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 2 : Worried About Me?

The first weekends since Mikan and Rika entered Japan's Alice Academy. Both of them decided to go around Central Town. Many unique stuff was sold there. Mikan didn't like being in a crowded area. After looking around at each stalls, she went towards the Cheery Blossom tree. She sat under the tree while looking at the busy market of Central. Surprisingly, she didn't find this tree as nice as the one at the academy. She didn't really know why. The only difference was there was an idiot trying to get a catch on her. She shrugged that thought off and went back to find Rika.

"Mikan! Look at this. It's really cute." Rika showed Mikan a Japanese doll that holds a heart shape box and it says "I love You". It was, indeed, really cute.

"Yeahh..It is. Anyway, are you ready to go back to the dorm? It's getting really late." Mikan asked Rika. She felt awfully tired even though she didn't even walk about.

"Sure. But can we stop by an ice cream shop to buy some ice cream? It had been some time since I ate ice creams." Rika asked Mikan.

"Sure. I'm up for some sugar." Mikan agreed with a smile and started walking around to search for an ice cream store.

"May I help you, ladies?" the person selling ice cream asked both of them.

Mikan heard another seller saying "Thank you for buying ice cream from 'Lovely Yummy Ice Cream'. Please come again." That person sounded as if she had been struck by some kind of god of beauty. Mikan ignored that and told the person speaking to her.

"I would want one Strawberry Ice Cream, and Rika, what flavour do you want?" Mikan asked.

"I'll take chocolate." Rika answered simply and turned to the other side.

"One strawberry and one chocolate, please" Mikan told.

"I'm sorry, Miss. The last Strawberry ice cream was bought by that young man." Mikan turned her head to the direction the seller was pointing to and gasped.

"WHAT!? Him?" Mikan said in disbelieve.

"Early bird catches the worm." Natsume said and licked his ice cream. That caused rage towards Mikan's nerves.

"You! Nevermind. Make it two chocolates then. I have no energy to argue with him today."Mikan just said.

"Sad ain't it. Or is it because you're struck by my charm today?" Natsume told her off.

"You? Charming? Don't make me laugh, Hyuuga." Mikan said. Spitting out his last name.

It did stung Natsume's heart a little. Probably cause no girls had always called him Hyuuga except for Miss Serena. But that was because she was a teacher and she goes around calling him 'Mr Hyuuga'. All the girls and his classmates would call him Natsume. He thought about Emiko which called him Hyuuga as well when they first met. Thanks to his bad attitude.

"Well, maybe charming isn't the right word." Natsume mummbled to himself and walked away.

"Huh?" Mikan asked then she was distracted by the seller.

"Miss, here are your ice cream. It would be 15 yens." the seller said. Mikan paid for the ice cream then walked off with Rika.

"Mikan, did you think that Natsume acted a bit weird?" Rika asked. She sounded concerned. But it's probably a fan girl concerned feeling.

"No. I found him acting normal." Mikan lied. She as well, felt like he was in his own world.

They walked back together to the academy dorm. She dropped Rika back to her room and walked towards the Cherry Blossom tree. Hoping to find the reason why the feeling around this tree was much sweeter compared to the one in Central. She saw him again. But she's not going to care about it.

"What are you doing here, this late at night?" Mikan asked him.

"I should ask you the same. You're a girl. Haven't you heard of rape cases?" Natsume asked back.

"Yes, I have. But it's not that dark yet. What about you?" Mikan pressed her question.

"Bored." He answered.

Mikan couldn't think of any more small talk. She decided to keep quiet.

"You are..which one?" Natsume asked, breaking the silence.

"What do you mean, which one?" Mikan asked. She wasn't really sure what he meant.

"Are you, you or your sister? I don't really remember your names." he said.

"I'm me. I'm Mikan. My sister is Rika." Mikan answered. "Why? It's not that you need to know our names."

"Are you related to...Emiko Satori?" he asked ignoring her question.

"No. Why do you think that?" she questioned more.

"You just look like her." he answered and closed his eyes.

"Is she your girlfriend?" Mikan asked. The question was meant to taunt him.

"She was." his answer caught Mikan by surprise.

"Oh. What happene-" Mikan shut her mouth because she knew she shouldn't disrupt other people's personal space.

"Heh..Thinking of personal stuff? It's nothing horrible. Just that..she died." Natsume played with his expression. Trying not to make his sadness be obvious. But Mikan knew he tried hard to keep up his poker face.

"I'm sorry." she said. "I didn't mean to ask. It's just the norm." Mikan said.

"It's alright. Well, since I told you a bit of my personal life, why don't you tell me about yours?" Natsume tried asking.

"You know something? When you're not calling people idiots and those sorts of words, you're a pretty decent guy. I mean, you're nice. What do you want to know about? If you're going to ask about whether I have any boyfriends or whether I have make out with a guy before, the answer is a distinct NO." Mikan said before he could ask his question.

"No boyfriends at all? It's kind of hard to believe, you know. With that attractive body of yours." Natsume joked with her.

"There were a few people that wanted to court me. But I didn't have any feelings towards them. And I would feel bad to let them down. So I would usually got for a date with them for one day then tell them sorry the next. Hurts much." Mikan giggled.

"Yeah right. I had more than a hundred girls here wanting to court me. Neither of them passed except for her, of course." Natsume said. "You were at the festival yesterday right, I'm sure girls like you would play the candle of fate thing, who did you get?" he asked.

"I'm not usually like those girls. It was just that, Rika told me it looked interesting, so I decided to play it. And it's none of your business on whose name I got." Mikan blushed when she said that but Natsume didn't notice.

"Hm? It's guessing it's a blank paper then." Natsume guessed.

"It had a name, alright. But I don't believe in it. I don't even have a feeling for that guy." Mikan blushed harder. Natsume noticed it this time.

"Don't tell me you got me." Natsume smirked.

"What!? N-No!" she stuttered.

"I was just joking. It's late. Better get back to your room. I'm not going to care if there's a rapist out there waiting for you." Natsume gave her a small rare smile.

Mikan smiled back at him. "You look pretty cute with that smile on. Good night." Mikan told him and ran off.

"Hey! Wait for a minute." Natsume called out.

"Huh?" Mikan looked back at him.

"Well, em... I was just wondering whether... you know...you would go out with me..tomorrow, since it's a Sunday? Sorta like a .. date?" Natsume was stuttered.

"Hm? Sure. Why not. You are so unlike yourself today. Good night, Natsume." Mikan waved at him good bye.

'When she called me on my first name, I had the same feeling I had for Emiko. But it was much stronger. She is so much like you. If only you were still alive to be with me, this wouldn't affect me so much. But is it fate that's intertwining between the three of us now? She's..sweet. And I have the desire to tell her, I love her. But I'm not really sure whether that's the right thing to say because if I do, I would betray you, Emiko. But should I move on?'

END OF CHAPTER

A bloom to another chapter. I might upload another chapter tomorrow but it all depends on the reviews.

"A Walk To Remember" was awesome and touching. I might make a story using that storyline! Disclaimer : I do not own Gakuen Alice [Higuchi Tachibana] nor the novel A Walk To Remember [Nicholas Sparks]!

Exams are really close!

For those who doesn't know about the show or the novel, "A Walk To Remember", it's about a guy and he's one kind of a bad boy, a popular type and he fell in love with a girl that's a church freak and everyone makes fun of her. That girl learned with him the script for the drama club and she also asked him to promise her not to fall in love with her. Which he thought at first, an easy thing. When he fell in love with her, she soon told him that she had leukemia and that's why she didn't want to be in love.

The show was so short! It's a nice show!

Sneak Peak on Chapter 4 : -

"This place is pretty expensive. You have the money?" Mikan taunted Natsume.

"I didn't know Natsume and Mikan are together. It's not fair." Rika pouted, but a smile came across her lips.

"Care to be my girl?" Natsume asked Mikan, taking her hand into his.

SonyaShuen