiled.

"How did you know I was coming?" Haruka couldn't stop smiling, now that she knew Kurai wasn't dead.

"For one thing, I felt that you were coming. For another, you weren't the only one who had that dream last night."

"Huh?"

"I had the same dream as you did, Haruka…except from my point of view, of course. It wasn't exactly fun being dead for a whole dream. I heard you scream at the end and figured you would take the dream seriously. Then, you would come here. I guess I was right." Kurai paused. "I can still hear your screaming ringing through my ears…"

"So can I." Haruka remembered the fear she had felt during the dream.

"I felt fear, too." Haruka stared back at Kurai in shock. "I normally take dreams seriously, just like you, so I thought that I had actually died and was visiting you."

"Thank God we were both wrong."

"Yeah…" Kurai looked down at her food. Haruka touched Kurai's cheek and the girl looked up.

"It's okay. I'm sure it was nothing." Haruka's voice wavered as she spoke the words, not certain whether they were true.

"I hope so. Something tells me we're all headed for a lot of trouble…"