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Chapter 7

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Amu's POV

"I've never tried a Twix." Anna said as she picked up a choclate bar. The chocolate had been Anna's so called 'good idea'. We all walked to the candy store that was three blocks away, and Anna used her mom's credit card to buy half the store. As in, in the middle of our little circle, there's Milk Chocolate Hershey Bars, Milk Chocolate with Alomonds Hershey Bar, Dark Chocolate Hershey Bars, Crunch Bars, Snickers, Three Musketeers, Twix, Mr. Goodbar, Krackel bar, Hershey Kisses, M&M's, Penut M&M's, Chocolate with Caramel Hershey Bar, Dove Dark Chocolate, York Mints, Milk Duds, Milky Way, Reeses, Tootsie Roll, Twizlers, and a variation of many other delectable snacks.

We were playing the game 'I've Never' with soda instead of Alchohal, and at Anna's statment, Rima and I drank the soda simutaniously. Now it was my turn.

"I've never... drank any kind of alcohalic beverage." I said, biting the head off of a gummy bear. Rima drunk. I gaped at her.

"Rima!" I exclaimed, a bit bubbly from my chocolate high.

"What?!" She said defensivley. "I didn't know it had alcohal in it until I drank enough to get a hangover the next morning!" Anna snickered, but didn't say anything. I glanced at her as she picked up a caramel Hershey bar.

"I've never french kissed a guy." Rima said. Anna drunk. We both turned to her, one eyebrow raised.

"What? We're sixteen for god's sake," She said, stuffing a sour patch kid in her mouth and chugging down the rest of the soda in her cup before refilling it.

"I've never-"...

1:30am

We finished off the last of our precious chocolate and were bouncing off the walls hyperly, sad that our soda was gone too.

3:39am

We finished watching all the La Corda D'Oro reruns when Anna crashed. Our chocolate high was gone and Rima and I were humming quietly, trying to fight the sleep.

4:01am

I stopped humming three minutes ago, and now Rima stopped. Right after she stopped I heard her snore lightly. I was the only one awake now. I'll fall asleep any second. I'm done. Night.

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The Next Morning- ahem,- Afternoon

I slowly opened my eyes and closed them immediatley. The light flowing in from my open balcony window was just too bright. I sat up and looked around. Why was I on the floor beside my bed? I looked up at my bed and saw Rima in the center, arms and legs spread as wide as they would go, taking up almost all the bed. I then turned to my couch and saw Anna mumbling something and snuggling into a pillow. I yawned, stood, and stretched. Grunting, I glanced at the alarm clock. 1:13.

Scratching the back of my head, I went to the bathroom and glanced into the mirror. Then I screamed, and jumped back, suprised at my own reflection. Anna and Rima rushed in seconds later, and then I figured out what had happened. Oh. Make Over. Duh.

"What is it?' Anna asked groggily, rubbing the sleep from her her eyes. I smiled weakly and shook my head, embarrassed.

"Nothing. I just felt like screaming." I lied. Rima raised an eyebrow at me, as did Anna, but they didn't say anything. I bent over the sink and splashed icy water in my eyes to wake me up, though it didn't really help. When I turned Anna was holding her stomach as she groaned.

"I think I ate too much." She said, rubbing her thin stomach. I giggled at her as she splashed water in her face, followed by Rima. Once we all emerged through the bathroom door, Anna seemed to remember something.

"Shopping!" She exclaimed cheerfully. A minute ago she says her stomach hurts and now she's being a bright and perky morning bird? Well, that's Anna for you. Unpredictable.

"I don't have any clothes, so we'll have to stop by my house on the way." Rima put in, gesturing toward the outfit she had worn yesturday. I shook my head at her.

"You've left clothes here before, I'm sure I can find you an outfit," I said, opening the bottom drawer of my dresser and finding an outfit belonging to Rima on top. Handing it to her, I yawned again and reached for my own outfit.

"Amu, you're supposed to be Yuki. I told you I'd let you borrow one of my outfits," Anna said, going over to a corner of my room where five large black suitcases stood. What did she have in there? Her entire old closet?

Once our outfits were picked out, we all went into the bathroom and changed. Anna did my make-up and Rima's while Rima did Anna's. When we were done we stood in front of the mirror, looking ourselves over.

I was wearing a light green short sleeve off the shoulder halter with a black and green plaid skirt that reached to my mid thigh. Over the halter I wore a long, green flowing jacker, and Anna insisted on me wearing black leggings and some flats. Rima curled my now midnight blue hair- the same colors as Ikuto's, I noticed- while Anna applied the make up. She put on a bit of green eyeshadow, black eyeliner, mascarra, blush, and lip gloss on me, making it somehow look natural.

Rima wore a light pink long sleeved shirt with brown ribbon nitted through the bottom as a him and a small stringed bow tied to the side. Over the shirt she wore a light brown vest that reached to the bottom of her rib cage. Her skirt was just plain brown to her mid-thigh and she wore high white socks with a pair of brown boots. Her hair was like normal, in ringlets, and I realized then that our hair was in the same style. Her make-up was a light pink eye shadow with brown eyeliner and a bit of lip gloss, looking natural like mine.

Finally, Anna wore a black, short sleeve skull shirt that reached just above mid-thigh, a pair of white skinny jeans, and a long, flowing white jacket. Her make up consisted of no eyeshadow, mascarra, blush, and lip gloss. She had a pair of black high heels on and her hair was straightened and cut to her shoulders. She said she may dye it brown, but Rima and I both agreed it looked better as it was. Then she said she wanted to put it in ringlets like ours were, but Rima and I crimped it instead, without her knowing, and when she looked in the mirror she ended up liking that better.

"Time for shopping!" She announced happily, and with that we walked out of my room, through the kitchen and living room, and out of my house.

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After four and a half long, torturing hours, we were finally done shopping and putting up our purchases. Anna and Rima had bought me thirteen outfits that they deemed cute, five pairs of silk pajamas, a lot of make up to stock up my bathroom, more than twenty regular purses, six prada bags, five pairs of channel sunglasses, a few dresses, two walets in pink and green, and too many accesories to count. Oh, and did I mention none of this stuff came close to anything I wore before, when I was just 'Cool and Spicy' Hinamori Amu? Well, it didn't.

"Come on, lets go get something to eat at that cute new café that we heard those girls at the mall talking about. I'm starved." Anna said, not seeming the lease bit tired from hours of walking and shopping and complaining. But I did have to agree with her on one thing. I was starving, too.

"Okay," I agreed as Rima nodded. We got off the living room's white and black striped leather sofa, out the door, and onto the side walk. Anna waved for a cab, which immediatley stopped. We climbed in it, and Rima pulled a minila folder that I hadn't noticed from under her arm. I looked at her curiously.

"I want to go over some last minute things with you before Monday, just in case we see anyone that we know at the café or something." She said. I nodded and sighed.

"Okay, we'll both call you Yuki in public. You're the cousin of Anna and the cousin of Amu. You came to live with Amu's mom while Amu had to go to your mom's house to help out with some family matters." Rima explained. I nodded, telling her that I knew what to say if anyone ask. "If somebody what kind of family matters, get a cold face and say it's personal. That will make them think that something bad happened or that you won't tell them no matter what, so if that's the case, they should leave you alone. Oh yeah, and if we run into anyone, play hard to get."

"Okay," I replied as the cab came to a hault in front of the café. Anna stepped out, followed by Rima, and then me. We walked like best friends, arm in arm, me in the middle, into the café and were seated at a booth by a woman in a short skirt and white, dressy see through shirt. Anna noticed her purposley drop a menu so she could bend over in front of a man, showing her underwear in the process, and she snorted at this, and murmured 'slut' to me under her breath, causing me to smile. Anna and Rima sat together at one side of the booth while I sat by myself on the other, and the woman told us that a waitress would be with us soon.

I opened my menu and looked over the choices. I scanned over the light menu, seeing as Anna had put me on a diet for no apparent reason. I could have the Chicken Fried Steak, Hamburger Steak, Mushroom Hamburger Steak, Meatloaf, Pot Roast, Catfish, Grilled Chicken Breast either classic or cajun, or I could have Chicken tenders. I decided on the Mushroom Hamburger Steak, which I heard a passing teen sugest to her friend. I liked steak, hamburgers, and mushrooms, so why not?

"Your orders?" I heard a masculine voice ask. I looked up and recognized the waiter immediatley. It was... Ikuto? In a tux and on skates? Wow. I forced down a blush, as I heard Rima gasp and saw Anna turn to her curiously. I cleared my throat before speaking, still fighting a blush.

"Um... I would like a Mushroom Hamburer Steak and a water as well as a Dr. Pepper, please." I said, trying not to look at Ikuto. Anna turned to me and shook her head.

"She wants a diet Dr. Pepper, she means." Anna said. I sighed, and nodded, still not looking at Ikuto.

"And I want a large chicken salad with ranch dressing and a water." Anna said, and turned to Rima. "Rima, what do you want?" I looked at Rima and noticed her shoot a glare at Ikuto.

"I want a new waiter." She said rudley. I spared a glance at Ikuto, who was now smirking at Rima, a mishevious glimmer in his eye. I intervened before he could reply.

"Rima-chan, do you know this waiter?" I asked, acting suprised by her rudness as well as innocent. I felt Ikuto's gaze land on me, but I kept my eyes on Rima.

"This is Tsukiyomi Ikuto, the hear throb of your new school. You know, the one I told you to stay away from, because he's as arrogant as they come." Rima explained to me. I knew by the way she thickened the words 'stay away' that she was setting a trap. I knew as well as anyone that Ikuto couldn't stay away from a chalenge. Obviously Rima was going to use it to her advantage.

"Oh! You mean the one that Amu-nee told off?" I asked innocently, switching my gaze to Ikuto to see his reaction. He had an eyebrow raised as I acted like I was examining him. "I thought he was suppose to be hotter," I said, still in an innocent voice. I saw Rima snicker at this from the corner of my eye and Anna's lip curve up ward into a smile.

"Yuki, it's rude to say that to people you've just me," Anna scowlded as if I was a child. I look glanced at her, then looked at him, feinging an appologetic look.

"Sorry, Tsukiyomi-san, my cousin, Amu, just told me that you were supposed to be the hottest guy in school. I just thought some of the guys in our school would be hotter." I said, in my innocent tone, my eyes wide and gentle. I saw Ikuto's eyebrow raise higher at my last comment, and smiled at him sweetly.

"I guess Amu-nee just has bad taste in men." I said in a quiet voice that Ikuto could probably only barley pick up. Ikuto leaned closer to me, to hear the next words I would say. "Or it may be that I'm just not into guys who mess with my families feelings by kissing there forhead and embarrassing them to death." I shrugged, keeping my eyes innocent-looking. I glanced at Anna and saw that she was supressing a laughing fit.

"You're probably the reason why Amu didn't put up a big fight when Auntie told her to help mom out with some stuff all the way down in America." I said, and sighed sadly, shaking my head. I looked up to catch Ikuto's suprised look, but Rima didn't give him time to say anything.

"I want a Chicken Fried Steak and a baked potato. Just a water. And hurry, we have to get home and unpack Yuki's stuff. We don't have all day, Tsukiyomi." Rima said in a sassy tone, and made a shooing motion with her hands. Ikuto's eyes narrowed, and he, as slowly as possible, skated away from our tabel. When he was out of hearing range Anna busted into a laughing fit.

"That was perfect, Yuki." Anna whispered in between breaths as she she tried to stifled more laugher, only to fail misrabley. I smiled lightly, and Rima nodded at me in approval.

"We'll have some more fun when he brings the food," Rima whispered to me from across the tabel, and I nodded. Anna wiped the tears from her eyes that she had earned from laughing to hard, and grinned brightly. I got her silent message. This was going to be interesting.