Lin's POV

The walk back to the rooms was shorter than usual, probably because I was so confused. "How in the world am I going to tell Chihiro?" I wondered out loud pacing down the hallway. "What was that Lin?" A frog man asked me. God, they all looked the same. What was this one's name again? Travis? Jumanji? "Nothing Toad boy." I said turning into the girl's corridor. He opened his mouth to ask another question. "And quit listening to my conversations, creep." I slammed the door on his shocked face. It felt good. The dorm was pretty empty, just a couple of those fat faced greeter girls and a few other workers, they were all lounging outside on the little wooden balcony Haku had installed. He said it was to make us more comfortable. It was also because he heard Chihiro talking about how much she loved seeing the sea after the rains.

"Oh Lin, there you are!" Chihiro yelled running up to me with two extremely large bowls of rice in her hand. "Where were you? I came in here with our food 20 minutes ago and you weren't here. I was really worried." She said, handing me my bowl of rice and leading us over to our cots. There was another bowl of bread waiting on my bed, and something that looked a lot like dumplinged chicken on Chihiro's, and between both of those was a huge pitcher of water and an entire platter of cheesecake. "Wow, Rin!" I yelled trying to find a place to put my bowl of rice. "Where did you get all this food?" Chihiro shrugged. "When I went to the kitchen and asked for enough food for you and me, they gave me all of this." She moved over the platter of chicken and sat cross-legged on her cot. "They said they didn't want you going hungry. And that they hope you're not working me too hard. " Chihiro broke apart her chopsticks and started to dig in.

"How nice." I muttered. Chihiro nodded in agreement.

After we'd gorged ourselves on the amazing meal Chihiro's admirers had made for us, we decided to go out on the balcony and look at the stars. It was a tradition we'd started the first night Chihiro decided to work here, willingly that is. They were gorgeous tonight; there was no moon which just made them that much brighter, and they looked like they were so crammed together that they might explode and shower down on us at any minute. The rain sea made a soft whooshing sound as the train rumbled through it. Someone sighed. "They're so beautiful." One of the greeter girls whispered. The rest of us murmured in agreement. We all laid there for a little bit longer, soaking it in and listening to the ocean wave's rock against the bath house. "Well, it's getting pretty late." One of the girls said, standing up. "Yeah." Another agreed, standing up to pop her back. "I guess it's time to go to hit the hay, huh girls?" Someone said. There was a grunt, a moan, a few small yes's, and then everyone started making their way back to the beds. Chihiro started to get up but I grabbed her arm. "Rin, wait." I cried tugging her back. She looked at me, confused. "Just uh, stay out here with me for a little bit ok?" I said "I really want to talk to you about something."

Her eyes lit up. "Are you finally going to tell me what's going on with you and Haku?" She asked bouncing on the heels of her feet. Her curly hair bounced all around her and her voice had gone up into a high girly squeak. "Whoa calm down Rin." I said putting a hand on her shoulder to keep her from bouncing off the balcony. She acted so mature most of the time; sometimes I forgot that she was still just a kid.

"Just sit down, ok?" I said leading her to our cots. She nodded excitedly squirming around until I told her to sit still. "Okay" I said. "The thing with Haku and me…"