Chapter 9:

~Teto POV~

I totally confused Kaito didn't I? I should probably explain to him what's going on but frankly I don't myself; that's how I ended up in this position. I am currently dressed up as a plant (that's not weird because once I dressed up as a drink vending machine and someone tried to use me) and no one's been able to see through it. I'm in the last period watching Len, Rei and Miku. I'm not so concerned about Rin but I'm still watching.

~Rin POV~

What's with Miku? She keeps looking at me. Not Len. Me. Usually she'd be all over Len – trying to talk to him as much as she can, but for some reason today she's not. To add to that Len and Rei haven't been crowding around me as much as usual but Kaito's started to talk to me a lot. We usually talk about Miku though. It didn't take me long to realise that Kaito had a crush on Miku because every time she was in sight Kaito would stop talking and stare dreamily toward her. I looked over to Kaito who was as I just said staring dreamily toward Miku. Miku however was still staring daggers at me. I tried to avoid eye contact with her. What was her problem? This was starting to get on my nerves.

~Len POV~

Rin's looking at Kaito again. She can't possibly have a crush on that ice cream freak? I mean surely she's noticed that he has a crush on Miku? Not that I care because soon he can have a her – if Rin really does have a crush on Kaito then when he finally asks out Miku and she says yes, which she probably will because no other boy would want to touch her after a break up with me Rin will be heart broken and she'll be all mine. Speaking of which I should probably do something about Rei. He can't be in the house when I'm tutoring Rin or he might find an opportunity to steal her from me and we wouldn't want that now would we? And also Miku keeps staring at Rin. Could she know? No. I'm certain she doesn't know. Miku isn't that perspective.

~Kaito POV~

It looks like Rin knows a lot about Miku… but she seems to hate her for some reason? Who could hate Miku? I started towards Miku who was staring daggers at Rin who was now looking towards me. She gestured towards Miku. I think she was trying to tell me something, but what? Oh. Now I get it Miku's angry at Rin. Why? It's not like she knows about anything that went on yesterday… Come to think of it she was crying at the same time that Len was about to confess to her so then again that is a possibility… Hmm I should talk to Teto more about this.

~After School – Near the front gate-~

"Rin! Hey Rin!" I shouted. Rin was standing by the gate, waiting for someone. She looked upset but smiled briefly when she saw me. Something wasn't right… "Hey Rin what's wrong?" I said

"So you didn't understand what I was trying to tell you?" She said angrily

"No and yes. Could you explain to me in words now?"

"Well I was trying to say that Miku keeps staring at me! Since you seem to know everything about Miku - WHY DOES SHE KEEP STARING AT ME!?" She said practically roaring into my face.

"Rin. If I tell you why can you keep it a secret?" She looked at me for a minute. Alarmed, before nodding her head slowly. "I can't tell you here though" I said looking around. Minutes later we ended up and a popular ice cream shop.

"ICE CREAM?" She said surprised.

"Yeah I love the ice cream here" I said cheerily. What was her problem? Ice cream was like the BEST THING ON EARTH. Absolutely nothing could compare to ice cream. Not even all the money in the world! Because even if I did get all the money in the world I would probably just end up spending it on ice cream anyway….

Rin suddenly broke my thought chain. (Which might I add was being bombarded with chibi ice creams that were running away from me ;-; the paaaiiiiiinnnnnnn)

"Are you going to tell me now or what?" she said impatiently

"Oh yeah I forgot about that~" I said. Going back to my serious mode I said. "Well as you know Len and Rei both want you to be their girlfriends and I think Miku knows."

"Yeah so what? I'm not going to fall for any of them. Their just planning to use me right? Plus I don't care about Miku!"

"Yeah but I know Rei is but I'm not too sure about Len…"

"What do you mean? Are you implying that he has a crush on me?"

"Well no but…"

Suddenly a familiar shota voice interrupted us. "Yo Kaito! Hi Rin-chan!" Len said cheerily wearing a fake smile. "Can I join you guys?" he said. He was secretly giving me a death glare. No way… Was I right about him? I looked at Rin wearily. I didn't have a problem but it was her who hated him, right?

"Sure why not." She said sternly trying not to sound too rude.

"Great!" Len exclaimed before taking a seat next to Rin. Rin edged away from him as much as she could. She was sitting by the window so there was almost nothing she could do.

~Normal POV~

After a minute or so of awkward silence the waiter finally arrived.

"Oh hi Len! Hi Kaito! Fancy seeing you here!" Beside the table stood a short haired brown figure holding a notepad with a pen ready in hand. Len was the first to say hello whilst Rin sat their awkwardly and Kaito stared at Meiko intensely as if to ask 'What-the-heck-are-you-doing-here?' Meiko noticed this too

"Aww is Kaito jealous because he gets to see me handle his precious treasures." Said Meiko teasingly.

"Yes. Well no… but can you just take out order already!?" Kaito said in a huff. As Kaito started thinking out loud about what kind of ice cream flavor he was going to choose, Len turned to Rin with a serious look on his face. Moving towards her ear he whispered "What were you talking about with Kaito?" Rin jumped suddenly, surprised by the sudden voice of Len. She brushed him off before ordering her ice cream.

~Len POV~

She's not telling me something. Dammit what have you said to her Kaito? I knew I shouldn't have let him be there when we were talking... She's acting all weird now. Even her tsundere side has disappeared! This isn't usual. Soon Meiko came back with the ice cream.

"Looks like I'm gonna be sitting with you guys for a while!" She said cheerily.

"How come?" Kaito said interested, the funny thing was every time he was around Meiko he always changed into a normal person, when he's around anyone else he acts like a complete freak! I guess Meiko just has that effect on boys. Meiko and Kaito were now engrossed in an 'important' conversation so I took this as my chance to get to talk to Rin.

"Hey Rin?" I said suddenly, she was just about to take a bite of her ice cream when she dropped the spoon. "UGH" she said bending down to get the spoon.

"What do you want Len?" She said going back to her normal antisocial self.

"Well my dear I was wondering if you wanted to come round my house to have an extra tutoring lesson." What was that? That sounded cheesy. THAT WAS NOT ME. Rin looked confused

"Err don't we have a tutoring session today anyway?" She said looking at me as if I'd just come out of a portal form another universe.

"Err never mind." Damn. Why was I being so impossible? This wasn't like me at all. Man I need to go and hang out with Miku or something, just to take my mind of my awkwardness. The rest of the time Rin and I just sat in silence briefly listening to Meiko and Kaito's conversation which (no surprise here) was on ice cream flavors. Seriously what type of person has a full half an hour conversation on ice cream flavors!?

~Time Skip Saturday morning Rin POV~

It was a normal Saturday. Just me in my house on my computer reading fanfiction. Nothing unusual. Until my phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hi Rin! It's me Teto! I was just calling you so that you have my number because it's pretty important to have my number you know. Getting all the gossip and stuff."

"Yeah" I said half listening. I don't care about the gossip I just want to live my life.

"Well I just texted you Len's number and Len already has your number soooo…"

"What are you getting at?" I replied all my attention now on this call.

"Talk to him~" REALLY. She called me just because she wanted me to talk to Len Kagamine? "But that's not all. I also gave you Rei's number because I figured it wouldn't be fair. You want anyone else's? I checked with everyone their all perfectly fine with me giving you their numbers. It actually looks like they want to talk to you!"

"Thanks for making it clear than no one wanted to talk to me in the first place."

"Oh sorry… Anyway got to go bye!" and with that she ended the call. Seriously what was up with this girl? Now that I had nothing else to I scrolled through my texts. I was ignoring them until one in particular caught my eye.

From: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Hi Rin! It's me Len. Teto gave me your number so I can keep in contact with you! I'll be looking forward to all the texts from youu~ :3

EW. Did Len Kagamine just say he was looking forward to the texts? Well then..

To: Len Kagamine

From: Rin Kegane

Let's make this crystal clear. You can only text me for school purposes. Anything else I will not respond to ok? And don't even think about trying to flirt ok?

It didn't take him less than a minute to respond

From: Len Kagamine

Sure thing Rinny~

He's so friggin annoying sometimes.