(Insert Info Here) Well technically, I had information here on the new characters; I actually became irritated with it, so I decided to delete this little heading too. Bear with me, people, I'm still tweaking this story a bit…)

"...And when you put the x inside the box, you have to consider that little equation on the bottom..."

Sei looked at the teacher irritated. She couldn't concentrate on the lesson. Every now and then she would catch a bit of what the teacher was saying, but then her mind would release a mental fog and block all her abilities of learning.

"...then you have to remember that this part has to be to the 4th power. And don't forget that the equation of the half circle has to be divided by..."

Sei rested her head on her hand and looked at her desk. There was a notebook turned to a blank page where she was supposed to be writing notes on and there was a pencil beside it, which she was supposed to use to write notes with. She was too tired to write anything; besides the fact that the pencil seem to weight too much, she kept spacing out. Jake had warned her about it that morning, said after being awake almost all night was going to cause her trouble concentrating at school. She didn't listen, and there she was, fighting a battle against her wishes to close her eyes and drift into dream land... soft clouds of cotton... a river made of blankets...

Her eyes started closing without realizing. Before she knew it, she was sound asleep and the voice of her teacher kept getting farther and farther away...

"MRS. SUZUKI!"

Sei jumped on her seat startled by the sudden closeness of the voice. The teacher was still by the board, but she was looking at her an angry look on her face. She wasn't the only one staring at Sei, the whole class was.

"Is my class so boring you must fall asleep?" asked the teacher.

Sei had twenty good answers to that question, but the bell rang before she could say anything.

"Mrs. Suzuki, may I see your notes please?" asked the teacher, turning to the board and beginning to erase all she had written.

Sei stood up slowly. She bent to pick up her back-pack when a girl came up to her.

"Sei, want me to wait for you outside?" she asked.

"Yeah." She said.

She picked up her notebook and walked to the teacher's desk as she was sitting down and arranging papers on drawer. She extended her hand towards Sei and Sei gave her the notebook.

"Well, you seem to have all the notes as usual, Mrs. Suzuki." Said the teacher, looking through her notebook.

"Huh?" Whispered Sei. She didn't understand. But when she saw the cover of the notebook, she immediately understood. "Oh, yeah, of course I do." She said.

"I just don't understand why you were falling asleep in my class. Is it boring?" asked the teacher turning in the book back to Sei and looking into her eyes.

Keeping her wit in check, she decided to go for another alternative. "I had a rough night. I was awake most of the time." Well, it wasn't a lie… partly. "You ever had any of those moments when you just can't sleep?"

"Yes," said the teacher. "Yes, I have. Well, I wish that today you get a good sleep, Mrs. Suzuki. You may leave."

Sei grabbed the notebook, bowed and walked out the door only to meet her two friends right outside class.

They both were taller than her, but if so, only for a few inches.

One had straight jaw length red hair and playful looking narrow blue eyes. Her name was Anna. The other one had wavy, shoulder length blonde hair combined with flirty looking hazel eyes. Her name was Mimi.

"Thanks for lending me your notebook" Said Sei to Mimi as she caught up with them. "Can I borrow it to copy the notes?"

"Sure," said Mimi, smiling widely.

"What happened? Mimi told me you were falling asleep in class." Said Anna. Her blue eyes stared at her with concern.

"Oh, I had a rough night." Said Sei, putting Mimi's notebook inside her back-pack.

"You had a rough night? With who?"

Sei laughed. "Hey, perv, I'm not like you selling myself in the corners of the city. I had nightmares all night."

"HEY! I GET GOOD MONEY OUTTA THAT, OK?" joked Anna.

They laughed. Mimi snorted, which prompted all of them to laugh even longer before they walked along the hallway. "Hey, did you guys do that homework we had for physics?" asked Sei, turning to her friends.

"I need a couple of assignments and then I'm finished." Replied Mimi.

"I just need to start it," Anna's carelessness was obvious in the way she tucked her short hair behind her ear. Sei stopped in the middle of the hallway looking at her friend.

"You do know it's due tomorrow, right?" she asked, already guessing the answer.

As if on cue, Anna's hair fell forward. "It is? I thought it was due next week!" Her eyes widened in surprise.

"Nope." Said Sei, smiling at her friend.

Anna continued to stare at Sei until Mimi said "Looks like Anna will be busy today," in a sing-song voice. Sei released a sigh as she watched Mimi look at the ceiling with dreamy eyes and moving her arms in a wave movement.

"Do you need help?" asked Sei, still watching Mimi.

Anna finally broke out of her trance. "Nah, you got better things to do. Besides, I'll finish in time, don't worry— Could you stop that?" she added, taking a hold of Mimi's arms and shoving her to the side. Mimi moved to the side obediently, and stopped waving her arms, but she still looked at Anna playfully.

"Tomorrow is Tuesday, I feel like ditching." Said Anna. "Any of you interested in coming with me?"

The three began to walk towards the entrance of the school."Don't count on me. I can't live without school and education." Said Mimi, looking at her feet.

"I can't." Said Sei, when Anna turned to her in hope of some company. "I got an important test coming up. I can't miss it."

"Fine, I won't ditch then. What the point if I have no one to ditch with?"

"You can ask some of the guys you talk to." Said Sei, playing with one of her bracelets.

"Nah, I want a day out with you two, but you're always so busy."

The girls exited the school and stopped near the road. They turned to each other, hugged good-bye and walked their separate directions.

There went another day of school. At least now Sei was a bit awake, but she couldn't help feel tired after watching over the new guy at her house. Speaking of which… She lifted her eyes and began to run towards her house. She couldn't wait to hear what her brother had done all day.

"He hasn't awakened yet." Were the words Jake told Sei when she entered the house, said hi to her brother and asked about the silver haired guy.

Sei went to his room and watched him for five minutes before deciding to help Jake with dinner. After they were done eating, they washed the dishes in silence and then went to the living room to relax a bit. Jake hadn't said another word about the new comer which led her to believe that he still hadn't found out about the mysteriously disappearing burn marks. Either that, or was waiting for her to mention it, which she didn't.

"How did school go?" asked Jake when a commercial flashed through the screen of the TV.

"Awful. I was forcing myself awake." Replied Sei.

"I told you."

There was a pause.

"Did you go to work today?" asked Sei.

"No, I called in sick. They're giving me all week."

Another pause.

"Sei, you need to go buy groceries; were running out of food again."

Sei looked at him.

"I would go, but I'm supposed to be sick, remember? If they see me out there buying food, they'll know I was just…"

"Thank you."

Jake looked at his sister surprised. For a moment he felt the urge of asking her if the lack of sleep had affected her.

"For agreeing to help me with him."

Jake smiled at his sister's words. "Sure thing sis."

After an hour of watching TV, Sei volunteered to watch over the new comer again, but Jake wouldn't hear of it. He forced Sei to take a nap, and after that, they negotiated about her idea.

She ended up winning, considering the fact she still had to copy down the notes she had borrowed from Mimi… not to mention the Physics project due the next day.

By the time she was finished with her assignments, it was already late. She looked out the window. She had been in the male's room doing her homework, and not once did he wake. But he wasn't dead; he was breathing. She wondered what Mimi and Anna were doing right then.

"Anna's probably doing her homework." She thought, a smile crawling up her face. That girl, she always left everything until the end.

She went back to the chair near the male's bed-side and sat down. She looked at him, biting her thumb nail. She sighed. She stood up and then sat down again. She stood up again and then neared the male, leaning over him once more. She wondered if his silver hair was dyed. "Not likely," she thought. "His eyebrows and eye lashes are also silver."

Her eyes ran over his smooth skin; she had read somewhere in literature class how often times people were described as having skin as smooth as marble, and this… well, it actually gave her a pretty good visual of what it looked like. For a moment she was actually tempted to touch it, but then she changed her mind, thinking that unless it was to take his temperature, there really should be no reason to touch him without him knowing.

He breathed normal, just like he had been doing all day, according to Jake, so she sat down again, sighed a second time and just stared at the guy. She felt curiosity eating inside her, wondering what it would be like to have a conversation with him, but she couldn't wake him up, not to mention, he probably didn't want to wake up… yet.

Sei leaned on the bed side and settled her elbows on the bed for support when she put her chin on her hands. Slowly, she started drifting off to sleep; she startled herself awake only to let her head rest on the mattress near his hand as she embraced her stomach and then went to sleep. What she didn't know was that a few minutes later, the male had awakened, but just for a few moments.

The man opened his eyes. Where was he? He tried moving his arm but a slight pain made him stop. He was sore, but having never experienced such thing before, became quite concerned and decided it was best if he just stayed as he was for now. He looked at the ceiling. What had happened? He looked around. No doubt he was in a room, but to whom did it belong to? There was a window to his right side a couple of yards away from the bed, with curtains draped over them; a night table right beside the bed with a lamp covered with a green shirt. He'd never awakened in a room such as this one; as far as he could recall, the rooms he always came back to were white, usually cold and most definitely empty; not even windows.

He became aware of a light breathing. Was there someone else in that room with him? Who was it? He couldn't see. He needed to sit up, but when he moved his arm, he came in contact with something soft and abundant.

He forced himself up onto his left elbow still holding on to whatever it was with his right hand. Then he saw; what he was touching was hair. Hair from a human. A human who was sleeping, near to him. He wanted to wake it, but all of a sudden, the room started spinning. What was this? He felt dizzy. He lay back down as he let go of the hair. He didn't have time to ask himself any more questions; as soon as his head touched the soft pillow, his eyes closed and then he was out cold.