I wasn't always the guy I am now. The guy that all the girls fawn over, the handsome jerk. Once upon a time, I was dorky Len, the kid who hadn't grown into his body yet. The kid with the thick framed glasses and the greasy hair. Yes, that was me, Len Kagamine.

"U-um…Neru, Uh..this is for you", I handed the blonde girl a handful of wildflowers I had picked on the way to school.

"Gross! I don't want these from you! Go away!" she tossed the flowers on the floor and walked away as she laughed with a gang of her popular friends.

Sniffling, I stooped up to the pick the flowers she had trampled on. Why was I such an idiot? Why was I such a loser? Why didn't anyone like me?

"I'll help you!"

I looked up, wiping the tears out of my eyes to see a pink haired girl smiling at me widely as she helped me pick up the flowers from the ground

"I'm Luka by the way!"

"I'm….L-len.." I shyly spoke.

And that's how we met. From that day on, Luka and I were inseparable. We became the best of friends. We couldn't go anywhere without each other. Whenever she was upset I'd get her icecream, and we spent countless hours like that together.

But things began to change. As all people grow and change, friendships grow apart. I started to grow up, my voice got deeper as puberty kicked in, I grew taller, I used contacts instead of those thick frame glasses and got a haircut. Suddenly, I became the ladies man.

"Hey Len! What are you doing on Friday night?", Neru asked as she batted her long lashes

"Oh well…I'm supposed to be going over to Lukas.." I began.

"Oh come on, don't be so boring. Lets go to a party together. I'll make sure you have a good time", she said as she planted a kiss on my cheek.

"Yeah..I guess Luka won't mind if I cancel on her this once"

But once became twice, and three times and eventually I stopped talking to her altogether. She would call me but I'd never answer because well, I was hanging out with a new crowd now and Luka just didn't fit my image anymore.

I shouldn't have acted that way. Many months later, I got a call.

"Hello?", I picked up the phone.

"Hi, Len?"

It was a male voice I couldn't recognize.

"Yeah, who's this?"

"This is Luka's father. If you have the time, it'd be great if you could come over to our house. She desperately wants to see you." He said, his voice slightly shaking.

"Um..sure, okay I'll be there by tonight"

As I hung up the phone I thought it was incredibly weird that she had her father call me to come over. I mean was she that obsessed with me? But I didn't want to cause trouble and get our parents involved so I went over to her place as promised.

"Hello?", I called out as I entered the large house.

"She's upstairs in her bedroom", a voice came from the living room.

It was her father. He was sitting in a large arm-chair overlooking the firepplace with his back to me. I couldn't see his face but I could tell there was something in his voice. Everything was silent. There was a thick morose atmosphere, I felt I could suffocate.

As I stopped in front of her bedroom door, I knocked a few times. It felt awkward for me now. It had been a long time since I had seen her. It had been a long time since I had been that geeky boy who felt comfortable enough to just run into her room without even knocking. Now the knocks on the door sounded hollow and strange.

"Come in"

Her voice just then was frail and unlike her usual bouncy self. As I walked into her room, I saw her laying in bed, completely changed. Her once plump and rosy cheeks were hollow and sunken, like a skeleton. Her pink locks had faded in color and were pressed to her clammy temples.

"L-luka" I called out.

That was all I could say. Who was this person, this corpse in front of me?

"I'm glad you came Len" she smiled.

"What's happened to you?" I croaked.

"I've been really sick Len. I tried to call you about it, but you…you seemed busy"

I looked down at my feet and balled my hands up awkwardly.

"Sorry. I didn't know. I uh..sorry" I repeated.

"The doctor says I don't have much time left. And I just wanted to see you Len. You've changed so much."

"What do you mean you don't have much time left?" I looked up at her with wide eyes

"I have…I have cancer Len", she said softly as a tear slid down her eyes.

I crumpled to my knees, in shock. How could I not have known? How could I have gotten so caught up in this superficial world?

"I love you Len. I always have. Even when you were that dorky Len. I loved you so much."

I couldn't help but cry out. I rushed to her bed and grabbed her frail, boney hands.

"Luka, don't say stuff like that! You're not going to die. You're going to stay right here with me. And I will never ignore you again. I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! You are the most important to me. I was blind. Don't leave." I sobbed into the sheets as I squeezed her hands.

"Will you buy me Ice-cream Len?" she smiled, "You always buy it for me when I'm sad."

"I'll go and buy it right now!" I said jumping to my feet, "Wait for me Luka! Promise me you'll wait!"

I remember I ran out of the house and I kept running and running. I couldn't see where I was running to, I couldn't even feel my feet hitting the asphalt. All I could think about was the ice-cream. All I could think about was her. I felt at that moment, I was in a race against time itself.

When I returned with the ice cream, felt the soft gooey liquid running down my hands, I pounded up the stairs and pushed the door to her bedroom and finally stopped. The ice-cream fell from my hands. And all I could do was stare.

Her father stood by her bedside, his eyes cast down but I could see the tears running down his face. We both stood there in a dark silence as we shared a mutual understanding. She was gone. Everything was lost.

"You're...you're not dead?"

All at once, I felt the world crashing at my feet. How could this be? How could she be alive, right in front of me? I had seen her that day, her eyes closed and unmoving.

"Luka…" I managed to stumble as I walked toward her, "How.."

"Um, it seems I've interrupted something" Luka said as she looked at both Rin and I.

It was then that I realized that I still had Rin up against the wall. I quickly got off of her and let go of her hand.

"I'm sorry to have bothered you!" Luka said as she began to run off.

"Luka wait!" I cried out as I ran after her, leaving Rin standing there alone.

Rin's POV

"What the hell is going on?" I cried out as I watched Len run after Luka.

I saw them both run into one of the rooms and as my curiosity got the better of me, I found myself following them as well. As I stood outside the room, where they had left the door slightly ajar, I could hear them talking.

"Luka, tell me the truth! What is going on?", Len said.

'Exactly my point. What is going on?' I thought to myself as I eavesdropped.

"Weren't you dead?" He asked.

"No Len! No I wasn't! I survived."

"Why..why didn't you tell me? Why did you hide away? Why have you chosen only now to appear again? Why Luka?"

"Because I wasn't good enough for you!" She yelled,

"It's true isn't it? I loved you Len. But you never looked twice at me, especially after you changed. And now here I was this sick little thing and suddenly you were fawning over me. I didn't want it to be like that. I didn't need your pity! I wanted you to look at me as your equal. So I fought the sickness, I fought the cancer. Even though my hair was falling out from the chemo, there was no way I wanted you to ever see me like that. So I begged my Dad to let me get treatment overseas, in Switzerland. Each day I got stronger, and the years passed by. And each day I became more beautiful. Aren't I beautiful now Len?"

"Luka….", Len said carefully, "I didn't know…I'm sorr-"

"Stop saying that!" she cried, "Stop saying sorry. Don't give me that pity. I came back for you, stronger and more beautiful than before only to read the magazine tabloids that you are married? You told me I was the most important Len, were you lying to me just then?"

"No..No! It wasn't a lie. You are the most important to me Luka. This marriage, it's not what you think! It doesn't mean anything to me, she doesn't mean anything to me"

"I..I don't mean anything to you Len?"

I let out a gasp as I realized I had spoken aloud.

Len turned around as he heard me and he opened the door to see me, with his eyes wide in shock.

"R-rin..How..How long have you been standing there?" he stuttered

"Long enough!" I yelled as I ran away from them both.

"Rin!", I heard Len call out after me.

I kept running and running. When suddenly I felt someone grab my arm.

"Let go, let go of me!" I screamed.

"Rin, stop running"

I looked up to see Mikuo, his gentle eyes assuaging me.

"Mikuo..I..I…Please just take me away from here!"

"Rin..I think I'm falling in love with you"

As he said so, he cupped my face and I felt his soft lips on mine. As my eyes widened in shock, I felt the flashes of cameras going off all around us. But all I could see from the corner of my eye was Len. He was standing there in the crowd, staring at us kissing in absolute shock.

A/N: aha, the plot thickens! A love square. o_o;; Told you I haven't forgotten about Luka! Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please read and review :) as comments are always appreciated.