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I'm sorry for not updating sooner. See, the thing is, school's just started and I pretty much don't have time for other stuff. I promise I'll try to update sooner next time. Once again, I'm sorry!

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Disclaimer: I do not own Diabolik Lovers. I only own my OC and the plot of this story.

Chapter 3:

School is so boring Akari mused. What's the point of studying, anyways? How are we supposed to remember all those annoying facts!

She was currently sitting in her bedroom doing her homework on her own as her mother was working right now in a café. She always brought delicious pastries and other desserts from there. The redhead still didn't remember the name of the place where her mother worked just like she didn't remember what four times seven was which was question she was trying to solve. She shook her head furiously and gripped the pencil even tighter. "Tch, Second Grade is so hard." Akari muttered to herself.

After a while she gave up on all the questions she couldn't do and did the ones she knew the answers to which were only a few. She then started working on English at which she was somewhat good at, surprisingly. When she was done with her homework, she got up from her bed and took out her sketchbook from the drawer beside her bed. She flipped through the pages and looked at all her sketches. Despite being just seven-years old, Akari was an amazing artist for her age. Her mother and even her teacher's said so. But her teachers also said that she should pay as much time as she pays to her studies as she does to her art though the little redhead always ignored the latter part. While flipping through the pages, she stopped at one particular drawing. It showed a boy with red hair just like hers with bright green catlike eyes. He had pale skin also resembling hers and aristocratic features. The drawing was pretty detailed for a seven year old but the pink-eyed girl was an art genius. She stared at the drawing for a while as it was one of her favorites. She felt as if the subject of the drawing held some importance to her but she didn't know what it was. She had only drawn it on a whim. Sighing exasperatedly, she flipped towards a new page in her sketchbook to draw something else. -o0o-o0o-o0o-o0o-o0o-

"Alright, good work, Yui. See you tomorrow." Aria, Yui's employee, said to her as her shift in the cafe ended. The blonde smiled and said, "Sure, bye" as she stepped outside the backdoor of the café called 'Hot n Cold'. She had been working there for almost six years now. Since her education hadn't been complete, she wasn't able to get a job but Aria had been really kind to her to give her work at her café. She was a lifesaver.

The evening air was chilly as she walked towards her house. Her workplace wasn't very far from where she lived. That was one of the advantages of working in 'Hot n Cold'. Since Akari was really young, she couldn't leave her alone for a long time but thanks to her neighbor, Ms. Lee, the blonde didn't have to worry about that as her kind neighbor could keep watch on her little ball of fireworks while Yui worked. She was indeed grateful for that. Suddenly, the young woman halted. She felt as if someone was following her. She stopped to look around the busy street but she saw nothing out of the ordinary. She shook her head and continued walking. As she neared her house, she heard someone chuckling behind her. It was a deep, male voice. The petite woman turned around to look for the source of the sound but what or rather who she found immobilized her on the spot. She had never expected to see that face again in her entire life. The diabolical face that was the cause of most of her nightmares.

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