Moon-chan: I know that people have been waiting with baited breath for the next one-shot in this series, and I am glad to say that this one is to one of my favorite songs on this album.

Shade: Do you have to talk about the songs every time you write a song-fic?

Moon-chan: No, but I like to let everyone know which songs I prefer.

Amu: So is this another one where I have to get up and sing in front of a ton of people, a lot of other fanfiction authors have me do that.

Moon-chan: Nope, you're doing everything in the safety of your bedroom.

Ikuto: (smirk) Do I smell a lemon in the making?

Moon-chan: (picks up The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe then hits Ikuto with it) No, I don't write lemons, never will, you flecking Pervert!

Shade: Yaya, can you do the disclaimer before Moon-nee kills Ikuto for the lemon comment?

Yaya: Sure, Shade-chi! Monzepelmoon, does not own Shugo Chara nor the song Hey Stephen!

Hey Stephen

Amu sat in her room thinking about how she felt about Ikuto and how she hasn't seen him in a while. She knew that he had his reasons for not being there, but she missed him. She missed him a lot, even though if she were asked directly about her feelings she would immediately deny everything. Then she turned on her radio on to help soothe her nerves, but when the song by Taylor Swift started to play her mind went back to Ikuto.

Hey Stephen, I know looks can be deceiving but I know I saw a light in you
As we walked we were talking and I didn't say half the things I wanted to
Of all the girls tossing rocks at your window
I'll be the one waiting there even when it's cold
Hey Stephen, boy you might have me believing I don't always have to be alone.

Amu knew that other girls liked Ikuto, and she knew that his interest in her was probably something that would pass in time. He said he loved her, but he was seventeen, he couldn't know for a fact that she was the one for him, heck she was still just a kid, not even worth his notice. She wouldn't admit to anyone, but she did love him too, every time he would come over to her house and look at her with indigo eyes and that smirk she wouldn't be able to do anything, but smile inwardly, because god forbid she actually show Ikuto any affection. She never told him anything that she felt, and she really wanted to, but she knew that she shouldn't burden him with a crush on someone so much older.

'cause I can't help it if you look like an angel
Can't help I if I wanna kiss you in the rain so
Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you
Can't help it if there's no one else
I can't help myself

Amu started to dance around her room singing along with the song on the radio, her eyes closed. She danced around the room not noticing when the window to her balcony opened and admitted the very person that she was thinking of.

Ikuto watched as the girl he loved moved along to the music as if she were singing to someone, and not knowing who that person was hurt him deeply. He wanted Amu all to himself even though he knew that she was someone that would be forever out of his reach, she acted so shy around him, a side of her that no one else had ever seen. Ikuto knew that someday she would end up with Tadase, and then he would be forever that friend that watched out for her and protected her from herself.

Hey Stephen, I've been holding back this feeling
So I've got some things to say to you
I seen it all so I thought but I never seen nobody shine the way you do
The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name
It's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change
Hey Stephen, why are people always leaving
I think you and I should stay the same

Amu was in her last year of high school, and she remembered how she felt when Ikuto had left to look for his father. She wanted to tell him then, but she couldn't get the words out not even when she thought that she would never see him again. She wanted to tell him everything, everything that he had missed while he was in Europe touring with the orchestra that his father had been with, but she felt as though she wouldn't seen him not for a long time. Since he left that second time right after Kari's sister's wedding she hadn't gone out with anyone, not even Nagihiko and Rima could get her to stop moping about Ikuto being gone, though it was only those that knew her very well that saw that she wasn't acting normal.

'cause I can't help it if you look like an angel
Can't help I if I wanna kiss you in the rain so
Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you
Can't help it if there's no one else
I can't help myself

She knew that it was raining outside, and the sun was coming up, she had been unable to sleep, her thoughts too full of Ikuto to let her sleep. She continued to dance smiling softly still unaware that Ikuto was in the very room with her.

They're dimming the street lights
You're perfect for me why aren't you here tonight?
I'm waiting alone now so come on and come out and pull me near
Shine, shine, shine Hey Stephen I could give you fifty reasons why I should be the one you choose
All those other girls, well they're beautiful but would they write a song for you

She could give about a thousand reasons why he wouldn't…couldn't love her even after he had told her this repeatedly over the years. Amu knew that there were tones of girls that he could choose from. She knew that she wasn't the only one out there that cared about Ikuto. She smirked though as that thought came to mind because she was probably the only girl that Utau would let anywhere near her big brother, the girl may have gotten over her brother complex, but she was still very over protective of him.

'cause I can't help it if you look like an angel
Can't help I if I wanna kiss you in the rain so
Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you
Can't help it if there's no one else
I can't help myself

'cause I can't help it if you look like an angel
Can't help I if I wanna kiss you in the rain so
Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you
Can't help it if there's no one else
I can't help myself
Myself, can't help myself
I can't help myself.

When the song ended Amu opened her eyes to see Ikuto sitting on her bed like he had some many times before, that she had lost count. Breathless she asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see you," he replied looking into her bright amber eyes.

"Why me, I'm just some high school student that you met when you were in high school, I'm not much of anything. There are plenty of other girls that would suit you much better than I would," she said looking away from his hypnotizing eyes.

"I don't love those other girls," he whispered as he took her hand and pulled her toward him gently.

"You don't love me, Ikuto. Trust me, you can't love a little kid," Amu said bitterly not looking at him.

"I do though," Ikuto told me as he took her chin in his free hand and turned her so that she was looking at him. "I love you Hinamori Amu, and there is no one that can take your place in my heart, the only question here is do you love me." I looked deep into her eyes as she tried to turn her face away so that he couldn't see what her eyes would tell him. Her eyes told him that she loved him, and she didn't want to be hurt. She was singing about him, he realized at that moment. "You little idiot," he whispered as he pulled her into his embrace. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Amu buried her face in his chest and mumbled her answer, but Ikuto heard her, "I was afraid that you could just be lying or telling me what I wanted to hear."

"Amu, my little strawberry, I would never lie to you. I love you too much to lie to you."

"I know that now, you always come back to me, even when you don't know when you'll be back. You never tell me to forget, you just asked me to wait for you or to hurry and grow up."

"I know," Ikuto paused to lift her head so that she was looking at him again. "Amu, I've been wanting to ask you this for years, and now that you are about to graduate from high school. I was wondering if you would marry me?"

Amu's eyes widened in comprehension, Ikuto really did love her. Amu looked into his eyes and saw the love that he constantly professed to her as well as the fear that she would refuse him. Amu swallowed and then gave a quick jerky nod before replying softly, "Yes, Ikuto. I will marry you. I love you, I always have… I just couldn't get myself to say it before."

Ikuto smiled as he leaned down so that his face was level with hers. "I know, Amu. You were afraid, and I understand that. At this moment though, you've made me the happiest man alive." Ikuto then kissed her on her forehead. "I love you, and I will not leave you ever, no matter what happens…we'll have each other."

Amu looked up at him her heart in her eyes, "I knew I saw a light in you Ikuto." Then Ikuto kissed her and all thoughts flew out the window into the rainy dawn.

Fin

Moon-chan: I think this is one of the longest song-fics that I've written for this series.

Shade: I thought it was cute, but a little cliché with that last line that you had Amu say.

Amu: I thought the line tied everything together.

Yaya and Pepe: Amu-chi and Ikuto-kun sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…

Moon-chan: Sorry, Ikuto won't be talking for a while he's in trouble still.

Shade: She tied him up and put him in a room full of dogs as punishment, after she knocked him out with her book earlier.
Amu: You'd think that he would learn not to say stupid stuff around Moon-chan (Shakes head).

Moon-chan: Please R&R, thank you for reading…the next one-shot should be up by the nineteenth, if it isn't PM me to remind me to do it. Sayonara until next time!