I'm sooooo very sorry!

that this chapter is so late!

Lately my love for TOA is sort... ya know?

but I still love it! really!

and as long as I love something I won't give it up!

Hopefully this chapter won't sound too...odd

A bundle of bright green hair stomped down the hallways of Daath high school. This bundle of green was accompanied by a small body in a white tee shirt, with a loose tan tie around its neck, peach colored slacks and black shoes. His hands deep in his pocket as his green eyes wandered from room to room looking for a girl. Sync Tempest had been looking for Anise Tatlin since the beginning of school.

'Damn it! where is she?' Sync had yet to hide or hair of Anise for a three days, it was Wednesday only three days since he last saw her. He hadn't even seen her walking to school or back, she was never home, nor was she in her classes, nor was she even in their apple tree! and even if he would never admit it to himself he was worried.

Thousands of possible thoughts ran through the teens head as he pictured Ion taking Anise away from him. Automatically Sync shook his head, trying to throw those thoughts away before he really started to believe them.

'What have I done?' a sigh escaped his lips, 'I shouldn't have screamed at her like that, maybe Ion really is a good guy...maybe...' once again he shook his head in frustration.

'Anise! where the hell are you?!' suddenly a bundle of chocolate brown locks came into his view, it was Anise! however she wasn't running towards him, she wasn't even looking at him, his name wasn't the one she was chirping, it was Ion.

Anise ran towards Ion as he came out of his class and pounced on him like a lion on her cub.

"Ion! where were you? I missed you!" she pouted using her big brown eyes to her greatest ability, by making Ion blush like there was no tomorrow.

"I'm sorry Anise" the boy sweetly apologized as he wrapped his right arm around the girls waist and kissed her left cheek, making her blush as well. Both could feel the eyes of their peers staring intently at them in shock, after all The Ion Fon was dating Anise Tatlin! who couldn't be shocked.

"Are you two dating now Anise?" a feminine voice came from behind the girl as she turned to see her good friend Natalia Lanvalder and her boyfriend Luke Fabre.

"Oh Natalia! yeah, we are dating!" Anise beamed brightly as she blushed and held Ion's waist as he held her equally tight.

"Congratulations!" the forest green eyed light blonde smiled and clamped her hands in excitement as her boyfriend let go of her waist and lightly punched Ion's left shoulder,

"Congrats yo! it's about time you got yourself a girl!" Luke smiled at the two

"Luke! don't be mean to Ion!" Anise pouted once more, only she didn't mean it to be cute. The couple in front of Ion and Anise were seniors around eighteen and nineteen, yet even though they were they weren't mean like the others, especially like Tear Grants. She was the most popular girl in Daath high and could have anything she wanted, because her brother was Van Grants a high ranking officer in Daath. Rumor had it was that she wanted Luke to be her boyfriend, but he turned the girl down because he only had the heart and eyes for Natalia.

Of course that didn't set well for the blue eyed light brunette. From then on she has always tried to split the two up, but it never worked. Natalia and Luke had been together since their young elementary years.

"Hah it's okay Anise, he's not being mean to me" Ion smiled affectionately at his girlfriend, with deep love clear in his eyes. Everyone saw.

"Awww!" Natalia squealed as she hugged Anise tightly,

"You were so right to have a crush on him Anise!"

"Tha...thanks Natalia! but I...NEED AIR!!" the brunette gasped as her life was being squeezed out of her. The older girl saw this and quickly let go,

"I'm sorry!"

"Hahahhah" both the guys laughed at their girlfriends earning deep glares and embarrassed eyes.

Sync couldn't believe it! it just couldn't be true! there was no way! Anise, HIS Anise was dating Ion?!

'Wait! what?! Anise...mine?! no way!' Sync once again violently shook his head throwing the previous thoughts of the girl away. She was just a friend! a friend from long ago and that was it! yes they understood each other better than anyone else, sure they had shared EVERYTHING with each other, but she WASN'T his, nor was he hers. So why does he feel this way? Why does his heart wrench at the sight of Anise kissing Ion? why does he want to kill Ion for touching Anise? why?

'I...need some air fast!' and in a flash he turned away and out the school, towards the apple tree, when he sat on the top branch only then did Sync let his mind truly wander.

'Why didn't she tell me? we...we tell each other everything!' Heh big laugh there, if they told each other everything, then she would have easily told him she was going out with Ion Fon. But she didn't, she didn't even try to find him! or call him! nothing! she had left him in the dark for him to find out by himself.

'That might have been my fault though' as he remembered their fight on that Saturday. He remembered every word he threw at her, every insult, every hurt he inflicted on her already weak mind at the time,

'I deserve this' he gave himself a humorless smile as he looked up into the bright blue sky, with uncharacteristically sad eyes.

'Anise...I' suddenly he hear a whimper from the ground, he turned his head down to see who the person who was crying was, only to his shock it was Arietta Wild.

Once again, I'm really sorry its so short and odd

I hope none of you are angry!

I'll try to up-date faster, but if you already

can't see I'm making this up as I go, and then some!

Please keep watch over me!