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Sorry for the late update guys… i was so busy at my new school… hehehe…and I've been acting like a cold mikan there…

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Shironeko95 & Olympiangirl

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Konnie

-yeah…sad…but true…

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-chapter 11-

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Mikan woke up due to the incessant ringing of her alarm clock. She reached for her alarm and pushed it aside and made a loud crash. She murmured something about her alarm and how it's bad to wake up without getting some good enough sleep.

Mikan rubbed her eyes gently. A soft chuckle was heard near her door.

"mi-chan looks so cute even if just woken up, right shiki?" said a dark blond-haired girl nodding towards the said brunette girl.

"rima, you better keep your mouth shut especially if our princess mimi is awoken at the other side of the bed," said a dark red-haired boy leaning at the door frame.

"the princess should be getting ready right now," insisted rima. Mikan twitched an eyebrow. She reached for her pillow and throws it at the door.

"stop calling me that stupid names. Darn you rima-chi!" mikan shouted. Rima gasps at what mikan called her.

"ow no you don't want to argue with princess mimi, are you rima-chi?" taunts shiki grabbing rima's wrist. Mikan glared at shiki. Shiki shivered a little thinking his doomed.

"oi iki-pyon, you're here too." Mikan said smirking. Shiki loosened her grasp on rima's hand while rima chuckled.

"good for you." Rima said. She neared mikan's bed and sat at the edge, "you don't have to be so grumpy, it'll wrinkle your young face," she chuckled.

"who wouldn't be grumpy when you two are here," she replied sarcastically while standing up. "who told you to watch me from the door?"

"it's rima's idea," shiki said crossing his arms in front of his chest, "yo-chan told us not to."

"i did not!" rima shouted at shiki.

"of course you do," shiki answered back.

"quit bickering and get out of my room or else!" mikan coldly said. She went to her bathroom door.

"okay, we already know…" shiki said then he pulled rima out of the room and closed it after him.

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Shiki and rima walked along the corridor. Rima let out a frustrated sigh. Shiki looked at rima with a worried expression.

"shiki," rima started getting shiki's attention, "do you think she's moving on? You know it's not her fault. I mean, she never liked those things to happen. She's just-"

"rima," shiki interrupted rima's outburst, "I know what you want to say, and I know how you felt towards her grief. We both are her cousins."

Rima lowered her head, "but do you think, she'll-"

"haven't you heard what yo-chan said earlier?" shiki said leaning at a window frame in the mansion's corridor.

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Flashback…

"hey yo-chan!" rima shouted at yoichi.

"rima nee-chan, shiki nii-san," Yoichi stopped playing the piano and looked up at the nearing rima with shiki.

"how ya doin kiddo?" shiki asked patting yoichi. Yoichi groaned while pushing shiki's hand away from his head.

"stop it!" yoichi said, "I'm not a kid anymore!"

"yeah, his right shiki," rima said crossing her hands, "ahm, where's mi-chan?"

"upstairs!" yoichi nods at the stairs. "she's still asleep."

"heard that rima?" said shiki, "the monster's still asleep."

"don't say monster until you'll have a death wish." Rima shook her head.

"you stop bickering bakas!" yoichi said, "do whatever you like. Just don't wake her up." Yoichi said closing the lid of the piano. He went outside the mansion and looked at the busy people while preparing the reception for the night's event.

"they were so busy," shiki said standing behind yoichi, "you think so rima?"

"of course it is baka!" rima said turning back towards the stairs, "it's the princess's debut to the society."

"hey!" shiki shouted, "where are you going?"

"upstairs!" rima move up, "I'll go see her. I missed her so much!" she giggled.

"I don't think she missed you," yoichi said shaking his head, "she'll murder you." He went out and guide other people what to do.

"oh geez!" rima crossed her arms in front of her, "i'm gonna see her."

"didn't you hear yo-chan?" shiki asked, "she'll murder you,"

"well," rime grinned, "you're coming with me." Shiki gulped while rima pulled shiki upstairs…

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"you sure want to kill me." Shiki sighed.

"no," rima shook her head, " i just want to see her." rima looked down outside the window and saw the busy people.

"hn," shiki said, "let's go. We need to prepare ourselves, too."

"mou, shiki!" rima pouted, "it's too early, and the party won't start until seven."

"yeah that's right," shiki smiled, "but it's the you we are talking about."

Rima twitched an eyebrow. "what?!" rima shouted, shiki walks towards the stairs. "it's still 10 am." Rima marched after shiki shouting everything that is on her mind.

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Meanwhile in Mikan's room…

"stupid cousins…" mikan murmured, "do they have to disturb me, too."

Mikan wore [(germainelaralera .multiply .com /photos /album /14 / mikans_ tops#1), (germainelaralera .multiply .com / photos /album /15 / mikans_ bottoms #7), (germainelaralera . multiply .com / photos /album /16 /mikans _ accessories #54), (germainelaralera .multiply .com /photos /album /18 /mikans _ shoes #36), well, sorry guys…I don't know how to describe clothes…hehehehe] and she went down to the porch and looked at the busy servants who were busy carrying and arranging some stuffs while bowing when they see her.

She was thinking how things will work if his deceased brother still there. She heaved a sigh thinking that it's impossible now that he's gone.

"Onii-sama, if you were just here, I wouldn't be feeling lonely," she lowered her head and walked towards the back garden. She sat at the swing near the sakura tree. "Heck! How can I forget you if everywhere I go are the places where we have happy memories…" mikan lowered her head.

"mikan onee-sama!" shouted a running yoichi, "there you are! I've been looking for you everywhere." He said between pants.

"what is it?!" mikan said coldly not even looking at yoichi.

"it's nearly lunchtime," yoichi said standing up straight, "and besides, we need to rehearse a little and then you need to prepare for tonight."

"Right, it's 11:45." mikan stood up and walked ahead of yoichi. "let's go yoichi!" mikan said.

"hai, onee-sama," yoichi followed mikan. They walked through the entrance door and headed to the dining room.

"mimi-chan!!!" shouted rima, "sit here! Sit here!" she patted the chair to her right.

"no mi-chan," shiki interrupted, "you sit here," he patted the left chair. Rima glared at shiki.

"girls should sit with each other!" rima shouted to shiki.

"nope! The princess shouldn't sit beside a witch." Shiki said.

"I'm not a witch, you stupid monster," rima back fired.

"shut up witch!" shiki shouted.

"no! you shut up monster!" rima said.

"ehem!" fake coughed yuka. "I think mimi-chan doesn't have to sit beside you," she nodded at her left. Mikan was silently glaring at her two bickering cousins.

"I'm not sure whether onee-sama wants to sit with either of you," yoichi started while sitting beside mikan, "so I offered her a sit beside okaa-sama and me."

Rima and Shiki looked at yoichi with disbelief. They admitted that yoichi still has more knowledge about mikan.

"so we lost," shiki said, "right, rima?"

"yeah!" rima said, "at least for now." Mikan looked around the table. Mikan saw his grandfather and father wasn't there.

"ojii-sama and otou-sama," mikan said coldly, "where are they?"

"ahhhh…." Yuka looked at mikan, "they will be here before the party, and they were just busy doing their business just to attend your party tonight."

Mikan smiled a little that only yoichi noticed. The food is served after a while. They started to eat and chatted animatedly except mikan and yoichi.

Fast forward (after practice)…

Mikan went to the mansion's salon and greeted by the team that will prepare her for the upcoming event. They started putting on mikan's make-up and so on. (I'll have to fast forward it…sorry…I think you know the ritual for preparing to a party right?)

By 6:45, they finished preparing mikan and looked at her with praise.

"you looked marvelous!" said one.

"no! she looks fantastic!" said the other.

"yeah! She's so pretty with just that light make-up!" said the others.

"enough already!" mikan said irritatingly, "will you please keep quiet and get out of my room."

They all shut their mouths and went outside mikan's room.

Mikan sat at her sofa and fiddle her phone. She dialed hotaru's number and called.

"mikan," hotaru asked, "are you alright?"

"of course," mikan answered, "are you coming already?"

"actually," hotaru said, "we're in the mansion already."

"well, okay." Mikan said and heard a knock through the door.

"Mikan-sama?" a maid's voice was heard, "your mother expected you to come at the hall's entrance."

"tell her I'm coming," she replied, "hotaru, I've got to go. See you."

"yeah…" hotaru said then a beep heard…

To be continued…