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MIKAN
"Hotaru-chan, do I really have to wear this?" Mikan quizzed as she looked at herself in the full length mirror. "Yes, now change to the next one." She said. Everyone was in their rooms getting themselves ready for the Ball tonight. Yesterday Hotaru took me out to go shopping. We bought a bunch of clothes. She got me 2 cocktail dresses and 3 evening gowns. "If I had known that there would be something like this I would have brought dresses from home." I mumbled as I tried dress after dress. I came out of the bathroom dressed in a black gown. It had a high slit on the side and hugged my body. "This one?" I asked. She shook her head. 'Ugh.' I carried another dress then came out and again and again until I was wearing the 5th one. The last gown. It was a strapless, glossy, dark blue floor length gown, which had a black corset that cris crossed in the front and the bottom of the gown had Sakura accents which were in silver. I fell in love with the dress. I came out with a speech ready. "Hotaru-chan this is the last dress. And I like this the most. Can I please just wear this?" After everything she said she just nodded her head. She took a dress form the one of a shopping bag I didn't see earlier and went to the bathroom. After a few minutes she came out in a low cut glossy black gown which had an even higher slit than the one I tried on earlier. She was drop dead gorgeous.
"Hotaru-chan, This isn't nessesary." I said as she forced me to descend dramatically down the long staircase in my gown. "Wait." She said as she put on a simple silver chain on my neck with a diamond pendant. "Okay, now go." She said in a soft smile. When I went down the stairs I could feel everyone's eyes on me. In a way I loved the feeling. It somehow made me feel like I accomplished something in a way. When I got to the bottom of the steps someone immediately asked me to dance. "Mikan-chan you look beautiful tonight." He said as we strode to the dance floor. I heard a lot of other compliments other than that in the evening. Like...
"You are blooming tonight."
"You seem to become more and more addicting to look at."
"I have had my eyes on you even before you were dressed that way, but now I think I will never be looking anywhere else."
And a lot more(The last one gave me goose bumps it was somewhat stalker like). I felt tired from all the dancing so I went to have a walk on the beach. I took of my high heels and felt my feet touch the sand as I held my dress's flowing skirt in the other so it wouldn't get ruined. I may look crazy right now walking in the sand in an expensive dress. I don't care anyway. So I just continued to walk.
NATSUME
I didn't want to attend the ball thing. I did that way too much in America that it bores me now. Even more than it bored me then. So I here I am on one of the beach chairs with a guitar in hand. I strum a few chords and hum in tune with it. I can't believe I still remember how to play this. I used to but it was a long time ago. I borrowed the guitar from one of the music rooms in the mansion. I could hear someone in the distance singing in a soft soprano voice. The music seemed so natural. I listened intently with my eyes closed till the sound came nearer and nearer. Then it stopped abruptly. "Natsume-kun, what are you doing here?" I could hear Mikan's voice as I opened my eyes. She was the one singing. She seemed to be a string with endless surprises. When I didn't answer her question she just shrugged and sat down on the beach chair on mine and lied down. The dress did suit her. The blue set her skin glowing in contrast. I did the same as her and lied down. "Natsume-kun why aren't you at the ball?" She asked breaking the silence. "I should be the one asking you that since the ball is in your honour." I said lazily. "I was there but my feet got tired from all the dancing." She said shaking her feet under the long dress. "Hn." She turned and looked at me. "You still haven't answered my question though." She wasn't going to give this up was she? "I would rather be alone than be in a room crammed with dancing people." I answered rather bitterly. "Oh." She seemed to have expected a sharp answer so she had no surprised reaction. "Natsume-kun the more I know you the less I know about you." She said in a now confused manner. "I think I know what you're thinking but I really don't." She said as she looked at the night sky. "I feel confused when I think of what you are to me." I somehow felt that way too. I couldn't say that out loud though. So I chose to shut up and just listen. "You seem to know where you're going from here. I don't even know how I'll get through tomorrow." She was wrong. I had no idea of the future than she did. I had left my future in California and chose to live here. But I didn't say anything to hinder her thoughts about it. "I think I should get back to the ball now." She said standing up. "I won't be in your way." I said as I went back to strumming the guitar. I hope I did. Something inside me hopes I did stop her.