Waaaah, Yoo Ara here! c:

I'm going to be starting a neeew story, yay. Finally, some Rimahiko!

I thought of it one day while talking with my fellow sophomores during a class meeting.

Can you make a prediction at the end? c; It's quite predictable... or is it?

I don't own Shugo Chara! Enjoy the story! c:

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"Mashiro Rima."

"Here."

The blonde girl carefully let her hair fall down from her original ponytail, the wavy streaks of golden silk cascading down on her minute yet enviable figure as her soft murmur somehow echoed across the room. Whispers of gossip, rumors, and praise were quickly spread for a few seconds before the male teacher resumed taking attendance for the class, and the students were again silenced.

This was the famed beauty of the prestigious St. Seiyo All Girls High School, Mashiro Rima, the ice queen. Many girls admired her, some loved her, and others were unmistakably jealous of her. Though she was a popular topic amongst the crowd, the female only had a handful of close friends, and those were the only people she would ever speak to in a sentence of more than one word.

As the class president, Nadeshiko, walked to the front of the class to give out the usual daily announcements to engage the fellow sophomore students to participate in the upcoming rallies and events, Rima's lips pursed.

Nadeshiko was a rival. And it wasn't because Nadeshiko was a popular person, the student class president representing the sophomores, had several friends, and was a stunning beauty known mainly for her wondrous dancing skills. No, that didn't matter in the least bit.

"Hinamori Amu, our vice president, will be talking more about the upcoming football game as well as our homecoming theme," the violet-haired woman introduced Amu, and the pinkette coolly went up to the front of the class and began speaking as they oohed and aahed at her cool and spicy attitude.

Hinamori Amu was an extremely popular girl, known to be cool and spicy, and had very few people for friends due to her cool facade. Deep inside however, she was a caring and sweet girl. As her best friend, Rima was proud to know that for a fact.

Unfortunately, her other best friend was none other than that damned Fujisaki Nadeshiko. Seeing the two of them up in front of the class together like that, laughing happily about some stupid theme idea, made the usually composed girl want nothing more than to dump the president in some dark alley twenty million miles away from both her and Amu. It wasn't fair that Amu got two best friends. She should only have one, and that one should be her.

A person like Amu didn't come around every corner, so Rima wanted to her to be exclusive. But if she had told Amu, Rima might have lost their friendship for good. That's why the blonde had been staying quiet about the topic the whole time, and Amu later also received the hint that it was like taboo to speak about Nadeshiko with Rima.

When the bell finally rang, Rima stood up and immediately took Amu's bag for her, bringing it to the pinkette. "Let's go. I want to visit this tea shop before we go to the dorms."

"Eh? Shouldn't we go to the dorms and get our rooms first? Nade-" she stopped short. "I was going to go with the student council to distribute dorm rooms with the staff."

Rima frowned. She just wanted to get Amu away from Nadeshiko. "Is it required?"

"Well, no..."

"Then it's settled."

At this point, Nadeshiko spoke up while sorting through the papers that were used during the class discussion, neatly piling it onto the podium stand's flat surface. "It's fine, Amu. You should go. Rima looks like she could use some tea, after all, she didn't look well during our class talk. I can handle the job on my own."

Rima didn't like the unreadable expression on the president's face. It seemed like she was almost happy that Amu wouldn't be coming with her. But was that the facade or was it the truth?

"You're sure?" Amu asked, oblivious to the facade that Nadeshiko was putting up at this very moment. "I mean, there's a lot of transfer students this year combined with our own, so..."

"Let's just go. She said she could handle it, so she can handle it," the blonde scolded as she grabbed Amu's hand and pulled her out the classroom and into the hallway, now walking towards the gates that led to the outside of the enormous campus.

"Rima, what's wrong?" Amu asked tenderly, patting the shorter of the two on the head softly. "Is something the matter?"

If she could, she would say something is indeed the matter. "No, I'm just craving tea and pastries today, and I didn't want to go alone." But Amu, as someone who had known Rima inside and out for a long time now, clearly wasn't convinced.

"I'm always going to be here for you, Rima."

They continued walking a silence for a little while longer.

"I know."

"Okay then, let's go lighten up the mood at Yuiki Tea and Sweets," the pinkette smiled down at the blonde, completely clueless.

They exited through the gigantic black gates, not noticing the girl in the ponytail nearby seeing them off.

Nadeshiko walked over to the office, smiling as she gave out the room numbers and orders to her fellow classmates. Things had been going smoothly so far and her name had surprisingly not come up yet. Her laptop seemed to have all the correct data for the students, since there hasn't been a problem yet. That was great considering last year's rooming was a complete, chaotic fiasco. Everyone supposed it was because this year had such a great class president.

Nadeshiko was well admired and loved by her peers, even more so because she was known to be close friends with Hinamori Amu and secret rivals with Mashiro Rima. She chuckled at the thought of it when suddenly a girl named Maiko appeared and requested her room number. When the dear class president went to check her number, there beside it was the one and only person she wanted to share rooms with.

It was quite fortunate of her for the blonde to whisk away the pinkette at such an ideal time. She would have to thank the lady later.

"Maiko," she smiled, finding her name and efficiently switching the two without so much as a twitch of her perfect smile. "You have room C37 with Mina Sayuri." She handed the student the freshly printed notification slip and the girl happily skipped away, not noticing that she had just been switched out of her original room since she was able to room with her best friend now. Of course, being the cunning woman she was, Nadeshiko already knew that and had used it to her advantage.

The purple-haired girl smiled at her own name on the data chart.

"I'll finally be all alone with her... I'll have her all to myself."