A/N: Hello. I am very thankful for all who are reading my first story and for everyone who are giving reviews.

I hope that you'll also support my second work.

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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MAI HIME.

A girl was sitting on a big rock located on top of the hill not very far from Fuuka Academy. The view was perfect. The sea below was enticing. The wind that chills her skin, the lovely scent by flowers bloomed, everything was perfect. The brunette waited patiently for her friend to come.

She chose a good spot to confess the true feelings she have for her best friend.

Later, the biker, Natsuki Kuga arrived. Shizuru's heart beat sped. 'She is here. I can not back out now. I will tell her the truth. Even the weather is on my side. Now, is certainly the time.'

"Shizuru," the biker put out her helmet. Her hair was gorgeously swinging in the air. Watching this scene made Shizuru blush. "Why did you tell me to come up here." Shizuru was smiling at her absentmindedly. "Shizuru?"

Shizuru blinks. Waking up from her day dream "Oh. There's something... I... Look, Natsuki, I need to tell you something..."

"Okay. Go, spill."

"Natsuki, I have a confession to make." Shizuru pauses.

"Okay"

"Will you promise not to turn your back on me if I tell you something really, really strange?"

"Yes. Shizuru, what is this about?"

"Natsuki, I am your best friend. And I have always been there for you. I have always been with you through anything, through everything." Shizuru pauses again because of some discomfort.

"Yes. And you are the greatest friend I can ever imagine."

"Natsuki, over the years, we've been close… Until, my feelings started to change. I never know how or when it started. But, what I know is that I fell in love with you somewhere along the way. I fell in love with your arrogance, your stubbornness, your independence. Now all I can ever see and think of is you. So I am asking this one chance to be with you." Shizuru's words came out trembling.

Natsuki stared blankly at the brunette.

"So, Natsuki, will you please be my girlfriend? Natsuki, what do you think?"

It took a couple of seconds before the other girl can open her mouth to answer. "Shizuru, No."

"w-What?"

"I can't. I'm sorry. Cause I'm not gay. I hope nothing changes between us. So, I'll see you in the class tomorrow, is that okay?"

Shizuru tried to hide her now trembling eyes. "o-Okay. I'll see you."

"Goodbye, buddy." Natsuki kissed Shizuru on the cheek then took off like nothing happened.

Shizuru was left crying on the top of the hill.

AFTER 6 YEARS

Natsuki and Shizuru were still best friends. But having to go to different colleges and having jobs after graduation were not very convenient to make friends stick together as they wanted to be. Later, the two had different sets of friends and became distant to each other.

Mai and Natsuki were talking on a coffee shop in an ordinary night after work.

"So, did the guy ask for your number?" Mai asked

"He did. And I gave it to him." Natsuki replied

"Wait for his call. Maybe he's the right one for you."

"I don't know. I've been with like 26 guys already and things aren't just working. I don't know what the problem is."

"You know what I think?" Mai neared the other girl.

"what is it?"

"I think Nats, you're a LESBIAN!"

"I am so not a Lesbian!"

"I don't see anything wrong about being one. Lesbians are cool people."

Natsuki was just about to defend herself when her phone rang. She picked it from the table to answer the call. "Hello, Shizuru."

"Hello. It's been almost a year since we last conversed. How have you been, Natsuki chan?"

"I'm good just having coffee with my friend."

"With another date? I was wondering if you can be my maid of honor."

"You're what?" Natsuki's voice was louder.

"My maid of honor. Natsuki, I am getting married in a week."

"You're getting married? So who is the motherfucker you're marrying? When did you start dating that lucky son of a bitch?" those words came out as a surprise to Shizuru.

"His name is Reito Kanzaki. The marriage had been arranged since we were young but I only found out about it last month."

"Do you even have an idea about what you're getting yourself into? Shizuru, Arranged marriage is very 1700's. Can you just call the wedding off?"

"Natsuki." Shizuru interrupted but Natsuki was not in any mood to stop talking.

"Imagine sleeping with a man you don't even love every single night... every single night! That is like torture everyday."

"NATSUKI!" Shizuru yelled. Natsuki then stopped talking. "I love this man, that's why I am marrying him. So, what do you say, Natsuki, can you please be my Maid of Honor?"

Natsuki can't contain what she just heard from the brunette.

"Okay. Natsuki, I will be waiting for you tomorrow."

"I didn't even say yes. Besides how about my work here, am I supposed to drop it off?"

"Everything else will be well taken care off. All you have to do is come to Kyoto. So, will you please be my Maid of Honor?"

"Yes." Natsuki replied angrily.

"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow, then. Bye."

Natsuki put down her phone on the table.

"What was that?" Mai asked.

"A nightmare."