Back and now with Chapter 21, I would like to thank my reviewers from the last chapter, any number of reviews keeps me going on with this, so if I get no reviews, expect no updates. I shall continue though with this one since I got some, well I hope you enjoy.

I know many of you will hate Kalim or myself for this chapter.

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"She hasn't stopped staring at me, it's kind of freaking me out." Kalim thought as he sat there feeling Kutsiko's gaze on him, because of this, he did not want lunch time to come. He did not want to have that girl following him, but since he did not want lunch to approach, it seemed to come faster as the bell rang. He tried his best to sneak out without her knowledge, but the second he made it to the door, the girl latched on to his arm. He inwardly sighed knowing he was losing the battle.

"So what are you doing after school?" She asked him as they walked down the hall.

"Uhh, probably home to study, I missed many days." He replied.

"You should come to my house so we can hang out and get to know each other better!" She exclaimed with a smile.

"Uhh, I can't, really, I need to study." he was trying to find a way out of it.

"I can help you! I already know all of this stuff!" He sighed again, she had a witty comeback for anything he said. He now knew how Kagome felt yesterday when he had the comebacks for what she said. He knew there was a near-impossible to impossible way of getting out of the offer, since he had nothing else to use, he agreed.

"Sure, okay." He said in a fake, cheerful tone. Her eyes lit up even more than before as she pulled him into a hug and that is when Kaya was walking by seeing that. She felt anger and jealousy, even though she knew it was nothing, but seeing the one she loved being held so lovingly by another person while he did nothing to clear it up made her feel uneasy.

"Hi Kalim." she said the usual way to hide the emotions that she felt inside.

"Oh, hi Kaya. This is Kutsiko, Kutsiko this is Kaya." they both said their hello's and Kaya immediately didn't like her.

Kalim decided to suggest lunch since it was time for it and they both agreed and the three of them headed to the lunch room. Kalim sat at his usual table with his food in front of him. He was about to take a bite of it, but the same girl from before gave him a big hug.

"Do you see the need to hug me every time you see me Kutsiko?" She nodded.

"You can call me Kuty you know." She blushed slightly and smiled at him, "And of course I do!" she looked for her next words, "Because I lo..."

"Hi guys." Kaya interrupted purposely so Kutsiko couldn't finish her sentence.

"Hi Kaya" Kalim said while Kutsiko glared at her while holding onto one of Kalim's arms.

Kagome looked over from, the other table she was at and was not too happy aboutying it will be the same as last time, and the scene unfolding, she worked haard to get Kalim and Kaya together, but another girl was moving in between them. She kew she had to speed Kaya up or he may be taken away. Kagome thought for a moment and then came up with the same plan as last time, the mall. She got to talking with her friends Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka to discuss the plan over saying it will be the same as last time. They all nodded in agreement.

Kaya sat down next to Kalim on the side opposite of Kutsiko, Kalim was a little nervous being between two girls and one holding onto his arm while the other working her hardest to initiate a conversation but was finding it difficult because of the girl shoving herself onto him. Kaya looked over at Kagome's table and saw her being waved over, so she excused herself and walked over.

"Yes?" she asked Kagome.

"We saw things aren't going too smoothly." Kagome stated.

"Yeah, that girl, she just showed up today and is trying to take him. The worst thing is, he's not stopping her..." Kaya said very upset.

"He just knows he can't win." Kagome responded plainly.

"How do you know?"

"I know him well, I know that form." Kagome started thinking back, "But nyways, we have a way to turn this around." The girls told Kaya the plan.

"So Kalim." Kutsiko started.

"Yes?" he asked her.

"I want to know," she started, "I want to know how you feel towards me..."

"Well you are a nice...interesting person with a very cheerful personality." he replied and she shook her head not liking the response.

"That's not what I meant, I meant..."

"Kalim!" Kaya said as she came from behind interrupting Kutsiko.

"What is it?" Kalim asked.

"Well I wanted to know if you want to go to the mall with us tomorrow."

"Sure" Kalim smiled.

"Oooh, can I go?" Kutsiko asked.

"No, sorry...We are doing something important." she said in reply, then inwardly though, "Sorry, no sluts allowed."

"Oh, okay then, at least he will be coming to my house after school today." Kaya froze and Kutsiko gave that victorious smile.

"He is actually going to her house so shortly after meeting her? Even though she is being so possessive?" she thought to herself, "Excuse me." she said and walked away with tears forming in her eyes, when she knew she was out of sight, she ran to the bathroom.

Kagome saw her walking away and knew something was up, she ran over to the bathroom where she thought that Kaya would be and when she reached the door she could hear sobbing on the other side. She opened the door and took steps towards Kaya and put an arm around her. Kaya immediately buried her head into Kagome's shoulder, she was extremely upset from what she heard.

"Why are you crying Kaya?" Kagome asked.

"Kalim...he's a...he's a jerk!" Kaya said between sobs.

"Would you prefer not going to the mall tomorrow to see him?" Kagome asked and Kaya shook her head.

"I still want to see him, I still don't want to lose him." Kaya said while sobbing, Kagome nodded understanding.

"Where's Kaya?" Kalim asked.

"No need to worry, I'm sure she's fine." Kutsiko said still latched onto his arm.

"I guess you're right." Kalim said with a smile to her, but he was in fact uncertain, "If she wasn't latched to my arm, I would go search for Kaya." he thought inwardly. Kutsiko was just sitting there smiling as she held on to him and then the bell rang. Kutsiko grimaced when she learned they were going different ways, but brought Kalim along with her anyways.

"My classroom is the other way." Kalim said to her.

"baka, the boy is supposed to escort the lady to her room." He had to give in, it was part of the manners that had been put into him, he once again sighed.

"I believe this is your room, I will be seeing you later on today...ja ne." he said with a wave but was pulled back by his hand and found himself being hugged tightly and the fact that she had her lips upon his. The two heard the sound of books being dropped. Kalim turned to look and saw the one person he did not want to see at that point in time.

"Kaya, I swear...it's not..." Kalim started.

"Kalim." she said with a low voice, "I can't believe you would do this to me, I thought you cared." her voice remained monotonous, "but now I see, that I have no place in your heart." tears formed in her eyes as she ran off down the hall.

"Kutsiko, I'm sorry." he said as he ran off after Kaya.

"Kaya!" he said and then ran as fast as he could immediately catching up to her.

"What do you want?" she snapped in the same voice her hair covering her eyes.

"I want to tell you, it isn't what you think..."

"Then what was it? Last I checked that was a kiss." she yelled.

"I wasn't the one who kissed her, she did it to me!" he screamed back at her, he was obviously getting annoyed.

"You want me to believe that, you can't tell me you didn't like it, that you don't like her." Kalim said nothing, he didn't want to yell at her again, "You know, you could answer me.." she snapped at him.

"Kaya I..." he started.

"Save it, don't look at me. Don't talk to me. Dont look at me.Don't think of me, we are nothing anymore, you lead me on all this time then you go and do that. You are low." With those words, she walked off angrily. Kalim just dropped to his hands and knees, tears were forming in his eyes.

Kalim definitely was going to accept the invitation, not because of feelings for her, but because he definitely needed someone to be around, he knew that Kagome would yell at him and be busy comforting Kaya, and he was pained from the words she said. He just stayed in the hallway where the scene took place, he didn't care too much for about his class, he just needed time to think now. He then continued to think back on the words he never heard Kaya say before, "We are nothing anymore...You are low" he clutched his chest and felt his stomach twist, "Don't talk to me. Don't look at me. Don't think of me." Each word of that he remembered hurt him even more.

"Why...Why does this have to happen to me?" He sat against a wall pulling his legs to his chest, wrapping his arms around them, and started sobbing. Kalim attended the rest of his classes; however, his mind was not focused on lectures or the work to be done, it was his first time for such a big problem.

"Kalim!" Kutsiko yelled cheerfully and ran to his side, school was over and he waited for her, "Shall we go?" She smiled at him.

"Sure." He said with a forced smile.

"How can he still go with her like that?" Kagome asked herself as she was watching, then went to walking with a broken-hearted Kaya.

"Kalim?" he turned to face her as she said his name, "I want to know, what are your feelings for me?"

This was a question he did not have an answer for right then and there. He never actually thought of how he felt for her.

"I don't know." he said simply, "I do wish you wouldn't force yourself on me so much, you seem a little too possessive." he looked at her as they walked.

"Well that's because...I don't want anyone else to have you." she said back to him.

They walked down in more silence until Kutsiko broke it again.

"Did you...feel anything from the kiss..."

"Don't talk about that now." Kalim said in a low voice, "Sorry, I didn't mean to sound harsh, just a lot going on as you know." he apologized in his usual voice.

They reached her house shortly and they both entered, Kalim looked at it and was quite impressed, it was a very large house.

"I didn't think her family would be so rich; however, that doesn't make me like her more...wait, did I just say I like her?" He put a hand to his head at the words he just said.

"Follow me, I want to show you my room!" she said with a smile on her face, Kalim nodded. They both walked up stairs until they reached the hallway, they walked down it and when she opened the door leading to her room, he was quite impressed.

"This...is your room?" he said as she had many things in there. She had a large couch, large screen tv, and a huge bed among other things, "You could live in this room and never have to leave." he said as a figure of speech. She giggled at his 'cute' response.

"Why are you laughing?" he asked her curiously.

"Because I know you didn't mean that, I could basically live up here. I can get food delivered to my room too." she said to prove him wrong. He was in shock, she was loaded and you couldn't even tell by looking at her.

"So, you want anything to eat?" she asked him, he shook his head. She sat on her bed and he just stood there, when he was unable to take it anymore, the tears started forming up again as his thoughts wandered back and he wrapped his arms around her and went to his knees to cry into her shoulder. She was taken by surprise but comforted him nonetheless.

She rubbed his back as she had her arms around him, letting him know that everything was going to be fine. He looked at her when the tears refused to fall any longer to see her concerned face, he had to admit she was kind of cute, especially when she wasn't forcing herself on him. He just decided to stay how he was for a little longer.

"Where are your parents." he decided to ask to break the silence, he then knew he hit a touchy subject, "I'm sorry, you don't need to answer that." she shook her head.

"My parents are working, they work all day, they don't ever get to see me. I guess the reason I force myself on you is because...I am lonely." she said her smile disappearing from her face.

"I see, I'm sorry. Just remember, I am here for you." he smiled at her she tightened her hug.

"Thank you, I am glad you didn't try to avoid me from everything I started to do."

The released each other from an embrace and both sat on the bed. Kalim still continued to take in everything around him, this room was far larger than the one he currently had, no than any room that ever was his. He now knew that he was having some small feelings for Kutsiko, but if they would grow at all was something he wouldn't know. He laid back onto her bed and that was the last thing he remembered before sleep got a hold of him.

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Uh-oh, please don't hate me, please? Pretty please? I have to make it interesting and this was a way to do it. I love you all! Really I do. It seems like Kalim and Kaya are having problems right now and Kutsiko is starting to grow on Kalim...how will this turn out? (I really don't know myself.)

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Ja ne!