The footsteps rush back towards my side. A cool hand is placed on my forehead. I peel my eyes open, but my vision is blurry from the tears and my fever is sapping all of my strength. All I see is black spiky hair and a dark blue shirt underneath his gakuran. He retracts his hand and curses. He lifts my head up and shakes me. “Akira, wake up!” He says. His voice sounds almost like it’s in panic. I recognize the voice almost instantly. He’s grabbing my shoulders tightly. “, where the ’s the nurse? Oy, Akira!”

My eyes peel open again. I bring a hand up to my eyes and wipe away my tears. My arm feels like lead and my fingers almost refuse to  move. “Daisuke?” I say, my voice a little shaky. I don’t even care right now that I’m not using a male voice… who gives a right now? Daisuke breathes a sigh of relief and places me back on the bed where I can lie down. I’ve never noticed before, but Daisuke’s eyes are green. They’re staring down at me now and I almost find comfort in them, the green like a meadow. “What are you doing here?”

Daisuke lifts his left elbow and shows me a nasty scrape. “I hurt myself during practice, so Coach sent me here to get it treated.”

My eyes widen and I sit up straight. “Did I miss it?” I start to feel faint and Daisuke grabs my shoulders again. He sits me up straight and once he sees I’m steady, he pulls up a chair and sits down in it beside me.

“If you’re referring to Sakuraki, then no. They haven’t arrived yet.” I breathe a sigh of relief. Daisuke looks at me again and studies my face. “So... I was right about you being a girl?”

I swallow my spit. I can’t lie to him anymore. This doesn’t feel right. I rub my throat. “Um yeah. I can change my voice to sound like a male’s but since I’m sick I guess I can’t do that right now.” I my breath in quickly. “You CAN NOT tell anyone about this, alright? If they find out that I’m not Akira Toujiro the male, but Akira Toujiro the female, then I’ll be in major trouble! So, please!”

“I’ll only keep my mouth shut if you tell me your reason… your reason for disguising yourself.”

Author's note: Sorry for the short chapter right now. I just did NOT feel like writing more. My chapters are usually extremely long, so I'm thinking of shortening them a little. I think that this is a bit much (this chapter, I mean) but I'm trying not to make them shorter since it seems like too much of a pain to keep writing long chapters. Anyways, tata for now.