I apologize right now. I know that a lot of you have been enjoying my story (or, I hope that you are enjoying my story) and you must be pretty annoyed that it's been quite a while since I update. In fact, it seems like I rarely update. I know, I suck, you don't need to say anything about it, but seriously, I've been having a really tight schedule lately. Piano classes, after-school activities, I even sometimes have to go to school early because I need to participate in an event. The biggest struggle is the amount of homework I have, especially. It's been really hard to catch up on my sleep as well.

It kind of sounds like I'm making lame excuses, huh? First vacation, now school. Great. I don't even know if I'll be able to continue this story, but I'll definitely try to do my best. I'm hoping that I'll be able to update at least once a month.

Luckily, Winter Break is coming next month, which will help me catch up with updating.

I hope you guys aren't really pissed off. You are all wonderful and eager readers (damn I sound like my old librarian) and I know I haven't been fair by not updating.

I apologize...again.


Ikuto:...

Heart: 'Sup?

Ikuto: How come every time you update, it seems like you update a few months later...

Heart: Cuz I'm AWESOME THAT WAY!

Ikuto: No, you're annoying that way...

Heart: :( You meanie...


*~*~*~Amu's POV~*~*~*

I sighed as I waved goodbye to Tadase and walked home. It was quite unusual for Tadase to get sick like that. Huh. All well, I hope Tadase will get well soon.

Wait...get well soon...

...get well soon...

...card!

I can make a card for Tadase-kun!

I hummed happily as I strolled along, and suddenly, Dia, Su, and Ran floated beside me.

"Hey, guys! Where were you?"

Ran giggled and said, "Oh, we were spying on Miki and Kiseki's date! It was pretty cute, but Yoru sabotaged their date and brought Miki somewhere else and it was so funny, so, Yoru stole Kiseki's crown, and tied it to an alley cat, then the alley cat ran away with Kiseki's crown, and Kiseki literally ran all over town to get his crown back and then while Kiseki was trying to get it ba-"

"Ran! Slow down! I don't understand a thing with your rambling! *Sigh* Dia or Su, can you please explain?"

"I'll explain~desu!" Su cried out. "So, desu, it all happened when Yoru was spying on Miki's date, while we were spying on them desu, so then, desu, we saw Yoru desu-ing Kiseki-"

"Su, "desu" isn't a verb."

"But...desu..."

Amu sighed. "Dia, kindly explain."

"Well, Yoru was spying on Miki's date, and was jealous, so, he decided to go "fishing" for Kiseki's crown. He stole Kiseki's crown and then tied it to an alley cat. Kiseki then realized that his crown was missing, and was embarrassed and didn't want Miki to see. He left Miki, saying that he was going to come back soon. He saw that Yoru had attached his crown to an alley cat with a fishing pole, and got very...emotional...and flew after his crown. Later on, he lost the cat with his crown. Defeated, he went back to where his date was, but when he came back, Miki was gone."

Amu laughed hard, with tears in her eyes. Some people on the street looked at her strangely, so she stopped her laughing.

As she went into her house, into her room, and onto her bed, she thought of the story that Dia had just told her. "Sabotage, hmm...?"

"Oh, yeah! And after we were done spying on Miki, we went spying on you, too!"

"Eh?!" Amu blushed, and glared at her charas. "WHY DID YOU SPY ON MY DATE?!" she screamed as she grabbed all of her charas and started to strangle them.

"A-Amu-chan! You're killing us!"

"AAAAAAAAAAARG! YOU SPIED ON MEEEEEEEEEE!" Amu screamed, turning into her scary weird character. Surprisingly, she doesn't have a chara for that personality yet.

"W-we saw what ha-happened to Tadas-seeeeeeeeeeee!" Ran managed to choke out.

Amu stopped strangling them. Her charas went limp in her hands. "Wait...what?"

"That's right~desu! And we saw he got sick~desu! And we know how he got sick~desu!"

"Wait, waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait...you saw what happened to Tadase-kun? Did you see how he got sick?"

"G-guu-gurg-gurrrrrrrrrrrble...-grk..."

"Oh, sorry!" Amu said, letting go of her charas. They fell onto Amu's bed, totally dead-like.

Amu poked her charas. "Huh! I guess charas can die, after all!"

"AMU-CHAN YOU HORRIBLE MURDERER!" Ran yelled, quickly flying up to Amu's face and shoving her pom-poms up her nose.

"ARG! I'm sorry, okay?! Now tell me, how did Tadase-kun get sick?"

"He was drugged~desu!" Su said, still a little shaken up from Amu's little attack.

Amu gasped. "DRUGGED?! HOW?!"

"Oh, it was Ikuto." Dia said oh so calmly.

"HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU SAY THAT OH SO CALMLY?!" Amu yelled. "IKUTO DRUGGED TADASE-KUN?!" Amu gasped. "So...the vendor..."

"Yup, that was Ikuto." Dia said.

"Oh...milord..." Amu said, sitting down. "Ikuto..."

"That's me."

"IKUTO!" Amu screamed, pointing at him. "I-It's you...!"

Ikuto raised an eyebrow. "Yes...it's me...wow, such a surprise..."

"No! YOU DRUGGED TADASE, YOU CREEPY WEIRDO! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

"Oh! That! Wow, you sure surprised me. I thought you were too dense to notice."

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! HOW CAN YOU SAY THIS SO CALMLY?!"

"It's not like it was a drug to kill him or anyth-"

"I don't care! I hate you! I can't believe I thought of you as a friend! No friend of mine drugs another one of my friends!"

Ikuto's eyebrows shot up. That hurt. "Relax, Amu. He'll only be sick for a few days."

Amu's shoulders relaxed a bit, but she was still tense. "Why would you drug him?!"

"Oh, well..." Ikuto muttered. "Because I mmaskdghaos;ilfjg"

"Wut."

"I ;lakjdflakdmgld"

"WHAT?!"

"I wkefd;laksjdf;oie"

"It's okay~desu! I speak muttering~desu!"

"K;lkasjdf;lkasdjflk asj dfal;mdskdlks"

"He is saying that he was jealous that Amu was with Tadase-kun!~desu"

"K;alksdnfmas;lkdjfo;awljf"

"He says 'Shut up, Suu'" realization spread her face. "HEY!~desu"

Amu blushed out of anger and embarrassment. "That's no reason to drug him!"

Ikuto looked down to the ground and sighed. ":l;aksjdfml;kasmdf;oa" he said, then went out the balcony and hopped off.

"Wait! WHAT HE HOPPED OFF THE BALCONY! Oh wait, he's a cat. Su, what did he-"

"He said, 'I'm leaving now, bye.'"

"Amu-chan, you should apologize to him. That wasn't very nice." Dia said.

"But he drugged my friend!"

"He was simply jealous."

"That doesn't mean he gets to drug people if he's jealous!"

"He's jealous because he is in love with you."

"BUT THAT DOESN'T ME-wait, say that again?"

"He's jealous because he is in love with you."

"Oh..."

...

...

...

"WHAT?!"

"Ah-ah-AMU-CHAN! I didn't know you were that dense!" Ran said, giggling.

"Huh?" Amu looked at Ran incredulously.

Miki sighed. "Honestly, am I really your chara? You're so dense."

Su giggled. "You shouldn't be talking, Miki!~desu!"

Miki groaned. "Oh, be quiet."

"Guys, can you please shush for a bit...?" Amu murmured into her pillow.

The charas glanced at each other then nodded. "'Kay, night Amu-chan."

"But it's not night time yet.~desu"

"Hush, Amu wants to sleep, she's tired. Sleeping helps you gain your radiance. *sparkles*"

"That makes no sense. Sleeping helps you gain your energy so you can CHEER! LET'S GO-MMFFFFPRJF:LJSF"

"Be quiet, you'll wake Amu up. Obviously sleeping helps you relax and gives you creativity to express into your drawings."

"JUST SHADDUP WILL YA?!" Amu yelled, snatching her charas out of the air and shoving them back into each of their eggs.

She groaned. "Finally, peace and quiet." Amu sighed.

It's been such a long day, I just wanna take a nap...

*~*~*~Ikuto's POV~*~*~*

Ikuto was shaking. Shaking.

Wtf is wrong with him?

Her face...Amu's face...

"I don't care! I hate you! I can't believe I thought of you as a friend! No friend of mine drugs another one of my friends!"

She looked so angry. Ikuto never saw such an angry look on Amu.

It hurt.


So, guys, I don't know if this is long enough for you guys to enjoy, but honestly, I tried. I don't blame you if you're annoyed with me for not updating in what feels like a gajillion years (not a word), just don't go comparing me to other authors. Don't be all like, "This author updates waaaaaaaaaay better than you!" and etc, etc.

Thanks for reading, I'll try my best to update soon.

Love all of you readers that still support me, hugs and kisses to all of you!

~Heart