AAAAAAND FINALLY HERE IT IS!
After months of writer's block, IT'S FINALLY HERE!
Sorry guys for my lack of updates, but school work is so UGUGHGHHH, but fear not! I found ways to sneak some writing in between my workload.
:) Thanks again to everyone who has favourited, reviewed or at least read the story ^-^

"Guys, mind helping me out a bit?" I called out to Jai and Lita who were sipping tea whilst I vigorously scrubbed the floor.

"Nah, we're alright", Lita said nonchalantly then resumed drinking her tea.

I sighed and continued cleaning, "how did I land myself a couple of lazy and unreliable friends?"

"Well, you know the saying: tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are. You're a lazy ass yourself", Lita retorted

"…touché", I replied.

Normally it goes like this, we invite ourselves to whomever's house has no parents in the weekend and annoy the living hell out of them. So unfortunately, I'm gonna be housing a couple of freeloaders for a while.

"REIINNAAAAAA~I'm hungry." Lita pouted

"Then get your own food!" I called back to her

I sighed once more and stood up to wipe a bead of sweat rolling down my forehead, maybe I should hire a housekeeper.

I looked up to see Jai walking upstairs, "H-HEY! I JUST CLEANED THAT!" At this point, I gave up and sat down on a chair next to Lita, "Remind me to change the locks so you two can't enter my house…"

Lita chuckled and took another sip of her tea.
"You know-"

"HEY! AND WHEN YOU SEE THAT STUPID BABY, TELL HIM TO STOP GIVING ME MISSIONS WHEN I'M HAVING MY BEAUTY SLEEP!"
A guy in green uniform ran past my house in an unbelievable speed.

"Isn't he the guy whose ass I wanted to swipe with a credit card?" Lita asked, looking outside the window.

"Oh yeah, Mr. Credit Card!" I replied; giving him a nickname that I can refer to if I ever see him next time.

"I wonder what's he doing in this neighbourhood..."

-MONDAY-

I slumped down on my chair and waited for homeroom to begin. I spotted Ms. Gossip, a nickname I have for this girl who always comes up with the juiciest things about people, and asked if she had anything new. She told me that the class president is now dating a guy with a reputation of being a player. We suspect that he's using her to rescue him if he gets in trouble for skipping school.

"Okay everyone be quiet. I'm gonna mark the attendance today" the teacher walked in.
I yawned as the teacher went down the class register.

"Shuichi?" She asked, looking around the class, "Oh Shuichi's not here today?"

Everyone in the class also looked around the room. That's so weird; the model student is rarely absent.
Maybe he's decided to skip school for the first time.
Maybe he skipped school to see his green-haired girlfriend.
Who am kidding, he'll never miss school for anything. I bet he cries in his room if he ever gets a question wrong in a test.

-A few days later-

At the end of the week Shuichi still hasn't shown up. It's really weird. People in the grade are already cooking up conspiracy theories to explain his absence.
My favourite one so far is that he wasn't a human to begin with and went back to his own world to do some unfinished business. Maybe to finish his research about humans or something.
It's funny how some people can make up such farfetched stories.

But come to think about it, there was a time that he was absent for an entire month and all of a sudden he returned and acted like nothing happened without providing a reason why he was away for so long.

Suspicious.

He would have perfect attendance and when he is absent, he would be gone for such long periods of time.

I saw Jai and Lita during lunch and an idea popped in my head.
"Hey Jai, how would you rate your locker-opening skills?"
"Well practised, why?"
"Since Shuichi will be gone for a while, wanna check if he's got study notes for the quiz coming up?"
Lita and Jai nodded simultaneously, I'm so evil. I can be like a spy or something.

The three of us made our way to his locker and let Jai do her thing. Without much resistance, the locker door opened revealing nothing but a rose.
"Is this some kind of joke?" Lita punched locker in disappointment, "now I really have to study!"
Jai and I looked at her with scepticism; we both know she won't study.

The entire evening was spent on the three of us walking around the city, boy hunting.
Mission failed. All we got were three men spouting some cheesy pickup lines.

In the end we retired for the day and went back to our homes.
I turned on the radio and crawled into bed.

As I was about to drift off, my mind wandered to the cute guy sitting near me in English class. He's so yummy.

Before I knew it, I dozed off to sleep.

Unaware of an inhuman figure at the doorway.