• The forest surrounding my hometown in the mountains was very nice. Everything about it seemed so dark and mysterious. I'd always wanted to go into the trees and be embraced by the loving coldness. This brought facts to my head. I must be crazy. No one who went in came back to tell the story so people were scared of the forest in result. As for me, Momo Rin, life seemed to pass quietly and nothing out of the ordinary seemed to hit me. Sometimes I wanted to know if I could survive long enough in my boredom. My few friends tried to help me with this. Then, out of the blue one day, we had a total newcomer. He was new to the school and kept to himself. Damian was his name. People gave him names and girls cowered over whether to ask him out or not.
    " Hey Momo, what do you think of the new guy?" My friend Scarlett asked me one day. Her eyes were wide with anticipation.
    " Er...I don't know really, he seems creepy," I said with a smile. I got evil stares from Kanta for that. Kanta was madly in love with him. Since she'd seen him first she'd declared "love at first sight". Now my stomach did loops at the thoughts. Frankie was the best buddy I could have because he hated Damian. Damian was too weird for him and that's exactly how I felt about him so I kept to myself and left that alone.
    No one talked for a while after the incident with the glare from Kanta. I mumbled to myse;f, Scarlett blushed shyly to herself, Kanta glared at me with intense hate, Frankie seemed way to distant to be Frankie. I left the table, bumping into something and making it crash to the ground. What was it? I opened my eyes to find a mop of dark hair in my face. It was...
    Damian
    I swiftly jumped up as fast as I could. I wanted to speak but my voice was unable to be used. He stood up slower and cautioned, himself not hitting anyone else.
    " S-sorry," he whispered tenderly and left. I was speachless and unable to move. I had been struck silly by the word sorry spoken that way. What was wrong with me now?
    " I have to go," I called my farewell and ran away. We'd only just began the afterschool meeting and I wanted to get home as fast as possible. My mom was waiting for me.
    So she was, the second I walked in she called my nae. I answered sweetly, then ran to my room so she would not ask questions. My room was my life. No one entered if they wanted to live was my motto. Once again my mom called.
    " What!?" I yelled down to her.
    " Come down here, some one wants to see you!"
    " Okay! I'm coming mom! Hold on a sec!" I screamed, proceeding to get angrier and angrier. The trip down was long. I had to go to the bathrom. So I spent a few seconds in there, fixing my hair breifly and brushing my teeth for the second time today. I didn't want to really find out who wanted to bother me so I tried to hold myself up as much as I could. I stared at pictures I hadn't noticed in the house for some time. One was a sailboat. The others were just a bunch of my school photos spread across the walls. Finally, I dashed downstairs. When I did get to the door a gasp rose out of my mouth.
    " D-d-d-Damian!" I sort of shouted at him.
    Damian's point of veiw...
    I just felt so sorry. Why had I run into her and now I was looking for her house just to apoligize to her...again. I stopped in front of her house, ready for the impact of hate in this Momo's voice. How pathetic was I? When I knocked, a woman who looked barely older than thirty answered.
    " Uh...I need to speak with Momo..." I explained to her. Her eyes flashed happily and she called Momo down. They went at it back and fourth, fibally, Momo gave in and her mother left me at the door to wait for her. She took terribly long. By time she'd got down I'd waited for about ten minutes. Then she shouted at me, looking horrified. How I wanted to explain.