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"Goodnight Aidou-chan, I'll miss you."
Izumi's eyes automatically fluttered open to the sound of her roommate, Sayori's voice. She was in her bed, under the red silk of her covers. However she didn't remember how she got there in the first place. A shiver ran up her spine. She was freezing; the window had been swung open. She could feel the breeze glide through the window and caress her cheek, play with her hair...
"Hush my love." Said another voice in a sweet, seductive tone. There was a pause, and then the clashing of lips drifted into her ears. She could practically taste the love that filled their kiss. "You may wake your roommate."
"No, Izumi could practically sleep through a hurricane if she wished so."
"Well, then let us hope there isn't a hurricane." Aidou muttered in reply, using the same tone he had used earlier. A floorboard creaked, leading Izumi to the implication that he had pulled her closer yet again.
Yori let out a soft chuckle.
"I wish I could tell her about us, she's one of my closest friends, you know." Izumi opened her eyes ever so slightly, but not enough that either of them would notice. She tried not to sigh as Yori's head fell into her hands. "I wish I could tell Yuuki, too."
"You know Yuuki-sama would not approve of our relationship." The seductive tone had left his voice and had been replaced by a tone of sadness. "And telling your roommate would require her to become aware of the Night Class's secret, which is something you know I am unable to do. Even though it pains me to say so."
Her ears prickled at the mention of the Night Class and their secret, she willed herself to be able to hear more clearly. At least it had confirmed one thing; the Night Class did have a secret, and an important one at that. The only questions remaining were how did the Night Class link to Zero Kiryuu and what was the actual secret? Even though she knew Aidou would not risk revealing the secret now, not with her presence, if she were asleep or not, but she wished he would do so.
Yori sighed. "You're right I guess. Though one day I hope I don't have to keep secrets from my friends anymore."
Aidou sighed, too. "Well when you're with my kind, you will always have to." Izumi heard him kiss her, though she didn't know where. "I must get going now, you need your rest."
"I wish you didn't."
"Me too, Sayori, me too." He said in an almost defeated tone, Izumi couldn't help feel a twinge of sympathy for him, even though she barely had a clue what they were talking about.
"I love you."
"I love you too, good night." He pulled Yori in for one last embrace and then the door was shut.
Izumi shut her eyes tightly as she heard Yori saunter over towards her, Yori had never been light on her feet.
"Oh Izumi-chan." Yori whispered, bending down over Izumi. She felt sick. At that moment in time she could have sworn that she'd been found out. "I do wish I could tell you everything, the Night Class's secret, about Aidou-kun and I," there was a short pause, Izumi felt her stomach knot in anticipation, "and about Zero-kun's secret. About everything, I wish I could tell you."
Izumi did, as well.
***
"Izumi Rain, I am sure you are aware of why you are here?" The Chairman asks, pushing up his glasses and leaning forward on the desk. They were in The Chairman's office, it was pleasant and cosy really, with the blaring fireplace and the windows that completely dominating the wall behind The Chairman's desk exposing the great architecture and gardens of Cross Academy. Even though on the surface it seemed warm and inviting and beautiful, there was something far more sinister buried below that couldn't help but make Izumi feel ill at ease.
"I am, Chairman." She said and bowed with a false politeness that The Chairman didn't need to be aware of. It had been the 4th time she'd been called into his office this month, and they were only two weeks in. "I am sorry. Am I in trouble?"
"No, Rain-san you are not." He paused for a moment, before getting up swiftly and walking over to her until he was standing merely inches away from her. "Unless," he bent down to look her in the eyes, "you refuse to give me your word that you will not do such a thing again."
The Chairman wasn't usually like this, he was kind, gentle man – the kind of person you could talk to with the most pettiest thing and he wouldn't mind one bit, the kind of person who you could sit and cry with, and wouldn't tell you that you were being stupid, the kind of person who would make a perfect farther. He was never this serious, he was happy and bubbly and sometimes acted like a child himself, he would sometimes dance around the room; his long, golden hair nothing but a blur. He wasn't usually like this, Izumi must have pushed the line.
But she couldn't lie to him. "If I gave you my word, it would be a lie and I don't want to lie to you Chairman."
"Oh Izumi-chan!" He cried, and began to pout. Izumi couldn't help but smile. "I really, really, don't enjoy punishing my students, but this is one rule and that cannot and should not be broken. It's for your safety." He sighed, giving her biggest puppy-dog look he could master.
The door slammed shut. Both The Chairman and Izumi whirled around.
"Zeroooo-kun!" Chairman screamed, sounding unremarkably close to a fan girl. "Son! Come and give your father a biggg huggg!"
Zero merely folded his arms and replied; "You are not my father." Using his usual harsh tone, it was as if he was trying to push everyone away – and Izumi had seen someone do that before and she knew exactly why he was doing it.
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." Izumi spoke in a small voice. "Maybe you shouldn't try and push everyone away, Zero Kiryuu because eventually you'll have no one left and then you'll fall into a very, very lonely world. Worse than the world you seem to be in now."
Zero shot her a glare the entire time she was speaking, if looks could kill she thought to herself. Ignoring The Chairman's shouts telling her come back; she walked out the room and slammed the door shut. She'd dealt with more than enough Zero Kiryuus in the past and she was quite frankly fed up of them.
But beneath all the anger and harsh glares she knew there was a small boy, desperately crying out – not for help – but for a friend.
And then she thought about the world and all the sadness, broken hearts and despair that it was filled to the rim of, and how little all these problems seemed in the grand scheme of things. She thought about how insignificant they were in their galaxy, or in the universe all-together. She thought that if there was life on this planet, the surely, somewhere there would be life nesting somewhere else, I hope they have a happy life, I hope their world isn't filled with all the sadness and broken hearts and despair...and people who are hopelessly broken...people like Zero.
She could see through his facade, through his mask to the real Zero Kiryuu, to broken little boy consumed by his pain, it clouding up his world. In that moment, standing outside The Chairman's office she wished she could make it all go away, she wished for no more sadness in the world. But she was realist; she knew that would never happen.
She knew that she'd never get through to Zero-kun, she wished she could. Just like she wished for there to be no more secrets between the students of Cross Academy. But she was a realist; she knew that would never happen.
But she could damn well wish it with all her heart.
***
"Izumi Rain!" The small, wide-eyed student-host shouted, waving a yellow card to and fro above his mop of auburn hair. He had a small grin plastered to his face, he looked no more than 7, what was he doing at Cross Academy?
She looked to Yagari-sensi to see if he was going to accept it on her behalf, or force her to make a complete and utter embarrassment of herself by tripping down the stairs to get it. He opted for the second one.
Groaning, she slid out her seat and raced down the steps, never daring to take her head up the entire time, for fearing of taking her eyes off the steps and falling over, something she was prone to and did almost every other day.
The end of the stairs approaching, she decided to take a chance and take her eyes off the stairs – for she couldn't possibly fall over – she only had a few more steps to go, after all. She regretted that idea instantly when on the very last step she toppled over and fell – flat on her face. She could feel the embarrassment radiating from her reddened cheeks. Izumi looked up to her classmates, every last person was bursting with laughter – including Zero. However, when he felt her eyes drift to him, his features twisted into that deathly glare of his.
She turned her back to the students and sauntered over to the young boy, he too, was laughing as he handed her the yellow slip, his hands shaking because he was laughing so hard.
He was barely able to call Zero's name as she headed back to her seat.
"What is it Izumi-chan?" Asked Yori, leaning over to get a better look at the slip. She'd stopped laughing now.
Rain, Izumi.
Please report to Chairman Cross's office at precisely 4:40pm for detention, lasting for a total duration of two hours.
If you do not attend, this will result in a letter, or phone call home.
I rolled my eyes. "Detention, crap." Yori let out a gasp.
"What did you do?"
"I was outside afterhours. Again." I sighed, knowing she'd launch into a full throttle lecture, but she didn't know why I needed to be outside at night, she didn't know what I'd been trying to complete for the past few weeks and how important it was.
"Izumi, you know it's seriously dangerous to be out at night."
"No, actually, I don't. Why is it?" Izumi couldn't help but feel a little guilt for putting poor Yori-chan on the spot like that, but it had to be done.
Colour rushed to her face. "Um, because people could, like, sneak over the walls or something-"
"But, why would they do that? Cross Academy is in the middle of nowhere after all. What intentions would anyone have for breaking in and trying to harm it's students?"
Yori-chan looked down and bit her lip. "Um-"
"Rain!" Barked a cruel voice, Izumi turned around, following the voice. It was Zero, leaning over his desk, shooting daggers her way, each of them filled with hate. She couldn't help but notice that he had an almost identical yellow slip crumpled up in one of his hands. "Leave Yori-chan alone, it's none of your business why the school rules are the way they are. You broke a school rule. Several times. Accept the consequences of your foolish actions and shut up."
That was it, whether he was in pain or not, Izumi had had enough of Zero and his horrible attitude.
"Bite me."
He was fuming before, but the look on his face now was filled with pure anger, he looked at her like she were the most disgusting thing he'd ever laid his pretty lavender eyes on.
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