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"W-Where is Amu?" Utau stuttered.

The man holding the gun looked up and then nodded his head towards the blond boy stand over Amu protectively. The man dropped the gun and ran out of the hotel.

Ikuto ran over, threw Tadase away from Amu and then hugged her tightly. Utau shook her head and looked towards the man on the ground. He was the driver of the car and when Ikuto relaxed and let go of Amu to walk over Utau found out why he sounded familiar.

"He was the guy who tried to take you guys home the other day after your shopping." Ikuto stated with a whisper.

Utau pulled out her phone and called 911 even if she knew it was too late.

The Amublance and police came; the police got statements and the amublance looked over the group. Tadase was shipped off in the police cruiser and everyone else drove back to the hotel with a police escort. After the rental car was returned and their teacher was informed of the events did the police officer leave.


Now, normally if something like that happened to students, everyone would be shipped back to their homes, but Amu's bizarre teacher made everyone stay for the trip because it costs too much to just leave.

Utau and Amu wandered back to their rooms and found a forgotten third person sitting on the bed, kicking her legs back and forth.

"Rima?" Amu asked and the petite girl turned around at the sound of her name.

"Where have you been?" Utau asked.

"I was sick." Rima coughed lightly and then smiled.

The girls excitedly talked to each other for most of the night before their teacher came knocking on their door to tell them to be quiet and go to bed. They laughed and then did as their teacher instructed.

First, an annoying beep filled the room, then someone knocked furiously on their door and finally, Rima screamed for the person to leave and for someone to turn off the alarm clock. Amu got up and turned it off, but not without a peek at the clock. It was six in the morning just four hours ago they were up and lively talking to each other.

Amu sighed, got dressed, and left the room to find breakfast. It wasn't hard because she had to follow the crowd of people wandering down to the lobby where a breakfast buffet was set up. However, when Amu had her plate filled with food she looked around and found that none of these people were from her school; except one.

She begrudgingly walked over and sat down beside him.

"Hey." He said when his mouth wasn't full.

"Be honest," Amu stated, "Why did you come on this trip?"

"Good morning to you too." He responded.

"Ryo." Amu's tone was very serious.

"I'm in the chemistry class and decided it would be fun to make some memories before we all leave for college, university, or where ever." Ryo answered. It would have been a normal answer to anyone else, but Amu.

"Are you sure?" Amu glared at him.

"Look," Ryo said defensively, "I know you have changed since grade nine, but so have I."

"Then why did you remind me of our past in the hallway?" Amu growled quietly.

"I was trying to protect you." Ryo blushed lightly and Amu could tell he had definitely changed from his possessive personality from when they dated in grade nine.

"From what?" Amu asked, but Ryo was never able to answer as Utau, Rima, Kukai and Ikuto all came barrelling over to their table.

Ryo excused himself and left in a hurry. Amu watched him and the feeling of confusion became overwhelming because his reason made no sense. But the moment Amu's eyes fell on Ikuto she knew she needed some other questions answered first.

"Ikuto," Amu stated in a tone that cause everyone to look at her anxiously.

He swallowed and then answered, "What?"

"Why did you ignore me last night?" Amu asked and Utau smirked as she ushered everyone away from the table to give the pair some privacy.

"I . . . Um." Ikuto stumbled along as he tried to think of something to say.

Amu continued to stare at Ikuto as he fumbled with last night's event in his head.

"Just be honest," Amu sighed, "Because if you lie and I find out later then I'll be angrier than I'll be right now."

Ikuto relaxed and looked at Amu.

"You called Kukai first, and you asked for Utau to be picked not yourself." Ikuto told her with a shrug.

"So?" Amu stated angrily, "I called Kukai first because he adores her, but that doesn't mean you have to be jealous . . ."

Towards the end of her sentence she became very quiet and tried to straighten something out in her head.

"Is there a possibility that you acted the way you did because you didn't want anyone to see that you have feelings for me?" Amu asked and did her best to hide any feelings of hope for his answer.

Utau watched their interaction and saw Amu's whole attitude change. Utau sighed and shook her head as she prayed Amu wasn't hoping for a confession.

Ikuto looked at Amu and didn't notice the change in her attitude, like Utau did, as he answered her, "No, that wasn't the reason for my attitude."

Amu glared, stood up, and marched away. Utau and Rima followed as Kukai stood and walked over to Ikuto.


"What happened?" Kukai asked as Ikuto put his head in his hands.

"I'll tell you?" Ryo said as he turned around from a chair beside Ikuto's table.

"When did you get there?" Ikuto asked quietly.

"When everyone left I walked back to listen." Ryo stated and then continued on, "And I must say you are a moron."

"Why?" Kukai asked with frustration because he was still in the dark.

"Amu gave him a 'get out of jail, free' card and he threw back in her face." Ryo said with an amused smile and a light chuckle.

Ikuto sat straighter and looked at Ryo. Kukai and Ikuto asked what he meant by that, but Ryo could only stared at them like they were completely retarded before he explained.

"She asked you if you were afraid to have your feelings known and you said no, but if you said yes; all would have been forgiven." Ryo laughed, "Too bad because that would have also helped with your bet."

Ikuto slammed his head into his hands with a frustrated sigh. Ikuto and Kukai started to get up to leave when Ryo added one more thing.

"I hope that when your little bet is over she won't be too mad to move back with her dad." Ryo let on that he knew Amu much more than Ikuto did and that didn't sit well with Ikuto.

Ikuto stared at Ryo and then sat in front of him. Kukai tried to get him to leave, but Ikuto told Kukai to go find the girls while he talked to Ryo.


Meanwhile, Amu ran to her room and slammed the door shut after Rima and Utau were inside.

"Amu." They said softly as Amu sat on one of the beds.

"I don't know what I was expecting." Amu sighed, but both Rima and Utau knew she felt like crying. They walked over, sat beside her and then comforted her. Amu cried a little as she told them the conversation she and Ikuto had. They listened patiently even if they didn't ask to hear the conversation.

"Even if he wanted to hide his emotions that is no excuse for the way he acted." Utau growled.

Rima stared at the two with a boat load of questions piling up in her head. However, before she opened her mouth to speak, Utau explained what had happened. Rima was shocked, but she was also understanding because she had a similar situation happen when she was younger; which she explained to her friends.

"You mean you were kidnapped?" Amu asked with astonishment.

Rima nodded, "Being the only daughter of a multimillionaire has many ups and downs."

Utau and Amu smiled at her and the silence fell over the room. It was Utau who broke the silence, "Okay," she exclaimed, "Let's just forget about everything."

"Everything?" Amu asked as she wiped away her tears.

"Everything. The boys, the kidnapping; everything." Utau smiled, "This is going to be our girls' only day."

Amu smiled and then Utau added one more thing, "I mean come on, we are at a water park and ski resort."

The girls agreed and laughed as they got ready for the girls' day together.

It was ten in the morning by the time the girl were ready to leave. They decided that they would hit the slopes for a portion of the day. They were decked out in their warm snow pants and coats as they walked towards the small cabin. At the cabin, Amu, Utau and Rima had to figure out what they were going to do. They could ski, they could snowboard, or they could tube.

In the middle of deciding, Kukai, Ikuto and Ryo ran up.

"Don't." Utau was the first to start.

"But, we haven't said anything." Ryo stated.

"I see you have made new friends." Rima said as she let the boys go in front of them.

They chose to snowboarding and Utau was about to chose something that was on a different slope when Amu pulled her sleeve and told her to be quiet.

"Are you girls coming?" Kukai called.

The girls simply turned away from the boys and talked amongst themselves.

"Okay, one new rule," Amu said, "We don't talk to them unless we absolutely need to and they don't influence our decisions."

"That's two rules." Rima pointed with a smile. Amu laughed and smacked her, and soon the hitting war became a three-way snow ball fight.

There was a lot of laughing and screaming as they chased each other around in their heavy snow outfits. They didn't bother to make forts for protection because they would just run around the fort and shove snow down the other's coat. They were several yards from where they started the fight when Rima fell into the snow with exhaustion.

"What, you give up already?" Amu huffed as she fell down beside Rima.

"You're one to talk." Rima laughed as she shoved some snow into Amu's face.

Utau laughed at Amu's expression, but Amu looked at Utau and then whispered something to Rima. Moments later Rima and Amu had Utau off her feet and on her back. They both put snow down her coat and in her face.

"Pay back." Amu stated with her tongue out.

They all laid on the grounds huffing and puffing until Amu got up and said, "I want to go snow boarding."

"Me too, but the boys are there." Utau said as they sat up.

"Didn't I say that they can't influence our decisions?" Amu asked as she rose her eyebrows.

"But," Utau tried to say, but then Rima added, "I see what Amu's saying. If we want to snowboard, but we don't because they are already on the slopes then they are influencing our choice."

Amu smiled, "Right, we have to act as if they don't exist."

The girls got up and walked over to the cabin and got passes for the snowboarding slope.

They took a lift to the top, got their boards and waited for their turn. Amu was putting on her hat when a group of guys slide by and knocked Amu down the slope. Amu screamed, but twisted and gained control. However, the guys who knocked her down were already down the slopes trying to 'rescue' her.

Amu smirked and turned it into a game. She weaved around trees and when she looked back she noticed Rima and Utau flying down the hill trying to keep up. Amu looked back in front of her just in time to see a bump in her path that turned into a jump because of Amu's speed.

Amu was in the air trying not to panic and trying to stay balanced as she braced herself for the landing that was unexpectedly smooth. At the end of the hill Amu stopped and the guys flew passed her before they stopped. Utau and Rima stopped beside Amu and everyone took off their hats.

Amu turned to the guys, who were surprisingly good looking, and said, "I win."

"That's not fair." One of them said.

"Yeah, we were trying to save you." Another stated.

Rima laughed and then asked, "Then we'll race again, the six other us."

Everyone agreed and for the next two hours they raced the guys, but by the time the girls were exhausted it was a tie. The guys tried to get one more race out of them, but they told the guys it would be unfair to race them when they were so tired. However, they did race the guys and they won.

It was about two o'clock when the exhausted girls returned their borrowed snow boards and dragged their feet back to the hotel.

"Hey!" Some one called.

The girls turned and saw one of the guys they had raced running over.

"My friends and I would like to have dinner with you guys tonight." The boy asked.

"No," Amu answered, "We are having a boy-free day today, but the racing was fun."

Rima and Utau agreed and they all walked away with a wave and smile. They walked to their room and after they threw off their snow outfit, they fall on to their beds. Within ten minutes all the girl were asleep.


In was four o'clock when Utau woke up and she woke up everyone else. Everyone was grouchy until Utau mentioned that she wanted to go to the water park. In an instant, Rima and Amu were up and excitedly getting their stuff.

They opened their door and ran right into Saaya.

"No way." They whispered.

"You aren't in chemistry." Utau stated.

"No, but your teacher needed more people to go on this trip in order for it to be accepted by the principal so I agreed to go." Saaya stated with a smile as she walked away.

Amu rolled her eyes and told her friends that they shouldn't worry about Saaya. Everyone reluctantly agreed, but the rest of the day seemed to lose any brilliance it held at the beginning of the day.

At the end of dinner Amu, Utau and Rima walked to their room.

"We have to do the water park first thing tomorrow because Saaya sucked the fun out of our day and she didn't even go to the water park." Rima scowled.

Everyone agreed and fell asleep instantly.

It was around midnight when someone knocked on their door, but Amu was the only one to wake up. She walked over and opened the door to find Ikuto standing there fidgeting nervously.

"I want to apologize." Were the first words out of his mouth and Amu smiled as she nodded her head.


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