A/N: YO! Thank you for all the reviews! It's test week but I got to sneak this in because I love you! A lot of drama will happen!

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Recap

"He's right. I don't really know what it is we're reaching for." Mikan said.

"After all this, maybe it's not the both of us anymore." Natsume said.

"What the heck do you mean?" she asked cluelessly.

"The only thing I know for sure is this."

Once again, he grabbed her waist as he pulled her close and kissed her. The only difference was there was a whole crowd staring and this time he stayed.

End of Recap

She wanted it to last longer because it just felt so right but she had to pull away because there were a dozen of people looking directly and others secretly. She wasn't a fan of attention especially if it was cause by this kind of stuff. She stared at him as he understood why she did that so he just shrugged and took her hand as they walked outside with barely much time left.

"I'm sorry, I don't really like being under the spotlight." She told him shyly.

"It's fine. I understand." He was actually a bit happy since a lot of his ex-girlfriends loved it so to the point of forcing public displays of affection on him just to show him off so this was very new to him but in a good way.

"You do?"

"Yeah, I've had my experiences with these sort of things."

"Oh."

"I wanted to ask you something."

"What?" she asked looking up at him. She was annoyed that he was a tad bit taller than her but she decided it was better than have her be taller.

"I've never actually asked you formally and I guess now would be a good time." He stared at her in the eyes, "Will you go out with me?"

She was flabbergasted and well, truthfully she wasn't sure because they've barely known each other and even though she knew she shouldn't give it much thought, his past was not exactly reassuring.

"Can I think about it?" she asked.

Natsume wasn't sure if he should feel relieved that she didn't say no or annoyed that she didn't say yes. He wondered why she hadn't said yes. He wasn't used to the feeling of waiting for a girl so he just nodded and went ahead into the bus and left her. Again.

Mikan realizes that he somehow tends to repeat a lot of things but she wasn't sure how she felt about that yet and if that was the right thing to say. Now that she thought about it, he never really replied to her question. Oh well, she'll just think about it more. She followed suit to ride it.

Looking around the area, she could positively say they were about fifty-five percent done. She wanted to tell Tom but since they got there he's been a bit sulky and avoided her a bit and she couldn't see why and she hated awkward silences with a friend so she decided to approach him.

"Hey," she said looking at the pavement while kicking the rocks.

"Hey," he said back quietly.

"Umm.." she wasn't sure how to start it so she just went for the direct approach. "Why are you avoiding me?" she asked him earnestly.

"I'm not." He said as if trying to convince himself too.

"Yeah, you are. You haven't spoken voluntarily at all this morning." Mikan told him as her proof.

"Alright maybe I was, a bit." He said finally admitting it wearing a sorry grin on his face.

"You didn't answer why you did that." She replied still unsatisfied.

"Come here." He led her somewhere that they could still be seen but their voices wouldn't be heard, unless they screamed.

"The reason why I was evading you a bit this morning was because these past few days I've started to like you."

"I like you too!" Mikan replied as dense as ever.

"Okay, we probably mean it in different ways. You see Mikan, I like like you and you probably just like me as a friend and all."

"Oh." She said in understanding.

"Well, I saw what happened at the cafeteria this morning and if I end up doing more that friendly stuff to you, it might send Natsume some wrong signals and I don't want to be the cause of a quarrel."

"No, it's fine. Natsume's not that protective and he's actually not visibly understanding. I don't want to be with him if I'd have to lose a friend." Mikan said kindly.

"So you want to keep our friendship going? Even if you know I have feeling sfor you?"

"Let's give it a shot!" Mikan said sahe hugged him and he hugged back.

A hug.

Just a hug.

Was a hug.

Is a hug.

He was clenching his fists together convincing himself it was just a hug and nothing more. It wasn't a romantic hug. He saw them talking and watched Mikan's confused expression in the beginning which turned to understanding and sealed with a hug. Why does she get him so worked up over a hug?

She was bad for him. All she's been doing since they met was make him feel all these annoying emotions that he's hasn't felt in a while. Then she goes off and hugs his rival, like that's supposed to help, it actually made it worse.

He took an early leave but they barely had half an hour left anyway so he just headed for town about to do something that was either going to make him or break him.

"Hey Ruka, have you seen Natsume?" Mikan asked as they were already about to board.

"I haven't seen him too so I asked and they said he left half an hour ago saying he had something to do."

"Oh."

"Did he tell you about anything?" Ruka asked since he didn't know what Natsume could be off doing.

"No, I wasn't able to talk to him throughout the day."

"Well then. I guess we'll just be seeing him back at the hotel."

"Yeah."

They arrived only to see Natsume wasn't there yet. Mikan now was indeed intrigued as to where he was. She asked permission to look around town and it was granted. Ruka told her to call him the moment she found him because he also decided to look as they divided the town and he'd also call her when he found him.

They weren't so serious about it thinking he might just be looking around and left because he was bored. At least it also gave them some free time to look around. They also told the receptionist that if ever Natsume came in to tell him to call them.

Mikan just looked at a bunch of streets and was able to buy a pink tankini and a white pair of slippers. The ground was dry as there hasn't been much rain after the storm. It was a relief but it left the island quite hot even during nighttime. She was about to return to the hotel thinking it was getting late and Natsume was a big boy and he could handle himself when she saw a smoothie stand by the shore.

She loved smoothies and was a bit tired herself so she decided to help herself with one. She approached the stand and propped up on one of the red stools. She looked at it's tiki theme and found it really cute, she'd definitely come back her unless their smoothies sucked, that would be really disappointing.

A girl in a Hawaiian outfit approached her and asked,

"Welcome to Smoothie by the Beach! I'm Tanya and I'll be your waiter for today. What smoothie would you like, ma'am?" she said enigmatically.

"Um, what's your specialty?"

"That would be the strawberry mango."

"I'll just have a medium one of that." She said. She waited for about a minute when Tanya decided to make small talk.

"Young love is very aggressive nowadays, isn't it?" she noted while looking towards a couple in the beach. Mikan nodded giggling and she looked towards the two more closely.

They looked familiar. The guy had raven hair and lean muscles and…

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

It was Natsume making our with some random girl quite aggressively as Tanya had put it. They had their hands all over each other and didn't seem to be planning on stopping. She suddenly felt something wet on her sking. She put her hand on her face only to realize she had been crying. She immediately put her hand on her pocket and put the payment for the smoothie on the counter and left.

"Keep the change!" she shouted at the girl as she ran back to the hotel with a broken heart.