The room was silent. The usually cheerful brunette was sitting quietly on her seat beside her cold-hearted partner, sneaking glances at the boy and sighing gloomily.

"Oi."

The brunette looked at the boy.

"Polka" The boy said, knowing that this would annoy her. But to his and the class' surprise, she just stood up and walked away, not bothering to bicker with him about how he should stop teasing her with her underwear prints.

Once she was out of the classroom, a few murmurs were heard and the boy instantly knew they were talking about a certain girl.

"Mikan's unusually cold today."

"Is something wrong with Mikan-san?"

"What's wrong with Sakura-san?"

"Is it her time of the month?"

"Natsume" A blonde boy with cerulean eyes called him. Natsume turned to look at the boy with an emotionless face.

"What, Ruka?" He asked.

"Do you know what's wrong with Sakura-san?" Ruka asked, worry evident in his eyes. He had always liked Sakura Mikan, the cheerful brunette everyone knew. He realized it when he went to the Special Ability's RPG during the school festival. Since then, his feelings for her deepened even though he knew his best friend also liked the same girl. And his best friend is THE Natsume Hyuuga, the raven-haired boy with crimson eyes, who was cold to everyone who dare threads on his path, with the exception of Ruka, until the certain brunette came and softened him.

Seeing the sparkle in Ruka's eyes, Natsume knew it was either his best friend was daydreaming about his animal friends or thinking about HIS polka dots, and based on their non-existent conversation, it was most likely due to the latter.

"Tsk." He stood up and left the room, leaving Ruka stunned. Natsume had always waited for him, he thought. Instead of following the fire-caster, he stayed inside the room, thinking whether he should go look for Mikan or leave Natsume to do that.

Unknown to them, a certain mind-reader has already started.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Northern Forest…

Mikan sighed. I wonder what's wrong with me. Why do I feel so hurt? I should be happy since he will be back. She heard a rustle from a nearby bush.

"W-who's there?" She asked, scared, thinking that it might be a ghost. She was contemplating whether she should confront the Bush Ghost or run away, when she heard a chuckle come from the rustling leaves. Making up her mind, she was about to run away when a sandy-haired boy got out of his hiding place, wearing a goofy smile.

"Guess you found me. Hehe." He said as he scratched the back of his neck.

"D-did you hear my t-thoughts?" She asked as she vaguely remembered that she wasn't using her Alice earlier. Knowing Mikan would know if he was lying, the boy nodded.

"Who's he, by the way?" He asked out of curiosity, and felt her tense.

"Koko…It's…him." She said as she looked away, but Koko saw her eyes. They looked sad and confused.

Surprised at her reaction to his questions, he went towards her and put her face in his hands, making her face him. "So, what's with him?"

Unable to look away, she looked straight at him. "He'll come here next week. Uncle Kazu told me yesterday." She sighed. "I don't understand why I feel like this. Shouldn't I be happy that I get to see him again? I'm so confused." Koko saw her eyes glitter with unshed tears. Like what most friendly guys would do, he pulled her to him and hugged her closely.

"K-k-k-koko!"

"You can cry if you want. It's not good to bottle up your emotions. And his transfer is still next week. You still have 5 more days without worrying about him."

As he said that, she hugged him back and sobbed into his shirt, making it wet with her tears. Behind a tree a few meters away from them, stood a raven-haired boy whose crimson eyes burned with jealousy as he clenched his fists and walked away.

The next day:

"Ohayo!" A cheerful brunette said as she opened the door to her classroom.

"Ohayo, Sakura-san!"

"Ohayo, Mikan-chan!" came the reply of her classmates. Her eyes wandered the room and caught sight of a raven-haired girl working on an invention.

"HOTARU!" She ran towards the girl, then…

BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA

Mikan lay unconscious on the floor. A dirty blonde haired boy wearing glasses ran towards her. "Mikan-chan! Daijoubo?" He asked worriedly as she sat up and looked at Hotaru with a crying face.

"Hotaru meanie!" she said and looked at the boy. "I'm fine, Yuu-chan. Iinchou should not worry." She stood up with the help of the boy.

"I'm sorry. I-I got worried because you were different yesterday. I-If there is a-anything bothering you, you can tell me." Yuu said, smiling brightly.

"Yuu, leave the baka alone. She's fine now." Hotaru said. Mikan smiled.

Even though her best friend may act cold and those words may seem mean, she knows that her best friend is really caring, and that she was worried about her yesterday. They had been together since they were little when Hotaru went to there town. Even thought they were opposites, they were always together.

Mikan stood up when the doors opened which revealed a blonde boy with a bunny and the boy named Natsume.

"KYAA! Natsume-sama!"

"Ruka-sama!"

"Marry me!"

The girls from the room except Mikan and Hotaru ran to the two bishounen and herded them, until smoke can be seen, and they ran out looking for water to save their hairs.

"Tch." Natsume said as he walked towards his seat at the back of the room.

"Ohayo, Ruka-pyon! Ohayo Natsume-kun!" the brunette greeted.

"Ohayo, Sakura-san." Ruka said as he smiled at the cheerful brunette.

"Mou, Ruka-pyon! I told you to call me Mikan. M-I-K-A-N, Mikan." She pouted and looked at the blonde. Ruka blushed different shades of red and looked away.

"M-M-M-Mikan-chan." He said as he walked towards his best friend, trying to ease his heartbeat from its loud pounding. Mikan followed him and sat beside Natsume.

"Natsume! Good morning."

"Shut up, Polka. I heard you the first time. You're making my ears bleed." He said as he took out a manga from under the table and started to read, waiting for the outburst of Mt. Mikan.

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"PERVERT! You're an enemy to all women! Molester! Pervert! Hotaru!" Mikan continued ranting and ran toward her best friend, hoping she would console her, but instead, she took out her Baka gun and shot her.

BAKA BAKA BAKA

"Don't come near me, nose-drip girl." Hotaru emotionlessly said. Mikan sat back down in her seat and started moping when the classroom door opened and in came their homeroom teacher, Narumi-sensei, wearing a frilly costume and twirling towards the teacher's table. Everyone sweatdropped.

"Ohayo, my dear kittens. What a lovely day we're having. And to make it better, we have a new student today." The gay teacher said. The sudden announcement seemed to have caught the attention of the class and everyone sat up straighter except for the manga-reading guy in the back and the moping girl beside him. "Yuki-kun, you may come in now."

With that announcement, a certain mind-reader fell from his seat and looked at Mikan with worried eyes. No one else seemed to have noticed his strange behavior except for the blonde boy beside Natsume. The room was still when the classroom doors slammed open.

"Ohayo, Yuki-kun!~" Narumi-sensei said as the class stared at the newcomer.