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Stuck With Each Other
Stuck No. 1: Story Telling
Unfading Beauty
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"Hey," Mikan with her eyes wide opened shook Natsume, "now that I think about it, my luggages are on the bus!"
Natsume woke up by Mikan's shook and removed his earphones. "What?"
"Gah, you are hopeless!" Mikan shook her head. "By the way, I'm bored. Can we talk about something?"
"I told you to find someone else to talk to." Natsume said.
"Oh yes, you did! But you know that it is only you and me here, right?" Mikan showed a fake smile yet inside she was burning in anger. "Whether you like it or not, I'll blab things about myself!"
"Yeah, and it does not matter if I listen to you or not." Natsume put back the earphones in his ears.
Mikan narrowed her eyes and exhaled an amount of air to ease her fury. "I just broke up with my boyfriend." Natsume took a side glance at her as she continued. "And right now I'm heartbroken. This might be a good time to let out all of my feelings even if you are not listening." She sulked.
Natsume flattened his back against the bench. He waited for Mikan to continue. He was actually listening to no music at all, and he doesn't know why he felt like he wanted to hear her stories-It was as if he would regret it.
"The reason why is nothing. Funny. He was the one who broke up with me and he said he felt suffocated around me. I don't know. Maybe it's because of my work." Mikan laughed and looked above the sky as she tried to stop her tears from coming out.
Natsume just stared at her. He wondered why Mikan would have a work when she looked young to him. "I love him so much but I said, fine let's break up. I said, after all I want to concentrate with my work." She shrugged.
Mikan looked at Natsume but he acted to be asleep on time. "That's the reason why I decided to have a nice trip. Hotaru, my best friend, she was the one who told me that traveling will be a nice way to forget about things."
She paused and was not able to stop her tears from coming out anymore. Natsume sweat dropped. It was a good thing that no one else was around or else he would be blamed about Mikan's tears. Then Mikan cleared her throat. "But being alone here with you doing nothing makes me think about those things!"
"No one else comes close to you…" Natsume sang out of the blue.
Mikan raised her eyebrow. "What?"
Natsume looked at her and took out his earphones. "What?"
"Whatever…I thought you just said an advice to me. Anyway, I haven't seen your face yet." Mikan wiped her tears away and smiled.
"I haven't seen yours too." Natsume responded.
"Haha. Never mind. Do you want to talk about something to me? Hm, I'll listen to your iPod too to be fair." Mikan stated as Natsume grinned at her.
He gave her his iPod. "Why not? Just to be fair." But he, in reality, listened to her. Though she did not know about it. Heck, he would never reveal that he listened to her.
Mikan gladly accepted the gadget and put the headset in her ears. "Ohh, what song were you listening before?"
"Huh?" Natsume went pale. "T-tonight." Sometimes, stupid person could be smart to ask questions too and caught the bright person off guard.
"Ah! By FM Static? I like that song too! But you sang 'No one else comes close to you' I think it's not part of the lyrics?" Mikan tilted her head as if there was a question mark on top of her head.
Natsume snapped his head to her, "I thought you didn't hear me?"
"I thought you gave me an advice via song." She replied.
"J-Just listen to the songs there." Natsume sweat dropped.
Mikan giggled and played a song. "Sure!"
"If you talked about your love story, then to be fair, I'll tell you about mine too." Natsume gazed at Mikan as she swayed her head from left to right. "Damn, this is my first time I talk to person whom I just met. Not to mention a girl."
Mikan let out a small smile and lowered the volume of the music. She knew that it was not fair for Natsume if he did not heard her story before while she would hear his, but she just couldn't help it. He was a mystery to her.
"And I'm like a crazy man talking to someone who's not even listening." Natsume shook his head and laughed at himself. Certainly, he was crazy because Mikan could actually hear him.
Mikan pulled her lips to a smile. "Hmmmm~"
"I had a girlfriend. She was a model and absolutely famous. But she's a model in France. Due to her work, she broke up with me. There was a time when we had a scandal and some of her clients turned her down so she blamed everything to me." Natsume sighed and twirled his fingers with each other. "I was no one back then..."
"Tataraparap…" Mikan hymned the song that she had been listening in a low volume. She stared at Natsume in pity, wondered what he meant at the latter part of his statement. He looked back at her. She immediately turned her head away. "Lalalala…"
"She's my first girlfriend and I haven't got one after her." He added, "But everyone said I have many girlfriends."
Mikan raised her brow and sang, "Cause you're hot and yeah yeah~" She wanted to laugh but she couldn't. People wouldn't say things if they didn't see anything unless everyone lied or wanted you to fall in your career. But then again, showbiz is an almost a dirty world. People in it are like crabs: Never want someone to climb up before them.
"My best friend told me to have a trip and my ex-girlfriend is actually his cousin. So he felt responsible for what his cousin did. I was extremely in loved with her so forgetting her is kind of hard at my part." Natsume scratched his head. He looked at Mikan who was pretending that she didn't hear anything. He pulled the earphone out of her ear.
"H-hey!" Mikan snatched the earphone back. "What? You're done?"
"Not really," he said, "I have a lo—"
Water dropped on Natsume's arms and caused his sentence to be cut. The drizzle came as Mikan instantly put the iPod in her pocket. She stood up and was about to find a place that can avoid the drizzle but Natsume stayed.
"You have problems?" Natsume asked.
Mikan nodded. "Of course, tell me who doesn't."
"Then let's wash it away." He smirked and pulled Mikan at the center of the road.
"E-eh? How about your iPod? And what if car comes out?" Mikan blinked a lot. What was this man thinking?
"Forget about it. Just scream out loud." Natsume replied as the drizzle became rain. "Come out rain!"
Mikan smiled then laughed. "You are crazy."
Together of them were soaked by the hard rain. Mikan jumped around with her arms wide opened while Natsume looked up above the sky with his eyes closed. They let the water ran down to their skin as if their problems escaped out of their bodies. Screaming was able to help the rain too in removing their problems.
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While Natsume and Mikan were enjoying the fall of the rain, Ruka was in the police station. He was with this short raven haired girl who had the idea of asking the police for help. Maybe for others it was too much for them to worry with their friends, but for them Mikan and Natsume are very important people.
"His name is Natsume Hyuuga." Ruka whispered to the officer.
The officer got choked by his own saliva. "N-Natsume Hyuuga?"
"Yes, officer," Ruka paused, "that's why you need to find him."
"Excuse me," The girl butted in and made the officer with Ruka spun their heads to her. She continued, "Can I ask you to find my friend too, officer?" She gave him a piece of paper. The officer turned pale when he saw what was written on the paper, but before the officer nod his head in comprehension she turned to Ruka. "And you,"
"Me. What about me?" Ruka sweat dropped. This girl looked vicious to him and she's like Natsume's lass version.
"Did you ever think about calling your friend? Ever since I saw you, you never touch your phone." The girl stated unequivocally.
Ruka blinked his eyes. "Now that you bring up…"
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"Phew, that was awesome!" Mikan chirped, raised her fist above, and laughed chaotically. She shook her head then twisted her long curly brown hair.
"So what happened to my iPod?" Natsume asked while rubbing his raven hair.
Mikan giggled. "Have a guess."
"Gone. I know." He rolled his eyes.
Mikan put out her tongue like a child and brought the iPod out of her pocket. "Let's see if it died."
Mikan pushed the power button as Natsume took a side glance. Both were nervous and hoped to see the iPod come back to life. Since, well, iPod is an expensive gadget. The two gulped and waited for the gadget to light.
Suddenly, light came through it. Natsume heaved a big sigh while Mikan grinned as wide as she could. Because of her uber delight she couldn't help but throw herself to Natsume. Natsume wasn't able to process in his head what just happened. Then from nowhere, a song played loudly and surprised Mikan. She instantly unclasped her arms on Natsume's neck and turned bright red.
"I-I'm sorry, I acted without thinking." She scratched her head awkwardly.
"Hn." Replied Natsume. He may possibly sound as if he was calm, but in reality he was shocked. This is the first time that he let an unfamiliar person hug him.
They mutually stayed silent.
Say you'll stay don't come here and go like you do.
Sway my way; yeah I need to know all about you.
Say you'll stay don't come here and go like you do.
Sway my way; yeah I need to know all about you.
Mikan forgot to turn the iPod off and the song was the only one that could ease the tension between them. She then smiled at herself. This is the first time that she hugged a person besides Hotaru and her ex-boyfriend. Nevertheless, she didn't feel unhappy.
She finally turned the music off. Natsume spun his head to her. He saw her, eyes closed, air swayed her hair, and felt loosen up. "It's silly but I fell in love with a stranger~" She sang with pure feelings.
"Really?" Natsume asked, half laughing.
"No. I mean, not you. I just had an idea to what words I shall add to the latest song that I composed." Mikan smiled and rubbed her nose. She blew amount of air on her hands and wiped it with each other.
Natsume removed his denim jacket and threw it on Mikan's hands. Mikan looked at her dubiously then before she could talk, Natsume looked at her and said, "If you don't want it just say so."
"I haven't talked yet." Mikan raised her brow then grabbed Natsume's jacket. "Ahh, it's warm even if it's wet."
Natsume let out a yawn as Mikan talked again. "Maybe it is bec—" When Mikan looked at Natsume, his eyes were closed already. "Tch, I haven't even asked what's your name yet you're asleep? Gah." She smiled and touched his hands. They were cold so Mikan held it tighly.
She can't understand. Is he rude or gentle?
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"Hello?" Ruka waited for the other line to reply. He dialed Natsume's number.
Who's this?
The other line said. It was an unfamiliar voice and Ruka was certain of that. "Who's this?" Ruka asked.
No, who is this? You are the one calling my phone so it's your obligation to answer me, dummy.
Ruka got stunned. This is obviously not Natsume. "Uh, c-can I be your call mate?" It's better to be friends. He was sure that Natsume's phone got stolen by this guy on the other line.
Hmm, sure! Right, I need money, so can you lend me? Meet me! Where do you live?
He heard this kind of people in news. They're a gang who stole money or valuable things by meeting a phone pal. "Why not? Let's meet at 24th Avenue here in Nagoya."
Cool! I'm here at Nagoya, 5pm sharp.
The other line dropped the call as Ruka smirked then frown. Bingo, he was here at Nagoya. Proves that he stole the phone from Natsume and that Natsume was in Nagoya too. He may get Natsume's phone back, but can he still find Natsume? "Geez, always a trouble to society."
The police were already looking for Natsume and the friend of the girl who got all this brilliant idea. He didn't know who was the other one missing besides Natsume but the police said there's a high possibility that both of them were together right now. He hoped that the other party was not Natsume's fan girl or something.
"I'm Imai Hotaru. I suppose you're Ruka Nogi?" Ruka was startled by the sudden utter of the short haired girl beside him.
"Yeah." He said and nodded.
"Nice to meet you, Natsume Hyuuga's manager." Hotaru beamed sweetly. Somehow, Ruka didn't find Hotaru's smile a good thing. He sweat dropped.
And how in hell did she know that he is Natsume's manager?
T.B.C
