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A Reminder on the Characters...

Kanzaki Hitomi is Sakaguchi Alice (Arisu)
Van de Fanel is Kobayashi Rin (Ring)
Allen Schezar is Ogura Jinpachi
Millerna ? is Nishikiori Enju (OK, so the original name was Nishikiori Issei, but that was a guy, so I'm changing it. His past life name was, Enju, and YES he was a women reborn as a MAN!)
For the record: when this story started, Alice and company were 16, now the last chapter was 6 months after the begininng of the story. They were in the 11th grade and the begininng of this chapter starts 6 months AFTER the last, meaning they've come along one full year of school, meaning they are now in the 12th grade and are the seniors at their school.

(writing) - things in parentheses are my notes and thoughts
writing - words in italics are what the characters thinking or flashbacks
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne or anything of Please Save My Earth for that matter.

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It had been a year since Rin came to Tokyo, by now he was quite happy in his new life. He had his friends: Jinpachi, Enju, and... Alice. Actually... he had hoped that one day he and Alice could be something more than friends, but the time never seem quite right. Jinpachi and Enju had finally gotten together 6 months before, and though he was happy for the two, he couldn't help but feel a tinge of jealousy. They looked sickeningly happy together, and he wanted what they had more than anything, but he just couldn't work up the nerve to ask her. It was his fault really, he couldn't bring himself to confess his feelings for her. They'd known each other for a year already, and they got along really well, and he really really liked her. He wasn't sure how she felt about him, but he was sure of his feelings for her. The thing is, he was to scared to hear her reaction to his feelings. It would absolutely kill him to find out that she didn't feel the same way back. It would've been even worst if she didn't want to see him again. He just couldn't bear that, and just jumbled up his emotions inside.

Chapter 08 Drifting Away

"Yeah! We're finally in the 12th grade!" Enju cried happily.

"What's so great about being at the top of the school now? It just means that everyone will be going away, it's a bit sad even," Alice said.

"Ohhh, why do you have to look at the downside of graduating? Even if it's the end of something, it means it's the begininng of another! By the way, where have you decided to apply for (college)?" Enju asked.

"I was thinking Toudai (Tokyo University), I'd always had my eye set on going there ever since I was little."

"Hmm, maybe I'll do some traveling before I go to college, or maybe I just won't go at all!" this caused Alice to gasp; "Just kidding, just kidding. I can't become a doctor if I don't go to college, and that IS my dream, but it doesn't mean I can't put it on hold until I've had time to enjoy the world," she stated.

"If you do travel the world, will you go with Jinpachi?" Alice asked slyly.

At this Enju's cheeks tinted a nice shade of rose, "That's none of your business."

Alice giggled at her friends behavior, the two were just such a cute couple!

"So, what about Rin? Where's he going?" she asked, startling her out of her thoughts.

"I don't know. He says he was planning on going to Toudai too, but he's not too sure as to where he might really end up," a bit of sadness seeping into her voice.

"If he goes back to Hokkaido, will you follow him?"

"Eh?"

"I said 'will you follow him?' ever since you guys met, you guys have been together more than Jinpachi and I have. It would be awfully hard to seperate from someone like that," she added.

"We don't spend that much time together! I don't know what you're talking about, besides, I lead my own life and I only want to go to Toudai, I don't care where he plans to go" she said defensively.

"Hmm," Enju thought. "Will it really be alright if the two seperate? I know she really likes him a lot, even if she won't admit it. Is she willing to forget about him if he up and leaves?"

Alice kept her emotions inside as they walked to school in silence.

"Even though I said that... I don't want to be away from him. I know I said I didn't care... but I do. Would I really be able to say good-bye to him?" she pictured his face in her mind and let out a long sigh.

Just by some strange luck, the four of them had ended up with the same homeroom again. They were eating lunch in the class and discussing their future plans again.

"Eh!? You're going to America? How long?" Enju asked.

"Well I have some relatives there and I want to visit them once school ends. I only plan to stay a couple of months, nothing too long term, but I'm not too sure" Jinpachi said.

"But-but what about us?! We'll be seperated for so long, there were so many things I wanted to see and do with you, now you're just going to leave me? You're so cruel!" Enju cried.

"Now don't cry Enju! Jeez, we still have the time to do all the things you wanted. We just won't be able to do them in Japan," he consoled.

Enju blinked her tears back, "Eh-?"

"I'm saying I want you to come with me."

"Eh-?"

"I'm saying I want you to stay with me, in America," he said with his eyes closed and arms crossed.

"Wow... That sounds almost like a proposal to me! How far have they gone? All the way to 'C' maybe!?" Alice thought.

(For those who don't understand, 'C' is like the base in dating, meaning sex.)

Enju sat there for a moment, completely speechless and blushing, "So will you come with me?" he asked.

She waited another moment before she nodded her head in happiness, "Mmm..." she agreed, smiling.

"It's still a long way away, but the future will come soon, and I can't wait!" Enju thought happily.

Alice watched her friends face turn from sadness to sheer delight. She frowned, she was glad the two were going to be together, but where did that leave her? Alone most likely. She glanced at Rin, thinking about how lonely it would be when he probably was going to leave her. She frowned and her face must have taken an upset expression because Rin asked what was wrong. She shook her head, saying it was nothing and just went back to staring at her food. Rin could always seem to sense when she was troubled, it was something she really liked about him, but she didn't want him to know what she had been thinking. He put his arm around her shoulder and turned her to face him. He looked straight into her eyes.

"Come on, don't hide anything from me. I can tell when your upset," he said kindly. His eyes were looking at her so tenderly that she nearly dropped her chopsticks.

"Really, it's nothing. I just don't feel to good that's all," she said weakly.

He looked at her questioningly, but seemed satisfied for now with her answer; "Well don't stress yourself out to much then, OK? Don't want to miss a single minute of our senior year!" she nodded absentmindedly.

Back at home, Alice dropped her stuff in her room and plopped down on her bed. She looked up at the ceiling above. Again she was overcomed by a wave of lonliness. "Again... it's that same feeling I've been having for a while now. What is it? Why do I feel so sad? It hurts... this lonliness. My heart is aching and I don't understand why." She quietly fell asleep on top of her covers with her windows opened.

Alice quickly begins to dream. She was dreaming about Gaea again. She hadn't had those dreams every since Ken disappeared. It was a sad dream, Hitomi was back on Earth. She kept seeing things that reminded her of Van. She was so sad. Then she decided to go back. At the sight of Van, Hitomi's eyes light up and she runs toward him, taking his hand. Then, she wakes up.

Alice rubs her eyes from the sleep."What was that all about? I haven't had those dreams since the last time I turned into Hitomi. Are they trying to tell me something? My heart feels a bit soothed after that though. In that dream... I felt the same sadness that Hitomi did. It was the same as what I'm feeling right now, but after she went back to Van... that feeling was replaced with something else. I can't quite put my finger on it but... it's been a long time since I felt like that." she shivers and sneezes. She gets up and wraps her arms around herself. At this rate she really was going to get sick. She picked up her towel and went into the bathroom. She turned the water on hot and crawled in, the warm water washing over her body and soothing her mind. Her mind flashed back to the scene in the dream where Hitomi saw Van again, and she smiled happily without even knowing why. "Well, feeling all depressed is getting me nowhere and only making me feel worst. Alright! No more dwelling on the bad things in life! I'm going to have the best senior year ever!"

She got out of the shower and went back to her room. She toweled her head dry a bit and put on her PJ's, laying the towel on her pillow she went back to sleep with a smile on her face. Next morning Alice woke up with a fever. The doorbell rang and she groggily got up to answer it, her head swimming. When she answered, it was Rin at the door.

When he caught sight of her he started his lecture, "See, I told you to take it easy or you'd get sick."

"Sorry, but it was because I fell asleep with my hair wet and the window opened. Now I have a fever and my head is..." at this she started to feel even more queasy and gripped onto the wall to gain some balance.

Rin pushed her back into her apartment and took her by the elbow, "You need to rest, or you could make yourself worst."

Alice groaned and followed him in a daze to her room. She fell onto her bed and rolled over onto the pillow, eyes already half-way closed and drifting into sleep. Rin took her covers and pulled them over her.

"What am I going to do with you? Drink lot's of liquids and rest up. I'll bring your work for you later, OK?" he said as he was getting up to leave the room. Alice muttered a quick 'yes' before going completely into sleep. He watched her for a few seconds, her cheeks flushed and eyes closed. He bent toward her face and until he felt her breath on his own face. He quickly kissed her on the cheek and whispered 'sweet dreams' and left the room, afraid she'd catch him.

So when he got to school he told Jinpachi and Enju that Alice had gotten sick.

"Poor Alice! Why don't we go and nurse her back to health!" Enju suggested enthusiastically.

"Don't go bothering sick people! She's trying to rest Ok?" Jinpachi berrated.

"That's Ok, I'll take care of her. I've already gotten her today's assignments so I'll be by her place anyways," Rin commented.

"But-" Enju started, but was cut off by Jinpachi stare."Oh yeah!" "Well you take good care of her then." "Hmm, alone together with no one home! Maybe those two will finally get together, takes them long enough. Jeez, it's already been a year. Can't Alice see the poor boys feelings? Well here's his chance, he'll be nursing her so anything could happen..."

Alice opened her eyes from a long good hours of sleep. She sighed. After a little rest she felt a little better, but still light headed. She had a dream. Rin had kissed her and said 'sweet dreams', but that was just a dream. Or was it? She couldn't quite remember. Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway, who'd kiss a sick person? She snugged under her covers and closed. Her mind went back to the thought of Rin kissing her and she smiled, her flushed cheeks growing even more red and warm by the passing thought."Ah! What am I thinking? Rin's my friend, he couldn't have kissed me." She thought about some more, and the thought of that kiss that she "dreamed" couldn't have possibly happened made her feeling a pang in her stomach. "It's a good thing he didn't kiss you, you don't want him to get sick now do you? Nothing to get upset about. It's not like it's a big deal. We've kissed before... but that was always as Van and Hitomi. Do I... want him to kiss me...?"

Suddenly a voice rang through the door, disturbing her thoughts, "Alice, it's me Rin. Can I come in?"

"Oh! He's here." flustered at having him there suddenly, she managed to muster the voice to call him in.

"Hey, how are you feeling? I got your school work. I brought you some food, did you eat yet?" he asked, coming into her room.

Alice looked at his face and imagined him leaning over and kissing her. For a second she forgot to move and answer him, until he started talking again; "Are you hungry?"

These words snapped her out of her dream world and she nodded her head to say yes. He didn't seem to notice anything strange with her, but she felt really self-concious of herself. As if he might have some way known about her thoughts of him, even though he couldn't have.

"Here. I brought you some tea, it's supposed to be good for fevers," he handed her a thermos of bitter looking tea.

Alice took one wiff of the strong smelling tea and immediately turned it her head away. The smell was so bitter, no doubt the taste was even more bitter than it's smell. She shook her head, not wanting to drink her tea.

"Come on now, it's supposed to make you feel better. I know it tastes horrible, but you only have to drink it once. Alright?" he said, sitting on the edge of her bead.

She nodded her head and swiftly drank down the worst tasting tea in her life. She nearly gagged as she tried to swallow it. "W-water..."

Rin gave her some water and put down some food in front of her as she drank away the bitter taste."After that I don't know if I have much of an appetite anymore..." Alice thought, looking at the food below her.

"Are you going to eat? You need to eat something you know? Here," he said, taking a rice ball and held it up for her. She bit into it and chewed. Finally she realized something, "Oh my god! He's feeding me! Just now, it was like from a love scene from a movie." As if he realized the same thing she had, Rin blushed red and handed her the rest of the food and told her to eat it herself while he got a wet towel and thermometer. As she ate, the scene kept coming back to her. It was like as if they were a couple! She ate about half the food and then put it away. Rin came back a moment later with a thermometer and a tub of water and a hand towel.

"Here." he said, as he stuck the thermometer in her mouth. She sat there awkwardly until it seemed Rin took the thermometer from her mouth. 99.01 degrees. She still had a fever, but it wasn't as worst as it was that morning. He told her to lie down and dipped the towel in the tub of cold water. He then gently took the towel and dabbed her forehead with it. The cool water trickled down the side of her face as she relaxed and just closed her eyes.

"That... feels good..." Alice trailed off as she closed her eyes once more and slowly started to fall asleep again. Rin gently brought his fingers to her face and played with the hair surrounding her eyes. He re-wet her towel and sat by her bed on the floor, with his head on her bed as he too, slowly fell asleep.

Later on that evening...

Alice slowly stirred as she began to wake up from her slumber. She breathed in deeply and smelled the fresh scent of a field. She then opened her eyes to find Rin sleeping soundly beside her head, his dark hair laid unruly upon his sleeping eyes. She smiled at his peaceful face and rested her eyes once more, just lying there and feeling his breath on her. She watched him sleep for awhile, how long, she can't tell. "Somehow... When I'm with you I feel at ease." She took the thermometer again and stuck it in her mouth. She sat up in the bed to be able to read it, stirring Rin out of his sleep.

"Hmm? Has your temperature gone down yet?" he reached over and felt her forehead, causing Alice to feel warm in her cheeks, "well, you still seem a little warm and your cheeks are still red."

Alice was well aware of his cold hand on her cheek and felt embarrassed. If only he knew the real reason for why her cheeks were so red! "I feel better now, thanks. Maybe if my fever comes all the way down I'll be able to go back to school tomorrow."

"Oh yeah! Almost forgot to tell you, there's a new guy again. He's in our homeroom, I think his name was Aki," he said.

"Oh, another new student, huh? Guess I'll have to show them around too. (remember she's their class president)" she said.

"No real need to. He says he used to live here and that he just moved back. So he probably knows where everything is, he even used to go to our school when he was a freshman," he replied.

"Well if I'm going to be able to go to school tomorrow and meet this new guy I'm going to have to make a 24-hour recovery. I'm going back to sleep. I think I'll be alright now, you can go home if you want," she told him.

"Are you sure?" he asked worried.

"I'll be fine, besides, it would be pretty boring if you just watched me sleep all day. I'll see you tommorow, OK?" she said.

"It's not boring at all!" she looked surprised and he quickly covered his blunder, "I mean, I fell asleep too so... Anyway, I guess I'll just leave now. See you soon."

~Next Day~

Alice was feeling much better in the morning so she decided she was going to go to school, after all, she couldn't be absent for too long. She changed into her uniform and went to find Rin to walk to school with. Then she and he set out together.

"Are you sure you should be out of bed so soon?" he asked.

"It's fine, it's fine! I'm stronger than I look," she smiled warmly at him, "thanks for taking care of me again. It's nice to know you're there for me."

He took one look at her smiling face and it sent butterflies swirling in his stomache. If only she knew the effect she had on him! If only he could just tell her how he felt... but then again, he was always pretty bad at expressing his feelings. Every time he tried to show his feelings for her, the same feeling of butterflies came into his stomache and made him so nervous. Through his shaking emotions he was finally able to mutter a 'it's ok'.

They were nearing Enju's building, but they weren't going to pick her up, she usually walked with Jinpachi alone anyways. As they passed by, a young boy stepped out the doors of the apartment building. He had dark-black hair, and a well chiseled face. His eyes were the color of deep-violet and his movements were graceful with each step he took, well assured and confident. He immediately caught Alice's attention and her eyes washed over the boy, her watch going unnoticed. Suddenly he turned and looked straight at her, which startled her, and then he smiled which startled her even more. She smiled back.

"What are you looking at?"

"Eh? Oh nothing, nothing at all!" she lied.

Rin looked at her, "You know... that kid we just passed by, he's the new guy."

"Really?!" her voice came out in a high-pitch, "I mean, really?" she said calmly this time.

"Yeah, you'll get a chance to meet him when we get to class."

~At School~

At school Rin waited for Enju and Jinpachi to arrive while Alice went to get her make-up work. It turns out she didn't miss too much the day before.

"Ahh! It's nice to know I don't have to make-up too much work, I've already got my homework so that's good," she sat next to Rin by the door to wait for their friends to arrive. Rin was being exceptionally quiet that day. He hadn't said much since she came to his apartment to pick him up for school. In fact, he didn't look that well either, maybe he caught her fever.

"Hey, are you ok? You don't look to good, are you sure you I didn't get you sick?" she said, feeling his forehead with her hand. He blushed and didn't say anything, "Hmm, you don't feel too warm, but you haven't said much and you seem kind of spacey."

"I'm not spacey."

"I'm just teasing you that's all," she assured, "oh, there they are now."

Then at that they joined their friends. They were chatting away when suddenly Alice remembered she forgot to take her newly washed gym clothes to her locker, so she scurried away with her clothes in hand, leaving her friends in a whirlwind of confusion.

"I hope sensei doesn't come to class before I get back. Ohhhh, I'll be late! Ok, gotta run faster!"

Alice ran at a rapid pace towards that lockers, being a track star and all, she was going far faster than anyone should ever run in the halls. Suddenly...

BAMMM!

Alice ran smack-dab right into someone, throwing her completlely off balance and hurling her bundle of gym clothes in all directions.

She quickly got up and started apologizing to her unknown victim, "I'm sorry! I was runnning so fast I didn't even notice you. Are you alright? Damn, my stuff is all scattered now!"

"It's alright," the boy said. "I wasn't really watching where I was going either."

"Eh!""You're that guy I saw this morning coming to school."

"Hmm... Did we meet yesterday?" he asked gently as he started helping her gather back her clothes. She shakes her head 'no'. "I didn't think so. I think I would have remembered you if we had met. I'm Furusuke Aki, I used to go to school here."

"I'm Sakaguchi Alice, I'm class president, I was absent yesterday. Nice to meet you," Alice held out her hand to shake and he did the same.

When they're hands touched, a tiny bit of electricity could be felt between the two. They quickly pulled away. "Here, I'll wait for you. We're both probably going to be late anyways," he said.

"Jeez! What's taking Alice so long to get back? At this rate she really is going to be late!" Enju cried, at that exact moment the door rustled and Alice walked in with Aki.

"Eh!? What's Alice doing with him?" Rin thought in surprise.

Alice apologized to Aki one more time and sat back down with her friends. Enju snuck her way to Alice's side and began to question her on her new friend; "So... I see you met the new guy. How awfully chummy you two look! What happened!? What's going on!?"

"Nothing really," was her calm reply, at that moment the teacher came in and class started. Rin tried to concentrate on his work, but his mind kept trailing back to image of Alice walking in with the new guy. Enju was right. They had looked chummy. It definately bothered him, especially when Alice was made to sit with him because he was "new". He was upset. He watched her smile at him, and he back at her. He couldn't help but feel a horrible bubbling feeling deep inside of him. Wait... Was he jealous!? Certainly not! If Alice wanted to make a new friend, he wasn't going to stop her. He turned his head away from the site of the two smiling at each other in disgust, but almost as if by some strange pull, he found himself watching them again, getting even more jealous by the minute.

Alice was talking nicely to Aki, it was strange. He felt strangely familiar in some way, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Suddenly she felt a chill run down her back. She turned in her seat came face to face with the Rin's gaze. He looked angry. What was he so mad about? She'd have to beat it out of him later.

Rin was sitting with his lunch in front of him just nibbling on his food, so Alice decided to scare him a bit. He was so easy to surprise that it was just too hilarious! She slowly crept up to him from behind, then she suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck in a tight hug and shouted 'Boo!' He jumped in his seat and glared at her as she tried to stifle a laugh which was bubbling up.

"Don't always do that, we're in school here!" he complained after his heart had settled down from the scare.

"You should have seen your face! It was really too funny," she giggled as she stole a piece of tempura from his lunch and sat next to him and unearthed her own lunch.

"Jeez, why does she always have to do that? It might be funny for her but in public it makes me look like a wuss." His mind flashed back to when a pair of slender arms suddenly wrapped themselves around him and blushed. Sure it was nice to have her arms around him, but she was only doing it be funny. Oh what he'd give to have her put her arms around him and kiss him! But that too, was just a dream for him. He would never have the nerve to tell her his true feelings, and it probably wasn''t likely that she felt the same. She probably saw him as her big brother, someone dependable who you could turn to for a good cry. That's what he was, a shoulder to lean on. How he wanted to change that though! He wanted to be the one by her side always. Sad. Happy. Angry. Or just smiling her sweet encouraging smile, but it was that same encouraging smile that always made him lose his courage and rendered him speechless. Was it doomed for him to keep these feelings inside forever?

Suddenly Rin's thoughts were interrupted by a third party joining them at the table. He looked up and saw Aki pulling up his chair next to Alice. He frowned, why did he always have to tag around her like some stray dog? Alice, however, didn't seem to mind the least. Aki and Alice then started a conversation about track, turns out he was on the track team and had joined up again this year.

"Finally! Someone to walk with to practice," Alice said in relief.

Rin made a sour look with his face, "I walk you to practice every time."

"True, but now I have another track team member to go with me," she said lightly.

All day after that, all Rin could think about was Alice walking with that jerk. Ok, so maybe he didn't really know him and didn't have any arguement that he was a jerk, but he seemed to be slowly taking Alice away from him, and that made him very jealous.

Two Weeks Later...

Lately ever since Aki had moved to their class, he had been spending every minute of his time with her. This left Rin feeling terribly left out. He felt hurt that she could just toss him aside like that, he hardly even saw her anymore because she was helping Aki catch up to all stuff they were supposed to know by that time in their senior year.

"Rin," Alice said as they were walking to school that day, "want to study together today?"

This took Rin by surprise, as he and Alice hadn't studied together in a long while. He nodded, "Sure."

"Ok, we'll just walk back together and we'll study at your place," she said.

Rin smiled to himself as Alice continued to talk and tuned her out. Finally he would have some time with her without that 'guy' around her. So that day after school they walked back together to his apartment. They brought out their math books and started to study (after all, they need to take the entrance exam for college too). Rin was stuck. Math wasn't always his favorite subject, and now he was having a little difficulty. He knitted his brow trying to concentrate, but it just wouldn't come to him. So he decided to ask Alice to help him.

"Hmmm... This is a toughie," she replied leaning over to him to get a look at the problem in his book. As her head came near his face he caught a whiff or her hair making him swoon. It was like the faint smell of fragrant flowers, not too strong, yet still sweet.

Alice peered at the problem. She should be able to know how to do this one, but she couldn't quite remember. Suddenly the bell rang to Rin's apartment, "Oh, that must be him."

Him? Rin thought as Alice rushed to the door. A few seconds later she returned with the visitor. It was Furusuke Aki. He wore a look of bewilderment on his face as he Aki sat down in a chair. Snapping himself back to the real world, he dragged Alice by the arm and took her out to the living room where they couldn't be heard.

"What is he doing here?" he asked, annoyed.

"What do you mean? I told you about it this morning, didn't you hear me?" she asked him.

Rin fell silent. He hadn't.

"But did I give any consent to inviting him too?" he asked angrily.

"What's wrong with asking him to come? He's my friend," she cried getting angry from his own anger.

"He follows you around like a lost puppy! I don't like him and I refuse to have him here, so he has to go!" he demanded.

What was going on? Why was Rin acting like this she thought. Gone was her best friend who'd gently nursed her when she was sick. Gone was the the tender look that used to linger in his eyes that was now replaced with hate. Now she was seething, how selfish he was being. All of a sudden she pulled back her hand and slapped him square on the cheek. He instantly shut up, shocked.

"What do you think you're doing? You're acting so goddamned immature!" she declared, her voice rising.

"I'm not being immature, he likes you Alice, can't you see that?" he said in equal volume.

"You're being ridiculous, he's my friend, and if you don't like that then you're not the person that I thought you were. We're leaving," she stated "Aki, it seems like were not wanted here," she said and started packing up her books, "we'll go to the library then."

"Umm, okay..." a confused Aki consented.

After Rin heard the slam of the door he keeled over onto the couch. Her slap and words were like a hurricane had just ran over him. It left him defenseless and unsure. Then he kicked himself, he had just drove the person that he cared about the most away from him... drove her right in front of the one guy he hated most. Why was he always so stupid!?

Alice stormed out of Rin's apartment dragging Aki along with the hold of his sleeve. She was seething, what had gotten over him? Could he really be that jealous of Aki? ... Jealous? Could he be? Why? They really were... just friends... right...?

"Um, Alice, you're hurting me a bit here," Aki interrupted.

That brought Alice back down to Earth, "Oh, I'm sorry. I just got a little carried away."

"Did you have a fight with Rin?" he asked.

"I guess it would be called a fight," she said sadly, "it was such a stupid fight! I don't understand why he has to be so pigheaded sometimes."

"Was it because of me? Because I came over?"

Flustered, Alice tried to think fast. She didn't want him to think that they were fighting because of him, even though they had been. She must have been thinking at a snail's pace, because Aki stated "it was, wasn't it?"

It seemed that the very memory made Alice boil over again, she suddenly burst out in a flurry of speech, "he was so immature. He got so jealous because I asked you to come. I told him that there was nothing between us but he kept insisting that you liked me," Aki stopped walking as Alice continued to talk, "Can you believe him? How stupid! Huh? Why'd you stop walking for?"

Alice turned around to face him, he was looking at her hard in the eyes, "What's the matter?" she asked.

"You know, you might have thought the idea of me liking you is foolish, but it's not. Rin can see that, and he got scared and jealous..." he said firmly.

His words hit her like a wave, was he saying what she thought he was saying? Was Rin right?

"No, you can't mean that! We're frie-"

"I love you!" he cut in.

She stopped, "I love you... but do you love me? You thought the idea that I loved you was absurd, but it's true."

Alice just stood there, unsure of what to say. Aki had just hit her with a love confession, one that she had strongly denied to Rin.

"I love you," he said again, "and I want you to be my girlfriend."


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A Few Authors Notes

Ohhh... A fight. Well I finally finished this chapter after so long, what did you think? Was it Ok? I wrote this all during different time so it might seem terribly fragmented, gomen! You don't really have to pay attention to that horrible junk I wrote at the beginning, I like this ending part much better. So what will Alice say to this startling love confession? Stick around to find out!



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