*Hello! This is my first fanfic! Treat me nicely!

I DO NOT OWN GAUKEN ALICE!

What just happened?

Here I go! I have to do this okay, so stop thinking so selfishly. This is not for me but my family! It's all up to me! Let's go!

The huge doors opened automatically as I approached it. They were waiting for my arrival.

I can do this, I can do this!

There I saw two men, one was about my age standings still watching me and there was another one sitting on a throne-like chair not paying much attention to me, which was okay with me, the less attention I get, the better. As I walked towards them the tall, blond guy with ocean blue eyes smiled as the nudged the guy who was sitting in the chair. The guy in the chair had black hair that came down to the back of his neck and stopped just above his eyebrows; his eyes are what caught me by surprise, they were crimson red. They were pretty good looking guys but I can't think about that, not now anyway. Family comes first!

"Welcome mistress Mikan, I am glad you are able to join us this evening." The blond guy said, bowing ever so slightly. The black haired finally looked up to acknowledge that I was there and but then all he did was stare at me with what looked like awe on his face. I guess I am just seeing things.

"Master Natsume, won't you greet your guest?" I looked over at the man now lying across his chair like he had no care in the world.

"Why?" he asked without even glancing at me. I felt a little mad at his rudeness.

He could at least greet me, that little spoiled brat!

"Please, master Natsume!" the man insisted but it didn't seem to both him.

"Are you telling me what to do, Ruka?" he said smugly with dark emotionless eyes. I looked from the servant to his master, the servant seemed to be shaking with anger, and felt like I should do something before it got out of hand.

"Excuse me; I think you got me confused with someone else. I am only here for the job interview." I said to the servant as he looked up at me in surprise.

"What? But you're a mistress! And a girl at that! Why would you want a job?" his face was full of confusion. I noticed that the master looked a little more interested in what I was saying.

"My family needs the money!" I said bowing my head trying to show them that I was serious about them hiring me to do something that I could be paid for.

"Ha ha!" the master had started to laugh. I know my face was red but not out of embarrassment but in anger. Who does he think he is! Laugh at a helpless girl trying to help her family! How rude! If he wasn't a master I would have so hit him by now!

"Why not? Let her work." The master said getting up and coming over to me. "We'll see what she can do." Then he left towards his chambers.

"Okay then! Arata take her to her room!" the servant seemed to be happy for some reason. The other servant was still staring at me not moving a muscle.

"Umm, is there something on my face?" I asked him. His face turned as red as a cherry. He was so cute for someone around my age.

"Oh, nothing. I am sorry for staring! It's just that you are very beautiful." This surprised me and I couldn't help but laugh. He looked at me in confusion.

"What is it mistress Mikan?" he turned his head sideways in confusion.

"It's just that you need glasses or something because I am nowhere near beautiful." I kept laughing but then I stopped when his eyes grew wide.

"What?" I asked moving a little closer towards him.

"If you don't mind me saying, but it is you who needs a mirror. I have never seen someone so beautiful. Ruka and the master were overwhelmed too. We thought you were another bride candidate." He said motioning for me to follow him to the room I would be staying in.

I looked at him with wide eyes.

"What? Me, a bride candidate, no thank you. I certainly don't want to marry!" his eyes went wide with that comment.

"How could you say such a thing? Why wouldn't you want to get married?" I looked at him and smiled.

"It's just that first of all I don't have time to think about that kind of thing when my family is in the condition it is in now and second of all no one would ever want to marry me…"someone as ugly as I am and as poor as I am…

As we arrived at my door he stopped me and said, "If you don't mind me saying, I would feel very fortunate to have a chance to marry someone as beautiful as you." After he said this he started to blush as he realized what he had said.

I could help but giggle at this, if only every boy was as sweet as he is.

"Thank you for taking me here! Hope to see you around!" I said as I opened my door. He seemed like he wanted to say something but he didn't.

"Good night mistress Mikan." He said about to leave.

"Hey, you can just call me Mikan, night Arata!" I closed the door before he could protest and looked around the room. I spotted a mirror and took the chance to see what everyone was going all goo goo about. All I saw in the mirror was me; I saw my long, curly, brown hair, my chocolate brown eyes, and my white dress that fit with the season: spring. Nothing that really caught my attention like it did theirs.

Everyone back home always kept me away from the outside so that no one could see how hideous I was. Well, that is what everyone told me anyway…but, how come everyone I have seen, walking down the street or coming here, have been looking at me like I am a goddess or something?

'Knock, knock'

Breaking away from my train of thought, I went over to the door and opened it, to my surprise it was the master.

"Umm, what is it, master?" I asked bowing.

He pushed his way through into my room, closed the door, and faced me. He was right in front of me looking at me from head to toe.

"What is it?" I asked backing away hitting my head on the wall behind me. I rubbed my head in pain as he moved even closer to me.

"You don't remember me?" he asked aggravated.

"What? What do you mean remember you?" I looked at him in confusion. He then banged his fist against the wall beside me. I looked into his eyes and saw the sadness and aggravation.

He then grabbed my arm and pushed himself against me. I tried to break free. I pushed him at hard as I could but he wouldn't budge.

"Stop struggling I just want to see something." He then pulled down my sleeve where he could see my shoulder. His eyes widened and then a smile crept onto his face but left as quickly as it came. The aggravation was back.

I looked down at what he was looking at and saw my heart shaped birthmark on the top of my shoulder. How did he know about my birthmark? And plus, why is he even doing this kind of thing to a girl? I know one thing for sure, this guy is dangerous and I should try to stay clear of him!

"Let go of me! What do you want?" I kept struggling as hard as I could and I could see a little playfulness come into his facial features.

"What? You don't like this? You did come here to try and seduce me right?" I looked up at him and saw that he had a smirk on his face. My mouth was wide open with disbelief.

"What? I would never try to do something like that, thank you very much!" I yelled but it didn't faze him. Instead his smirk got bigger and still held me as tight as he could.

He stopped smirking and looked into my eyes. Something was weird about this look, it seemed familiar. So did that smirk of his!

"You really don't remember me do you?" he asked with sadness in his words and eyes.

"No" is all I could say but then something changed in his eyes.

His face started moving closer to mine. He was now holding my face so that I couldn't move.

"No, let go of…" that's all I could get out before his lips met mine. I started to struggle as hard could but he didn't seem to be bothered by it.

Something felt so weird about this kiss too. What is going on? Why is he kissing me? Why does it feel so familiar? Why me?

He then did something I didn't expect. He kissed me deeper, with what seemed to be aggravation, pressing me against the wall. I couldn't move then, he had me pinned.

After a while he finally pulled back and locked eyes with mine, both of us gasping for air. Then a smirk crawled onto his face.

"You liked that, didn't you?" he asked smirking, and his hold loosened ever so slightly.

The next thing that happened was me punching him as hard as I could in his face.

"Oww, that actually hurt," he said rubbing his jaw. "At least it wasn't like last time, last time you hit me in the eye and I had a black eye for a whole month." He started to laugh and then he pulled me into his chest for a weirdly comfortable embrace..

"I've missed you so much." Is what I heard as he released me. He stared into my eyes for another second and I could feel my face start to blush. He caressed my face and looked into my eyes one last time until he started walking towards the door.

I couldn't say a word as he opened the door and walked out of the room.

What just happened...? I am so confused!

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