Sorry for being late guys, I was caught in some stuff. Well, I lost my SIF account, so yeah..

Anyway, warning: Character death.

Slightly shaking the firgue in her arms, Eli managed to hide away the urge to shout the red hair's name out loud.

"Maki, wake up." She called the other softly, to which Maki just remained silent. Nozomi and Nico soon followed the red hair, as the others were doing there best to keep their tears inside.

"Eli, I just saw her.." Maki said with a hollow expression "I saw Umi. Is she here?"

"Maki-chan, she's not here. Only us." Nozomi careressed the red locks gentlely,

"She is right, you stubborn." Nico scolded her junior, but no one cared enough to stop her, cause they knew, she didn't mean it "Get over it already."

Eli let a small smile present on her lips, to lightened up the mood. Somehow, it worked. Well, not all of them. Before anyone could do anything, Kotori had pulled out something from her pocket. Something that looked like a chain of keys.

"Anou, why don't we go into the school?" The unique sound of metal caught everyone's attention. "My mother said we could do that, as long as nothing are damaged." She then landed her eyes on a certain orange hair, and the mentioned girl just laughed goofily.

"How does that sound Maki-chan?"

"..."

"..."

"...Okay."

It was when a hint of red filled her whole vision. Her body collasped to the dusty ground of the dark alley as a shadow dash across her eyes. Umi tried to move her body, but she failed eventually. The blue hair groaned out in pain, finally realized that she just had been stabbed. While the blood was still leaking out from her wound, a painfull, bitter smile managed to escape from her lips.

"Hah...ugh...it was really...a bad...idea.." Umi was cut off by pain. She cursed herself for being too careless and stupid. Her desicion for chasing after a robber was insane. Stills, she had done it, and she regretted them all.

"No..I can't...die yet..." Umi mustered all her energy to bring her hand to her pocket. Holding her phone in her hand, the blue hair ignored the pain, and also the fact that she could call an ambulance or help. When Maki's number appeared, Umi decided to hit the call button.

"Hey Umi, what's up?" The red hair answer immidiately, much to her glad.

"Hey Maki, free tomorrow?" Umi managed to fake out a smile, concealed all the pain she was in.

"No, not really, I mean..I have works to do. Since I am the student council president now..You need anything?"

"Ehh, then you can't go out with me then." Umi brought out her childish side, and giggled when the other seemed to be surprise.

"Umi. What are you trying to do? You know you can..."

"Maki, I love you." Interrupting the red hair, Umi used all her energy left.

"I know, I love you too.." The call was cut off immidiately. Maki slightly flinched, wandered what could happen with the blue hair. And then, a familiar sound notified a coming message. Maki opened the text, and only to find herself smiling at it.

"Umi, you don't have to tell me that, you know."

"Wow, nothing has changed nya~."

Rin excitedly ran through the hall of Otonokizaka, her eyes beamed sparkly. Although it was late, no one was going to stop her. After all, it had been a really long time since their graduation, the girls all had the same feeling as Rin. The only different thing was they didn't show it the way Rin did. Well, not exactly. As expected from Honoka, the orange hair soon joined with Rin. They rushed to their club room, leaving the others chasing after them with no time to breath.

"Ho…no..ka..What the hell?" After nomalizing her breath, Nico grab her fist to the said's girl collar and shaked it violently. The others were supposed to stop her, but they were amazed by how strong Nico was, despite her appearance.

"Woah,ughh…I am sorry…Just got too excited." Honoka freed herself from an angry Nico, "I mean, look, our club room is still the same."

"Of course, my mother respects us, and no matter what happen, she tried her best to keep it the same." Kotori explained, her voice filled with proud,

"Maki-chan, do you want to see the piano?" The ash hair girl then landed her eyes on the red hair,

Under normal condition, the answer would always be a yes. But speaking of all that happened before, they all doubt it. There was no way Maki would like to see the piano again. But she never ceased to amaze everyone.

"…I want to.."

She couldn't remember the last time she ran that fast in her life.

What she just heard was a knife. A poison one that sliced through her heart. But Maki ignored the invisible pain and ran as fast as possible. When finally reached the hospital, she panically searched for her father.

"Papa, papa.." A familiar blouse cross her vision, "I…" The red hair choked on her words, her amethyst eyes locked into the others.

"Maki.." Her father couldn't dare to look into his own daughter. He turned her head to the other side to acoid her panic gaze

"Please papa, tell me.." "I need to know…" Before Nishikino-san could have any chance to say anything, the others member had rushed to her side.

"What the hell Maki? You got a call and didn't even care to tell us what happen."

"Maki-chan, why are we in the hospital? Is there anything wrong?"

"Maki, I am sorry, I was useless." Nishikino-san slightly pat her head, before walking away with watery eyes. I alarmed her immidiately; her father was not the type to cry that easily. The red hair ran again, rushed into the emergency room. The others soon followed her. But what they could saw was an emotionless red hair, standing near a firgue covered with white fabric. What was beneath made them go numb. Regardless, it was Umi. That was the moment when reality hit them. Hard. They were all broken, Honoka and Kotori cried into each others shoulders, same for Rin and Hanayo. Nozomi tried her best to keep her tears inside, but it kept flowing as Nico burried herself into the purple hair girl's body. Eli didn't dare to approach the red hair. Cause she knew, every one knew, no one in that room was more depress than Maki.

"Umi, you idiot,…" Despite the tears, Maki's voice was dry and hollow "You said you wanted to go out tomorrow right." The red hair clenched her fist together "Wake up already."

"Maki-chan.." The girls called out to the red hair, but she didn't care. Instead, Maki gentlely reached for Umi's cold hand, and kissed her softly.

"…I love you.."

A/N:

Yah, that was intense. Damn, I hate myself for writing that.

Like 1 more chapter and we are good.

Sorry for any inconvinience.

For the review, I did read them all. Specially Zuruin-san and Bobtizy-san, you guys are like my encouragement,

Well,, just I hope you like this chapter as well,