School was over, Ayumi and Kaya walked different paths on their way back home. "Crap.. I said something I probably shouldn't had..she probably feels bad now, " Kaya sighed while walking. Ayumi put her headphones on, turned on music, and continued walking, trying to not think of anything. Sanyu woke up, and felt a bit better. He left the infirmary room, went to get his backpack from the classroom, and left the school to go to a convenience store to buy some medicine.
When Ayumi arrived home, no one was there, except for her dog, Pochi. He greeted Ayumi with such excitement barking and wagging his tail. His eyes were filled with love. "Aw you must be hungry! I'll make you food!" Ayumi hugged him. She goes in the kitchen and starts cooking. Pochi sat patiently wagging his tail, waiting for his delicious food. When Ayumi finished cooking and feeding Pochi, she went in her room to do her homework and study. Her father came home from work, he sat on the couch tiredly and sighed, "Today was a real long day! My! I'm hungry!" He walks to the kitchen to see what was there to eat. In the pot, Ayumi had made some curry for her family to eat when they come home. Her brother, Shusei came home after his father. He smells the delicious curry and rushes to the kitchen to join the meal with his father.
Ayumi comes out the room and asks, "Where's mom? She's quite late today?" "She's working overtime today. She'll be here by 7," replies her father. "Sis your cooking is always the best!" Shusei's eyes sparkled. Ayumi winked, "thank you bro." Hours later her mother came home, carrying loads of paperwork, "I'm so sorry I'm late! I had to work overtime!" "That's fine! I made curry, there's still some left," Ayumi puts on her jacket and shoes. "Thank you for the food! But..where will you be going to at this time? It's late?" Her mother asked. "I feel quite dizzy, I'm going to buy some medicine from the convenience store," she leaves the house.
Kaya contacts Ayumi, but she doesn't pick up, she had left her phone at home while she is out. "Is she mad at me..?? I didn't mean to say.." Kaya lies down on her bed. "That'll be $9.00 ma'am." Ayumi pays the cashier and walks back home. Sanyu goes out for a walk to see how the city looks like at night, "Tokyo sure is different from Osaka." As he walks around, he sees Ayumi walking. 'That's the girl that said she knew me or whatever is it not?' He thought to himself.
He sees someone in a black hoodie, walking behind Ayumi. Curious, he walks after the guy. Minding her own business, Ayumi walks at her own pace. She then hears footsteps coming from behind her. Terrified, she walks faster. The footsteps grows faster, trying to catch up with her. Her heart shakes in fear, as she notices someone in a black hoodie following her on her way back home. She starts running and the man in the black hoodie too, starts running after her. He grabs her by the jacket and tosses her down. Ayumi screamed, "Help me! Someone!" The man placed a knife up to her neck, "Shhhh~" he smiled, "what a fine beautiful lady you are," the knife slowly moves down to her collarbone then back up her neck. Quickly, Ayumi sees a rolled rock and grabs it beside her then smacks the man with it. The man clenches his knife as he tries to endure the pain from his head. She then takes the chance to run for her life.
As she's running fast, someone pulls her into the alleyway. Ayumi shouts out of fear, "LET ME GO!! Please someone! Save me!!" she starts crying. He looks at her calmly, "don't worry." Ayumi looks up and sees Sanyu, "I'm so scared! I thought I was going to die!" she cries. Sanyu looks away, "you're okay now, I don't think the guy will find us here." The man runs around crazily, "WHERE ARE YOU?!! I WILL FIND YOU!!" He laughs psychotically, "I need you~~" Sanyu holds Ayumi close, "He won't notice we're here, it's too dark to even see." The man runs past by them, laughing while swinging the knife around. After the man was no longer in sight, Sanyu and Ayumi runs to someplace safe.
"Where do you live? I can drop you off, I don't think it's safe to be alone at night," Sanyu says. "If being alone at night is not safe, when you drop me off you'll be alone," Ayumi replied. "Silly girl, don't worry about me, I'll be just fine, I can defend myself," Sanyu answers. He then walks Ayumi home and returns to his apartment. The next day, at school, Kaya tells Ayumi she's sorry for not thinking before she blurts things out. "That's fine, really I wasn't bothered by it," smiles Ayumi. "Really? Then why didn't you pick up my call last night??" Kaya asks.
"About that..I left my phone at home and I went to buy some headache medicine at the convenience store. I'm sorry if I made you think I was mad at you." Ayumi laughed. "You really scared me. I really thought you were mad," smiles Kaya. "Oh, I also need to tell you something about what happened last night," Ayumi suddenly says. Kaya gives a look at Ayumi, "what happened?" Ayumi tells Kaya what happened in detail. They then both went up to Sanyu, who was sleeping on his desk.
Kaya kicks the desk, "Wakey wakey~ time to get up pretty boy." Sanyu looks up and sees Kaya and Ayumi. He sits up, "what do you want ? " Ayumi bows, "thanks for saving me last night! I really owe you! How can I pay you back?" Startled, he answers back, "Wha- you really don't need to pay me back.. I-I'm fine just the way I am!" Kaya laughs, "why not just become friends?" Ayumi and Sanyu looks at Kaya, "Friends?"
Ayumi looks at Sanyu, "Ahem! I'm Nakamoto Ayumi." "Kimura...San..yu.." he awkwardly replies. "Great! Then let's become friends!" She smiles brightly. "I guess.." he replied. They both shook hands as an agreement to becoming friends. From afar, Yuuto sees them holding hands and smiling at each other. He leaves the classroom to not see them.