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Mikhail made a great show of refusing to look at the boy as he drifted aimlessly along in his wake, his silver eyes roaming the street around them. Mikhail's pointed and unspoken hints seemed to have no effect on the ghost and after a few minutes, he fell to actually ignoring him.

"Mikhail! Hellooo!" The brown-haired teenager looked around at the sound of his name and saw a girl jogging down the sidewalk toward him. She was dressed in a skirt and sweater uniform for their highschool, her shoulder-length redish-brown hair pinned away from her face on one side. She smiled as she fell into step next to Mikhail, but he only grunted grumpily in return. "What's wrong?"

"I don't like people following me." He saw the hurt look on her face and realized his mistake, "Not you, Kim! Him."

"Oh," Kim looked relieved and glanced around, her eyes sliding over the invisible boy, "is there another one already? You normally have at least a week between guests."

Mikhail grunted again and turned the corner, the brick high school rising into view. He sighed and stared up at as the ghost moved in close behind his shoulder to see what he was looking at. He tried to shove the boy away and instead shoved his hand through what had once been the boy's kidney. He jerked his hand back out and glared at the boy as he laughed silently. Kim, meanwhile, had been watching silently and stifled a giggle at Mikhail's antics. She grabbed her friend's arm and tugged on it. "Come on, we'll be late. Oh, I'm staying after school to work on that stupid English project, so you'll only have your friend for company."

"I have other friends, Kim." Mikhail let himself be pulled along as he distincly heard Kim disguise a laugh with a cough. He sighed and kicked irritably at the doorframe as they stepped into the artificially-lit building.