I woke up from a sleepless night having maybe gotten one maybe two hours of sleep. I wiped the sleep off my face and got out of bed.
“Was it a dream?” I asked myself. I looked over in my closet and no one was there but strange enough there was a blanket there. I looked around my room and there was no sign of Yuri. With a tired huff I sat back down on my bed with my head on my forehead. My tiredness quickly became the leas t of my problems because I sat down and felt something in my back pocket.
Well problem number one was I fell asleep with my school uniform on again, and issue number two was a little more severe than a wrinkled school uniform. My back pocket, the gun, the Glock 22 Yuri handed me. I pulled it out of my back pocket, last night wasn’t a dream. I held in my hand the Gun. I stared at it for a while until I finally made sense of it all
I quickly threw the gun into the cupboard of my bedside nightstand and rushed off to school as if nothing happened. I once again walked to school with Rei, it was becoming a usual occurrence. We walked and talked about nothing really important, nothing I would remember anyway.
I spent almost all of first period class thinking about everything that happened last night and second period reliving it. Yuri walked into the class near the begging of second period though no one seemed to notice except me. “I guess I was the only one who can see her,” I thought to myself as she came right up behind me and whispered in my ear,
“Meet me in the hall ASAP,” I took out a small piece of lined paper and made sure no one was watching me I wrote.
“I still the only one whom can see and hear you?” then quickly erased it.
“Yes,” she responded.
“Then why are you whispering to me,” I wrote. “I don’t know!” she loudly remarked as she walked out of the classroom. I just put my head down on my desk pretending nothing happened, apparently I wasn’t doing such a good job.
“Something wrong Nova?” my teacher asked.
“No just a little bit of a headache” I said back.
“Well if you need a drink or need a walk feel free to go to the bathroom, you have permission” my teacher answered. I quickly jumped at the opportunity with no hesitation. The first reason being class is boring, second reason being I wanted to know what the hell was up with Yuri following me to school. As she could have just as likely been following Rei she asked to see me out in the hall.
I walked through the hallway pretending Yuri wasn’t there attempting to look somewhat normal. I looked around paranoid to make sure no one was watching before I held the boy’s bathroom door open for an invisible girl. “I’m not going in there!” Yuri exclaimed.
“You are if you want to talk to me,” I said quietly with my teeth clenched as a teacher walked by thankfully not noticing I was saying anything or that I was still holding the door open. She walked in and looked around.
“No one here,” she said
“Into the stall anyway,” I said holding the door open as she walked in. “First things first, why are you following me?” my voice filled with anger.
“I have nothing better to do, plus I’m a fugitive and I need somewhere to practice my god sword skill without attracting any attention from any other spirits or any imperfect souls and a school is the last place either of them would be looking for me,” Yuri said with confidence.
“Fine I understand that much but can you please not distract me during math class, may I remind you that I’m the only one whom can see or hear you, are you trying to make me look like a crazy person in front of your sister,”
“Yes captain whatever you say,” she snidely replied “do you get mad at everything I say?”
“No” I said calmly to try and hide my rage trying to prove a point.
“You’re a terrible liar you just trying to prove a point,” I didn’t know I was such terrible liar till just now “So you mind telling me what you pu

“So you mind telling me what you pulled me out of class to tell me?”
“I just told you. I was going to tell you why I was here,” her ignorant tone annoyed me but I want going to do anything about it.
“Well thanks it’s much appreciated”
“Now do me a favor and don’t be so awkward around my sister its painful to watch,” I looked at Yuri with a confused look on my face “just loosen up a little, be yourself, it’s pretty obvious that you like her and unless you want people to start making fun of you because she rejected you stop looking like you have just seen a ghost....... wait disregard that last part you know what I mean,” My face turned red with embarrassment with a long awkward pause of me not knowing where to look. “OKAY MEETING DISMISED” she yelled. I didn’t know it was a ‘meeting’ in the first place. So I asked
“Are you still going to follow me around?”
“You and Rei, but if I disappear I’m probably off somewhere practicing with the God sword”
I walked back to class and without me noticing the lunch bell rang without me noticing.
“Was I gone that long?” I asked Rei as I grabbed my lunch and sat down next to her and Gian tough I was ignored. I listened to their ‘conversation’ for a while before I tried to say anything tough it wasn’t much a conversation it was more a monologue from Gian about how awesome he thinks he is with a occasional question he would ask Rei wondering if she agreed with his gloating. Her answer was almost always no unless she could be sarcastic about something. Gian got bored with Rei and got up and went to the washroom.
“I can’t believe your strength,” I said to Rei
“What do you mean?” she asked
“No I just mean your family and you just live on, you just go to school like every other normal child in the world,”
“They are a thing of the past, I have to move on if I want to enjoy the time I have left alive,” It was at this point that I wanted to tell her about her sister not totally convinced that Yuri was her sister yet but to avoid looking insane I would keep it to myself for now. I also want going to ask Rei about her sister in school to try and not turn her into a emotional wreck and embarrass her during school. So instead I asked her,
“Remember the other night when we kissed, Do you want to still leave it alone and just be friends?”
“Yeah... sorry,” Rei answered “I already explained to you why and I fear too much of feeling alone plus we are so young and it feel s so forced already I just want to leave it sorry,” she apologised again. There was a brief pause “speaking of being alone my uncle is going to be away tonight want to come visit?” and as much as I wanted to say no to avoid the awkwardness that i knew would take place I answer with a simple,
“Sure.” lunch quickly ended and classes went on. For the rest of the day nothing interesting happened and the rest of the day was weirdly normal. Yuri wasn’t around much at all she came in a couple of times near the end of the day but that was all. All I knew was that tonight at Rei’s was going to be really awkward.

I'm sorry for the 3d on my painting you commented on. I thought the 3d effect would be pretty cool.wait.....isn't this painting about your book your working on?