The CO2 breathers

School

-A week after the explosion-
Kumiko stared at her book as she replayed what had happened a week ago again in her head. "Kumiko?" Said girl turned and saw Reina approaching her. " Thinking of the explosion again?" The explosion had been plastered all over the front page of the news for over 5 days already. Kumiko nodded and smiled at Reina. "It's lucky no one got injured huh?" Reina nodded curtly and grabbed Kumiko's arm. "Come on Kumiko, it's lunch time" Reina turned and walked out the classroom. Kumiko sighed and ran after her. "Wait up, Reina!"

~At the cafeteria~

"Uhm, Mika?" Mika looked up and saw Kumiko with a tray in her hands, "Can we sit here?" Yuu agreed for Mika and Kumiko sat down. Not long after, Reina appeared and sat next to Kumiko. Reina stared at Mika intensely and Mika felt self-conscious. "Is there something on my face?" Reina shook her head, "Your eyes, they're... greener." "Greener?" "Well it's just... looks a bit like turquoise uhm it might be my imagination, that's all." Kumiko looked closely at Mika's eyes and nodded, "They do look a bit turquoise" Yuu scratched his head "I thought Mika's eyes were blue?" Mika sighed, " They are, Yuu-chan" Yuu looked over at Kumiko and she shrugged. Awkward silence followed as they quickly finished up their lunch.

As they were walking back to class, Yuu suddenly remembered something. "AH! I forgot to return my library book!!! Oh noooo I'll have go pay a fine!!!" Reina calmly looked over ti the distressed boy, "There's still some time before lunch ends, why don't you go return your b-" Before Reina finished her sentence, Yuu shot pass her, running hurridly ti the classroom. Mika sighed, rubbing his head "Yuu-chan can be so forgetful, well I'll go wait for him in the library, see you guys later!" Reina nodded as Kumiko stared into space blankly, thinking about something. "Kumiko? Are you ok?" Kumiko snapped out of her daze and quickly nodded. "We- we should get back to class!" Kumiko grabbed Reina's hand and ran towards the classroom. "But there's still time, we don-" Kumiko placed her hand on Reina's mouth to stop her from talking and whispered, "Shhh... I'm thinking..." Pink sprayed onto Reina's face as she squeezed Kumiko's hand. Kumiko removed her hand from Reina's mouth and they walked to the classroom, hand in hand.

Mika walked into the library, waiting for Yuu to come and return his library book. He strolled between the shelves, and was about to pick a random one when a hand reached out for the one he was about to take. Mika turned and saw the blonde from the week before. "Oh! Sorry, so you want that book?" Mika recovered from his shock and shook his head, stepping away from the shelf. "Oh ok then..." The girl took the book from the shelf and hugged it close to her chest. "You're from last week right? At the mall, I bumped into your friend?" Mika smiled and nodded. "My name's Hyakuya Mika. Nice to meet you" "Ayase Eli" The girl-Eli shook his hand before a voice shouted "Elichi! Did you find the book?" Eli nodded at Mika before replying, "Yup! I have it right here!"

"Mika?" Mika turned to see Yuu. He smiled widely and walked over to Yuu. "What are you doing here?" "Waiting for you" Yuu's eyes widened a bit before he giggled. "That's typical of you" Mika pouted and crossed his arms across his chest. "I'm just joking! Don't take it seriously!" Yuu laughed. Mika hit Yuu playfully on the arm and speed-walked away from Yuu. "Hey Mika! Wait up!" Mika smiled and walked faster, before breaking into a sprint. He laughed as Yuu chased him through the halls. Yuu smiled and gave one last sprint and landed on Mika. "Caught you! Now enough playing, we need to get back to class." Mika nodded and they both got up, dusting themselves off. They both smiled and walked the rest of the way back to class.

Hiroki-sensei walked into the classroom and the class quietened down. "Ok class, today we have some transfer students. Please welcome them" Mummers were heared as the students in the class stared at the door, expacting the new transfer students to come in. "Who comes in so late? It's after lunch!Where are they? Why aren't they coming in?" Suddenly, the door burst open and a short white haired girl stumbled in, followed by a brown haired boy. The girl had her hair tied up in two pony tails with a bit of hair sticking up on the top of her head. She had nervous red eyes and stuttered, "I - I'm Isla, It's nice to meet you!" She bowed and accidentally hit her head on the teacher's table. She immediately clutched her head and whimpered. The boy looked over, concerned. "Are you ok, Isla?" Isla nodded and motioned for him to continue. He straightened and said, "My name is Mizugaki Tsukasa. It's a pleasure to meet you." The boy- Tsukasa had short brown hair and green eyes.

Hiroki-sensai nodded and said, "Isla, you will be sitting next to Mika. Mika raise your hand." Mika did as he was told and Isla looked at him, surprised. She quickly nodded and walked over to the empty seat beside him. "Tsukasa, you will sit behind Isla" Tsukasa bowed to Hiroki-sensei and walked quietly to his seat. Mika looked over at Isla and smiled, Isla giving a small smile back. He tore a piece of paper from his notebook and wrote, "My name's Hyakuya Mika, Nice to meet you!" He folded the paper and passed it to Isla. Isla took it, unfolding it. She then took her pencil and wrote back 'You were the one who saved me from the fire last week, right? Thank you!' She folded uo the paper, throwing it over to Mika. Hiroki-sensei looked over and shouted, "Oi! What are you doing back there! Mika!" Mika put on an innocent smile and tilted his head, hiding the paper behind his back. "Nothing, sensei. Please continue with your lesson." When Hiroki-sensei turned back, he read the paper and wrote back, 'No problem. BTW why did you guys come so late in the day? It's after lunch time!' Mika then crumpled it and threw it back to Isla. Isla smoothed out the paper, reading it at the same time.

She sighed softly and wrote back, 'My alarm clock didn't wake me up and Tsukasa couldn't either. I ended up waking up at around 12.30' She then crumpled the ball and tossed it back to Mika. Mika read it and stifled his laughter, hiding it with a cough. Hiroki-sensei looked back at him again and Mika pretended to be writing notes in his notebook. He shot Isla a smile and she returned it with an embarassed one.

{After school}
Yuu walked up to Mika and asked, "So did you find out why Mika and Isla came so late?" Mika nodded, telling him what happened. Yuu laughed and they continued talking, about what had happened since the explosion and stuff. A red-haired male happily skipped past them, humming a song, before stopping before Eli. "Eli-chan! I got us some drinks!" Eli looked over and smiled at the hyperactive friend of hers. "Thanks, Nozomi and Tokiya should be coming soon, just wait for a while ok?" "OK~!" Ittoki sat with Eli, drinking their drinks before their friends arrived, arguing about something. "Like I said, it dosen't work like that!" Ittoki stood up and ran over to his friends. "Nozomi, Tokiya! Don't fight ok? We're all friends!" Tokiya grumbled under his breathe and Nozomi smiled up at Ittoki. Tokiya noticed something weird about his friend's eyes and walked up to him. "Otoya, your eyes look a bit darker than usual..." Nozomi looked closly and saw the difference too, "They do look darker! What happened? " Ittoki stared at them, confused. "Huh?" He tilted his head, "My eyes?" Nozomi sighed and said, "it's nothing, probabaly our imagination, come on now let's go home." Ittoki nodded cheerfully and he and Nozomi walked along with Eli, chatting happily. Tokiya stayed at the back of ths group, thinking. Nozomi wasn't right. There WAS something wring with Ittoki's eyes but... what?

~Sooo thats the end of part 3^^ Im going to do the parts by weeks so like in the next part it will be 2 weeks since the explosion ok? Ok Thanks for reading byee \(^0^)/