'llo guys! Sorry for the long wait hehe

Thanks sooo much you guys for all the favorites, follows, and "hurry up and update!"s that pushed me to finally crank out another chapter. Sorry for being so lazy!

-Neko


Kiyoteru dropped his glasses. Again.

"What?"

Miku stifled a giggle. After a whole weekend's worth of stewing in rage, Lily and Kiyoteru finally stormed after the new couple with only one question in mind:

"What the hell do you think you are doing?"

Lily pushed a sheepish Kaito into the computer lab while Kiyoteru strolled into an empty classroom with Miku. She raised a curious eyebrow at the flustered boy who promptly dropped his glasses at her glower.

Of course, it wouldn't do to reveal anything big now, so she told him the truth. Or, at least an exaggerated version of the truth. They were relaxed... they were happy... they were dating... but no worries, they were fine.

And then Kiyoteru decided to play Sherlock. His slender rectangular lenses were still fogged up and a bit smudged from their sudden topple to the floor, but he now stood up straight and asked her plainly.

"Then how did it happen?"

Miku feigned innocence. "How did what happen?" Surely he wasn't serious. He would give up sooner or later. Kiyoteru was smart and handsome, but one thing he didn't have was guts.

"Don't act cute, Hatsune. I know you're faking it."

Well, shit.

"Oh it's real," Miku smirked, thinking up a plan.

Quickly, quickly. It had to sound realistic!

But Miku wasn't an actress for nothing.

She inhaled a deep breath and closed her eyes before snapping them back open and looking at Kiyo with a slight shrug of the shoulders. "I dunno. It just kind of..."

"...happened." Kaito finished lamely in the computer lab down the hall from Miku. He looked at the clock. School was over by almost twenty minutes. Surely there had to be someone still around? Anyone?

"It just kind of happened? It just kind of happened?" Lily shrieked, placing the back of her hand to her head in a swoon. "Oh.. my goodness... Can't you come up with something better than that? If you're going to lie, you can at least -"

"I'm not lying," said Kaito, trying to reason his way out, gritting his teeth and mentally shooting daggers at his crush. He didn't like lying, he really didn't. He wasn't very good at it either. He wasn't like Miku, who could lie her way through anything if she wanted to, with flawless speech and realistic emotions.

But this was a special circumstance. This plan had to work, and it had to work well. If he failed... Kaito shook his head. "I really -"

"Relationships don't just pop up and happen, Kaito. They have to grow and -"

Something snapped, and Kaito grew numb. Realization washed over him. Maybe they had been planning this all along. It wasn't some mere coincidence that the KiyoLily couple had happened. This idea had been thought out long before.

"Well, the last time I checked, you and Kiyoteru popped up and happened."

Lily froze. "But that's... different."

Kaito kept his face stone cold as he said, "This is too."

"Well, fine!" Miku rolled her eyes. "Fine! I'll tell you the truth. Everything - I'll tell it to you. I-If that's what you want, then go ahead!"

Kiyoteru smirked. "So what's the truth?"

"He... kissed... me!"

Kiyoteru dropped his glasses with a clatter.

"I kissed her."

Kaito stared at her, waiting for her reaction, and was rewarded with an icy look of surprise that spread through Lily's eyes.

"You're kidding, you would never..."

"It was after school, the day you chose him over me. We were alone on..."

"... the way home. We were walking together, and talked about various things. Namely you two, but that's not the point." Kiyoteru stared at Miku with a look of disbelief.

"I realized something, I guess. I realized that I liked her. This whole time, when I thought I'd been crushing on you, I was actually denying my love for her. I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going at this point..."

"He... he uh, fell. He was thinking about something and he just toppled over. Tripped over a block of air. The thing is, he brought me along with him, and we both went down."

"We ended up on top of each other. Staring at each other. Barely an inch apart. And it happened. I kissed her. It happened." Kaito shook his head and laughed.

"I forgot all about you in an instant."

He stood up and left, leaving a stunned Lily behind.


Miku sat at home, gnawing on the end of her pencil with contempt. She had finished the rest of her math problems with ease, but there was a rough draft for English that she still had to write.

She wondered if Kaito was doing okay. He had left the school a few minutes before her, and she had heard the light echoes of his footsteps. She almost caught up to him, but immediately recognized the look in his eyes. He didn't want to talk. Miku stopped and watched him walk away. Things like this didn't happen too often to the carefree Kaito. She'd only seen him like this twice, and those times were early in their childish middle school stages.

She knew he didn't like to lie - heck, she didn't like it either. She just happened to get away with it because of the face she put on. It took more than a little something to push Kaito over the edge, and that something was easily done by anyone he cared about.

So what had Lily said?

She frowned and crumpled up her twentieth sheet of notebook paper and tore out another one to start again. It was none of her business. If Kaito was angry, let him be angry. She wasn't his actual lover. She didn't need to worry at all. Grades came first, and Kaito came last. That was the rule for as long as she could remember. As she reached forward to crumple up another poor sheet of paper, her phone lit up.

KAITO: You still owe me something.

KAITO: A date.

KAITO: Don't tell me you forgot. Meet me at the park in fifteen minutes.

Miku looked at the messages and snapped her phone shut. She smiled.

Maybe my homework can wait.