After what had happened a while ago, I stayed a little more at the piano room.
"Sorry Mikan I can't…" those words keep on repeating in my head, my eyes begin to swell and eventually tears begin to fall down endlessly. I stood up and run towards the bathroom to wash my face when I bumped into somebody. I am about to hit the ground flat but instead I felt something warm and soft
"Gomen" I said while trying to stand up
"Are you okay Sakura-chan?" It is Ruka
"Hai" I said with a smile
"What's wrong Sakura?"
"ME? Nothing's wrong with me see!?" then I act like I'm happy with my life
"I know… there's something wrong… your eyes are red and I must say you're crying"
"I'm not" then salty warm water begin crawl down again. I wiped it huskily so that he might not see but too bad he saw it.
"It's okay… You see when we were still at States, he used to play with many girls and when he doesn't like the girl any more he'd just throw them like a doll in the trash. I used to ask him if he found her yet but he always told me that he hasn't found her yet, the girl of his dreams. Maybe he's talking about his childhood best friend that he loves so dearly and can't forget everything about her even though his parents told him to forget her cause they've arranged a marriage for him"
"Is that so?"
"Yes, so please wait for him"
"I can't wait any longer"
"Why is that?"
"Because I'm learning to fall for another person, I'm trying to move on now"
"But it was just awhile ago when those things happened"
"I know, but… You see we need to walk on our own paths now"
"I understand"
"Ja"
"Ja" I smile at him and waved my hands in the air gesturing good-bye then I went towards the bathroom.
I washed my face and when I looked at the mirror, I saw Yuu and Koko standing behind me. I look at the mirror intently and rubbed my eyes vigorously so that I know that it's for real and I expect the moment I open my eyes they're gone but I still see them the moment I my eyes.
"Why are you here Yuu and Koko?"
"Hello" they both said while I turned around to face them
"It's been quite awhile now" Yuu said
"Yeah I know"
"I missed her" Yuu said
"Me too." Koko said
"Who?"
"You" they both exclaimed
"Really" then I smiled a bit
"Thank goodness you smile" Koko said
"Why are you here? I mean you must stay at the forest to guard it right?" I said
"You see… we pursue elder Midori and elder Ao to give us permission to study here" Yuu explained
"…and after some conversation the elder gives us the permission to study here in the city in exchange we must return before dark everyday and be responsible when we grew up" Koko said
"And aside from that, Elder Midori enrolled us here" Yuu said happily with a huge smile painted in his lips
"But they won't see you; I mean the two of you if you are in that form right?"
"Elder Shin gives us permission to change into our human forms" they both said
Then they both flick their fingers and poof! They transform as a human… Yuu with blonde hair and Eyeglasses while Koko long blonde hair with earrings
"Impressive" I said
Then a girl opens the door of the comfort room and yelp from what she saw, two boys with a girl. She runs wildly in the corridors while screaming.
"You'd better be in your classroom by this time, class is starting" Yuu said
"Yes I know but I must take some more time with myself" I said with a smile
"I understand, but please stop crying… you'll make the people around you worried" Yuu said then they flick their fingers again and flew out of the place
When they left, I entered one of the cubicles to pee. After that, wash my hands then I decided to let my hair to loose. After that I wonder around the school for a while and then I return to my classroom, our first class is starting, it is homeroom and Serina-sensei is about to announce something important.
"Sakura you're late again… goodness when will you be in time? Go to your seat now" She said to me, I just shook my head and headed at my place but somebody's sitting on my chair, its Luna, I lowered my head—I mean lower—holding my tears that are about to fall when somebody put his arms around my neck and dragged me. It is Ruka-pyon
"Don't look at them miserably" he said while dragging me
"I'm not" I said while walking backwards—maybe towards his seat
"Stay with me for while, until Tsubasa came back" he stopped and whispered those words in my ears
"Where is he?" I said with worried tone
"At the principal's office, he will be accelerated or somewhat about their condition"
"I see." I said with a relief
"How long are you going to stay like that?" Serina-sensei told us while raising her left brow
"You are distracting my class"
"Gomen sensei" We both said then we settle down, Ruka-pyon is sitting at my left and next to my right is the wall. I look at the ceiling to find something interesting but nothing catches my fancy, and I'm bored. I take a little glance towards Natsume and caught him looking towards me. I blush a bit but hid it, I look at him slowly and caught Luna looking at me with a glare that saying DON'T-YOU-DARE-LOOK-AT-MY-NATSUME.
I started to mutter things like… I hate Hyuuga… He's a perverted baka and anything that could keep my eyes off him but things like but he's gorgeous… and how I love to be held by those arms and hear his voice every morning begins to counter everything negative thing that I said under my breathe.
I am distracted from my thoughts when I heard Serina-sensei say that we'll have a stage play. I look at her interestingly and she said that our play is about My girl—a novel by (author) but with some twists. I love joining plays especially when it's about childhood memories. I already read the book and I think it would be great if it'll be performed live, though it has a sad ending. Without any hesitation I raised my left hand to call sensei's attention.
"Yes Mikan-chan"
"Who would be the participants in the play sensei?" I asked
"We will be having a Draw lots"
Then Sensei begins to make a chart in the board and start to label the characters. She puts the name that she'll get in the mysterious box that she's holding a while ago. I stared at the board and look at it with focus. Who would be the characters?
Ruka Nogi as Harry Sultenfuss
Hotaru Imai as Shelly De Voto
Yuu Iinchou as Uncle Phil
Luna Koizumi and Sumire as the twin bullies
Anna Uresagawa as the innocent little girl
Natsume Hyuuga as Thomas J. Senett
Kokoryomi as Mister Bixler
Nonoko as Gramoo
Hayato Minamoto as Dr. Welty
Hana Kurosaki as Anna
Mikan Sakura as Vada Sultenfuss
My eyes widen when I see my name written in the board, I am in the play and needless to say I am the main character in the story.
"YAY! I'm in the play!" I said whiled dancing with Ruka-pyon while Anna, Nonoko, Yuu, Koko and Hotaru just said "BANZAI" lazily
"Gomen Ruka-pyon… I'm overjoyed"
"I know I know Sakura-san"
"Iie… I owe you an apology"
"It's okay"
"Mikan…" Hotaru said from my back
"…congrats" she smiled and hugged me
"Thanks"
"Congrats Mikan-chan" Yuu and Koko said together with Anna and Nonoko
"You got the main character" Hotaru said
"But there's one problem… Natsume… will be my leading man"
"What's the problem being Natsume's leading lady?" Ruka said
"His Fiancé"
"If she hit you I'll hit her thrice" Tsubasa said, I look at his direction and immediately run towards him
"Gomen Mi-chan… I can't protect you from that evil witch" he whispered at my ear
"But even though I'm not here anymore… you must tell me what's happening in here…" he whispered at me while planting a kiss at my forehead
"Of course" I said with a large smile… I can sense somebody glaring at us but I didn't bother to look because I know who it is…. It's Natsume.
"Mikan, you must spent time with Natsume so that you can practice all you need to improve at your skills" Serina-sensei said
"Hai sensei"
"As for you Tsubasa, you must go now to Tokyo University so that you can start"
"Yes Miss"
Then Tsubasa wink at me, it means we'll meet at the coffee shop later, then arrange his things and start to move out of our classroom.
I heard Luna blabbered out that Tsubasa and Misaki are dating, I glared at her and she glared back
"Want some fight Sakura?"
"I won't waste a single effort to hurt you… I won't lower myself in a low class person like you"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"Don't make me repeat myself, for if you do I'll say worse from what I've said"
Tsubasa and the others begin to smile. Natsume just stared at me with a shocked expression, while sensei is speechless. Luna on the other hand, feels the word 'shame' while I'm overjoyed from what I've done.
"Good work" Tsubasa said while patting my head
"Thanks… I never thought I could say those words"
"Yeah… you're great" Natsume said
"Thanks Hyuuga-kun"
"Natsume" he said with annoyed expression
"Natsume" I said with a smile
"No one dares to call him Natsume other than me!"
"I don't give you permission to call me Natsume or even Natsume-sama"
"But… Maybe you forget, I still hold the files that can be the cause of your parents' business"
"I don't… but remember I'll JUST marry you because of my parents"
"Marionette" Tsubasa just said while leaving our classroom. I look at them and leave then I headed towards the Sakura tree in which I sat while a warm breeze blew.
"I wish I would have a great time with this play" I said while looking at the trees nearby.
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