Sorry for the spelling mistakes. Guess I type a little TOO fast for my own good. My lengths of the chapters aren't important, the message is.

In the weeks following, Len and Rin grew closer. Went out with each other to places throughout the town. To the movies when the movie that they both were dying to see, and Len paid for her. Kaito enjoyed watching them grow closer together and felt nice having played a part in bringing them together. Kaito, though, now had feelings for the new girl that had been transferred from a distant school, Luka Megurine. She had long, usually flowing, pink hair that reached down to her thighs and usually wore a black blouse followed by a black skirt lined with gold at the rims of both the waist and bottom edges. Kaito's "feelings of love" weren't shared with anyone, not even Len and Miku, who he trusted completely. They both, though, noticed he got silent and bashful whenever Luka walked by them in the halls and it wasn't like Kaito to get silent around anyone. As he said "No one is a stranger" and "Talking comes natural.", so Len and Miku wanted to know why, but Miku dreaded what she'd hear.

"Hey, Kaito?" Len said as the three of them were walking to Miku's house on that Friday. It was Miku's turn to have their usual "bi-weekly sleepovers" that they never outgrew since their childhood. Kaito always brought his gaming console along with him when he went to either Miku or Len's house.

"Yeah? What's up?"

"Why do you get all tongue-tied every time Luka walks by in class? Even in Algebra... She's got that class with us too and you don't answer as many questions as you used to since she got to our school."

"I.. uh..." Kaito was stuttering as Miku looked at him with eyes like they were expecting something deathly to happen "I think she's cute. That's why." Miku felt her heart shatter. Her crush, that she knew for so long, has a crush on another girl. When they got to her house, Miku went into the kitchen and got some snacks for her friends as they hooked up the system to her living room television. They spent all the hours of the night before they went to bed playing the most recent Naruto game, which Kaito always played and no one could beat him at it. After the final game between Len and Kaito, that Kaito won, they went upstairs and got in the sleeping bags that Miku's mother set up as they were downstairs.

When Kaito was sound asleep, and not even the sound of a stampede of oxen could wake him, Miku crawled over to Len to talk to him. She nudged him in his side.

"Len... Len c'mon wake up. I really need someone to talk to..." Miku begged.

"Miku?" Len said, confused "Wha-what're you doing? It's... three in the morning..."

"I know... it's just..." Miku blushed and couldn't say what she needed to "I... forget it. Sorry, Len. Go back to sleep..."

"Miku... I'm your friend. You can tell me anything."

"But I can't tell you everything. Just let it be. I'm sorry for waking you." Miku went back over to her bed and Len laid his head back down to sleep like he dropped the idea, but Len knew what she wanted to talk to him about. He saw that Miku had feeling for Kaito since they started to bud and hoped that they would be together, but with Luka coming into the picture, he could only hope that Kaito will make the right choice and pick Miku.

Tears flowed down Miku's face as she laid down. She knew that she didn't have any courage to tell either Len or Kaito her feelings. She wasn't that type of girl. "Why can't I do it... I get so close! And then just chicken out at the last second!" Miku thought "If I can't do that... Then I guess Kaito won't ever know... And go with Luka... It's for the best..."

The following weeks at school, before the start of their two week winter break from school, Kaito told Len, Miku, and Rin that he was going to ask Luka out on a date and that Len and Rin could join them to make it a double date. Len and Rin said yes, Kaito just needed a response from Luka. Miku asked her Mom to get her out of school early that last day of school before the break. The day Kaito was going to ask. She didn;t want to be there when he did. It'd make her feel even worse for not telling him about her feelings.

"Hey Luka!" Kaito yelled from down the street of their school behind her.

"Who-" Luka said as she turned around to face him "Oh hi, Kaito. What's up?"

"I know this is all of the sudden, but do you maybe want to go out to get something to eat later? I mean... you don't have to and it's okay if you don't want to but I was just wond-" Luka stopped his sentence with her hand over his mouth.

"So nervous, are you?" Kaito nodded "I'll go." She looked past him and saw Len and Rin behind him, holding hands. "Are they going with us?" Kaito nodded again "I don't really... DO double dates..."

"Oh well... uh..." Kaito stepped back to talk with Len and Rin.

"I know what you're going to ask." Len said "And the answer is yes if you really want to make this mistake."

"Mistake?" Kaito asked in confusion "What do you mean?"

'You'll know what I mean when the time comes..." Len said as he turned around "C'mon, Rin. Lets go. I have to tell you something." Len grabbed her arm and walked down the street to Rin's house. Kaito watched them until he couldn't see them anymore.

"What's his problem?" Luka said after they were out of earshot.

"I don't..." Kaito was speechless.

"We going out or not? You seem nice." Luka held Kaito's hand and Kaito led her to the restaurant that he had planned to take her to.

At Rin's house, Len was exploding with rage at his friend and how oblivious he was to how much Miku cared for him. Rin was scared because she had never seen Len act like this and Len nearly wrecked her room as her mother was out shopping for presents for her family members.

"Len! Stop!" She finally yelled with tears.

"I..." Len snapped back to reality and saw that he had wrecked her room "Oh.. Rin..."

"My room... Len..."

"I'll get it back together. Don't worry. I don't know what came over me..." Len cleaned up his mess and sat down next to Rin on her bed as she was grasping her cat pillow "I'm sorry..."

"I never saw you act like that... Ever." Rin said "Are you.. Does it have to do with Kaito?"

"Yeah... How oblivious he can be. Honestly thinks he can find happiness with that pink haired girl. You're seen how Miku acts around him too, right?"

"What do you mean, Len? You think Miku loves Kaito and Luka is deterring her?"

"No... I think Miku has trouble speaking her mind to him. A few weeks ago, we had our bi-weekly sleepover, we had them ever since we were little, and she wanted to talk to me about 'something'. I've seen how she acted around Kaito before, but lately she's been shy around him, so i thought that 'something' was Kaito and we would talk about her feeling for him. But before she talked, she blushed brigh red and crawled back to her bed. Rin: Miku does love Kaito."

"But Kaito loves Luka." Rin responded "How can you tell him how his love life goes?"

"I'm not."

"It sure sounds like it."

"I'm just saying he's making a mistake with Luka and WILL find himself heartbroken if she stays with her and doesn't get with Miku. That's it. I don't want to tell him this because he's so head strong with his decisions that he won't change them unless something terribly wrong happens along with the decision." Rin grabbed Len's arms and laid him down next to her.

"It won't help us if we worry about it. Let him make his own decisions." She undid Len's pony tail, cuddled up on him, and gave him a kiss. "You're right, Len. He does need to know how Miku feels. We'll both tell him, tomorrow. But tonight, just think if me." Rin kissed him again and crept her hand up his shirt.