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Hehe… In the last chapter I wanted it to sound like Natsume wanted sex (he doesn't he wants something else) but I wanted to see how many of you reviewed asking if that was what he whispered- it was like an experiment to see how many of my readers have dirty minds XD lol. I'm evil, I know -grins-

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"Natsume we can't! Are you insane?"

"No. I'm a genius."

"What?! Why the hell does this make you a genius? It just makes you suicidal."

Natsume shrugged, "The most intelligent people are also the most insane ones."

I narrowed my eyes at him. "But..."

Natsume looked down sadly, "Don't worry okay? it was a stupid idea to ask you, I'm sorry."

I sighed, why did he have to make me feel so freaking guilty?

"Don't be sorry, it's fine. I just don't think it's going to work, that's all."

"Do you not think I have tried this before? I've learnt from my mistakes and I have this all planned. I know how w- I can do it."

I didn't like the way he changed "we" to "I".

"If you do it then I will too it's just-" I yawned, "Are you sure it will work?"

"Look, I know you're kind of tired, you can get some sleep. We'll talk in the morning. Okay? Good night."

"Good night."

Natsume pecked me on the cheek (Aww how sweet!) and let me rest while he kept still, showing no signs of planning to sleep any time soon.

...

Ouch my head!

I had a very rough night's sleep. The room was cold and I was still trying to convince myself that what I had seen a few hours ago was real. The people at this school really do have alices. I may even have one (or several) myself.

It all seemed so surreal. Could this be a dream? A drug-induced trip to coo-coo town? Oh wait… I don't do drugs... Aliens screwing with my mind? I snorted, really, what could explain this?

I got out of my (newly bought) bed and I showered. I dressed in a random plaid skirt and an inky vinyl bustier and I anchored my hair into two ponytails.

Hmm… needs something more…

I looped three silver necklaces around my neck, tugged on several bracelets, swiped my lips with a pale lipstick and spritzed my pulse points with perfume. Perfect.

Natsume was already up- or maybe he hadn't gone to bed at all – I wasn't sure.

"Hey."

He jumped at the sound of my voice. He must have been day dreaming or something. "Sorry," I apologised, trying not to laugh. His face looked too serious and no-shit-tolerance-right-now.

"Speak to me Natsume!"

He looked at me with an expression I couldn't read. "I'm going to do it. On Halloween."

"Why at Halloween?"

"Because everyone is always distracted on Halloween. I'll have plenty of opportunity."

"Can I come?"

Natsume looked at me in surprise. "You really want to?"

"Sure- as long as you ask me nicely. Just once more." I grinned.

"Mikan, will you run away from the shithole with me?" he asked sounding sexier than ever.

"I do-" I said dreamily. Then I realised I was answering a question he wasn't asking, "Uhh… I mean Yes. I will!" I smiled embarrassed.

He laughed, "Great. Here's the plan."

…

I had to admit, it was clever-my geeky little Natsume... He'd thought of just about everything. Huh, he wasn't as unintelligent as he looked…

"I just want you to promise me something."

"What is it?"

"I want you to promise to trust me."

"I promise."

"Good. We're all sorted then."

I wrapped my hands around his. We sat for a while, not saying anything. "Is Hammy back yet?" I asked.

"Why do you call her that?"

"I don't know it's just easier to say. Is she back?"

"Probably."

"Are you in trouble?"

"Nah. I doubt it. I've done worse before."

"Tut, tut. Naughty boy."

Natsume rolled his eyes at me. I shoved him playfully and he shoved me back. Somehow we ended up wrestling on the floor, laughing our heads off.

I had him pinned to the ground and suddenly we stopped and Natsume's gaze met mine. My face moved closer to his and I kissed him softly on the lips.

It made me feel dizzy and I forgot all of the worry and doubt in my mind.

"Whatever you decide to do, I'll go along with it. I trust you."

Natsume didn't say anything. No, not a word… He just kissed me some more…

"Oh crap do you know what time it is?" Natsume asked.

No, I didn't. I'd totally lost track of time. With Natsume, every second passed all too quickly.

"I don't care."

"Are you not hungry?"

"Are you?"

"No."

"Then neither am I. The only thing I'm hungry for is more time with you."

"We have all the time in the world."

"It's not enough."

"Yeah, but we'll make the most of it. Then afterwards, our spirits will be together. We will never part, Mikan. I won't let anything separate us. Not anything at all."

He pecked me on the cheek. "Come on, let's go eat."

"You're hungry aren't you?"

"…Maybe."

I laughed at him.

When we got there, it was already ten minutes into dinnertime. Natsume held the door open for me but I refused to walk through it. "You first."

"Why?"

"I don't want you thinking I'm more important than you."

Natsume snorted, "I don't."

I glared at him.

"Go on!" he insisted.

"No, you go!"

"Both of you move!" A teacher yelled, angrily.

I blushed. "Sorry Sensei."

I walked through the door reluctantly and Natsume followed close behind me.

There was still a big queue but Natsume lead me to his table. Eh?

"Natsume, don't we need to….Oh I don't know…GET SOME FOOD?!" I asked.

He chuckled. "As if! Nah, when you're a G,* you get food delivered."

(*G = Gangsta)

He whispered something in a girl's ear, she giggled and went to the queue, but instead of waiting at the back, she pushed straight to the front, grabbed two trays of food and put them down by Natsume with a flirty grin.

He grinned back just as flirtatiously and the girl looked as thought she was going to faint. My eyes narrowed to tiny slits.

I didn't speak. Then, the girl walked away with a humongous smile on her face and she sat at a table gossiping with her friends.

"Oh. I forgot you had puppy dogs that did everything for you."

He chuckled darkly, "Yeah, you could say that…"

It took me a while to realise there was something wrong with what he just said. My spoon froze in mid air- "Wait, what do you mean 'you could say that'?" I asked.

"It's nothing."

"Tell me!"

"Natsume has an alice that makes everyone admire him- or at least we think it's an alice. We've never heard of anything else like it so it could just be blindness on everyone else's behalf. I mean seriously- who in their right mind would like Natsume?" Ruka asked jokingly.

"Oh, no offence Mikan," He added quickly.

"None taken."

Natsume glared at Ruka.

"Well I think it's my natural charm. After all, we don't see any girls falling head over heels for you do we?" Natsume asked.

"They want me. They're just shy."

"Yeah keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll manage to convince yourself."

The argument went on like this, back and forth, back and forth they took it in turns to insult each other. Eventually, some of Natsume's other friends joined in and it was like a wild tennis match, my eyes following the direction of the speaker.

In the end, my eyes hurt from moving around too much.

Natsume looked at me after a while. "There's only ten minutes left."

"Yeah?"

"You haven't eaten a thing."

I looked down at my still very full tray, it was only then that I realised I was so captivated by their conversation that I'd forgotten to eat. My stomach rumbled. I was starving.

I quickly shovelled the food into my mouth. I didn't feel at all self conscious, even though most of Natsume's friends were staring at me with disgusted expressions.

When I finished, I nudged Natsume. He looked at me and laughed.

"God Mikan you're such a messy eater!" he said wiping at my mouth with a napkin, trying to get the rib sauce I had just eaten off of my face.

"Aww how sweet, Natsume has a soft side to him!" Ruka teased.

Natsume's eyes were about to burn red, but he looked at me and he calmed down again. He ignored the comment and the snickers from his friends.

"I'm proud of you," I told him as we walked up to our dorm.

"What for?"

"For not getting angry back there, it used to be so easy to annoy you, and now you've got a lot more control.

"You're face makes me happy."

"You make me happy."

We entered our dorm, and both sat exhaustedly on the couch. Time had passed at super speed today and I was extremely tired.

Neither of us spoke for a while so I began scratching at the wall beside me. NXM 4 EVA.

"What's that?" Natsume asked peering over me.

He read it and smiled, "That couldn't be truer."

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held him close to me. He held me back, just as tightly. When I loosened my grip I leaned against his chest and he whispered a story in my ear.

It was a story of a boy who met a beautiful princess and his world was transformed, it moved me. At the end he whispered, "That boy was me and you are my princess." He kissed my forehead and soon after, I fell asleep to the sound of his heartbeat.

When I woke up, I wasn't on the couch anymore; I was on Natsume's double bed. Natsume had his arm around me and his eyes were open. "Good morning Princess."

I stood up to find myself wearing one of Natsume's shirts.

"You didn't!"

"What? What's wrong?" Natsume asked.

"Last night, you-me-we did…"

His eyebrows were creased in confusion. When he realised what he was talking about he laughed hard. "What, no! But I bet you wish we did don't you?" He said grinning.

"No! Natsume this isn't funny!" I screamed shaking my fist.

"Yeah, sorry you're right." he said trying to fight off a burst of giggles, "Don't worry, I promise I didn't do anything to you. You fell asleep and I thought it would be kind of uncomfortable for you in your skirt and your tight top so I gave you my shirt. You put it on yourself, you were probably sleep-walking but hey, you insisted."

"So you haven't seen anything?"

"Like what?"

"You know…things I don't want you seeing." I said blushing embarrassedly.

"I didn't dress you; you dressed yourself so I didn't see a thing. No worries."

"Good." I smiled relieved.

"Why, are you hiding something?" he asked.

"No!" I said defensively. "What would I have to hide?"

"I've worked it out Mikan; you don't need to lie any more. It's okay. I know you're actually a boy."

"WHAT?! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM HUH? I'M NOT A FREAKING GUY! DO I LOOK LIKE A GUY? DO I SOUND LIKE A GUY? HUH? HUH!?" I asked outraged.

Natsume laughed at me, "Relax, I was joking!"

I growled at him.

He fell back onto the bed in laughter. "Prove to me you're a girl."

"How the hell do you want me to do that?!" I asked, still irritated by Natsume.

"Come here," he beckoned to me.

When I was just an arms length away from him he swooped me closer to himself and kissed me full on. His tongue gushing down my throat. His hands traced my neck and travelled downwards, his hands reached my lower back and sneaked beneath my shirt.

He undid my bra strap as I unbuttoned the shirt he had lent me. I undid the buttons on his shirt too. Natsume hesitated, "Are you sure you're okay with this?"

"Positive." And before I knew it, our skin was touching and our body's entwined.