Time is a curious thing.601Please respect copyright.PENANAK1uX2KS6fg
An hour can feel like a minute, a few minutes, days. Time does not keep us on our feet. Rather, it keeps us knocked off our feet.601Please respect copyright.PENANAR9hS1mYXna
Time is like an ever so curious child, with its eyes filled with wonder. At one moment, the child will be beside us holding our hand. The next moment, we turn our heads and the child has disappeared.601Please respect copyright.PENANAVM8u2liaFQ
We do not own time, rather, time owns us.601Please respect copyright.PENANAsj1ugBBacU
This is why an hour can feel like a minute, a few minutes, days. This happens, since time owns us.601Please respect copyright.PENANASy6g9l82px
This happens, because time likes a good trick of the mind.601Please respect copyright.PENANApiLnqBy7c5
‘It’s been a month since that ghost told me to keep his secret...it doesn’t feel like a month, it feels like it has only been a day...’ thought the apathetic boy.601Please respect copyright.PENANAU7dUSxTf1f
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Nap time during class had become much easier for the boy, Migi. Napping during class was a highlight for him, for after home was invaded by an injured girl and a ghostly boy, Migi could not rest well.601Please respect copyright.PENANAN4uP3OAGQM
The act of kindness displayed that day was something that was on his mind even still, despite its occurrence being a month ago.601Please respect copyright.PENANA4dlzygJn7x
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Migi turned his head to his left since he had nothing better to do while waiting for the teacher. He noticed the young girl who he saw in the park, sitting at the desk beside him.601Please respect copyright.PENANAU7Ty01XUPd
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″I’ve never noticed that she’s in my class before...weird.′ thought Migi.601Please respect copyright.PENANAUic7RReM7A
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He tried to remember her name. What was it, that name that seemed to suit her so well?601Please respect copyright.PENANAAuskuZQIWI
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Hidari.601Please respect copyright.PENANApvqI0X1hG8
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Migi looked at the girl. Her light brown hair was short and messy, her face and limbs clothed bandages and band aids. Despite all of this, she seemed more radiant than anything that Migi had ever seen.601Please respect copyright.PENANAqc7joujCoJ
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Maybe it was because she seemed so carefree with the way she looked. Maybe it was because of the obvious heart of hers that she wore on her sleeve. Or maybe it was her clear blue eyes that shone bright like diamonds.601Please respect copyright.PENANAyBoUb3jqBY
Whatever, it was, it made Migi feel strange inside, like butterflies flying inside of him, but with more of a heavy feeling than a light one.601Please respect copyright.PENANAEEY7XIOZuA
She was beautiful...more beautiful than any princess in a storybook, more beautiful than the beauty that even the most beautiful of women in the Town With No Name possessed. She was only a child like him, but even she seemed to shine brighter than the most popular of beings in the Town With No Name.601Please respect copyright.PENANAfpq4DZo27j
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The school bell rang, breaking the overflowing thoughts of Hidari that came to Migi’s mind.601Please respect copyright.PENANA9A7tnqFpMt
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“Alright students!” began the teacher. She had a voice that seemed to be filled with a strange and alien energy, an energy that was positive and encouraging, quite opposite of Migi’s last teacher.601Please respect copyright.PENANAxMpTaw8xSe
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“As you all know, the end of the school year is coming up. Some will be graduating, others to different classes. We have much to do before school ends, and I expect only the best from this class."601Please respect copyright.PENANArbUkOcsnFz
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The teacher sighed, looking at her class with dismay.601Please respect copyright.PENANA9RwbYfBmMo
All the children looked so robotic, sitting there, listening to her preach what was boring, boring even to her.601Please respect copyright.PENANAi9ecLSQko9
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“With all that said, we have a transfer student that will be finishing up testing with us.”601Please respect copyright.PENANAJRqtilow0r
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The student walked into the room, the sight of him catching Migi’s eyes.601Please respect copyright.PENANAqx6EE2o4hk
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It was the ghost-like boy.601Please respect copyright.PENANAPa6jrHNIxt
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His long and spiky crimson colored hair and golden left eye were aspects of him that were unmistakable. He even wore the same red scarf and long blue trench coat that he wore the day Migi first saw him.601Please respect copyright.PENANACbMoreXahj
However, there was one difference that Migi noticed. When Migi first saw the ghost boy, he noticed that the ghost was tall. This boy was short...the same height of Migi, to be precise.601Please respect copyright.PENANAQFUWKjK14D
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'Curiouser and curiouser....′ thought Migi.601Please respect copyright.PENANAPgyaXDOcuD
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“Students, this is Tori and he is in the 10th rank,” began the teacher. She looked to the new student. “Would you like to introduce yourself?”601Please respect copyright.PENANAQUpevNtnPA
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Tori, the ghost-like boy, was silent. He looked around the classroom, noticing a vacant seat between Migi and Hidari. He walked towards it, sitting himself down once he got to it.601Please respect copyright.PENANA2jKcqHBFHL
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“....Well then, let’s start classes!” said the teacher, awkwardly.601Please respect copyright.PENANAvzTodrFUjS
She sighed as she began to write on the classroom’s chalkboard.601Please respect copyright.PENANA6n1Ni3d4GD
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She glanced at her students.601Please respect copyright.PENANAumfz0eZm98
All of them had their papers out, all of them got ready to learn something dull. All of them looked so grey, so cold, so dead.601Please respect copyright.PENANAVA10jFgql5
She knew the better of them, and many of them knew it. They all hid their secrets deep under their skin, leaving the students to either conform by choice or conform due to pressure, and the teacher knew this.601Please respect copyright.PENANA4jwaolYO8D
She just wished that they didn’t hide it.601Please respect copyright.PENANASDaoP71ock
She knew that she was fortunate to get the students she did, but she wished for more than just their existence in the classroom.601Please respect copyright.PENANAtwb0xJMrCP
She wished that they would be free to live as they were made to.601Please respect copyright.PENANA9ITfjyeCCg
Class 30, the class of special children, hiding their faces with masks that make them ache inside.601Please respect copyright.PENANAfIDK1qZYA2
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‘These children look so emotionless, despite who they are and who they have been,’ began the thoughts of the teacher. ‘This can’t be good for them. Something has to change soon, or I will have to rewrite all over again...’601Please respect copyright.PENANAhvWdcGgYH6
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Black ravens flew swiftly through the lifeless grey sky, throwing the teacher off track, just for a short moment.601Please respect copyright.PENANA41gXevF2Wq
‘Time is about to flow again...’ thought she, in the short and unforgettable moment of the teacher’s distraction.601Please respect copyright.PENANAhh0HyHk0Fw
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Recess.601Please respect copyright.PENANAybrV2JOYbr
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Most of us readers knew it as a time in our childhood where we were able to escape. We all laughed, we all imagined, we all looked forward to it as children.601Please respect copyright.PENANACkxRKoniyQ
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Migi sat on the cold concrete stairs of the school, watching the unbearably dull scenery.601Please respect copyright.PENANACq9Qmd8wlT
An iron fence covered in barbed wire closed around him and his classmates, like a cage that was made for prisoners who had no chance of escape.601Please respect copyright.PENANApruJfncCXB
Unlike the nasty old park that Migi knew as home, the playground area had no swings. It had no monkey bars, no slides, not even trees to climb. There was only grass, grass that was now covered in fresh winter snow.601Please respect copyright.PENANAhK8oke2aJd
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Even with the present snow, there no signs of imagination, no signs of happiness.601Please respect copyright.PENANAC4P6XdrBRA
Nothing, nothing except for the cold of the winter and the cold of children standing idly by, emotionless and dead, just like the town they were born in.601Please respect copyright.PENANAHLltLAJ74j
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“Sheesh...it’s so quiet here.” said a voice.601Please respect copyright.PENANACykEEX9bKM
Migi looked to the voice’s owner.601Please respect copyright.PENANAXfjjWWLABt
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It was ghost boy himself.601Please respect copyright.PENANAuRBMHXOqCM
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“What’s up with that anyway?” asked Tori, unamused by the scenery of emotionlessness.601Please respect copyright.PENANAleIklmku9M
“I don’t know...I don’t particularly care either,” replied Migi, looking to the ground.601Please respect copyright.PENANAaH6WuWm0Bu
“I find that dull,” replied Tori.601Please respect copyright.PENANAykc1Ei2k64
Migi looked at him. Tori looked at the rest of his classmates, both saddened and perplexed.601Please respect copyright.PENANAw3dTbDM9sk
“This world is is so big, and humanity is stuck here until we choose home or we choose death. Until then, I believe it’s our rights as humans to do something, not just stand around and rot. We should all be able to make our own noise so that the dead can live. We should care, even if it hurts.”601Please respect copyright.PENANAJZ1K5xtD9c
Hidari, who sat nearby, looked at Tori. Tori looked towards the sky.601Please respect copyright.PENANASWzVQnHzyC
“It’s going to snow more…” whispered Tori.601Please respect copyright.PENANAcrLs6A0sEv
He looked down to Migi. Then Hidari. Then his classmates.601Please respect copyright.PENANAY5UOMmP7uI
“You know what that means?” yelled Tori.601Please respect copyright.PENANAHMHDm81Sem
All of his classmates looked towards him.601Please respect copyright.PENANAoRLxHi2qEX
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“We can all make angels appear in this world.” said Tori, smiling.601Please respect copyright.PENANARLBO92ZIIF
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