i woke up in a hospital bed. the nurse, mrs. pomfrey, was there. she is ms. paint's mother in law. the first person i saw, however, was eridan. he was sitting at my bed side, looking concerned and in love.

"what happened?" i asked, groggily.

"you fainted" he said, pouting. his face was bandaged where the green bruise was. mrs. pomfrey tended to his injury from sollux when i was in a fainting coma.

"oh no!" i said. "what day is it?"

"it is still today," he said and and i nodded.

"wow, it is only my second day on sburb and everything has been crazy," i thought to myself. eridan kissed my forehead. "you are so brave" he said. "you shoved sollux away from me and then fainted out of fear." i sighed deeply. "i am so sorry. did he hurt you?"

eridan shook his head. "im sorry, stacia," i need to go" he told me. "i love you."

i gasped! "do you really?" i asked.

"yes" said eridan "but just as a friend." i frowned intsnely. i guess it wasnt his fault he only liked me as a friend but eridan was such a sensitive guy who would never hurt anyone and i really wished i was his girfriend.

i went back to sleep.

when i went to derse DD was there.

"hey, stacia," said DD. "i missed you."

"awww thanks" i said. he told me that not much hapened while i was gone because it is very boring on derse. we decided to play go fish.

"do you have any 7s?" i asked.

"go fish" he said and then kissed me!

i looked at him in complete shock. "dave!" i yelled.

"call me tom," he told me. "i dount want you assosciating me with such a jerk." i gasped. on one hand he was really hunky and looked exactly like dave but on the other i cared a lot about eridan. before i could say anything, he kissed me agan

before i knew it, we were kissing hardcore and lying down on top of the playing cards.

i was awakened, though, by a slurping sound.

END OF CH 3

SORRY THIS IS A SHORT ONE, GUYS, BUT I WANTED TO LEAVE IT ON A CLIFF-HANGER.

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PS: i am learning about foreshadowing and symbolism in school so keep an eye out for stuff like that in my story