A loud yawn escapes me as I can feel the after-effect of hanging with QUARTET NIGHT yesterday. My body feels strained all because of them. Well, mainly Reiji. Sighing, I sit down on the grass as I'm back at my usual hang out place under the cherry blossom. Luckily, I escaped from the boys so they won't be able to kick me out again. What do they expect me to do out there in the wild? Shop? Hang out with friends? Shaking my head, I was ready to take a quick nap before feeling arms wrapped around me.

"Boo." Someone whispers in my ear getting me to jump and scream but couldn't escape as I am stuck in this random person's embrace.

"Aw. Don't be like that now. You're so comfortable and squishy like a pillow. Come here." The random person who I'm definitely not familiar with continues to hug me from behind as I try to escape, "You're so cute. I just wanna take you away from those three boys."

"Let go of me!" I finally speak finding out my struggles of escaping were useless.

That's when he leans in more whispering to one of my sensitive parts of my body, the ear, "Why not call out for your knights in shining armor?"

That's when I finally snap as I grab his arm and flip him over above me. Finding a purple hair boy with emerald green eyes, I was ready to let my anger out before seeing the color of his tie. Green. I halt as I find him being my senior. Cursing inside my head, I just grab my backpack before walking away.

"Well the rumors are true. You're quite a cold princess." The boy talks standing up brushing the grass of him, "But you're definitely cute."

Ignoring him, I just continue to walk away not wanting to deal with him. Who is that guy? Why does he think he has the right to touch me? I know he's a upperclassmen and all, but, seriously?

"Melody!" I hear three familiar boys shout getting me to stop and groan loudly.

How can this day get worse?

Looking over to their voices, I find them already a few meters near me. Running away would do no good. Sighing, I just stand there as they run to my side.

"Why didn't you just listen to us and leave the school for the day?" Astrin asks pouting with a 'mad' face.

"Why do I even need to? There's nothing to do out there." I whine wanting to stay at the school grounds.

"Go shop. Or hang out with your friends!" He suggests getting me to think back of what I said about this.

"Come on, Melody. It's just for yesterday and today." Sei tries to reason as I just frown and hug Yukio.

"Yukio, they're bullying me." I cry hugging him.

For the times I've been with these boys, I found out that Yukio was the most comfortable to be around with. He was the least annoying and least strict person. And he was really comfy to hug with. I learned that two days ago when he gave me a hug to cheer me up.

"Why does Yukio get a hug!" Astrin cries trying to pull me off along with Sei.

"Because he's the only one nice to me!" I shout back hugging the lightly laughing boy.

"Come on guys. Let's not get too loud now. We should use all the time we have to prepare for the performance. And it's not like we didn't practice yesterday by ourselves, maybe we should let her in on our practice to find what we did wrong and everything." Yukio suggests as Astrin instantly rejects.

"No way. If we do, how can we improve ourselves to know what we do wrong! It feels like she's doing everything and that I'm useless!" The usual cheerful boy shouts creating silence for all of us.

My eyes widen from what he said as I now know what I have caused him to feel. He then realizes what he said and looks at me with widen eyes.

Hiding my eyes with my hair, I just give a smile, "Is that how you feel? Okay then. I'll be out of your way."

With that, I just begin to run off hearing Sei and Yukio calling for my name as Astrin keeps silent.

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My eyes look up to the beautiful blue sky as cloud slowly pass by. It's been as while since I've ever been shouted out like that. The last time was probably around 3 years ago. When I was with all my friends. I wonder how they all are doing.

Ai-chan said she was now being an A&R for a recent group with her friend, Tsubasa.

Kumi-chan said that she was forced to live away for a while with her sister, Yui.

And I haven't heard from the others. I do wonder what happened to our group. Sighing, I close my eyes not wanting to think about it anymore despite wanting to go back to my middle school life with my best friends.

"Finally found you, Princess." A quite familiar voice says getting my attention to look towards the door.

There, I find my senior with the purple hair smiling there. Not wanting to talk at this moment, I just ignore him as I continue looking up with my back on the roof.

"Aw, don't ignore me. Your friends are worried about you." He states walking over to me.

"I don't wanna talk with them." I reply thinking back to what happened, "And they're not my friends. Just classmates I'm working with."

"Isn't that a hit too harsh. They believe that they're your friends." He states sitting beside me.

"Well I don't." I reply feeling like what I said was a lie.

"Anyways, I didn't come here to lecture you about friends. I thought that you should just know that right after you ran away, that one with orange hair did too." He informs.

"Why are you telling me this?" I ask frowning wondering why he's so into my business.

"It's because you'll be the one to save him. I know for sure that you will. The cards told me." He replies looking up to the sky.

"Him? Cards? What about are you talking about?" I ask looking over to him as he just chuckles and stands up.

"You'll know soon. Also, I haven't introduced myself yet." He says before looking back down on me, "I'm Tenjo Takumi. I'll see you again soon, Melody-chan!"

With that, he leaves the roof leaving me behind. And he's already used my first name so soon. Sighing, I just sit up before looking down to the floor. So Astrin ran off after I did, huh? Closing my eyes, only a minute passes as I then groan and stand up running out of the door.

Heading down the stairs, my eyes look around for my classmate. Minutes pass as I do before I slow down to catch my breath. And I'm thankful for that as my eyes look out of the window to find a head full of familiar orange hair behind the tree. Heading all the way down before exiting the building through one of it's back doors, I look to my surrounding. The scenario was beautiful as a beautiful lake is shown with a white gondola nearby. Finding Astrin leaning back on the tree beside the gondola, I watch him look at the lake. His eyes are dazing around as I just sigh and go to the opposite side of the tree he's leaning on.

"So this is your secret place, huh?" I ask hearing him startled from me.

"Melody?" He asks.

"At your service." I reply still standing up but leaning back on the tree.

"Um—I'm—" He states before I interrupt him.

"Don't apologize. I should be the one doing so. I made you feel like that. I'm too used to going on a fast pace because of my past with my friends back in middle school. I am at fault." I reply reassuring him.

"No!" He shouts shocking me as he then suddenly appears in front of me.

He slams both his hands beside my face blocking me. His face looks down as my eyes are wide from his sudden outburst.

"Astrin?" I say wondering why he's like this right now.

"I'm at fault! I should have never said those things to you. The only reason I was feeling like that—like that—because—" He starts struggling to finish.

"Because?" I mumble confused.

"Because I felt so useless! I felt left out. You were composing such amazing music for us. Sei was the one creating dances for us. Yukio is the one that creates such amazing costumes for us. But me? I do nothing—" He states suddenly looking up to my eyes before getting a slap on his face.

His eyes widen from shock as he sees me seriously looking at him with at red hand print on his face.

"Don't ever think like that. You're an essential part of the group. We all are. And you're one of them." I nearly growl wanting to shout at him for thinking like that.

"But—" He tries to protest.

"Astrin, do you know what kept us to keep going during our performances despite out hardship? It was you. You were the one that kept our spirits up to keep working." I place my hand on his cheek, "And no one can replace you."

He stares at me in shock before smiling a bit.

"Thanks Melody. But I do wish that I can be more talented and help the group." His hand goes to my cheek, "Since I want to impress the person I lo—"

And his words get cut off as the noise of a plane interrupts us getting us to look over up to the sky. There, we find Saotome riding a plane with a flag flying behind him.

You'll be expelled if you fall in love!

I raise my eyebrow at that as I've heard this for so many times ever since I came here. It was like the first rule of this school.

"Why is he reminding everyone that right now? And on a plane too?" I ask as Astrin freezes beside me and turns depressed, "Astrin? What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Just nothing." He replies just sitting on the ground in depression.

Shrugging it off, I find voices calling our names to get me to look over to the two familiar boys. A worried expression was on their face as they run over to us. Smiling a bit, I really am happy I could have them as my friends.