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cartoonpsycho888999: Erm, yeah. I was 12 when I started the story, but I decided to leave it be. 6 years later, I was too lazy to re-write it, so I just fixed some mistakes and uploaded that. And don't worry, I won't. ^_^"

alisa12313: Here you go, then.

Rena The Insane: Wow, ummm -has never gotten such a positive comment- Thank you so much!

Kilwede (part one): Yeah, I was mad that no one ever did that, so I decided to mix drama with comedy, you know?

(part two): I'm a year late with updating, but I'll try harder from now on! This chapter is for you!

Hikarina stared at Nana from across the table, squinting her eyes. Nana followed suit, struggling.

Mayu sat next to Nana, hesitantly watching the duo stare at each other, marveling at their patience. Kohta was watching them as well, wondering why he was here, while Yuka was just as worried as Mayu.

Each passing second was an hour as the staring never seemed to stop.

Finally, Nana's head ended up colliding with the table, "I can't do it!"

Everyone let out a sigh of relief. Hikarina stood up while she made 'victory' signs with her fingers. "Yay! Can't beat me, no you can't!" She sang.

"Noooo!" Nana yelled in defeat. "It's okay, Nana. I've never seen such an impressive staring contest before!" Mayu sat up from the table.

Nana felt better, then decided to leave it be and help Mayu with the dishes. Hikarina went outside to play with the dog, leaving Yuka and Kohta.

As soon as Hikarina was surely gone, Yuka sighed loudly. "Thank goodness, she was distracted! I thought she'd be gloomy all day . . ."

"I know what you mean. She was really depressed this morning, I really hope she's not like this tomorrow."

The rest of the day went without a hitch, and everyone went to sleep.

"Hmmm . . ." a girl sat in a lonely space. A big, wide space draped in ceil.

It looked like it was snowing, but the snowflakes were shining, and what's more, frozen.

Everything was frozen in time, except the girl.

"Still half asleep, this one." She said, probably to the teddy bear in her hand, as she pointed to a flower covered in frozen dew. "See?"

With a bear in her lap, and her snow mittens on her little hands, she flopped down onto the ground, which had no snow, but a textureless -almost like a mirror- landscape.

She blinked, just staring into the transparent sky.

"What do you think, huh?" She lifted her bear up as far as her tiny arms could stretch.

"Well? What do you think . . ."

Everything began to move for a split second as she spoke this small word.

" . . . Father?"

Kohta's head snapped up, opening his eyes in a cold sweat. His breathing became heavy as the last moments of his strange dream played back in his head.

"Who . . .?"

"Otou-san . . . " Hikarina said from his door, whispering to herself.

She sighed silently as she closed what little of his door that was opened.

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