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21

I didn't get to see Natsume the rest of the day after lunch. Since we only had homeroom together, and he wasn't around during lunch, I never got to see him then. Right now, I was sitting on my desk chair, with my History book spread out in front of me. We had a quiz tomorrow, and nothing seems to be going in my head right now from what I was reading. I grabbed my phone and was about to dial his number, when my phone rang. It startled me, that I nearly dropped it. I didn't bother to look at the caller ID when I answered it.

"Hello?" I answered almost breathlessly, since I was still a little startled.

"Hey."

I immediately recognized his voice. "Oh, hey! I hardly saw you today."

"Yeah, I know. Band practice and all." Natsume said.

"That reminds me. Don't you ever have plans on telling me when and where you're going to have that gig?"

"Nope."

I pouted, to myself. "Why not?"

"You'll find out soon enough. Or, why don't you just come over right now? Since I know you miss me already."

I rolled my eyes. "Can't. I have a History test tomorrow. Gotta study."

"Then I'll tutor you." He offered.

"Right. But I really think that I'll have a better chance of passing if I do this on my own." It was true. Natsume already tutored me before. In Math. But he ended up getting pissed because of my slowness, then eventually, ended up making out instead. So. Totally not a good idea.

He considered this for a while. "Fine. You have a point. Then I'll see you tomorrow, I guess."

"Yeah," I said. Then suddenly I remembered me and Anna's conversation during lunch a while ago. It couldn't really hurt to ask, right? "Wait, can I ask you something?"

"Are we playing Truth?" He asked.

"Well, no." I answered. We were still playing Truth mostly when we weren't making out. We figured, the game was too important to just not play it anymore.

"Okay, what do you want to ask then?"

"I was just wondering…" God, I only realized that it was a little embarrassing, I was blushing a bit. I don't know why.

"Wondering what?"

"Um, I was just wondering what we're going to do on Friday?" Wow, I can't believe I just said that.

"Friday? What's on Friday?" He sounded confused.

For a second I thought he was joking. He had to be. But I didn't hear any joking tone in his voice. "You don't know what's on Friday?"

"Well no," he answered, "I'm pretty sure it's not your birthday."

Oh my God. How could he not know that it's Valentine's Day? My face was flushed now. It was a good thing he couldn't see it.

"No, it's not." I said, "It's Valentine's Day."

I thought he would go, "D'oh! Valentine's Day! How could I forget?" But he didn't. Instead he said, "What about it?"

I thought he was joking again. I really did. "We're not doing anything?" I asked.

Then I think it finally dawned on him what I was talking about. "Oh. I get it. Sorry. What do you want to do then?"

I couldn't help it. But I felt a little, I don't know, mad. Must be the stress. I woke up extra early this morning. "Seriously. You didn't even know?"

"Honestly, no. I really didn't know what you were talking about a while ago. Are you mad at me or something?"

I sighed. "Sorry. Forget what I said. I know you're busy and all and I know maybe you forgot all about it-"

"Wait. Okay. I'm sorry too. I'll make it up to you."

"How?" I asked.

"I'm taking you out on Friday, of course. But it's a surprise."

I had to admit, I was a little excited about it. But I pretended not to be. "Fine. Then I forgive you. In advance."

"I knew you would. Anyway, our break's over. Gotta practice."

"Right. And I've gotta study."

"I'll pick you up tomorrow. Be early. I love you."

Pick me up? Oh, that's right. I forgot he was my bodyguard. "Okay. See you. I love you, too."

Great. I couldn't help but be a little nervous for Friday. Now, I think I'm starting to regret I even asked in the first place.

Natsume's POV

"Hey, would you quit smiling to yourself and get over here?" Koko told me, "Ruka broke another string. Do you have extras?"

I put my phone back in my pocket and gave him a look. But he didn't see it.

"That's like the third string you broke." I heard Tobita say.

"God. I don't know why this keeps on happening." Ruka said.

I went over to my bedside drawer and brought out a set of guitar strings and tossed them to Ruka. "You're beating my record of my lost guitar picks, you know."

He sighed. "Yes. I know."

"So, what did Mikan say?" Koko asked me.

"She beat me to it, actually. So, it wasn't that hard keeping it from her." I said.

The reason why I didn't tell her about the gig, was because it was a surprise for her on Valentine's Day. Well, it was my band's idea. I really thank my acting skills since she believed I knew nothing about it, making it less obvious.

"Cool." He said. "I already told Nonoko about it. How about you, Ruka?"

"What about me?" He said, while fixing the guitar string.

"Did you tell Hotaru?"

"No. But I will. But you know her, guys. She's like the stubbornest person on the planet."

"Stubbornest?" Tobita said.

"You know what I mean." Ruka told him.

"Oh yeah, speaking of…" Koko said, "what about you, Tobita? Don't you have a date?"

He shrugged. "Nope."

"Why don't you go out with Nonoko? And why were you so stupid on telling her about your 'girlfriend'?" He made quotation marks sign using his fingers on the word girlfriend.

"Look, I don't know, okay? When she asked me, I just freaked. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Well you better tell her sooner," Koko warned, "because Anna just asked me if Kitsuneme was single."

"Right. I'll get right on that."

I really wasn't paying attention to them. I was too busy planning the perfect Valentine's Day for Mikan.

Mikan's POV

God, I can't believe how late it is. I looked at the clock. It was already seven in the morning. So I immediately got up from my bed. Fantastic. I did my usual morning rituals, eating my Cheerios as slowly as possible. But it didn't work. It was still too early. By the time I was done dressing into my uniform, I faced in the mirror with my usual problem every morning: my hair. I thought about curling it, but since there was no more time, I decided not to. I liked my hair straight. So it was just like that. Plain and simple.

I grabbed my bag and went out the door. When I got out, I jumped, startled because I saw someone leaning against the wall. It took me a moment to realize who it was.

"Oh God. You scared me, Natsume." I told him.

He walked closer to me. "Didn't I tell you I was going to pick you up?"

Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Please, in all days, why did I have to wake up late? "Yes, you did. I kinda forgot."

"You forgot," he repeated.

"Yeah. But I'm here now." I said, trying to sound cheerful instead of taken off guard.

"Well, about time." He muttered.

I swear I could hear my heart pounding loudly in my chest. It was always like that every time I see Natsume. "How long have you been standing there?"

"About a while." He said.

I nodded and he leaned towards me. I turned my face up, thinking that I was just giving him a quick kiss, but he took me by surprise, fastening his arms tightly around me and kissed me with much enthusiasm that you would've thought we that we hadn't seen each other in decades. Which may be true when I hardly saw him yesterday. Before long, we were both breathless.

"I missed you, too." I said.

He kissed me again, just like a while ago, and when he does, I really couldn't concentrate on anything. Except for the fact that we were making out in the hallways.

Reluctantly, I put both my hands on his chest, and managed to push him gently. "Please," I said, "can we not do this now?"

"Why not?"

"Well, for one thing somebody will see us."

"Someone already did." I looked to my left and saw Hotaru. My face flushed. Oh my God. She saw. How embarrassing.

"Hotatu," I said, my face still red, "what are you doing here?"

She walked towards me. "On my way to class. Obviously."

"Right."

"Well I better go." Hotaru told me. "See you later."

"Will you be there during lunch?" I asked.

She nodded. "Yeah. Club meetings are only Tuesdays and Thursdays."

"Okay. See you."

She smiled at me briefly before walking ahead. It surprised me a little, since Hotaru only smiles on rare occasions.

"Did she just smile?" Natsume said.

"Yes. I know it's hard to believe." I grabbed his hand. "Now, come on. We're going to be late."

"Oh my God, I am so excited!"

It was Friday. Or shall I say, Valentine's Day. I still haven't forgotten about Natsume's big surprise, but something tells me that he wasn't just in on this alone. Since the other girls were also here. Anna, Nonoko and Hotaru. We were all in my room getting ready for our "dates". God, the suspense was killing me.

I looked at Anna whose face was so flushed due to her excitement. That was practically the only thing she talked about the whole week. She was talking to Nonoko now.

"…and I can't believe Tobita asked you out! Oh my gosh, I bet he broke up with his girlfriend just for you."

I saw Nonoko blush. "Don't be ridiculous. Of course not."

Anna sighed dreamily. "I bet whatever they were planning, is going to be great."

Since Anna talked about it nonstop, even I couldn't help but worry about it. I haven't the faintest idea on what on earth he was planning to do. Like I said, he was just like my mom, so who knew what kind of surprise it'll be? Even Hotaru, the queen of all genius-ness couldn't figure it out as well. That's why she was over by the couch flipping channels with the remote with her face deep in thought. It was obvious she wasn't paying attention to the tv.

I was over by my dresser fixing my hair. I gave up on it a long time ago (yesterday), so I just put it in a half-ponytail and be done with it. I went over by the couch and sat beside Hotaru who was still flipping channels with that thinking expression.

"So," I said, "still couldn't figure it out?"

She sighed and put down the remote. It stopped at a cooking channel. "No. Do you not know what it's like, to be me, and not being able to figure out what in God's name my boyfriend is planning on Valentine's Day?"

"No. I guess not."

"Well, I'll tell you what it feels like," she said, picking up the remote again and started flipping through the channels. "It sucks. Big time."

"Yeah. It's driving me crazy too."

She sighed again and stopped at a game show. But I could tell she was still deep in thought. I decided to just leave her alone for a while. And went over to Anna, who was now flopped down on my bed reading a magazine.

I sat down beside her. "So…"

She gave me a questioning look before putting the magazine down and sitting up. "So… what?"

"This isn't bothering you one bit?" I asked.

"Not really." She said, shrugging. "I'm not a genius like Hotaru, so it's not really frustrating to not know what your boyfriend's up to on Valentine's Day. I think it's romantic."

We both glanced at Hotaru, who was now flipping through channels again, with that same deep-in-thought expression. In all the months that I've known her, the only thing that frustrates her the most, is her not knowing things. With an IQ of 179, she is definitely not used to being clueless like the rest of us. Okay, we're not that clueless, but just not being able to follow with her genius-ness.

I'm just glad I'm not a genius.

OMG. Yeah, I know it's been a week, since I last updated, but my laptop broke again, and we had to reformat it, and I still haven't installed Microsoft Word yet, so I'm using my mom's laptop for now.

Anyway. I just want to reply to that one review that I got:

Nadine99WuzHere: Yes, Luna will be in this story. Of course, there has to be a conflict. ;)

Kay. I'll update. Since I wasn't able to write for one week! It was torture. Please review. Thanks!