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Maria's POV

"You're insane, Mei." I pointed out.

"It's the only way. Besides, were going there when class is over, meaning, at night." She calmly reassured me.

"If you want to see your beloved RAVEN, then you'll have to go with my plan, got it?"

I sighed. "Fine. But just be sure, we won't be in any trouble. I don't want to spend the rest of my high school years being that British bastard's slave!" I pointed out.

"Yes. Yes." She nonchalantly nodded at my request.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

FLASHBACK:

"How are we going to attend the concert if were not allowed to leave the school premises?" I asked.

She sighed. "Oh yeah. Now that you mention it.. We're not allowed to leave the school premises unless we have permission from the head…"

She suddenly looked at me. "…Or the Student Council president." She grinned.

You have to be kidding me, right?

"What!? No way!"

"But so far the two of you are close, right?"

"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT IDEA?" I shouted.

Lien kicked the top bunk again. "Shut up!" she screamed.

"But Mari, we don't have any options left." She pouted.

"No way in hell. Let's brainstorm for more ideas, just NOT that one." I mumbled.

"Fine. Then, let's break out the school." She sighed then laid down on the bed.

"Break out the school? Are you nuts?"

"I'm serious. It's all or nothing, Mari-chan~♥"

She is indeed nuts. "You're plan is that? You're making me laugh." Lien chuckled.

"Oh yeah, got any other plans, Einstein?" Mei mumbled as she shifted to the right.

"I don't want to get involve with any of that." She simply stated.

"Guess not. So no other choice, Mari-chan. Good night!"

"What? Wait!"

"Go to your own bed, Maria." Lien mumbled.

I sighed. "Fine."

"Now, let's get going before we get late." She patted my head.

It was already Saturday in the morning; meaning, our school break out will happen later on tonight. To be serious, I'm a bit nervous, since this might lead to my expulsion. Help.

Oh gosh. If it RAVEN was just some other guy, I wouldn't risk anything for him. But since I'm one of his loyal fans, I'm willing to cooperate with Mei's heinous idea.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

LUNCH

"Hey, What's so special about this RAVEN guy anyway?" Lien asked.

"I'm glad you asked that, Lien!" Mei exclaimed. She was obviously more than happy to explain who RAVEN was.

"First of all, he's idolized for his handsomeness and his great singing skills! And with that, he's popular with all the girls all through out the school. I'm even surprised you don't know him." she explained.

"But Maria didn't know him until she gets influenced by your weirdness. And with that said, you're an obsessed fan-girl, Mei." Lien pointed out.

True. I didn't know anything about who RAVEN was back then, too. But with Mei's help, I became one of his die-hard fans. Now that makes me wonder, if he's going to have a concert here later on tonight, then the students here would probably want to attend that concert, too. Maybe were not the only ones.

"Hey. Are you going to attend RAVEN's concert tonight? I hear the venue's close here somewhere." I heard one girl giggle.

"Too bad were not permitted to go outside the school. This sucks."

"But if there was any other way, I'd like to try."

"True." The both of them, feeling defeated, just sighed.

I guess we're not really the only ones who would want to attend.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

STUDENT COUNCIL ROOM (3:45pm)

I arrived at the student council room, only to find it empty.

"Where is everybody..?" I mumbled.

Curious, I scanned the whole room for any evidence or some interesting things I might find. With no luck, I sat down the couch and started listening to some music while I was waiting for someone from the student council body to pop out.

4:10pm

Still, no one came. "What? So we don't have classes today?..." I thought to myself. Feeling bored, I finally decided to leave, but before I can exit the room, an unexpected person came into view.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" We both said at the same time.

It was Lei. "I mean, what is he doing here? Unless..."

"Were you also given the 'lackey' punishment?" I asked.

His face was already going red as a tomato! If only he wasn't always pissing me off, he would've been quite an adorable guy, I gotta be honest. Hahaha.

"S-so what? You yourself is also punished, aren't you?" he mumbled.

"Yeah. Yeah, Chinese boy. I'm also punished, but only because I was late. What about you, HUUH?" I leaned closer to him as I gave him a mocking smile.

"You think I'd misbehave, pig? No way in hell would that ever happen." he defended.

"Now if you can excuse me, I have to drop off this big box that I'm OBVIOUSLY carrying." he scoffed.

I stared at him suspicious. Well, he doesn't seem to be the type to misbehave... but still...

The utter silence that was slowly enveloping the aura between us was abruptly blown away when Arthur came into the room.

"Ah, Lei, so you're back. I think you're done for today."

"Okay then."

After Lei went out of the room, Arthur took his cellphone out and began dialing on the keypad.

"Hm? Why are you here?" he looked at me.

"What does he meant by what I was doing here?! I'm ordered to always help out on the student council room, right?

"You didn't tell me not to come." I defended.

"Right... well, you can leave now." he coldly spat.

"I waited for them to come for almost half an hour and all I get is "Right... well, you can leave now." response?!" I repeated his words on my head, imitating his thick British accent.

I glared at him. "FINE." I grabbed my nag and when straight to the door. But before I completely shut the door, Elizaveta came popping out of nowhere and she was carrying a huge box.

"AH! What are you doing here, Maria?" she asked. Even you, Ate Elizaveta? Oh, come on.

"It's part of my punishment to be always here, right?" I defended.

"R-Right.. Well, you seem to be on your way out now. Bye." she walked hastily towards the door. She was having a hard time opening the door since she was carrying a huge box.

So I opened the door for her. "Are you okay?" I asked, concerned.

"Yeah. I am. Thanks, by the way." she went inside the room and completely shut the door behind her, leaving me all alone on the hallway. It was suspicious, but I let it slide.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

5:30pm

It was already getting dark. And I know too well what it meant.

"Okay! OPERATION SCHOOL BREAK OUT WILL NOW COMMENCE!" Mei exclaimed.

"She's pretty lively, huh. I thought to myself.

"By the way, where are we going to break out?" I asked.

"I'm glad you asked!" she cheered.

"We'll be going over the school's wall." she simply stated.

"WHAAT? But isn't that more risky?!" I complained.

"Well there's no other choice, really." she pouted. I just face palmed.

"I guess I shouldn't wear a skirt..." Lien thought deeply. Wait. What!? Lien's coming with us, too?!

I looked at her dumbfounded. It's not like Lien at all. Usually, she would normally just sit somewhere quiet and read a book during Saturday nights. What did Mei do to her?

"S-Stop staring at me, Maria. Mei made me go, okay!?" she defended.

"Technically." Mei countered.

I just sighed. These guys... their really... Oh, never mind.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

Finally, we were in front of a huge brick wall with vines all over it. It was really old-looking. And the only difference is, it doesn't have the metallic spikes almost all of the walls all over school had.

Also, good thing that there were many trees over the wall so that way, we can be hidden to oncoming passerby.

"Okay, Lien, you go first." Mei ordered.

"Hey, hold tight, okay? I might fall down." she notified.

"Yes. Yes." Mei reassured her.

When Lien finally got above the humongous wall, it was Mei's turn to go.

I was pushing her up the wall. With almost all of my might. "What did you eat for dinner, Mei? You're pretty heavy!" I grunted.

"I-I'm not heavy! Waaah- Almost there!" She was finally able to go above the brick wall.

"Ow. That kinda hurt. You could have pushed a little gentler, you know!"

"I would have, but since you're heavy, I can't!" I protested.

"Whatever, now give me your hand." She reached down for her hand and I grabbed it.

"One, two, THREE!" They both pulled me up and good thing I was petite and ate little dinner so they were able to pull me up.

All of us jumped down from the wall and fixed ourselves up.

"Okay, we'll be back before 9:00pm." Mei stated.

Lien and I just nodded.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

We finally reached our destination; The stadium where RAVEN will perform tonight. Not surprisingly, the whole stadium is filled with people. Most of them are female.

"Let's go and find a place to seat. Ah, Maria, can you buy some drinks?"

"I want Coke." Mei ordered.

"Same here." Lien added.

"Huh? Okay then. I'll be right back."

It was 5 minutes before the concert starts, and I still can't find any shop. "Great. So I'm going to miss half of the show for just a drink. How nice." I mocked.

Finally, I was able to find a vending machine that sells cans of drinks near the backstage. I was near the backstage, and was tempted to take a peek inside, but knowing there were security guards everywhere, I let that idea slipped off my mind. "There is no way I'll be able to pass those humongous security guards... I thought to myself.

"They want coke.. maybe I'll get Iced Coffee..."

Then suddenly, I heard a voice coming towards my direction. I turned to my right to see who it might be, and it made me stood up immediately.

This... that.. It was RAVEN!

"Y-You're....!" I was stuttering. Already lost for words.

"Aren't you going to pick that up?"

Huh? He pointed down to the ground, he was pointing at the can of iced coffee that fell to the ground.

"Ah- Y-yeah... Umm.." I nervously picked up the can of iced coffee. I seriously never saw this one coming! Well, now that you mention it, I was pretty near the backstage, but I didn't consider the fact that he might be walking here or whatever!

"Ah! RAVEN! Come here, the concert's going to start anytime soon!"

He nodded in response. Before he walked towards the backstage, he took a quick glance on my direction and gave me a look I knew I would never forget.

I just stood there, star-struck, and when the loud music started playing, that made me go back to reality.

"OMG. Did I just met RAVEN in person?!" I exclaimed.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

MONDAY MORNING

"I still can't believe you met him. I should have been the one who bought the drinks." Mei pouted for the 17th time that morning.

"Sheesh. Let it go, will you?" I sighed.

"Oh yeah, describe to me what you saw. EVERYTHING!" she demanded.

I sweat dropped. "Y-you serious?"

"HELL YEAH!" she exclaimed. She was on high spirits today and I can tell she's really excited to know what else happened; which I kept denying since nothing any more than that happened. That was all. REALLY.

"Well... if what you meant by what I saw.. then it would probably be all about RAVEN." I mumbled.

"Yeah. ANYTHING! C'mon!"

"Actually, the very thing that only caught my eye back then was his eyes. They were emerald-colored." I explained as the memories came flashing back at me.

"But I thought it was just green?" Mei moped.

"No. They were more emerald-colored. It was still shining even without any light passing through them." I corrected.

"Mou, you could have taken a photo of his eyes and we could sell it on eBay!"

"As if I had my camera back then." I shot back.

"Enough with that RAVEN thing already, would you?" Lien interrupted, obviously irritated since she was studying for an upcoming test the next period.

"Yes." both of us said at the same time.

But my mind keeps rewinding the same event that happened back at the stadium, as if it was already recorded on my brain.

RAVEN, meeting him face to face right there and there was like a dream come true; but still, I can't shake off this feeling inside me that he's someone I know.

Someone I know, as in someone I've already encountered with. His eyes were vaguely familiar and so was the way he looks at you...

it's as if he's....

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Maria's POV

"You're insane, Mei." I pointed out.

"It's the only way. Besides, were going there when class is over, meaning, at night." She calmly reassured me.

"If you want to see your beloved RAVEN, then you'll have to go with my plan, got it?"

I sighed. "Fine. But just be sure, we won't be in any trouble. I don't want to spend the rest of my high school years being that British bastard's slave!" I pointed out.

"Yes. Yes." She nonchalantly nodded at my request.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

FLASHBACK:

"How are we going to attend the concert if were not allowed to leave the school premises?" I asked.

She sighed. "Oh yeah. Now that you mention it.. We're not allowed to leave the school premises unless we have permission from the head…"

She suddenly looked at me. "…Or the Student Council president." She grinned.

You have to be kidding me, right?

"What!? No way!"

"But so far the two of you are close, right?"

"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT IDEA?" I shouted.

Lien kicked the top bunk again. "Shut up!" she screamed.

"But Mari, we don't have any options left." She pouted.

"No way in hell. Let's brainstorm for more ideas, just NOT that one." I mumbled.

"Fine. Then, let's break out the school." She sighed then laid down on the bed.

"Break out the school? Are you nuts?"

"I'm serious. It's all or nothing, Mari-chan~♥"

She is indeed nuts. "You're plan is that? You're making me laugh." Lien chuckled.

"Oh yeah, got any other plans, Einstein?" Mei mumbled as she shifted to the right.

"I don't want to get involve with any of that." She simply stated.

"Guess not. So no other choice, Mari-chan. Good night!"

"What? Wait!"

"Go to your own bed, Maria." Lien mumbled.

I sighed. "Fine."

"Now, let's get going before we get late." She patted my head.

It was already Saturday in the morning; meaning, our school break out will happen later on tonight. To be serious, I'm a bit nervous, since this might lead to my expulsion. Help.

Oh gosh. If it RAVEN was just some other guy, I wouldn't risk anything for him. But since I'm one of his loyal fans, I'm willing to cooperate with Mei's heinous idea.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

LUNCH

"Hey, What's so special about this RAVEN guy anyway?" Lien asked.

"I'm glad you asked that, Lien!" Mei exclaimed. She was obviously more than happy to explain who RAVEN was.

"First of all, he's idolized for his handsomeness and his great singing skills! And with that, he's popular with all the girls all through out the school. I'm even surprised you don't know him." she explained.

"But Maria didn't know him until she gets influenced by your weirdness. And with that said, you're an obsessed fan-girl, Mei." Lien pointed out.

True. I didn't know anything about who RAVEN was back then, too. But with Mei's help, I became one of his die-hard fans. Now that makes me wonder, if he's going to have a concert here later on tonight, then the students here would probably want to attend that concert, too. Maybe were not the only ones.

"Hey. Are you going to attend RAVEN's concert tonight? I hear the venue's close here somewhere." I heard one girl giggle.

"Too bad were not permitted to go outside the school. This sucks."

"But if there was any other way, I'd like to try."

"True." The both of them, feeling defeated, just sighed.

I guess we're not really the only ones who would want to attend.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

STUDENT COUNCIL ROOM (3:45pm)

I arrived at the student council room, only to find it empty.

"Where is everybody..?" I mumbled.

Curious, I scanned the whole room for any evidence or some interesting things I might find. With no luck, I sat down the couch and started listening to some music while I was waiting for someone from the student council body to pop out.

4:10pm

Still, no one came. "What? So we don't have classes today?..." I thought to myself. Feeling bored, I finally decided to leave, but before I can exit the room, an unexpected person came into view.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" We both said at the same time.

It was Lei. "I mean, what is he doing here? Unless..."

"Were you also given the 'lackey' punishment?" I asked.

His face was already going red as a tomato! If only he wasn't always pissing me off, he would've been quite an adorable guy, I gotta be honest. Hahaha.

"S-so what? You yourself is also punished, aren't you?" he mumbled.

"Yeah. Yeah, Chinese boy. I'm also punished, but only because I was late. What about you, HUUH?" I leaned closer to him as I gave him a mocking smile.

"You think I'd misbehave, pig? No way in hell would that ever happen." he defended.

"Now if you can excuse me, I have to drop off this big box that I'm OBVIOUSLY carrying." he scoffed.

I stared at him suspicious. Well, he doesn't seem to be the type to misbehave... but still...

The utter silence that was slowly enveloping the aura between us was abruptly blown away when Arthur came into the room.

"Ah, Lei, so you're back. I think you're done for today."

"Okay then."

After Lei went out of the room, Arthur took his cellphone out and began dialing on the keypad.

"Hm? Why are you here?" he looked at me.

"What does he meant by what I was doing here?! I'm ordered to always help out on the student council room, right?

"You didn't tell me not to come." I defended.

"Right... well, you can leave now." he coldly spat.

"I waited for them to come for almost half an hour and all I get is "Right... well, you can leave now." response?!" I repeated his words on my head, imitating his thick British accent.

I glared at him. "FINE." I grabbed my nag and when straight to the door. But before I completely shut the door, Elizaveta came popping out of nowhere and she was carrying a huge box.

"AH! What are you doing here, Maria?" she asked. Even you, Ate Elizaveta? Oh, come on.

"It's part of my punishment to be always here, right?" I defended.

"R-Right.. Well, you seem to be on your way out now. Bye." she walked hastily towards the door. She was having a hard time opening the door since she was carrying a huge box.

So I opened the door for her. "Are you okay?" I asked, concerned.

"Yeah. I am. Thanks, by the way." she went inside the room and completely shut the door behind her, leaving me all alone on the hallway. It was suspicious, but I let it slide.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

5:30pm

It was already getting dark. And I know too well what it meant.

"Okay! OPERATION SCHOOL BREAK OUT WILL NOW COMMENCE!" Mei exclaimed.

"She's pretty lively, huh. I thought to myself.

"By the way, where are we going to break out?" I asked.

"I'm glad you asked!" she cheered.

"We'll be going over the school's wall." she simply stated.

"WHAAT? But isn't that more risky?!" I complained.

"Well there's no other choice, really." she pouted. I just face palmed.

"I guess I shouldn't wear a skirt..." Lien thought deeply. Wait. What!? Lien's coming with us, too?!

I looked at her dumbfounded. It's not like Lien at all. Usually, she would normally just sit somewhere quiet and read a book during Saturday nights. What did Mei do to her?

"S-Stop staring at me, Maria. Mei made me go, okay!?" she defended.

"Technically." Mei countered.

I just sighed. These guys... their really... Oh, never mind.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

Finally, we were in front of a huge brick wall with vines all over it. It was really old-looking. And the only difference is, it doesn't have the metallic spikes almost all of the walls all over school had.

Also, good thing that there were many trees over the wall so that way, we can be hidden to oncoming passerby.

"Okay, Lien, you go first." Mei ordered.

"Hey, hold tight, okay? I might fall down." she notified.

"Yes. Yes." Mei reassured her.

When Lien finally got above the humongous wall, it was Mei's turn to go.

I was pushing her up the wall. With almost all of my might. "What did you eat for dinner, Mei? You're pretty heavy!" I grunted.

"I-I'm not heavy! Waaah- Almost there!" She was finally able to go above the brick wall.

"Ow. That kinda hurt. You could have pushed a little gentler, you know!"

"I would have, but since you're heavy, I can't!" I protested.

"Whatever, now give me your hand." She reached down for her hand and I grabbed it.

"One, two, THREE!" They both pulled me up and good thing I was petite and ate little dinner so they were able to pull me up.

All of us jumped down from the wall and fixed ourselves up.

"Okay, we'll be back before 9:00pm." Mei stated.

Lien and I just nodded.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

We finally reached our destination; The stadium where RAVEN will perform tonight. Not surprisingly, the whole stadium is filled with people. Most of them are female.

"Let's go and find a place to seat. Ah, Maria, can you buy some drinks?"

"I want Coke." Mei ordered.

"Same here." Lien added.

"Huh? Okay then. I'll be right back."

It was 5 minutes before the concert starts, and I still can't find any shop. "Great. So I'm going to miss half of the show for just a drink. How nice." I mocked.

Finally, I was able to find a vending machine that sells cans of drinks near the backstage. I was near the backstage, and was tempted to take a peek inside, but knowing there were security guards everywhere, I let that idea slipped off my mind. "There is no way I'll be able to pass those humongous security guards... I thought to myself.

"They want coke.. maybe I'll get Iced Coffee..."

Then suddenly, I heard a voice coming towards my direction. I turned to my right to see who it might be, and it made me stood up immediately.

This... that.. It was RAVEN!

"Y-You're....!" I was stuttering. Already lost for words.

"Aren't you going to pick that up?"

Huh? He pointed down to the ground, he was pointing at the can of iced coffee that fell to the ground.

"Ah- Y-yeah... Umm.." I nervously picked up the can of iced coffee. I seriously never saw this one coming! Well, now that you mention it, I was pretty near the backstage, but I didn't consider the fact that he might be walking here or whatever!

"Ah! RAVEN! Come here, the concert's going to start anytime soon!"

He nodded in response. Before he walked towards the backstage, he took a quick glance on my direction and gave me a look I knew I would never forget.

I just stood there, star-struck, and when the loud music started playing, that made me go back to reality.

"OMG. Did I just met RAVEN in person?!" I exclaimed.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

MONDAY MORNING

"I still can't believe you met him. I should have been the one who bought the drinks." Mei pouted for the 17th time that morning.

"Sheesh. Let it go, will you?" I sighed.

"Oh yeah, describe to me what you saw. EVERYTHING!" she demanded.

I sweat dropped. "Y-you serious?"

"HELL YEAH!" she exclaimed. She was on high spirits today and I can tell she's really excited to know what else happened; which I kept denying since nothing any more than that happened. That was all. REALLY.

"Well... if what you meant by what I saw.. then it would probably be all about RAVEN." I mumbled.

"Yeah. ANYTHING! C'mon!"

"Actually, the very thing that only caught my eye back then was his eyes. They were emerald-colored." I explained as the memories came flashing back at me.

"But I thought it was just green?" Mei moped.

"No. They were more emerald-colored. It was still shining even without any light passing through them." I corrected.

"Mou, you could have taken a photo of his eyes and we could sell it on eBay!"

"As if I had my camera back then." I shot back.

"Enough with that RAVEN thing already, would you?" Lien interrupted, obviously irritated since she was studying for an upcoming test the next period.

"Yes." both of us said at the same time.

But my mind keeps rewinding the same event that happened back at the stadium, as if it was already recorded on my brain.

RAVEN, meeting him face to face right there and there was like a dream come true; but still, I can't shake off this feeling inside me that he's someone I know.

Someone I know, as in someone I've already encountered with. His eyes were vaguely familiar and so was the way he looks at you...

it's as if he's....