Hey, thank you for all of your reviews! I'm sorry if I make you guys cry too much, but I hope this chapter will give you a different emotion.

For the benefit of everyone: Neil is of the same age with Allen and Rod: 17 years old while Reine is one year younger than the guys. Neil and Rod is in the same class and club. I hope that answers Mew-Star-Mew's question :)

Without further ado, here goes...

Reine

Gwen has gone to school earlier than usual. Now that she's dating with Allen, she often leaves early.

Oh, well. I just hope that she spends less time in the infirmary.

I walk on the path I usually take when going to the school; I don't really like changing my route.

Suddenly, six people come up and block my way. I recognise two of them as those who blocked my way eons before when I was heading back from Neil's house. They bring along some… metal pipes?

"Ganging up and arming yourself against an unarmed girl?" I ask. "Rather pathetic, aren't you?"

"Well, isn't she quite a chatterbox?!"

They hit the pipes together, creating a clanging noise.

Oh, great.

I try to slip past through them, since I don't want to be late to school, but they yank me back, forcing me to kick one of them and sending him flying. "I want to go, you jerk!"

"We're not letting you go!"

"I don't need your damn permission to go!" I yell back as I kick another of their members to the ground.

I swing my back, filled with two dictionaries and three textbooks, to another of their members before jumping and sending a flying kick to what would be my fourth target of the day.

Suddenly, one of them get to my back and restrain both of my arms and lift me off the ground so I can't have any more momentum to jump. "Ha! This should take care of things!"

"Shit!" I growl.

I'm thinking of biting his arm, but it's too far and suddenly a piece of cloth is placed over my mouth and nose.

Then I feel everything is spinning.

Now I feel… scared.

Then it's dark.

Neil

The blue-eyed girl (I can't get her name right) asked me to go to the art room, saying that the sketch is done, so I do so on my first break.

She's already waiting in the empty room, with a folder placed on the table near her.

"Hey, Neil."

I nod.

"Actually, I want to ask you something first."

She seems to hesitate a bit. "What is it?" I ask. "I don't have much time."

"Will you go out with me?" she suddenly asks.

Huh?

"Wait… are you asking me…"

"To be my boyfriend, yes." She replies with a face that's even redder than the tomato soup Reine made last time.

Well, first of all: I know next-to-nothing about this 'date' stuff. Hell, I don't even know what you do when you guys are 'dating' and all this BGR crap.

Second: it doesn't feel… right.

Third: how can I date a girl whose name I can't even remember properly?

"I won't." I eventually reply her.

She seems to be shocked. "Why?" she asks. "Is it because of Reine?"

Reine Kreiss.

If I put her name (and her pink hair) into equation, somehow it works out just nicely.

With her simplistic logic, she can make this whole BGR crap sensible and the 'date' thing simpler and more comprehensible to me. She always makes things sound so simple.

It feels right.

And yeah, I can remember her name.

I nod. "I'm sorry."

She breaks into a smile. "Don't be, I kinda know it from the start, but I have to get it out, you know? Just to… stop giving myself false hopes."

She then takes out some papers from her folder: it's her sketches of me. "When I was drawing you, I realised your eyes always went to Reine."

"So there's this one time I asked Reine to sit next to me, and true enough, I got your eyes." She admitted. "This picture—" she pointed the one when I'm staring out from the window, a small smile plastered on my face (I never knew I have that kind of expression). "—is the one when we were in this room early in the morning, and I knew you saw her walking into the school."

"The only time when you're not looking at Reine will be this…"

She then reveals a watercolour paint-based picture of Pochi, Reine and me on a park bench. Both of us had been pouring our attention to Pochi that time.

"But even then… I couldn't get her out from the picture." She admits. "I had redrawn this so many times, trying to fit only Pochi and you in. But it didn't feel right. It didn't feel right until Reine was there, too."

She then gives the picture to me. "So, thanks for being my model for the project. Consider this as my thank-you gift."

She gathers all of her papers back and dashes out from the room.

I feel rather bad for her, but I guess... it's better than giving her false hopes, just like what she'd said.

I walk back into my class with the painting and keep looking at it. "That's a nice picture!" Rod suddenly says while appearing behind my back. "Who painted it?"

"The art club girl."

"Felicity."

"Ah, yes. That sounds like her name."

"It is, dumbhead." Rod says, exasperated. "She gave you that for free?"

"Thank-you gift of being her model."

"She didn't call you only for that, right?"

"Yeah."

"She asked you out?"

"Yeah."

"You rejected her?"

"Yeah."

"Because you like Reine?"

"Were you eavesdropping at us?!"

Rod burst out laughing.

"What the hell?!" I ask.

"Duh, Neil, I know it from the start." He replies, "I mean, who else can get you so worked up besides Reine?"

Suddenly my phone vibrates. I take it out from my pocket. It's Reine.

Huh?

I press the button 'receive'.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Why don't you just ask her out?"

Rod accidentally presses the loudspeaker button.

"Shit!"

Thankfully the class is damn noisy.

"We have her."

Both of us froze. It's obviously not her. And this voice…

"What did you do to her?!"

"Nothing. Yet." He replies. "She's quite a handful, no? We needed six men just to catch a chick like her."

"If you dare—"

"Chill dude. If you want her, come at the abandoned shack three blocks from your school to claim her… alone."

He cuts off the line.

"I've got to go."

"Now?"

"When else do you think I will go?!" I snap. "They. Have. Her."

"Three hours."

"I can't damn wait for—"

"I give you three hours." He interjects with unusual seriousness. "After you get her back, call me. If I get no call from you in three hours, I'm going there."

"Three hours." I repeat, before dashing to the door.

I've got to get her back within three hours.

Will Neil manage to save Reine in three hours? Who is Reine's abductor?

Stay tuned in for the next chapter for the answers!

So how was it? Did I manage to infuse another emotion this time round?

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Rate and review is much welcomed ^^