Yay chapter three fun time woo~!

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We're in Yoh's POV again... here's chapter three!

"Do I know you?" Ari asked.

Yoh felt his face get hot. He was blushing.

Ari, his best friend, didn't recognize him.

"Yeah, Ari. It's me. Yoh. We were best friends."

She looked him over carefully with her green eyes. He could tell she was thinking hard about her answer.

"You must have me confused with someone else."

People snickered.

"Miss Minamino, please take your seat."

She nodded distractedly. To get to her seat, she had to walk past Yoh.

And when she was next to him, he spoke to her again.

"Don't you recognize me, Ari?"

"I don't know you."

But he could see in her eyes that she was lying.

So Ari was pretending that she didn't know him. Why?

Yoh thought about it all day, but nothing made any sense.

"We'll always be best friends."

So he had decided to follow her home after school.

He had followed her a distance from the school when she stopped. Without turning around, she asked him, "Why are you following me?"

"I wanted to ask you why you pretended you didn't know me today," he answered.

There was a pause, then she said quietly, "I'm not pretending."

"Ari..."

She whirled around now. "I don't know you. Stop following me. Go home."

He didn't listen; he started walking toward her. "You promised we'd always be best friends, Ari."

"Stay away from me!" she screamed suddenly, slapping him hard across the face. She ran away, then stopped and turned. "Stop following me, stalker."

Yoh stayed where he was, watching her as she ran off. He reached up to rub his sore cheek. "Ari..."

Then he sighed and decided to head home before he got yelled at by Anna.

"So she was right. I had her confused with someone else."

"But, I mean," Manta said, not quite believing him, "how many people are there named Arivianna?"

"At least two of them," Yoh answered. But he had those same doubts. Arivianna wasn't exactly a common name.

She had made it pretty clear that she didn't know him, though. He could still feel that slap from yesterday.

So Yoh was content to let things stay the way they were, but Anna wasn't...

- Kuramastrass -