A/N : Gosh, I hate Mondays.

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Chapter 13:

"Hello?" Rin called out as she unlocked her front door. She distantly heard Gakupo drive off as she placed her keys on her counter, waltzing into the kitchen. On the fridge, there was a note.

Rin,

We left for dinner. Will see you later.

Mom.

She frowned down at the letter. Well, her parents had wanted to have a family dinner, and she figured that they'd taken Len with them. Sighing, she grabbed an orange and walked up the stairs toward the stairs, Hell bent on flopping down on her bed and reveling in the afterglow of everything that had happened.

Her door creaked on its hinges when she opened it, and she winced. It sure sounded creepy. Her room was dimly lit and she screamed when she saw a figure sitting on her bed.

"Calm down! It's just me!"

Rin squinted into the darkness. "Miku? How did you get in here?" She flipped on the lights and both girls blinked at the brightness.

"Well, when I knocked on the door, your mom told me you were grounded. So I waited in the bushes until your family left, then sneaked in through your window," Miku explained, smiling all the while. Rin pressed her hand to her chest, trying to stop her heart's erratic breathing.

"It's comforting to know that a potential murderer can just waltz into my room," she replied sarcastically. Miku giggled, and then motioned her over to sit on the bed with her.

The shorter blonde did so, looking up at her best friend with curiosity. "So what brings you here?"

Miku's grin immediately disappeared, and she looked serious. "Luka came over, and she was telling me that you were... upset earlier. I just wanted to make sure you were okay," she said, wrapping an arm around the girl.

She smiled. "I'm better."

A lot better.

"So," Miku said, "I was thinking. We need a real Girls' Day out. Just me and you."

"That's a great idea," Rin said, "But I'm grounded remember?"

Miku grinned surreptitiously. "We can ditch school after lunch tomorrow!"

Rin mentally went through her schedule. After lunch, she only had Art and Physics. Physics. God, that was the class she most dreaded and looked forward to every day.

She really needed out of that particular class, though. She needed to move down a level, anyway, and she was sure if she showed her principal her grade, he'd understand...

At this moment, Rin realized Miku was still waiting for an answer, so she smiled up at her. "Sure."

The teal-haired girl gave an excited shriek and hugged her friend before departing, telling her to bring something cute tomorrow so that they could find her a boyfriend.

Rin had frowned at that, but Miku hadn't seen and went out the door whistling carelessly.

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The next day was Monday, which meant back to school. Gakupo was nervous, to say the least. How would he be able to concentrate on class when Rin would be there?

So he stressed his whole day until her class period came, only to find out that she wasn't there.

Now, however, he was worried.

He'd overheard one of his students mentioning seeing her. She was probably skipping class, or some other trivial thing, but why? And what would he do about it? Give her another detention? The whole idea seemed more kinky than anything like a punishment, and it made him flush. However, he went through the day as he had planned.

When the final bell rang, he almost expected the short, blonde girl to flounce through the doors as the other students filed out. But none of the sort happened, leaving him to worry.

What if she regrets what happened yesterday? What if she's angry? What if—

"Uh... Kamui, right?"The man looked up from his desk to come face to face with familiar bright blue eyes and blonde hair.

"Yes?" he asked. The person who had interrupted his inner turmoil was a boy, probably a lower-class man, but in none of Gakupo's classes. But he looked eerily like—

"I'm Kagamine Len." Oh. "My sister's in this class. Or well, she was supposed to be. She's about this tall," he held up a hand next to him, "with blue eyes and blonde hair. Her name's Rin. Did you see her today? I'm looking for her."

Gakupo wanted to... well, he didn't even know. This boy was the one who brought so much grief upon Rin, causing her to run crying blindly through town and into his arms. "She wasn't in today," he ground out.

The male Kagamine twin scratched his head. "Huh." Then, he glanced around the classroom. Gakupo was ashamed to admit that he was getting nervous, as if this boy would call him out randomly. "You know, Rin's failing this class."

And now he wanted to make conversation?

Gakupo groaned quietly, sitting back in his chair. Out of all the people...

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"What did you and Luka do the other night?" Rin asked suggestively with a wink, twirling a plastic spoon between her fingers.

Her and Miku had, indeed, ditched school to go to the old ice cream parlor that was almost closing due to lack of business. They'd been hanging out for a good while now, and were now on the topic of relationships.

Miku went red. "Wh-What do you mean?"

"Oh, come on!" Rin teased. "Something had to have happened."

"What do you want, a diagram?"

Rin laughed, sitting back and shoveling more ice cream into her mouth. "How about a blurry watercolor?"

Miku blushed and sighed again before whispering about singing together and dancing and kissing. She talked about how Luka loved horror movies while Miku herself preferred romantic-comedies, but they had ditched watching a movie all together to go lay out under the stars instead of arguing about it. By the way Miku got all dreamy-eyed and goofy, Rin made an important decision.

Her best friend was in love.

But maybe she didn't know it yet, and Rin decided that she wouldn't spoil it, and happily listened to her friend ramble on.

"Well... enough about my love life. What's going on in yours?"

Rin looked away uncomfortably. "It's nonexistent. You should know that by now."

Miku leaned forward, leering at the girl. "You're such a liar. I can tell there's someone!"

"Y-You're crazy!"

"So are you! Crazy in love!"

"It's not love! O-Or even like, even. We're not even official!"

"A-ha!" She pointed her spoon at her accusingly. "I knew you had someone on the side! Is he tall? Handsome? Oh! Tall, dark, and handsome? C'mon, details!"

Rin dropped her face into her hands. Why, oh why, did she have to fall for someone she couldn't even introduce to her very best friend officially?

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A/N : This... seemed super rushed T.T but I wanted to get out that their relationship is ALREADY stressful, I guess.

Review Responses:

Just Another Asian: Haha a "that's-what-she-said moment" ;D. I hope you thought this chapter waasn't complete crap, but hey... it's monday. And I'm going to try to churn out at least one other chapter this week.

Black Snow Rose: Len and Kaito? Hmm... Ha, anyway, Luka's great about caring for Rin. I'm thinking their gonna have some sort of sisterly bond thing. Not much GakuRin moments here, but in the near future for sure. THANK YOU FOR THE CAKE!

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