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Chapter 4: When it comes to realize it.

Time passed quickly today, and finally it was student's favorite time: time to go home. As usual, Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, Hikari, and Takeru, minus Ken, were gathering in computer laboratory to share some story about their day. Daisuke, as usual kept trying to get Hikari's attention, and she dumped him as always. To tell the truth, sometimes all of them felt sorry with him, because most of chosen children were always making him as the main target for their jokes, and laughed at him, especially Takeru and Hikari.

Together, they were always laughing.

Hikari sighed as Daisuke tried to get her attention. And as always, she dumped him and continued to chatting with Miyako. Suddenly, she could hear Iori's voice as he chatted with Daisuke and Takeru.

"Is that so, Takeru-san? That's why you look so happy!" Iori stated.

"Yap, I'm glad to hear it too!" Daisuke cheered, patting Takeru's shoulder friendly.

Takeru smiled. "Tee-hee, thank you."

"Hey, what's up? Am I missing something?" Miyako asked them, exciting.

Takeru explained his story last night to her, and Miyako, with her usual cheerful behavior, squealed. "What a nice, Takeru-kun!"

Takeru just laughed. While laughing, Hikari tilted her head, feeling that her cheeks start to burning –again, because of…

Because he was laughing?

"Hikari-chan, is something wrong?" Miyako asked her.

"Eh? It's okay! Tee-hee!" she answered.

"Don't ever lie on me! I know something happen!" Miyako said. "So what's up?"

Of course she couldn't tell her with what's going on; She will tease her and tell the whole Chosen Children, especially the main suspicious person like Mimi, Taichi, and Yamato. The four of them will tease both of them even more than usual.

"I said nothing happened," she answered.

"Okay if you didn't dare to tell me." Miyako said, glaring angrily.

Hikari just sighed, not even caring with her glare.

"Umm… Miyako-san, if she didn't want to tell you, don't urge her to tell it," Takeru said

He was in her side now. He was always in her side, always.

"Maybe she is thinking about me. Ne? Hikari-chan?" Daisuke asked her.

All of them were just sweat dropping before starting to laugh. Soon, Iori, Daisuke, and Takeru back to their topics, about sports, she guessed.

Meanwhile, Miyako still looked at her curiously, trying to find out what'd happened with her. "Ne, Hikari-chan, I'm really curious about what's going on, I won't tease you, I promise! So, could you tell me? Pretty please?"

Of course she didn't believe her, and will never. Although Miyako won't tease her today, but she never said that she won't tease next several days.

"I said nothing happen –"

Even before she finished her statement, she heard Takeru was bursting of laughter, maybe Daisuke made some of his unreasonable joke? And before she realized it, she already watched him laughing. She can't do anything, but smiling on it.

"A-HA! I KNOW IT! YEAH I KNOW IT! YEAHHH! FINALLY YOU REALIZE IT! MIMI-SAN, YAMATO-SAN, AND TAICHI-SAN SHOULD KNOW THIS!" a sudden laughter and scream came from Miyako's mouth.

And of course, she immediately woke up from her daydream. "Wha –" she asked. "What did you know?"

"Our dreams were coming true! Finally Hikari-chan! Yiipeee!" Miyako said, holding both of her hands happily and shaking it.

"What kind of dream?" Hikari asked her, sweat dropping with Miyako's weird action.

"You are liking Takeru-kun, right?" she asked, smirking.

Hikari immediately blushed as she heard Miyako's question about her liking him. "WHA… WHAT..?!" she asked curiously. "No! No! Of course not! He is my best friend!"

"Yeah, best-friend-to-be-a-couple, right?" she said, starting to get closer to Hikari's face.

Hikari just kept silent as she looked at Miyako. Blushing, of course. "Oh plus, if you didn't like him, why did you blush so hard? It looks like you get a fever," Miyako rolled her eyes. "Fever of love, I mean, awww!"

She knew that Takeru heard their topics because Miyako's voice was very loud. She felt embarrassed with this and decided to say sorry later.

But, she didn't know that, Takeru's face was also blushing until Iori declared it with a bit loud voice that could be heard. "Ne, Takeru-san, what's wrong? Why did your face get so red? Are you sick?"

Miyako quickly squeled. "SEE, HIKARI-CHAN?! HIS FACE IS RED! HE IS BLUSHING TOO! MEANS THAT HE HEARD ALL OF IT!" Miyako said, getting too excited with this. "HE LIKES YOU! NOW, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO AND SAY IT!"

The two of them knew that she, together with Mimi and their brothers were always tried to make a 'matchmaking games' to them. But seemed that… they didn't care about it at all.

"MIYAKO-SAN, YOUR VOICE ARE SO LOUD YOU KNOW! COULD YOU CALM DOWN? PLEASE!" Hikari asked.

"YEAH, UNTIL YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY WERE YOU BLUSHING!" she said happily.

Takeru really wanted to help her, but not with the face like this. His face was burning right now and it won't help her, on the other hand Miyako will tease them even more. Miyako kept teasing on her until finally, Daisuke statement save both of them.

"MIYAKO! SHE DOESN'T LIKE HIM!" Daisuke said, pointing his finger to Takeru, and then to himself. "MAYBE SHE IS THINKING ABOUT ME!"

Both of them silent, before starting to laugh very hard, again. Of course, Miyako was the hardest. "Of course not!" she replied. "And maybe, never!"

Soon, they started to yell at each other. The three remained just watched this amusing scene, sweat dropping.

But because of that, they were save. Thanks to Daisuke.

"Ja Ne!" Hikari said to all of them. She decided to say sorry to Takeru tomorrow morning. She felt so tired because of Miyako crazy behavior.

"Wait a sec," Takeru said. "can I walk you home?"

Miyako's eyes immediately sparkled with some excitement as she heard Takeru's statement, looking at them happily. "A-HA! T LOOKS LIKE HE IS READY TO CONFESS, HIKARI-CHAN!" she said, using her sparkling eyes. "GOOD LUCK, TAKERU-KUN! I WILL SUPPORT YOU WITH ALL OF MY HEART~"

Daisuke started to yell at her. Again, the three remained just sweat dropped with this.

During their way to her mansion, they just kept silent, until finally she decided to break the uncomfortable silent. "Ne Takeru-kun, I'm sorry,"

"For what?" he asked, a bit wonder.

"About Miyako-san," she said, sighing. "I wonder why she never got tired about it,"

Takeru just chuckled with her sigh, shrugging "That's our Miyako-san, I can't really tell you why," he said, shrugging. "actually I want to say sorry too for not helping you when she teased you back then because –"

"Because of what?" she asked.

"Because... I also blushed at that time. She will tease us even more if I helped you," he said, sighing.

"Why are you blushing?" she asked, pretending not to see his red face.

"I don't know, maybe because she said best-friend-to-be-a-couple," he answered, hiding his blush and scratching his hair.

"O… Oh..."

Both of them kept silent… again...

She looked at him once more, at his burning face, It was red, very red. But for her, he was very cute with a face like that.

And she looked at his eyes, his beautiful eyes.

She is sure that… it's an eternal reflection.

Again, she could feel her burning cheeks, feeling her fast heart beats. It was too fast. This was always happened every time she looked at him since the last two days, and she never felt like this way before, when they were eight, or eleven. Was she sick? Or maybe he was spreading a germ? Of course not.

Or… was she… really liking him?

'No, no!' she thought, shaking her head.

"Ne, Hikari-chan, are you okay? Is something wrong in my face?" he asked.

"No, nothing! Really!" she said, waving her hands awkwardly.

He looked at her worriedly, putting his hand on her forehead which it could be say, making her heart beats faster even more. "You look so red, are you sick?"

"You aren't hot. What's wrong with you?" he asked, still resting his hand on her forehead.

She blushed even more, waving her hands once more. "No, nothing!"

"Really?" he asked once more before receiving a nod. "If you need anything you can just ask me, okay?"

Nodding like a little girl as a yes, he smiled a bit, and she realized that, she loved his smile. Yeah, his smile.

She hid her head for the rest of the walk, putting both of her hands on her mouth, blushing. She guessed she knew why her heart always beat faster every time she looked at him, noticing his smile, his laughter, his voice on her will also send some heartbeats, and her cheeks will join and be red pretty soon: It's all because she liked to see all part of him. But the most important thing was because…

Because… Miyako's words were right.

She liked him.

And she knew, this was not a feeling between friendship, nor the way she liked the others as a friend, but…

This was another weird feelings between a girl and a boy.

And she won't deny the fact anymore. She liked him not only as her best friend, but also as a boy.