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Chapter 8- Falling for my Prince

"Ne Fate, Aren't you ever going to tell her?" Hayate said as she sat up from her futon

Fate, snuggled in her futon turned her head from the speaker and ignored the question.

"Fate. Why don't you tell her the truth…that you're Prince? Fate." Hayate tried again, however received no reply.

"Answer me Fate!" the annoyed brunette said as she shook Fate.

"S-Stop it." The blonde said as she sat up and stared at Hayate.

"Answer me." The atmosphere suddenly turned serious and both of them started to feel a bit awkward.

"…Because she will come to hate me." Fate said so softly that it seem like a whisper while looking away.

"You've made her hate you so many times already. What gives?"

"But this lie…I've deceived her for so long…"

"Y-You really l-love her don't you" Hayate managed, jealousy rolled out of her tongue.

Fate nodded and blushed.

"WHY! She's hurt you so many times….WHY!" Fate's eyes immediately turned and looked at Hayate who shuffled closer to her.

Hayate got out of her futon and before Fate knew what she was doing, the brunette had already tucked herself in Fate's futon, embracing her and hiding her face in the blonde's chest.

"H-Hayate! W-"

Fate was cut off by Hayate's lips that was placed firmly on hers. Fate's eyes widen in shock and she knew that this wasn't a joke. Hayate was serious.

Before Fate could react, the brunette pulled back, still straddling the blonde, a single tear escaped her eyes."Let me tell you a story…Fate..."Fate didn't know what to do so she nodded and the brunette leaned closer to Fate so that she was now literally on Fate. Her head resting on her clavicle, her arms on her chest and her legs entwined with the blonde's. Fate went red.

"There once was a girl, a girl whose dream was to become a professional drummer. But her parents died at a very young age and the girl spent half of her life in the orphanage and had no one. One day she decided to escape the cell and she did. During the first days of her escape she lived in the streets and the only thing she carried with her was a set of mini drums she stole from the orphanage school. But no one stopped to even care about the teenage girl who was living in the slums. No one…" Hayate stopped and snuggled in closer to Fate. " No one….except a blonde haired girl. Lets name her Atef. Atef stopped and talked to the girl, and even gave the girl a chance to create a band with her and her brother. At first the girl was hesitant, but Atef outstretched her hands and told me to trust her. She even gave the girl a stage name, not any stage name, but one with a deep meaning. She fell in love." Fate's eyes widen. " Earning enough money, the girl enrol to the same school as Atef. There she met a mysterious girl who felt like a magnet to her and she was attracted. Not until later did she know that that girl with the mask was Atef. Every single day the girl would fall more and more for Atef." Hayate's arm embraced the blonde's neck and she pressed herself even closer to Fate. "Hayate…" Hayate pulled herself upwards, her arms were on both sides of Fate's head and her knees on the sides of Fate's thighs. She looked down on the blonde. "I love you Fate. I love you." Tears streamed down the brunette's face and landed softly on the blonde. "…so much….so much." Tears were uncontrollably dripping from Hayate's face and without a word, Fate pulled Hayate towards her and hugged her. "I love you Fate…I love you…I love you." Hayate cried.

(Watashi no Ouji sama)

The winter rain drizzled down the vicinity and the storms did not seem like it was getting any better. Nanoha shuddered for the sixth time that morning. She wasn't shaking from the winter cold, in fact she didn't even know why she was shuddering this intensely. What she saw this morning wasn't an unusual sight, she saw it every morning, but this particular morning she couldn't help but sense something strange. Hayate clinging onto Fate's arm was just an usual daily sight with no mutual emotions involved. She was so sure of that fact, so sure, however deep down she felt it, she felt something strange about the pair this morning. Something she was sure she wouldn't be happy finding out.

The blued eyed brunette glanced at her teacher who was busy scribbling notes on the white board. She then glanced at her class to see they were all concentrated on copying the notes. Well, exams were coming up and writing down the teacher's notes seemed like the right idea. But Nanoha just couldn't focus on her classes, the image of Hayate and Fate burned in her mind. Their careless smile, their intimate touch and their light blush on their cheeks. She took the courage to glance behind her, at Fate. But what she saw did not please her eyes or mind or anything. Because what she saw was much worst than the image this morning. The new brunette comer had her mouth pressed on her childhood blonde best friend's soft pink luscious lips. The blonde looked surprised but she soon closed her eyes. Nanoha couldn't see anymore, and ran out of the classroom. She couldn't believe it, they were actually together now. She was so sure that it was just a temporary intimacy. She was certain Fate did not feel anything towards the forceful brunette. But she was all wrong, she had always been wrong and always too full of herself. She deserved this, she concluded.

The rain continued to fall through the evening. Nanoha had been on the park seat for almost 4 hours now, she had walked to the park seat since the end of school and sat there like a stone statue. The rain didn't help as it kept pouring. After a few hours later, Nanoha stood up from the wooden soaked seat and started walking. She didn't want to head home yet, she didn't want her mother to see her sad and unhappy. That was sure to put a arrow in her family if they were to see her in this mood. So she walked and walked, she had no aim. Her head was held down. Minutes later, she stopped, and looked up to see that she was right in front of Fate's apartment. She walked up the stairs walked towards Fate's apartment keeping her eyes on Fate's door, until she heard a creak from the blonde's door, and out poked Hayate's head.

"Fate! You back?" The short haired brunette said as she opened the door but instead saw no one standing outside her door. She glanced around, from left to right before shrugging it off and closing the brown door. Standing back up from her fall, which was caused from the rush to get back down to avoid being seen from Hayate, Nanoha sobbed. Pain? She felt none, only the one in her heart, that pain intensified as soon as she realized that Hayate and Fate were actually living together and probably doing all sorts of things, things that she will never be able to do with the one she loved.

The brunette sliently walked down the stairs, as she reached the last step she tripped and slowly crawled herself out so she was out of view of Fate's apartment. As soon as that was done, she stayed down, not caring if the ground was wet or that she was soaking and cold. None of that mattered anymore. Nanoha trembled in the breeze that hit her and she cried sliently to herself. Nanoha had no intention of getting up, mostly because she didn't really care what happens to her anymore. The heart broken teenager snuggled close to the wall of the apartment and let the rain slowly drop on her.

Suddenly a warm leather jacket was placed on top of Nanoha who immediately looked up and saw that she was covered by an umbrella as well.
"Are you an idiot or something, you're going to catch a cold! Dammit!" The blonde comer yelled at the now dripping brunette. "Prince..." Nanoha murmured. "Prince?" Fate looked back in a puzzled expression, as she touched her face and realized her mask and glasses weren't actually there. I left it at home! Fate took one of Nanoha's arm and pulled her up. "I've got to get you home." "I don't want to." Nanoha whispered which was just audible for the blonde. Fate sighed and bent down to meet Nanoha's level. "We've got to get you dried though." Nanoha simply nodded. The blonde looked around the area, and contemplated where she could bring Nanoha. Her house was off bounds, as then her secret would be revealed. Studio. The studio was originally not a studio but in actual fact a house with all the essential items. Therefore it was the best and only place to take Nanoha at the moment. Having that thought in mind, Fate scooped the shivering and trembling girl off her legs and raced towards the band's studio.

Fate waited on the king sized bed for the brunette who was having a shower, after bandaging her chest with her emergency bandage in case, cases like these happen. She had never seen Nanoha in that state before. Sure there was times when she cried and threw a tantrum but the afterwards she would be back to normal. This time was different. She wasn't throwing a tantrum yet she was slient, and that was a sight that Fate was not willing to see ever again. Who did this to her? She glanced up at the clock situated in the middle of living room. 10:45, it read. It's been an hour since Nanoha entered the bathroom and the sound of the shower was still on. The blonde threw away her previous thoughts and barged in the locked door of the bathroom, not caring what she will see when she got there, well she did care, of course she cared, but now was not the time. Nanoha was sitting in the shower, and crying mercifully to herself as the water from the shower head poured on her like a stream. Fate opened the door of the shower and held the shivering brunette, to notice that the water was cold, freezing.
"N-Nanoha! What are you trying to do!" The brunette was quivering like crazy, and she refused to get out of the shower. "Fine. I'll stay here with you." Fate remarked as she stood closer to Nanoha, covering her from the cold water. "P-Prince...leave." Nanoha murmured.
"Not if you don't leave with me." The prince retorted back. The brunette couldn't believe the warmth that was given to her at the moment and grasped Fate's jacket like it was her life. "P-Prince, Prince,Prince,Prince,Prince." Nanoha repeated and cried out. "I'm here for you." Fate said as she gently stroked the girl.

Doing the last button of the shirt Fate borrowed the brunette, Fate looked down at the girl who was sitting sliently on the bed. "Nanoha..." Fate's eyebrows curled in sadness as she saw the girl's gloomy expression. "Prince...I.." Once again Nanoha started the tears, and on an impulse, Fate pulled her in for a hug. "The person...I love...this might be stupid, but I feel like dieing just because the person I love is going out with someone else...I..." Tears wet the older girl's shirt. "Shh...I know how it feels...but you..." "But everyone loves you Prince...you have a whole audience waiting for you! I have no one but that person, yet they don't love me anymore. I have no-" "You have me, and you always will." "You're just saying that to make me feel better, you hav-" Nanoha was shut by the blonde's soft lips that gently pressed against hers. The feeling was tremendous and it felt like something had enlighten in the brunette, yet she couldn't help but feel that the kiss she was tasting now was awfully similar to the award winning kiss that was given to her from Fate. "Fate.." She said as the kiss was broken. Her eyes then widen as she saw the expression that harboured over Prince's face. "F-Fate?" "Sorry...it's just that that kiss reminded me a lot of her...d-did you learn how to kiss like that when you were going out with Fate?" Nanoha chuckled and the blonde was delighted to see it, even if it meant having several more misunderstandings placed on her. "I-I guess..." Fate said with a full blown blush. Nanoha giggled. "Thank you..."

Nanoha looked to her right side and met Prince's face on the bed. Prince was asleep, well Nanoha thought she was, and caressed the singer's face. "I love you." Nanoha mumbled, and she closed her eyes, hoping to forget about Fate and the fact that she could fall in love so quickly again with the person she swore she hated.

Fate couldn't sleep that night...her heart beat was matching with Nanoha's and a red blush was permanently painted her face until morning. Dammit, this is happening all over again.

(Watashi no Oujisama)