Chapter 3

The door burst open and in came a girl- brown curls, maybe a pinch of pink little spheres and sparkles. Behind her came a blond boy, but his hair almost looking white! Underneath his arm was a motorcycle helmet.

Immediately on instinct, Hanabusa wrapped his arm around Bara's waist, and Kashino grasped Ichigo's hand tightly. Strangely, both girls didn't notice. Andoh even slung his arm over Kana's shoulder.

"Ohohohoho! Looks like the Sweets Princes have found their own girlfriends! Ma-ko-to-kun!" The girl got her face right up into Kashino's, who grimaced and his face turned pale.

"What do you want, Koshiro-san?" Ichigo asked stubbornly. Apparently, she'd delt with her before.

"Ohohohoho! I have a request! Since I will be married to Makoto-kun soon, I'll need a lady-in-waiting to tend to me."

Everyone's eyes boggled.

"Like I'm gonna get married to you!" Kashino's rough tone of voice broke out. He was ready to give the woman a punch in the gut, everyone was sure.

"Kashino. I'll handle this." Bara put a hand in front of the boy to stop him. Hanabusa was upset to let Bara go- Miya was dangerous.

"Excuse me, freak, but we'll need some time to think about okay? So give us three days, come pick your new 'lady-in-waiting' up at the end, and now, get your butt outta my friend's house. Go now! SCAT!" Bara was mad, it was obvious. She hated people who weren't polite at all and accused others of doing things that they didn't really do. And Miya seemed to be that kind of person.

"OHOHOHO! All right, but let me warn you, if I don't have somebody before the three days are up, Château Seika will take over Ichigo's café and Kashino will be MINE!" The freak laughed, turned on her heel, and fled, with the white haired boy after her.

-On the Last Day, at Ichigo's House's Patio-

"Let's just ignore it." Kashino was the first one who spoke.

"We can't just do that! Koshiro was serious back there, and something tells me that she will take over Ichigo-chan's café if we don't give her what she wants," Rumi recalled. Most of them were scared, it wasn't everyday some random person barged into your house and ordered to have a lady-in-waiting.

"Yeah! Rumi is right! We can't just diddle-dally about this!" Lemon said. "Let's send Hanabusa, she'll want him."

"If I'm correct, Koshiro wanted a LADY-in-waiting?" Kana told them.

"I am pretty as a girl though," Hanabusa said, with as much elegance in his tone as he could offer.

"IDIOT! Get a hold of yourself!" Bara (crazily) bonked him on the head with her fist. She looked really puzzled and confused, and what better way to flatten those feelings then to beat up your own boyfriend?

"Maybe I should go," Bara noted. The rest stared at her with strange looks. "Why would you go?" Andoh asked her.

"Because I'm the only one who doesn't have business here! Ichigo has a shop to run, Kana helps her, Rumi and Lemon are busy helping Ichigo, and sometimes they go to sell stuff at the flea market to make money! Me? I'm just an innocent little girl from Kor-" She stopped abruptly. Her lips pursed into a thin line. I blew it, she thought to herself. And the next thing you know, I'm gonna start calling Hanabusa my

"Op-"

Darn! Oppa? Seriously Bara! Quit it!

"Bara?" Hanabusa quietly got up from his chair. "Don't tell me, you're"

"Korean? Yeah, whatever, now I better go and pack because Koshiro is coming in a few hours." The girl fled from the patio and went into the house before anyone could say anything.

"Ichigo? Can you explain?" Kashino asked.

(Storytime!)

"Alright, fine." Ichigo took a deep breath.

"Bara is actually Korean. But usually, she just stays in Korea because here, when she was still in school; people picked on her, bullied her, and teased her just because she was Korean. Even after she graduated from high school, she was still afraid. She almost never, ever, ventures over to schools- not even St. Marie Academy. Whenever Bara comes to Japan, she plans ahead of time. At least 1 year before she comes to Japan, she stays in Korea and practices speaking in Japanese only. Sometimes, when some of her Korean friends come to visit, she pretends that she's not really home, because if she opens the door she'll have to start speaking in Korean, and it usually spreads throughout the rest of her vocabulary. Whenever she goes grocery shopping, she doesn't ask any of her questions about the store and the foods that she picks out, since she is afraid to speak her native language. Both of her parents are dead, they both got killed in a car-crash. Bara is an orphan. That's why she was really, really scared about Hanabusa-kun becoming close to her. She didn't want to be picked on again."

Ichigo finished with tears in her eyes. No doubt, the rest of the girls were crying too, for they had known it for so long- now the beans were all spilled. All of them.

Hanabusa was shocked. He stood up from his chair, which crashed to the floor, and immediately raced into the house to find Bara.

-Meanwhile…-

Bara zipped up her luggage and double checked all the pockets of her backpack. When Mr.I'm-as-pretty-as-a-girl had to come.

He came running, and panting, his tie nearly coming off. "B-bara!"

And all of a sudden, she felt sorry for the helpless boy. He must've had a bad past, he wanted the attention. All of it. But she wasn't so sure. "What happened to you?"

Hanabusa wrapped his arms around her. "Oh, Bara, I'm so sorry. I will never, ever, ever, pick on you. I promise."

Bara was stunned, but she felt happy. So very happy. She'd never felt this since the day her parents died and she was sent to a horrible orphanage- her parents were both single children, and her grandparents were dead. There were no relatives- just herself. She had been so lonely, and now there was this brave man, her knight in shining armor, ready to take her away from her fire-breathing dragon life, and to live in a marble castle where the drinks were free and she had all the time in the world to live the life she wanted.

"Let's fix that tie." Bara pulled herself away from Hanabusa, and pushed the knot to the neck. She smiled gently at him. "Oppa, I don't want to go," she said just below a whisper. "Oppa."

Hanabusa kissed her gently on the lips. He wanted to have that feeling before she left to work for the Heiress.

Bara patted him on the head and dug through her bag- "Here." She dropped a piece of paper into Hanabusa's hand. "Keep this, you'll need it. I'm always at the back."

"What- wait-"

He heard a car honking.

Bara smiled. "That's my ride. See you, Oppa!" She pecked him on the cheek before he could even think, and walked briskly in her black high heels to go outside and ride to her new home.

The words 'See you, Oppa!' rang in his ears over and over again. So many times that he could barely think.

LOVE the word Oppa now! .