I stayed up late on the night that everything came to an end. I never thought that things like this, that happened in movies and manga books, would happen in real life, or to me for that matter.

"Hurry!" Takashi panted. In fact, we were all panting. We started running and running. Hisashi and Takashi in the front, Rei and I right behind them. Takashi was weilding a bat while Hisashi just ran behind him, Rei had a broken off piece of wood from a broom or mop with a metal-twisted tip on the front, and I had one of my hand guns. We started running up the stairs to the roof, when Takashi looks back and asks "Hisashi, are you ok?", in a panicked tone. Hisashi had been bitten, but not severly. If this is anything like the movies, he would turn into one them.

We were still running up the stairs when Rei turned around and attacked one of them. She stabbed it in the chest and it slumped forward slightly. I gave Rei a thumbs up while Takashi said "Are you nuts?"

"Say what?", repiled Rei.

I gasped, "Rei, watch out!"

Too late. The zombie took ahold of the makeshift shive and yanked it out of her hands. The zombie swung it out, and hit her in the stomach hard enough to trap her against the wall. Rei slumped down against the wall in pain, the zombie slowly making its way toward Rei. She stared up at the zombie in terror.

"GET AWAY!", she shouted as the zombie crawled towards her.

"R-Rei!"

I recognized that voice. It was Hisashi! Before I could help Rei, Hisashi pushed his way past Takashi, and pushed me back so that I stumbled on the step behind. Luckily, I was caught by Takashi. Hisashi is gonna piss me off if he does that again.

Hisashi ran down the stairs and smash the zombies brains into the wall.

Rei jumped up quickly. "Hisashi!", she exclaimed. She began walking back up the stairs, staring admirably at Hisashi as he talked.

"Did you see that?" He asked.

"Yeah, we have to smash their heads to kill them." I replied he turned to me and nodded. They started for the stairs once again, but I slipped out of Takashi's.

"Emi, get back here!" He shouted worriedly.

I ran past Rei and Hisashi, jumped up slightly, and kicked a female zombie in the face. She tumbled down the staairs until she cracked her skull on some sort of metal bax at the very bottom.

I ran back up to Takashi and he shot me a worried glare. He looked back at couple behind us and shout, "Rei, Hisashi! Hurry, this way!" He took my hand and led my up the stairs. Rei put Hisashi's arm around her shoulders and helped him to the top of the stairs. Takashi turned around at the top of the stairs as Rei and Hisashi rounded the corner and stared down at the school, once a normal high school, now a battlefield ridden with the undead.

"Damn it", he said.

"What the fuck?", I asked no one in partiular.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?"

SPRING OF THE DEAD

~Earlier Today: This Morning~

I was skipping class once again. I hated this school. The only good thing, or really great thing about it (or my life for that matter) is my boyfriend Takashi Komuro. We are both 17, and second years. To me, he is my life. We've been dating for the last 3 years, and they have been wonderful. I know that he still hasn't gotten over his first love, Rei Miyamoto, but I've come to terms with it. I knew that he still loved her when we started dating, and I was ok with it. Besides, she's dating Hisashi. She's moved on, and so (I assume) has Takashi. At least, that's what he tells me.

I was a straight A student, sure, have been for 10 years, but I'm a bit of a punk and a smartass. Takashi and I have also been held back a year. Takashi's reason- well, he's lazy! My reason- some son-of-a-bitch teacher has it out for me. When Takashi found out, he was pissed. He was so sweet, threatening to bash the teacher's brains in! But I told him it was my battle, and I'll fight it myself. I never gave him the name of that teacher. I'm sure he'll figure it out soon enough. I'm also a smartass, and a huge punk. Not to mention tomboy.

'There is still so much that I never told Takashi.' I thought as I headed up to the roof. I walked the stairway to the roof with my fun backpack, for, what I thought at that time to be, the last time. But I didn't expect to find Takashi standing in the middle of the spiral stairway leaning against the railing. Apparently, he was skipping class today too. I don't know why I was surprised, I should have known he would be here.

"Pinkie promise. Cross my heart... and hope to die. Yeah right." I heard someone murmur quietly. I knew exactly who it was.

"Hey, what are you doing out here?" I asked him. I already know the answer, but I felt compelled to ask him anyway. Takashi turned to me and smiled at me, smiling that beutiful smile of his. My eyes started to water, knowing what I'm going to miss more than anything; the sound of his voice.

"I had to get the hell outta that damn class." He said looking down.

I knew why too. He probably got into another fight with Rei. Probably about how she didn't keep her promise and dumped him for Hisashi. When Rei and Takashi were little, they promised that when they got older they would date and get married. We all see how that worked out. About a year after we started going out, I asked him if he still felt the same way, even though he was with me. He told me no, but his eyes told me "absolutely". I told him that even if he chose Rei over me, I would still love him.

All of a sudden we hear "Ugh, that's so stupid!" Only one name came to mind, and that was Saya Takagi. Takashi and I turned to look at her.

Takagi is about the same height as me, only a few inches shorter. She has pink hair (which at first I thought was fake). She is a self-proclaimed genius, and, unlike me, is just plain bitchy. She used to wear glasses, but I guess she got contacts.

"What do you want?" Asked Takashi. I just flashed her the peace sign. She just scowled the whole time.

"Everytime you have to face something you don't like you always come to this stupid staircase. It's like your own little pity corner! Look at you! Good God! The first semester has just started. How are you ever going to make it through the year?"

I saw Takashi get a look at her breasts that she can't for the life of her keep covered up. He looked down, then back up with a blush very lightly tinting his cheeks. I narrowed my eyes at him and cleared my throat angrily. He looked over at me and scratched the back of his head and chuckled nervously. I did an "mm-hm", and rolled my eyes.

"I could say the same thing to you." He shot back. "The fifth period isn't even over yet." I also replied.

"It's ok because I'm genius, unlike you who got into this school by dumb luck." She snobbily shot back. I narrowed my eyes at her then. Did she forget who he is dating, let alone standing right infront of her?

Takashi sighed, "Takagi, why do you always diss me like that?"

"Because I don't like stupid people."

"What?" "Excuse me?" Takashi and I said at the same time. He knew I was getting pissed, so he set a hand on my shoulder, a way of telling me to calm down.

"Especially those ones that can't admit that they're stupid. I mean, you're pretty stupid but at least you know you are. So if I tell you that you're stupid, then maybe by some miracle you'll be less stupid, stupid!" Ok, now this bitch is about to get it, then SHE'LL be the stupid one!

Takashi just simply took ahold of my hand, lacing his fingers with mine, secretly foiling my previous plans to get to the roof, and sighed, looking back out the staircase. I just turned and looked out with him.

"Grow up! Moping because your little friend dumped you... stupid. You should be lucky you got any girl at all. It was probably dumb luck that you're dating Emi too." She said before finally walking away. I glared at her retreating form and snarled. I turned back to Takashi, and nudged his shoulder with mine.

"Hey" I said. He looked at me with a sad look. He was thinking of the time Rei shot him down. I leaned up and kissed him on his lips, showing him that no matter what anyone else said, I was always there for him, even if I'm not Rei. When he started kissing back, I snaked my arms around his neck and he set his hands on my hips. His tounge licked my bottom lip, asking for entrance, which I immediatly let him in for. After a few minutes, we could no longer breathe and decided to part. We were both panting, but smiling nonetheless.

I looked him straight in the eye, and said "I love you Takashi." He peered deep into my chocolate brown eyes and said, "I love you too, Emi." He gave me a quick peck on the lips, then kissed my forehead. After, we heard a strange banging noise coming from the front gate.

A strange man started banging on the gate. "Who is that?" Takashi asked. I tunred to him and said, "A trespasser?" He shrugged his shoulders and pulled me close to him, just in case.

Just then, four teachers approached the gate. Good, maybe they'll get that creepy guy to leave.

"I have a really bad feeling." I said. "Huh? About what?" He asked. "I don't know, it just feels- OH MY GOD!"

Before I could finish my sentence, the guy at the gate BIT one of the teachers, and killed him! Takashi and I stood in shock, just watching. He held me tighter against him protectively. All of a sudden, the dead teacher sat up, and killed the only female teacher there! 'What the fuck just happened?' Takashi backed up in fear, still holding onto me, so resulting in me to back up along with him.

"Babe, we gotta get outta here!" Takashi said pulling me away from the stairwell. I quickly grabbed my bag as he pulled me away, not that I was resisting. He pulled me along with him up the stairs and down that hall. "Takashi, wait up babe!" I shouted. He slowed down just enough for me to catch up. "Sorry, Emi."

Takashi slammed open the door to ours, Rei, and Hisashi's classroom. Rei looked over at the doorway to see who had come in. She looked angry when she saw that it was Takashi, but more angry to see that I was with him.

"Komuro, Naruumi, you both couldn't be happy with just skippin' my class?" Takashi simply ignored him and walked over to Rei, but I had to open my fucking mouth. "No, we just HAD to interrupt to save your fat ass! So the least you could do is thanks us." He looked he was gonna blow a gasket. That's when Hisashi jumped out of his seat.

"Takashi, what the hell is your girlfriend talkin' about?" He asked. Takashi ignored him and walked over to Rei. "Come with me, we're gonna get outta here!" He pulled Rei out of her seat roughly by her arm.

"Wha-?What are you talking about?" Rei asked. That's when Tkagi jumped out of her seat. Then, Hisashi comes up behind Takashi and asks, "Dude, what are you doing?" His attitude is seriously pissing me off. I wrong word to him, and Hisashi is gonna be loosin' some balls!

"People just got killed by the front gate." I replied

"No bullshit." Takashi backed me up.

Hisashi turns to me and asks, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, 'cause she's making shit like that up." Takashi defended.

Rei pulled her arm out of Takashi's grasp and started yelling. "Jesus! What's going on, you two? I can never understand what-" SLAP!

Oh. My. God. Takashi slapped Rei across the face. God only knows if he did that to me, I would've chopped his dick off. Rei held her cheek and was about to explode, but Takashi interrupted her.

"Listen! Listen to me!" He turned to Hisashi. After that, we left and started off down the hall. "Judt tell me what's going on." Rei asked me. I sighed before explaining. "There was someone at the school gate. PE teachers went to check it out, and something happened."

"And now those PE teachers are killing each other!" Takashi finished.

"That's insane", Rei replied.

After running down owever many damn hallways there were in this God forsaken school ,we finally found a supply closet.

"What? You forgot something?" Takashi asked.

"If what you told me is true, we'll need some weapons, right?" Replied Hisashi.

"Here Rei." Hisashi broke off the end of a push-broom and handed it to Rei. "What about you?" my boyfriend asked Hisashi. Hisashi replied, "I've got a black belt in karate. Come on, we gotta get outta this school!"

"Let's just call the police, we'll talk to my father" Rei had suggested.

Takashi handed his cell phone to Rei, telling her "School rules are made to be broken, right?"

Reu tried to call her dad, but the line was busy.

"What about Emi? She doesn't even have a- WHOA!"

While they were talking, I was silently as possible fishing around in my bag for what I knew I needed. My hand pistol. I sighed heavily, 'He is gonna kill me for this', I thought, knowing Takashi was gonna fuckin explode when he found out what I had brought to school.

Takashi turned to see what got Hisashi all freaked out, and when he saw me holding the gun in my hand, he flipped.

"Where the fuck did you get a gun? And why was it in your bag? More importantly, why did you bring it to school?"

"I-" I was cut off by the P.A. System.

"This announcement is for all students. An emergency situation is taking place outside the school right now! All students must follow your teacher's instructions and evacuate! I repeat-"

"So they finally realized it, huh?" Takashi talked over the P.A. System. "And you!" He pointed towards me. "Tell me, why the fuck do you have a God damn gun!" He yelled at me. I flinched when he yelled. From personal experience at home, I can't stand being yelled at, and Takashi NEVER yelled at me before. This must've really pissed him off.

A opened my mouth to speak, but when I did, the P.A. announcer had dropped the mic, and now it was eerily quiet. It was actually starting to scare me, more than when we saw the first teacher get bitten. I sent him a scared look, and his intense glare immediately soften, having never seen me scared in a long time; especially since I never really show my emotions.

"It's happenening." Takashi said. I moved closer towards him, and he put his arm around my shoulder.

Just then, we hear the P.A. announcer shout "Get away from me! Get back!" We also hear growling and the sound of metal being thrown around. The announcer starts screaming, and I grip Takashi's shirt harder. He looks down at me in surprise, but holds me closer nonetheless.

Suddenly, we hear rapid footsteps and screaming coming from the halls. The whole school is now in an uproar.

"No time to explain, we gotta get the hell outta here!" I shouted, running alongside Hisashi, who backed me up by saying "This way!"

"Where're you goin? We gotta get outta here!" Takashi yelled at us. "The building with classrooms is too crowded. We need to go through the management building." Hisashi replied.

"Hisashi is right! Just shut up and do what he says!" Rei shot at Takashi.

"Alright fine! And we aren't done talking about this whole gun thing!" Takashi said.

I knew this was coming, he was gonna find out everything. Damn it, why couldn't this have wait like, a week or something?

We ran outside that lead to the management building, and saw one of teachers just a few feet ahead of us.

"That's Mr. Makisaga ((Ithink that was his name)), what's wrong with him?" Rei asked.

Mr. Makisaga advanced towards Rei and I pretty quickly. Rei and I started backing up as he tried to get ahold of one of us.

"Get away!" Rei screamed.

Hisashi yelled back at us, "Rei! Stab him! Don't hold back; give it all you got!" Takashi shouted to me, "Emi, stay next to Rei and get ready to shoot if that doesn't work!"

Before Rei or I could react, the zombie pushed past me towards Rei, grabbed ahol of her weapon, and tried to bite her.

Rei snapped out of her frightened state and pushed back against the zombie. "Don't fuck with me!" She exclaimed. "I'm VP of the Martial Arts Club!" She started beating up the zombie before stabbing it in the chest. I ran next to Rei and pointed my gun at it, just in case it trid anything.

"Yes!" I heard from my boyfriend. I sent him a smirk and he smiled back at me. Suddenly, the zombie started moving! What the hell? It was just stabbed through the chest! Shouldn't it be dead?

Then, it struggled out of the grip of Rei's weapon, and swung it back.

"Rei, get back!" I shouted. She stepped back enough just in time to avoid being hit. Unfortunately, I wasn't so lucky. I got hit in the stomach and was sent flying back into the metal wall. The impact of the hit knocked the gun out of my hand. Rei quickly picked up my gun, but didn't really know what to do.

"Emi, no!" I heard Takashi shout, but Hisashi was already running back towards me. I grabbed the makeshift shive and pushed the zombie as far away as possible, which wasn't too far.

"What the hell? Why is he still moving?" Hisashi came up behind the zombie and put hm into a headlock and pulled him away from me. "Emi, pull it out now!" I did as told and pulled the shive out of the zombie.

"Hisashi, get away from him!" Takashi shouted to his silver haired friend.

"Don't worry, I can take him" He replied with ease.

Suddenly, the zombie turned his whole head around! It was the creepiest thing I've ever seen! "What the fuck?" Hisashi. Then, the damn zombie bit him!

Rei tossed me my gun, while she and Takashi ran to help Hisashi. "Hey you, get the hell away from him!" Takashi yelled as he started beating the zombie over the head the his metal bat. "Hisashi!" Rei yelled as she stabbed the zombie repeatedly. "Jesus Christ! Why won't he just die already?" Rei shouted as she stabbed the zombie. "Oh no, I knew it. He is dead." I heard Takashi say. "He's dead but still moving!"

Suddenly, the zombie started to bite harder on Hisashi. Rei dropped her weapon, and ran to get Hisashi out of the grip of the zombie. "Takashi! Help him! Don't just stand there! Help him! Do something! DO SOMETHIING WILL YA!" Rei was flipping the fuck out at Takashi.

I stood there like a statue, still in shock of what just happened. Then, without thinking, I raised my gun and shot the zombie in the head, splattering it's brains and blood all over the four of us. The zombie slumped forward until it fell to the floor dead. Everyone stared at me, surprised that I was the one to kill it.

I stood there, both of my hands still gripping the gun and trembling uncontrolably; my finger still on the trigger. I finally lowered my hands infront of me, and Takashi pulled me into his arms, trying to soothe my now shaking, almost convulsing, body and trembling nerves.

"Hisashi, are you ok?" Rei asked Hisashi, not at all caring to thank me for killing the bastard. Takashi rubbed my back soothingly before I pulled away slightly. "Are you alright?" He asked me. "Yeah" I whispered, voice cracking and my hands slowly but surely stopped shaking.

Hisashi replied to Rei, "Son of a bitch just bit me; no big deal." Hisashi looked past Rei to me and said, "Thanks, Emi. I owe you." Rei looked back and said, "Oh... yeah. Thank you." I replied with an "Any time."

Out of no where, we hear glass breaking and a high pitched scream. We all watched as a girl a few years younger than us get bitten by a zombie and die. Rei gasped, while I just stood and watched emotionlessly.

"We can handle one of 'em, but there's no way..." Takashi trailed off, not bothering to finished his apparent sentence.

"The roof." Hisashi stated.

"The roof?" Rei questioned.

"Yeah, we should barricade ourselves up there until help arrives; and we can see what's goin' down." I explained

We were now on the roof, overlooking the distraught city, some of it in flames. In the distance, I can hear the ambulance.

"Holy shit, it's happening everywhere!" Takashi pointed out.

"But everything was normal; everything was fine a minute ago!" Rei exclaimed. I agreed with her on that one. Since I got my license taken away, I had to take the us. Everything was normal, up until a while ago.

Suddenly, a giant wind came out of nowhere. Rei and I started to get pushed away, but Takashi grabbed hold of me tightly, and Hisashi did the same with Rei. We looked back and saw multiple helicopters.

"Black Hawk. American military. It's the Self-Defence Force." I stated.

"Where did they come from, there's no base here!" Hisashi said.

Rei started waving her arms, yelling "Over here!"

"Don't bother." Hisashi told her. "I wouldn't even waste your strength. That's the Self-Defence Force. They must have some kinda special mission."

"They're not here to rescue us." I said. "There're not even doing anything about that." I said pointing own to our zombie-infested school.

"That's what's still going on outside..." Hisashi started

"That is... if you can run away from it." I finished. "Imagine what's going on inside the school."

"This is like a disease caused by them." Hisashi said. "Them?" Takashi asked. "The dead are attacking people left and right. But this isn't a movie or video game. That's why it's them. They bite people, and then they come back to life as one of them."

"And it looks like smashing their heads in is the only way to get rid on 'em." I followed up Hisashi's explaination. Suddenly, we were surrounded.

"There're too many of them." Rei said, looking around at the ever growing number of zombies. Hisashi said "Let's get up there and block the stairs." "Let's go!" Takashi said.

((And that is where chapter one started off, so I'm gonna skip the part I already went over, and go straight to the next scene.))

"Why? Why is this happening?" Rei questioned

"There has to be a reason. Maybe if we can figure out what's causing it, we can stop it. Or at least... protect ourselves." Hisashi said weakly. He's getting worse. I doubt he'll even make it past today, let alone an hour.

"We need to look around; find matches or a lighter around here somewhere." I said. "It's gonna be dark soon. If we don't make a fire now, we're gonna be fucked when it gets dark." We had block the entrance to the roof, but I don't know how long that'll last.

Hashi was coughing up blood, I knew he wasn't going to make it. "Hisashi, wat's wrong with you?" I heard Rei ask Hisashi. Hisashi coughed up more blood before he could speak. "Takashi, Hisashi is-" She stopped when she saw how scared Takashi and I were, and when Hisashi started to cough up even more blood.

Hisashi had this distant look in his eyes, like a hunger growing inside of him. He already looked undead, pretty soon he would be. He was trying to keep his breathing regulated, but was still a bit ragged.

"In some ways, it looks so horrible." I heard Rei say. I was sitting next to a stand Takashi, just trying to comprehend the events of the past few hours.

"So it is just like the movies." Hisashi said. "They bite you, then that's it." I can hear his voice cracking. It made my heart shatter to here him so close to death.

"This can't be true! Something in the movies will never happen!" Rei denied. She refused to listen to reason.

"But it did happen, to everyone else." Hisashi told her. A pregnant pause made it's way into the conversation. Then, Hisashi addressed Takashi. "Takashi, will ya help me?"

"Help you with what?" He asked prehensively.

He points his finger at the railing at the far end of the roof. "Help me over the rail, straight to the ground from here. The impact from the fall should smash my head. Or better yet; Emi, take your gun... and shoot me in the head."

We all look at Hisashi with a surprised look on our face. This was my situation earlier today, but now, it's Hisashi's.

"What are you sayin-" Rei started, but Hisashi interruped her.

"I don't wanna be one of them!" He said, before coughing up more blood once again. I couldn't stand looking at Hisashi in so much pain, but I couldn't just... shoot him.

"Come on Takashi... do it for me. I wanna stay myself until the end." Hisashi coughed up more and more blood. Takashi gasped and I hung my head low. I can hear Hisashi screaming in agony. I stand up and hug Takashi as tightly as possible and bury my head into his shoulder and tear up. Takashi hugs back and puts his head on mine and I listen to his heartbeat, feeling lucky that he isn't in Hisashi's position, and I'm not in Rei's.

"No Hisashi! YOU CAN'T DIE!" Rei cried, urging Hisashi to keep fighting. Hisashi screamed one more time, before he died. By this time, I'm crying. I haven't cried in years; it takes a lot to make me even tear up. Takashi just held me tighter as I cried on his shoulder. He's never seen me cry before.

I lift my head, only slightly seeing as I'm still crying, and say "Rei..." She looks at me, crying harder than myself. "I'm so sorry", I whisper as I cry harder. I remove myself from Takashi and walk over to Rei and hug her, and she hugs back.

Suddenly, Hisashi's hand twitches, but Rei and I don't see it. Takashi sees and tightens his grip on his bat. "Get away from him Rei, Emi." Takashi said solemnly. I stand up and try to pull Rei up to her feet, but she resisted. "Rei, come on. You gotta get up." I whisper.

Takashi started toward Hisashi's body when Rei leans over his body and protests. "No! You can't do that! He's not turning! He's not turning into one of them; he's gonna be fine!"

"Get away from him", he said more firmly.

Hisashi's body started moving, and I froze. Takashi moved infront of me protectively. "Hisashi!" Rei excitedly shouted. "Look Takashi! He's getting up, he's getting better..." She trailed off as he sat up. "Hisashi..?" Rei asked him.

He was standing now. "What's the matter?" She asked obliviously.

Hisashi had turned now. Takashi turned to me quickly, "Emi, get Rei away from him, quick." I went to Rei and got her out of her sitting position and we walked backwards beside Takashi, while I held Rei back.

"This can't be true." Rei said. "No way."

"Takashi" I said. He looked over at me and I kissed him on the lips. "Please be careful." He put his hand on my cheek and looked in my eyes, seeing nothing but worry and tears. "Of course", he said and kissed my forehead.

"Rei, I know you can't believe it", he said, addressing Rei, "I can't believe it, Emi can't believe it." I hung my head low. "Takashi?" Rei asked, wondering where he was going with this.

"But it's happening." Takashi tighten his grip once again. "Don't do it." Rei pleaded.

"IT'S HAPPENING!" Takashi shouted. With that, he ran forward and killed Hisashi.

"NOOOO!"

"Why? Why?"

"He would have bitten you if he didn't, Rei!" I replied

"I didn't ask you to save me! And how would you know that anyway? What are you, some expert?" She asked. He just saved her life, and she is being a bitch. I understand that she lost her boyfriend, who she loved, but she sould also be happy that she survived.

"And I would have been willing to get bitten. Better to die that way than surviving by doing soomething like this!"

"I don't think Hisashi would have wanted that for you." Takashi told her.

"Hold do you know that Takashi?" She asked bitterly. "Oh I know; I know. You must've hated Hisashi, am I right? Because he was dating me!"

"Rei." I called. Her expression on her face never changed as she looked over at me; I was now standing by Takashi.

"Get the fuck over yourself." I told her calmly. She looked at me shocked, and Takashi and I started to walk away from her.

"Hey! Where do you two think you're going?" She asked irritably. Takashi stopped and turned to her. "You obviously don't want me around anymore. We'll go downstairs and smash 'em."

"Wh- what're you talking about?" She asked before running up behind us. I was nice to her for as long as I could manage, but now that I know how much shit she is really full of, she doesn't deserve my respect.

"You can't take on that many of them by yourselves!" She continued. "Hey wait- Takashi!" She shouted. We we're about to leave the roof, before she tried to stop us, mainly Takashi. "No stop it!" She yelled. She ran up behind Takashi, wrapping her arms around his arm, trying to pull him back. If she knows what's good for her, she'll stop touching him. I'm not the jealous type, but she got over Hisashi a little too quickly, don't you think?

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! I really didn't mean it! So please.. please stay with me! Please Emi! Talk some sense into him! PLEASE! Don't leave me!" She pleaded. I wasn't buying it, not by a long shot, but because Takashi still "loved" her...

Takashi stepped down and hugged her close. I wasn't jealous, but sometimes, I wish Takashi wouldn't give in to Rei everytime.

"Emi", Takashi called to me. I turned to him. He released Rei and pulled me into a hug. He then slightly pulled away and kissed me deeply. When we parted I layed my head on his chest. "We'll have to stay up here a little while longer, ok Emi?" I sighed, knowing he was doing this more for Rei than I or myself.

"Ok."

On the day everything came to an end, I had to stand and watch the love of the life kill my very best friend. Then he held the two girls he loved the most in a hug. One more often than the other. Little did I know, that that made him realize that it was me he loved, and not his best friend.