Nothing was better than this. Having a friend to be there for you, always supporting you, even if, you're a sick person.

"Ai?" a voice called and the petite fragile figure that was lying on the bed, her face pale and white. "Ta..Taka-kun,"

Her small and soft voice was shivering as she spoke. The boy slowly walked up to her, and took a chair before he placed his hands onto hers. "Ai, you alright?"

The girl forced a smile and nodded her head. The breadths she took were heavy and hard, as though she have just finished climbing a mountain, and collapsed at the tip of it. But it wasn't. The girl, just sat there from day to night, without fail, she have always, sat there, not been able to move from her bed.

If a normal person did that, even if that person is healthy, that person will have likely have an illness or something. But she wasn't a normal person.

Sugihara Aiko. Since young, she have always been that any other normal kid you see on the street. When she was four years old, she got into an accident, and got half-body paralyzed. The doctor said that there was nothing he could do anymore, and she will need to be wheelchair and bed bounded for the rest of her life.

"Need anything?" he asked, as he places one of his hands onto her cheeks. "I'm okay, Taka-kun..." she whispered again, as she smiled bitterly.

A knock on the door was heard, and a middle-aged lady came into the room, with a tray on her hand. The nicely cook mushroom soup, a toast, and an orange juice.

"Sugi-chan, here is your breakfast. Taka-chan, thanks for coming over. Do you want anything?"

"Thanks oba-san, but I am fine," the boy said before he took the tray over from the lady, and rolled the movable table over to Aiko. "Thank you Taka-kun," the girl whispered softly.

All the boy did was just patting her head.

Takahisa Masuda. They have been childhood friends since they were young, and when Aiko had the accident, it was Masuda who called the ambulance. Just at the young age of four, he saved her live. If she were sent in late, she would have died.

Every time when that lady comes in, Masuda just realized that she had a solemn face, always worried for her daughter. But no matter what, Aiko just plants a smile onto her face, telling everyone that she's fine. Aiko doesn't have many friends, and her only friend was Masuda.

He would always comes back and tell her his life in school, how nice it will be if Aiko is there with him. "Unless I can float in the air, and people don't look at me with weird eyes, I don't mind going to school. I have Taka-kun with me,"

He wonder how can a cheerful and kind girl like Aiko get such a thing happening to her?


"So.. Where do you want to go?" she asked as he held onto his hands, and smiled. "Anywhere is fine," he replied before patting the girl's head. "Hm.. Let's go for a movie then," the girl said as she dragged him. The boy just smiled and went along.

"Tego-kun! Look!" the girl exclaimed, and the guy turned. It was a performance stage with the words 'NEWS' on it. "No way! NEWS is coming here to perform their new single 'LIVE'!"

The guy called Tego smiled. "I'll bring you here when it started alright?" he promised. The girl just smiled, and they walked off.

“Abby Rose Flores, congratulations on getting the top for the Humanities Common Test once again,” the lecturer announced before he clapped, and followed by the other students inside the hall. Some looked at her with envious eyes, while some gave the oh-i-expected-it-is-her face.

Abby stood up and walked in front to where the lecturer is standing. She took her paper, and looked at the result, before she forced a smile, and walked back to her seat.

“How I wish I wasn’t that clever, so that I could have more friends, why I wonder?” she mumbled to herself, her heart clenching slightly.

As she left the classroom, that figure was already standing outside the lecture hall, waiting for a particular girl to arrive. “Abby!” the voice called. The girl turned and looked at him, before she ran into his embrace. “Tego-kun!” she exclaimed, her hands locking themselves up around his shoulders. “Thanks for coming,” she replied, smiling.

Soon, the students inside the lecture hall slowly came out of the room. A bunch of girls just stare at Abby, and gave the irritated look. Soon, they passed by the couple, and one mentioned something out loud. “Seriously, a slut like her could even get the most popular boy in the campus. I think she have used her body to seduce the lecturer so that he gave her high marks!”

“WHAT THE HELL!?” Tego exclaimed, before he ran towards the girls, and smashed his knuckle against the wall. “Say that again, and I’ll gorge your eyes out,” he sniggered.

The girl was obviously caught off guard, and suddenly burst into tears. Her friends hugged her, and started comforting her. Abby pulled Tego away, and tried to calm him down.

“What’s the commotion!?” a voice was heard, and everybody turned to him. “Ah, Takahisa-san!” everybody turned their vision to him, and they all exclaimed. “Ta…” before someone could even greet him, he glared at Tego, and then turned towards the group of girls that were crying. “What happened?” Masuda asked as he looked at the group of girls. “I… he… Tegoshi-senpai said something mean to me when I didn’t offend him!”

Masuda looked at the group of girls, before he turned back and looked at Tegoshi, with Abby hiding behind him. “Girls, you should just cut off this nonsense, I don’t think Tegoshi-san really did offend you,”

“HE DID!” the girl cried out.

“He said he’ll gorge her eyes out,” another girl said out loud. Masuda shake his head, before he walked towards Abby, and whispered into her ears. “Don’t worry, I got the gist of the story from my spy,”

He stood up, walked towards the girls, and looked at them sternly. “Don’t think I don’t know what you girls did. If you girls continue doing this, I’ll make sure you all are suspended,”

The girls looked at each other before that girl wipe the tears off her cheeks and scoffed off with her other friends behind her. “Thanks you,” Tego said.

“Welcome. I’m Takahisa Masuda, president of the First class councilor board,” the guy said, before nodding his hand, and rising out his hand. Tegoshi went ahead to shake his hand, “Thank you, my name is Tegoshi Yuya, and…” he turned behind, and looked at him. “Her name is Abby Rose Flores,”

Masuda nodded his head, before he looked at Aby and Tegoshi. “Sorry, those girls just don’t know when to stop,” he paused, before he sighed, and continued, “The second class councilor board already had problems with them and send me their file to me already,”  

Tegoshi just nodded his head, before he grabbed onto Abby’s hand, thank Masuda for a last time, before exiting the place.

He took the tray, and chose his food, before he walked around to look for a seat. He then caught noticed of that familiar figure, and went over and settled down. “Hi, if I didn’t remember wrongly, your name is Tegoshi Yuya right?”

Tegoshi looked up, and smiled. “Hi,”

“Mind if I sit down here?” he asked, as he looked at Tegoshi. Tegoshi nodded his head, before he bended down to look at his face. Masuda then placed the tray down onto the table, dragged the chair and settled down. “So… how’s Flores-san doing? Did the girls from her class disturbed her anymore?”

Tegoshi smiled, and shake his head. “No, not anymore. Thank you for asking, Masuda-san,”

Masuda just gladly nodded his head. Just then, his phone ringed and he picked it up. Tegoshi continued to gaze outside the cafeteria as he ate his food. “WHAT!?” Masuda shouted out into the phone, as he pushed the table slightly. This made Tegoshi to look at him, and he saw Masuda gripping the edge of the table tightly. He continued observing him as Masuda continued his conservation.

“Where?” he paused, and then looked at his watch. He stopped, before he close the talking hole, and looked at Tegoshi. “Do you drive?” Tegoshi just blinked his eyes for a few times, and nodded his head. Masuda then went back to his phone, and said, “I’ll be right there,”