The Now or The Latter?

I am SonyaShulen.

I do not own Gakuen Alice.

Mikan and Rika are twin sisters, both are absolutely gorgeous, both have hazel-brown eyes, and brown hair. They are exactly alike, except for their personality. Which caused them to hate each other when they both fell in love with the same guy, the hot and drop-deadly gorgeous, Natsume Hyuuga.


Chapter 1 : Playing?

Class continued as normal. Maths, Economics, Accounts, Chemistry and a couple of other subjects passed in a flash. The last bell rang for end of school. Mikan met a couple of friends on her first day. Hotaru Imai, a really cold girl, she hardly smiles. Anna and Nonoko, twins but with different colour hair. Rika on the other hand, joined the "Natsume Hyuuga" fan club. She made friends with people like Sumire Shouda, Koizumi Luna and some others which drools over Natsume whenever he passes them.

Rika and Mikan entered the dorm and was greeted by the landlady.

"Good evening, girls. My name is Kaori. I'm the dorm landlady. May I help you?" the landlady told us.

"Good evening, Miss Kaori. We're the new students here and we were told that this is our dorm. May I know where are our rooms located?" Rika asked Kaori while circling her arms around Mikan's arms.

"What are your names?" Miss Kaori asked politely.

"I'm Rika Sakura and my sister, Mikan Sakura." Rika sang it. Mikan had a feeling that, she didn't really have the chance to talk to anybody at school much because Rika's always cutting in between. But she didn't say it out loud of course.

"Rika and Mikan, hmm.... Here!" Miss Kaori suddenly said and handed us two room keys repectively. "Mikan will be in room 87 and Rika will be in room 53."

"Isn't it a little far away? I mean, we're sisters and we hoped to live close together." Rika quickly said sounding sad. Whether it was the true tone of the fake, nobody knows.

"It's okay Rika. I don't mind being on different floors. I'll come down to your room once in a while for dinner of to study together alright?" Mikan told Rika nicely.

Rika pouted and both of them waved goodbye to the landlady.

They went to Rika's room first, since it's the closest. After dropping Rika at her room, Mikan slowly walked towards her own room. While searching for room 87, she saw a guy walking into his room. He was trying to unlock the door. 'Isn't the dorm a single-sex dorm? Why is there a guy? And is he a thief?' Mikan thought. She pretended to not see him and continued walking to only notice that her room was just beside that lad's room. And that handsome lad was HIM!

"YOU!" Mikan shouted and covered her mouth.

"What?"Natsume asked in shocked?

"Isn't this dorm for girls? What are you doing here? Are you a thief or something?" Mikan asked softly. Remembering to keep her voice low.

"This dorm for you info, are for both boys and girls. This is my room so I have the right to stand in front of my door and I am not a thief because this is my room, idiot." Natsume answered in sequence.

"WHAT!? THE DORM'S FOR BOTH BOYS AND GIR-" Mikan was shut off by a warm hand.

"Shut up! Do you want the landlady to come up or not? Do you want to get kicked out of your dorm within a day?" Natsume quickly said then his hands left her mouth.

"Hmph!" Mikan unlocked her room door and entered her room. 'How can I be that bastard's room neighbour.'

Mikan walked around her room. It was pretty large. The front had a table for eating I presume, there's a door to the outside balcony to the outside view and it's really beautiful. There was a small living room with a big couch and a television. There are two doors in this room. One is to the bedroom and the other to the storeroom. The bedroom has a bathroom there and the bathroom looks really cozy and nice. The bed is soft too. Mikan opened the door and went towards the balcony and inhale some fresh air. The view from the balcony is really nice. It had the mountains high up until it reached the clouds. Below was a mini playground. There was a lake further out and it's a really beautiful blue. A perfect scenery. Paradise. She looked towards Natsume's room. He has a balcony too. Obviously.

She went back into her room and lie down on the couch and turned on the television. She manage to find an interesting documentary and watched it till she fell asleep. Rika knocked on her door about an hour later. Mikan was feeling groggy when she stood up to open the door.

"Mikan! My room neighbour told me that there's a kind of festival later tonight at 9pm sharp! Can we go together?" Rika asked the sleepy Mikan.

"Festival? I guess it's … sure then." Mikan answered then told Rika to enter the room while she washes her face.

About 8pm, Rika and Mikan went to the festival. It's located near the lake. There were many candles floating on the lake and it's really beautiful. There were also shops selling typical Japanese stuff like fans, kimonos, yukatas and many other stuff. Mikan bought a mini Japanese fountain.

"Mikan! Let's write our name and attach it to a candle!" Rika dragged Mikan to one of the stalls selling the candles.

"Hi there. Welcome to the Destiny Festival. As you see here, you're suppose to write your name on a piece of paper and attach it to a candle. At exactly 9pm tonight, the fireworks will come up and whoever that finds your candle and your name, will be the person you're destined to be with. Many people had tried it and it seems that it's true. Want to try it?" the girl at the stall asked.

"Mikan! I really want to know who my destiny is! Come on, let's write!" Rika urged.

"I don't really believe in this stuff. But for your sake, I will." Mikan smiled and Rika.

Mikan took a pen and the paper to write her name. Rika did the same and both of them let their candles go.

It was 8.45pm already. They went to a tokoyaki food stall to buy some to eat. It was really delicious. Most of their friends were there and soon Rika and Mikan went separate ways. They chat for some time then there was an announcement going on.

"THOSE PEOPL E WHICH WROTE THEIR NAME AND ATTACHED IT TO A CANDLE, PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE LAKE TO COLLECT THE FIRST CANDLE YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES." the announcer said.

Mikan made her way to the lake. It seems that all her friends wrote their name too except for Hotaru. Which is a normal thing since she one hundred percent don't believe in this sort of stuff.

The countdown suddenly started.

3..

2..

1..

Mikan took the first candle she saw and opened the paper. The name in the paper was "Natsume".

She couldn't believe that Natsume would believe in such thing. She tore the paper into shreds and threw it away. Rika saw her around the trash can and went towards her.

"Mikan! Who did you get? I got Tono. Whoever that is, I hope he is gorgeous." Rika announced.

"I...I got Natsume Hyuuga." Mikan stuttered.

"WHAT!? Are you serious? How lucky are yo-"Rika started to blab.

"No! NO! I don't believe he do this stuff. It must be another guy with the same name. Anyway, I told you I don't believe in stuff like this!" Mikan quickly told her. Then she heard the voice of Ruka and the person she's currently talking about.

"Natsume, who's name did you get?" Ruka asked him.

"An idiot." he replied simply. He sounded disappointed though.

"Natsume...there are many idiots. But I guess you wouldn't want to tell. I got Hotaru Imai. I wonder how I'll live with that." Ruka scoffed.

'Hmm..I thought Hotaru didn't write her name.' Mikan thought.

The festival went on as usual and about 11pm, Mikan and Rika got back to their dorm. Coincidentally, Mikan and Natsume bumped into each other on their way to their dorm and snickered at each other.

"You again! I must be somehow cursed!" Mikan told him.

"It's not my fault if you're going to always appear at my feet." Natsume just said.

From this view, Mikan could see that Natsume was wearing a bad boy's suit and it made him look really gorgeous. But for Mikan's own mind, nothing is gorgeous for her.

"Well then, Good Night!" Mikan entered her room and slammed it shut.

She got onto her bed and thought about the Destiny Festival. Was it really true that it should be him? She never believed in all this stuff, but somehow, after this festival, she kind of have to believe it and she doesn't know why. 'Only if I have the power to read into the future.' she thought and shut her eyes to sleep.

On the other hand, Natsume was lying down on his bed and staring into the paper he got during the festival. He obviously got THE IDIOT. "Mikan Sakura" it wrote. 'Everytime I write my name during this festival, together with Emiko, we never got our name exchanged. It always turned out to be a blank paper. But why, this time I got...her?' This is plain crap. I will never be part of her. Natsume tossed his body to one side and shut his eyes close to sleep.

END OF CHAPTER

I was doing my homework while writing this so I'm really sorry if it's bad.

This story was inspired from the song "It's Gonna Be Love" by Mandy Moore. I'm in love with the show "A Walk To Remember" even though it's pretty old already.

Third chapter would come up next week hopefully. Exams are around the corner! On the 27th!

SonyaShuen