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After many many minutes of searching and being totaly lost, he was able to make it to a room that had his name on it. Thank God, he thought. He moved about the almost sizable room. One enough to live in and a bathroom of his own.

He sat down and began to unddress himself. Where'd they put... oh, there it was. He picked up his green jacket. At least he had that. He loved that jacket. It had so many memories in it, but oh well. He probably should loose it, but he just didn't have the will to quite yet.

As he found himself fully unddressed, he decided that it would be god to take a shower. He warmed up the water and found soap and shampoo. He began to shower, washing his almost frail and pale body, getting the stink of the cots off of himself.

As they had finally made it to his dorm, Michael got in front and slid his key-card through. When he heard the sound of the latch unlocking, he pulled down the door handle and opened it up, bowing his head in respect as he ushered Reiku in.

Once inside he shut the door to the bathroom quickly, trying to hide the clothes that layed in there from after his shower. He moved his suit case off the bed and offered it as a seat for Reiku, before taking his own desk chair for his seat.

He looked down at the floor for a moment, trying to sort his thoughts. He swallowed very hard and then looked up again. "I'm really sorry about what I said. I... well, you caught me off guard. I'm not offended at all by, by... homosexuals, it's just... that's why I'm here."

He fealt his face hot, blushing furiously. "Um... There was this one guy, Andre. He... He was a really thin, seemingly helpless guy. Some stupid jocks were smacking him around after gym one day, in the locker room. The poor thing... they'd pulled off his towel and he was just naked. He had an... erection. They were making really a mess of it and poking him and teasing him, and grabbing at him... it was just... aweful."

He stopped for a second, trying to sort things out. "Well, one of them started to take his towel off and it looked like the others were gonna hold him down. I don't know if they where they were going to rape him, but I knew they were and they'd probably take turns. The sad desperation on his face was the most terrible face I've ever seen." He looked up, appearantly getting sorted now. "I acted."

"I ran in there and gave the one who was about to rape him a swift kick in the nuts, and I then did the same to the other two. I picked him up off the ground and gave him his towel, telling him to get dressed before they recovered. He did, and we got out of there."

He looked out the window, appearantly not able to face Reiku with this information. There was pain in his eyes. "After that, well, we got together. He called me his savior and, he was really sweet. But, one day, he just changed. He came, crying to me. He said, 'Mickey! Mickey! Help me! He's gonna kill me! They wanna' kill me!' I didn't know what to do."

"I had a knife, and... well... I went to Andre's house with him. There were two people. His father and his mother. They both seemed shocked that I was there. I don't think that Andre ever told them about us, but somehow they knew."

Michael began to cry. It started slowly, but it picked up as he continued his story. "The father tryed to welcome me openly, asking if I brought Andre back. I didn't think!" He gave a sob. "I just... rammed it into his heart. I heard her scream and... and I slit her throat. Andre started acting weird. He seemed manaicle. I called 911, but Andre left. I don't know where. They arrested me and sent me here for two counts of murder in the second degree." He seemed to break down now, it seemed like he said something else, but it was inaudible through sobs.

He fealt someone there, on his shoulder. It made him feel alot better. He stared into Reiku's eyes, entranced. He fumbled. Reiku... did Reiku care about him. Was he just a friend-where was this goin? Would he end up in a situation like this again? What was happening?

When the question reached his ears he snapped out of it. "Uh... I... I don't know. I haven't seen him since. Those last few days, though... he just seemed... insane. He'd talk about getting back at all the people who'd hurt him and... he mentioned death several times. I thought... I thought he'd just let go of it, but... I guess he never did. I protected him... blindly till the very end."

He fealt really really bad being accused. But... he kidna deserved it. "N... no I don't love him anymore. He betrayed me... I just... He didn't come to the trial or call me or anything. How can I possibly love him after that?"

He looked down at the floor now. He had to answer, and he couldn't lie. He began to get red in the face as he stammered out an answer. "W-well... I'm sorry, it's just that... The connotation of it... I just jumped. It's the reason I'm here at Midori. My mind... The proposition made it jump into defensive. I'm sorry. But... yeah, I really do think you're... attractive." Oh My God I did 'not' just say that!

Michael couldn't breath. At least, he didn't think he could. He wasn't panicking, but... he couldn't feel breath come out of him. Was he... scared? He swallowed, aware that his face fealt very very hot.

"Um... we-well... Ari... arigato gozaimashita... D-domo arigato gozaimashita!" He bowed his head in appology for being slightly rude, though he really hadn't been. He was over-exagerating everything and he couldn't stop shaking. "I... Inoue-san, I... Thank you..."

He looked up, gome-um... okay. He stood there, stairing dumbly into Reiku's eyes. He saw pain in them, even though they were such beautiful eyes, they hurt.

"Your eyes are very beautiful, too... Rei-kun." He put his hand over his mouth like he had said something blasphemous. It had just popped out. He never knew he had this much trouble with things like that.