A/N: Welllll what to sayyy... I'm pretty much sure you guys are tired with me saying that I'm sorry Aye? D: But... SOOOOOORRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY for this super late update!

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Chapter 38: Festival 3

"I know this might hurt, but I really think you still should talk to him." Rangiku played with her curls "I mean... you love him and you really should just... you know, talk." she put her arm around Hinamori's shoulder and patted her arm while doing so "Nothing bad happens by talking. I think things will just turn out in the best way if you talk to him. No one died from talking ya know?"

"Ok, but if you keep saying the word "talking" I'm gonna die here." Momo laughed and opened the door to their classroom.

The two girls stood shocked at the sight of the harem in the classroom.

"What the hell..." Momo looked who the girls were encircling, and she cocked her eyebrows "It's... Uh..."

"About damn time you got back here!" Rukia yelled angrily, completely under pressure.

"Said the one who told us to get the hell out of here to talk." Rangiku mocked and avoided Rukia's glare by whistling and looking somewhere else "Anyway, what's with the mess?"

Rukia crossed her arms together "I don't know, at first everything was normal, and by normal I mean 300 customers and 5 people working, then suddenly they flooded in here." she frowned "Your boyfriend's one flashy guy, Rangiku."

Rangiku nodded with a serious look "Sure, I understand."

"And you're not jealous?" Rukia raised her eyebrow in surprise. Usually Rangiku was the type of girl who'd get over-jealous for her boyfriend.

"No." Rangiku said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, as Momo and Rukia sweatdropped at the sight of their friend's very unusual behaviour "I mean, if I was them, I'd also fall in love with Sousuke!" she made a goofy smile "But I already am in love with him. Do you think I can fall in love even more?"

"Ugh, stop with the smushy talk and get rid of them. My shift's almost over, the next batch will be you two and other dudes." Rukia took off her apron and threw it at Ichigo's head "Yo strawberry shortcake, time to take a break!"

Ichigo got ticked off at first because of Rukia's way of throwing things at him, then he suddenly sighed in relief "Break? About damn time!" he took off his apron too and threw it at Renji along with Rukia's apron "Pineapple man, we shall leave everything in your hands!"

"Aye aye!" he grinned. Then he threw a wooden spoon at Ichigo "CURSE YOU! WHY DO YOU GET A BREAK AND I DON'T?"

"Because you just slacked off while we were doing everything!" Rukia threw back the spoon that nearly hit her "Now work!" the two left the classroom with the classical evil laugh and slammed the door behind their backs.

Momo sweatdropped at the sight of Rangiku still talking to herself and suddenly squealing every once in a while.

Rangiku got back to the real world and shook her head "Anyway, I gotta get my man out of that stupid crowd of girls!" she flipped back her hair and suddenly jumped in the crowd like a tiger.

"Err... okay..." Momo said unsure how to reply to her best friend's cool and romantic thingy.

"Miss! We've been waiting for almost an HOUR here!" a customer yelled madly as Momo immediately apologized and got to work.

After working hardly, Momo had a small break. She sneaked out of the classroom and went to the backyard of the school, behind one of the oldest, so biggest, trees of the school.

She sat over the orange or yellow leaves and leaned her back against the dark wood.

'How am I supposed to talk to him?' She looked up at the sunny and clear sky 'I bet he doesn't even want to talk to me anymore...'

She rolled around the grass with her mind in a complete chaos 'Ahhhh! What should I do?' she held her knees to her chest 'Even though I love him so much... Maybe I should just forget about it...'

"How much time do I still have?" she looked at her cellphone "Ok, 10 minutes, I'll just close my eyes for 10 minutes and I'll go back..." she yawned 'Couldn't even sleep last night... mou...'

Nightmares wouldn't stop tormenting Momo in her sleep the whole night. Figures, Toushirou and Karin were the main thing in it.

Where Momo would be left behind as Toushirou would just leave happily with Karin.

'It won't be long until that thing becomes true...' and then she finally drifted to sleep.

"I better thank that guy later..." Toushirou muttered to himself as he carried the trash out of the school.

Miss you already! Mwaaaah! -Karin

After a small sigh he put back his phone in his jacket's pocket and got back to his work.

He didn't really want to go back yet to his classroom, since his break would end in 5 minutes, so he decided to take it slowly and walk by the backyard after putting away the trash.

While walking around he noticed from the corner of his eye a trail over the thick buntle of leaves on the ground.

Curiously he followed the trail and found Momo sleeping by the farthest tree in the backyard.

She was just sitting, leaning back on the old big tree, sleeping peacefully in her white dress while holding tightly her blonde wig. Her long black hair fell in cascades down her shoulders, as she slowly breathed the autumn air, probably dreaming something.

Toushirou leaned by a nearby tree and ran a hand through his spiky hair, not really wanting to leave such a peaceful looking place. Or maybe, not wanting to leave Momo.

He saw her shiver under the cold breeze that just flew by, and he slowly walked towards her, taking his jacket off.

"You'll get a cold like this..." he bent down and put his jacket over her small figure, and noticed she was still wearing the necklace he gave her. He furrowed his eyebrows, and looked away "Stupid..."

"...no..." he flinched away as soon as he heard her soft voice say that word. He then relaxed when he saw that she was just sleep talking.

'W-w-w-w-what the hell am I getting nervous for!' he nearly wanted to smack himself in the face when he noticed tears roll down Momo's closed eyes. His nervousness were quickly washed away as he gently stroked the tears away

'Why are you still crying?'

'I left you already, why are you still crying?'

'Is Tenshi not good enough? Not even Chris?'

There were so many questions running through his mind, when Momo spoke up again.

"Don't leave me..." she whimpered "...Toushirou..."

"You'll get a cold like this... " Everything was so dark. Momo could only hear Toushirou's voice. Then lights suddenly lit everything up and Momo saw Toushirou going away with Karin "...no..."

"Don't leave me... Toushirou..." Momo couldn't even talk as her hiccups got the better of her.

She knelt down, rubbing away the tears that kept falling from her eyes like they would never end. She didn't want to look at him walk away with Karin.

"Endure this just a little longer, Momo..." she heard him say. She unknowingly looked up and couldn't almost see anything because of the tears. But she could recognize him so easily.

Her heart was beating faster and she felt herself warm up.

She felt his soft lips press against her for a few seconds, and then he walked away.

Momo suddenly woke up from her dream.

"W-what time is it?" she looked down to her dress' pockets but found herself covered with a jacket over her dress "This is..." she held the jacket for a while and looked around to see if the one who left it there was still around.

"Who..." she stood up, still looking around.

Momo remembered her dream and blushed. "It's impossible, that was just a dream anyway." she looked down at the jacket "But this is definetely..."

"Cheers!" Everyone held up their glasses filled with drinks and cheered.

"Damn, this Festival was a big success!" Rukia grinned "We'll win for sure this year!"

"Hell yeah we're gonna win!" Renji yelled "I worked my ass off this year, if we're not gonna win I'm gonna be so mad!"

"Oh well, who cares." Ichigo bluntly said drinking his soda as he got smacked in the back of the head by Renji "HEY WHAT THE HELL!"

"Don't say that!" Renji yelled madly as he kept smacking the back of his head.

Soon the two started fighting and their classmates just ignored them.

"Oh well!" Rangiku stretched up "At least this evening we can go dance the whole time by the bonfire!" she squealed "SOUSUKE'S MY PARTNER AYE!" as soon as she said it, she quickly ran out of the classroom to meet her beloved boyfriend.

"Momo, are you okay? You've been quiet the whole time." Rukia sat next to Momo

"Yeah, I'm fine." Momo smiled "I'm just tired."

"Right..." Rukia grinned "Come on, let's go to the bonfire too shall we?"

"But wait, who are we gonna dance with?" Orihime butted in looking curiously at her friends.

"NO."

"NO!"

"Why!"

"Well, you guys were the one who had the idea, so you should respect the results." Momo giggled at the weird pairings that were formed casually.

Renji and Ichigo.

Rukia and Ikkaku.

Yumichika and Orihime.

"But what about you, Momo?" Rukia asked worried, and also trying to escape the pair she forms with Ikkaku.

"I'll be fine, really." she smiled "You guys go out there and show them how to dance!"

"B-b-b-b-ut!" Rukia whined "W-w-w-wait! what about Ishida? O-o-o-or Kira-kun aye?"

"They're busy with committee stuff." Orihime said "Come on guys, let's go!"

The pairs went off to dance by the bonfire as Momo laughed seeing how weird Ichigo and Renji were while dancing together.

She walked back by one of the empty benches, drinking her orange juice. Of course, the jacket was still with her.

"Hmm.. Let's see..." she looked inside the pockets to see if there was anything that could lead to the owner of the jacket "Just because this looks a lot like Toushirou's, doesn't mean it's really his, right..." she kept looking and looking but there was nothing inside.

After giving up, she just decided she'd give the jacket to the school's secretary and just leave things as they were.

But the dream she had this afternoon kept her hanging.

It felt so real. But that's supposed to be normal for her. Her dreams always felt so real.

Yet this one was so realistic.

'Or maybe I'm just trying to find an excuse to still hold on him...'

While she was sitting on the bench, she kept looking at the bonfire.

Unknowingly looking for Toushirou.

And when she saw him dancing with Karin, somehow without his jacket, she decided.

'Alright. This is it.' Momo took a deep breath. She felt bad. Her breathing got caught up in her throat, and she felt like there was something blocking her there. Maybe it was just her, not liking the decision she was about to make, or maybe it was just because she wasn't ready yet.

'I...'

Her eyes kept following Toushirou as he danced with Karin.

It seems like Toushirou was looking around too, and then, their eyes met.

Momo tried to look normal, as she gave him a small wave with her hand and a small smile.

'..this time, I really, will definetely...'

Toushirou held back a small smile too, and he quickly asked himself what the hell was wrong with him. His soft gaze towards Momo turned almost in an icy glare.

Momo looked to her side, seeing Chris sitting down next to her, with anther glass of orange juice.

Toushirou saw Chris curiously pointing at his jacket, the one Momo was holding, and then the both of them talked for a bit. He saw Chris smiling and taking the jacket from Momo, probably saying that he'd take it to the school's secretary to find its owner. Toushirou expected Momo to hold on the jacket and refuse Chris' offer.

But she didn't.

'Give up on him.'

A/N: Oh well! Love usually has bad timing! (specially with me LOL) anyways! Hope you enjoyed this! I still don't know when I'll update next but, please do look forward to it!

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