. Feliciana looked out the window and noticed it had begun to rain, her first thoughts weren't about herself, and she quickly looked over at West and wondered if he had brought an Umbrella.

Feliciana sighed, if only she had brought one, she would give him his umbrella in a heart beat.

Suddenly, a basket ball hit her in the head, causing her to stumble over to where the ball had landed, stepping on it and falling. "Oh right…Gym is still going on…." Even her thoughts sounded like they were in pain. The Gymnasium had filled with laughter, as a girl with dark hair approached the fallen Feliciana, hideous cackles escaping her mouth.

"Sorry about that Itako." She said in a think Bulgarian accent.

"Something worse is coming to you after school" she thought connivingly.

She ran off, Sakura came to Feliciana's aid first slowly followed by West.

"You're so clumsy" he groaned.

Sakura gave him a disappointed glance, and helped Feliciana stand up.

"You need to be more alert" Sakura stated.

Feliciana's face was vacant. She tried to step forward but wound up toppling backwards.

Although this time she was caught by West.

"She hit her head rather hard" said Sakura

"Maybe she needs to go to the infirmary" said West carrying Feliciana like a princess.

"Hey" said a rough voice "You can't leave class!" it was a teacher.

West just stared at him with his usual cold expression. The teacher back off immediately being intimidated by the new student.

Ludwig turned towards the exit quickly being followed by Sakura.

West's head began to hurt once more, but he ignored it, right now all that mattered to him was getting Feliciana to the infirmary as soon as possible….wait what?

West shook his head "What on earth is going on with me!?" he thought angrily.

"Are you alright?" asked the small Japanese girl.

"Errr…. Yes I'm alright." He said a bit tempted to tell the girl what was bothering him.

She nodded "I understand I'm not the easiest person to open too since I'm always so composed compared to everyone else." She stated blankly.

West chuckled nervously at how right she was.

"There it is" she pointed.

"Oh" he said when he realized Sakura had followed them to show them the way to the infirmary.

"Thank you" he said.

"I sense that you don't like receiving help, so I just followed you."

"She's mysterious…" he thought but he respected that.

While Sakura spoke with the nurse, West laid her down in the bed, getting a headache himself.

He thought it was going to go away until he stared at her sleeping, his head felt like it was going to split open. He had to steady himself.

This time his mind flashed back to a painting of a sleeping little girl. Very clear, those flashbacks had been a lot more frequent.

"It looks like you should lay down too." Said a new voice. He turned quickly recognizing the voice.

"Elizabeta?" he said astonishingly. "You're the nurse?"

"Miss Herdervary" she corrected "And I'm also one of the coaches for the swim team"

"I thought she was married…" thought West

The woman smiled sweetly, but had a worried expression on her face.

"Nice to see you're back, you've grown quiet a bit" she said helping him lay down.

Elizabeta heart was beating fast. She had a question she has been meaning to ask.

Although she remained professional and spoke to Sakura, "Thank you for helping, school is almost over so you should hurry back and get dressed." Sakura nodded and bowed her head and took her leave.

Elizabeta looked back at West. "So…" she began nervously.

West knew where her question was heading, but he remained quiet and waited to see if she was brave enough to ask the question.

"How's your brother?" she asked not looking at him.

West really didn't know how to answer, there were nights when his brother didn't even come home, and when he did see him, he was not on the greatest shape of his life.

Elizabeta noticed his expression "…I see…" she said solemnly.

"Umm…" she began nervously "When you do see him…can you…can you please tell him that I miss him?" she asked.

West sighed "This woman…" but he took his a deep breath and say "Yes…I'm sure he'll like that"

Elizabeta blushed and smiled happily

West frowned "You broke his heart…" but he knew that it really would make his brother come home more often knowing that Elizabeta works at the school he now attends.

He rested his head on the pillow.

Back in the locker room Sakura noticed the Bulgarian girl glare at her as she passed by, clearly her new friendship with Feliciana hadn't gone unnoticed.

Sakura did not fear her, she was able to defend herself rather well if it came to it, she couldn't help but smile when she opened her locker and several notes fell out, the rudest things written on them. They were full of hatred.

Sakura simply picked them up and walked over to the trashcan and dropped them inside not bothering to read them. She continued to get dressed completely unphased, she smiled entertained by the fact that some poor pathetic girl actually took the time to do this.

When she finished getting dressed, she picked up her umbrella and walked out into the rain. "This year is going to be great" she said to herself as she walked home.

West woke up thirty minutes later he sat up and turned over at Elizabeta who was writing on some papers.

"You can leave now" she said kindly "If you feel ill again feel free to drop by again"

"Ja" he said getting up, he looked for Feliciana.

"She said she was going to go get you some food, although it's been a while" said Elizabeta a bit worried."

"She's fine" he said to her "she had a big day and probably headed home"

"Good bye" he said to Elizabeta,

"Hey Ludwig" she said, he noticed there was a new brightness about her every time she spoke.

"It was really nice you again after all these years"

He nodded, completely aware she kept thinking about his brother.

"I'll just let adults be adults" he thought. "It's not like I know exactly what happened between them…maybe I did once but it's not like I'd remember"

It had begun to rain harder; he went to go change back into his regular clothes.

Walking towards the back exit of the Gym, it led outside but it was much faster to get home that way.

"She said she was going to go get you food"

He was thinking back to what Elizabeta had said. He took a deep breath and kept telling himself that she was fine.

"although it's been a while"

She's fine

She's fine

SHE'S FINE!
He kept telling himself.

He stepped on a piece of a broken umbrella. "Huh?" he said "Who'd break an umbrella when it's raining this hard?"

He found the other piece not too far off.

Then he spotted food spilled all over the floor…which led to the body of a girl.

"Oh no!" he rushed to her.

She was bruised; she had scrapes on her knee caps and her clothes had been torn he could see her breasts.

He quickly put his jacket over her and put her in his arms about to take her to the nurse, but he stopped on his tracks, and thought to what Feliciana had said to him this morning.

It'll do more harm that good

He groaned, how would she explain this to the nurse?

"DAMN IT!" he thought angrily, he turned on his heel and ran towards his house.