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Just as Natsume was about to hand over the stone he had in his pocket to Mikan there were screams from behind. There were lots of villagers and shop owners coming with brooms and buckets. Mikan realized that they were rushing to help her and grasping hold of the situation she freed herself from Natsume's grip and ran towards the villagers. Natsume knew that staying there any longer would cause them trouble so he immediately retreated, taking the others with him and regretting leaving her behind. They all fled up the stairs as quick as they could. After Mikan convinced her helpers that she was completely fine, and would go straight home, and that they could resume their work. She left the beach in a daze about what had just occurred.

'I would have to think over and keep the events and the details to myself. After all I don't want to worry grandpa. Also I promised to meet Atasuki after school today to go for a stroll in the park. He said he was really stressed out, so I couldn't refuse to him." she thought just as she approached her front steps.

She didn't go in, something inside her stopped her and asked her to rethink her surroundings.

"What?!" she thought. "I mean yes Atasuki seemed weird today but that must have been because he was really tired and stressed out. Sure he asked me to come alone because he had something to talk about and my friends suggested that it was another confession and I had for once thought that I shouldn't go, because I mean if it had turned out to be a confession what could I have told him. That I don't like him! That I hate him! Possibly not. So, I had gone to the place he had asked me to come and it turned out that it was the old isolated part of the school building at the back. When I reached there he was already there waiting for me. I went and he had started off reminding me how we had become friends and how we had planned to treat the other one to ice cream as soon as we had found the perfect one for us. He was holding my hand the entire time and they were shaking oddly. Then he reminded me of the many times I had been confessed to. He had asked me why I had refused to the 11 boys, as they were cute. I had looked at him oddly trying to figure out what's going on in his brain. Then he had hurriedly added that he was only asking as all those times the boys had been his own friends and he knew that they were really nice people. I had replied to him what I had told everyone else that they didn't actually like me and they were actually just trying to be nice to me. He had listened to me carefully and it looked like he was growing weak. Then he asked me what I would answer if he had confessed to me. He asked me that with those really serious eyes which he only uses when he is really serious about something and I was not able to answer him. Then he had laughed and shrugged it off as a joke saying that his brain was muddled up and he was stressed from the tests. He said that he had probably said weird stuff because his sister had snapped at him which she normally doesn't do. And that is how I had come to the point of going to the park with him. Well he is my friend so it's only normal that I go to the park with him." she thought as she pushed open the door to her living room.

All her inner sense urged her to go back but as soon as she stepped inside she knew that it was too late to step out again.

What she saw, was indeed worth a shock…

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