A/N: HEyo! This is my review and unfortunately, the votes are tied so I decide to do something that wasn't in the two choices. Read to find out!
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Natsume Powa
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Recap
"You're the buyer?"
"You want the necklace too? For who?"
"Mikan."
"I guess it does fit her well. I was supposed to buy it for her."
"Why?"
"I saw she had the matching bracelet so I thought it would be a perfect goodbye gift."
"Dude, can I have it? I'll pay for it with interest."
"I'm going to tell you this once and hope you don't punch me in the face or do something worse; I like her and I've decided to court her."
Unfortunately, Natsume didn't comply since next thing he knew, Tom had a black eye.
End of Recap
They ended up outside of the shop.
"Let's not do this. This is Mikan we're talking about." Tom said as he put his hand on his eye in pain. Natsume struggled to stop hitting him again.
"I got to her first man." He said.
"She's just exceedingly nice and charming and more. I'm sorry I couldn't help myself." He couldn't argue with that one. She caused him to stop being a playboy. He leaned on a tree and sighed.
"So what do you propose we do?" he asked rubbing his temples.
"Let the best man win?" Tom offered. Natsume thought, he could still have a chance at this considering they will be getting back a week from now and he knew that long distance relationships were hard to maintain and hopefully Mikan will realize that.
"Fine, let's give it a shot." He held out his hand. "Truce?"
Tom took it with a grin. "Truce, so you want to go back. It's getting late."
"Yeah but you go on ahead. I'm just going to the washroom. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Sure, I'll be going." Natsume watched until Tom completely disappeared from the crowd and entered the shop.
"He decided he didn't want it anymore. I'll be buying it." He handed his credit card as the man swiped it as he put the necklace in the box. He never said that he couldn't buy it, his loss. He put it in his pocket and walked back to the hotel as he knocked on Mikan's door.
"Hey, why are you here this late?" he looked at his watch. It was already 11 pm. Had he been looking around so long?
"Nothing, just wanted to give you this." He grabbed her hand, opened it and placed the plastic and closed it. He shut the door and went to his room. He wondered how she'd react to it.
Mikan on the other hand was left hanging so she did the only thing she could do. She took a peek and was surprised. She slowly brought it out and the light shone against the necklace and reflected directly in her eye.
"Ow!" she yelled. That was some epically fail move. She looked at it for the second time putting it against the light and saw that it was the partner of the bracelet she forced him to not pay for. It was even more beautiful. She always had this thing more for necklaces than bracelets.
She wondered how he found it considering the bracelet hand nothing along with it when they roamed around. She had to thank him for this knowing arguing to pay for it would only cause him to buy her more stuff. She faced the mirror and put it on and it fit perfectly, just a few inches below the collar bone.
She wanted to knock to thank him but it was late so she decided to put it off until morning. She woke up with a big smile on her face.
Ruka was the first one she saw as they rode together in the elevator.
"You look quite happy today, Mikan-san."
"I just feel so hyped up!" she said cheerfully. Ruka just nodded in agreement. It really seemed like so.
They saw Natsume at the same time as he was talking with some people. They grabbed food and Natsume called them towards an empty table. They settled and Natsume's eyes were simply drawn to her neck and he saw it fitting perfectly as he let out a smirk. Mikan got a bit frustrated if he was staring at the necklace or below it so she kicked him under the table.
"Owww!" he yelped. Ruka wondered what was happening, well both of them were.
"What was that for?" Natsume asked.
"Watch where your eyes are going." She said. He understood that she misunderstood.
"I was just admiring that beautiful necklace on your neck. I only seem to have notice you wearing it just today." He remarked smirking.
"Yeah, me too. It really is very pretty Mikan-san." Ruka commented unknowing as to why it was only worn now.
"Thanks." She said looking down knowing Natsume was making her feel that she was special. Good thing Ruka kept the conversation going and before they knew it, they were led to their new stations but the groups were the same which annoyed Natsume.
The first thing Tom noticed was the necklace and he realized his mistake but he had to make sure.
"Hey Mikan." He greeted her.
"Hi Tom."
"Nice necklace, where'd you get it?"
"Someone gave it to me last night. It does look quite pretty, doesn't it?"
"Definitely." Now he was sure, he had to start. She was struggling a bit in carrying the wooden boards.
"Let me help you with that."
"Thanks." They carried it towards the upcoming house.
"Let's take a short break, ne?" mikan said wiping some sweat from her face.
"Sure. Let's sit down." They sat down as the sun was at it's peak.
"It'd be so fun to swim, right?"
"Yeah, I'd really want to but it's so annoying we can't. Do you like swimming?"
"I used to be part of the varsity but I was having a hard time keeping my grades up so now I just do it as a form of stress reliever. What do you like doing?"
"I play soccer. Watched FIFA relentlessly to brush up on my skills; if I actually have any." He added laughing.
They talked a few more until they decided it was time to get back but Mikan didn't notice that a certain someone had been looking for her for about twenty minutes already. Once Natsume saw her, he glared at Tom unknowingly and grabbed Mikan's wrist.
She got him mad. It was a good thing it was time to head back to the hotel or else he might have caused a scene. Meanwhile, Mikan wondered at the cause of Natsume's frustration. She tried to think of anything she did that could have put him off but she barely talked to him while they were working.
That was it! He felt like he was receiving insufficient attention.
"Natsume." She said poking him.
"What?" he asked pissed off.
"You know I was just busy." Natsume thought of what she meant by busy. Did she mean busy talking, busy laughing, busy flirting? That only made it worse.
"Yeah, whatever. I don't care." He said trying to sound apathetic about the whole situation even if he was totally not.
"Then what are so worked up about?" so she noticed. He really didn't know. Just that seeing him with her made stirred up some emotions; he tried covering up the fact that it may be jealousy because he didn't like her that much.
"Nothing. What makes you think I am?" he asked because he wanted to know.
"Common sense?" she said unsurely, wondering if it was alright to be frank.
"I don't think you possess that." He said teasing her.
"That means you don't know me." She said turning away from him. He felt a little guilty but made up his mind to apologize later. Right now, he needed some silence.
They arrived and she hurried to get off but he caught up with her and dragged her to the janitor's closet.
"The janitor's closet, really? Am I supposed to think this as a sweet gesture?" before she could retort more witty thoughts she had about him, he crushed his lips with hers which left her flabbergasted.
They stayed like that for a few more seconds before Natsume pulled away opened the door and took his exit, leaving a confused Mikan whose heart felt like it would burst any second.
