Gosh, it's so much hot in here this month. And guess what? I got sick at the time of summer. Yes, summer. The time when you don't expect yourself having colds and such. So much for a welcome in a chapter, eh? Guess it's up to you, guys. :)

What happened yesterday really took out on me.

Yesterday, even though it's out of my league to use an ace, Ever left me no choice but to let me use it. I concentrated on her consciousness to fade away for a while, although it can take a few hours for her to wake up, as she sleeps with her body dropping into my arms.

That sunset, I drove Haven home first, bringing her back to her room unknown. But, just to make sure, I checked on her again. She's going to feel better soon, I confirmed.

I also noticed the goriness of her clothes with the blood and all and I figured out that she would freak out the moment she goes awake, seeing her all sanguinary. Without a green mind and malice, I went looking for some shirt, pajamas and anything as I put it on her while I erased the existence of her former clothes.

Anyhow, she won't remember anything that happened when she was blacked-out.

It was Ever's turn to go home next. I drove near their drive, marking to see if Sabine arrived yet. The coast is clear because Auntie is still out so I carried Ever, bridal-style to her room. Putting the covers on her, I kissed her good night on her forehead and I head back home.

I can still say it's Mission/s Accomplished.

I crack my eyes open to see that it's still early and the sky is still a little dark. I must admit all that happened yesterday have a toll on me as my body moves all wavy and exhausted. Plus I didn't get a good drink of the elixir before I go, save Haven, stop Ever which is originally is not on my list and bring them back to their homes.

I went to the shower, turning on the taps and step into the spray. Turning on the heater, I allow myself to be free from the blood still stained on my body, as well as the worries flow away with the water to sink.

After that, I went straight to get drink some elixir to make up from yesterday and for today, as I packed some bottles, too.

When all's settled, I locked my house and climbed in my BMW, as I drive fast to the school to save the best parking slots in the world.

The moment Ever pulls into the lot, my waiting ends as I saw Miles nodding at me. I gesture back, and come around Ever's side, with a manifested red lovely tulip in hand for a very special girl.

"Good Morning." I greet at her, smiling as I hand her the flower and kiss her cheek. Ever mumbles an incoherent reply as she heads for the gate. The bell rings with Miles sprinting to his class while I and Ever rush.

I took her hand and squeezed her fingers, leading her to English as we passed Stacia Miller who can't do anything for the moment and I assure that she really won't.

"Mr. Robins is on his way." I whispered at Ever. My lips are against her ear, wanting her to feel safe and secured, as she picks up the pace before she moves away. "He's off the sauce, trying to get his wife back."

We both slide onto our seats and Ever unloads her books with her strange actions of being edgy and weird. She reaches inside her pocket and just about to start panicking when she left her iPod. I reached for her hand, smoothing her fingers with mine. "You don't need that. You have me now."

Ever shuts her eyes, focusing on Mr. Robin's enter in seconds –

"Ever," My soothing voice whispers as my finger plays with her veins on her wrist by tracing their outlines. "You feeling okay?"

I want to make sure she is okay and fine, because what I did to her yesterday isn't just making her fall asleep but erasing her current thoughts, too, for a temporary time. She won't know that her memory out are the time when she went to my house and saw the whole thing. She will just remember and recover her lost memories in time.

Ever presses her lips together and nods.

"Good." I pause, knowing that she can be a bit unsure of her answer because of the memory black-out that makes her giddy and jumpy. "I had a great weekend, I hope you had, too. Yesterday was fun, don't you think?"

She opens her eyes in time Mr. Robins' change is noticeable with his much younger figure. Looking at me, Ever gazes and nods in agreement.

The next couple of hours are all boom and it's not until one of the breaks I like finally come to the lunch table where we are currently chatting without Haven.

At least, I do, covering my girlfriend, because I know that even how much Ever tries to reminisce, her mind will surely always end up blank for now.

"I can't believe you guys went in the water." Miles says, unknowingly filling Ever up as he stirs his yogurt and looking at her. "Do you have any idea how cold it is?"

Actually, I didn't mind because I barely notice and know that winter is almost here or is here now, because the previous days were just hot, sweaty and sunny.

I shrug. "She wore a wet suit." Turning at her, I made for it. "In fact, you left it at my house."

"Um, wasn't that Friday?" Ever asks as she unwrap her sandwich, blushing when I saw her thoughts organize one-by-one to show her all the events that comes back to her except for the hidden ones.

I shook my head. "You didn't surf on Friday, I did. Sunday was when I gave you a lesson."

She peels the crust off her sandwich, while Miles licks his spoon and gazes at me then at Ever. "So, was she any good?"

"Well, it was pretty flat so there wasn't much to surf. Mostly we just lay on the beach, under some blankets. And yeah, she's pretty good at that." I laugh, remembering that day we did nothing but fun and we almost bring it out to the next stage that we've never been before in her every other lifetimes, but she chose to pause it.

And I respect her decision.

"Which beach?" Miles asks after he looks at Ever who shrugs and stuffs the sandwich in her mouth. Ever turns to me, hoping for some help and I look at Miles while sipping my red drink, "Crystal Cove."

He shakes his head, rolls his eyes and reacts. "Please tell me, you're not turning into those couples where the guy does all the talking. I mean, does he order for you in restaurants, too?"

Ever looks at me with her curious eyes that tell me 'Go answer him! I know you knew it!' or something like 'Help!' Either of the two, I know she wants me to reply for her. Just as I'll go for it, Miles goes, "No, I'm asking you, Ever."

"I order my own meals," She finally says after she thought of the day we were in the Disneyland which ended magical and the one at the racetrack where we bet and won lots of money. And she suddenly goes, "Can I borrow your sidekick?"

"Why?" He pulls the said sidekick from his pocket and slides it to her. "You forgot your phone?"

"Yeah, and I want to text Haven and see where she is. I have the weirdest feeling about her."

Her mind did forget about those removed memories but her heart didn't. Now, I wasn't surprised why she acts that way earlier besides from the fact that she lost some of her memories. She can't shake that feeling about what really happened yesterday.

"I can't stop thinking about her." She continues and mutters, at last.

"She's at home, sick. Some kind of flu," Miles says. "Plus she's sad about Evangeline, though she swears she no longer hates us."

"I thought you hadn't talked to her." Alarmed, Ever said, pausing while gazing at her other best friend.

"I sent her a text in history."

"So, she's okay?" Ever asks in a squeaky voice near to panicking and worrying as I gaze upon her.

"Puking her guts out, mourning the loss of her friend, but yeah, basically fine," What a way Miles assured us, especially Ever, in his words, though I'm sure, too, that she's doing a great progress of being safe now. She returns the borrowed sidekick from Miles.

I put my hand on her leg, making her feel that everything's cool and will work out alright while Miles goes on about Eric. She nods and smiles at both of us care-freely.

This day, I won't ditch.

And to make the top of that, I finish all my class easily, either by excusing myself which isn't a very difficult thing to do or completing a task easily in a second. By Ever's remaining classes, I wait anxiously by the doors, wanting to know if she's still okay. Every time she goes out of a class, I feel relieved when I ask her if she's fine and she answers yes.

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After Art, the class where I wouldn't dare to escape and the class where I and Ever are together, we are both in the parking lot and I offered to follow her home. By this time, she looks at me and says, "Um, if it's okay with you, I need to be by myself for a while."

"Is everything okay?" I ask for a millionth time. I know it's getting dumb and gets on the nerves but I just can't help to know her condition. She nods.

"I just need to catch up on a few things, but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Ever says, backing out of her space and drives away, not giving me a chance to reply after she climbed in it and shut the door anxiously.

Later that night, all warm in my bed and sleep came into my head.

And then, when I visit the dream world, I can see that we share this dream once again. I am fed up of not knowing why she was running in the first place, like she's running for her life away from something terribly horror.

I can only watch for now and not meddle, but this repeating dream makes me so edgy and scared for her, too. Like I felt that she was going far away and I'm losing her again all thanks to the Grim Reaper.

As I cannot intrude and I shall be happy for I were invited in Ever's dream, I tried to write this script of her dream a different one from her previous terrifying dreams where she runs endlessly with no hope.

I focused my positive energy and put an exit at the end from this dark, windswept canyon, through the form of a soft glowing light.

I smiled when I succeeded and she ran towards the veil of rays, but that turned to frown when I realized that that 'something terribly horror' that she's running from is me.